FOREVER IN ABYSS

CHAPTER 4 THE WILLING LIFELINE

“Why didn’t you tell us?” Ryosuke inquired. He was leaning towards Ryutaro. All JUMP was gathered on Ryu’s room.

It was fairly hard for them to convince Ryutaro’s parents that Ryutaro’s disappearance shouldn’t be reported. They tried the best liar just to ease the parent’s fear and anger.

“It was basically my problem so I tried to handle it on my own.” Ryu answered. He was leaning on his pillow to support his back. The wounds in his wrists due to the rope that was used to him were still visible. The small cut in his face was already healing. The only fascinating fact about him was there was no vampire bites in his neck.

“You were being stalked by a vampire and yet it seemed nothing to you?” It was Yuto.

“It was just one vampire. I am more capable of taking care of it.” Ryu debated.

“But then she was able to take you.”

“Well, she was pretty strong and sneaky.”

“I just couldn’t believe this, most of you guys are vampire hunters?” Ryosuke looked at the other members. “And I even grew to believe that vampires aren’t real?” he glared in annoyance.

“Gomenasai.” It was Yuya. He was fidgeting at a silver knife. It was fashionably old since the patterns on the handle was really intricately sculpted. “We just wanted to protect the younger ones so we didn’t include you.”

“Demo… Ryu?” It was Keito. He was seated beside Ryu and was examining a certain manga that he picked from the floor.

“Ryu learned that Daiki was training. He threatened us that if we didn’t let him train, he would reveal this secret to JE. We couldn’t afford that. Many would be affected, even our sempais.” Yabu explained.

“How come there were a lot of you?” Yuri asked. “There were very few vampires.”

“There were many of them. As of what we heard, after the last dreamer predicted that there would be a huge chaos in the vampire clan, the clan separated in two groups. There was a huge mutiny that even the normal human world felt.

“There were wars everywhere, natural disasters and social conflicts followed. The two division of the clan have a continuous hatred until now. We, the vampire hunters, we track them down and kill them, whatever clan they may belong. They are a threat to humanity.” Kota said. “The vampires are quite influential in the society and it is getting harder to track them down so the hunters kept on recruiting more colleagues.”

The dreamer predicted chaos? Yuri kept on wondering towards this event. His life was entangled with the vampires and he was a dreamer. If it is true that he could tell the danger, then the vampires in that mansion were really in a difficult situation. He hadn’t told JUMP about his so called power because it was hard to tell whether it was good or bad.

“I will really go back to that mansion and kill those blood-sucking tramps.” Ryutaro said angrily.