-it’s my reason to exist!!-

“HAHAHAHA! TRY TO CATCH ME IF YOU CAN!”

“GRAAAAHHHHHHHH!”

pursuing him and pertify the bats he used, she used all of her speed

thankfully the bats is not immune to petrification, but their number is numerous so she cant petrify them all

even if she catch up to him, he suddenly become a mist and attacking with bats on her blind spot

although her wound can be regenerated, the blood lost is not returning

trying to finish this before she collapsed from blood loss, aimi pursue him with all of her might

“HAHAHAHA, WHAT'S THE MATTER? YOU LOOKED PALE, FEELING GIVING UP YET LITTLE GIRL?”

bernard keep provoking her, causing her to gritted her teeth and pursuing him

but still, who is this girl? i lived for 300 years and never saw anybody as strong as her. hmm..

the truth is, things didn't looked good for bernard too

actually blood bat isn't even one of his skills

he only store some bats with storage magic and letting them out as fits

in order to gathering and researching the blood bat, he spend most of his free time gathering the bats and increasing their efficiency

by sacrificing sleep and eating, he even teached those bats every kind of command that he feels of them like his children

and now, most of them is died in one night

i’m sorry,michael,urun,gabi,gorun,rudra.. i will make sure to made a grave for you guys later

his condition is not good either

because of her eyes, he had been feeling groggy since before. his body not moving well too

is this, evil eye? but to affect me this much, must be a very high level eye skill

the truth is bernard had evil eye too. a skill unique to vampire, evil eye of sleepiness and bewitching eye

however, the girl didnt shown a hint of being affected

but he with status effect immunity feeling the effect, and her not must be her eyes level is higher

fu.. it's been interesting little girl. i’m curious about finding out your identity but it's time to finish this

thinking that his other skill gonna shown its effect anytime, he start to grinning

then..

“uogh!?”

his leg is blown

the girl is getting faster

getting used with bernard feint and trickery she start to catch up to him

all of the blood bats is already petrified since quite a while now

cannot even keep up his mist transformation, bernard legs is blown away

and aimi

jumping in top of him, she hold his neck

“guun fuuu fuuh*

it's over

bernard already running out of energy

thinking it's her victory, aimi grinned a little why saying

“i..win”

her true form is completely shown

a claw that can gouge the earth, a tail like a dragon and shiny beautiful scale

like this, anyone would seen that she wasn't human

perhaps, some who recognize that form will relate her as certain kin of that legend

“fu.. HAHAHAHA, ARE YOU SURE? IT'S TOO SOON TO REJOICE LITTLE GIRL”

the girl ignores him

it's already clear who is the winner

only press him, and the neck is broken

but..

whats with his face?

“bluff?”

“you will see if it's a bluff or not, girlie. i’ll show you magic trick in 5..4..3..2..1”

ignoring him she tried to smash his head with two of her hand

using her strength, he would definitely disappear without a trace

at that moment

“zero! time up”

like closing performance, aimi lose her strength

“...!?”

cannot move even a finger, she lied on top of bernard

“HAHAHAHA, are you surprised little girl? you're surprised right? you are aren't you?”

“gnn..! grr…!”

trying to move, she struggle

but it's no use

“HAHAHA LET ME EXPLAIN THEN”

bernard easily stand up

“..?”

his arm and legs is growing back

and his complexion looks healthy, same as before like nothing happened

“HAHAHA! THE SPECIALITY OF VAMPIRE IS NOT JUST BLOOD AND MIST, WE ARE MASTER OF SHADOW TOO!”

“AND SINCE YOU PURSUE ME SO INTENTLY, YOU DIDN'T REALIZE YOUR SHADOW IS STARTING TO GONE THINNER?

“ BY STEALING YOUR SHADOW, I CAN ABSORB YOUR VITALITY AND MAKING IT MINE”

however the weakness is it took too much time making it inefficient

before bernard never had to do battle where he needs to use it

the reason being, most of his enemy is defeated before he have time for the skill to active

other reason, if the enemy realized it before their vitality is taken the skill is canceled automatically

“aa. guh….”

feeling like a victor, bernard declares

“now then”

“i spend too much stamina and effort to taking you down, it's natural for me to receive my rewards right?”

“what, don't worry. i'm not interested with little girl like you. my love is the only one i planned to devoted after all”

“you just need to close your eyes, and become EMPTY MUMMIES! AHAHAHA”

“”..!”

grabbing her in the chin, bernard lift aimi

and then, he sink his fang to her neck

*gashun*

“....!”

*sruup srupp*

“guunu.. uu”

“hmm? hahaha , so that’s it! that explained your appearance. this form, it's not “ you” at all.”

vampire can retract information from blood of their victim

of course, the information received is varying depend on how much of their blood taken. and mostly how much the vampire wants to know after all

since mostly the victim died if vampire retract all of the information it's only useable once to each victim

“gg.. haa..”

aimi feels weaker

her strength is gradually disappearing

“to think, such miracle can happen not only once, but twice. ahaha what a unique existence. i want to see your original someday but i guess it's impossible”

“”ggrr”

“ahh but you're such a sad existence, both you and the other one. you guys didn't realize..”

“your existence is a fake one since the start after all”

“...”

“ara? you're already starting to lose consciousness? sorry, i’ll make it quick. it's better if you died now without realizing anything after all”

she doesn't understand it

she doesn’t listening at all

it's all nonsense

it’s not worth listening to

but..

but..

just one thing

there's just one thing that she cannot forgive

theres one thing that she cannot allow

and that is..

“..can’t”

“hmm?”

“won..t die”

“oh?”

“already.. promised.. not.. gonna happened.. again”

“never.. again.. can’t.. allow it. have to.. fulfill”

“HAHAHA! nice, thats nice. a promise is meant to be fulfilled after all, but what can you do?”

“fuck it”

“hmm?”

gathering her remaining strength in her hand,

she start to use massive magic construction

“AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!”

“...!”

feeling a danger, bernard letting her go

and then

a massive storm happened