Chapter 116: Two Mothers.
When Victor arrived at the place where he heard Sasha's voice, the scene he came across left him very shocked...
He saw his wife Sasha Fulger the way she came into the world, being hugged by her mother, who was also naked...
"Ah~, my beloved daughter is so beautiful~! Look at those golden hairs that look like a wheat field created by the goddess Demeter herself, look at those green eyes that look like two beautiful emeralds, she is so beautiful! She is so like me!" Natashia hugged Sasha tighter.
"S-STOP IT!" Sasha tried to run away, but she couldn't break free from her mother's clutches.
"You're just like me…." She smiled gently as she stroked Sasha's face.
"E-Eh?" Sasha wasn't used to her mother's show of affection. In fact, she just wanted to scream from the bottom of her heart; who are you!? What did you do to my mom!?
She knows what happened through Scathach and her own mother, but... 'Who's the idiot who would believe that!? Two personalities!? Seriously!? This looks like the plot of a bad movie! The director who created something like this must be burned at the stake! Because that's not funny!'
Everyone was quite surprised when they arrived at the fight scene and saw Victor lying on the ground unconscious, and Annasthashia Fulger's new personality ... She looked like a completely different woman.
Even Agnes and Adonis didn't know about this personality.
Apparently, only Scathach and a few members of Clan Fulger knew this.
Suddenly Natashia's eyes take on an annoyed expression, "Except for this part!" She grabbed Sasha's breasts.
"Stop it! Don't grab me!"
"What are these nasty breasts? Are you sure you're my daughter? And what with those thick thighs!? Kuuu! Hateful!"
"I do not know! I was born this way! Now let go of me!"
Natashia released her daughter and started to think of something.
"I'm free..." Sasha's eyes sparkled with joy, and she was going to run away but froze when she saw Victor at the door.
"Eh...?"
"...D-Darling."
"Hmm?" Victor looked at his wife and flashed a small smile, "Oh, continue what you were doing, pretend I'm not here, I'm just a wall..."
"AHHH! As expected, this is because of your father's genes!?" Natashia screamed as if she had discovered a universal law. "Why is everything silent?" Then she looked to the side and saw Victor.
"Oya?" She exhibited a seductive smile, and suddenly she hugged Sasha again and placed her face side by side with her daughter's.
"E-Eh?" Sasha's brain rebooted.
"How about it, my son-in-law. Do you want to practice a trio with a mother and daughter?"
Seeing this vision, Victor, for the first time, realized that the two women were quite alike, just in the face, of course.
"M-Mother, stop it!" Sasha yelled again while her face was completely red.
"I would accept it if it was just my wife, but with you along? No, thank you."
"D-Darling." Sasha was happy, but she didn't know how to feel about this current situation.
"Tsk, are you still angry about what happened?" Natashia let go of her daughter, stood up, and looked at Victor with an annoyed look.
"Yes." Victor was honest.
Suddenly the whole atmosphere of the place was silent and a little tense.
"D-Darling." Sasha was afraid Victor would start another fight.
"…" Natashia didn't expect an honest answer.
"…Look, it's not my fault, okay? That was my other personality. I wasn't in control."
"That does not matter," Victor spoke in a dry tone.
"E-Eh?"
"Don't shirk your responsibility, even though it was your other personality, at the end of the day, that woman is still you, right?"
"Well..." Natashia couldn't deny Victor's words, she started to think a bit and realized he was correct, so she said:
"Tsk, what do you want me to do then?"
"Isn't it obvious, dumb woman?"
"Huh?"
"Become a good mother."
"..." A hush descended in the room, and the two women looked at Victor in shock.
"Become a good mother, do what you haven't done for 21 years of Sasha's life, take care of her like a real mother should. Protect your daughter, train your daughter, this time in the right way."
"Become a woman your daughter will be proud of in the future, become a mother your daughter will be proud of in the future, become a good Clan leader that your daughter would model in the future. Recover your clan title that was stupidly lost."
"... That's a lot..." Natashia closed her eyes and showed a small smile on her face.
Victor walks towards Natashia, and then stopping in front of her, he lifts her face with his hand.
Natashia opens her eyes and looks into Victor's red eyes.
"Wrong. This is the least that should be expected of a woman who calls herself an ex-countess. This is the least that should be expected of a woman who is my wife's mother."
Hearing Victor's serious tone, Natashia's whole body visibly trembled as she displayed a seductive smile and said, "Ah~, my daughter is really very lucky~."
