"A ritual?" Reiji mutters clearly confused.
"A ritual." Karlhienz answers coolly his eyes mindlessly wandering not resting on any particalur spot " What are rituals my dear son?"
The endearment catches Reiji off guard making him hesitant before replying " a religious or solemn ceremony consisting of a series of actions performed according to a prescribed order."
"Exactly, a holy element is a product of Christianity belief that gathered power through rituals to collect a source that could be used to protect their circle and community. Hunters choose to expand on his in various ways but the traditional extortion of the holy element according to my sources is from traditional rituals"
Reiji knits his brows, he had little experience with holy elements but the rare time he did come into contact into them they produced was nothing more then a little burn you get like from weak alkaline. He never payed more attention to the ramblings of priest of the dying mumbles of hunters all of them not threat to him or any vampire in his opinion. If a hunter was to experiment and expand on this it could potentially create some damage but enough to kill 26 vampire in one go?
He originally assumed that Mallow was ingesting the medicine as some sort of holy sacrament or belief for her poor health, but considering that her father is a priest and hunter it could be some sort of protection.
"If she's suffering from withdraw symptoms creating a replica could suffice"
Kou tilts his head to the side, "Why would they give a mortal holy elements in the first place?"
"Protection?" Kanato offers
"I highly doubt the church who made her live off food scraps gave her supplied good quality medicine?" Reiji stated. He originally assumed that Mallow was ingesting the medicine as some sort of holy sacrament or belief for her poor health, but considering that her father is a priest and hunter it could be some sort of protection. From the little he's seen and heard from Seiji Kormori his relationship with Mallow any form of protection would be "overlooked", he would certainly not waste time creating a holy element medicine, unless it was not made in regards to protect Mallow.....but then what is its purpose?
"Protection........... fo...r the .....chu...rch?" Azusa supplies.
"What damage could a child?" Yuma replies credulously, none of this is making sense.
"If the concentration of holy elements it high could possible have any effect on her blood?" Reiji eyes snap to the moderate door frame holding Shuu. Pushing on his glasses, thinking on the thought, it would be an explanation to the odd taste of blood.
"If the mortal administered it over a long period of time it has affected her scent" Ruki walks in stride carrying Mallow in his arms presenting her to Karlheinz.
Kanato snarls at the scene "Why are you holding her?" Ruki doesn't reply instead looks to Karlheinz.
"To be able to explain that we need to reverse the the treatment, to be able to digest holy elements it's most likely she went through holy divination" With a flair of his hand knocking all the ornaments and decorations off the dining table allowing Ruki to place Mallow cold body onto to the table.
Ruki takes a stand back his eyes centred on Mallow form, he has looked into rituals before. At one point it was with fascination after being turned into a vampire, which slowly diminished after the decades with little information ever being found. His memories of being turned were all but mushed and muddled but he did remember the burning sensation, the suffocating whelm of power following through his veins. In short he knows that rituals can be slow, precise and utterly horrifying which gave everlasting effects.
Subaru drags himself into the room already glowering, everything about this made his skin crawl. Humans are not supposed to involved in rituals, they shouldn't be placed on a dining table with a vampire king above them whilst being sick. But this was their last chance to figure out what's happening, why she needed that damn medicine everyday, why is her body is getting worst by the seconds.
His eyes dart around the room, noting everyone presence. Kanato tucked into a love seat that had no place in a dining room, with Laito leaning on the chair from behind his eyes trained to Mallow and his father. Reiji dutifully standing by his father a few steps away Ruki opposite him on the other end of the table. Yuma leaning against the wall arms crossed his head cocked to the side with Azusa seated beside him on a simple dining chair that has dragged away from the table. Kou standing on his own his eyes mindlessly wandering which ticked Subaru off, Subaru frowned finding Shuu opposite his father close to table eyeing every movement.
Karlheinz smiles gently as if to soothe the unconscious Mallow laying almost peacefully if not for the rapid rise of her chest and the harsh breathing from her nose. It was almost filled to the brim with anticipation experiments like these did not come to often, and if it was not for the preceding factor that the mortal could pass at any moment he would have love to observe and experiment more.
Sighing to himself, his fingers brush the Mallow inky black locks. The outfit she's wearing is almost too perfect for the ritual, dressed in a plain white long dress that reaches her ankles hugging her waist judging from the style was most likely a few decades old left by the previous owners of the manor. His fingers dance around before brushing along Mallow smooth skin noting the lack of warmth with he admired so much from humans.
"Are you going to start or what?" Subaru growls, the purpose of this thing was not to watch his father feel my a dying mortal.
Karlheinz raises an eyebrow, he suppose he is taking his sweet time. Well can they blame him, she is such a fascinating creature, whilst thinking he pulls a dagger slim, cool to the touch and sharpened to a fang. He ignores the heated gazes from the room, not at all threatened by the growl leaving the lips of his youngest son. All rituals tended to need blood whether the participator own or others, whether his sons knew this not was another case.
With at most precision the blade runs across Mallow neck leaving a thin line of red in its wake, proceeding with the blade Karlheinz does the same to her wrist ankles before finally running the blade from the bleeding line of her neck to her chest. The white cotton now sullen with patches of red, Shuu eyes flutter shut at the scene. Mallow layering before him bleeding from 6 different wounds all inflicted by his father consequently due to his decision.
Placing the dagger back into his pocket for safe keeping his fingers dab the red liquid resisting the urge to lick it, using her blood as ink writing symbols on her face, arms, chest gently pulling my the skit of the dress to cover her legs as well. The mortal laying in her own puddle of blood her black thick locks sprawled out her body littered in indecipherable symbols skin as white as the moon and stars.
"What now?" Kou asks peering at Mallow almost as to double check if she's still breathing.
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De TodoIt's been three months since Yui has come to live at the Sakamaki mansion, now Yui sister has been sent to join her sister. Lila and Yui are two opposite souls in appearance and personality while Yui is the absent minded child who could never do wr...
