Chapter 151: A wife's ambition.
Ruby Side.
"Are you crazy...?" Madam asked after hearing Ruby's proposal.
Ruby just flashed a big smile that sent shivers down Madam's spine.
"...Yes, you're crazy..." Madam put her hand on her face and spoke in a tired voice:
"As expected of that woman's daughter, I think...?"
"..." Natalia, who had listened to the entire conversation in silence, just had her mouth hanging open in absolute shock...
'This... This is crazy! If this plan works, the whole supernatural world would be turned upside down… Wrong, the whole world would turn upside down, it will turn into chaos!'. Natalia can't help but think of disbelief.
"Why are you so shocked? It's a simple thought process. If you can't fix something, you shouldn't waste time trying to fix it, just destroy everything and rebuild from scratch. It's simple, practical, and faster, right?"
"...Don't take this so lightly; what you said could throw the three factions into chaos."
"And isn't that great?" Ruby's smile grew, "The more chaos there is, the more I can take advantage of it."
"...You really are crazy..." Madam sighed, then she asked, "What do you want to do all this for?"
"It's for my family, of course," Ruby replied, as she continued:
"As I was growing up, I learned a lot from the experiences I had and my mother's teachings, and one of the things I'm sure of… Is that I hate the current situation, the present Status Quo. If you will, I despise it."
"Hunters hunt innocent vampires for no reason, simply because we're a 'demonic' species, and of course, they do not discriminate. To them, even a baby vampire who hasn't committed any crimes is still a target for elimination… And they say they're doing it all for God'. A bunch of hypocrites."
"Then there's Younger vampires and their useless pride; they're worse than garbage, they're useless... Even the most useless human is more useful than this current generation of vampires. They disgust me."
"And do not get me started on the werewolves; always being so passive. They never interfere with anything and never progress at all, so their entire society never seems to have evolved... A bunch of barbarians."
"And at the top of my list are the Witches. I despise witches... Specifically the Queen of Witches, that woman stinks."
"What do you mean...?" Madam asked curiously.
"Don't you find this situation strange?" Ruby continued.
"Huh…?" Madam didn't understand what Ruby was implying.
"Witches are a 'neutral' faction; they are like a group of merchants who sell anything as long as someone has money."
"These women are connected to all factions, and because of that connection, they have a great deal of information available at their fingertips. Yet, what do they do with this information? Purely use it to make more money? Even though they are already wealthy? Just being greedy doesn't explain it." Ruby was quite skeptical about this.
"Information is power. Knowing or not knowing certain information can change the situation in the blink of an eye. Even an idiot knows that."
"Werewolves, Vampires, Hunters... She has information on all of these factions, but... We don't know anything about her... Didn't you ever find it weird?"
Madam didn't respond for a second and then just said, "…I don't get your point. The Queen of Witches never hid her society from all factions."
"Seriously?" Ruby smiled, and then she asked a question:
"So answer me this: who is the Queen of Witches? What does she look like? What is her name? How old is she? Did she have sex to have her daughters? Or did she just adopt? Does she have a mother? If she has a mother, then who is the father?"
"...That's..." Madam was silent. After all, she didn't know that either.
"We know about the Queen's daughters. We know their names, what their physical appearances are, but we know nothing about the Queen of Witches, and this woman is the ruler of an entire race; she is the Queen."
"We don't even know if the Queen was replaced over time with another Queen, we don't know the exact location of the Queen, we don't know her plans or how she thinks."
"…" Madam was silent.
"Isn't that weird? How is it that a woman who holds the power to interfere in all factions is not known to the masses? And why is it that no one cares about that?"
"Maybe she's just shy?"
Ruby's eyes twitched. "...Are you serious?"
"…" Madam didn't know what to say. She had never thought about it before, and, for some reason, she just found it all natural.
She found it natural that the Queen of Witches was not known. She found it natural that she herself had never seen the appearance of the queen... After all, the Queen is strong, right? Strong people like to stay hidden...
'Wait... That's weird.' Madam placed her hand on her chin and started thinking: 'Everyone in the supernatural world knows the king of vampires and king of wolves, but no one knows the queen of witches. In all my life, she's never been out in public. She's always isolated in her castle… And the day I won my title, I just saw her silhouette behind a cloth…'
Madam opened her eyes wide as she seemed to have understood something:
"That Bitch…Don't tell me she did what I think she did…" Then, wanting to test her hypothesis, she made a magic circle with her hand and placed her hand on her head.
