Scathach house, two days later.
At a ridiculously large table, several people were seated. And, not far from the table, Luna, Kaguya, and Maria were waiting to take any requests from their respective masters.
Victor and his wives were sitting on a sofa while Krishna sat between Pepper and Lacues with Siena next to Lacus, and Scathach sat at one end of the table.
Siena looked at Victor as if thinking of saying something but then shakes her head and resumes drinking the blood she had in her glass.
"Oh?, Siena looks like Krishna has changed your thinking on Humans quite a bit." Scathach says with an amused smile
"Ahem, Yes I have come to realize that even cattle have a few powerful people who should be given decent respect."
Victor and Krishna Ignore her disrespect to Humanity as a whole since it did not matter much to them.
"Seeing that you are not complaining about the sounds coming from Victor's room you must be busy with something else right." Scathach says as a devilish smile dawns on her face.
"Yes there has been too much work lately and I don't care what he does in his room." Siena says with blush and Pepper and Lacus muffle their laughter.
as this discussion was happening Victor bites ruby and spontaneously Krishna makes a wall of mana around the table.
"Only I am allowed to make Pepper blush" I smile looking at Pepper which makes her blush.
"Hahahahaha" Scathach laughs looking at her girls laughing and blushing.
Krishna looks at the goblet of blood in Scathach's hand.
"Why do you drink that third-class blood?"
Scathach looks at the blood which is seen as a delicacy to noble vampires.
"You have better blood than this?" She says raising an eyebrow.
I walk up to her and collect the blood in the goblet with mana and throw it out of the window. Then I cut my wrist and blood flowed into the Goblet.
Scathach's eyes glow red while The three sisters sit nonchalantly.
Over the past two days, they had drunk his blood on various occasions and the rest of the time they just lazed around watching anime. After drinking it straight from his body the blood served like this was not at all appealing to them.
Victor and his wives were in a world of their own and Krishna's wall blocked any sound from passing to either side.
Scathach gulped the excess saliva which was created after smelling the delicious aroma that Krishna's blood exuded.
She picked up the goblet and took a sip. The flavor exploded in her mouth while the mana soothed her blood dependency a bit, She immediately downed the whole goblet in such a hurry that some blood spilled from the side.
Krishna took the sleeve of his shirt to wipe the blood off her face.
"Did you like it?? need more?" Krishna asked in a teasing tone.
The three sisters and the three maids just looked with eyes wide open as this happened.
From the moment Maria had seen Krishna she had wanted to eat him but she knew this person was the reason why she was not treated very badly and he was also the reason why Victor had promised to help her after Sasha forgives her.
"You are playing with fire" Scathach said with red glowing eyes and a serious expression.
'ah~ the nostalgia' Krishna thought
"I am not Playing with fire..... I am staking my claim." I smiled in a Scathachish way while his eyes show a tinge of black.
"You will not need anyone else's blood, From today onwards drink my blood that alone will satisfy your every need" I said confidently looking Scathach straight in the eye.
"HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA I need a lot of blood will you be able to fulfill it" Scathach says while smiling just like me.
"All your needs and then some"
"We will see then" Scathach chukles
"so how are you feeling now"
"A bit better" Scathach says as her eyes turn emerald green for a moment but turns back blood red very quickly.
"But this is still not enough"
"Bloodlust huh"
"Yes from the dead husband"
"I know, Siena told me."
"Oh" then Scathach smiled as she looked at me teasingly, "Did that scare you?"
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH scare me! If that bitch had been alive I would have killed him myself, NO half-assed egoistical Vampire who would just laze on his ass deserves you! You know it too and that is why you killed him.... he was a tool that was used and then discarded as simple as that."
"You talk as if you know this was the exact reason I killed him" Scathach stopped smiling and looked at him neutrally.
"2000 years that is how long you have lived, So many wars and so many periods of fake peace.... you lived through them all sure it must have been exciting many times but eternal life is boring isn't it....... first you got bored of the wars because you got way too powerful for anyone to give you a proper fight. You never were interested in politics but even that got boring after a few 100 years so a companion but that companion was a boring man with boring, pathetic goals..... A typical egoistical wastrel. hell, you never even chose him because you were interested in him, you chose him because he had something that interested you..... most probably his trait."
