"It has been some time since we've had a meeting, Miss Durand and yet circumstances seem to go against us, doesn't it?" the silver-haired Vampire chuckled in a velvet tone.
He and his companion glanced at the roof and saw the rest of the Vampire officers running towards them, and yet they had already lost the other Vampire by a minute or two.
"Tsk. You're not worried about anything being stolen?" she asked him. While Iolathane Durand would have instantly ran after the strange Vampire, she didn't want to disrupt the meeting with the man before her.
…and she also didn't want to think about how the newcomer Vampire somehow stunned her for a moment to react properly. She could have pinned him down and stopped it all at once but failed to do so.
She hoped that the Argenti House didn't notice.
Luckily, it didn't seem like he did.
"Of course not. He does not seem interested in causing anything besides trouble for you and your people." The man said with a smile. "It wouldn't look good for the city if you allow such a Vampire to run rampant and rage however, does it?"
"No. Not at all." Iolanthane gritted her teeth and finally saw the Vampire leap into another building. "Will you allow me to stop this meeting just to chase after him?"
"Well, the direction he's going through is the Aurelius' territory and I'm quite sure that I don't want to hear the complaints of the Overlord there." The Vampire chuckled.
"Very well. We'll discuss this another time." Iolathane nodded apologetically. "I… I'll use the same methods as him then."
"Of course, feel free to do so, Miss Durand."
The Vampire hadn't even blinked, but the champion of the Durand House whisked off at a speed that would have put the other Vampire into shame.
Lukas didn't know what would hit him.
And for the most part, he was already quite close to his destination. Lukas eyed the separated mansion in the distance and let out a whistle.
"Just about three buildings left." He said to himself, but that wasn't the main issue for him at all.
He had to leap down from an incredible height once he reached the end of the building line. He had gotten up from a one-storey building and had worked his way up to something twenty floors above the ground.
"Ah, what is it with Ovelords and their manors? Private property too?" Lukas chuckled.
"Now's not the time to laugh." Drusilla warned him. "You don't have the luxury to do it."
"How come? I've already outran the others—"
A stiletto heel sliced through Lukas' cheek and it might have gotten his ear too if he had been unlucky. The alarm bells from earlier came crawling back to Lukas as he tried not to look back behind him, but still did.
"You! Stop this instance at the name of the Nyx's law!" the blue-haired Vampire from earlier raised her voice like fury hath not yet to be fully scorned.
That somehow didn't even make sense to Lukas, but somehow it fit.
Lukas wiped his thumb across his cheek and licked the blood off it. And the adrenaline in his body somehow couldn't have increased any further, but the mixture of some fear and excitement churned it up by double.
Those golden eyes were almost the same as Serena's, but she was far from cold and was instead lively… and hadn't actually stopped running since the moment that Lukas stopped to look at her.
"Aw, fuck." Lukas cursed.
He kept running and leaped from one building into the next, and tried to use the initial distance between them as a berth to escape, but somehow, the Vampire behind him was the archetype of an actual 'Overlord' archetype.
Her control of her physique was immaculate and there was almost a justice in her eyes as she started to close the gap.
Iolathane herself found it rather stunning that the man didn't stop. He should have done so in the beginning if he actually knew who the Durands were and what authority they had in Nyx, but somehow he kept running.
"Is he… is he an illegal trespasser?" Iolathane thought he was just one of those punks who thought it was cool and not dangerous to leap from one building to another, but it became apparent that was not the case.
Or was it?
The man before her wasn't stopping and he looked like he would rather jump off the building than interact with her and that was a terrible idea.
Twenty floors above the ground was still dangerous even for Vampires like them. Iolathane gritted her teeth and called out. "Hey, you! Stop! Let's talk! That's not a good idea!"
"Yep, no compulsion whatsoever to listen to what she's saying." Lukas said, putting her out of the 'Seducer' archetype at once as he reached the ledge of the building.
"Do you think you'll survive that?" Drusilla whispered into his ear.
"Wouldn't you be able to survive something like this?" Lukas said with a grin. "Leaping off of mountains should be a daily thing for you?"
"… I had my blood powers to assist me—" Drusilla said, but it fell onto deaf ears.
Lukas took one look at the building and the beautiful Vampire before he allowed himself to drop. The wind blew hard against him and he could hear it in his ears, and it was only a moment after he fell that he considered his actions.
"Dang it, didn't even think if I'll go crash against some Vampires on the ground." Lukas narrowed his eyes and tried to see if there were people. Just in case, he shouted. "Out of the way!"
He was positive that things were done with the mysterious Vampire lady from earlier, but then he heard a scream from above him and saw the lady dropping in as well.
"Should be a sign that I'll survive this." Lukas couldn't help but say, and yet knew that Drusilla was raging inside of her dagger.
"I'm not going to lose the inheritor in such a stupid way!" Drusilla screamed.
"That's the spirit!" Lukas laughed.
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