Crack!
Suddenly everyone heard the noise of something breaking.
"...?" Ruby didn't understand what happened, she looked to Madam for answers.
"…a suggestion spell…" Madam's face twisted in anger. She didn't like knowing someone was messing with her head.
A suggestion spell, what does it do? It's a pretty simple spell; it slowly affects an individual's mind, similar to Vampyric Charm but more discrete.
One could use this spell even in conversation to slowly influence the individual's opinion in the user's wanted direction.
In this case, the magic was: Treat everything as if it were something natural.
"Oh?" Ruby showed a slight smile, "What did you do?"
"I was under the influence of a suggestion spell. I probably acquired it through products sold by witches or through living in their society for a long time? I do not know."
"Interesting." Ruby started thinking about several things, and in less than a few seconds, she said:
"This is weird."
"What is?" Madam asked.
"Would the Queen of Witches be so stupid as to use a spell that even you can identify? Not wanting to belittle you, but you're not one of the strongest witches."
Madam ignored what Ruby said, "...You're thinking wrong, Scarlett."
"Hmm?"
"All witches worship our Queen. The Queen of Witches is like a mother to all these women, meaning..."
"All witches are allies of the queen..." Ruby opened her eyes wide.
"Yes, and, because of that, she didn't mind using a spell that even I can identify." Madam snorted in disdain.
'That makes sense considering the other factions don't have much knowledge of magic… After all, they wouldn't learn something they couldn't use.' Ruby thought.
Madam wouldn't deny that in the past, she thought the Queen of Witches was like a mother to her too, but after living so long with witches, she came across several situations that she didn't like, and because of that, she deserted and became a clandestine witch.
Being a clandestine witch wasn't bad. You just had to hide and pray the Queen of Witches wouldn't find you, or you'd never surface again.
The Queen was not very fond of deserters. Either you were with her, or you were her enemy.
"I see... That's why you want to do this..." Madam understood why Ruby wanted to carry out that plan.
Ruby's smile grew:
"One thing my mother always told me was: 'Do whatever you want because I will always be your ally, my daughter…' And my beloved husband has the same kind of mentality as my mother."..In a way, she's a good mother."
"Of course, she is a good mother. Wrong, she's the best." Ruby displayed a small smile.
'I will throw this world into chaos, and I will rebuild it. Then, when this world is in the palm of my hand, I will give this whole world to my husband... So we can finally live without worrying about anything... '
In a way, Ruby was very paranoid about security because what happened when she was little had left her traumatized, and she would only feel satisfied when she controlled everything and everyone.
She was not comfortable knowing that there were beings who could suddenly appear in her house and destroy everything she loved.
"...W-Who is your husband?" Madam stuttered a little while asking the question. This couldn't be helped since, after seeing the expression Ruby was displaying, unconsciously, she was terrified...
Those lifeless eyes, that empty smile, it all scared the hell out of her!
Ruby snapped out of her reverie and said:
"Victor Alucard, the fifth Vampire Count..."
"Eh...?" Madam's brain seemed to have shut down.
"…" Ruby flashed a satisfied smile when she saw Madam's reaction.
"What is your answer?"
"Huh...?" Her brain restarted, and when her brain registered what Ruby said, she thought for a few seconds, then said:
"... I accept. If you do what you're planning, and this plan works, I want to be on the winning side." In the end, for Madam, it didn't really matter what Ruby did. She just wanted to do her business, earn money, and live carefreely.
And being on Ruby's side seemed to be the best decision for her. After all, the woman had the support of the strongest female vampire in the world and the new Count, who proved to have absurd potential.
Madam took a device from her drawer and threw it towards Ruby.
"... Good decision." Ruby raised her hand and caught the device.
"What is this?"
"That is all the information I know of Clan Horsemen. Consider it a gesture of good faith and to a lasting partnership." Madam displayed a small smile.
"Oh? A witch not charging money? Will the sun rise in the west tomorrow?"
"Shut up. Do you want it or not?"
"Yes, I want it... But." Ruby's eyes glowed blood red, and soon the entire room was frozen.
Ruby appeared behind Madam and then hugged the woman as she bit her neck!
"...!?" Madam couldn't react fast enough to try and use her magic, only activating it a split second later.
