She Returned as a Vampire

24 – All I need is you

“Hoo-wook, whoo-wook, whoo-“

Having slaughtered the intruders in her home, she sat down and breathed heavily.

…Again, she brutally took lives.

When she was a human, she would break her neck or hit her vitals hard,

It was a avant-garde that allowed others to land critical hits on monsters while letting their attacks flow against larger opponents.

Now it was more than that.

I felt fear as she glared at me with her red eyes, covered in blood.

I understand that you were trying to protect me.

I knew exactly the fact that he had protected me from those vampires who were after my blood.

But I wondered why.

Once the doubt started, I didn’t think to stop biting tail after tail.

Is it true that he tried to protect me because he loved me, because he cherished me?

Or simply because I am her precious food and source of pleasure,

Did he move to eat precious food by himself?

…Maybe it’s shameless to think this way about a subject who owes his life.

However, considering her basic etiquette, I must have been very bothered by her change.

Her scales in her mind continued to lean towards fearing her.

Her words are in the direction of trying to get away from her, rather than trying to understand her and care for her.

Her trying to hold me, her holding me, her trying to keep me in bondage to her,

I couldn’t easily accept it right away.

…Even if her love for me was true, I couldn’t accept it in this form.

“Are you okay, Niel?”

Trudging, trudging, she approached me and stretched out her hand to me, smeared with her blood.

She was so red that she tried to caress my cheek with her blushing hand, but her arms and hands were reflected in her two red eyes.

And finally, her gaze turned not to me, but to her own body.

She was a mess.

From her head to the tips of her toes, there was nowhere that her blood wasn’t splattered.

Although she was a woman who particularly liked black clothes, the density of her stains that couldn’t cover even those clothes showed her scars very well.

… Even as she wiped her face once, her six sides were still on her face, and her hands escaped and hit her floor.

Steel flip.

That sound made my body goosebumps.

An adventure that I believed I was familiar with.

Now I have to get used to the life I believed in.

People who thought they’d seen enough and scars in their lives.

But I was a person who was not properly prepared for any of them.

I can’t even properly accept the scene unfolding before my eyes,

“Woo-wook, suck, woo-wook…”

I was barely holding back my vomiting, and I felt a sharp pain scratching my throat.

“I’ll wash up. Wait a minute.”

Unable to see my reaction, she turned her back and left.

I could feel the impatience in her slightly faster pace,

“Hey, oops…”

I could sense her sadness in the sound that came out just before the door closed.

But to take care of it, I couldn’t easily accept this whole situation.

I wasn’t ready.

***

Cleaning the messy house was no easy task.

It was even more unwelcome to see a corpse abandoned outside, especially that of Benjamin Atkinson, returned to the house and left a mess.

In the first place, even the process of disposing of corpses was not familiar to me.

Who the hell would have to clean up the corpses scattered around the house like this…

“Sup, ugh…”

I roughly covered my nose and mouth with a cloth to block out the disgusting smell that irritated my stomach to the point of dizziness from the dead bodies.

The corpse of this vampire, which she utterly shattered, penetrated even that, and boasted an unbearable sight.

“This is probably not to the point of having to abandon the house…”

Blood had already completely soaked into the wooden floor, and pieces of meat were jammed everywhere.

I had to get them out, and blood… What the hell is blood supposed to do?

That’s why you call someone? To mend the house?

But she-

“Damn, damn… Damn…”

After taking her in, my actions began to have too many restrictions.

And I was getting tired of what she did.

No, I shouldn’t think like this.

You were trying to protect me. Yes?

But was it something that had to be done so violently?

If not here, where else to go…

Even the front door and windows…

“No, no, no. f*ck you. No!”

I had to give up. That’s right.

Wherever I looked, there was no possibility of saving the house.

It would be better to burn it.

Aside from the house, disposing of the bodies was also a problem.

Even if the corpses are somehow gathered and burned outdoors, it will inevitably create a large flame or smoke…

Someone will be drawn to it.

In the worst case, the guards and people from the church will come.

I will look at the condition of the house and question it, and I will go through every room.

And the moment she gets caught, everything is over.

Even if it was possible to prepare for that, I could never put it into practice in my current state.

“Why did this happen? Why did things go this far? How did it get this far…”

She.

Elena Heartfield. Because of her accepting her.

The sights and memories in my eyes said that it was all because of her that I was so messed up.

They said they shouldn’t have had a guest for the night in the first place.

Always at night, uninvited guests bring misfortune…

Especially this time, her night guest, who brought a disaster that I couldn’t bear-

“Haaa… Damn it…”

A big, long sigh escaped my heart.

Now, as the intruders smashed the windows and the cold air from the porch, an immaculate cloud spread from their mouths and blocked their view.

“It’s over now. At least this house.”

And it wasn’t long before I might be done with it too.

Whether she sucks her blood and dies, or weaves her spirits and ends up with her revenge, or runs away with her and is branded as a heretic and burns to death…

I nervously threw the cloth that was covering my face at all the not-so-beautiful endings and leaned against the wall to catch my breath.

The one who appeared in front of me was Elena, neatly changed into new clothes and wearing a scarf and coat.

