Chapter 127: The love of a goddess.
A few hours before Victor's announcement as the new Vampire Count.
Agnes Snow and Adonis Snow had returned to their mansion.
"How many visions have you had? And what did you see?" Agnes, who was sitting in a chair beside Adonis' bed who was breathing heavily. He was thin as bones, and all his beauty seemed to have disappeared. He had become a decrepit adult man who looked like he could die at any moment.
'Has his condition worsened so much with just one vision?' Agnes thought worriedly. She was already used to seeing her husband's physical condition, but even if she was used to it, that didn't mean she liked it!
What kind of wife would be happy to see her husband so weakened!?
Adonis spoke between breaths, "I had two visions... I saw... That boy's ascension. He looked so dazzling... And beside him, there were six individuals who seemed to be his trusted individuals..."
Cough.
He coughed up blood onto the mattress.
'Darling…' Agnes bit her lip when she saw her husband's condition. 'He seems to be much worse than before…'
"In the second vision, I saw our daughter burning the royal capital with her powers... She had an expression of pure hatred on her face."
"..." Agnes bit her fingernails and began to think about Adonis' words.
Adonis Snow had a secret that was known only to a few people, one of them being Vlad Tepes, the king of vampires.
He had a clairvoyant power, a power that was acquired when Agnes Snow turned him into a vampire...
Not even Agnes knew how he acquired such a power. Normally, it wasn't meant to be that way. A commoner vampire doesn't get such an extraordinary power without a reason.
Agnes thought Adonis had gained this power due to the act of copulation he had with the goddess of beauty, Aphrodite, and the goddess of the underworld, Persephone.
"Those bitches…" Agnes bit her lip until blood came out, feeling very frustrated.
It was not like it was anything new. This kind of weird stuff tended to happen when mortals interacted with gods. After all, gods are stranger beings than vampires.
Adonis' power was so strong that he had never missed a prediction before.
Vlad, the king of vampires, said that Adonis had the power of a god, coming from someone as old and experienced as Vlad; his words carried a great deal of weight.
The power of a god? That would be something to be happy about if the consequences of using such a power weren't too unfair...
Every time he used this power, some of his soul was harmed, not just his soul. His body was also harmed a lot.
As Adonis' body was no longer strong due to the consequences of his parents' incestuous relationships, his body suffered more than usual...
Normally, his body was supposed to get stronger when he became a vampire, but... That didn't seem to be what was happening.
And to make the whole situation even worse, Adonis didn't seem to have control over this power. When facing an event, his power could activate at random...
Because of this, Agnes forbade Adonis from leaving the mansion; she didn't want to lose her husband because of this randomness.
"Tsk." Agnes didn't hide her annoyed state, she knew it could upset her husband, but she didn't care. This situation made her very angry.
Even after several centuries had passed, Agnes still couldn't unravel the mystery behind Adonis' current condition.
Was he a vampire? Yes, but at the same time, he had the power of a god. And the two natures just weren't compatible with each other.
And this contradiction seemed to be slowly killing Adonis from the inside…
Though if he doesn't use his power, he'll be fine…
'As expected…' Slowly Agnes' eyes began to darken; 'I'll have to trap him in this mansion… I won't let you out anymore. Never. Never. Never.'
"We have to bring Violet back home, I don't want to see my daughter like that," Adonis spoke in a serious tone.
Agnes woke up from her state and ignored what Adonis said, then asked, "...Can't you see the future of that boy?" She needed more information before making a decision.
"I can, and at the same time, I can't. I only see his ascension alongside six individuals, but I don't see anything else."
"Just that, huh," Agnes spoke, she started to think for a few seconds, and then she said:
"...I think your second prediction is probably wrong."
"... What do you mean?"
"Violet is just like me, and she wouldn't move without reason."
"... You are right."
"Probably, someone must have harmed her husband, and that someone was in the capital. As she doesn't have the patience to look, she decided to burn everything... At least, that's what I would have done if you had been harmed."
"…" Adonis didn't know how to feel to see Agnes talking so confidently about her daughter. Is he happy or sad? Sigh... Why did his daughter have to be born like this woman?
Suddenly, the two heard a voice.
"With my authority as king of all vampires, I, Vlad Tepes, hereby declare."
Adonis and Agnes listened in silence to their king's declaration. Then, when the king finished speaking:
"…" An uncomfortable silence fell in Agnes and Adonis's room.