However, by then, Ruby had returned to the couch.
"Lady Ruby." Natalia handed Ruby a handkerchief.
"Thanks."
"What did you do, Scarlett!?" Madam roared.
"Don't worry, I didn't make you a vampire, I didn't do the proper ritual for it, and you're no longer a virgin. What I did to you was just insurance…" Ruby flashed a sadistic smile.
"Huh?" Madam did not understand.
"Animes are quite useful, you know? While watching a vampire anime, I saw that the protagonist could bite his victim, and the victim would stay in control of the protagonist like a puppet... I tried to replicate this in real life, and would you imagine my surprise! I managed to create a similar technique using Vampyric Charm." The six months she spent training was not useless.
She had to use several humans as experiments to learn this technique, all of which were criminals, though.
The training method was simple: she would go into a prison and peruse all the records of the criminals who had committed the most terrible crimes and use them as guinea pigs.
Utilizing her Vampyric Charm made that easy feat to accomplish.
Ruby still remembered how difficult it was to lose Sasha since she was quite persistent in knowing where she was going every time she finished training.
'Thank me, humans. I cleaned up most of the criminals in the world for you.' Ruby thought humorously.
"Now, every time you have thoughts of betraying me, I'll know, and with just a thought, you'll kill yourself. A very convenient technique, don't you think…?"
"Why did you do that!?" Madam growled as she held her neck.
"Hmm? Is it not obvious? I don't trust you. You already fooled me once, and I don't trust the witches' scrolls either." Ruby thought she should do this with the two budding hunters as well, but they weren't important enough to be wasting her time with them.
"No need to look at me like that, you'll hurt my feelings." Ruby chuckled a little:
"Just don't betray me, and you'll live. It's simple, right?" She flashed a smile that showed all her sharp teeth.
Gulp…
Madam gulped. She realized it was a bad idea to have tricked Ruby in the past, and if she knew it would come back to bite her ass in the future, she wouldn't have done that!
Ruby soon got up from the couch. She then snapped her fingers, causing all the ice in the room to melt, "See you soon, Esther." Ruby spoke without turning around.
Chapter 152: Natural Playboy.
On top of a building with over 30 floors.
Fred was cornered by Mizuki, looking like a helpless lamb that was powerlessly awaiting slaughter by a predator!
"…Okay, Milf…I'm sorry, okay? Let's talk? Please?" Fred spoke with a strained smile as he looked back with a bit of fear. Despite being an Altair fan, he couldn't take a leap of faith from such a high place!
He would die if he did! He wasn't a game character!
Veins began to pop in Mizuki's head. The man just threw gasoline on the fire!
"Stop calling me Milf!" Mizuki stomped the ground angrily!
Crack!
The ground broke in a spider web pattern from the force!
"Hiii!" Fred dropped to the ground in fear:
"As expected of a gorilla-."
"What did you say...?" Mizuki looked at Fred with a look that sent shivers all over Fred's spine.
Gulp.
"N-Nothing."
"He really doesn't learn." Victor laughed while sitting on top of the water tank on the roof of the same building where Mizuki and Fred were standing, watching the whole situation with an amused smile.
"...Why does this sound like a scene straight out of a romantic comedy?" Edward spoke with a strange face.
"What do you mean?"
"I'm talking about that clichéd plot of a dumb protagonist who wins over the heroine Tsundere." Edward felt that this situation was very similar to what he saw in anime.
"...Huh?" Victor didn't understand anything Edward said.
"Ugh..." Edward facepalmed a few times. He really wished his friend was a cultured man like Fred, he didn't need to be so extreme like Fred but just knowing a few things he made references to would help.
Edward took his hand away from his face and said:
"...It's decided, when you have time, we'll go watch anime." Edward nodded with determination; he wasn't going to let his friend go the wrong way! He needed to experience the culture!
The brothers are united, and if one goes to the dark side, everyone comes along with him!
"...I don't understand how you came to that decision, but okay." It wasn't like Victor had much to do besides train and spend time with his wives.
The life of a vampire Count was surprisingly easy...
'Billions of dollars in the account, three beautiful vampire wives, the cute master/mother-in-law... life was beautiful~.' He thought with fun.
His brain promptly ignored all the torture/training he had to go through. Sometimes the mind was quite convenient.
Rumble, Rumble!
Suddenly lightning sounds and a scream of rage was heard:
"I will kill him! You piece of shit!"
