Philip went out of the mansion at the front door. He was curious at the beeping sound coming from the front of the mansion. The sound was familiar and he thought that it came from a truck on reverse
At the front yard, there is a delivery truck that was backing up. There are also several maids and butlers waiting in line along the the sidewalk
A man in black, that looked like a security personnel around the mansion, came out of the driver's seat and went towards behind of the truck to open the doors
As the the man opened the door, it reveal several boxes with labels like Beakers, Erlenmeyer Flasks, Graduated Cylinders, and many more
There are even equipment machineries like motion sensors, frictionless tracks, specific mass and weights, electrostatic generator, magnetic tracks, neodymium magnets, and many more
The maids and butlers were restless. They seem to not know where they should put the equipments. They couldn't put the boxes in Philip's room because the room is quite small to fit everything. They need a bigger room to put the boxes in
Philip was about to walk forward and try to lead the maids and butlers since he was the one who requested for these. He was also confused why Jude is nowhere to be found because knowing him, he should be here leading everyone
But before he could walk forwards, Mathilda came flying down with her transformed upper body and a different kind of wings that are different from the time she used the Oblivion Wing from Alucard's rampage
The wings folded down and retracted on Mathilda's back and her upper body plates also retracted back into her skin. But there are still three metallic bracers around her forearms
"What is this?"
Mathilda asked with fervor and interest. She has an idea as to who got this delivery but she was sure that Jude arranged it
At first, she thought it was Vanessa but she knows that Vanessa already has everything that she needed. So, there is one person left who could have requested these
Her eyebrows furrowed and her forehead lightly wrinkled. She became slightly annoyed for some reason
"Head maid, these are gadgets and equipments that Jude told us to buy last night"
The security personnel came to Mathilda and told her what happened last night
"Did he tell you who's this for?"
"No, head maid. But there was a request for a futon last night to be delivered directly to Sir Philip's room"
The security personnel used honorifics to address Philip as Sir because they were all oriented, security personnel, maids, and butlers, that Philip became the Homeowner
"What?!"
Mathilda was surprised, not because that the delivery was for Philip, it was because of the futon. What was the futon for? Don't Philip have a bed on his own? Unless?
"Where did Justine sleep last night?!"
Mathilda asked with slight anger in his voice
"I believe she slept at where Sir Philip's room is supposed to be, head maid"
Mathilda snapped as her eyes widened tightly. The security personnel excused himself and quickly left to go to the driver's seat. The maids and butlers on standby just stood while shaking
Mathilda then felt Philip's presence behind her. She slowly turned her head and her body to look at Philip with disgust, anger, and fury
Philip looked back at her and raised his left eyebrow. He was feeling that a storm is brewing and it will be extremely annoying
It was then that Mathilda walked towards Philip with big steps as her face is crumpled and her fist clenched
Philip took in some air, puffed his chest, and raised his chin to greet Mathilda. He predicted that something irrational will happen again due to Mathilda's stupidity and ignorance
He realized that Mathilda will be the hardest one to help because her attitude is just so much that he gets annoyed everytime
A few moments later, Mathilda arrived in front Philip and pointed her finger at him while her eyes are curved down due to anger
"You! What did you to Justine last night?!!"
"What?"
Philip slightly blushed for some reason
"I didn't do anything though? I just thought a futon would nice and mentioned it to Jude! It just so happened that he ordered it immediately. After that, I slept on the floor while Justine's on the bed!"
"Lies! There's no way you wouldn't have done anything! Why don't you tell me, huh?!"
"Huh?!!"
Philip started to get annoyed
"You shouldn't have slept in the room in the first place since Justine was there!"
"Oh? Then where should have I slept then? The Old Man personally lend me the room?"
"You should've slept outside the room, in the lobby, or even here on the outside, where you belong! Since you have a futon, right?"
Philip started to get angry. Mathilda is basically telling him that he doesn't belong in the mansion. His negative emotion started to get amplified and his overwhelming aura grew without him knowing
"Oh? How dare you get angry when you're the one who have done something wrong? Are you trying to fight me?"