"…Isn't that ridiculous, a 21-year-old Vampire Count? Has the king gone mad...?" Agnes didn't know how to feel knowing that a boy who had barely stopped wearing diapers, at least from her perspective, had become a Count.
'Although, that fight…' Agnes remembered Victor's fight with Natashia that she saw from the recording Natalia had made. 'That is not the power of a young vampire.'
"Lady Agnes! Lady Agnes!" Hilda seemed to be very shaken. She totally lost her composure and completely ignored the intimate moment of the two counts and invaded the room.
"You heard!?"
"Of course not, I was deaf all of a sudden, and I didn't hear anything," Agnes spoke in a sarcastic tone.
"... This is bad. I must call a doctor!" Hilda suddenly ran out of the room.
"..." Agnes looked at this with an expression that she didn't know how to react. "Has her brain melted?"
"Pfff... HAHAHAHAHA~"
Suddenly Adonis started to laugh, and, even though there was blood coming out of his mouth, he didn't care.
"D-Darling, don't laugh, you'll get worse."
"It's okay, it's okay." He said, laughing, and then continued, "And you may be correct, for the first time, I may have an incorrect prediction."
"Right? Our daughter will not go crazy for no reason." Agnes moved away from the bed.
"I have some work to do, and I need to visit my son-in-law... Sigh." Agnes felt lazy. She didn't want to go back all the way to the royal capital.
" Take care of yourself~," Adonis spoke with a smile on his face.
"Thank you, Darling. And absolutely, do not get out of bed." Her eyes weren't pretty.
"Okay?"
"…Yes…" He had no choice.
"Good." She displayed a happy smile.
Suddenly Agnes turned around, "HILDA, I'm leaving! Take care of the house!"
"YES, MASTER!"
Soon the woman disappeared from Adonis' room.
When his wife left, Adonis wore a sad smile:
"I'm sorry, Honey. But I lied... It wasn't just two visions." He remembered the last vision he had.
The shadow of a woman was hugging him as she spoke:
'My husband, I will get you back~, no matter how much time passes~, no matter how much that bitch tries to avoid it, one day… The queen of the underworld will have her beloved back. You can't run away from me.''
He looked up at the ceiling and thought; 'Looks like Persephone can't wait any longer...'
The last sight Adonis saw was... His own death. But that was something he would never tell anyone. After all, he didn't want to hurt his beloved daughter... or Agnes...
...
Before Victor's declaration as a new Count.
In a mansion that seemed to be slowly being rebuilt.
"Hey there, that piece of furniture is a little to the right."
"Hey you there, stop being soft! I want this new mansion built like never before in less than 1 month!"
Victoria was ordering everyone around. She had a rather annoyed expression on her face. Because of a certain someone who visited her, almost all her mansion was destroyed! Hateful man!
"...She seems more irritated than usual," Hecate told Tatsuya while he was swinging his sword. He looked like he was training.
"Well, I can't blame her. I would feel that way too if my room was broken into, and destroyed..." Suddenly a vein popped in Tatsuya's head as he remembered something, 'stopping to think now, my room was destroyed too, huh?'
"Hmm?" Tatsuya looked at the sky. For a moment, he could feel something approaching.
And Tatsuya knew only one person who could fly through the skies at high speed.
Suddenly Tatsuya's expression darkened; 'Don't tell me that man is coming back?' His whole body shook; he didn't want to play with his new 'friend'.
Rumble, Rumble!
"…" Hearing the lightning sound in the distance, Hecate, Tatsuya, and Victoria's faces darkened.
'He is coming!'
Rumble, Rumble!
Suddenly, lightning struck the garden.
BOOOOOM!
A small explosion happened.
"…" Victoria looked at this scene with an expressionless expression… 'My garden…' And then a vein popped in her head.
"Victor-...?" When she was about to scream Victor's name, she suddenly heard a woman's voice.
"Ouch... Despite knowing how to use this technique, I still don't know how to land properly..."
Suddenly Victoria's whole face seemed to freeze. She knew that voice too well.
"Mother?" Tatsuya walked beside his mother and saw her paralyzed face. "Mother...?"
"Hmm… Am I in the right place? Ugh, I can't see anything with this smoke." The woman seemed to make a movement with her hand, and soon a gust of wind took place.
Tatsuya and Hecate looked towards the woman and saw a vision that left them paralyzed.
A woman who looked very much like Victoria was standing in front of them, she was wearing a very noble white dress, and that dress was painted with several bloodstains.
"Oh, Sister~. I found you." Natashia smiled at the three of them with a bloody smile.
This sight only made them more terrified.
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