"Fuck... I should control my mouth..." Fred broke out in a cold sweat.
"Hmm?" Victor came out of his thoughts and looked at Mizuki, who had a completely enraged face, as she was holding a giant odachi that was covered in lightning.
"Oh shit..." Edward said.
"...What did that idiot do?" Victor asked, and then he looked at odachi with curious eyes. He has a vague memory of being hit by that odachi in the past.
'That woman, does she have the same fighting style as me?' He thought about it because an odachi was very similar to the greatsword he used.
'Ugh, my body is itching to have a rematch!' Victor was quite honest with his thoughts.
"He did the usual stuff, you know he's an expert at pissing off women," Edward spoke.
"That's why women run away from him even though he looks decent..." Victor flashed a slight smile.
Victor promptly ignored the way Fred dressed. After all, that wasn't a bad thing for him.
It's not something he'd want to wear, but he wouldn't point fingers at things his friends liked to wear.
"Indeed." Edward displayed the same smile as Victor.
"Well, we can't let him die, despite being an idiot, he's still our friend." When Victor was about to get up, Edward just held up his hand in a stopping motion.
"I'll take care of it. That woman is a hunter and uses weapons that are your natural weakness, it's too risky for you to interfere."
"Oh?" Victor looked at Edward with curious eyes and completely ignored what he said about Mizuki. After all, for Victor, it didn't matter. In fact, he liked it. The more complicated and difficult the fight was, the more he would evolve and get stronger.
"What are you going to do?" Victor asked.
"... Just observe." Edward disappeared.
"Die!" Mizuki was completely enraged. She had never been humiliated this much! She just put up with this man because it was her mission to recruit him into the organization she worked for!
She was sick of putting up with this rude man!
"Hiii!" Fred closed his eyes and put his hand in front of him, an instinctive gesture of self-defense.
As her odachi approached to cut Fred's head vertically down the middle, as if he were a hero who arrived late to save the day, Edward appeared and grabbed Mizuki's blade.
Tink!
The sound of the blade hitting metal was heard.
"Enough." Edward looked at Mizuki with his blue eyes.
"Heh~." Victor's smile grew when he saw Edward's current appearance.
His face took on a more animalistic appearance, his teeth were sharper, white fur rose from his arms, and he seemed to have more defined muscles. The pressure he emanated from his body indicated that a predator was among them!
An Alpha Werewolf!
An Alpha Werewolf!
"…" Mizuki was a little shocked internally. Even though she didn't put much force into her attack, this man still held back her attack like it was nothing!
"Edward...?" Fred looked at his friend's back, and, for some reason, he felt like those heroines who were saved by the hero at the last moment.
badump, Badump. (Doki, Doki)
His heart began to pound quickly.
"Thanks-." When he was going to thank Edward, he heard:
"Even though he's an idiot whose personality is a plague from a woman's perspective, he's still my friend, so I won't stand by and watch you kill him." Edward stood and pushed her odachi's blade away.
"Oyy!!! I'm not like that!" Fred protested strongly; he wasn't that kind of man!
Edward slowly turned his face and looked at Fred:
"Shut-up, stop making a mess, and most importantly, apologize to her."
Gulp.
"Y-Yes..." Somehow Fred felt he should obey Edward now. The feeling he was emanating from his body was too dangerous.
Fred looked at Mizuki.
A mature Japanese woman, who had a curvaceous body and large breasts, long black hair, and who wore a white professional suit, she exuded a mature woman feeling that could only be found in experienced women.
"I'm sorry, Milf-."
Slap!
Edward smacked his friend on the head.
"She has a name! Apologize correctly, or I will burn your entire manga collection!"
"...M-Monster, don't you dare!" How could he commit such a great crime so naturally!?
The threat Edward made was more impactful than his current appearance.
"..." Edward just stared at Fred with a neutral gaze.
"Ugh..." Fred realized that his friend wasn't kidding. Fearing for his precious possessions, he looked at Mizuki:
"I'm sorry, Mizuki." He seemed quite sincere when apologizing.
"...Fine..." Mizuki wasn't an irrational woman and accepted Fred's apology.
She undid the spell that created her odachi and turned her face away. She was still annoyed but seeing the man sincerely apologizing, she became a little calmer.
"See? You can do it when you want." Edward smiled in satisfaction, and soon he undid his transformation.
