"I'll call Father~!!"
"No thanks," Cassius firmly denied before calmly walking away from the delirious girl.
"W-Wait, my love!" Bella called out. "What about the contract!? It states that you have to join my Crestmore Family! You have to!"
Without looking back, Cassius said, "It stipulates that I do indeed have to join your Vampire Duke Family. It does not, however, say when. I'll find so ti another day. As for right now, I have more important things I need to attend to."
Color drained from Bella's complexion. "B-But…"
Cassius faintly smiled. "I'll see you around, Bella," he said before disappearing from the empty street, breaking through the |Blood Do| with ease. Explore stories on My Virtual Library Empire
He had decided sothing that day. Hating Bella—it was pointless.
There was no way he'd ever be able to escape her incalculable amount of love, and there was also no way he'd be able to find it in himself to kill her. Even if she had essentially ruined the better part of his life, she was also partly to thank for how much strength he had today. Then there was this most recent vial of blood, which surely wasn't an easy thing to convince her father to give to him.
All in all, Cassius figured he'd let bad bridges between them vanish. He saw no point in holding a grudge over sothing so… mortal.
Starting fresh was for the best.
That, however, didn't an he'd be all chummy with her right from the get-go. She had to earn his affection.
Then again, Bella had no idea about any of Cassius's thoughts. The only thing she knew was that he had left her right after taking what he wanted from her… and he did so without a second thought.
"So cruel," she murmured, shadows obscuring her vision. "So an… So... So sexy~!!"
Her depression might as well have not even existed to begin with, for, like a certain hopelessly lost dragon, she was—in her core—too horny for words to properly articulate.
Though, while wiggling in place with a suspicious fragrance filling the air, Bella suddenly recalled who wrote the contract. Her eyes darkened further, and not in the good way this ti.
"Daddy… He had only one job," she said coldly, "and yet he couldn't even do it right…"
A chill ran down a certain Vampire Duke's spine as he cautiously turned his head in all directions. Carmilla, who was sitting beside him, could pretty much guess what was happening to him—or, rather, what was about to happen to him. This keen intuition of hers made her signature smirk appear.
Alaric Crestmore had a bad feeling about what was to co.
— anwhile, on top of Mount Everest, a shadowy cloaked figure materialized into being —
"It's about ti I enter the Nightmarescape again," Cassius said. "None at ho have woken up yet, so they won't even realize I've gone sowhere. As for those eerie eyes that follow everywhere…" He smirked, then lifted his hand.
"!!!" "!!!" "!!!"
Multiple gremlin extraterrestrials felt an irresistible force grab hold of them and pull. Without even the slightest hope for resistance, they were yoinked out of their pockets in space and brought to levitate in front of a demonic man.
"You six are quite a bit stronger than the last ones," Cassius comnted casually before tightening his hand. "Yet, seeing as you're still rely of the S Rank, the Elders must not see as much of a threat."
From the mories of dozens of aliens, Cassius had learned a lot. He knew the na of their race, he knew the strict hierarchy of their kind. He even knew the nas of several of the most important figures sent down for this 'operation.'
The only things he didn't know—or was unable to find—were how exactly they got to Earth, where they ca from, and what precisely their ultimate goal was.
"Perhaps you bunch will give more insight into your origins," Cassius emotionlessly uttered. "Don't worry; I'll give you painless deaths."
"N–!" the tightly bound aliens shouted, but before they could finish a single word, Cassius's right hand clenched hard on thin air.
POP! POP! POP!
The aliens were first crunched up into progressively tinier balls before exploding into a shower of green blood and guts.
Without wasting a second, Cassius activated his mind-related skills and searched through their brain matter. Many mories similar to the ones he already knew flashed before him, but after a few nanoseconds of searching, he finally found sothing different. A mory. In that mory, he saw the faint silhouette of sothing that sort of looked like a fleshy, moving spaceship.
But just as he reached out to access the mory, warning red lights flashed around him. A large, mystically runic lock appeared on the mory. Then every mory behind and around that mory was also barred behind the sa locks.
"What the…?"
Before Cassius even knew what had occurred, he was suddenly kicked out of the area where all the aliens' mories were stored. When he tried to go back in, he was even more astonished to realize that all of the mories… had vanished.
He tried a different alien's brain matter.
Yet the sa thing happened.
"It seems these dissonants are not as stupid as I once believed," Cassius said with a slight grin. "Well, no matter. As I beco stronger, I'll eventually beco powerful enough to force all their secrets out of them. Especially those extrely powerful ones on that skull-shaped island. Those are the aliens most likely orchestrating this whole operation centered around and…"
He was unable to finish that thought because he honestly had no clue what the answer was. The only things he could figure out from the aliens were that he had a major part to play in whatever they were planning. He also knew that aliens exceeding the S-Rank were heavily restricted in this world. But he knew for certain that they all holed up on that skull-shaped island for a reason.
His theory was that the island sohow allowed them to use their power freely—assuming they were below a certain rank. Because past a certain power level, the world would not be able to bear the weight of their presence and would thus forcefully ban them from entering the mont they tried.
However, the SS-Rank was definitely still very much allowed.
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