Before Victor left the mansion completely, he went through the kitchen and kidnapped his Maid Eve.
"E-Eh?" Of course, the Maid herself was taken aback by her master's sudden action.
Victor placed her on his back, and unconsciously, the Maid held onto him.
He narrowed his eyes a little, and added:
"Hold on tighter, or you'll fall." Unlike Eleanor, who was in his arms, he couldn't properly hold his Maid, so she would have to handle her positioning herself, though it'd be fairly simple, considering the strength of a vampire, especially a vampire like Eve.
"Y-Yes." She had no choice but to say that word. She was conscious enough to know that when her master ordered something, it was a maid's duty to simply reply with a 'Yes', things were easier that way.
Not only easier but things also became simpler that way too. However, Kaguya, Roberta, and sometimes Bruna would question what her master said.
Which was a good thing, considering he was not always correct, but most of the time, the Maids just did what he asked.
Rumble.
Victor quickly disappeared, leaving behind streaks of lightning in his wake.
"AHH! I'm so jealous! Eve has been kidnapped by the master!" Maria screamed as she was the first to react when Victor appeared and immediately stopped doing her work.
She looked around, "Ugh, he kidnapped her! I wanted to go too!" She looked quite frustrated.
"...Eve was kidnapped...Much envy..." Bruna muttered in a low voice while cleaning a window. She looked at Roberta, who was sitting at a table drinking red tea calmly.
"...I wonder if this is really something to be jealous of..." Luna couldn't help but comment.
"Well, his maids have a few loose screws in their heads." Natalia replied.
"..." Bruna narrowed her eyes as she stopped what she was doing and looked at the two other maids, "You-..." She was going to say something, but Maria beat her to it:
"You wouldn't understand." Maria said quickly, being the first to defend Victor.
"Huh?"
"For us, our master is our 'beginning', he is the beginning of our everything. We simply feel immeasurable pleasure in serving him."
Nod, Nod.
Bruna crossed her arms and nodded her head in agreement with what Maria said. As the first Maid that Victor created, Bruna was immensely proud to serve him!
She would do anything her god asked of her!
Anything!
Important things must be said twice.
Unconsciously, her face turned a little red as she thought of things a Maid shouldn't.
"....." Luna and Natalia were silent since they couldn't wrap their heads around Maria's thought process.
For Natalia, she was a human who came from a family that served the King of Vampires. Under normal circumstances, she wouldn't be a maid but rather be training to be the future advisor to the king and his right-hand man.
But, due to a Snow Clan incident from the past, she ended up becoming Violet's personal maid.
At first, she didn't like it, but over time, she got used to it, and her job was easy. She just needed to clean some things and help Violet with transport. The rest was done by Kaguya.
Yes, the job was very easy...
But now, the job has become a 'little' complicated. After all, she was Violet's maid.
Yes, indeed, the key word here is a 'little'.
After all, Violet never seemed to be alone anymore, she was always with Victor, and Victor had several Maids that made her job a lot easier than it was when it was just Kaguya around.
Now, she had basically just become a means of transportation... People only needed her when they needed to go somewhere far away.
'Wait... Isn't that a demotion?' Natalia couldn't help but think about it, considering she went from a trusted maid to a means of transport!
'HEY! Isn't this really bad?' Now that she came to think of it, Ruby didn't call on her anymore to sort out matters that involved the witch Esther.
'Come to think of it now, a year has passed on Earth, so the plan Ruby made must have gone a long way now?' Natalia thought about it.
"Well, I suppose you're right." Luna agreed with Maria's words.
Luna, who was a vampire, didn't fully understand either. After all, she was already a noble vampire when Ruby recruited her, and she served Clan Scarlett, not just Ruby.
But as a Vampire, she could understand that the pleasurable feelings the Maids were feeling must've been the fact that Victor had sired them. Which could also account for why they were loyal to him... she supposed.