Mathilda felt the overwhelming aura growing behind Philip and she felt challenged. The bracers on her forearms started to decouple and grow across her arm. Spikes started to grow on her shoulders as aegis also formed with thickness. The metal plates also decoupled towards her neck and to her jawlines up to her cheeks, like claws grasping the side of her cheeks. It was also the same for her legs and small metal wings with a green film of energy slread across the wings grew from her back
This is her Miniature Battle Mode
Philip's furrowed eyebrows, due to anger, relaxed and his face relaxed. His face emits neutrality but his anger could still be felt
Philip's face turned like this because the situation is becoming absurd. He tried to be patient and have self-control but Mathilda is getting on his nerves. He doesn't know if she's doing it on purpose or she has a personal problem with him
Nonetheless, Philip didn't care if the person in front of him is a man or woman. If they incurred his anger because they are disrespectful, irrational, and stupid, then he wouldn't be too lenient if they are asking for a beat down
He's not strong, but he could at least put up a fight and defend himself. That's his trait, talking is hard, actions is easy. Therefore, he would choose fighting over talking
Currently, Mathilda and Philip are having a stare down. Philip's overwhelming aura grew by the second and Mathilda's metallic cyborg-looking body changed as Philip's power grew. Mathilda really wanted to fight Philip
Why? She wanted to evict Philip from the mansion. She just couldn't accept him to be a part of their family
The maids and butlers are still currently on standby, this time they are trembling. Each have their own reasons as to why they are trembling
It was then that Justine and Alucard arrived next to Philip and Mathilda
"What are you doing Mathilda?!"
Justine yelled after sensing Philip's overflowing negative energy
"Don't worry! I caught him red handed! He did something bad to you, didn't he?"
Justine blushed for some reason. She also became a little irritated at Mathilda
"What? No! He didn't do anything! In fact, it was me who did something!"
"No, I won't believe it. If you were the one who did something, then he probably have you drink a potion while you were sleeping!!"
Mathilda twisted the narrative in her favor
"What?! He didn't do anything like that at all!!!"
It was Justine's turn to be angry. Alucard's eyebrows also started to twitch. Philip's anger just grew as he watched the scenario unfold in front of him
"There's probably a memory altering effect on the potion that he made you drink. Don't worry, I'll teach him a lesson since he's a menace to women!"
Mathilda's whole left arm twisted and rotated in segments, becoming a large metal spike. The spike has smaller spikes rotating around the surface of the main spike like a drill
Philip saw the spinning spike and his body started to tremble and shake for some reason
At this point, Alucard appeared in front of Vanessa, staring into her eyes, her soul, with his red piercing eyes
"Mathilda, I know what you have went through in your past but... This has gone too far"
Justine tried to mellow out the atmosphere
"No! Today's different!! I just know that he has an ulterior motive for all of us! I'll prove it!"
Mathilda shouted. It was then that Philip stepped forward and tried to talk to Mathilda with rationality as he also tried to manipulate his emotions from showing. He tapped on Alucard's shoulder to tell him that he'll handle it
Alucard slightly stepped aside and Justine crossed her arms, interested at what Philip would do
"Look, Mathilda, I'm sorry if you see me as a bad person. I'm not. I also didn't do anything bad in my life! I hope you underst-"
"No! No no no!! You're trying to get into my feelings and manipulate me! Let me tell you this, it won't happen again! I need to kill you"
Mathilda snapped. Her reasoning went extinct. Her judgement was clouded by her emotions and past trauma. She didn't realize what she has said and tunnelled into Philip, not seeing that Alucard and Justine is just right beside her
She raised her left arm and lunged it at Philip. She became blinded with rage
At this moment, Philip's expression and demeanor changed as he felt a new wave of emotion that stirred up the rest of his negative emotions and jolted his body
Killing Intent
In just an instant, Mathilda stabbed at Philip. Is what she thought
Philip held the large metal spike with his right hand. The small blades across the spike made his hand bleed. In addition to that, the small spikes that were rotating across the surface of the spike grinded on the flesh of his hand
Blood dripped towards his arm and into the ground. Alucard had his hand up while a circular film of red blood was several inches of the tip of the spike. This is the 67th Inheritor's [Blood Shield] ability
Justine also has her hand raised towards Mathilda as she tried to stop the velocity of Mathilda's thrust but failed because there is a different velocity that Mathilda generated to thrust the spike. She couldn't quickly analyze the new velocity in an instant
"Mathilda!! What are you doing!"
