Chapter 217: My Mother in law Is Motivated, And She Wants…
"Well, he sure knows how to cheer someone up…" Violet spoke with a smile and a lifeless look as she looked at Natashia's crazy state.
The woman was completely motivated, and she could easily see that Victor intentionally provoked his mother-in-law to achieve this result.
'What is Darling thinking?' It's at those times that Violet didn't understand Victor, despite knowing 'EVERYTHING' about him, some things she still doesn't know.
'His unpredictability is irritating…' Violet started to use her head since she understood how Victor acts, and Natashia was basically a crazier version of her mother. It was as if Agnes was going back to adolescence…
'Ah…' When Violet thought of her mother, she completely understood what Victor was thinking.
Victor was just like Violet, and Natashia was a younger version of Agnes.
And Violet is very similar to Agnes, as reports from close people say that Violet is not as crazy as her mother, but she is just like her mother.
And Natashia was very similar to Sasha, although she was lacking in some areas, but she had those thick legs that Sasha also has.
Violet's brain was starting to catch fire…
Simple math: Young Agnes + Violet + Sasha similarities = Natashia.
'Is Darling interested in her?' Violet's eyes were more lifeless than before.
'Wait… He's not someone who forgives easily, and he's always going to prioritize his wives first, so that's not it…'
Hmm…
BOOOOOOM!
A small fire explosion happened in Violet's head, she overheated!:
'AHHHHHH! Screw this! Then I won't think about it!"
The girls ignored Violet's oddities. After all, they were used to it.
"I wonder who he learned that from..." Scathach said as he looked at Natashia with eyes similar to Violet's.
"..." Violet looked at Scathach with a dry look while she had an expression that said, are you really saying that now?
Of course, he learned from you!
"...Ugh...so much noise..." Sasha, who was sleeping, slowly started to wake up.
And when her consciousness was almost awakening, she heard more clearly a person's laughter:
"AHAHAHAHAHAHAH~."
Rumble, Rumble.
Lightning seemed to be dancing around Natashia, her hair was defying gravity a little, and she had a crazy expression on her face.
'I can barely wait! Just two more days! Two days! FUCK! I should have just put in 1 day!' She was quite impatient when she was excited.
Although Victor didn't say much and just said, "We'll talk."
This gave Natashia a motivation!
In Natashia's mind.
If Victor wants to talk about something, of course, the topic is definitely about that topic!
The subject where he grabs her from behind and sends all the white liquids inside her! The subject that he will become hers as she will become his!
The subject where they will finally fuck the world!
A vampire count who is married to two countesses!?
The world will turn upside down!
But of course, that wasn't what made Natashia smile like a madwoman.
'He will do this and that with me, he will release everything inside me, and I will have his children!'
"AHAHAHAHAHA~"
... She was completely beside herself.
Sasha looked at her mother and saw her crazy state, then, with a tired look, she looked at Violet and Scathach:
"...What the hell is happening here?" She pointed at Natashia.
"... Let's say my Darling said something to this bitch." Violet's mood isn't very good now that Victor is gone, but it's more manageable because she's going to have a '7 days and 7 nights' date with her husband.
'Hehehehehehe~, we can try what mine showed me when I was little, and there are also those videos that Ruby used to see while hidden. Oh, we can try what Sasha likes too!' Although it didn't look like it on the outside, on the inside, she was thinking about things that were completely unsafe for children.
... She knows a lot about the people close to her.
"Indeed." Scathach was not in a good mood either.
But like Violet, she wasn't completely irritated because she was thinking about the time she was going to spend with Victor.
'What kind of training should I do with him?' She asked to herself, and as she thought about it, a smile couldn't help but appear on her face.
"Huh?" Sasha didn't understand at all. What did Victor say to her mother?
"Well, I will inform the Maids about our master's departure." Kaguya suddenly spoke up and drew all the girls' attention to her.
"Let me know if you decide to return to Nightingale to watch the Former Countess Annasthashia play."
