"What did you say, Bitch?" He growled angrily.
"…" Everyone was speechless when they heard what Johnny said.
"Is this man crazy...?" Someone spoke in disbelief.
A similar thought passed through everyone else's minds as well, and they just couldn't believe what they had just heard.
"Mongrel, are you deaf?" Ruby spoke in the same cool tone of voice.
Johnny growled, and then he said, "I was being cautious because of your Clan..."
"Johnny, Stop!" Eddy tried to stop the man, but it was useless.
Johnny balled his fist and attacked Ruby's face.
BOOOOOOM!
The attack was so strong that it caused a considerable noise, and because of the shock wave, some places broke and raised some dust.
Johnny had a big smile when he felt his attack connect. He didn't even care if she was a Count's daughter or not; he wouldn't let anyone trample on his pride.
The pride of an Alpha!
"Whoa whoa people please no fighting..." When the dust settled Ruby was surprised to see Krishna holding Johnny's fist just before it hit the ice wall that Ruby had made.
This Krishna was wearing the mask that Krishna had gotten way before but Ruby too knew about this mask.
Krishna then promptly teleported Johnny somewhere.
"Where did you come from and why are you here?" Ruby looked at Krishna confused.
"I am just a simple clone and every member of the family receives one as soon as they enter the family.....Of course when you are with your loved ones we simply teleport back to the main body but all the other time we are in your shadow."
"!!!!"
"Please calm down even Victor has one in his shadow that even Kaguya cannot sense.... but Krishna has told Victor about our presence in all your shadows the only reason I came out is to tell you that Krishna had an interaction with Esther and if you wish to know her weakness I do have one but you too should know about it by now."
'Just how much does he know.....and how did he knew that I will come here. Prophetic powers? That is one way....I should include him in our plan but.... I should ask Victor first.'
"Why did Krishna come here?"
"You can ask Esther that since I was not given those memories."
Saying this the clone just disappeared.
By the time their conversation had ended, Ether had also come down to the bar.
"... Scarlett... What are you doing here again?" Madam's face twitched a little
"I need a service from you." Ruby flipped her hair over her back.
"Grr..." Suddenly everyone heard a wolf growl, and then:
"ROAAAAR!!"
BOOOOM!
Johnny came bursting in the main door.
Ruby looked at Johnny again, "Oh? So you're not just an ordinary Mongrel... You're their leader, huh?" She spoke when she saw Johnny's bright blue eyes.
'And to think I would find an Alpha in this place.' Ruby flashed a cold little smile.
"Bitc-…" Before Johnny could say anything, he heard a woman's voice.
"Little wolf, I wonder if you can breathe in space," Natalia spoke with a gentle smile.
"...?" Johnny looked at Natalia, but before he could speak or react to anything, his body was covered by a portal.
But before Johnny could fall through the portal and into the vastness of empty space, the portal broke.
"Ara..." Natalia looked at Madam and saw her hand glowing with several magic circles. Then, she looked around and saw several magic circles all over the club.
"I said, stop." Madam spoke in a deadly serious tone, "This place is neutral territory. If you want to fight, fight elsewhere."
Suddenly Esther was hanging upside down bound with blue ropes.
"No place on this planet is anybody else's territory....."
These words just echoed in the pub and no one could tell who or where exactly it was coming from.
Ruby and Natalia could recognize to be the voice of Krishna but even they did not know where this was coming from.
"This is just a recording so I am most probably not here but I don't have to be there to overpower a little one in magic HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"
Esther fell to the ground and all the magic circles started working again.
she looked around to find any traces of changes or tampering in her magic circles but there was none.
"Scarlett, didn't you see that he was an Alpha? You would let your maid attack him even though you knew it? Do you want to provoke a war?"
"Hmm? So what if he's an Alpha?"
"Huh?"
"So what if this will trigger a war?"
"Do you think I care about that?"
"…" Madam and Eddy were silent.
