"Okay, now that this is done, I guess it is time to talk to someone," I said and turned on my intercom. "Natsumi-san, are you there?"
"So you finally called back, I was worried about what you might do," she said and I heard her sigh. "So, what on earth were you doing on the tenth floor?"
"What is he doing on the tenth floor?" I heard James’s voice from Natsumi-san’s side.
"Hey, James. Sorry but this floor has gotten a bit dirty so it will take time to clean this place up," I said rubbing the back of my head.
Well, he wasn’t supposed to know this right now. It was a little surprise I had for him after which I was supposed to run away but whatever. Ai was still hugging me while rubbing her cheek against my chest.
"What is the situation there?" I asked in a serious tone.
"As you thought, the number of novices here is a lot more than any other floor. We have already noticed that the rest of the nobles are on this floor," Natsumi-san told me.
"Are you making sure that it does not get stolen?" I asked her.
"About that…looks like they acted way before you realized that and some of it is already stolen," she said and I frowned. "Never knew this was their intention the entire time but what will he even do with this?"
That was a question that even I had no answer to. Thinking of all the possibilities with the limited amount of information I had, nothing made much sense. If they wanted to take it for themselves, they would have come after me and not the medical and research floor. They have something else going on in their mind.
"I don’t know but I do know that this was their intention after all," I said and glanced at Akira. "How much of it is stolen?"
"They only left one test tube," she said and I let out a sigh. "Are you planning on coming here?"
"That is the idea," I said and cut the intercom and looked at Akira. "Akira, get us to the infirmary and research floor."
"As you wish Kazuki-sama," she said and closed her eyes and the next thing I knew, I was in a familiar place but I couldn’t see anything.
I got my night vision goggles on and saw the familiar floor. Natsumi-san and the others should be on the other side of the floor and I really hope that we get there quickly and not run into any noble right now before what seems to be a big battle.
Maybe I should have been a bit more specific when telling Akira to teleport us here.
"Let’s get moving," I said to the two who had their eyes glowing and seeing in the dark. This sometimes makes me also want to become a vampire. Seeing in the dark seems like a pretty cool ability.
We started running across the different rooms and my eyes fell in one of the rooms and the vampire was not there. I had seen him being experimented upon for so long that I had this weird bond with him. I didn’t know your name Mr. Vampire but I will pray for your soul to rest in peace.
"Kazuki-sama, you seem a bit sad, why is that?" Akira asked me.
"Just remembering an old friend," I said and wiped a tear away.
"When did you have a friend? Last time I remembered, Kazu-kun never had a friend since he was six years old," Ai said tilting her head in confusion.
"Thank you for bringing down my almost non-existent self-esteem," I said sighing and saw a silhouette of a person before me.
As we got near, he noticed us and I saw two bright orbs glowing and I got my katana ready to attack the person. I got in position and leaped at the vampire slicing vertically at it but my attack was blocked by something hard which made me jump back and look at the person.
I am pretty sure, my blade touched something hard but I don’t remember any vampire being posted at this place. I raised my katana pointing at the vampire and Ai and Akira stopped beside me.
"Who are you?" I asked in a commanding voice.
"We are just passersby who got lucky," the person said and my instincts kicked in and I jumped back as the place where I was standing had exploded into something I couldn’t quite make out.
It was hot but still had ice there which had electricity…coming…
Luck is not on my side today.
"Who would have guessed that we would have encountered four nobles right now? No one wants me to rest at all," I said letting out a sigh.
The three who attacked me came in sight and I remembered all their faces. The person in the middle was the one who was breaking through all the floors and as I thought, he was able to do that because of his ability. I don’t know what it exactly is but I did know the ability of the other three but who has which ability is still unknown to me.
This is going to be such a pain with the number of disadvantage we have. No matter how we see it, one of us has to take on two of them but I don’t think that would be needed.
"Natsumi-san, we ran into some interesting people here," I said in the intercom.
"What great timing. Where are you right now?" she asked me.
"No need to come here, just tell me exactly where you are," I asked her.
"Remember the room where you were being checked up on?" she said and I nodded. "Yeah, don’t go there since it is flooded with vampires. Instead, come to the…ugh let me talk with my brother at least bastards…where was I? Oh, there is a room where they keep all the samples, both humans and vampires alike. Come there since we are also regrouping there."
"Roger," I said in my intercom and sheath my katana. My eyes fell on Ai and Akira who were ready to fight. "Do you think you can outrun them?"
"Huh?" they said in unison. "We guess."
"Then follow me," I said and without paying any more attention to the four of them, I kicked off the ground and rushed at them.
They got ready to stop me but as I got closer, I got on top of a table and jumped over them. Their eyes were following me and scanning every single of my movement and I knew that the place where Natsumi-san was asking me to come was really far away and will take some time.
It’s a battle of feet if I do say so myself.
Ai and Akira landed behind me following me and I looked back at the four nobles and gave them a cheeky grin.
"Catch us on your slow feet if you can," I said mockingly and they started chasing us.
Let the chase begin.