"...?" Violet didn't seem to understand something.
"Aren't you going with us to Nightingale?"
"..." Kaguya looked at Violet and said:
"My master didn't order anything for me or my Maids, which means I'm free to do what I want, and with my will, I decide that I would wait for him here."
"Oh, I get it now... What about the other Maids?"
"Until Master orders otherwise, all Maids will stay in this residence with me." Kaguya knows that the girls still have a lot to learn.
"I get it, that's a shame, but we can't do anything about it." Violet nodded, despite being a maid of the Snow Clan, from the moment Kaguya made a contract with Victor...
'Theoretically', she no longer needs to listen to Violet's orders, but as Kaguya still belonged to the Snow Clan, she can do some favors, but she can't do anything that would harm her 'current' master or herself.
But of course, it all depended on Kaguya's own will and whether she would accept it or not.
"Hahaha~. Victor probably doesn't know the responsibility he has on his back now." Scathach chuckled softly.
Scathach said this because she understands how a Clan works.
For a Clan, the 'Clan head' order is everything.
Which means if Victor doesn't specifically order, no one can order his Maids, not even the women in this room.
After all, they're not officially married yet, and even if they were married, it would still be questionable if they could order the Maids. After all, Victor needs to give the girls his last name.
"Eve, will you take care of her?" Scathach asked with curiosity and a little slight annoyance, considering that girl had Victor's last name, but...
She didn't think much about it, Eve's situation was very reminiscent of one of her daughters' past, and because of that, she felt a little nostalgic when she looked at the girl.
"She still doesn't understand what it means to have the surname 'Alucard.'" Despite having spoken like that, everyone in the room understood that Kaguya's answer was:
'No.'
"Your hierarchy is completely messed up, you need to fix this." Violet touched her head as if she had a headache. For a Clan to have a well-defined command structure is essential.
Take the Snow Clan as an example.
If Violet's Parents are not present, Violet will assume responsibility for the entire Clan, and if Violet is not present, Hilda will assume control of all of Agnes' Maid.
And if even she is not present, a vote will be started, and the members of the Clan named 'Snow' will need to elect a new temporary leader.
At least, that's how it works with Clan Snow, but Violet knows that every Clan is different.
"...Lady Violet, you are wrong."
"...?" What am I wrong? Violet didn't understand a thing.
"...Victor is the leader, that's obvious, but then what?" Natashia, who had already stopped laughing, asked in a neutral tone, although the big smile on her face couldn't be hidden.
"The temporary hierarchy of Clan Alucard is quite simple." Kaguya raised her finger and began to explain: The leader is my master, as a more experienced Maid who has a direct contract with the Clan leader himself, I can take second place in the hierarchy of command."
"But if Eve makes a decision and decides to take responsibility for everything, she can take charge."
That was the weight of someone who had the Clan's surname.
"But even if she makes that decision, I have free will whether I will decide to follow her order or not. After all, I have a contract with 'Victor', not 'Alucard.'"
"...Leaving someone inexperienced with Clan affairs is not a good idea, although you don't have much to do yet..." Natashia said.
"Yes, because of that, I will take charge of everything until my master returns."
"This is complicated, why do you have so many rules?" Sasha asked. She had never stopped to think about it until now, considering Julia and her mother took care of all this bureaucracy.
"It is necessary." Natashia and Scathach spoke at the same time.
"..." The two looked at each other for a few seconds, and then Scathach spoke in a neutral tone:
"You speak, you can explain better."
"Okay." Natashia nodded and explained with a small neutral smile.
"In a nutshell, servants and hired maids need to have very strict rules. This will prevent the usurpation of power."
"I never understood that. Why bother with these rules if you're strong?" Violet spoke out loud since she never understood these rules to prevent 'usurpation' of power. After all, if you are strong, no one will have the courage to do that to you.
"...Not all vampires are strong like us, some Clan leaders are weaker than Yuki." Scathach suddenly spoke while mentioning the white-haired maid of the Snow Clan.
