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Either everyone was silently waiting for Hiro's answer, or some were not trying to interact with him at all. Ryan was on the latter side. He was so engrossed in the conversation with Yoona and Ellianna that Ryan completely forgot about Hiro and his antics.
Ryan can only imagine what cringy trope Hiro is pulling off now.
'Fuck me! He better not be thinking about enslaving the demi-humans.' Ryan dreaded the thought that the other dark elves would lump him in with Hiro. It was like watching a car crash in slow motion and Ryan couldn't do anything to stop it, besides waiting to see if his prediction was right.
All he could do was close his eyes while rubbing his temples with his fingers to hold back his headache that was starting to form thanks to Hiro drawing out the suspense.
"I will become a Vampire, so I can smite all those who dare oppose me! Mountains shall crumble, and rivers will flow with the blood of my enemies! This world shall tremble once it knows my name, Hiro Death Fang!" He yelled out loud like a third-rate villain in an anime. He was brooding in a way that made him look more juvenile than menacing.
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The silence was so deafening in the dining hall that you could hear a pin drop from a mile away. Ryan couldn't help but feel embarrassed in proximity to him. If he could, he would crawl under a rock to escape this awkward atmosphere.
'God! How can someone be so stupid as Hiro, can come from my world?' He groaned internally. 'Does he want to be a fucking vampire warlord? What cliche bullshit is this?! GAH! I think I'm going to die from 2nd-hand embarrassment.'
Ryan slowly cracked open his eyes, in dread, to see how the Dark Elves' were reacting to Hiro's idiocy. And to Ryan's surprise, it looked like most of the elves had a confused look on their faces than that of disdain. They were confused by Hiro's logic, or lack thereof, more than anything else.
After a while of not getting a response, Hiro's confident demeanor faded when he didn't get the reaction he was hoping for.
"W-What? You don't believe me?" Hiro stuttered as he broke the silence.
"Well.... The thing about Vampires is, that you can only be born into that race. It's not something you can turn into. I heard it has something to do with their bloodline, but that's the extent of what I know about them." Ellianna spoke out in a matter-of-fact tone.
"B-But I thought I c-could be turned into one if I d-drank their blood or something?" Hiro said with his confident facade crumbling before our eyes.
"Hmm. You seem to be confusing ghouls with vampires, Hiro." Yoona stated as she seemed to regain her composure and she continued, "It's a fate worse than death. You would be an undead serf to a vampire, with no free will of your own. You would barely be one step above a zombie. And I wouldn't wish it upon my worst enemy."
The whole table was silent as they all looked at Hiro like he was an idiot, which in fairness, he was. But for the first time, Ryan was starting to feel bad for Hiro's idiocy, but only a little. Ryan could remember a time when he declared something that he believed was a fact, only to be completely wrong in front of a large crowd of his classmates. Like when he thought a kid stole his comb from him only to find out that he had the same one as his. Ryan felt like an idiot that day, but he was ten years old when he did that, instead of being nineteen like Hiro was.
'At the end of the day, Hiro needs to learn from his mistakes. And that's something I can't help him with.' Ryan thought as he decided to help clear up the confusion about Vampire lore from Earth.
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I Got Isekai'd, Well Shyt! Vol. 1, 2, and 3
FantasyA 27-year-old American named Ryan was doing his usual morning run through a forest in the United States Midwest when he was attacked by a magical orb that transported him to another world. While in this other World, he finds himself captured by a tr...
