Chapter 438: A Father's Feelings.
"Daddy!" A black-haired, red-eyed girl wearing a black gothic dress embroidered with roses ran like a torpedo towards a certain person.
Vlad smiled and opened his arms, but the little girl just moved past him and hit Victor.
"..." Vlad's small smile froze when he saw this situation.
"Ophis, my daughter, did you miss me?" Victor easily picked up Ophis and put her in his arms.
"Mmm," She nodded as she hugged Victor.
"...Father."
Feeling someone tugging at his clothes, Victor looked down and saw Nero. His gentle smile grew, and he crouched down, so he could pat Nero and Ophis's heads.
"Did you play with Ophis?"
"Mm..." Nero nodded.
"Ophis, did you enjoy Nero's visit?"
"Yes!" She commented while smiling and hugging Nero.
"...." Nero stiffened, but even so, she still returned Ophis' hug.
Victor's gentle smile only grew when he saw this vision in front of him.
"Tell me, Ophis, how was your time with your other Father."
"Hmm..." After thinking for a while, she started to tell everything that happened to Victor, not hiding anything.
"Pfft." Agnes and Natashia almost started laughing when they saw Vlad's state.
"Looks like she likes Victor better, Vlad." Scathach did not miss the opportunity to provoke the man.
Vlad's eyebrows twitched, he wanted to say something, but, as an experienced old man, he knew that if he said something, it would be his loss. So, because of that, he just straightened his posture and looked at Victor, his daughter Nero and Ophis.
"Daddy~, Hehehehe~."
Seeing the smile on Ophis' face, Vlad felt critical damage to his heart.
'Why doesn't she call me Daddy too?' Despite Ophis calling Vlad Father, somehow Vlad felt he was losing to Victor when he saw that Ophis changed the way she called Victor from Father to Daddy.
'Well, at least she's not calling me Evil Father.' Vlad tried to be satisfied with that... Yes, he did.
Turning to face his other children, he narrowed his eyes when he saw Lilith and Elizabeth's gaze.
The two were looking at Victor with shocked faces, not even registering his presence.
'... Do not tell me!?' He looked at Victor again, and when he looked at the 'beauty' of the man, he could understand the state of his daughters.
'Mother fucker!' Vlad, at this point, really wanted to slap fate for creating a vampire and male progenitor. Couldn't he be a werewolf? At least that way, he would throw this problem named Victor onto his rival.
'I bet he would love to have his queen taken by this man, hehehehe~' Vlad was lost in the thought of Victor becoming a werewolf.
"...?" Vlad suddenly woke up from his thoughts, feeling a gaze watching him intently, and looking in the direction of that gaze, he saw his ex-wife.
"...Anna-." Before he could even continue to say something, he was interrupted:
"Stop, my name is Morgana now."
"...."
The noise of Victor talking to Ophis and Nero had stopped, and everyone looked at this scene;
"I abandoned my old name."
"...." Vlad narrowed his eyes slightly. To him, the act of dropping her old name meant that the woman wanted nothing to do with him, after all, it was Vlad who gave her that name.
... And he didn't like it at all.
"M-Mother?" Elizabeth called to her mother in a slightly frightened tone of voice. The atmosphere was tense, and it looked like a fight was going to break out at any moment.
'Hmm... Fuck it, that's not my problem.' Victor got up, put Nero and Ophis in his arms, and stood up.
Victor had enough problems already, and he wasn't planning on getting into Vlad and Morgana's love problems.
"Nat, come with me."
"Nat...?"
"What? Did you not like it?"
"I didn't say that, I was just mildly surprised..."
"Calling you Natashia is too long, so I'll shorten it to Nat, Honey, or My Love, so get used to it." Victor spoke as he walked away with his two daughters.
Natashia looked at Victor in shock, but soon a warm feeling started in her heart, and she just smiled while displaying a happy smile:
"...Hehehehe~, okay~, Darling~."
"Call me what you want."
"Umu, I plan on doing that."
Victor walked to the corner of the room and snapped his finger.
And a big sofa, chairs, and tables appeared, all built with ice.
"Ohhh... You can do it that fast, Father?"
"Yes, although mine is not at my teacher's level." Placing the two girls on the couch, Victor sat next to them while Natashia sat next to him.
"Cold...?" Ophis just realized that the ice wasn't as cold as she'd expected.
"If you want, you can get pillows, My daughter." Victor spoke because he knows that sitting on ice isn't very comfortable.
"Mmm." Ophis nodded, disappeared, and soon returned again holding two red pillows, she put them under her and sat on the pillow, then she said:
"Better."
