Vol 2 Chapter 1 (1/2)
The Council of Vampires Dances, and
In the beginning, there was color
Tables were laid out in the deep darkness
It was a large room A small-scale banquet hall in which was set up many small, round tables
The walls of the room were majestically decorated, but because there were only a few candles lighting the area, any extravagance it ht have borne was concealed In fact, the uneven illumination of the decoration lent a chilly air to the hall
Pieces of cloth, each of a different color, were draped on the backs of the chairs at the tables
Filling the banquet hall was not the presence of people, but the splashes of color flaunting their hues in the emptiness
Suddenly, a man appeared in the deserted room
Theto be in his late twenties, carried himself much like a scholar There was a pair of round spectacles over his eyes
“Ahes”
The man, who had taken a seat at the chair with the blue cloth draped over its back, looked around at the many seats in the darkness and spoke
“Hm This is no time for tasteless pranks, my friends Show yourselves”
The darkness had no response for the man
“”
He waited several seconds for a reaction, but the room remained silent
“Is no one really here yet?”
The man’s confident expression faded as he slid out of his chair
“ssing”
He lay on the floor without evento stand He crouched there with his head in his hands,to himself
“Urgh That was e! There was no one here! ‘This is no time for tasteless pranks, h I’ht, ‘I know you’re out there!’! Ia sound, but nobody saw it! da! I have to kill o back in tio! This is JUST TOO EMBARRassING!”
Dignity drained fro to himself
Several , and came back to his senses
The woman who entered the hall stopped in her tracks, beht
“Why are you rolling on the floor, Caldimir the Blue?”
“Never mind, Dorothy I tripped on a chair”
Thehad happened, and once again took his seat with dignity
Meanwhile, the woave him a dubious look and took a seat quite far from Caldimir, at a chair draped hite
From that point on, enders were not i their seats one by one
By the time half the seats were filled, Caldimir, whose blue seat had a clear view of the entire hall, said the sa as he had before, as he tried to quiet the occupants of the room
“Ahes”
His elboere on the table, and his chin rested on his clasped hands A pose worthy of a true mastermind The banquet hall went silent at his call It was quiet enough to hear a pin drop
“I, Caldimir the Blue Flow of Blood, will act as the chairman of today’s conference I expect there will be no objections”
A s at the yellow seat raised his hand with a cry of “Objection!”
“I see there are no objections Then allow me to disclose the main objective of today’s conference”
“Are you ignoring me, Mr Caldimir?”
Theat the yellow seat did not hide his displeasure as he interrupted Caldimir
“Be quiet Why don’t you go ahead and stuff yourself with curry, as your color should?” Said the o seat
Strangely enough, the o seats bore identical facial features But the man in the yellow seat had blond hair and blue eyes, while the o seat had black hair and black eyes The caucasian man complained at the Asian man’s interjection
“You et what you say sometimes What’s this about curry? Anyway, you’re not even a member of Rainbow Keep your mouth shut, will ya?”
“Indigo is a color of the rainbow”
“In England, the rainbow’s only six colors There is no indigo Just ‘cause you live in japan and they say there’s seven colors--”
“Hnorant, little brother Froree that there are seven colors in the rainbow”
Caldiential arguathered at the conference
“In any case As I ht to our attention Recall last year’s incident, where a lone va with the entire island of Growerth The research undertaken by our friend Melhilm the Violet has finally borne fruit! Yet the problem remains in that our all-important ‘Relic’ remains in the hands of our former comrade, Gerhardt F Waldstein What is our next course of action, then? This is why I have called this conference H as over half of our officers--the Colors--are here, I see thatshort of stupendous at this point”
Caldiathered today likely meant that attendance was low at best at , but his moment of pride was interrupted by thewith the o seat
“Like any of us are here to see you I’m only here ‘cause you mentioned Mr Gerhardt and I wanted to show my respect for him”
“Ha! Show your respect for a traitor like hi his cool deo seathis brother
“If I recall correctly, he only left us There was no betrayal”
“Anyway! Let us return to the matter at hand!” Caldimir cried in an attempt to drown out the Asian man
The air in the banquet hall finally grew soleht back on track
But Caldi this moment of seriousness with his oo hands
“Because I had already foreseen such an occurrence, I have taken it upon myself to take immediateand Theresia the Hraesvelgr as Melhiluides as they infiltrate the island of Growerth!”
“What?!”
Sound once again returned to the hall at the chairman’s revelation
“Hmph If I’d had it hters, led by Garde the Black, to annihilate the island But not even our finest could so easily defeat our target, Relic F Waldstein This is why I’ve sent in our most flexible forces for this mission Do you have any questions, my friends?”
Caldi in the hall went silent
The silence soon gave way to a deafening outcry
“Acting on your own again, Caldimir?! What have you done?!”