"In my view, he's just another wet dog, not that different from the king of wolves." Ruby walked towards Madam.
"Grrr…" Some of the wolves standing nearby started looking at Ruby with killing intent. They wouldn't tolerate an offense to their king.
"..." Ruby stopped walking when she felt the killing intent from all the wolves present:
"...There was once a time where my mother once said when I was little: 'Daughter, if anyone raises their sword against you, you must annihilate them all. Kill enemies, kill everyone related to enemies, Kill! Kill! Kill! Remember! Don't leave any to tell a story!'..." Ruby spoke in a cold tone that terrified everyone.
'That is not a teaching you should teach your own daughter!' Eddy wanted to scream so much now.
"And I carry these teachings in my heart…"
"You raised your swords against me. Tell me…" Ruby's voice was so dark and demonic it sent shivers through all the wolves.
Slowly she turned her face and looked at all the wolves while her eyes were hollow, "Are you ready to die?" A gigantic pressure started to burst out from Ruby's body.
Gulp!
All, including Johnny, swallowed dryly, and they could not move, as if they were trapped in an immense gravity well. They could feel in their spines a cold feeling of death.
And they finally figured something out:
A monster was in front of them!
Who was Ruby? She's Scathach Scarlett's daughter, and she's not an adopted daughter. She's Scathach's birth daughter.
Of course she's not weak! How could the birth daughter of the strongest female vampire be weak?
As the saying goes, the apple doesn't fall very far from the tree. Ruby was a perfect example of that saying.
"…" All the wolves, including Johnny, took a step back.
"Wise choice…" Ruby flashed a small smile that showed all her sharp teeth, she turned her face and started walking again, and as she was walking, she said:
"You guys are lucky I'm such a nice vampire… If I were my mother or my husband, this whole place would already be turned into a land without life."
Huh...? Everyone thought they were suddenly deaf.
Who's nice, woman!? You're not nice! You're just as crazy as your mother! Doesn't she realize that!?
She looked at Johnny, "Especially you, Mongrel. You were very lucky today. My husband is a very overprotective man, the moment you touched me, it wouldn't be death that awaited you... but rather a very long session of torture." She tossed her hair back and kept walking.
'Although I don't need my husband to deal with this garbage.' Ruby had her own pride, and like Scathach and Victor, she wouldn't leave her enemies for other people to deal with.
"..." Madam grinned when she heard Ruby say, 'her husband, huh?' She thought that was good information.
She could already figure out how to sell the information: 'Scathach Scarlett's daughter has a husband.' She could smell money.
'But… I need to know who her husband is.'
For a moment, Madam completely forgot what would usually happen to people who tried to sell information about Clan Scarlett, and when she remembered that, her face darkened, she thought; 'Forget it. The risks just aren't worth it.'
Seeing Ruby start walking, Natalia followed her silently as she looked at Ruby with a gentle smile
"
"..." Hearing what Ruby said. Johnny's face distorted and took on a more animalistic expression. All of his teeth were sharp, and he looked like he was about to attack Ruby at any moment; he didn't like being treated that way!
"Johnny, stop. Or you will become my enemy too. " Madam warned him.
"…" Johnny clenched his fist angrily and backed away.
Fighting a witch on her turf was just plain nonsense.
"Good." Madam smiled since, as a witch, she didn't mind the wolf's conflicts with the vampires. She just didn't want conflicts in her establishment.
If it were up to her, Johnny could die anytime, and she wouldn't care. She'd just go, 'Oh? He died, that's a shame. I have lost useful manpower... Anyway.'
Madam would only care about something if that 'something' was her property, for example: The bartender, Eddy.
If Ruby hurt Eddy, Madam would be hostile towards Ruby. After all, Eddy was Madam's property.
Ruby walked past Madam and walked towards her office, treating this place like it was her own home:
"Come on. We have important matters to talk about... And I promise you that this matter will make a lot of money for you."
"Oh?" Madam flashed a greedy smile.
