Two men were sitting on the large sofa in the backyard of a house.
Adam's backyard was large. Not nearly as massive as the one behind Violet's mansion, but it was big enough to fit several people at a barbecue, even having its very own large pool.
With just a glance, visitors could see the care and attention Adam had put into this backyard. Everything here had been customized down to the smallest detail to suit Adam's taste.
'Barbecue, huh?' Victor looked at the backyard with a nostalgic look, remembering how he often came here when he was younger. He tried to remember the taste of the meat he always ate here, and when he remembered, he flashed a small satisfied smile.
"..." Adam looked at Victor out of the corner of his eye and exhibited an imperceptible little smile since, despite having his prejudices against vampires, the old man could still see the old 'Victor' in this man who was next to him.
He had changed entirely in physical appearance, he was taller, stronger, and he had this unshakable confidence that you could see in the little smile he made.
Even under the gaze of an Alpha like Adam, the man just kept smiling as if he had found everything funny.
But Adam knew that wasn't it; Victor wasn't the arrogant type. He's the fun-loving type, and it seemed he shared something similar with werewolves. His fun was found in fighting.
How did he know this? Well, he had plenty of time to watch Victor growing up. Victor always had a powerful personality, but it was suppressed due to his lack of strength and prevalent illness.
'I thought he would suffer with vampires because he has the Golden Blood, but he seems to be doing well.' Adam thought. He also couldn't ignore the fact that despite it being the afternoon, Victor didn't seem to be affected by the sunlight.
In fact, he was bathing in sunlight, which for a werewolf like Adam was a little ridiculous.
'The Snow Clan? Did they find a way to make vampires walk in sunlight?' Adam wondered, he thought this was dangerous, but...
That's not my business.
'I'm retired!' He refused to abandon his lifestyle.
"So boy? Why did you come here?"
"Hmm? For nothing, I just came to visit an old friend…" Victor replied as he looked out over the garden with a serene face.
"..." Adam looked at Victor with a neutral gaze as his face said, 'Are you serious?'
"What?" Victor looked at Adam out of the corner of his eye, "Why are you making this face like someone stole your chocolate?"
"Just because I'm a vampire now, I can't visit my friend?"
"...I mean, that does normally happen."
"Fuck normalcy, I do what I want." He spoke with absolute confidence as his eyes lingered on the garden.
"Oh?" Adam displayed a small smile.
What Victor hated most was this story:
'Ah, this is not normal. Vampires and werewolves can't be friends. Ah, you can't do this. Ah, you can't do that.'
Every time Victor heard something like that, he would stick out his middle finger and deliver a self-righteous 'Fuck you! I do what I want, Bitch.'
So what if his childhood friend is a werewolf? That doesn't change anything.
So what if his friend's father is an alpha werewolf? That doesn't change anything.
Victor is a vampire, and because of that, he can't speak in a friendly tone to his childhood friend?
Victor would say, 'Fuck you'.
Just because his childhood friends are from another species that is apparently in conflict with the species he was a part of didn't change anything.
Just because you're a vampire doesn't mean you should act like an emo.
Just because you're a werewolf doesn't mean you have to act like an idiot.
For Victor, this is just bullshit.
He will observe a situation, assess, and make a decision. He hates herd thinking and likes to make his own decisions.
Even if his decision is wrong in the future, he doesn't care; he will leave the consequences to future Victor.
Victor doesn't like to be chained, and that thought came from deep in his heart.
"…" Looking into Victor's eyes that were glowing blood red, somehow, Adam couldn't help but compare him to the king of the wolves.
It wasn't about strength; it was something else. He could feel a sense of 'apprehension', a feeling he only felt when meeting the king of werewolves.
"Anyway, Old man."
"Huh!?" A vein popped in Adam's head. He was still young, you know!?
"Who are you-" Adam was going to say something, but Victor interrupted him by saying:
"When are you going to get a wife?"
"…" Adam just opened his mouth in shock.
"I mean, despite being old, you don't look old, so... Go find a werewolf woman, have snu snu, and raise more kids! I want to see my grandchildren!"
"..." Who are you, my fucking mother!? That's what Adam wanted to scream now.
"Fuck you." Adam raised his middle finger at Victor.
"Hahaha~." Victor laughed amusedly.
"..." And soon a silence fell in the place, the two men stopped talking and watched the Garden in silence.
A few minutes passed, and Adam suddenly asked:
"That incident at the old mansion, that was you, right?"
"Yes."
"Why did you do that?" He asked curiously. He didn't seem angry or was feeling any sympathy for the humans, just appeared to be curious.
"Have you ever heard the phrase: 'Those who lift the sword against another must be prepared to receive retaliation?'"
"...Yes, I heard that a long time ago..." He remembered his mother saying something similar in the past.
"That's what happened that day."
"...Hmm...-" Adam was going to say something, but he stopped when he heard what Victor said.
"You have visitors."
"..." Adam narrowed his eyes, felt around, and felt nothing, but a few seconds passed, and then he felt five beings approaching.
Adam's eyes opened wide.
"How did you notice them?"
"Secret." Victor displayed a small smile.
"This Kid…" A vein popped in Adam's head; 'This boy has a gift for teasing people.' He thought.
"They've arrived." The moment Victor spoke, five individuals appeared.
"Adam William-."
"You are..." The man opened his mouth wide; he never thought he would find whoever he was looking for here.
Victor exhibited a small friendly smile and looked at the individuals with his special eyes, "Sup, Boys, and Girl...Girl...?"
