Chapter 201 - 201: Discoveries. 2 (1/2)
[A/N: This month there will be two votes on the pa treon to decide the character art, don't forget to vote!]
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”Ugh, work is taking longer than I thought…” Violet made an annoyed face as she looked at Ruby and spoke in an innocent voice,
”Hey, Ruby. Are you sure you want this? Can't I just burn everything?”
Ruby squinted, ”...Why do your solutions always involve burning something?”
”Violence is always the answer. Look at my mother, my husband, and your mother.”
”...They are not good examples to be followed! And you, coming from a house of politicians, shouldn't be saying that! What if your subordinates decide to revolt?”
”It's okay, it's okay, we'd just burn them all.” She spoke with the same innocent smile,
”...I am really questioning the king's decision to leave international affairs to your clan.”
”Although my mom is the way she is, she does a good job…probably.” Violet's thought was, if no one complained, then it's okay, right?
”…” Ruby was silent and went back to doing her stuff while she was making a list of what she was taking from this lab.
”So, can I burn everything?” Violet asked again with the same innocent smile and even created a small fireball.
Crack.
Ruby broke the pen she was using to jot things down:
”You can't! Now, back to work!”
”Tsk, petty. I should have gone with my husband, I could do this and that with him.”
”...” Ruby was speechless:
”We're in enemy territory, you know? This is no time to do those things.”
”...That's why you'll always be a virgin.”
”…” Veins started to pop in Ruby's head.
Violet climbed up on the table and pointed at Ruby,
”No matter where, no matter what time, no matter what world we are in, we should always practice the art of dual cultivation,” she seemed like a priest who was preaching the right way to live.
”... ”Ruby was speechless, and she was really questioning the sanity of Violet now.
Feeling many looks on her back, Ruby's face turned a little red, as she pulled Violet off the table and said:
”Back to work!”
”Yes, Yes~.” Violet flashed a sly smile.
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Victor was walking down the booby-trapped hallway while holding Sasha like a princess, he had a small smile on his face and gave off the impression that everything was under his control, and nothing could shake him.
Sasha, despite enjoying all this and being close to Victor, had some doubts:
”Darling, how can you avoid the traps so well?”
”Oh, I'm not avoiding the trap.” Victor continued with a smile.
”Huh...?” Sasha didn't understand what Victor meant.
”Every time I step into a trap, I go back in time, and it seems that trap was never activated.” Victor explained with an innocent smile.
”...” Kaguya and Sasha were silent.
”Bullshit, if you don't want to tell me, you don't have to push yourself.” Sasha pouted, irritated.
Seeing Sasha's pout, Victor couldn't help but think she was very cute.
”Hahahaha.” He chuckled lightly and hugged Sasha even tighter.
”Darling?” Sasha didn't understand why Victor suddenly hugged her, but she wouldn't refuse his affection!
Victor stopped hugging Sasha and said, ”Very well, honey. I will explain what I am doing.”
”Oh... tell me, tell me!” She looked like a child who was having fun, she wouldn't deny she was having fun too. After all, this feeling of 'adventure' was very good for her, who had never experienced it.
”Of course...” Victor displayed a small smile and pointed to a spot with his finger:
”Look.”
”I'm going to walk to that place, and I'm going to demonstrate at a slower speed what I'm doing.”
Victor put Sasha down and said, ”Watch my movements.”
”... Okay.” Despite being a little annoyed at having lost her princess carrier, Sasha was curious about what Victor was up to.
Victor walked to the spot where he pointed, and all of a sudden, his foot seemed to sink a little into the ground.
Click.
A trap would trigger, and in the same second the trap would trigger, Victor disappeared from his place and appeared a few inches behind before stepping into the trap.
”Did you see?” Victor turned to face Sasha and spoke with a small smile to Sasha, who was watching him with a serious look and an expression of shock.
”...Yes...” Sasha wasn't going to lie; she was shocked. What he had just done required a very thorough control of the lightning's power.
”Oh, just for context, I'm not using the power of lightning.” Victor decided to amend this first, so Sasha didn't get the wrong idea.
”Huh?”
”I'm using the movement technique that Scathach taught Lacus, I'm applying it in a way similar to lightning.”
”HUHHHH?” Sasha didn't understand a thing Victor said.
”...” Victor was silent while he thought about the words he said and realized that he explained things very badly:
”Basically, when I drank your mother's blood, I got something.”
”...” Sasha's eyes twitched a little when she heard what Victor said.
”What did you get?” Her voice was cold as ice. Victor even felt as though he were talking to Ruby.
”My control over the lightning improved, I could make small movements with the lightning imbued in my body.” The example Victor was talking about was when he dodged the guards the day he went to visit the king of the vampires, Vlad Tepes.
”But when doing small tests with lightning, I found it was more beneficial to use the Scathach's movement technique for small movements, but for high speeds, I use the power of lightning along with the Scathach technique, something like this.”
Rumble, Rumble.
Victor's eyes flashed gold, his body began to be covered by lightning.
Soon, Victor disappeared.
”Eh...?” Sasha was shocked once again, she didn't see anything that happened, she couldn't see clearly even with her perception enhanced by her powers!
”Sup.” Victor lightly touched Sasha's shoulder.
”Darling, you're fast-... Eh?” Sasha was shocked when she saw that Victor appeared with a pair of sunglasses and several toys that are used for playing on the beach.
”... Where did you go?”
”Oh, I went on the surface for a few seconds, and I picked up some random stuff from the abandoned houses.”
”…” Sasha opened her mouth wide.
”...this is fucking bullshit!” Sasha stomped the ground hard, but, as she was in a safe place, the traps didn't activate.
”...” Victor took his sunglasses off his face and looked at Sasha with a neutral gaze.
”Why do you get better so fast?” She looked a little frustrated, ”When I think you can't surprise me anymore, you just go out there and improve my Clan power like it's something normal and quite easy to do!”
Sasha was a little frustrated at the pace Victor was improving and making things seem so…easy.
It was like he was using a cheat code, and no one could beat him because of it.
But what she still didn't understand was; This is the existence called an irregularity, Victor is a monster in every possible way.
Thanks to the blood of the Night King, he learned things more efficiently, and thanks to his mentality of always wanting to get better, he was always thinking about what he should do to get better.
And not to mention, he had the potential of three vampire count houses combined in his body.
An irregularity was in front of her… Wrong, a monster was in front of her.
”...You got it wrong, Honey.”
”...?” Sasha didn't understand, ”What do you mean?”
”I didn't get better. I didn't get stronger. I just combined an ability with the power of lightning and ended up creating a better ability.” Victor spoke in a flat tone like it was something very easy to do.
”....” This was even harder than improving strength! She really wanted to strangle Victor right now.
But it couldn't be helped since, in Victor's mind, he still wasn't strong enough, and his goal seemed so far away.
He wanted to face Scathach Scarlett in a fight, but with his current strength, it was just impossible. He needed to get older!