"The king needed to create rules like this to avoid chaos in society, after all, you know the natures of vampires."
"We are greedy beings." Natashia flashed a big smile as she looked at her daughter and imagined the two of them doing things that couldn't be said to children with Victor.
"...I see." Sasha and Violet spoke at the same time, while they seemed to have understood several things.
"Oh, where's Darling? You were talking about him just now, and I tried looking for him, but I couldn't find him." Sasha spoke in a way that changed the subject.
"..." All the women looked at Sasha and spoke at the same time:
"They went on a date."
"…Eh?"
...
A golden ray was flying in the sky quite stably. Looking at the clouds passing by her, Ruby fixed her red hair and said:
"Where are we going, D-Darling." She tried to remain calm but ended up failing in the end.
Victor showed a small smile and spoke in a simple and easy to understand way:
"To the north."
"North?"
"Yeah."
"Where in the North?" She asked curiously, considering the North covered a vast area, right?
"The North."
"..." Ruby fixed Victor with a dry look.
"I'm asking where you're taking me."
"Hmm? But I already told you, I'm taking you to the North."
"..." Ruby pouted and said:
"Fine, you don't have to say it."
"..." A few minutes pass, and they continue to fly in the sky.
Ruby stared at the clouds passing by at high speed while her thoughts were in chaos.
'Date? What do you do on a date? As expected, is it like an anime? Will we go to an arcade and then watch a movie? We'll bring our feelings together, and after the date, we'll go to a cheap hotel... And then we'll do S-S-S...' Her face turned a little red, and she couldn't even think of the word.
No longer able to be silent alone with her thoughts, she asked:
"…How long will it take to get to 'North'?"
"Hmm, I don't know, but it will probably take a while."
"..." Again, a silence fell on the place.
A few minutes pass.
She started to think about her mother's words, her heart started to beat faster, she was not emotionally prepared for this!
Then she speaks again:
"Have we arrived yet?" She wanted to get away from him for a bit and breathe! She needed to calm down.
"No."
A few minutes pass again, and she asks:
"Have we arrived yet?"
"No." Victor replied with a small smile.
Ruby's smile grew a little, and then she was silent again. Then, while she was looking at the plane passing a little in the distance, she asked:
"Have we arrived yet?"
"... No."
"..." A silence fell around again, and this time Victor spoke with a gentle smile:
"I understood that reference."
"I know." She laughed a little since Ruby knew that Victor watched a lot of movies.
Victor laughed along with Ruby, and soon he said:
"Lean on me, and get some rest, when you least realize it, we'll arrive."
"...OK." Ruby spoke in a soft voice as she leaned on Victor's chest and closed her eyes a little.
A few minutes passed again, and Ruby asked:
"Darling..."
"Hmm?"
"You can go faster, right?" She asked this because she saw Victor reach Mach speed in the past battle, so she knows he is not flying at full speed.
"Yeah." Victor didn't deny Ruby's words.
"Why aren't you going faster?"
"I'm not in a hurry."
"..." Ruby was silent when she heard what Victor said, as she seemed to be waiting for his next words.
"I know if I used my speed, and you covered yourself with your ice power, we could travel faster, but..."
"I'm not in a hurry." It is because of this reason that he also did not ask Natalia to create a portal for them.
"I want to spend time with my wife, and I'll forget about other things and just focus on you." He was completely honest as always.
"...O-Oh..." Ruby hadn't expected those words, and somehow her face couldn't help but turn a little red, and a small, imperceptible smile appeared on her face.
Victor looked at Ruby and flashed a loving smile:
"Just enjoy the ride, Honey.."
"... I will…" She spoke in a low voice.
Chapter 218: Cute.
Somewhere in Sweden.
Looking at the sky that was starting to get a little clearer, Victor spoke aloud:
"It will be dawn any moment, let's stop for a while and rest."