But that didn't make sense. After all, the girls were clearly not commoner vampires... They definitely didn't feel like one, and they seemed like they were something more.
Mostly... Maria.
She looked at the Maid with long blonde hair.
'It's like she is mixed with something...' Luna was one of the maids who watched Maria the most during the time she spent as Sasha's Maid.
Has she become more alive? As if she's found a purpose in her life?
'...Hmm, this is complicated.' Luna decided to stop thinking about it. After all, this seemed to be something important involving her masters, and as a maid, she should only know certain knowledge if her masters allowed it.
Bruna narrowed her eyes when she saw Roberta being lazy, "Woman, why aren't you doing anything?" It was not just her and Maria that were supposed to be working, Roberta was a Maid too, she must do something!
"...Eh?" Roberta was taken by surprise at the sound of Bruna's sudden voice and spoke in a gentle tone, "Do you want me to help?"
"..." Maria and Bruna were silent when they heard that Roberta wanted to help.
And then, a memory of several broken plates, glasses, and silverware popped into their minds, and that memory was replaced by the kitchen on fire.
"... Better not." They immediately refused.
What more can the two say? Roberta, this woman... She was simply a mess in the kitchen, and she had the incredible achievement of setting the kitchen on fire just by frying an egg.
They wondered how the fuck that was possible?
It was just supposed to be a normal dinner for Victor's parents, but it turned into an incident that required the entire kitchen to be remodeled.
Although Anna was glad this happened. Apparently, she had wanted to renovate her kitchen for a long time, but Leon didn't, since it was a waste of money, he said, but that incident supplied Anna with the perfect excuse.
After that day, the Maids never let Roberta help in the kitchen again.
And to make matters worse...
She wasn't just bad in the kitchen.
She was bad at EVERYTHING.
Anything related to delicate work, she would end up breaking something, sometimes multiple things.
But... At least she could clean the walls.
Yes!
The only thing she could do was clean the walls...
'...isn't she a failure of a Maid?' Bruna and Maria thought at the same time when they saw the older woman sitting in her French Maid uniform drinking red tea.
...
Outside the mansion.
Victor held Eleanor a little tighter as the poor woman's eyes were rolling since she just wasn't used to 'traveling' at Victor's speed.
And Victor realized that, but what did he do? Did he help the woman? Did he stop using his powers and run like a normal vampire?
Of course not!
'I will increase the speed.'
He supplied even more strength to his legs and channeled more of his lightning through his body.
BOOOOOM.
A small crater in the shape of a spider's web formed,
And soon, he soared into the sky, achieving a considerable altitude.
"Ugh." Eleanor felt even dizzier, but Victor ignored the woman.
His eyes began to glow blood red, and soon the noise of lightning could be heard all around.
Rumble, Rumble.
Black clouds began to form in the sky, a storm was coming!
But a strange thing happened, there wasn't a single drop of rain to be found...
Clouds charged with lightning started to form, and that was it, and these clouds looked strange.
As if creating a 'pathway' for Victor, the clouds stretched for thousands of kilometers.
Victor flashed a small smile, and soon a change began to run through his body, his entire body turned to pure gold, including the two women, and they disappeared into the clouds.
Sasha and Natashia stopped following Victor while they looked at what Victor did with a surprised look:
"Well, this is something new... How the fuck did he do that?" Sasha said, and then she looked at her mother, considering she was the lightning expert here, right?
"Hmm..." Natashia touched her chin and started to think, and soon she arrived at an answer:
"Is it the same principle as the technique he used before? I think he covers his body with lightning and flies in the sky?"
"...." Sasha fell silent and began to listen to her mother's explanation.
"Although... This seems to be more like 'traveling' through the clouds rather than 'flying'."
"...And?" It can't be just that, right? Sasha's eyes widened a little.
"And what?"
"Do you know what he did? Give me a plausible explanation." Sasha asked.
"And how the fuck should I know?" Natashia's answer was very simple. What Victor did just now was something very out of the ordinary. How did he manage to travel through clouds? Huh? Did he become a god?