To cover the distance from here to where Natsumi-san was going to regroup with us, it will take approximately ten minutes of running for us. The infirmary and research floor is a lot bigger than the other floors because it was used for multiple purposes and also had a lot more security and defense mechanism against vampires but that can’t be accessed right now meaning we have to just run as fast as we can.
I jumped toward my right dodging an ice shard fired at me. So they can use it as artillery too. How troublesome.
"I guess both of you know what I am about to say," I said to Akira and Ai and they nodded. "Then don’t stop running until I tell you to."
"Got it," they said in unison.
We turned left down the hallway and ducked down dodging a fireball that burned the wall. The next moment, we felt the ground shaking and I looked back at the vampire who broke through the floors punching the ground and the tiles came off. He then proceeded to kick them at us.
"Dodge them Kazu-kun," Ai said and I quickly turned around unsheathing my katana cutting off all the tiles I could not dodge, and got back on the ground facing back not losing any of the momentum I had.
I sheathe back my katana and I looked beside me seeing lightning passing through the walls beside me. Electricity travels through silver a lot faster and is only second to gold in that aspect meaning they are trying to stop us at the door right before us. It had a silver frame on it like any other door on the floor.
Thus, instead of taking the door, I turned right and entered the vampire sample room. The place we were asked to regroup was a bit further but it will still take some time.
"Ai, grab that table and stick it there," I said pointing at the door. Luckily, some tables here are made of wood so that they don’t destroy any samples by mistake.
Ai, while running, held the table and stuck it right between the door, and luckily, it stuck perfectly in it. I leaped over the table safely since the table cut out the path of the electricity to reach the top of the door. The charged particles of electricity are never existing inside a conductor but on the surface of it.
Good that I was awake during the physics class at that time.
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Ai and Akira followed pursuit and we rushed through two more doors and jumped up as we felt the floor getting hotter. We jumped forward and rolled over as a blast of fire emerged out of the floor. Wow, now they are using that too?
"How far do you think you can run? And even in the opposite direction of where you were planning to. What are you planning?" the noble said.
"So you heard what I was talking?" I said while running.
"I am a vampire, my hearing is a lot better than mere humans like you," he said and the entire hallway started heating up. We are in a fire cage right now. "There is nowhere to run now, Lucy, do it."
Looks like he either forgot or doesn’t know.
"Akira!" I shouted and we appeared right behind the nobles.
I could have just asked Akira to get us to where Natsumi-san was telling us to go but…
I never planned on doing that right now.
Why?
Because I had to figure out who had which ability in this chase, I still had my attention on the four while they tried stopping us and I was running.
We can just teleport to where Natsumi-san was talking about but even using Akira’s ability, going there won’t be that easy or might just be impossible. The reason being that all the things in that place have very important samples of humans and vampires alike. Some of them are of noble vampires who are more than six hundred years ago.
Akira’s ability does not magically teleport us to somewhere but swap the places and as I found out on the tenth floor, she also swaps the objects around where the air is switched bringing them to our position and I don’t know where Akira would decide to get us. Even if she thinks hard to make sure we don’t get into something like that, I still don’t want to take the risk.
That place even has my samples. Blood, spit, some tissues that they took out of my body without me realizing, and other things.
I don’t want these samples to get to them.
Now going down the memory lane, the room is about six hundred meters away from here and it takes up seven turns and going through eight doors to get there.
"Akira, Ai, can you both go faster? I am going to speed up," I said to both of them.
"I can do it Kazu-kun," Ai said.
"If Kazuki-sama wants me to run faster, I can. So please speed up without worrying about me," Akira said.
"Good."
There was one thing that I liked doing a lot since I was a kid.
That was running.
So, let’s revisit this childhood experience with vampires and death on my back.
I leaned forward and started running even faster. The sounds of the other nobles’ footsteps could be heard too and my instincts kicked in as I ducked down and tilted toward the left and then quickly the right dodging them. My eyes fell on the door before us and for some reason, it was blocked from the top and the only way to get past was to slide under it but we have someone on our side.
"Akira!"
As I said that, we just appeared right behind the door and I turned around to see the things blocking the door was flying across the hallway. We turned right and the things smashed in the wall. Just a bit more.
As we were getting closer to our destination, I could start hearing indiscriminate growls from beside me. Looks like they are also here. I unsheathe my katana and held my scabbard in my other hand as three novices leaped at us.
"Kill them," I said and I stabbed a novice in the shoulder with the scabbard and dug the katana in his heart.
Five more appeared out of nowhere and I felt a sharp pain in my leg as a tile was smashed right into my leg. I stumbled and fell forward rolling and smashing through a door.
"Kazu-kun!" Ai shouted and looked back at the nobles who were looking at us with a smirk on their face.
Ten novices jumped at us along with the nobles and I looked back at them and a smirk appeared on my face.
We did it.
The next thing I knew, the novices were cut down in multiple pieces and the nobles jumped back dodging the strikes but one of them was not fast enough.
"Susy!!"
I slowly got back on my feet and shook my leg before facing forward.
"You do know how to make an amazing entrance don’t you?" I said with a smile on my face. "Natsumi-san."
"It’s a force of habit," she said and pulled her scythe’s blade out of the noble’s chest.
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