The other pillow she gave to Nero.
"Thanks." Nero spoke as she placed the pillow under her.
"Nero, father's life..." Ophis spoke a few words, but Nero could fully understand what she meant.
"Well, he took me-." Nero started to tell everything she did with Victor.
Seeing this vision, Natashia cannot help but say:
"Fufufu, they are adorable, it makes me want to have children."
"...Oh? Do you want children?"
"...." Natashia smiled when she saw that Victor didn't react badly to her words: "Not Yet, I want to be a grandmother before I have another child."
"And... I intend to have a lot of fun with you." She spoke as she got even closer to Victor while their bodies were practically glued together.
"A very subtle way of saying you want-."
"Language." Natashia lightly squeezed Victor's thighs, "There are children around."
"...." Victor laughed ironically.
The two looked at each other for a few seconds, and then a warm feeling began to appear between them, and slowly they began to approach each other's faces.
"Cough."
The two stop and looked back to see Agnes with a neutral gaze:
"Don't you have to go home or something, Countess Agnes?" Natashia asked with a neutral smile.
"I need to speak with Count Alucard still, it's a matter involving my daughter."
"Yeah, yeah, sure~." Natashia rolled her eyes, showing she obviously didn't believe this bullshit.
"Do you want to talk to me about something?"
Agnes looked at Victor and replied:
"...Yes. Is important."
"...." Victor just nodded his head. According to his memories, this woman in front of him only displayed that kind of face when she wanted to discuss something with no one around.
"We'll talk later."
"...." Agnes just nodded but didn't move away from the couch or close to the group.
During this brief exchange, another conversation was happening with Natashia:
"You're getting too arrogant, Natashia." A voice was heard next to Natashia.
"Gahh!" Natashia gave a little jump, startled while hugging Victor, who supported her easily, as she looked at the visitor and saw that it was Scathach who was sitting with her arms and legs crossed:
"Geh, Scathach, don't do this to me, I almost died from a heart-attack."
"...." A vein popped in Scathach's head when she saw Natashia's state.
"If you want, I can teach you how to take a bullet train straight to the station called Death." Scathach spoke as her eyes gleamed dangerously.
"I humbly declined your request!"
"Before I take a train anywhere, I need to do a lot of lewd acts with my husband!"
"..." Scathach's eyes started to shine even brighter, while she seemed to be on edge in many ways.
"Natashia..."
"!!!" Feeling a bad feeling, Natashia quickly decided to follow her instincts, at the speed worthy of the fastest woman alive, appearing next to Scathach and didn't say anything, she just moved her lips as if she was saying something.
A technique used to transmit something without producing sound, considering that in the supernatural world, there were many races that had very good hearing.
The pressure in Scathach's gaze began to fade as if nothing existed, and a hint of shame appeared on her face.
Victor and Agnes didn't know what Natashia said to Scathach, but whatever she said worked perfectly on Scathach!
"That will work...?"
"It is clear! Trust me!" She patted her chest proudly as she huffed.
"... Okay..."
"MOTHER!?"
"...?" Hearing Lilith and Elizabeth's scream, the group looked ahead and saw Morgana kicking Vlad in the face.
A pressure of air came out beside Vlad's face, but the older vampire just remained in the same place, it seems Morgana's kick didn't affect him at all.
"I am not yours, Vlad." She snapped angrily as she pulled her leg out of Vlad's face.
And soon everyone could see a small cut on the Vampire King's face.
And when Vlad's blood was feeling, all the vampires around him forgot to breathe for a moment.
The only ones unaffected by this scent were Victor, Natashia, Agnes, Scathach, Ophis, and Nero.
And this is due to the fact that the people mentioned at some point drank Victor's blood.
Vlad raised his hands, and the vampires that appeared around Morgana stopped what they were going to do.
"Leave."
"...." The shadows didn't say anything, they just left and spread across the area.
Vlad took a white handkerchief and wiped his face.
"It's been a long time since my blood has been spilled..." Not even Vlad remembered the last time he bled.
[... Strange, his blood is stinking of something rotten.]
"Oh?" Victor looked at Vlad curiously.
[Is he... Poisoned? Or is this a curse? Hmm, seems to be a combination of several things... Hybrid? Hunter?... Amazing, not even something of that level can kill you?]
[is that so bad?] Victor asked.
[Yes. I'm 100% sure that if whatever hit Vlad was thrown at us, we're going to die.]
"...." Victor narrowed his eyes.
'And to think there's something like that out there.'
[Don't underestimate the world, Count. There are many things that can kill immortals.]
Victor nodded to himself, he knew that lesson, but it's always good to remember so you don't forget.
