The Fallen Vampire-Chapter 167: The Human Spirit

Vermeil's pupils trembled as she dragged her eyes over each of the people present.

Of course, some of them were a couple pounds heavier after graduating high school, and a few even had their hair grown out, but it was certainly them.

"I don't… understand…" she muttered unconsciously.

When the captives finally heard someone speaking in English, they looked up with renewed hope in their eyes and strained against their bondages.

"Do you mind if I ask them some questions, Vaal…?" Vermeil suddenly asked.

The asanbosam was slightly weirded out.

Food…?

Taking to each other..?

It didn't really make sense.

How would you feel if you were having breakfast one morning and your eggs and bacon just started having an in depth conversation about the weather?

Exactly, you would worry that you had accidentally eaten an edible at some point.

Vaal looked at Taira to see if he would say something about it but found him trying to stop one little girl from chewing on his kimono.

He wasn't going to be helpful in this situation…

It should be worth noting that asanbosam are a very aggressive race, and completely disregard the wishes and feelings of any who would cross their path.

However, their aggression isn't usually something directed towards their tribesman or relatives, and by extension the people they mark as their own.

But none of their lineage had ever wed a damned human before.

Vaal had absolutely no idea how to treat her.

"W.. I... Y-You can't... You just.. they are....you..." Vaal, who had lived 1,341 years of his life without ever having to hold his tongue, was struggling for the first time in his life not to say something offensive.

Vermeil smiled softly and lowered her head in a bow. "I promise, there will be no tricks and I will not attempt to keep anything from you. I only wish to know how they got to this world."

She suddenly grabbed Aveena by the hand and pulled her by her side so that she could stand in front of him.

"My sister here will translate everything that I say so that you won't be out of the loop for even a second."

Aveena nodded furiously like a happy seal, just pleased to be included.

"...No tricks then, human." He finally agreed.

"Thank you!"

As Vaal watched Vermeil turn away, he noticed an odd feeling arise in his chest as he watched her leap into the hole with the rest of the humans.

It was at this particular moment that he realized... no one had ever bowed to him before.

Much less a human.

"Perhaps I do understand why you would keep that one around... her behaviors are so odd that they pass for a form of entertainment." he muttered.

Aveena: "She also tells good bedtime stories."

Enyo: "She is a wonderful friend and even better family."

Lucia: "She makes incredible quality pills too."

Taira: "She is a bit goofy... but the poetry she writes is quite beautiful... She is also good in bed."

Everyone nodded their heads in agreement as if they were going through fond memories.

"...You are all a close-knit bunch, aren't you?"

All: "Yes, we're meant to be together."

"...Do you often speak in unison like this?"

All: "Sometimes."

"Is it on purpose?"

All: "Right now it is."

Vaal shook his head as he turned his head back towards the pit. "I change my words... You are all odd little bats."

As Vermeil stepped down into the pit with the rest of the humans, more than a few of them became excitable and began straining against their ropes.

Vermeil squatted down so that she could be at eye level with the girl at the forefront of the group.

She casually pulled away the gag from the girl's mouth, and an outpour of screams and waterworks began.

"H-Help us!! Y-You were speaking English, right!? Y-You can understand what we are-"

"Funny seeing you like this, Loette. You always said I was the one who looked like I had a fetish for rope-play."

The brunette who was desperately pleading with Vermeil for help only a few short moments ago began looking at her in confused horror. "W-What're you-"

"Ah, don't remember me, huh..? A little surprising."

Truth be told, it wasn't surprising at all.

Vermeil had been away from her old life for so long, she wasn't really aware of how far she had come.

She'd gained weight in all of the right places, her hair was now a powdery white in color, there was no more acne on her face, and she was no longer wearing glasses.

Oh, and she looked like a woman in her early-mid thirties instead of a young twenty-year-old like the rest of the class.

Things like that sort of tend to make a person unrecognizable.

Vermeil pointed to her face while making an annoyed and obvious look.

"It's me. Vermeil Dorè."

"...?"

"Jesus, you stole one of my notebooks and posted pictures of my fanfiction all over your snapchat and you and your friends called me a fucking-"

"V-Vermeil! O-Oh my god, of course I remember you! I-I'm sorry you've just become so beautiful that I-"

"Shut the fuck up..." Vermeil was rubbing her head in exhaustion, already feeling like perhaps this wasn't the smartest idea.

"What'd they call her...?" Vaal asked quietly on the sideline.

