22. Ferrol
Betis's lung disease is getting worse and worse. The doctor said it can't be cured. The sputum she coughed up was bloody. My heart ached, and the only thing I could do was to play the piano for her to reduce her pain.
But only I know that the Bone Qin is a depleting musical instrument. When she heard the music, she didn't even have the strength to cough. Instead, she fell asleep exhausted. Maybe this is better.
Betis's father insisted that the music I played was demagoguery, he went to sleep with his earplugs in, Betis' mother would wake him up when the violin player, and that's how he kept me from playing the violin day in and day out.
I want to take Betis away, but I know I'm not qualified, I'm a spurned vampire! I could not approach Betis' house, where the priest had sprinkled holy water, and the light of God prevented me from approaching. Even if I take Betis away, I can't give her a warm cabin, my bed is a broken coffin scratched by lipstick paint, how can I let Betis sleep in a coffin-like me?
what do I do? What if... if I were human?
I am still on a hunger strike, eating wild fruits, and when I meet someone by chance, I have a strong sense of hunger, but I resisted the urge to eat meat, and I didn't even kill a mouse. Recently, I have always had nausea, and I still can't digest the fruit I ate, and I vomited it out.
23. Betis
I was lying in bed still with a high fever and felt like I was going to die.
I couldn't eat anything, I kept coughing and every spit was bloodshot, I was so scared. My mother hugged me and said "it'll be alright", but it was clear to me that I was going to die.
Yes, I am dying.
24. Ferrol
Hope is coming.
I sent a letter a few days ago, a request letter to the owner of the Giovanni Doomsday Sapphire. I told her that I had the lyre of bones and wished to exchange her for Giovanni's Doom Sapphire.
I am a vampire with special abilities, my mother said, I can feel the whereabouts of the vampire artifact, just because I found her well-collected bone harp. I told her that I felt the light there attracting me, and I typed out the address of the holy artifact in my head like a typewriter—the third floor, the wooden cabinet, the camera obscura behind the mirror, the lyre of bones. I thought it was just a coincidence, but my mother didn't believe it, she insisted on forcing me to sense the whereabouts of the other holy artifacts. In the end, I told her the whereabouts of a sacred artifact, and she set off to look for it that day, met a powerful vampire, and was killed.
At that time, my mother's excited eyes and the last desperate eyes will never be forgotten in my life. Soon, I left the sad city with the lyre of bones, and I swore that I would never sense the whereabouts of the Vampire Hallows again.
Until...until I met Betis. I want to be human and be with Betis. I know I have to rely on the Vampire Hallows. I broke my oath for her.
This time the brain signal to me is - Birmingham, Andris Jo Thomas, Roxon Hotel.
I tried writing a letter to Thomas, and I had so little hope that I almost forgot about it before today and was going to find another way. But God didn't let me go anywhere. Miss Thomas' unexpected visit caught me off guard. She was wearing that blue Yingying ring on her hand, which was the first thing I noticed. Later I found out that she is not from a blood clan. She walks well in the sun and even walks past the church without the headaches I do, and I envy her.
I entertained her in my humble house and chatted with her about me and Betis, and then we got down to business, and I told her bluntly that I wanted the liquid in the sapphire. I asked her, "Can the liquid in the sapphire turn a vampire into a human?"
She smiled