I wasn't sure if she was lying to me or not, like many times in the past.
However, I wouldn't throw a tantrum or complain when there was no way to challenge her words or prove her wrong, instead checking my status as we were preparing to leave.
After all, we had been collecting the herbs needed on the way here—there was no need to stay and returning to the castle was important to Rena because she wanted to warn her friend.
I thought it was stupid, but then again, having no friends and a sad life makes you twisted like that.
⁜Status: Tendo Akira⁜
Race: Vampire (Eros)
Level: 17
Exp: 2447/7000
Class: Monster Tamer
HP: 486/486 (+100)
MP: 555/555
STR: 110
VIT: 200 (+15) (Sealed)
INT: 111
AGI: 110
DEX: 115
DEF: 250 (+25)
CHA: 350 (1,650 Sealed)
Bonus Attribute Point:0
[Racial]
Undying - You cannot die from age, disease, sickness or natural causes.
Eternal Youth - You will forever remain the most beautiful you imagine yourself in age, looks and even scent.
Infinite Vitality Lv.2 - Your Vitality is increased by 10 and recovers 10x faster than normal, even during combat. +100 HP to yourself and all Pets.
Vampiric Charm Lv.1->Lv.2 - Increases your charm by 300
Vampiric Vision Lv.4->Lv.5 - Grant's the ability to see the world in more detail, from the mana in the air to it's its movement inside a person's body and slows time during melee combat by 0.5 seconds.
Vampiric Reflexes Lv.3->Lv.5 - Your body is superhuman, and so are your reflexes. Increases dodge, parry and movement speed by 50%.
[Skill]
Spear Mastery Lv.2->Lv.3 - Increases all damage with polearms by 30%
Unarmed Mastery Lv.5->Lv.6 - Increases damage when unarmed by 60%
Archery Lv.3->Lv.6 - Increases damage and accuracy with all bows and crossbows by 60%
Goddess Charmer - Able to learn the skills desired easier than normal and increases chances a goddess will listen to you before killing you.
Cunnilingus Lv.4->Lv.6 - Increases pleasure when giving oral pleasure to the opposite sex by triple, making the vagina taste less sour and more delicious, the tongue has more stamina and flexibility.
Novice Sex Mastery(M) Lv.4->Lv.6 - You instinctively know how to please your partner and delay your finish to make their time even better while your pleasure increases the longer you last. Increases endurance, stamina and hardness.
[Abilities]
Dexterous Fingers Lv.3->Lv.7 - Your fingers are extremely nimble when dealing with women and for normal tasks.
Command Lv.1->Lv.2 - When commanding Pets increases their damage dealt by 20% and removes all fear and panic effects.
Caress/Training Lv.2 - A method to boost bonds with your Pets! Treat them well, and they will adore you forever, increasing the chances for a random Caress event by 20%.
Arcane Archery Lv.1 (New) - The ability to fire double, power and trick shots, synthesised to become one global arcane archery skill.
Lunge Lv.1 -Charge forward with your spear, causing 50% STR damage
Inspection Lv.1 - View the details of an item or person—each level increases the detail.
Target Lv.1 - You can lock on to Four enemies, and your attacks will be guided using magic always to hit but deal 10% less damage.
Skill Synthesis - Able to fuse skills to reduce bloating and retain the former skills abilities along with the new ones.
⁜Status End⁜
It turned out that she wasn't lying, and the strange feeling of dissonance was that my vision increased by one rank to five, but my reflexes increased twice to five. Now, although they are the same rank and cancel out the slow-motion effect when I enter battle focus...
Before, they were always one rank apart, which caused me to adapt and get used to the slight difference in timing for my body's movement and the things I could see and hear.
So I was a little dizzy and sluggish when my body moved in perfect sync with my current sight, throwing me off slightly as Rena looked back at me with her strange eyes that gave me a feeling she was hiding something that was eating away at her...
I want to ask, but if she falls apart now, then we will be in trouble...
No matter what happens to me, I don't care.
Rena and Yuzu are different. I began to deeply care for them, even with my fucked up mind. So, if she became a fugitive due to my insensitive words because I lack certain emotions and empathy.
I wouldn't be able to keep this cool act and might end up causing a catastrophe...
"Are you alright?"
Sylvia's voice was like a bucket of ice water tossed on my head in the most opportune moment, restoring my sanity and letting the negative and dark thoughts fade from my heart.
"Yeah, thanks to you being here."
My reply was honest: Sylvia was an existence that I didn't have to pretend to be flowery or use my head to remember past events that were blurry and fading each day and imitate emotions that were long gone.
I could just speak to her bluntly and without any deceit.
"Eh? Ah... Mmmm... Thanks."
Like the funny woman she was, her response made me smile; thankfully, the woman who made me this way didn't take as much as my dramatic thoughts might lead you to believe...
However, I didn't have any empathy, remorse or feelings of guilt whenever I thought or killed a living being.
My mind was that of a vampire, but I hoped that one day when I came clean, it wouldn't make Rena and Yuzu disgusted.
I still felt love, joy, hope and most normal emotions... Just none related to justice and morals.
They were just shifted on the axis closer to something more raw, passionate and dark—my crazed, growing obsession with Rena, for one.
Shaking my head, the dark thoughts faded as I smiled at the clueless dog woman slapping her ass as a thank you, the feel of the chainmail hid most of the soft, fleshy delight, but still, it was a nice big ass.
"Ahh... you!"
"Haha, sorry, it was just too nice to leave alone."
"!!!"