"Right on the mark, But how do you know all this." Scathach asks with a sparkle in her eyes
"Because Scathach you are just like me! you wish to reach the top you wish to keep being challenged so that you can see how much more can you improve! is there a limit is it my potential or my talent or am I not working hard enough!!!! you wish to become strong so that you can challenge the strong..... and well 2000 years of life, If you did not have some screw loose and some Idieals which were not accepted in today's world than it would mean you did not live but just existed. You had fun when you fought in those wars right! but it was fun only till the enemy could give you a challenge or threat of death...... once you got way too strong for the enemies, it just became boring."
"HAHAHAHAHAHA right again!! but there is someone who is capable of Fighting me!"
"The first progenitor of Vampires"
"The first progenitor of Vampires"
Scathach and Krishna say in sync
"You know about him too??" Scathach asks astonished
"I told you na, a Vampire from the snow clan came to my country to kill me. I got quite some info from him."
"...Hmm, Mother?" Siena spoke
"Hmm?" She looked at her daughter.
Seeing her mother's bored face, Siena bit her lip a little, "Why did you call this meeting?"
"Oh…? Indeed, what was the reason?" She completely forgot.
"...Mother..." Siena sighed and looked at Luna.
Seeing Siena's gaze, Luna yelled, "Yes!" Then, she disappeared and soon returns with a letter in her hand and hands it to Siena.
Krishna walked back to his previous seat and sat down.
Pepper looked at him with a worshiping gaze.
"How are you able to talk to mother this easily! we are never able to do that."
"She is a complicated woman... even by woman's standard" Krishna chuckled a little while saying this
Krishna took down the wall once he saw that Victor and his wives were just talking now.
"What are you doing?" Pepper asked curiously, she was looking at her sister, who had a red face, and was acting suspiciously.
"N-Nothing," Ruby stuttered a little.
"Funnnn..." Pepper glared at her younger sister.
"What?"
"Are you practicing dual cultivation here?"
"…" Lacus and Ruby's faces turned pure red.
"Pfft hahahahaha" Krishna laughed heartily while Victor, Violet, and Sasha were confused.
Somehow Ruby and Lacus sighed in relief when they realized they were the only ones who understood.
"Pepper! Stop talking nonsense!" Ruby spoke.
"Awawawawa, I'm sorry! But you blushed, and you were acting weird, I thought-"
"Stop! Okay! We understand!" Lacus closes Pepper's mouth.
"Hmmhmmmm," Pepper tried to say something, but only strange sounds came out of her mouth.
"Don't let her say anything!" Ruby ordered.
"I know!" Lacus spoke.
"Enough," Siena said, trying to bring order to the situation, she looks at her mother.
"Hmm? What is it, Siena? I was having fun~" Scathach said. For her, a bored person, watching her daughters play with her son-in-law was something nice.
"And this is why she looks bored all the time. Siena you are her precious daughter, if sometimes you act a bit immature it would not drop your standing in her mind because you are one the most important things to her" Krishna patted her head
Siena turns red while Ruby stares at her strict big sister acting like a little girl being scolded.
Scathach laughs a little which breaks Siena out of the trance and she removes Krishna's hand from her head.
"Mother, Why did Lady Victoria declare war?" Siena asked in a serious tone.
"!!!" Hearing the familiar name, Sasha reacted, "Aunt? What is my aunt doing?"
"Oh, she proposed a game with Clan Horseman to regain Clan Fulger's lost count title," Scathach replied.
"What!?" Sasha was shocked, she never thought that selfish, narcissistic, proud aunt would do something like that. She's pretty sure her aunt isn't doing it to help her Clan.
"The Horseman Clan accepted? What were the bet this time?" Siena asked.
"The Horseman Clan is currently a count clan that took the Fulger clan's position" Lacus explained to Krishna after looking at his confused look
"Victoria just wants the title of vampire count, and she's staked all her riches."
"…" Siena was speechless.
"Is she crazy!? Her equity is absurd; it's more than three trillion dollars counting on illegal and legal businesses; why would she give it up for just one title?" Sasha spoke.
Pepper and Lacus, realizing that the conversation was becoming 'boring', decided to close their eyes and go to sleep; they were too lazy to think about it.
"You don't know why since you're just a member of the Clan, but the title of vampire Count is very important," Siena said, and Scathach nodded in agreement.
