Chapter 468: An Unexpected Meeting.
Waking up from his sleep, Victor, contrary to what he expected, wore a confused expression.
'What happened?' He had a strange expression on his face.
Ignoring the fact that he was sleeping in a bed covered in female bodies, it was not like it was the first time, right?
He started to fall into his thoughts.
'Persephone's change was abrupt, after a long time or not, a Goddess like her doesn't change very easily.'
Yes, Persephone was spoiled, and thought that everything in the world should be at her disposal.
A common thought for any arrogant God, and she wasn't just any Goddess, she was a Queen.
Well... At least from one group.
Her arrogance was understood.
But...
'This change was not.'
Thinking back to the encounter and trying to understand what happened with Adonis' memories, Victor still couldn't understand anything.
The only thing he could think about was that Aphrodite had said something to Persephone and by some Divine Miracle, Persephone had decided to listen to her.
Which was something that usually didn't happen. Adonis' memories were very clear. The Goddesses always teased each other, and had a hate/rival relationship.
'Something has changed...' And Victor didn't like that at all.
Thinking back to what had happened, he thought about the important parts while ignoring Persephone's changes for now.
'Something happened in the Greek underworld...' She was very clear on that, she had to take on the 'responsibilities' after a long time.
Which implied that the King of the Underworld was not present, and if Hades was not present in the Underworld, that means something very wrong is happening behind the scenes.
'... I do not like this.' Victor felt an irritation in his neck, it was an irritating sensation when he felt that something was not in control.
Even with his and Ruby's activities, they couldn't delve deeply into the 'darkness'.
And there was the case that happened to his family too, someone was targeting Victor.
And Victor didn't know who they were, after all, many people could act against him, but the only people who had enough resources to work that way in the dark were…
Niklaus Horseman, and General James.
The former was missing after the events of his wife Natashia and the man himself.
The other was busy with the demon invasion.
But it could also be someone else, for God's sake even the Witch Queen was a suspect, after all, he'd killed many Witches involved in the Ophis incident.
It wouldn't be strange for him to have a lot of enemies now.
You don't kill 50% of a Supernatural population in a country, and come out without making a few enemies.
'Something stinks, and it's not the ass in front of me.' Victor turned his head down and saw a pair of black panties, looking at the dark green hair spilling down his arm, the only person he could think of was Alexa. [A/N: Alexa's hair is dark green, at some point if I said black, I apologize.]
The Spear user of the Valkyries group.
Ignoring the ass in front of him, he returned to his thoughts:
'I need to increase the individuals who know about my and Ruby's plan. I should include more participation and resources from Violet, Sasha, Natashia, Scathach and possibly even Aphrodite.' Victor couldn't deny it, Aphrodite was just too helpful.
Aphrodite was an Ancient Goddess, and she had many contacts. She's been alive so long that she understands most plots, and plans with just a glance, she's a very welcome help.
'No wonder Ruby was so adamant about putting her in the plan.'
Victor understood that part, but if there was one thing that could be considered a weakness depending on your point of view, it was that he was very overprotective.
Because of this, the opinion of someone like Ruby was always needed, she was cold most of the time.
And Victor knew that Ruby also trusted him to act this way. She had complete confidence that if anything went wrong, Victor and Scathach would be her ultimate defenders.
They were very similar for a reason.
Stopping his thoughts when he felt someone moving, he looked to the side and saw Eleanor's face using his arm as a pillow.
He looked away and saw Anrietha's face.
'Where did they get these sleepwears...? I didn't see any suitcase that could hold clothes. Did they get the dimensional bag that Alexios made?' Victor stopped thinking, and very carefully, with a mastery that even the famous contortionists would envy, he began to leave the group of Valkyries.
Long ago, Victor got used to stepping out of the bodies of women he slept with without waking them all up.
After all, if it wasn't his wives or the mother of his wives, it was his Maids who were always around, he always slept with someone.
...
"Did you sleep well?" Rose spoke without turning around.
"Yes." Victor spoke while looking at the woman with long burgundy hair. He walked beside her, and asked:
"Watching?"
"Yes." A brief reply followed by an explanation:
"Girls need to rest, and so do you. As I was the one who didn't make much effort, I kept watch."
"I see..." Victor sat next to her.
"...." Rose raised her eyebrow as she looked at Victor and saw what he was doing.
Victor unfolded the bag he took from the pocket of his leg armor before climbing onto the roof, soon the bag took on the appearance of a normal brown leather bag.
He put his whole hand in the bag, and acted like he was looking for something.
"Found it." Victor took his hand away and a change of clothes appeared in his hand.
He was still only in his underwear, and he didn't want to wear broken armor. He had spare set of armor, but it was not made to measure like the one Eleanor gave him before it broke with his transformation power.
Putting on the black pants, and wearing a white shirt with black details with a small print on the chest with the name of a famous sportswear brand.
Reaching into the bag again, he pulled out a pair of plain sneakers.
He folded the bag carefully again, and put it in the pocket of his black pants. After that, he started putting on his outfit.
"…should I ask about what I just saw?"
"Hmm?" Victor looked at Rose as he pulled on his shirt, with that simple comment, he realized that girls didn't have the dimensional bag yet.
"It's not a big deal, it's just something new that Clan Alioth is working on, I call it a dimensional bag."
"Dimensional bag...?" Rose blinked when she heard the strange name.
"Mm." Victor nodded as he started to put on his shoes.
'Although I'm calling it dimensional bag, that's not the official name, I just call it for convenience... Hmm, it's at those times that I miss Kaguya, she can change clothes quite quickly.'
"...." Understanding that he didn't want to reveal too much due to their current situation, Rose said:
"I assume this will be distributed to Vampire Count families?"
"Yes... It will probably come with a price too." Victor spoke.
'The amount I spent to buy 4 suitcases for my Clan, and my wives' Clans, adding the other small bags that were delivered to my Maids, and the new bags that I ordered, the price was something absurd. Despite not having hurt so much in my pocket because I barely use my money… it was still a pretty penny…'
Even though his source of income dried up due to the information he sold to Selene no longer being useful, he still had a lot of money he got from that deal.
'Soon everyone in my family will have this item, but... I should talk to Alexios about countermeasures in case the bag is stolen by a third party.'
"I don't care, this item is very important for expeditions." Rose could immediately see the item's advantages.
"…Mmm." Victor agreed too.
Finishing dressing, he got up on the roof, and raised his hand to the side, soon the sound of wind cutting was heard and an Odachi fell into his hand.
Victor caressed his Odachi a little, and no matter how many times he saw this blade, he couldn't help but think that this blade was too big for a normal human to use.
The Odachi looked like a Katana, but with a very large blade.
He held the Odachi by the hilt, and raised his blade to stand behind him.
"A very…strange weapon indeed."
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