"Hey, where did you go rookie?"
"Oh, I am sorry sir, but a vampire broke past through the barrier and I chased it to exterminate it," I said rubbing the back of my head. "I am sorry I couldn’t inform you about it."
"What’s done is done, just remember not to go after a vampire even if it is a novice, on your own if you are just a rookie. You don’t know the real dangers these vampires pose though you are one too," he said letting out a sigh.
We were on the eighth floor defending our supply of silver metal used to make the weapons. We had six teams deployed here and right beside me are those teams. Since I just joined about two months ago, it was pretty hard for them to really trust me with handling any vampire on my own.
As if I’ll ever need that though.
"I think those are the last of these bastards," our group leader said lowering his shield.
"Hehe, looks like I missed a lot of action while I was gone," I said rubbing the back of my head. "Not like I care about it."
"H-"
Before the poor human could say anything, I stood before everyone with his head in my hand, holding it by his hair. His headless body fell down on its knees as the blood started splattering everywhere in the room. Raising his head, I opened my mouth and let the blood fall in my mouth. Hmm, he did not taste that great but I think I can’t really complain, I did kill a forty-five-year-old male. They don’t taste that good but little kids, ahh, the feeling of digging my teeth in their fragile little neck is just euphoric.
"Takeda!! What the hell did you do?" our leader’s teammate said raising her gun barrel at me.
I just gave her a little smile and my eyes started glowing red. I guess I will not avenge my children, every single one of them who was brutally murdered today, some by my hand too. I did nothing wrong, I am just doing what is best for the queen, it was all their fault.
They killed them.
"So my cover is blown huh," I said as one of them charged at me and I held him by his head picking him up. I glared at him and the poor thing started to shiver. "I was talking you know. Good children are not supposed to interrupt their elders."
"Argh!!"
I started crushing his feeble little head in my hand and he started struggling. The other wanted to move but I glared at them which made them stop mid-way. This is what true power is, stopping your enemy without letting out any bloodlust.
Looking back at the little boy, I started increasing the pressure on his head. As I did, his screaming became louder and his legs were kicking even more frantically. A little more pressure and his throat started giving up, his eyes were not popping out of his eye sockets. Just a little more and a little crack could be heard in the place and then…
Crack
Squash
His hard skull gave up.
The man just hung there with me holding what was left of his head. I brought it near me and dug my teeth in his neck starting to drink his blood. He tasted a lot better than the one before, he was a lot younger than the man before. I could taste the suffering he felt right before dying which left a bitter taste in my mouth. This is why I like killing my prey in their sleep or bringing them under control.
I left his body on the floor and looked at his horrified teammates. A little smirk formed on my face and I extended my right arm turning it into a blade, let’s give them a little mercy. I don’t really like all the screaming people make together, it’s really annoying.
I rushed past them and changed my hand back holding one of them by their neck. As for the rest, they turned into a splatter of blood right behind me. I stared at the little girl and dear lord, the expression on her face was euphoric. Her horrified eyes and mouth gaped open trying to cry for help but she was not able to do that.
"Do you know how many humans I had to kill to get this strong?" I asked the girl who was struggling. "Yeah, I thought so too. You don’t. Oh well, how about you increase that count for me now, dear."
I threw her against the wall and she bounced on it and I pinned her against it, digging my teeth in her slender neck. Ah yes, her blood tasted amazing. It was so sweet and delicate that it may have made me go a bit out of control. I pushed her further against the wall sinking my teeth further in her neck wanting to suck every single last drop of blood from her.
Her hands fell down and she stopped struggling to accept her fate. Oh, she is such a good little girl, already knowing that resistance was futile. I decided to end it quickly for her and quickly drank all her blood.
As I stepped back, her lifeless body fell to the ground. I wiped the blood off my face and made my way towards the broken elevator. It was already at the bottom-most floor but that was not really my destination. I already got what I wanted from there. The vent system they had here was really useful.
I looked up and bend down before kicking the ground. I kicked the wall before me as I reached my destination and in a magnificent way, there was I, on the ground floor. All it took was just a single jump. I checked if I had the bag still with me and thankfully I did.
Making my way out of the reception, the place was still crowded by humans so I made my way towards the alleyway. I changed my look to suit better for the taxi I sat in. The man of the Sakura taxi had skin allergies so he made his windows stop the UV light of the sun. Amazing for someone like me who needs to travel all the time. I placed the bag in the passenger seat and took out a vail from it.
The red liquid moved around in the vail as I stared at it and as I opened it, I was taken over by an extremely sweet smell and tempting. No, even calling it sweet and tempting was like disrespecting this delicacy. I took a little lick of it and closed my eyes relishing the taste of the blood. Suddenly, a wave of electricity went through my entire body and I arched my neck back.
"Yes, yes, yes, this was the thing I have worked so hard for. The scent and taste of the blood is amazing, I don’t even have words to explain the taste. This was all worth it," I said out of excitement and gulped the entire vail.
So this is what Mateo’s daughter has been tasting every day? Oh lord, how has she not already torn up his neck drink every single last drop of this? It even made me crave more for it. I felt as if I just got reawakened from a long sleep and have this destructive energy in me wanting to get out.
But I can’t have the rest of the blood, unfortunately. It is for my trump card.
Holding back my urge, I started the taxi and started driving it out. I started driving back to a familiar building. It was just a twenty-minute drive there but once I got the taste of that blood, it was twenty minutes of suffering. I was so tempted to drink more of it but I can’t do it. To think his blood did something like this to almost a nine-hundred-year-old vampire.
I soon reached my destination, a building on the sketchier sides of the city but no one really lives here, anymore. I parked my taxi, got the bag, and made my way to the door. As soon as I opened it, I was met with a girl sitting in the living room. She had her usual smile on her face and she got off the chair and stood before me.
"Welcome back Father," she said and I pat her little head. "Um…did you bring something with you? I could smell a really sweet scent coming from you."
"Oh, so you noticed it, you ruined the surprise," I said slouching my shoulders. I made my way to the room and placed the bag on the table. "Open it."
She quickly opened the bag and after seeing the vails, her expression turned from excited to confused. She picked up the vail and opened it up and the sweet scent filled the room. She did not even wait and gulped the entire thing. How impatient are kids these days? I let her do as she please and I could feel her strength grow immensely just after one vail.
Maybe after all this, she might even unlock her ability.
"Whose blood is this? This is so good? I assure you the person to whom this blood belongs is such a nice person. I can taste it in this," she said. "Father, whose blood is this?"
"It’s the blood of Shiba Kazuki," I said.
As soon as those words left my mouth, she stopped in her place and stared at me with wide eyes. The expression on her face started changing and it did to the one I expected…
Excitement.
"Really? Really this is his blood?!!" she asked me jumping in place and I nodded. "I knew his blood would taste like this. So sweet and warm, it’s like I am back in his kind arms. It’s really his blood."
Yes, this was my trump card against Shiba Kazuki. Let’s see how he does against her.
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"It’s Nii-chan’s blood," Yuna said with a little smile on her face.
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With this, volume 2 of the book officially ends. And we also reached 550k reads in this book. I am just overwhelmed by the support I got from all of you. Thank you so much, everyone. Also, I will put this book on a week’s break to properly work down on the next volume since I plan on making it really good. Wish me the best of luck guys.