When Madam, Ruby, and Natalia went upstairs to the office.
Eddy said, "You fucking idiot."
"Shut up, I'm not in a good mood right now." Johnny looked around and growled:
"What are you looking at!?"
"…" The crowd turned away and went back to taking care of their own problems.
"I'm the one who's not in a good mood!" Eddy slapped his hand on the counter.
"You never listen to me!" Eddy's eyes glowed neon green from his fury, "And because of that, you provoked someone you shouldn't!"
"..." Johnny was speechless when he saw his friend explode with rage. He had never seen him like this.
Eddy took several deep breaths while he was trying to calm down:
"Listen to me, you idiot... This is my last warning. " He spoke in a neutral tone,
"Don't provoke Clan Scarlett, forget what happened here."
"Son of a former wolf general or not. The moment you become the enemy of Clan Scarlett, you will die."
"And your dad won't be able to do anything to help you."
"Okay…"
"…" Eddy looked at Johnny with a cold look; 'That idiot, he didn't listen to me, huh? I couldn't care less anymore. He can go and die a dog's death.'
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{Leona's pet shop}
Victor, the werewolf siblings and Fred where having a conversation as Krishna was making his way over to the pet shop after the training session with Scathach got over.
Near the shop he saw Mizuki going toward the shop.
"Going to try again general." Krishna said as he teleported behind her.
Mizuki reflexively moved away and got into a fighting stance but as she saw It was Krishna she relaxed.
"How do you know that?"
"Well you are going toward the shop and last time you just stormed out so..... logical deduction?"
"... I find that hard to believe for some reason."
Krishna just shrugged and started going toward the shop.
"Yes, she said that for me to become a hunter, she should throw her holy liquids at me! Those divine sacred liquids! But she ran away!" Fred was quite disappointed.
He wanted to bathe with the sacred liquids and become strong!
"Sacred liquids...?" Victor didn't understand and looked at Edward.
"That thing." Edward made some hand gestures.
"Oh... Are all hunters perverts...?" Somehow Victor's opinion of hunters just went down and down.
"…" Violet and Leona had stoic expressions on their faces, but it was visible that the two women's ears were a bit red. They couldn't understand how Fred could say something like that out loud.
Crack, Crack!
Everyone heard the noise of something breaking, and they looked at the entrance to the door, and in the doorway, they saw a Japanese woman wearing a scary smile.
She was staring at Fred with a distinctly murderous expression.
"Hiii!" Fred hid behind the counter, "She's back! That milf! That hot milf!" Important things must be said twice!
"Oh, you were the one he was talking about." Victor displayed a slight smile that showed all of his sharp teeth.
He clearly remembered Mizuki.
Mizuki assumed a neutral expression as she opened the door and entered:
She looked at Victor and said, "I'm really surprised you've grown so much in just six months... As expected, I should have killed you that day."
"Hahahaha~ I'm hard to kill, you know?" Victor's eyes glowed blood red.
"..." Leona, Violet, Edward, and even Fred looked at Mizuki with a hostile look. They didn't like what they heard.
"Yes, I know." Mizuki spoke coldly, and she added, "I think introductions are necessary."
"My name is Mizuki, and I am one of the generals of The Inquisition organization."
She showed a disdainful smile:
"It is a great displeasure to meet you, Count Alucard."
"Hahahaha you do know that you can die at any time right and yet you have this bold attitude.... Idiotic but this is something that is not common in humans." Krishna walked in behind her.
***************
In front of a mansion that looked like it had been abandoned for over six months.
"Why did you come back here, Master...?" Maria asked in a neutral tone, though it was pretty apparent that she was feeling uncomfortable being in this place.
"…" Sasha didn't answer Maria's question and just remained silent as she stared at the battered mansion with various complex feelings running through her heart.
"... You know..." She spoke in a neutral tone of voice, but one that carried a coldness that sent shivers down Maria's spine, "Sometimes the best revenge is not torture or the death of your enemy."