"... That's a good idea."
It was times like these that Ruby envied the Snow Clan trait! Only at those times, and at times when she had to wear that suffocating cloak.
Seeing that Ruby agreed with his idea, Victor began to slow down and stopped in midair, and then he began to float.
Like an eagle, Victor's eyes looked to the ground as if looking for prey.
He felt his eyes 'ZOOM' to the spot he wanted.
"Hmm..." He saw a tall building and saw that the presidential suite in that building was empty.
"Hold on."
"... I already am."
"Hold on tighter."
"...Fine." Ruby did as Victor asked and held him tighter.
Feeling something soft on his chest, he flashed a small smile:
"Good."
He definitely didn't do it because he wanted to feel that soft something more… He definitely didn't do it because of that.
... Who does he want to fool?
Since Victor knew he needed a reason for Ruby to hold on to him so tightly, he did something obvious.
He let gravity do its work.
"!!!" Feeling her fall at high speed towards the ground, she held on tighter to Victor.
"..." Victor's smile grew a little, and he continued to fall for a few seconds until he approached the same altitude of the building. He then turned in mid-air as if he were a cat that was going to land on its feet and kicked a little ice shelf he created.
And with the impulse of that act, he flew to the balcony of the building.
"...D-Darling, we're going to crash." Ruby stuttered a little when she saw the building approaching them, and Victor wasn't slowing down.
"..." Victor didn't say anything and just continued with the same smile as the building got closer and closer.
"Darling!" Ruby was getting anxious, she wasn't scared, she knew she wasn't going to die, but it was going to hurt a lot, and she would have to pay for the damages that she and her husband caused to the owner!
She was very responsible for not ignoring the trouble she caused!
But when she thought about it, she felt her speed slow, and like magic, they landed softly on the building's balcony.
"...?" She noticed that when they were a few meters away from hitting the building, their speed began to slow down unnaturally as if everything was going according to plan.
Victor landed softly on the floor and then let Ruby out of his arms.
Ruby stood on the floor and stretched her body a little.
"Ugh, staying in that same position for a few hours made the body stiff."
"..." Victor watched Ruby silently. Her hair was a bit messy from the trip, her clothes were messy too, but despite all that, she still exuded a natural charm that attracted him.
Mainly that frontal area that had a destructive power capable of overthrowing countries.
"...?" Ruby looked at Victor and saw him staring at her body with a neutral gaze.
"What? Is there something wrong with me?" she asked as she looked at her body.
"..." Victor closed his eyes, and displayed a gentle smile, then he spoke in an easy to understand way:
"There's nothing wrong with you, I was just admiring my wife."
"Wha-..." Before Ruby could react to Victor's words, the man turned and walked over and jumped onto the porch screen.
He turned to Ruby and said, "Wait for me here."
"…where are you going, Darling?" Ruby asked in a cold voice that held a little shame.
"I will rent this room."
"...Oh, but are they open at this hour?" Ruby asked.
"Of course, they will be, from what I could see from afar, this is a 5-star hotel, and this area where we are is an area of ??people who have money which means-." Victor was going to explain his reasoning, but Ruby suddenly continued.
"That they would lose money if they didn't leave the hotel open 24/7. After all, the rich don't have hours, and those kinds of people always bring women to this type of hotel."
"Exactly." He flashed a small smile.
"...Oh, I'm sorry about that, it's just a habit." She knew people got upset when she interrupted them. She wouldn't be apologizing if it was with someone else, but since it was her husband, she felt like she should do that, despite her usual attitude...
"No need to apologize." Victor flashed a gentle smile:
"That's just your way, and I love it."
"..." Ruby's cheeks turned slightly red, but she managed to keep her poker face.
Victor flashed a loving smile and said, "I'll see you soon."
He took a little step back, and as if he were a suicidal madman, he started to fall towards the ground.
... He was definitely having fun with his physical abilities.
Seeing that Victor was gone, Ruby crouched on the floor in a fetal position and placed her hands on her head.
