Even though my mind was in mental turmoil right now my face had a calm expression on it. My hands stopped trembling and I took a deep breath. It was all just a mask but we cannot be wasting time here.
"Ai, you know me well, don’t you?" I said in a calm voice. "I have already lost my parents and Natsumi-san is like an older sister to me. Not going to go save her is something I cannot do. You would have done the same if it was someone close to you right?"
"But I no longer have anyone," Ai said in a sad tone, tears started falling a little. "Kazu-kun is all I have so I don’t want him to go and get himself hurt. I…I…"
I moved my hand and wiped her tears off and helped her stand up. Though Ai’s wound had been healed, she did not look in a good position and it had nothing to do with her physical state. On the outside, she was completely fine.
The inside was a different story. Ai was worrying about me and I knew that from the start but she doesn’t want anything to happen to me, which is how I am feeling right now about Natsumi-san. She is a complete bystander in this entire situation and I don’t want to involve her in this. I was naïve to think that no one would be able to get her. Even though we were attacked the day I found the reality of Ai.
How could I be so stupid?
I wrapped my arm around Ai’s shoulder and pulled her closer to me. She clenched my shirt hard and buried her face in my chest. I decided not to move for some time and let her calm down. The summer was ruthless and I was sweating but that could not be said about Ai. She was as cold as always.
Because of the way I acted back home, I could not look directly into her eyes. I just felt like a complete idiot.
I was only two at that time and I had a little sister, Yuna. She was a year younger than me and she was a packet of joy and was really close to me. Even though she knew me for a year, she would always stay with me and do whatever I was doing.
Just remembering about her makes me want to break down in tears and lock myself up due to the guilt.
"Nii-chan, here," Yuna said showing me the little rocks that she got.
When I was a kid, I had a little interest in collecting rocks and though Yuna could hardly walk back then, she would get out in the garden where I used to be and start doing what I was doing. Her hair was a lot curly than anyone in the family and she had blue eyes similar to mine.
I even remember the look of depression on mom and dad’s face when the first she ever said was not "ka-chan" or "to-chan" but "nii-chan".
While I was overjoyed by that and I was lightly poking her cheeks while she giggled, mom and dad were having a literal existential crisis. They both fell on the ground holding their hearts in agony and I saw tears falling out of their eyes but I did not care much because I was playing with Yuna.
She would have been grown up to be a beautiful little girl.
If only she didn’t have me as her brother.
"Ai, let’s go and save Natsumi-san," I said not looking at her and I felt her head nod on my chest. "Thank you and sorry for how I acted."
My feet left the ground and my head was leaned back and I looked at Ai who had picked me up with a little smile on her face.
"I am sorry for being selfish Kazu-kun. I know how kind Kazu-kun is," she said smiling at me and launched up in the air.
You are wrong Ai.
I saw the ground leaving me and then coming back from where I was and my nose tickled with the sweet smell of Ai added with a little dust on the ground. I am so lame. Being so desperate to save Natsumi-san without completely taking care of Ai’s matter. I should have talked to her properly before and kept my angry in when she stopped me, but no.
Self-control is a thing is for insensible people, right?
Why am I being sarcastic even now?
Though Ai looked as if she had forgotten the entire situation easily which I honestly admire about her, I still had my mind in haywire.
We finally reached the warehouses and were soon reaching our destination. As it got closer, I felt my heart beating faster and faster in the anticipation of Natsumi-san not getting hurt but who am I kidding? They are vampires and we have taken so much time to get there. They can just kill her and we won’t even know without getting there.
We are dancing in their palm and we can’t do anything. A person you care about can be your biggest strength but it can also become your biggest weakness. Humans care about other humans and they are then those humans are in turn used to gain the advantage over them. We are herd animals who have emotions that hold us back.
Live stocks if that is what vampires think we are.
Even though at the top, humans are the weakest of all creatures.
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"We are here, I sense only ten vampires. They are all novices," Ai said to me and I nod.
"Let me down," I said and Ai did that.
Back on my feet, I started walking towards the warehouse and it had a very big gate. I did not intend to make Ai break the gate, but if we were to enter like this, they could have a trap at the moment we enter. They probably want me dead anyway.
Before I could say anything, Ai kicked the door and broke and flew a good distance before it started sliding for some distance.
"Now that is a banger of an entrance a prey made," a voice was heard and ten vampires stepped forward. The voice belonged to a vampire with red hair and green eyes. He had Natsumi-san in her grasp and was holding her by her neck.
"Make one wrong decision and someone might lose their life," he said.
"Let her go, she has nothing to do with this," I said calmly putting my hands in my pocket clenching them again and again.
"Let her go? Do you hear that everybody? The prey here is ordering the predator to do something," he said and started laughing and the other started laughing too.
Ai gritted her teeth and was about to attack but I stepped right in front of her. I looked at Natsumi-san and she had her head facing down. Her body showed no signs of being hurt in any way and she did not look pale meaning she was not hurt.
"So, why am I even called here? And why is a no-name is being used to bring me here?" I said calmly closing my eyes.