"This is a lot of work." She touched Victor's face and gently caressed his face, "But... you're right."
Soon, she separates from Victor and walks towards the bedroom's entrance, and as she walks towards the door, an elegant white dress begins to be created.
"..." Victor looked at this scene, marveling at this technique.
Natashia stopped on the way out of the room, looked back, and displayed an elegant smile:
"I have a job to do, and my daughter..."
"Yes?" Sasha looked at her mother.
"I'm sorry I wasn't a good mother... I know you won't forgive me so easily, I know what I've done doesn't deserve forgiveness, but I hope you don't stop talking to me..." She exhibited a rather fragile face at the end.
"...I..." She gave her a hard look and then turned to Victor for answers.
Victor displayed a gentle smile and spoke through their connection; 'That is your decision, my wife. Think, what do you want to do?'
'What do I want to do, huh?' Sasha started to think.
Despite having suffered a lot with her parents, despite having gone through all that in the past, at the end of the day, she was still a child who wanted her parents' affection... Wrong, she was still a child who wanted affection from her mother...
'But Julia...' She didn't want to forget Julia, the maid who was like a mother to her... She didn't want to forget her.
Victor knelt down and gently stroked Sasha's head as he waited patiently for her response.
Sasha grabbed Victor's shirt as if seeking support.
She suddenly remembered a childhood memory.
...
Coming back from her usual 'training', A small, golden-haired child was crying as she hugged a maid.
"Snif, Snif!"
"I hate my mom!" She started to cry louder.
"Ah~, my dear Sasha, don't cry, don't cry." The woman spoke in a gentle voice as she stroked the child's head."B-But, Julia. My mother…" the child looked up, her face tearful.
"Haha~, look at your face~." She chuckled gently as she wiped the tears from Sasha's eyes and soon started pulling at the child's plump cheeks.
"S-Stop, my cheeks..."
"Ara. I'm sorry, it's just that your cheeks are so chubby it makes me want to pull them."
"Mooo, I'm serious! My Mother... Wrong, she is not my mother! My mother is you! Wait, if my mom is you? Who is she? Huh?"
Julia wore a gentle smile when she saw that she had succeeded in getting the child to stop crying, and her gentle smile turned into a motherly smile when she saw Sasha all lost in what to say:
"Oya? I don't remember having such a beautiful daughter like you~." She patted Sasha's head again.
"Ugh... I wish you were my mom..." The child pouted, then her eyes started to water again.
"Eh? But I'm already your mother." The woman spoke.
"Huh...?" The child put on a confused face, but didn't she just deny it, saying she wasn't my mother?
"Haha~, don't think too much, Sasha."
"Hmm?" Sasha looked at Julia.
Julia lifts Sasha and puts her on her lap.
"Think. You have two mothers. I'm the good mother, and Lady Natasha is your Evil Mother."
"...Evil mother?"
"Yeah, after all, she does things for you that not even a good mother would, right?"
"Yes..."
"And I'm a good mom because I always take care of you, right?"
"Yes..." Sasha thought that logic made sense.
"So you have two mothers!"
"Oh..." The child's face lit up, but she didn't know how to feel, knowing she had an evil mother.
"If I ever leave for another job, you'll be alone with your evil mother..."
"Ugh..." Sasha's face started to tear up again. She didn't want to be alone with that woman!
"But I'm sure that in the future, she will become a good mother..."
"…huh? My mom becoming a good mom? Never!" She made an 'X' symbol with both hands.
"Hahahaha~, you will understand in the future, now. Let's go back to the bedroom; you have to go to sleep."
"Ugh…I don't want to…." She knows that if she goes to sleep, she'll wake up tomorrow, and 'training' will start again.
"Well, what if I tell you a story from the human world?"
"Oh?" Sasha looked like a fish that took the bait as her eyes lit up, "Let's go to the bedroom!"
She jumped off Julia's lap and ran towards the bedroom, "What are you waiting for, mother? Let's go!"
"Yes, my daughter." Julia displayed a gentle smile.
...
Sasha wakes up from her memories when she feels Victor caressing her face.
"D-Darling?"
"Don't cry, I'm here, you know?" He smiled gently.
"Crying...?" She touched her face and felt tears coming out.
Seeing her daughter's face, Natashia's chest tightened as if someone was squeezing her heart, but unlike physical pain, the pain she was feeling now couldn't be compared to the pain of someone squeezing her heart.