[This strong poison has only made him weaker and has done internal damage to him that his progenitor blood is struggling to heal...]
[...He's injured, huh...]
[Yes... But I can't consider it a serious wound, he's clearly fine.]
"Hmm..." Victor thought about the words of his other self and remembered something:
'Hybrid? Hunter? I know of only one person who has contact with Hybrids.'
[Yes, your thinking is correct... Niklaus did something, which is not surprising since Niklaus and Theo had something together.]
[He created something that could affect even the oldest of monsters...] Victor can't help but feel a slight respect for Niklaus.
His methods were dirty, but the result cannot be denied.
This exchange of conversation and thoughts only happened for two seconds in the real world.
"The moment I asked for a divorce, I decided I was going to sever any connection I had with you." Morgana tossed her hair back, and like a proud general, she just looked at Vlad with a neutral gaze:
"You're nothing to me anymore, Vlad."
"..." Vlad narrowed his eyes, and a dangerous feeling emanated from his body. Although it wasn't strong, that feeling spread to everyone.
That was simply her annoyance.
"Daddy..." Ophis grabbed Victor's arm with a slightly nervous face, and Nero silently did the same.
"Tsk," Victor clicked his tongue and looked at Vlad, his violet eyes changing to blood red.
"Vlad."
"....?" He looked in the direction of the voice and looked at Victor, the man's face was completely made up of pure darkness, and a dark pressure was emanating from his body.
Vlad felt his blood boil, and a feeling of competition surged through his body. It was the same feeling when two Alphas were about to fight.
Natashia, Agnes, and Scathach looked seriously at Vlad the moment he displayed his intention to attack, the three countesses were ready to clash.
And that only made Vlad's feelings worse.
"Control yourself, old man." Victor spoke in disdain as the dark feeling around him increased even more:
"Do you want to lose everything you've conquered because of your feeling of possession?" His voice sounded more like a warning than advice.
Victor wasn't talking about his kingdom or any shit like that, he was talking about something else.
Something Vlad knew all too well.
"...." Hearing Victor's voice, Vlad's face became neutral, and he looked beside him to see his daughter's slightly frightened face.
A visible frown appeared on the older vampire's face, and as he looked into his daughter's face, memories of the last encounter with her flashed through his eyes like they were in a movie.
Happy Ophis's view of her memories and the current Ophis was very far-fetched.
… And this current view of his daughter was enough for him to suppress any sort of intent he had related to Morgana and Victor.
Victor did the same, and in less than a few seconds, everything was normal, but the tense feeling was still in the air.
And the silence around it was very stifling, luckily, Victor broke the silence by saying:
"I don't mind you guys fighting, the ex-husband and ex-wife problem should be resolved between those involved, everyone knows that, because of that, no one intervened..."
Victor turned his face to the side and began stroking Nero and Ophis' heads in an attempt to make the two relax their feelings, which works splendidly.
"But don't drag my daughter into this conflict."
"If Ophis and Nero were hurt because of your irresponsibility..." The left part of Victor's face that was visible to Vlad disappeared completely.
And only something dark and distorted was standing there.
"!!!" Vlad's eyes widened, and his body shook with…fear? Wrong, his very soul was trembling.
'Just what is it?'
"Death, that would be kind of nice compared to what I would do to you." The black hole eyes looked at Vlad.
Suddenly Vlad found himself in a completely dark place, a gigantic tree was behind him, while a loud noise was heard, and soon a monster with big claws completely enveloped in darkness was seen. This monster was with the body behind the Tree, looking at Vlad as if spying on him.
The only thing visible was its dark eyes like a black hole and its giant claws gripping the tree.
With just one brief look in those eyes, Vlad's entire existence shook, but it wasn't from fear.
It was something more sinister than that, something that made even a progenitor's soul tremble.
An inexplicable feeling,
Blood began to drip from Vlad's face, and the longer he looked at this being, the more damage he suffered.
'What the fuck is this!?'
"#$$!@#!'
"@#%$@!!!" An incomprehensible scream came from Vlad's mouth.
...
Jeanne, who was talking to Adam, turned towards where Victor was with shocked eyes, her eyes lighting up slightly, and soon a smile bloomed on her face:
'Big brother, you're a busybody.' A sweet feeling flooded her heart.
"Mother?"
Waking up from her stupor, she said,
"...Adam, have you met Alucard?"
"...Not yet, but I've seen him a few times, my brothers are jealous of him."
"I see... Would you like to meet him?"
"…Hmm…Sure." Adam thought it wouldn't hurt since he was also curious.
.......
