Bloody Petals

Chapter 8

Chapter 8

Zero went back to his room before he sighed. He sat on his table and started writing the report on his emergency mission. It was brief and no other hunter was mentioned in the letter. He mentioned that there seemed to be more Es hiding in the place and that some noble class vampires were sent to hunt down the Level Es as well, but that they all left without contact with Zero after the Level Es were exterminated.

He knew he was kind of hiding his interaction with the vampires, and the mere fact that he was covering some information on his report was kind of shocking even to him. He was not the kind to actually withhold any information. But the deep guilt was eating him from the inside out... And now that he saw how Kaname and the others lived here peacefully and quietly, he didn't know if what he was doing was really right.

He knew he was having some confusion because of the earlier incident, but he couldn't help it. His supposed ally had turned his back on him and even indirectly participated in turning him into a vampire, ambushing him twice while his supposed enemies were the ones helping him when he was in a pinch. Anyone would have doubts... He knew he swore loyalty to the Association, but it was only because they were the ones who treated him as family, and he wished to repay them. But if the Associations were the ones behind this... Zero gritted his teeth and immediately shook his head. He was just here for a few days and his loyalty was already wavering. How could he stoop so low..?

After some more inner struggles, he only took a little break before he started writing again, this time more serious and longer than the other one. It's his first report about his secret mission. He wrote that for now, he saw no alliance or any of the sort between Cross and Kuran that went against the law of the Association. The only thing that could have been tying them together was the fact that both of them seemed to be wishing for co-existence between vampires and humans. The Cross Academy was indeed divided between humans, or the Day Class students, and the Night Class students, which were the vampires. The Day Class students and their teachers didn't know anything about the true nature of the Night Class students and treated them as celebrities because of their physical appearance and their mental capabilities. But aside from that, they didn't seem to know anything at all. And the vampires were all following Kaname Kuran's orders. They did not bother Day Class students even though some of them did go to school grounds in the light of day. Prefects serve as the ones who took care of students and patrol at night, and Zero had become one of them. The vampires didn't drink blood, but a kind of pill that relieved their thirst. Of course, there were those who couldn't take the pills because their body wasn't used to it. But those vampires were said to be drinking from other vampires as well, not from humans. It was Kuran's order.

Of course, Zero didn't mention anything about the attack on him which turned him into one of those vampires and the hunter who shot him.

After that, he slept for the night while thinking of how he would sneak out of school tomorrow to deliver the letters to the town's post office.

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Before Zero knew it, two weeks had already passed without much incident. He started patrolling the school, only to end up being in the same roses-filled lakeside every time his mind wandered off. There wasn't much contact between him and the other vampires and he was partly grateful, for no one was bothering him at all, and also partly irritated. His mission was going very slowly but he knew he should be patient. He knew that rushing things would most likely bring more failure than success, based on experience. He was still the same aloof and cool person that his female classmates tried to devour with their eyes. And even after two weeks, the only classmates' names he knew of were Yuuki's and Kaori's, but he had never talked with the latter. He always ordered different meals in the school cafeteria but the only thing he drank was milk. He also realized that many of the students in the cafeteria also drank milk now.