Aveena whispered the words in his ear, finding them too crude to say aloud.

When she said the words, even Vaal seemed to take offense.

"Truly… the barbarity of humans knows no rest, not even for their own."

"Indeed… make sure you eat that one first." Taira demanded.

"It will be done, brother."

While bound, Loette couldn't take her eyes off of the woman claiming to be Vermeil and her newly transformed body. freewebnøvel.coɱ

Previously, Vermeil was a skinny young girl who wore old faded clothes that were always one size too big for her and who's body was completely devoid of any and all curvature.

But now, she was at least ten years older than them, had the ideal milf body that one only could witness in dirty manga, and was without a doubt the most gorgeous person Loette had ever seen.

Back in high school, Loette, the blonde-haired, blue-eyed cheerleader, was the one who had the whole school's attention, but if the roles were to be reversed now, she wouldn't even be an afterthought.

Even now, all of the captives behind her were staring at the former dorky girl with equal parts attraction and wonder.

"What... happened to you?" Was all that Loette could ask.

"I aged I guess?" Vermeil shrugged. "Fifty years'll do that to a girl, but my husband says that I'm still in my prime, so I guess I'll learn to live with it."

Loette count figure out which part of what she heard was the most surprising. "F-Fifty years!? Husband!? W-Wait, no!"

The young blonde shook her head hard as she tried to remember to focus on the most important part of this conversation.

"D-Did you bring us here!? Can you send us home!?"

"No and no." Vermeil answered in a bored tone.

"W-What!? Why not!?"

"I don't know how to get back to earth, I never wanted to go back to begin with. Do you have any idea how nice it is to not have to file taxes or pay for car insurance? Flying is the tits too..."

"F-Flying!? Y-You can fly!?"

"We're getting off track..." Vermeil rubbed her temples. "Can you just tell me how you got here? I think it might be important and related to one of the ones who brought me over."

Loette immediately looked horrified as she had a sneaking realization. "H-Hey, you're gonna save us, right...?"

Vermeil naturally fell silent. Experience more content on novelbuddy.com

"I-I know that we pulled some messed up stuff in high-school, but you can't leave us with these guys! I-I'm pretty sure they are going to eat us!" Loette hissed.

"Course they are. They honestly seem pretty excited about it too."

For the first time, everyone looked at Vermeil like she was a horrific monster instead of a beautiful goddess.

"H-How can you just let us die so casually!? I-I know what I did was wrong, but I was just a kid, please don't do this!"

Fifty years in this world hadn't just radicalized Vermeil, it had hardened her.

She could let these classmates of hers be eaten by the tribesmen without a second thought and still sleep peacefully hugging Taira tonight.

While it was cruel to them, hard worlds have ways of making even harder people.

They couldn't have possibly understood the horrors Vermeil was trying to stop them from committing out of fear.

"You are wasting your breath. I've already got my hands full trying to fix this world because people like you got their fingers into it, so I think it's best if I save myself the headache and burden of having to kill you all later."

Tears had resumed falling from the face of not only Loette, but everyone else tied up in the shed.

"N-No, please you can't-"

Vermeil finally used her qi to hold Lotto's mouth closed and stop her from ruining her eardrums.

Turning around, she held her hand out for Taira and even pouted a bit.

"Honey, this isn't working. Wanna give your lady a little helping hand here?"

Everyone within the pit followed Vermeil's gaze toward a tall man looming over the pit with the rest of their captors.

Their breath became caught in their throat as they met his glowing red eyes and witnessed the majesty of his nine flowing tails.

They were so enthralled by his appearance that was so different from anything they had seen before that they completely overlooked the small girl that was still holding onto his back like a koala.

Taira took one step forward into the pit, but instead of immediately descending, his body remained suspended almost as if he was standing on an invisible staircase.

As he lowered himself down to their level, Loette became equal parts petrified and enticed by him; creating a very confusing mix of feelings within.

When Taira reached the girl, his eyes temporarily glowed a shade brighter and the human girl felt herself beginning to lose consciousness.

As her eyes rolled back into her head and her body went slack, she heard a more perfect voice than any she had ever heard before play within her mind.

'Tell me, how did you get here?'

Though she had just sworn to herself that she wouldn't tell, Loette's mouth fell open and she began divulging the last twenty-four hours in full.

"I was sleeping over at my boyfriend's house and after we went to bed I had this strange dream...

There was this guy, but his body looked like stars and stuff and I couldn't see his face... he said; Show me a triumph of the human spirit..."