Chapter 184 - 184: Hes Coming For You. 3 (1/2)
[A/N: I wanted to say that Natashia Fulger won the vote as the next art! I already ordered the artist, the art will be ready at the end of this month!]
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Slowly the fire Victor created began to fade, and soon all that remained as evidence of the girl's parents were the two burnt scorch marks on the rug in the shape of humans.
The smile on her face as she watched her own 'parents' disappear was not an innocent girl's smile.
There was no more innocence in this girl; her innocence had been stolen from her by the beings she had called family.
Years of physical and psychological abuse had resulted in a girl being mentally broken. It was even questionable whether the best psychiatrists in the world could fix the girl now.
When the girl's parents vanished from existence, Victor looked at the girl with neutral eyes and spoke in an indifferent tone that sent a slight shiver down the girl's spine:
”Done.”
”Huh?” She didn't understand what he was talking about.
Victor repeated with the same indifferent tone, but this time with some kindness in it. He decided that he didn't need to be so severe and rigid with the girl. After all, she didn't do anything wrong:
”They are dead. No one will bother you anymore... Never again.” Victor refused to call those garbage 'parents'. They were not 'parents.' If there was a category to define who was garbage, Victor was absolutely sure that those two beings would fall into that category.
”Oh...” The girl opened her mouth wide since she just now realized what Victor was talking about.
She looked at the burned part of the ground that was the only thing left of her parents and spoke in a melancholic voice, ”...Yes...They're gone...Forever...”
”Thank you...” She thanked Victor without turning to him and just continued to stare at the mark on the floor with her lifeless eyes.
Her emotions were quite confused. In just a few seconds that this man visited her, all her problems, all the suffering she went through was gone like leaves in the wind.
The man felt like a hurricane that had passed and had taken everything she hated most away, and now she felt a small sense of relief…and loneliness.
'What should I do now?'
The change was so sudden that she didn't have time to process it all.
'What should I do now?' She asked herself again.
Her head was in a cyclical state, like a broken record that kept repeating.
'What should I do now?'
The answer to that question seemed to be more challenging than the hardest math problem in the world.
Victor looked at the clock at the girl's house, seeing that it was a few minutes to dawn, he said:
”Girl.”
”...?” The girl stopped her confused thoughts and looked at Victor.
”It's time for me to leave.”
Victor's words were like a nuclear bomb that shook the girl's little world.
”...What...?” She opened her eyes wide:
”You're leaving...?” She asked carefully as if she were asking a forbidden question.
”Yes, I am.” Victor spoke in a neutral tone.
”!!!” The girl's whole body visibly trembled, and a look of panic appeared on her face.
What would she do if he went away to a faraway place where she could never see him again?
”But don't worry, I'll send some trustworthy people to-.” Victor was going to say that he wouldn't leave the girl helpless and would send someone to help her, but he couldn't continue because the girl interrupted him.
”N-Noo...” She grabbed Victor's arm tightly.
That wasn't fair! This man just came into her life and messed it up, and now he was leaving?
She was so grateful that he helped her, but… She didn't want to be alone…
”...” Victor narrowed his eyes slightly when he saw this reaction.
The girl looked at Victor with a lifeless look, but one that held a deep melancholy:
”I can't go with you...?” She asked carefully.
”You don't even know where I'm going.” Victor displayed an amused little smile.
”It doesn't matter... Wherever you are, I'll go with you.” The girl spoke as she looked into Victor's red eyes.
She didn't care where this man went; she just wanted to be close to him...
”Oh?” Victor raised an eyebrow curiously, but he needed to be sure of something, prompting his eyes to glow slightly:
”Remember the choice you made, girl…” He flashed a small smile that showed all of his sharp teeth.
”...?” The girl continued to look into Victor's blood-red eyes without understanding anything.
”Girl, life is about decisions. When you make one decision, the other decision you didn't choose is automatically erased. That's how the world works…”
”Remember, Girl. You chose to be saved and not be reborn.”
”!!!” the girl's eyes widened, and she finally understood what he meant:
”I-...” She bit her lip, and for the first time, very visible emotions appeared in her lifeless eyes. Frustration, sadness, and regret.
She felt sad that she was going to part with Victor.
She felt regret for not having thought through the choice she made.
And she felt a little frustration, a frustration that kept mumbling to her,
'This isn't fair…This isn't fair…This isn't fair… Why can't I go with him? Why? Why?' She was not a spoiled girl.
Far from it, she was very humble, but… The feeling of finding something 'important' and suddenly having that 'something' taken away from you was very frustrating!
In that dark room, this man was the one who looked her in the eye, and he was the one who helped her.
'Why can't I be with him!?'
The girl opened her mouth and slowly started uttering words to express her feelings:
”...Can't I be greedy and choose both?” She didn't want to be separated from Victor…
”…” Victor's smile widened:
”Of course you can.”
”Eh…?” The girl didn't understand anything now, her whole brain stopped working, and she just looked at Victor with a slightly annoyed look. That's not what he said a few seconds ago!
”No need to be so surprised, Girl.”
”...” The girl continued watching Victor, waiting for his next words.
”I'm a vampire, that's the kind of being I am.” While still wearing the same smile that showed his sharp teeth, he said, ”a selfish, greedy being, who just does what he wants.”