"No name? Do you really not care about this woman? She said that she knows you pretty well," he said.
"She knows me? No way is that true, I have never heard the name Kawazuki Natsumi ever in my life," I said to him snickering. This made him a little annoyed.
"So you are telling me you have no idea who this bitch is and still come here? Don’t joke with me around human. Try acting smart and she will die," he said.
"Oh no you won’t kill her," I said with a smug on my face. "If you were to kill her you could have killed her the moment you found out who she was and drink her blood. Then you could have waited for me to come because I would come to "save" her and kill me too. See? My plan was much smarter and more efficient than yours. I thought old people were wise but look like it cannot be said by anyone. You really have an electron for a brain, don’t you?"
My remark annoyed every single of the novices and they growled at me. I just had the smug on my face and was in a casual posture not caring about them trying to intimidate me. I slowly walked over to them and not caring about anything.
Just look at me and only me.
"You have a big mouth kid, have your parents never told you not to talk like this to your superiors?" another novice said.
"They did but then think about it. Are you ants even worthy to be considered as my superior?" I said and took out my right hand from my pocket and pointed it on the ground. "I can kill all of you right here, right now with only a single hand and you won’t be able to do anything. So I will ask you one time, let that woman go and I will let you live your puny little immortal lives. Then go and buy some brain."
I kept provoking them and their fangs were protruding out making them look more intimidating. They quickly surrounded me and were circling me but my expression did not waver.
"Is that so? Then how about you do that," the vampire said.
"Okay, then don’t beg for forgiveness when I start slaughtering you. One. By. One."
My voice turned dark and I made a handgun with my right finger and aimed it at the vampire right behind me while looking right in the eyes of the novice holding Natsumi-san. They raised their eyebrow looking at me seeing me holding an air gun. They don’t know what is going to happen next.
"Chik Chik, boom."
With the worst sound effect from my mouth, I recoiled my arm and the chest of the vampire had a big hole in it. There was complete silence for some seconds and the vampire fell down on his knees starting to disintegrate into dust.
"See? This is the power the blood of the first gave me," I said with a smug on my face. "I can use the air to create small little vacuums in the place I aim for and take everything out from there. With one flick of the finger."
I looked at the other and they had a shocked look on their face. I could even see some of them looking at me with fear but I did not really care. Raising my arm again, they all flinched and I aimed again but not at them.
"Chik Chik, boom."
The roof broke and came crashing down at the vampire holding Natsumi-san and he shoved her aside to quickly step and save himself. But he came right in my line of fire.
"Chik Chik, boom."
His chest had a hole in it and he fell down on the ground motionless. The other vampires now showed fear on their faces, and I smirked at them raising my hand. I had a sinister smile plastered on my face and I think I looked a little sadistic too.
"You asked for it now, didn’t you? I did say I won’t forgive you for involving someone who is not supposed to be involved," I said in a mocking tone and aimed it at the vampire who pounced at me. "Chik Chik, boom."
He fell down right next to me motionless and his body started turning into dust. I looked back at the other vampires and while some were ready to pounce at me, some were about to turn on their tail and get out of here. No way, am I letting them go after this.
I took out my other hand from my pocket and made it in another air gun and the ones who were ready to pounce at me also staggered.
"What? Thought that the blood of first is so weak that I can only create a single vacuum? We have seven people here so four from right and three from left?" I said and aimed my right hand at the vampire who sneaked up at me. "Chik Chik, boom."
She stopped her movement and was falling on top of me but I stepped aside giving her room to fall down without being interrupted. Let a vampire die in peace now.
"Wow, now it has evened out. Lucky me," I said and aimed it at the six vampires but then I put my hands in my pocket. "You know what? Let’s not do that."
They all looked at me confused and I turned around to see where Natsumi-san was and she was lying down on the floor motionless. Going up to her, I bent down and checked her pulse, and a little smile formed on my face as I felt her pulse. It was not faint and was completely normal as if she was sleeping.
Two vampires decided to jump at me at the same time and I turned around glaring at them and they both fell down right behind me and Natsumi-san with a hole in their chest. I looked at the other four who were now trying to run away.
"What is this?! He can use a noble’s skill. He is a human right?"
"We thought we could get the blood of the first by a hostage and then rule the world. This did not go like the fucking plan."
"Of course it didn’t bastards."
I heard a familiar voice and turned around not seeing Natsumi-san there anymore. The next thing I know, I heard the sound of something metallic slashing through flesh followed by four screams of agony.
"I was thinking how long I will keep up the act but looks like I saw something interesting due to this. That was a nice act you put up Kazuki," I looked at Natsumi-san hitting her shoulder not caring about anything and my eyes widened.
Not because she was there and was probably acting.
She has a big scythe in her hand with a silver blade!!
"You can stop hiding too Ai," Natsumi-san said and Ai came out of the shadows hiding and holding the stake in her hand.
"Natsumi-san, I never thought I would ever say this to you," I said looking at her with a blank expression on my face.
"That was a dick move."
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