I couldn't force myself to feel anything deeper than lust for the werewolf and her body right now, and thus, I wouldn't get any closer until I could feel those feelings.
My actions had caused her to become forced to join me somehow. That was the feeling I got from both her and Medea's words when we spoke before the battle.
Sorry, my heart and mind are filled with Rena right now... and maybe Yuzu is sneaking her way inside, too.
Or so I liked to think with a bitter smile before checking my healed arm and the small bite marks she made after getting excited and angry from me pulling and stroking her tail too much.
***
We arrived back at the town quite late into the evening, something I felt great regret about as Sylvia and Rena seemed to take the items and head to the guild, telling me that I was too exhausted and my face looked pale...
"I am a vampire, though..." My voice echoed in the warm room, with a little fox sitting on my lap as the fire crackled.
"Wuwuwu...." (My Vampire servant, indeed.)
"Who is your servant..."
"Wuuuwuuwuu!" (Don't spank my butt... Don't fight... I surrender...!)
Like this, I was waiting for the two to return and trying to calm my mind and heart, but there were too many doubts and feelings of ill future swirling inside my chest.
Sometimes, I would dream of a different life... One where Aki was never a gal, and she had black hair like now... and we were dating and lived together because her parents were gone, and she had nowhere to go anymore.
Of course, we had sex, and I took her virginity on our eighteenth birthday...
I wanted to know what these memories were.
In those dreams, things happened the same as they did in my current life... However, the day before being summoned, everything became blurry...
Because they reminded me of strange feelings I had since the moment we got here.
Why am I, not the ***** ****, and my race isn't a **** ********, but the words would only be blocked out... like when I tried going against Medea's orders, it was just white noise...
Somehow... I wanted to know why there were things I saw in my sleep. Yet the only one who knew was the goddess.
In that world, I wasn't a nerd or an otaku... I was the successor of my mother's gym and extremely talented and quite violent. If anything, it was me who was the Yankee or delinquent in that life...
Somehow, I was sure I had killed people in that world...
Why is this world so distorted and reversed?
[I cannot say]
Why did you lie to me?
[I cannot say]
Then don't make another promise you cannot keep.
[...]
[U-Understood.]
"If it's Rena or Yuzu, I will hunt down every one of you supposed Gods. You know that right."
"I will kill you slowly, flay your skin and enjoy draining your blood one millimetre at a time; suppose you have regeneration, then shall I cut you apart relentlessly for years until you die of exhaustion?"
[!!!]
I saw my reflection in the mirror, like those twisted monsters in movies.
My face was scrunched up with crimson eyes glowing with delight at the thought of killing the people toying with our lives... my teeth were pristine white, but that added to the eerie and monstrous feeling...
But I felt no disgust... Rather, I felt I looked good.
As if this was how I was supposed to be, not soft or forgiving... Brutal... violent, and ripping my opponents apart for even the slightest wrong. In return, I treat my loved ones as if they are the most important existences in the universe...
This is the true me I was trying to hide... Wasn't it?
⟪Caution! Detected chaotic thoughts!⟫
⟪Warning!⟫
[Akira...]
[If I tell you everything, you will be hunted like a monster by every champion, hero and god that exists...]
[Can you really accept it?]
Isn't it fun being an Ero Vampire and enjoying a love-love life with Rena?]
Why does the goddess of monsters and deceit try to make me stay human? Are you obsessed with me joining the other gods to slay you because that's the future path that would await me if I survived and remained Human, right?
Isn't that why you gave me the stupid title of Eros and even changed the race from its true title to Ero Vampire?
To force me into always having this notion that the world and why I live like it's a game, a bit of fun for me to enjoy another world harem life with Rena every day?
[Akira, don't go any further...]
Restore my true race; give me my true title. I know that if you revive me, it would never be something stupid like Ero Vampire!
[Please... don't go further...]
I could feel her unwillingness to cooperate and a strange feeling of sorrow from every word, but to trust her title after a liar, I needed something. I could feel something that wasn't weak and flimsy!
[I...If you do, then everything will change...]
[There will be no happy-go-lucky harem life...]
Standing up, I held Yuzu to my chest—I could feel something foreboding. My heart started to increase its beating while Yuzu curled around me and nuzzled my neck as if to calm me down...
No, like she was also trying to stop this.
Even though I felt it was stupid, there were too many moments where her lies and inconsistencies began to add up, making it impossible for my improved mind to let it go, even as my own heart was begging me to leave things as they were.
I needed to know...
⟪Highest Level Of Seal Unlock: Restoring Akira Tendo's True Role and Destiny.⟫
⟪Commencing in 10⟫
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The room filled with a strange light as a magic circle wrapped around my feet and body, slowly as if it was analysing me, moving up and down from head to toe, causing me to feel a strange feeling, one that was supposed to have vanished.
Regret... worry... fear.
⟪Commencing in 3⟫
Suddenly, a strange feeling wrapped around my back, filled with darkness and a strange nostalgic scent.
As it wrapped around me, the negative feelings faded.
A voice sounded beside my ears as Yuzu nuzzled the shadow...
The next moment, the magic circle exploded with a loud sound and brilliant light, blocking out the figure's face and taking away my eyesight.
⟪Commencing Restoration of Akira Tendo's First Life's Memories⟫
[Aki... Don't get too angry—I'll always be right beside you.]
"Wait... Rena?"
A different image appeared as her figure seemed to vanish into dust; the face was the Rena from his dreams... the neat girl with soft skin, pale skin and bright blue eyes with twin tails.
The Rena from the dream where he was the delinquent.