Should I call him Thor?
"...." Sasha was speechless, 'of course you should know! You are the leader of Clan Fulger, woman! Lightning is our power! You're supposed to be the expert here!'
"Ugh..." Not wanting to destroy her daughter's confidence in her, Natashia started using her brain!
Rumble, Rumble.
Little flashes of lightning appeared around her head, she was trying hard as she gathered everything she knew of Victor and the techniques he'd shown her, and soon she came to a conclusion.
'... Is he using something like Scathach's technique?' She couldn't help but think about it when she remembered that Scathach used a defensive technique that turned her body into ice, although it was suicidal because you were literally freezing your body.
"..." She opened her eyes wide when she realized that this was very possible, but the question was, how was he utilizing this technique without being in the perfect Vampire Count form?
The Vampire Count form was said to come extremely close to what a 'true' vampire was in the way you honed your control over your own power and increased it as well.
But in the perfect Vampire Count form, the vampire basically merges with his own power, and he becomes something closer to an 'element and spirit' rather than a vampire.
Of course, these kinds of traits were unique to vampire families who took the power of elemental control to the peak.
A family that could create rope and use those ropes to attack wouldn't be able to do that since they were two different types of powers.
"...You seem to have discovered something." Sasha asked.
"Yes... But that's impossible." Natashia was in disbelief. With the knowledge she now had, she judged what Victor had just done as impossible.
'And how is he protecting the two girls from his power? In her mind, what he just did, didn't make any sense.
"Well, you get used to it when you're around him." Sasha spoke in a dry tone in a neutral voice.
"..." Natashia looked at her daughter with a little surprise.
"So? What are your thoughts." Sasha asked.
Natashia explained in a sigh, "...He's using something close to Scathach's technique of turning body parts into ice, a defense technique."
"Hmm."
Sasha started to think, and soon she understood something, "Darling spent a lot of time with Ruby, and Ruby's specialty is defense, she uses the power of her water and turns her body parts into ice."
"From what I heard from Ruby, this was Scathach's technique that she perfected when Scathach taught her." Sasha explained to her mother and then continued:
"...he must be doing this, but with the power of lightning?"
"...Maybe... But..." Natashia assumed a frustrated expression.
"That's not how our power works! Lightning and ice are essentially different! He can't do the same thing! ...or can you?" She closed her eyes in contemplation, she seemed to discover something.
Natashia looked at her hand:
Rumble, Rumble.
Her hand became covered in the power of lightning, Natashia's eyes glowed blood red a little, and slowly, the flesh of her hand began to be replaced by pure lightning.
Natashia's eyes narrowed a little, she was in pain from what she was doing, but she didn't let it show on her face.
Natashia made a movement with her hand, and her hand seemed to disappear from their vision.
"...That's..." Sasha opened her eyes wide.
"Yes, that's what he's doing, but on a smaller scale." Natashia stopped using her power and hid her hand behind her.
Her hand was pure bone, as all her flesh had disappeared:
"How did he do it?" She was really curious now. With this test, she could understand that she could use this method with her vampire count transformation.
But... She couldn't use it in her base form.
'I'll ask you later.' She didn't want to get hurt for nothing. She should take care of her body for her husband!
"Can you teach me that?" Sasha's eyes were glowing with excitement.
"..." Natashia looked at her daughter with a neutral look and said:
"I can't teach because I don't know what I did either." She told a white lie.
"Huh?" How did she not know what she did if she just did it? That made no sense.
"Oh." Sasha misunderstood, believing that her mother was like Violet, a genius who couldn't explain how she learned.
"This is a more advanced way of using lightning power, we should ask Victor how he does it first." She said,
"Hmm, you're right." Sasha spoke aloud.
"Anyways, let's follow him."
"Yes."
Rumble, Rumble.
The two women were covered by lightning once again as they resumed their chase of their husband, and soon, the two disappeared.
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