"Oh?" Victor focused his attention on the woman as he suddenly got up from where he was sitting.
And sauntered towards the woman.
"..." The woman narrowed her eyes a little. She felt strange when she felt Victor's gaze as if the man could see everything about her. It was as if she couldn't hide anything from him.
When he was close enough to the woman, a man standing beside the woman spoke:
"Step back!" He tried to touch Victor, but he just touched the air as if Victor had passed through his hand.
"Oh...?" Adam's smile grew a little.
"Wha-," Before Anderson's other subordinates did something.
Anderson held up a hand and stopped the group from acting.
"Anderson?"
"Leave him alone..." Anderson's eyes sparkled with curiosity.
Victor started walking around the woman as he watched her with his eyes. He observed every inch of the woman with his eyes, then stopped in front of the woman and crouched a little, looking at the woman's trained abs with curious eyes.
Did he look like a man who was sizing up a woman in a strange way, a pervert perhaps?
At least that's what it looked like to those who didn't know about Victor's ability.
"..." The woman felt strange, clearly seeing that Victor was not looking at her with lustful eyes, while all she could feel from him was curiosity.
Suddenly he rose and spoke while looking into the woman's eyes:
"Woman, you're weird." That was Victor's honest opinion, the woman in front of him was emitting a kind of aura he had never seen before, and he couldn't even see an exact color of her aura. It was just too weird.
"...That's not a very nice thing to say to a woman."
Victor exhibited a slight smile, "...Yes, indeed."
But then he turned and walked back to where he was sitting, Adam's house and his own house; they are some of the few places he didn't mind sitting down without having to create a throne of ice.
"But it doesn't change the fact that you're weird." Victor continued as he walked.
Victor sat back down on the sofa, looking up at the sky, and saw that it was still afternoon, "Since you seem to have something important to discuss, you can pretend I don't exist."
Victor lay down on the couch without putting his feet up. Of course, he wouldn't. He was not a rude man.
He took a pair of red glasses out of his pocket and put them on.
Soon, he closed his eyes, and as if by magic...
He slept...
"..." A silence descended on the place, and everyone looked at Victor with an expressionless look.
Is this man not very comfortable? Is he really going to ignore our existence? And why did he sleep so fast!?
Anderson's male subordinates wanted so much to scream now.
'A free man...' Anderson could already tell what Victor's personality was.
A self-paced personality while ignoring the world, that was his assessment of Victor, and in a way, he wasn't wrong.
"..." The woman looked at Victor with a neutral gaze, seemingly thinking about several things.
"Oh... Teacher." Victor suddenly woke up and lifted his glasses a little.
"What?"
He exhibited a slight smile, "I don't judge your tastes; after all, you are a grown man. But if you want to do a gangbang don't call me. I won't participate. I'm a married man, and I promise you I won't tell your daughter that either... It's between us, a brother's secret." Then Victor pulled his glasses down and went back to sleep.
Victor was a man who knew how to take care of his friends. He would definitely keep what happened here a secret!
Crack, Crack.
Everyone could hear the sounds of something breaking. What was that something? It was Adam's patience, of course!
"..." Veins began to pop in Adam's and Anderson's heads. Even Anderson's subordinates and the woman were irritated with Victor now.
But like an older adult, he managed to remain calm and said:
"Forget this boy, tell me what you want here."
"..." Victor's smile grew a little when he heard what Adam said, but it soon faded as if it had never existed.
"Hmm...I wanted to ask you something about your oldest son...And I wanted to ask if you knew of Count Alucard's location or if you had any clues as to where he was, but I never thought I'd meet him here. Are you guys close?"
"... My Son?" Adam ignored Anderson's question and asked his own question.
"Yes, is he still part of your Pack?" Anderson looked at Adam.
"Of course he is. He's just in a moment of rebellion."
"Hmm... That's not what he said."
"Tsk, just ignore him. He's a stupid boy."
"Hahaha, hearing you call him your child is funny. Do you know that by human standards, he's almost a middle-aged man?"
"It doesn't matter, to me, he's still a child."
"I see."
"Now tell me. Why is he here." Anderson asked as his eyes glowed sapphire blue for a few seconds.
"Hmm..." Adam thought about what to say, and when he was about to say something, everyone listened.
"Liza, what are you doing!?"
Adam and Anderson looked at Liza and saw the woman approaching Victor at high speed while her eyes were glowing gold. She looked quite annoyed.
"Die!"
Liza clenched her fist and attacked Victor with all her strength, but just as her fist was about to reach Victor's face, something suddenly happened that left everyone speechless.
Victor raised his hand, captured the woman's fist, and, with a martial arts gesture, deflected the force of the woman's attack upwards, causing the woman to lose control of her own body.
"Eh...?"
And before the woman or anyone else could understand what happened, the woman fell into the lap of Victor, who was sitting down at some point during the process.
"Woman, you are very tense. How about relaxing a little?" Victor exhibited a sneaky little smile.
"Let go of me-... Ahhh~-?" The woman put her hand over her mouth. She didn't understand why she moaned just now.
Victor lightly touched the woman's trained Abs, "Try a little of the technique my master taught me and calm down; you're very tense~."
A small stream of lightning left Victor's finger and went to the woman's abs.
"Ahhhh~"
"Oh, I forgot to say, don't get too relaxed, or you might die~."
"Wh-Wha-..." She was about to say something, but Victor released another electric current near the area where the woman's younger sister was.
"Ahhhh~" Incoherently, the woman closed her legs tightly. Something was coming!
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