Chapter 54: What will you do? (1/2)
”Dual cultivation?” 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.
”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.
”Horseman clan? I've never heard of this Clan,” Violet questioned.
”I want to know too,” Victor said.
”Oh, I'll let you two in on the subject.” Ruby started to explain to Violet and Victor who Clan Horseman was.
”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 smiled
”…” Sasha frowned in annoyance when she saw Siena's smile; for some reason, she didn't like that smile.
”I see...” Victor spoke when he finished listening to Ruby's entire explanation about the Clan Horseman.
”…Why didn't my mom tell me about this? This is an important issue.” Violet asked herself.
”You probably left the house and didn't even want to talk to her, right?” Ruby spoke.
”…” Violet was silent, she knew Ruby was right.
”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.”
”…” 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.
”...You believe in your wives a lot,” Scathach said in a neutral tone.
Victor looks at Scathach and displays a gentle smile, ”If I don't believe my wife, who will? I always believed in them, from the beginning.” He spoke with absolute confidence in what he was saying.
”...I see,” She displayed a small smile on her face.
”Victor!” Sasha suddenly hugged Victor.
”...?” He didn't understand, but he didn't deny her embrace; feeling small tears on his shirt, he was a little shaken.
”What's it...? What happened?”
”N-Nothing…-” She spoke, sobbing a little. ”Just let me stay like this for a moment.” She didn't know what she was feeling but hearing Victor's confident words somehow, she remembered talking to Julia; 'when did I get so emotional? I was not like that...'