"I see... I hurt her so much, huh?"
Sasha wipes her tears with her hand and thinks; 'Two mothers, huh?' She looked at Natashia.
Natashia gulped when she saw her daughter's gaze, and unconsciously, she squeezed the door entrance she was holding tighter. She was very nervous.
"I... I won't stop talking to you, but..." She decided to give her mother a second chance.
Natashia felt like a weight had lifted from her heart, but when she heard her daughter's final words, her heart began to beat faster in nervousness.
"I won't forget Julia either, she's my mother too, and that's something that will never change."
"..." Natashia exhibited a gentle smile.
"That's enough... Thank you... My daughter." She said as she quickly turned around. She didn't want her daughter to see her face before she left.
Sasha exhibited a gentle little smile when she heard her mother's tone of voice. 'In the end, I'm a weak woman who can't hate her own mother, huh? Although... I really don't want to hate my mother since she is my only living mother, after all... I hope we can get along well in the future.'
She thought with self-contempt, but, despite having suffered everything that happened in the past, she still wanted to be close to her mother.
In her heart of hearts, she knew she couldn't hate her mother completely, but she also knew that there would be no other chance. If her mother didn't change, she would do her best to disentangle herself from her mother.
A mother is a mother, the blood between the two is thick, and this bond cannot be easily undone.
But… a choice can be made to avoid further disappointment, and Sasha hopes she won't be forced to make that choice in the future.
Victor said, "Natashia, this time. Don't let that damn personality out." He had no idea how personality swapping worked, but he had to say it just to be sure.
"Don't worry, my son-in-law. I will not go." She spoke without turning around, then walked down the halls.
As she walked down the halls, she wiped her face, which had small tears coming out:
"I will not waste this second chance." Her eyes gleamed with determination. "I will fix this mess."
"Oh? Tell me how you plan to fix everything." She heard Agnes' voice.
She looks ahead and sees Agnes standing at the corner of the hallway.
Natashia exhibited a gentle smile, "First I will kill my husbands, then I will kill some annoying bugs that are in my clan, then I will go after Clan Horseman."
'Why are all her goals about killing someone?' Agnes thought.
"Why are you going to kill your husbands?" She asked curiously.
"Isn't it obvious?" Natashia looked at Agnes like she was dumb.
"Huh...?"
"I will do this to be with my new husband~." Natashia displayed a seductive smile, and her eyes darkened completely.
"..." Agnes' head turned a little to the side, and a question mark appeared above her head.
"Your new husband?"
"Yes! If I become a good woman, he will accept me, right? He said it himself!"
"…" Agnes was silent. 'When did he say that!?' She was listening to the whole conversation and didn't remember it.
"All I have to do is destroy some bugs, retrieve what belongs to me, and become a good woman/mother! And by doing this, he will accept me! And consequently, I will get closer to my daughter too!"
"As the saying goes? Two rabbits with a rock? Rabbit? Huh? I think it was something with the rabbit fucking the rock?"
"Whatever." She gave up thinking.
"Good luck, I think? I support you." She could only say that.
"Thanks, Agnes!" Natashia exhibited a gentle smile and then walked towards the exit of the mansion.
When Natashia's back was no longer seen, Agnes spoke:
"Did I just encourage a woman to run after my daughter's husband?" She thought for a moment:
"Well, whatever. It's not my problem, fight Violet! I trust you, my daughter!" She completely ignored the subject.
"Where's my Darling?" In the end, all that was on her mind was her husband.
Chapter 117: The consequences of actions.
After Natashia left the room.
Sasha enjoyed her husband's silent hug. She liked it a lot when they just stayed like that, not caring about anything. 'On that note, I remember something like this happened in the past...' She displayed a gentle smile when she remembered the first time she met Victor.
Feeling a gentle breeze pass against her private parts, she looked down and realized she was still naked, her face taking on a slight shade of red. 'I need to wear some clothes!' She wasn't a crazy exhibitionist like her mother!
As soon as she was out of Victor's arms, she got up off the floor and walked towards the wardrobe. She grabs a pair of black panties, a pair of black spandex pants, and a plain white long shirt that had a picture of a rabbit emblazoned on its front.
Pleased with the clothes she'd chosen, she began putting on her outfit.
"…" Victor just appraised his wife in silence.
Unlike six months ago when Sasha's hair was short, now her hair was long enough to reach her waist.
