The Story of Vampire Michaela by Kagami Takaya~

Epilogue

Epilogue Mikaela's Story

Every time Mika closed his eyes, he saw it - the time he had spent with his family. Not with his birth family. With his true family.

The life they led probably counted as nothing short of horrible. All of them were either neglected by their parents, or subjected to violence, or abandoned, and after that, even the world collapsed, and they got locked up in a place without a future, forced to live every day under the vampire reign, side by side with death, and eat garbage-like food.

No one was there to protect them. They were only children, yet they had to huddle together in order to desperately try to survive.

And yet, every time he shut his eyes, Mika always saw his family's smiling faces behind the closed lids. Saw Akari's smile. And the toothy grins of the smaller kids. And Yuu-chan, who was also there, by Mika's side, watching the rest with a troubled face. Yuu-chan would always say that he had no family, yet he never failed to be kind to all of them, and at the end, cried for them, even saying that he had finally found his family.

And yet, what had he done. What had he done.

It had been 2 years since then. 2 years had passed since Mika got separated from Yuu-chan and turned into a vampire.

In these 2 years, he hardly talked to anyone. He simply had no one to talk to. Since he was surrounded only by vampires.

Ah, no, there were humans, too. The humans that were kept as livestock. But the eyes the livestock regarded him with were those of someone seeing a monster. Seeing a subduer, a ruler.

To make it even more unbearable, when Mika himself saw humans, his appetite got stimulated. He wanted to drink human blood. He craved it. Hungered for it. Lusted after human blood to a vulgar extent.

Denying drinking it to himself was an exquisite torture. But he had managed to avoid drinking human blood so far. The Queen that turned him into a vampire was providing him with her own blood, so he hadn't been degraded to a monster sucking human blood yet—

But for how much longer would it still work...

"...Yuu-chan," Mika mouthed, close to a moan.

And yet, despite everything, he still had hope, because Yuu-chan was alive. Despite the blunder he had made. Even if he himself had been reduced to such a vile monster, to him, there still was—

But that was when his thoughts were rudely interrupted.

"Hyakuya Mikaela," someone called him.

It wasn't Yuu-chan. It was a voice from the world of reality where Mika lived at the moment.

Mika opened his eyes. And when he did, the same old world that was under the vampire reign, with vampires calling the shots, was around him, unchanged.

Still, if anything had changed, it was the fact that he no longer was livestock locked up in an underground city; he got to see the sky now.

He was dressed in a white military uniform made exclusively for vampires; and at his waist, there hung a rapier that sucked the blood of its wielder, also developed exclusively for vampires.

"Hey! Listen to me, rookie!"

A vampire that formally was Mika's superior was apparently saying something, but Mika didn't really listen. Neither had he any desire to.

It was raining. A really heavy shower, at that. The sky was pitch black, and it was impossible to tell if it was day or night right now. Military aircrafts flew across the dark sky, bombing the earth beneath.