***

“Get up. Let’s pack up.”

“Jim? What Jim?”

I already knew what she meant.

She must have found out that she, too, would have to abandon her house.

But her messy head and her heart couldn’t afford to do her kindness to her.

More than anything else, she made it this way.

My house, my mind, and my body.

“Let’s go, away. Just the two of us.”

“With you? You know, Elena- “

“I know, I was wrong.”

With her eyes closed, her figure was so dark that a feeling of bewilderment struck her in an instant, pushing out even the rage that filled her heart.

Her face in shadow.

There were many traces of her wounds that she had endured until now.

Although she was a woman with no scars left on her body,

Her heart was torn to pieces.

Also, her voice admitting her mistakes was trembling enough that it wouldn’t be strange if she burst out crying at any moment.

She tried to face me with her fists clenched so tight that her blood oozing out, forcing her clear pain to swallow.

“But I can’t lose you. For whatever reason. So let’s go to a safe place. The two of us.”

She opened her eyes again and came to me with a clearer voice.

“I can’t bear to see you suffer for what I’ve done. I want you to stop.”

“…If I put it down, what can you do?”

She was the one who always left things open and panicked when something went wrong.

She found it difficult to take responsibility, and even though she knew that such behavior was wrong – she always became passive when the moment came.

Her walk without a back was always a mess, and it was me, no one else, who cleaned it up.

And this time, it was so big that even I couldn’t handle it.

“You know. You. It was before you met me. So I tried to help. What if I let you go?”

Not getting up from her seat, she spat out her words as she pointed and stretched out her hand towards the harrowing scene.

“I told you, actions come with responsibility, and that somehow gets in the way. That’s why I always tried to be prepared, and I tried to live prudently.

But what did you say about me? You said you were a coward. I’m frustrated. It exploded slowly. And look at us now, Elena. Look.”

Every time I exhaled, long white steam came out.

The way she dispersed was like … Her heart toward her was similar to my heart.

It was intense, but it was cooling off.

It was thick, but it was fading.

“What are you going to do now, Elena? If you leave the house now, what will you do now? Do you have any plans? What are you going to do next-“

“All I need is you.”

Her words after cutting her off were absurdly short and simple.

“What?”

“As long as I have you, I don’t care. No matter what comes next or what happens, it’s up to me to handle it. I want you to stop worrying about me now and thinking about our relationship in the future.”

How am I supposed to accept her as she calmly continues her words without blinking an eye?

Was it acceptable in the first place? Does this situation make sense?

Is it possible for a normal person to say something like this?

“…Are you serious? Elena, we don’t have anywhere to sleep right now!”

“It’s okay. I’ll think of a way to keep you warm. A place for you to sleep and a place for you to live.

Just leave everything to me. Your happiness, your destiny, your future, your whole life.”

She took a step closer and warmly wrapped her coat around me…

It was absurd.

“Ha, ha ha, ha ha ha…”

Carefully, calmly, calmly.

As if nothing had happened, she gently embraced me and lifted me up.

He took me to the room where I had been brutally violated, and put me on the bed.

And I couldn’t just accept that.

“Don’t be ridiculous, Elena. I can’t stand that kind of behavior – “

I pushed her away trying to cover her with the blanket, and made eye contact with her while raising her upper body.

But at that very moment, I was overpowered by her.

Even though she didn’t move her fingertips.

I should have felt strange from the power of her who lightly subdued and crushed the vampire that invaded her house.

I should have been suspicious since vampirism suddenly turned into an act that gave me pleasure.

And I should have known from the moment her saliva made my head go blank and made me accept her lewd behavior without resistance.

She was different.

If they were ordinary vampires, she was more than that.

And even now she was changing.

Something was twitching in her eyes. Red… The red light didn’t seem like a simple light.

Letters…? Are they letters?

It was a very small size, but the moment I realized that it was a letter, I accepted her touch like a gentle sheep.

Losing control of her body, she stared blankly at her.

I made up my mind at the body that did not move according to my will, and at her body approaching closer, preparing to face the raging sensations.

…I will definitely not be swept away by her this time, Go.

However, what I had imagined did not happen.

After stroking her hair and kissing her on the cheek, she put me back on her bed and covered me with a blanket.

“It’s okay. It’s okay. Don’t worry about anything now. I’ll do it. I’ll shoulder that pain. Was it painful or difficult?

Now stop resting. Everything that bothered you, I’ll take it now.

I want you to be happy when you are with me.

Being so angry… Worried… Rather than struggling,

I want you to stay by my side comfortably.

If you do that, I’ll bring you everything you want.

You won’t even want love right now, Niel.

Just… Stay with me.

That alone is enough.”

The more she whispered into my eyes, the more I felt her consciousness fading away, gripped by an unknown force.

Slowly, deeply, I found it difficult to even get up, feeling like I was being sucked into bed.

Pat, pat, pat.

She put her hand on my chest and patted it slowly, whispering softly.

“Good night. And when you wake up, let’s talk again.”

…With one last drop of hot tear falling on my face, I fell asleep completely enveloped in darkness.