Victor wondered how hair can grow so fast, but when he remembered that six months had passed, he nodded; 'Make sense... Although, my mother's hair takes a long time to grow...'
When he was younger, he remembered that his mother would always complain that her hair was slow to grow. He also remembered that she said it was very difficult to take care of her hair... 'I miss her...' Victor thought that he should go visit her soon, he missed his family.
He looked at his wife's hair and thought. 'Looks like vampires don't need to take care of their hair...'
Vampire food was different from humans, they drank blood, and if the blood was of high quality like Victor's, the effects that blood had on the vampires' bodies were visible.
Despite not being groomed daily, Sasha's golden hair was glowing with vitality. 'I guess that's why my blood is called the blood of gold, huh?' he made a joke to himself.
Sasha's ears turned a little red when she felt Victor's gaze, but she didn't care. She even liked that her body attracted him. Although... She was still embarrassed.
But she did her best not to care too much about it. Knowing that Violet had already advanced to the next step made her feel a little competitive, and she had already decided not to back down anymore.
Victor stopped staring at his wife and thinking bullshit. He then got up and walked towards the bed, then climbed onto it, sitting down while leaning his back against the wall.
He then closed his eyes, taking a deep breath, before saying:
"We need to talk." His voice was calm and neutral, but it held a very noticeable seriousness.
"...Okay, just give me a few seconds, I'm almost done."
"Mm." Victor nodded and kept his eyes closed. 'Sigh, this is the consequences of my choices. I must face it head on.'
He sighed inwardly. To be honest, he was a little scared of his wife's reaction, but he wasn't a coward.
Deep down, he believed that the truth is better regardless of whatever situation he's in.
His mother always said, "You only lie to strangers, but to your loved ones? Always be honest... That's why I'm always honest with you, my son."
My younger self said, "Isn't that because you don't have a filter and say everything that goes through your head? And, because of that, you don't know how to lie?"
I remember her smile that day almost broke with my answer, so she continued:
"My son, if I didn't know how to lie, I wouldn't be a lawyer."
"Oh…hmmm. So are you a liar?"
"Hahaha, lying is a choice, and it's up to you whether you choose to or not, sometimes people choose to lie because they're afraid to tell the truth. But I believe from the bottom of my heart that the truth is always better, no matter if the truth is a cruel truth."
"...I see."
Victor chuckled a little when he remembered that memory. He just realized that his mom had a lot of influence on what he's become today.
Finished with wearing her clothes, Sasha looked at Victor and said:
"I'm done, Darling."
Victor opened his eyes and looked at his wife while displaying a gentle smile:
"Come here." He patted the bed mattress.
"..." Sasha nodded and walked slowly towards the bed. Reaching the front of the bed, she climbed onto it, and like a kitten, crawled towards Victor.
She stopped crawling when she got close to Victor, and soon she sat down in front of him.
Victor sat comfortably and made room for Sasha to come closer.
"..." Sasha's eyes seemed to glow for a few moments as she inched closer to Victor, like a scared cat.
Suddenly Victor grabbed Sasha and pulled her along.
"I got you~."
"It's not like I was trying to get away…." She pouted.
"Hahaha~" He chuckled gently and started stroking Sasha's head.
Sasha leaned her head on Victor's chest and enjoyed his caress:
"What do you want to talk about?" She asked.
Victor exhibited a sad smile, "I killed William, your father."
"!!!" Sasha's body visibly trembled.
...
In a separate room, Violet, Ruby, Kaguya, Yuki, Luna, and Maria were present.
Violet and Ruby appeared to be playing the cursed game that can end friendships. Uno.
They were playing with the three maids at a table.
"Violet, are you sure about this?" Ruby placed a card on the table.
"Hmm? About what?" Violet placed a card on the table.
"I mean, leaving our husband alone with Sasha."
"Oh, that. Yes, I'm sure. Sasha doesn't know her father was killed by Victor. We've hidden it on purpose."
"Knowing my master's personality, the chance of him bringing up this subject when he's alone with Lady Sasha is pretty high." Kaguya also placed a card on the table.
"The odds aren't 'just' high. I'm 100% sure he'll tell her. After all, he's an honest man who believes the truth is always better." Violet corrected her.
"...Anna's influences, huh?" Ruby spoke.
"Yes." Violet.
When Maria's turn came, the blonde maid put a card on the table, "And to think he would beat an older vampire... Normally, it would need a commander-level hunter, a general, and various traps for this feat. If it became possible."