"…Shut up, I don't do it consciously, okay? Things somehow always end like this with this woman, she has a short fuse."
"... Aren't you the one who teases her without knowing?" Edward spoke.
"…" Fred used his right to remain silent. He'll be honest, he didn't know how to treat women, and he'd never received this divine knowledge from anyone. Anime didn't help much either, so, because of that, he was just being himself.
It wasn't like he was trying to insult Mizuki.
"I still don't understand these talismans, are they different from the techniques that normal hunters use?"
"!!!" She was startled when she heard Victor's voice near her ear, and unconsciously she jumped back as she prepared to do battle.
"Oh?" Victor flashed a small smile when he saw a hint of embarrassment on the woman's face. If she reacted like that, it was because she saw him as a man, not a creature she must kill, and that was something Victor didn't understand.
"I thought you hated vampires like other hunters." And as he didn't understand something, he asked his question directly.
Mizuki was surprised by Victor's honesty, "…Yes, I hate them. But for some reason, you and your friends don't seem like supernatural beings to me... You guys are very-."
"Normal?"
"Yes..." Mizuki felt that Victor was very different from the vampires she encountered. He seemed calmer, and he didn't look at her like she was cattle that should be fed upon.
"That's obvious," Edward was the one to speak this time.
"Huh?" Mizuki looked at Edward.
"Victor was a human before, and I grew up away from werewolf society, so, because of that, we're different from our peers," Edward told the truth. His only interactions with the supernatural world were when his father told him something, but he knew the basics of every faction in the supernatural world.
After all, their father Adam did not want his children to be unaware of these basics.
The environment and other influences are what shape an individual's personality. Because of that, even though Victor had turned into a different race, it wasn't like he was going to change his attitude all of a sudden.
The same went for Edward since he grew up among humans and wouldn't act like Emo that would turn away from his friends just because he was a wolf.
"... Eh...?" She looked at Victor in disbelief, " You were once human...?"
"Yeah." Victor displayed a small smile.
"Bullshit!" Mizuki screamed with all her strength.
"Huh?"
"There's no way a plebeian vampire can become a vampire Count! You won't deceive me!" She refused to believe such irrationality.
Had a plebeian vampire, the weakest vampire in the vampire hierarchy, grown up enough to become a vampire Count? And he was transformed not too long ago!
It's impossible!
She would not believe such a lie! She was not dumb!
"...Hahaha," Victor chuckled amusedly.
"Why are you laughing!?" Mizuki somehow started to get annoyed again.
"I apologize. It's just that you had a pretty cute reaction just now."
"...Huh...?" When Mizuki registered Victor's words, she reacted:
"O-Oh, thanks, I think." She turned her face away and looked at the buildings. For some reason, she didn't know how to react to those sudden words.
"..." Edward and Fred looked at this situation with their mouths open.
Edward looked at Fred, "See? That is how you have to treat a woman, if you were a woman, you'd run away from yourself as well."
"Oof." Fred felt that his friend was denying his entire existence, as he looked at Victor and said:
"... It's impossible. I'm not a natural Playboy..."
"He's not a playboy... Anna just taught him to treat a woman well and sincerely." Edward spoke.
"...Instead of becoming a hunter, shouldn't I be Anna's student?" Fred thought it would be a good idea. He felt he would gain more by becoming Anna's disciple than by becoming a hunter.
But the real reason was: he wanted to be a natural playboy too!
....
Chapter 153: Faith.
'It has been a long time since someone looked so sincere in my eyes.' Mizuki thought with a small smile on her face.
As a woman who had lived for a while, she was pretty experienced, and she was also used to people talking about how beautiful she was.
She knew she was beautiful, and that wasn't arrogance or vanity; that was an undeniable truth.
She was hot, and she knew it very well.
… But as time went on, those compliments started to become hollow, those compliments started to become false to her. So, because of that, she was taken aback when Victor praised her so sincerely, and he wasn't even looking at her assets.
Which, in her humble opinion, was quite impressive to ordinary women.
"... So, are you going to tell me what these techniques are?" Victor asked again.
"...?" Mizuki pulled out of her thoughts and looked at Victor, who at some point was close to her again and was looking at her with his eyes glowing blood red.
"..." Mizuki for a moment felt threatened by that look of his, but she didn't feel any bad intentions coming from Victor, and all she felt was curiosity...