Justine shouted at Mathilda for her reckless action. Alucard also looked at her with irritated eyes
It was then that they heard a cracking sound. They turned their head towards the source of the sound and they were surprised
Philip was gripping the blade spike with strength that it started to crack while his eyes are closed from shock. Even Mathilda was awoken from the pain because the spike was still a part of her arm
White lines rapidly crawled out of Philip's right hand and wriggled around like grass dancing under the windy sky
In just a moment, Philip destroyed half of the spike and split it into two. Philip didn't ened there as he quickly turned his hand and held the stump of the broken spike. The upper half of the spike fell on the ground
Philip pulled the stump which made Mathilda come closer to him. It was then that Mathilda realized she has done something wrong, not because he tried to stab and kill or because if her attitude, it was because of the growing aura behind Philip that seemed to glare down on her soul. Her body trembled and her facial expression changed as the aura seemed to be targeted at her
Justine hugged her to prevent her from doing anything. It was the same for Alucard who stood back and prepared for the worse. Instead, Justine and Alucard felt the change in the air as they looked towards Philip
Justine's eyes widened and Alucard could only be sad at Mathilda for what's about to happen
Philip opened his eyes and looked down at Mathilda. His pupils were swirling and his chest began to illuminate with white light
"So, you're willing to kill someone even if they haven't done anything wrong?"
Mathilda's face started to distort into sadness and regret
"You kept twisting the narrative to be in you're favor and you don't even listen to anyone who is far stronger than you?"
Tears suddenly formed at the corner of Mathilda's eyes. She fell on her knees as Philip is still holding the stump on her left arm
"Now you're full of regret and fear. What does it feel? You want me to kill you since you've offended me and made me angry?"
Philip moved his head closer to Mathilda's to scare her. It was then Justine spoke to Philip
"Philip, that's enough"
Philip lifted his head towards Justine. His emotionless face and swirling pupils was a sight to see yet Justine was not scared at all. She understands Philip's standing. It was Mathilda's fault anyways
It was then they heard a wail coming from Mathilda. Her mouth was wide and tears were flowing from her eyes like waterfall. Her metallic armors retracted to her skin and metal casings was left on her jawlines and body joints, as well as he wings
"Oh, she broke down..."
Philip muttered as he tried his best to manipulate his emotions back to what it used to
"I'm sorry about her, Philip. She had a very traumatic dark past"
"What happened?"
"I can't tell you... She has to be the one to tell you"
"I understand"
Philip was interested as to what happened to Mathilda. At first, she seemed to be a stern looking woman but she seems to also have a child-like personality inside of her, as shown right in front of him as she wailed like a little child
Justine then lifted Mathilda and guided her back inside
"I'll go back inside. You should deal whatever this delivery is"
"Alright"
Philip nodded. His overflowing emotions has subsided and he looked at the standby maids and butlers
The butlers looked away while the maids screamed as if they were starstruck
Philip sighed and shook his head. Alucard them walked and stood behind Philip, just a little bit to his left. Philip slightly turned his head towards Alucard
"Alucard, I have something to tell you"
"Yes, Philip"
"Remember the wooden stake that Justine gifted to you?"
"Yes"
"What do you think of it?"
"Apparently, the stake was a Holy Stake used to kill and trap the soul of the self-proclaimed Vampire King Dracula"
Philip was surprised upon hearing that statement. Another dangerous is just within their vicinity and he was trapped in the stake. Maybe if the stake was broken, Dracula will be released in the world and cause destruction
Granted the Philip really don't know the real Dracula's personality, he stayed to believe that he was protrayed as evil. Also, Alucard here is a good-hearted vampire and his name is literally Dracula's name, just backwards
Or maybe, if Alucard were to ever use the stake and seal everything about him inside the stake, it would instead release Dracula's soul and exchange it to Alucard's soul, which would be a worse cade scenario
"What do you plan on doing with the stake?"
"I plan to give it to you"
"Huh? Why? It was Justine's gift?"
"It's mine now, so I'll gift it to you. I know that the stake will be more useful to you in the future"
"Haah, if you say so"
There was a moment of silence between them before Philip spoke again
"Also, I have an order for you. It's not a request, an order. Will that be alright?"
"Yes, you can give any orders"
"I want you to say your farewells to everyone you love. If you completed it, come to me and I'll grant your wish, okay? Take your time, I'm not in a rush"
Alucard's face trembled and his mouth quivered. His eyes began to water. He thought that Philip was cruel to make him bid his farewells to everyone in the mansion
This might be the most painful experience he'll have even just by thinking it. Nonethless, he prepared himself to prove his conviction of saving his descendants
Philip felt the fluctuations in Alucard's emotions from behind. He didn't care and just lookwd forward at the delivery truck with emotionless eyes. The maids and butlers are still on standby, waiting
"I... I understand"
Alucard spoke as his voice trembled for a second. Now he needed to find the right time to bid farewell to everyone, one by one, becaude he wouldn't be able to take it if everyone was present
Philip then walked towards the delivery truck and tried to manage and organize the deliveries. Alucard was left standing at the front door of the mansion while he stared at Philip's back