On the porch of Scathach's mansion, two women were enjoying the tranquil mood of Nightingale's endless night. If strangers looked at them, they would think the women were sisters because of their identical appearance, but they could barely imagine that they were actually mother and daughter.
"Mother... Be honest with me..." Ruby spoke in a neutral voice.
"Hmm?" Scathach looked at her daughter.
"Why are you interested in my Darling?" She looked into her mother's eyes for answers. Ruby knew that her mother was interested in people with great powers; an example of this is Siena, her eldest adoptive sister. In the past, Siena showed great potential, and because of that, her mother adopted her.
Victor's potential is obvious; this is undeniable. Ruby still remembers the day that Victor assumed the form of 'Count Vampire' with only the awakening of powers, this kind of potential only appeared in the children of the King Vampire and Count vampires.
But if it were a small interest, Ruby would understand, but... Her interest in Victor is very abnormal, she went so far as to build an entire coliseum just for Victor. Building a coliseum was not cheap, and especially hiring witches for the service.
Scathach's neutral face suddenly changed into a big smile, "Ah~, my sweet and beloved daughter, my precious little Ruby. You really have no idea what you've got yourself into, huh?"
"...?" Ruby didn't expect this response from her mother.
Scathach gets up from the chair she was sitting in, and slowly she walks to the front of the chair where Ruby was sitting, she kneels in front of her daughter and lightly touches her daughter's face:
"Look at you, so young, so innocent, so pure, like a little red flower that's just growing~. I always had concerns that someone might try to deceive you," She started to caress her daughter's face.
"M-Mother?" Ruby didn't understand her mother's sudden reaction.
"Because of that, I was always overprotective of you. Who knew I could feel like this soon…" Scathach placed a hand on her chest, and her face showed a little disdain, "In the past, I hated that feeling, but… It's not so bad..."
"..." Ruby looked at her mother's expression without understanding anything. In moments like this, when she was frustrated with herself, she always said that she understood her mother, but in the end, she couldn't understand anything.
"...Mother, are you running away from the question?" Ruby asked
"..." Scathach exhibited a gentle smile, she looked at her daughter and stroked her face again:
"Who knows? Maybe I am, you know, right? I'm an old person, and I get emotional easily."
"..." Ruby looks at her mother's smile with neutral eyes; 'Again, she always evades questions, she's like a slippery eel, she never gave me a satisfactory answer, how can I try to understand her if she doesn't say anything? I'm not psychic!... This is frustrating…'
Since she was a little girl, Ruby has always felt like this. Just when she thought that she understood her mother, something happened that made her realize that she really didn't understand anything about her mother. For a child who wanted to be closer to her mother, it was frustrating, that was annoying!... And most importantly, that was lonely...
"My little Ruby... Don't try to understand me; you'll end up going crazy just like me," She strokes her daughter's head.
Ruby looks at her mother, and she thinks; 'Oh, I already know this pattern, she's going to say something like.'
"A being who has lived for two thousand years on this Earth always has screws loose in their head."
"A being who has lived for two thousand years on this Earth always has screws loose in their head."
Ruby repeated her mother's words in unison.
"..." Scathach exhibited a surprised face.
Ruby flashes a slight smile, "It's the same pattern; when you don't want to say something to me, you keep throwing these confusing phrases in an attempt to distract me."
"..." Scathach's smile began to grow, "Pfft..." Then, unable to take it, she started to laugh, "HAHAHAHAHA!"
"...?" And that laugh only made Ruby's brain stop working again.
Scathach laughed as if finding something very funny; after a few minutes of laughing, she looks at her daughter with a gentle smile:
"Ah~, since Victor appeared, I seem to be laughing more."
"!!!" Ruby looked at her mother with a wary look, "Mother!?"
"Hmm?" Seeing her daughter's gaze, she understood something, "Oya? Are you thinking indecent things? You're already that age; what a perverted daughter I have~."
Ruby's face turned pure red, she never imagined her mother would tease her.
"Hahaha, you're so cute, Stop worrying so much I am more interested in Krishna. Do you know he is still a 10year old boy." Scathach pulls her daughter's head to her chest, and soon she starts stroking Ruby's head.
"WHAT!? then how does he have so much power?"
"Who knows? Everyone has their secrets."
"..." Ruby sighed wearily and snuggled her head into her mother's breast, "It's frustrating... I'm your daughter, but I can never fully understand you."
For a moment, Scathach stopped stroking Ruby's head, "...Silly, it is impossible for someone to completely understand another being."
"Mostly understand someone like me." Scathach chuckled a little, and then she started stroking Ruby's head again.
Scathach looks down and sees Krishna with the sisters moving toward the forest.
Ruby looks up and looks at her mother, "Is there anyone who can understand you?"
For a moment, the face of a man smiling just like her appeared in Scathach's mind, but she shook her head inwardly, saying it was impossible for that to happen.
"...Who knows...? If there were someone like that, I would like to meet that person. Sometimes even I don't understand myself completely, I just do what I want, hahaha.", Scathach said as she looked back down towards a man who was talking to her daughters.
Sigh!