"Ughyaaaaaaa!"
For a moment, she seemed to scream like Pepper.
"This is so embarrassing! This is so embarrassing! This is so embarrassing!" She felt like she was about to do something lewd, something inappropriate, and extremely perverted!
She's not like that! She is a lady! A noble woman!
... A funny thing, she considered sleeping together naked as something not lewd, the daughters of Scathach had twisted views of common sense...
Remembering Victor's words:
"There's nothing wrong with you, I was just admiring my wife."
Ruby's cheeks started to burn as her face turned completely red, and she started rolling this way and that!
"AHHHHH!"
In some weird way, she thought that Victor's words were having more of an effect today! She was not usually like that! She usually didn't get so anxious with just a few kind words.
She stopped rolling and looked at the sky:
"Seriously... What's happening to me...?" She couldn't understand this feeling of anxiety, this feeling of anticipation, this feeling of love that was overflowing her entire being.
Looking at the sky that was almost dawning, she thought; 'That's not a bad feeling...'
'Cute.'
"!!!?" Hearing the thoughts of someone she knew all too well, she quickly stood up and looked out onto the porch.
"Darling!?" Her face was completely red, 'don't tell me he saw this embarrassing display!?'
"...." A silence fell on the place, a few minutes passed, and Victor still didn't appear.
"…Am I imagining things?" Ruby's expression morphed into one of confusion, and she swore she heard Victor's voice in her head.
Was she finally going crazy? It was time, wasn't it?
I mean, her mother, her older sister, her younger sister, her middle sister, her childhood friends, and even her own husband were crazy people!
It would be a divine miracle if she didn't become like them too.
"Well... I must be imagining things." Ruby got up from the floor and straightened her appearance, soon she turned around, but when she did, she saw Victor standing at the porch entrance.
"...Eh?" Ruby's entire body froze.
He was leaning against the porch entrance with his arms crossed, and he had a gentle smile on his face:
"...How can I say, this is the second time this has happened."
Ruby's entire face turned completely red as she pointed her finger at him and said:
"HH-HOW!?"
"…?" Victor, at first, didn't understand the meaning of her question, but after some thought, he finally understood that she was asking how he could be so fast.
Victor touched his chest and spoke in a noble voice, "I am the fastest man alive." Lightning seemed to dance around Victor as if confirming his words.
It wasn't arrogance or pride. It was confidence. He had confidence that no man could surpass him in terms of speed, and if anyone ever surpassed him, he would be very happy to fight that person!
He specified 'man' because he knew that his mother-in-law was a monster in terms of speed...
That's why he said he was the fastest 'man' alive, not the fastest 'being' alive, considering there was a woman who was definitely the fastest woman alive.
... This was something Victor hid from everyone, but he was quite interested in fighting Natashia again, although he didn't do it now because he knew he would lose miserably since she was no longer 'Natasha'.
She was 'Natashia', the real countess.Seeing Ruby's shocked face still, he added:
"And going down to the front desk, convincing a few people was a pretty quick and simple thing to do for us as vampires."
A vein popped in Ruby's head, "... This is no time for references!" She was freaking out for the first time, as she was very ashamed and angry, and because she was ashamed, she swore that if she saw a hole, she would want to get into it and stay there forever!
"What are you talking about?" Victor didn't understand.
"UGHHHH!" She shook her head furiously; her husband being so uncultured was something that bothered her too!
Seeing Ruby's reaction, he couldn't help but think, 'Has she finally joined the club?' Should he congratulate her and buy some kind of blood cake?
Victor didn't know, but...
Seeing Ruby's reaction: 'Cute.' He couldn't help but think about it, she might be cold as an iceberg, but he knew that behind all that ice, there was someone very loving and precious.
"..." Victor was just silent as he watched his wife freak out, while he was enjoying the beginning of the couple's trip a lot.
...
While Victor was enjoying his trip, a little chaos was happening with his Maids.
