Chapter 155: AMEN!!! (1/2)
Sasha Side.
Maria was following Sasha through the corridors of the mansion where she used to live.
The two women appeared to have been walking for a while.
”Where are we going, Master?” Despite being uncomfortable with the current situation, Maria was a little curious about what Sasha was doing.
”I'm here to collect something I forgot from this mansion,” Sasha spoke in a dry, emotionless tone since she wasn't in a good mood.
Sasha's eyes glowed blood red for a few seconds:
'Tsk, this mansion is full of bugs and rats.' Sasha thought.
”...Oh.” Maria understood what she was looking for, but she had a doubt, ”Are you sure the hunters didn't take the item? After all, I remember we walked all over the mansion.”
”Hahaha, if those dogs were so competent, the vampires would have been wiped out long ago,” Sasha spoke with disdain.
”…” Maria didn't know what to say when she heard Sasha's words.
The two women walked down a few corridors until suddenly Sasha stopped in front of a gigantic painting that appeared to be damaged.
”Good, the edges of the frame are still intact.”
”...?” Maria looked at the frame and saw the image of a woman with long golden hair and blood red eyes. She had a voluptuous body that didn't seem to lose to Scathach, wearing a crimson red dress. She looked like a woman of noble birth, while the entire image Maria was looking at appeared to have been hand-painted by an artist.
”... This is.”
”My grandmother.” Sasha looked at the painting with a neutral gaze:
”Carmila Fulger... If she were alive, I believe she would be the one to hold the title of Vampire Count and not my mother.”
Maria had never heard of this woman, but she thought it made sense, if she was Sasha's grandmother, then she must have been thousands of years old.
”I learned that she was a very kind woman and that she had the noble personality of a knight.”
”...” Maria thought the woman was quite similar to Sasha.
”It's funny, right?”
”What...?”
”Is a bloodthirsty vampire considered someone resembling a 'knight'?”
”Well...I feel like it's not weird.”
”Oh?”
”Despite our eating habits, we are no different from humans…” Maria was honest, as that was the impression she had gotten from vampires as she lived with them for more than six months.
Vampires needed blood to survive, and consequently, they had to hunt humans for food. That's normal, that's just the law of nature, and it's not like vampires couldn't drink the blood of animals, but the difference is that animal blood made them weaker.
But... Despite being a law of nature, they were sentient beings, and they wouldn't accept that for long.
All the problems started when the vampires started playing with their food, and this revolted the humans, so eventually, the humans 'joined up' in a group that had hatred towards the vampires, and a war broke out.
Normally, vampires would win as usual.
But because of the energy discovered by the hunters, they began to be pressured and had to look for a new habitat, considering Earth was no longer a welcome place for them.
”A predator cannot get along with its prey.” Sasha looked back at the painting:
”Eventually, the predator can no longer hold back its instincts and will attack its prey, and, because of that, we can't mix.”
”…” Maria was silent, she understood what Sasha was saying, and some part of her believed it was true.
Regardless, whether they were aware or not, at some point, their instinct would speak louder, and the predator would attack the prey...
After all, you couldn't live in peace with a person who seemed to be very tasty meat next to you, right? You'd feel like eating and tasting this 'meat'.
Predators must live among their fellows.
And prey must live among their fellows.
The two can never join in a community. A lion can't join the rabbit community, right? How would a predator at the top of the food chain join its prey? That made no sense.
In the end, that is just the natural order of things.
Because of this, Sasha didn't believe that humans and vampires could get along in the future one day.
In this war that has lasted thousands of years, one side had to be the winner, and the other side had to be the loser!
There was no such thing as Status Quo!
Peace was never an option from the start.
Sasha pointed her hand towards the painting.
Rumble, Rumble.
”Lightning is in our family's bloodline thanks to my grandmother. She was the one who started our family, she is our ancestor...”
Lightning bolted from Sasha's hand and hit the painting.
”Consequently, we as her descendants must pay respect to her.”
The lightning struck the frame, and it went through the entire frame.
Maria looked at the edges of the frame and saw several strange letters, ”Are those... Runes?”
”There is a story Julia told me when I was little.” Sasha continued to stare at the board.
”Originally, Carmila Fulger, my grandmother, was a woman with deep connections to the lightning spirits who were quite close to the Norse gods.”
”Spirits...?” Maria looked at Sasha in disbelief, while she had the face of someone who didn't believe what she was hearing.
”Well, that story is probably a legend created by ancient peoples.”
”Ancient people used to make legends out of anything.” Sasha didn't believe that story either. How could a spirit become a vampire?
They weren't even beings that had a physical body to be able to transform into vampires, so that story didn't make any sense.