Sometimes insanity is the only option

Stepping outside

"Now, about Lenore— her full name is Lenore Bloodrose."

"What th-!?" Marcus jaw almost touches the table and it seems it's his first time seeing the world with how big he has his eyes opened.

"Surprise"

"Ah-! No... I don't hav— e words. Lenore Bloodrose the 7th vampire princess?!!"

"That's life for you" I say with a smile and sweat bidding on my forehead.

"You jest" Marcus says

"Sure not" I retort.

"I met Lenore when I was 15, at the Ishtar the territory of royalty, it was love at first sight, I got nervous, nervous enough to be perceived that I was nervous, I remember that day as if it was yesterday.

I met her 10 times in total after that day.

"Huh."

"What?" I say.

"Just processing" Marcus says like he had received too much information at once.

"So let me get this straight, you pretend to make her your woman?" Marcus ask with a serious tone.

"Yes, I plan to make her my woman" I say it blushing somewhat.

"I don't know of your relationship but I guess it will not be easy"

"Easy or not, I need to try, I'm still deeply in love even after all this time"

"But it's been years she maybe moved on or wor..." Marcus is cut abruptly.

"We send letters to each other" I say embarrassingly.

"Oh—huh...  you don't stop surprising me."

"You did that even after isolating yourself?" Says Marcus with an intrigued expression.

"Well, yeah, even after isolating myself I could not bring myself to stop contacting her." I say my ears red.

"It seems you thought more than I imagined"

"Yeah, well, I like to do things when I'm almost sure how they'll go" I say.

"My plan is to make her my woman, and ask her to make me a "vampire".

"After that, I'll be training one year to be sure to get my new me to peak condition, reaching rank 8 in super strength will be a massive improvement". I say pausing for a moment to make sure he is listening carefully.

"But that is just the beginning, I'll be aiming for the 10th ranks by other words the system top rankings." I say confidently.

Marcus looks at me with an incredulous expression.

There's only a handful of individuals who maxed one system and even less both of them, his reaction proves to be what I expected but it's somewhat sad that he thinks of my plan as not that viable.

"When I get stronger I'll be participating in the Superpower of the seven kingdoms, (a tournament including both my family kingdom/empire and five others to find the strongest powers of our nations) with my identity concealead for the whole tournament, revealing myself at the end". I say.

Getting myself the attention of all watching the tournament will send a message to the world "Prince Raphael has returned" the rest does not matter, I only need those words circulating, that will be enough to send a message to the ones who destroyed my life, tortured me scarring my body, all to satisfy their jealousy, but the ones I can't really forget are the ones who kidnapped me to try and satisfy their sexual desires, fortunately before they could do anything to me, I destroyed my reasoning with insanity allowing me to break my bones cutting parts of my flesh with it and getting out of there, cause if not... I don't think I would have the strength to be here.