And it wasn't just any curiosity. It was a huge curiosity, like a child who found something interesting and wanted to know more about it.
It was like a cat that couldn't stop looking at something new.
His eyes screamed: Tell me, tell me, tell me.
To be honest, she felt a bit smothered by this curiosity.
"...Well..." For a moment, Mizuki was going to tell Victor about her techniques, but she quickly remembered that her master had forbidden her to tell anything about it to strangers.
[It's okay, you can tell him the basics, I'm a little curious about something...] She heard her master's voice.
"Fine..." Mizuki sighed, but, as she had her master's permission, she wouldn't mind explaining a few things.
She then pulled a talisman from her pocket and showed it to Victor, then explained, "The techniques I use are called Onmyoujutsu."
"Oh?" Victor's eyes seemed to shine more. He was really interested and started looking at the talisman and analyzing the object.
Mizuki exhibited a small smile when she saw Victor's reaction. She wouldn't deny that she liked seeing someone with genuine curiosity about the techniques she used, so she started talking without delving too deep:
"In short: Onmyoujutsu, it's quite similar to the techniques used by the hunters of the organization I work for. The only difference between the two is that my spells are used based on the faith of the gods of my homeland."
"Hmm…" Victor put his hand on his chin and started to think; 'It's pretty obvious that she spoke that way because she doesn't want me to learn a lot about these techniques.'
"I see, I see. That's interesting, but there's something I don't understand." Victor nodded several times, then asked his question:
"What is this 'faith' that you guys talk about so much?" Victor felt that this concept was too vague. After all, 'faith' could be anything, so how did this power that hunters use work?
He was quite curious.
"Well..." Mizuki didn't even know how to explain it correctly...
"Let me explain this part." Suddenly an old man came out of Mizuki's body.
"Oh?" Victor looked at the old man and waited for his teachings.
"Faith is an unshakable confidence in yourself, an unbreakable confidence that if you want and wish, you can achieve anything!"
"Faith is a belief in a god, or in yourself. A belief so arrogant it can move mountains."
"Faith is an action of change…"
"…?" Victor didn't understand anything.
And the old man realized this, he approached Victor and touched the area of his heart.
"Faith can be many things. The meaning changes from person to person, but the essence remains the same. An unshakable confidence in something, an unshakable belief in something."
"Once you cultivate these two concepts to extreme levels, you are able to cause a phenomenon that can bend reality, you are able to access the 'source'."
'Is this why most hunters are fanatical?' Victor thought,
"Heh~." He started to get even more interested now.
"Don't get too excited, Oni. That kind of power is unapproachable to the night beings." The old man walked away and said, "Originally, this power was only accessible to humans."
"Eh…?"
"Oni, you have your own malevolent energy, don't get greedy for energies from other races."
"Tsk…" Victor wasn't greedy, just thirsty to learn new things, and thought it would be interesting to learn the hunter's techniques, maybe this could be useful in the future, but if he couldn't access this so-called 'source', he wouldn't waste his time...
But that doesn't mean he won't try to use these techniques...
After all, he was a stubborn man, and if someone said something was impossible, he felt like he'd been challenged.
"You know a lot of things, heroic spirit." Victor displayed a small smile as he looked at Abe-No-Seimei.
"Oh? You seem to know about me, boy."
"I know a little about your kind from Scathach, she said you were strong..." Victor's smile grew disproportionately.
"S-Scathach..." The old man completely ignored what Victor said and seemed to stutter when he heard someone speak Scathach's name so casually. 'What is this man's relationship with that Oni?'
"..." Mizuki's whole body shook when she heard Scathach's name, the memory of the crazy woman ripping her arm off was still too fresh in her mind.
"You damaged my daughter's arm, because of that crime, I will take your arm!"
Mizuki still had nightmares from that night!
Hmm, you said Scathach, what is your relationship with that Oni?"
"Oni?" Victor didn't understand that strange word.
"Oni is something of a devil in Japanese culture." The one who spoke was Fred, who, without Victor noticing, approached him along with Edward.
"Oh..." Victor exhibited an amused smile. He wasn't irritated by this old man speaking ill of Scathach, considering he knew that when his mother-in-law wanted to be scary, she could be horrifying:
"She did a lot of things, huh? I can see that just hearing her name made you scared."
"..." The old man didn't deny or accept Victor's words and used his right to remain silent! He was a free spirit!