"What do you mean?"
"Sorry, I can't say. Only the leaders of the Clan holding the title of Count can know this information."
Sasha frowned, then she looked to Scathach for answers.
"Don't look at me, Brat." She said and continued, "This is something that even I can't talk about."
"Tsk," Sasha doesn't like it, she looks at Siena, "And how do you know that?"
"Oh, it's because I took on Count's duties in my mother's place."
"... Is this allowed?"
"If the king approved, then yes, it's allowed." Siena said
Scathach, tell me the situation of Sasha's family; you should know more about it, right?" Victor said in an unnaturally serious tone.
"Oh…? What will you do if you know?" Scathach smiled.
All the women looked at Victor, waiting for his answer; even Pepper and Lacus, who decided to sleep, were a little interested in Victor's answer.
"It depends on the situation," Victor started to speak.
"If Sasha is being 'owned' by someone else because of a stupid bet made by her idiot mother…" He looks at Sasha, "Sorry for the offense to my mother-in-law."
"It's okay. She's a fucking idiot; everyone knows that"
"…" Violet and Ruby were a little surprised to hear Sasha use such inappropriate words.
"Then? What will you do?" Scathach looked more interested than usual.
Victor spoke in a definitive tone as if it were an absolute truth, "Training, getting stronger, and no matter how long it takes, I will slaughter that entire Clan... Nobody touches my wives and gets away with it. In case it does become too much I do have a brother always ready to help me.
"…" Scathach's smile grew, she seemed to like the answer.
"Victor~" Sasha smiled.
"Hmm, maybe I'll make my mom lose a bet too..." Violet said; she got jealous.
Slap!
Ruby hits Violet on the head.
"Ouch!" Violet holds her head in pain: "What are you doing, bitch!?"
"Stop talking nonsense. Didn't you realize that when he said 'wives', he included us too?"
"Oh," Violet opened her mouth.
"And what are you going to do if Sasha doesn't belong to anyone and her family just lost the count title?" Siena asked a little curiously.
Victor looks at Siena and replies in a disinterested tone, "I won't do anything."
"Huh?"
"Huh?"
Siena and Sasha spoke in unison.
"Sasha is fine, and for me, that's what matters. Now, if she wants to get that stupid title back, I'll support her, and if she wants my help, I'll help her, but other than that, I won't intervene." It's not like since she's lost the title of count vampire, she would be poor.
"Stupid title…" Siena was trying not to strangle this man.
"Siena..... you are making that face which is a mixture of angry and annoyed again. You need to understand that beings like Victor and me only care about our people .... the rest of the world can burn for all we care." Krishna explained to Siena calmly
Victor nodded approvingly
"Satisfied? Now. Explain it to me," Victor said, looking at Scathach.
"Brat, you must have more-" Siena was going to say something, she was already annoyed to see Victor treating her mother so casually.
Victor looked at Siena as his eyes glowed pure red, "Shut up. You are annoying."
"!!?" Siena felt her body tremble, she tried to say something, but her mouth couldn't move, she couldn't move her body:
Krishna touched Siena's shoulder and she shuddered a little and got control of her body back
"Victor, I am trying right no need to do this." Krishna said looking a bit annoyed for the first time today.
"Then tell her to stop butting in."
"If someone talked to your mother rudely you would be so much worse..... I would be too so I understand her and you too so just calm down she will get used to it."
"What did you do," Siena asks looking at Victor than at Krishna.
"Shush for now and let him talk ok..... If Scathach has a problem with his attitude then she would tell him herself she does not need her child to stand up for her right in front of her face that too against someone who she has taken as a disciple."
"But-"
"Siena...." Krishna looks at her seriously this time
Scathach looks at this scene with a bit of surprise on her face.
Scathach looks at Victor and says, "Sasha's situation is exactly the second situation." She totally ignored her daughter's condition.
"Oh?"
"The Horseman Clan requested a game with Sasha's mother, and the bet was the title of Count vampire." She explained and then added, "The Horseman Clan was betting on something very unique…"
"Something that even a vampire who's lived over 1900 years, and is bored as fuck, would be curious enough to bet the Count title for."
She puts on a face of disgust, "They were betting a hybrid."
The whole room was silent the moment they heard what she said.