"…" Maria was silent.
"The best revenge is one that completely destroys the 'I' of your enemy..."
"...I don't understand what you mean, Master..." Maria was cautious with her words.
Without even turning around, Sasha continued, "Six months have passed, and even after so long, I cannot forget that incident... Wrong, it's impossible for me to forget that incident."
"Just thinking about what happened fills my heart with hate, and I believe simple revenge isn't something I want…" Sasha looked at Maria with her eyes glowing blood red.
"My maid, how are you feeling right now?"
"...Huh?" Maria didn't understand Sasha's sudden question.
"Six months have passed; you are no longer a human; you're not a vampire either. You're a failed subspecies of vampires. You're a Ghoul..."
"A species that, in order to survive and maintain rationality, has to feed on human flesh. Tell me, my maid,"
"How do you feel about becoming a monster that needs to eat human flesh to survive?"
Maria bit her lip but couldn't resist her master's order:
"…I feel horrible, I feel like I'm losing the real 'me'… It's a scary feeling. I have a hard time thinking about my life before I became this monster..."
"... That is a good thing." Sasha smiled coldly.
"..." Maria bit her lip and seemed to be quite frustrated with the whole situation.
"You know, in the Clan Scarlett's library, I had plenty of opportunities to study more about Ghouls," Sasha remembered the days she'd wasted studying this subspecies of vampires.
Those events took place in the six months that Victor was training with Scathach. In those six months, in addition to training to master her powers, she also studied a lot.
"...?" Maria looked at Sasha, confused.
"An interesting thing about Ghouls is that they only care about what they eat; it's a pretty selfish species."
"When you see Krishna, don't you feel an instinctive urge to eat him?"
"!!!" Maria opened her eyes a little,
"When you're around my husband, don't you feel like tasting his flesh? And at the same time, do you not feel that you want to serve him with all your being?"
"...That's..." She was going to say that was true, but she quickly snapped her mouth shut.
"I have a chance." Sasha started walking towards the mansion.
"…" Maria started to follow her.
"My husband's presence is slowly influencing your thoughts. Even though you have the desire to eat my husband's flesh, you also feel the desire to serve him."
"A King Ghoul is looking for a king to serve, a very ironic and interesting situation." Despite having the name 'King' in their species, they were still a subspecies of vampires, they're a defective race, and as someone who has the blood of the Night King, Victor had an inherent charm that appealed to all creatures of the night that were related to vampires.
How did Sasha know about Victor's blood? That's simple. When Victor, Sasha, Ruby, and Violet slept together before coming to the human world, Victor explained what he had discovered to his wives.
And knowing this information, Sasha thought about the hypothesis that she had just talked about.
"... That's wrong, I'm not looking for a king-." She wanted to deny Sasha's words.
"Tell me, my maid. What is the name of the person you love the most?" Sasha asked without turning around.
"...Huh?" Maria stopped walking.
Sasha turned and looked at Maria, "Answer me." She ordered.
"I...-" Maria tried to answer her master's question, but nothing came out of her mouth.
Her head was empty.
"... What is happening? Why can't I remember...?" Maria's expression began to panic.
"What's his name? What's his name!?" Maria put her hands on her head and tried to remember the past, but she couldn't remember, she had never stopped to think about it since she thought she could never forget her 'god'.
However, the only thing on her mind now was feeding on more humans.
'My wait has paid off.' Sasha flashed a big sadistic smile when she saw Maria's condition.
"As I said, sometimes the best revenge isn't torture or death…" Sasha's smile only grew and grew.
"Tell me, my maid."
"How does it feel to forget about the most important person in your life?"
Maria looked at Sasha, and, when she saw the big distorted smile on Sasha's face, she muttered in fear:
"Monster…" And those words only made Sasha's smile grow even more expansive.
It was pretty evident that she was enjoying the current situation.
"Little Sasha is growing up...." Julia wipes a tear from her eye.