"Yes... The master is always surprising." Yuki commented, but she seemed to be in a bad mood as she placed a card on the table too.
"Not wanting to belittle Lady Ruby's husband's conquest, but..." Luna put a card on the table, and she only had two cards left in her hand, "What he did was not that surprising."
"Oh?" Kaguya's eyes seemed to glow blood red for a few seconds:
"Explain."
"William Salvatore Florence, a vampire over 1800 years old, considered an old man by vampire standards. He is the first son and heir of the Salvatore family, but despite being an heir, he never worked for his clan."
"+2" Ruby placed one card on the table.
"+2" Violet does the same.
"+4" Kaguya.
"+2" Maria.
"+4" Yuki.
"... Fuck it." Luna took 14 cards. She was annoyed now, especially when she saw Kaguya's disdainful smile.
Then she continued to explain, "Main characteristic of his family, a resistance above the norm. It's nothing surprising." She organized the cards she'd taken, then flashed a sly smile.
"+4" She plays a card.
"+2" Ruby.
"+2" Violet.
"..." Kaguya's eyebrow twitched as she picked up 8 cards.
"Why are you sharing this man's information?" Kaguya spoke, then she placed a card on the table.
"... You will understand." Luna spoke, then she continued, "At some point in his life, he was kidnapped by Countess Annasthashia Fulger. After being kidnapped by the countess, he became her first husband and ended up living a life of luxury like a parasite."
"A lazy man." Maria played a card.
"He doesn't seem like someone willing to train." Yuki played a card.
"That's my point. He never trained." Luna put in another card and explained, "Although he is an older vampire, he never trained, he just procrastinated, and from what I heard of Clan Fulger, he was just Countess Annasthashia's 'toy'. The one who holds the true strength worthy of holding the title of vampire count is only Sasha's mother. That man was just something close to a doll that Sasha's mother used when she was bored."
"What a horrible thing to say…." Yuki commented, "Put in some nice words; something like, he was just a sperm tap."
"..." An uncomfortable silence descended in the room.
"Hmm... Are you alright, Yuki?" Violet asked.
Yuki looked at Violet and smiled gently, "Yes, I'm fine. I'm fine, look at my smile, I'm great!"
"..." Again, a silence descended in the room.
"... Anyway. Lord Victor only killed him because he has powers of the Clan Snow which is the weakness of vampires, and because that man underestimated him, and because Kaguya helped him too. That would never happen normally... But, despite being a lazy man, he still was an older vampire, and the advantage of how long you live cannot easily be overcome."
"I'm sorry, but I don't agree with you," Kaguya said.
"... Explain," Luna commented.
"Lord Victor fought two vampire counts and survived. That in itself is quite an achievement. If the older vampires were underestimating my Master, that's their fault."
"Hmm..." Luna started to think.
"In a fight. Power levels matter, but that's not all." Ruby went on to explain, "Physical conditioning, the mentality of facing the opponent, battle experience, these are all important. My husband knew how to take advantage of all the opportunities given to him, and it is because of that, this kind of result was possible."
And there's also that transformation..."
"…" Violet was silent, she saw Victor's transformation through the recording Natalia took, and the feeling she felt when she saw it was different from anything she felt before… But, if she put her feelings into words about all this they were; she didn't like it.
She had a bad feeling about this transformation.
"…" Maria, on the other hand, felt her stomach begging for food when she remembered that form of Victors; 'He looked so delicious~.'
"!!!" Maria woke up from her stupor and shook her head several times to get that thought out of her head.
"Oh...I understand now, thinking about it this way, this is really quite an achievement."
"Umu, Umu" Violet nodded her head several times, and stopped thinking about bullshit, then she said, "My Darling is amazing!"
"…" The women wore a gentle smile when they heard what Violet said.
"Come to think about it, I want the recording of that fight. I only saw it once, but I want to see it again." Ruby said as she looked around, "Where's Natalia?"
"Oh, she said she went to a gym in the human world," Maria spoke.
"Eh? Why?"
"She's upset that we keep saying she's fat," Luna spoke.
"But she's not fat, she just has a flabby stomach," Ruby commented.
"Shh, don't comment too much, Ruby. Being a human woman is hard, you know?" Violet commented, "At least that's what I've heard, but it's not something I care about."
"... Well, as an ex-human, I can say that human women suffer to keep in good shape," Maria spoke.
"The world is not fair," Ruby spoke.
"The world was never fair," Violet continued.
"Indeed," Maria nodded.