"To answer your question, Scathach is my master, and my mother-in-law." Victor spoke.
"...M-Mother-in-law." Mizuki and the old man stuttered a lot.
'That demon accepted someone to marry her daughter!? Impossible.' Despite having denied this thought, the old man felt that Victor's words were not false. After all, there was no madman in this world who would say this without being afraid of the consequences.
And he conveniently ignored the part where Victor said that Scathach was his master...
Being a senile old man had some disadvantages...
"...Unbelievable..." Edward, who knew a little about vampire society, just made a face of pure shock.
'I thought he was only married to the heiress of Clan Fulger and Clan Snow, but he also married one of the daughters of Clan Scarlett!? What is this luck?' Edward thought.
"Is this woman Violet's mother?" Fred asked.
"She is not. She is the mother of my other wife." Victor replied.
"... Eh?" Fred felt that his world was cracked like a fragile glass.
"Old Man-." When Victor was about to ask him more about the doubts he had, he heard Fred yell.
"Chotto Matte!"
"Huh?" Victor didn't understand a thing Fred said.
Fred walked up in front of Victor, "What is this...?"
"...?"
"What is this!? What is this situation that only happens in harem anime!?" He sounded very desperate, "How envious! You were turned into a vampire, and now you have two beautiful wives!"
"...How do you know she's beautiful?" Victor displayed an amused smile.
"Come on, she's a vampire, there's no way she can be ugly!"
"Make sense." Victor spoke, and then he continued, "And who said I only had two wives?"
"...Huh?" Mizuki and Fred spoke at the same time.
Crack, Crack!
Fred's world is shattered!
"...Hahahaha...This can only be a joke, while I'm using my divine right hand, my best friend created a harem!"
"..." Everyone didn't know how to react to what Fred said.
Fred kneeled on the ground, looked at the clouds, and assumed a position as if he were a believer who was praying to God, as some tears started to fall from his face:
"God, why is the world so unfair! Why!? Whyyyyyy!?"
"I want a harem too! I want to practice dual cultivation! I want to explore the dragon cave!"
"Why doesn't Truck-Sama come visit me at these times!? I want to be the protagonist too!"
"..." Mizuki, the old man, and Edward didn't know how to react to Fred's despair.
And what the fuck is Truck-sama?
Only Edward understood the reference Fred made... The world is so lonely.
"If you want a harem, just get stronger." Victor suddenly spoke.
"...Huh?" Fred looked at Victor.
"My master said that as long as you are strong, you can have as many women/men as you like in your harem."
"The strong are the boss. If you are a woman, if you want, you could have a harem of men. Same goes for men, as long as you're strong, you could create a harem of women if you wanted."
"Even the vampire king has a harem." Victor looked like a shepherd who was teaching the way to the lost lamb.
"That's true, there are many werewolves who have harems." Edward supported Victor's words.
In the supernatural world, it was relatively common for beings to surround themselves with several partners, and this was true for both males and females. It all depended on the individual's will, and of course, their strength.
When Edward was little, he had heard several stories from his father of a woman who was a general of the wolves who had more than 50 men in her harem.
Coincidentally... This woman was Edward's grandmother, but he preferred not to comment on that.
"..." Fred looked at Victor and Edward with determined eyes.
"It's decided. I will become a hunter, and I will raise a harem!" Fred was already imagining himself becoming strong and having several nuns as lovers.
Somehow, when imagining this forbidden scene, he started to get full of motivation!
"Let's fucking goooooo!!!!!!"
"... It's not allowed to interact in church, it's against the rules." It only took a few words for Mizuki to break Fred's dreams.
Crack, Crack!
Fred could even hear the noise of his dreams breaking.
Fred dropped to his knees again as he looked up at the sky, "This is too much, God. Who made this stupid rule? Don't you have control of your organization?"
"...He completely freaked out." Victor facepalmed.
"And we went to so much trouble to cheer him up again." Edward sighed.
"Hmm... Sorry?" Mizuki felt awkward apologizing for a pointless subject.
"I will not become a hunter! Who wants to be a simp of god! Screw this!" Fred got up off the ground and threw his middle finger at the sky.
He changed his mind very quickly! Everyone thought at once.
"…In that case, don't you want to become an Onmyo mage?" The old man spoke after thinking for a few seconds.
"... Eh?"