The Strings Being Pulled

Ch 51

Harry's POV *1 month later, December*

"Alright, you've increased your speed to 60km/s in just one month, that's impressive." Asher says.
"That's good." I state.
"It's pretty insane how fast you're improving, you could probably surpass me in no time." Asher responds.
"You're a good teacher, though I think you're pushing yourself with how much work you do." I reply. "The fact you're taking your time to help me get stronger for the sake of killing the vampire but working 57 hours a week."

Liza is out buying groceries, we've been traveling around a lot and not staying at one place for more than a week, since me and Asher are quite literally faster than airplanes, we usually just move as fast as we can while I carry Liza on my back and Asher carries most of our stuff, we get around very far in a matter seconds or minutes.

I mostly help out with interrogation aswell as dirty work and Liza helps out with the communication, Asher still does most of the work, we've tried ask him to split up more of the work so he wouldn't have to do as much but he keeps insisting that there is no need to. Then there's the fact that even his freetime is spent on getting me stronger to kill the vampire. He's overworked, it's obvious he is, yet I don't believe he's a workaholic, he gives many lectures on being overworked yet he's overworked himself.

"It's fine, I can take on a lot." Asher smiles as usual.
"Says the one who gave me a million lectures on overworking when I was 12." I reply.
"You're 19 and still remember them, you'll be turning 20 in a month so I'm happy you still remember." Asher responds.
"You still remember my birthday but don't overwork yourself, Asher." I state.

One thing I've noticed is everytime someone tries to bring up his well being is that he switches subjects by adding on another light topic to talk about, he's trying to avoid the topic of his well being and it is bothering me. Not only because he's avoiding it but also because he always says that communication is key yet it seems he can't communicate his own feelings himself.

I find it difficult to tell whether or not if he's doing alright or not, it could be an uncomfortable subject for him or he's trying to hide something. We are outside right now and there are no people here, it's also snowing so it's best if we head back to the motel we're staying at.

"Will do, funfact now, if you were to turn every atom in orange as big as a blueberry, then the orange would have to be big as our planet." Asher smiles.
"That's interesting." I state.
"Alright, let's head back now because I have to work on a few things now." Asher says and disappears, I follow right after.

Back at the motel, Asher is in his own room while me and Liza share our own. On a small table is a bag of groceries and there's the sound of the shower.

I light up a small fire on my finger, fire control is something I'm pretty much an expert at so I'm working to be able to make it go double to how it was just a month ago, I've managed to increase it from 2500°c to 2600°c but I'm also trying to create fire that can go below 0°c.

"You're back already?" Liza asks coming out of the bathroom.
"Yeah, doing well?" I answer and the fire disappears.
"Mhm, what are you gonna do with the clues that the vampire gave us?" she responds.
"I'm working on a way to figure out how to get that vampire poison, but I might have to purify someone's blood for the last final time and just buy animal blood somewhere." I answer.
"How come you can't just purify bags of blood?" Liza questions.
"The ability to purify blood wasn't created for vampires, it was created as a killing tool without mercy." I state.

One thing special about my family line is the history, we were just typical people but there were rumors that we were hiding money and we had no tools to fight against those trying to hunt us down around 5000 years ago, as we created the ability to purify blood as a method to kill quickly and vampires started existing around 6000 years ago and there was a special kind of creature that gave them the blood they needed before purified blood.

Problem was, the creature went extinct and one day, a vampire tasted the corpse of someone who had their blood purified, that was the day my family line became slaves for 4600 years and eventually, people got mad for what the vampires were doing so there was a huge war for the sake of protecting my family and getting rid of vampires.

Most vampires went extinct in that war, vampires now are barely living anymore and just have huge stocks of old purified blood. That's what I know atleast, now I'm the only one left from the family line and although Asher holds some vampiric blood, he doesn't need blood to survive because he's around 89% demon and only has one vampiric trait, his nails can become long and sharp in an instant acting like a knife and most vampires have that trait.

"Oh, so what are you gonna do then?" Liza asks.
"You're asking a lot of questions but I could either get purified blood from a vampire though they probably wouldn't give me it." I answer. "I despise the idea of having to purify blood again but I'll do it if I have to."
"Why do sound hot saying that, you always sound hot." Liza mumbles.
"Really now?" I smirk.
"YOU HEARD NOTHING!" she shouts.

Well from talking about purified blood to a red angel, she's definitely talented at turning serious moments into playful ones. Though she doesn't take things seriously most of the time, it's definitely refreshing sometimes, especially with how work is now.

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I accidentally shared too much lore and history about the universe they're in, ISTG, I CAN MAKE AN ENTIRE BOOK EXPLAINING THE ENTIRE HISTORY AND LORE OF THE UNIVERSE WITHOUT A PLOT LINE HELP-