"Master left... Master went out... Master went out... Master went out... Master went out... Master went out... Master went out... Master out... Master out... Master out..." Eve was in the fetal position, she was in the corner of the room, and she kept repeating those words like a broken record.
An aura of depression seemed to surround her.
"He abandoned me... He abandoned me... He abandoned me... He abandoned me... He abandoned me... He abandoned me..." The same thing happened with Bruna, but she was still better than Eve.
She could still stand, but her despairing face was downright terrifying in Kaguya's opinion.
"...Well, shit..." Kaguya said. She didn't expect the news of Victor being away for a few days would cause such chaos. Now, even if she wanted to, she couldn't leave this mansion.
Kaguya just arrived in this room and saw the two Maids talking together, so she thought it was a good idea, and said:
"Master is out, he'll be back in at least a week-..." She couldn't even finish her words that the two women's reactions were the worst possible.
Bruna's eyes darkened, and she froze.
Eve was shocked for a few minutes, then after, she went to a corner of the room and kept repeating those words.
Remembering what happened, Kaguya couldn't help but facepalm, as she clearly remembered the situation that Victor found the two women in.
In a simple way to understand, Victor was the 'pillar' for the two women, and upon receiving the news that he left suddenly, the two seemed to think that they were abandoned.
'How could I not think of that?' Kaguya felt a little regretful now because she hadn't thought of that possibility when she went to interact with the Maids.
'As expected, I haven't worked hard enough yet to become a perfect Maid.' If she were a perfect Maid, she would consider everything and everyone.
"Hmm, this is an unexpected development." Natalia appeared with Roberta and Luna.
"..." Looking at the women, Kaguya showed a strange face, 'what is this strange group?'
"Why are they reacting like this?" Roberta asked curiously.
"My Master left." Kaguya spoke in a simple and easy to understand tone.
"Oh..." Roberta and Natalia reacted at the same time.
"That explains a lot of things." Luna said. She had just received the news that Ruby had left, but as the woman who broke the news was so excited, she couldn't get the information about who Ruby left with.
... just out of curiosity, the woman was 'Pepper'.
"Then what will you do?" Natalia asked curiously.
"I do not know." Kaguya was honest since she wasn't very good at consoling people.
"... Hmm..." Roberta touched her cheek with her finger and seemed to be thinking about something, then she said:
"I can try something, but I need your permission."
Kaguya looked at the woman with long black hair and violet eyes with a neutral gaze, "What are you going to do?" Though spoken neutrally, it was pretty clear that she wasn't going to let any harm be done to the girls.
"You don't have to look at me like that, I won't do anything, I can't use my powers either."
"..." Kaguya knew that, so she was silent and looked at the woman in a way that said: 'continue.'
"I learned about Bruna's past when I talked to her. I assume from Eve's reaction, she must have been through something similar."
"A 'tragic' situation."
"I'll just motivate them myself a little bit."
"..." Kaguya didn't feel any bad intentions coming from Roberta, and she knew that, unlike Eve, who was suspicious of everyone, Bruna was very chatty.
"What are you going to do specifically?" Natalia asked in a neutral tone.
She spoke in a gentle tone, "I will be a motivation coach, Yay~." She did the simple 'Y' with two fingers.
"..." For some reason, Natalia and Luna felt a slight urge to hit this woman on the head.
Natalia looked at Kaguya and said, "The decision is yours, Kaguya."
"..." Kaguya looked at her Maids for a few seconds and then looked at Roberta, as she seemed to make a decision:
"Fine, just do it, I'll be watching." Kaguya spoke.
"Yes~." Roberta laughed rather suspiciously.
"..." Somehow, all the women felt a bad feeling about this.
She entered the room, and suddenly her kind face became like a cold and serious general:
"WOMEN!" Her scream was wild and cruel, and she looked like a warrior who had fought a thousand wars.
"!!!" Roberta had gained Eve and Bruna's attention.