25. Andris
This man not only touched me but also shocked me. In him, I seem to see my own shadow.
He, the vampire, fell in love with humans.
I, a human, fell in love with the vampire.
He did everything possible to become a human, but I did everything possible to change into a blood race.
This ridiculous world is always so unsatisfactory. What does love mean about vampires and humans? Is it a plaything or a treasure? I smiled as he finished his story, the loot that had been planned was shattered into a bubble.
Ferrol Ritter, this is his human name when he has not yet transformed. After he was first embraced, he followed his elders, that is, his mother's surname Green. His mother died unexpectedly, and he drifted here with the violin of bones left by his mother and met Betis. In his words, the innocent girl accepted Ferrol, who was ignored by the town, even when the priest declared him a vampire.
Betis picked wild fruits for him. He didn't tell her that he couldn't eat human food but swallowed the wild fruits handed by his beloved one by one, and her shadow was always reflected in his eyes. He vomited and had stomach pains afterward, but that pain was nothing compared to the time he spent with Betis every day. Just like the little mermaid endures the pain on her toes every day. For her, Ferrol is willing to eat all the wild fruits in the woods for a lifetime, even if compared to him, his life is very, very long.
"How can she be so attractive?" I asked him.
"Because I love her, but if you ask the question, I can't answer." He smiled bitterly, "I can only say that maybe because I have been lacking friends."
Indeed, love is unexplainable and needs no explanation. For example, when God created the world, why Adam and Eve were together. This metaphorical love cannot be explained. If we get to the bottom of it, I can only say, because they are the only couple in the world.
The priest warned Betis' parents and told them to keep Betis away from Ferrol, so such a pair of lovers were separated. Betis' parents locked Betis in the attic for one autumn and winter. Betis lived in a secluded place and contracted lung disease. Her parents did not take her to see a doctor in time, but instead put all the responsibility on Ferrol, insisting that he was the "The Devil", "The Dirty Thing in Hell".
The townspeople drove Ferrol into the woods, and when they saw him, they recited the Gospel for the blessing of the Lord. So when I got to the town and called Ferrol Green by name, people avoided me like the plague. In the beginning, I guessed a general idea, and I understood why Ferrol wanted to become human. It's just that these ignorant humans have washed his mind.
I told him that he should be proud of being a vampire, that he was immortal, just lost the sun. "Look, what's wrong with losing the little sun and you've almost won the world?" I hope he changes this foolish thinking. If you want to change back to a human, you are an unwise vampire!
"I think you've been driven mad by her!" I finally left his shabby and cold house, feeling a little sad for some reason.
In the afternoon I went to see the woman who had fascinated Ferrol and, to be honest, she wasn't as pretty as me. Her face was a sickly sallow color, her hair was limply tangled on her shoulders, her whole body looked limp, and she always coughed violently all of a sudden, and her body swayed terribly as if she might fall at any time.
I knew at a glance that she was dying. So, what's the point of Ferrol's approach? I have to persuade him well, not for anything else, but to maintain the dignity he deserves as a blood clan.
Then I suddenly thought of a question, how on earth did Ferrol know that Giovanni Doom Sapphire was in my hands? I have only owned the ring for ten days!
I made a bold assumption. Assuming that Ferrol, who is a vampire, can detect the sacred artifact of the vampire, can other vampires also detect it?
I feel like a sheep under a butcher's knife, and I am in danger at any time. If my guess is correct, are there already many followers of the holy artifact that are eyeing my holy artifact? It is easy to grab a mountain and difficult to defend it. I can't help but start to worry.
26. Andris
Amazingly, Ferrol vetoes my guess, not everyone can feel where the holy artifact is, he doesn't want to tell me superfluous things, but I already understand - only Ferrol has this special ability.
I can completely use the Demon Soul Ring to get the Bone Harmony. It's all so easy just to raise my hand, but I didn't do it. This was originally an unfair deal, and even if I finally got the holy artifact, I would look down on myself.
27. Ferrol
Miss Thomas revisited with doubts.
I refused to answer her question - why I knew the sapphire was with her.
So she said that if I told her the mystery and helped her find the whereabouts of the rest of the holy artifact, she could consider a deal.
Annoyed at her greed, I drove her away immediately.
But Betis looked increasingly haggard, and I couldn't deceive myself anymore, she was dying, and now she was coughing up blood. I went to Miss Thomas and begged her to give me the sapphire. She said that she would not hand over the sapphire until she had all the holy relics.
My dreams last night were all about my mother, her excited eyes, and her dying eyes of despair, lingering in my mind and lingering. I have sworn that I will no longer sense the whereabouts of the holy artifact. Once the oath is broken, it will be out of control...
The townspeople said I was the devil, the monster, the ominous thing, and they were right. For Betis, I decided to be the devil again. I compromised with Miss Thomas and wrote down their respective whereabouts on Miss Thomas' sacristy with my sinful hands, the devil's hand that indirectly killed my mother. I promise this is the last time in my life!
Miss Thomas hesitated for a long time, and then she broke the gem and let the blue liquid flow into the cup, forming a blue drop suspended in the air. I held the cup-like I was holding my own life and drank it down.
A strange blue light appeared on the skin all over my body, and with the lukewarm temperature, my body began to change. The skin went from pale to a normal complexion; the hairs grew back; my glassy nails fell off layer after layer until they became human; blue blood vessels were visible, now they were one after the other The roots are hidden under the skin... I feel my body warm, and my long-lost pulse is alive.
I was amazed at the changes this miraculous liquid brought to me, and suddenly found that I grew a lot taller. Looking in the mirror, I was much stronger, from a man in his twenties to a man in his thirties, This is the age I should be at now. After I became a blood clan, my age stayed at 20 years old, and I would never grow up again, and now I in the mirror makes me feel a little strange. I have been a vampire for ten years, and I have been in a trance for ten years, and now I have woken up from the dream.
I stared at the mirror for a long time, but I did not forget the agreement with Miss Thomas, and I gave her the violin of bones.
Her eyes were red and I asked her why. Miss Thomas took the lyre of bones and said, "As I said, this ring is as important to me as Betis is to you, but now the gem is broken."