Ruby sighed again, she snuggles her head in her mother's breast and says without looking at her mother, "One day... One day, I'll understand you completely." She made a promise to herself.
"..." Scathach didn't say anything, she just kept stroking her daughter's head. Then, slowly, she turns her face to the moon and thinks; 'Ah~. My beloved daughter... I really wish that day will never come.'
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After a few hours of streaming Krishna decided it was time to end this session and go for a walk and he dragged all the sisters with him.
While walking Lacus saw Ruby going into the forest after following her for a few minutes they saw Ruby showing emotion for the first time.
"Let's go back now no need to invade her privacy." I said as I dragged Pepper and Lacus while Sienna followed behind.
"But we are her sister's we never saw her showing this much emotions before." Pepper complained.
"We did look and now we know she can show emotion. If I would not have been here I might have allowed that but now that I am here we must not invade newlywed couple's privacy."
"But it was just Ruby there!" this time Lacus complained.
"No Victor was there too recording her reaction so if you want to see it ask him."
"OK" Lacus and Pepper replied with sad faces.
While walking I look at Siena ask her,"Why did you not drink my blood yet?"
"Mother brought you here so you are her guest without her permission we cannot harm you in any way until you do something wrong.", Siena answers
"Then would you like to drink some?"
"I would like to try" Lacus says
"Me first." Pepper chimes in
"The stronger the cattle the better the blood...." Siena gives a fact
I smile and keep walking.
'System how good will my blood be for vampires?'
[Host your blood will be on par with a progenitor's with the only difference being your blood cannot change race but instead, it can remove the dependency on Progenitor blood as well as it has better benefits and vampire bites cannot transform you neither can any ritual since I can intercept any foreign change and will only allow it to continue after getting your approval.]
'Good, love ya system'
[you too host, stay safe.]
The four went back to the room they were in before. So how do we do this? from the neck I assume??
"!!?" Pepper becomes red like a tomato, Lacus blushes a little while Siena just shakes her head and chuckles a little.
"Drinking from the neck is an intimate thing for us vampires and is usually done to only your significant other." Siena explains
"I see so from the wrist then?"
"Yeah that should be fine."
"I will go first" Pepper says as I roll up my sleeves.
"I can do two at a time..... my regenerative properties are on par with young vampires, I think"
"Let's not take any risks for now" Lacus says as she sits next to pepper.
Pepper brings out two sharp teeth and bites his wrist where the nerves are.
'THIS IS SOO GOOD!!' Pepper was lost in her own world as soon as the first drop of blood entered her body.
\\
You have been bitten by a Vampire.
1. Would you like to change your race
YES/NO
2. Would you like to inherit the skill Hydrokinesis.
YES/NO
3. Would you like to inherit Supreme Regeneration
YES/NO
//
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Your blood has entered a vampire what effects would you like to implement?
1. Increase her raw power.
YES/NO
2. Improve her Hydrokinesis trait.
YES/NO
3. Increase her favorability to you.
YES/NO
4. Introduce mana to her body to make it stronger physically.
YES/NO
//
'HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH I can actually inherit powers this way!!'
I clicked on no for the race change option while I clicked yes on all others.
Faint ropes of mana start to float around Pepper and her body started to get heated up.
"Siena what is happening" Lacus asked worriedly
"This is a first for me too" Siena answered equally worried
"Calm down, my mana is enhancing her physical body" I say while my eyes remain close
After a minute more Pepper stop drinking and makes a sound one makes after satisfying dinner.
"That was soo tasty!!!! I feel so full" Pepper says as she lays down on Krishna's lap and closes her eyes.
Lacus and Siena look at Pepper sleeping with astonished expressions.
"Ok Lacus come it's your turn."
Pepper's bite marks disappear and Lacus bites the same spot.
The same things happen again the only difference being the skill
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Would you like to inherit the skill Mist
YES/NO
//
and once again I clicked on yes on all the options.
"Why do you keep moving your hands in the air??" Siena asked with a weird expression.
"Don't you remember I have a system I can assign all the benefits I wish to get and give to the one who is drinking my blood"
"So that's how you avoid becoming a Vampire."
After a min, Lacus also stopped drinking and fell asleep lying down on Pepper.
"Cute," I said while looking at the two sisters.
Then I look at Siena, " Come have a taste"
Siena's eyes glow blood red and she sits on the other side and bites my other wrist.
Everything was once again the same but this time I got the skill Cryokinesis.
Siena drank for 5 seconds more than the other two and after drinking she looked me straight in the eyes while her eyes glowed blood red.
"Why don't you become a Vampire..... I am sure you will become a noble one just like Victor."
"Siena if I asked you to give up being a Vampire would you??"
"Being a Vampire is more beneficial and you have no attachment to Humans."
"Siena" I caress her cheek
"While I do not have any attachment to humanity, it is my goal to reach the top as a human....... But I can give you a promise. If I do become some other race in the future... I will become a Vampire, Ok?"
Siena shows the first genuine smile and falls asleep with her head on my shoulder.
'Might as well get some shut eye', I too close my eyes and fall asleep.