Chapter 4

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"You're covered in blood..."
"Ugh!"
He grabs me by the hand as I'm throwing my arm around desperately.
"Get your hands off !"
"I'm getting bored of this."
After muttering, Alfred brings my wrist towards his mouth.
"Stop!"
My whole body tremble as he licks the blood from my wrist.
"Sweet blood, huh...?"
His lips were wearing my blood as he grins.
"Please! Let go!"
I'm frightened to death without knowing their intention.
"Stay away from me!"
The more I struggle, the more thorns bite into my body.
My clothes, my skin, and my face... I was covered all over with painful cuts by the thorns.

"I told you not to move many times."
Rupert talks to me in a gentle manner.
But... I know he isn't on my side either.
"Oh dear, a lady shouldn't get scars on her pretty face."
Looking sad, he bites through one of his fingertips.
"R... Rupert..?"
I had no idea what his next move was until I screamed out loud to see it revealed.
Rupert applies the blood from his fingertip on the cut on my wrist.
In an instance, my scar miraculously disappears.
"Look, your face..."
Rupert's blood was applied on my face's scar as well.
Though I can't see it myself, I'm sure the scar must have healed in an instant.
With my knowledge as a witch, I know the kind who can heal any scars with their blood in an instant.
Alfred's word that were to give him my blood. And Rupert's blood that has cured my scars. They must be...
"Vampires.."
My monologue is soon to be confined.
"Didn't I tell you? Alfred and I are both vampires."
"You must be honored to be desired by us."
Saying this, Alfred reaches his hands to expose of my bare shoulders.
"D-Don't.."
As I struggle, my body is pinioned by the thorn even tighter.
"Behave yourself."
My body trembles as he whispers in my ear, and I find myself paralyzed in the next moment.
"Now, you're a good girl."
He strokes my hair and I feel his breath on my neck.
(Ouch..!)
Sharp pains run through the left side of my neck and my right shoulder at the same time.
"Ahh..."
The sensation penetrating my skin. I know that's their fangs without looking at them.
My blood is mustered to where the fangs are stabbed.
"Oh..."
Hearing a sweet gasp coming from my right side. I turn in the direction to see Rupert whose Crimson eyes are glaring, staring at me.
He takes my hand, and licks a scar on my finger.
" I have never tasted such sweet blood. I would be addicted to it..."
Whispering into my ear, he sucks up my finger.

"Stop..."
"No, not enough..."
"Ugh!"
Another sharp pain runs through the left side of my neck.
"I...I need more..."
"Ahhhh!"
Rupert's fang thrust into the bite mark he has already made, and he sucks more blood from there.
"Please, stop now...."
(I'm...supposed to be feeling only pain.)
( But, there is something different from the pain in this.)
(What...is this feelings?)
My consciousness fades away while my blood is sucked away.
I slowly become incapable to think anymore...

Then everything goes back before my eyes.

"Wa...ke.. Wake...up..."
"Hmm..?"
I feel something rough rubbing against my cheeks, and slowly open my eyes.

An unfamiliar ceiling...an unfamiliar room...and a cat.
"Whose voice was that...?"
Sitting up in a bed I was laid down on, I looked around.
(I thought I heard someone talking to me...)
But nobody was in the room except me.
"Good. You can move your body."
"?!"
(I've just made sure that no one is in the room though...)
"Why...?"
I look in the direction where the voice came from. There was the cat sitting in my sight.
"A cat...by any chance..."
"You're right"
I hear the same exact voice from the spot where the cat is sitting.
"Who are you?"
"I'm a cat living in this castle. Some people call me Spade."
"I've never met a cat who could speak the human language before."
If I didn't know I was in a vampire's castle, I wouldn't have accepted what the cat says.
(I've gone through so much that I'm not easily surprised by a car speaking.)
"We can talk about my language ability later. The problem here is you."
"Me?"
"Do you remember you were sucked your blood by the vampire brothers?"
"Yeah..."
(How can I forget about that?)
The pain of the fangs sticking into my skin...and the indescribable weird sensation...
"They tried to dominate you."
"Yeah... I know. So..."
(I've turned into a vampire...)
I get depressed all of the sudden to face reality.
"Keep your chin up! You haven't become their belongings!"
"Huh?"
"You are still human. But..."
"So, I'm not a vampire yet!"
I take Spade as I'm overwhelmed by happiness.
"Don't start celebrating yet. Hear me out."
I put him down on the floor as he struggles in my arms.
"Seems like you are descended from a special blood line."
"You are now in between a human and a vampire."
"Does it mean... I will eventually turn into a vampire?"
"Yes. You are exactly right."
Spade confirms my question with a nod , and stares at me in a serious manner.
"You have ten days left. Find out the Rose Garden somewhere in this castle within those ten days."
"Roses blooming in this castle have a mystical power."
"Drinking the evening dew will purify you from the vampire curse."
(Find the Rose Garden in ten days...)
"Why are you so nice to me?"
"Because you are not supposed to become a vampire."
" I don't know how helpful I can be but I will support you if you wish."
"Thank you, Spade."
I have no idea why Spade knows those kind of things, but it still relieved me to find out there is someone in this vampires' castle willing to help me.
(I'll find the garden and leave this castle as a human.)
As soon as I make the resolve, a knocking sound resonates from the door.

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