Alucard yawned as he read Hisa's diary. Why keep one if you didn't want it read? That ordeal never made sense to the vampire prince. He sat the diary on the dresser, looked onto the mirror and straightened the collar of his shirt. The buttons were left undone as usual. White hair and red eyes peered back at him. Today would be the day where he'd sneak into Kiko's room to have sex with her.
As if it'd be that easy. If he could muster of up the courage to ask her to view the moon with him, then maybe. She should be vampire enough by now and received the lessons to understand the culture. Viewing the moon—two vampires on a romantic night hunt. They take one gulp of blood from the same human, let it rage their hormones, then have wild sex. The event had little to do with the moon, except that if done when full, the passion supposedly intensified. Romantic stuff that only girls cared about.
Alucard left Hisa's room to man up and hopefully get laid. Vampire girls weren't the easiest to tame—at least not for vampire men. The king told him that newborn were easier to talk to because they hadn't adopted the snobby attitudes of the nobility just yet. They also had no desire to plot and needed at least ten years to learn the game. Learn how to move up in the clan.
Suddenly, Hisa burst through the front mansion doors, looking as if she was beaten up by a planet's worth of people. And of course, she fell on her face, crying. The vampire princess didn't fight much—she had people to do that for her. Hell, she didn't carry her own things, she did…nothing on her own. Now she wept pathetically in a puddle of her own tears. Served her right.
Alucard walked over then flipped her with his foot. Tears and a little snot. He shook his head and grinned.
"What the hell happened to you? Did you get raped by a lawnmower? I mean this isn't the most dignifying manner for a princess to enter our clan's estates. You're lucky the others aren't here."
He pulled out his phone and took a picture. "That look on you is a keeper." He laughed.
"Get…get the king," Hisa said then whimpered. She really did look like hell. Who did she piss off? Alucard felt a slight electric sensation radiating from her. What the hell happened?
He watched her weep on the ground, begging him to get the king.
"Do I look like a messenger to you?" Alucard said. "You crawled here, you go get him. That's what you get for picking fights too big for you." He shook his head, wagging a finger at her nose.
"Please," Hisa said, whimpering. "Please…It hurts…" She continued to cry.
"Pathetic and you dare call yourself a vampire. I'll call the king, but you'd better get ready to do me a favor. Maybe arrange it everyone in a way to get Kiko and me alone."
"But she's—"
"Just lay there and keep silent," Alucard barked. "Pathetic filth." He would've kicked her if he had the anger in him. Seeing her in that state was instead amusing. Someone who spent their time looking down on others, yet had no strength to make them fear her—she was as pathetic as the newborns. He wouldn't let her so much as touch his shoe.
Alucard pulled out his phone and dialed the number. Seconds later, someone answered.
"Great King, I've got news for you. Hisa has turned up in a…distasteful state, to say the least. She has things to say to you."
"You know I'm a busy man," the king said on the other line. "I'm running the academy, loaded with paperwork, and spicing up my next meal. Filling her up with fear and false hope. And when it's time to stick my log in her pleasure hole, she'll have the desired taste of despair that I want. I've been working on her all school year." He cackled. "Pass the phone over to Hisa."
Alucard watched them talk. Eventually, Hisa turned over his phone, tears falling from her eyes.
"What now crybaby," he said. "Let me guess, he's going to spank you."
Hisa groaned.
"Send for one of our healers."
"You do it, I've got a date with Kiko."
"Kiko's gone, you asshole," Hisa said. "Gone! They took her."
Alucard's eyes widened.
"Explain now or I'll make you beg for death."
Hisa explained a hilarious defeat to him—she couldn't lie while inside the mansion due to the magical oaths—so Alucard ended up tipping his head back to laugh.
"Kiko belongs to our clan," Alucard said. "So, this is what you're going to do, crybaby. Unless you want the world to know, you will send out your annoying mosquito-vamp girls. While I personally will never acknowledge them as one of us and I can't for the life of me understand why you keep them around, they will be useful. There's going to be a full moon on Friday. I can't afford to miss it because your mistakes or Nina's mistakes. Also, bring me the girl who did this to you. She'll make a brilliant personal bodyguard. Maybe a good bedwarmer too."
He chuckled. "Don't fail me."
**
Monday. Week 4. Month 1. Year 1. Season: Autumn. Last week of the month…
The alarm felt like an electric shock to Clyde's head. He reluctantly opened his eyes, not ready for school. That's when he realized there was someone else in his bed beside Alice. She held his other arm. His guess was Tear, but he couldn't have been more wrong. The succubus was mischievous, but never intruded on her cousin. That red hair only meant one person.
Alice was glaring too—he felt that through the bond then looked at her.
"Any idea how this happened?" he said.
The half-demoness let out a breath.
"She has a lot of nerve entering our bed. You didn't do anything with her, right?"
"What? No," Clyde said. "How'd she get through the wards?"
"I don't know but we're going to teach her lesson," Alice said. "This is the one place where you're fully mine. I won't share your attention here. Well, nowhere, but definitely not here. I value our privacy more than cake."
She kissed Clyde as she crawled on top.
"We do have class—"
"She just needs to see," Alice said, grinning. She pulled out Clyde's horn, mounting. And they bucked. The half-demoness didn't hold back, moaning as loudly possible. She rode hard enough to make Clyde grunt.
When Melody woke, Alice grinned right at her. The trickster's face made tomatoes look pale. She hurried from the room, her last words being, "I'm sorry!"
"I wish we had time, I would've made you cum as she woke up," Alice said, still galloping.
"You're evil," Clyde said, laughing. "Talking with her is going to be awkward."
Alice shrugged.
"I deal with enough intrusions from Chika. We can't have another."
It was then Clyde realized Melody left the door wide open. The two gazed at Natalia as everything seemed to freeze.
"L..L—lewd! Hey everyone look, check—"
Alice slammed the door in time, blushing furiously.
"That brat," she said. "Well, wait until she finds out about her missing taiyaki."
"You didn't!" Natalia whined on the other side of the door. Her hurried footsteps indicated a bolt for the kitchen. The scurry of a frightened cat.
After Clyde and Alice washed up and got ready for the morning, they met with Melody, Harumi, Chika, and Maki. Yuki sent them off with smiles, though an extra look and a whisper for Clyde. They Jumped to a secluded area, secured by Seth and Toru, then walked to the school. Yusuke and Kitome awaited them at the gates.
For a moment, the young man sensed just a tiny bit of unusual aura streaking off Yusuke. It was purple and foreign, barely visible. It didn't belong to Ruri, whose essence was light blue. Clyde wasn't an expert on reading auras and he'd only recently started looking into them. It seemed to be a part of his main character talents, though not stated. Main character stuff, a cluster fuck of an OP ability that randomly activated extremely rare skills at unpredictable times. Apparently, all anime protagonists had some variant of it: sudden power boosts that made no damn sense, the power of friendship, transformations, and the list went on. Clyde seemed to have it all.
Well, if Yusuke was actually in some kind of trouble, he'd tell him. Clyde didn't babysit his party, which they probably appreciated. Wait…aura. His ability to see aura only improved to this degree due to having sex with Chika—at least after he gained the Ki system. This was definitely a Ki ability—how did he not see this before? The silver-haired girl's crests were: vitality, speed, and aura. He almost laughed. The amount of sex needed to boost these stats was absurd.
He glanced at Chika, who was already looking at him. She blushed and turned. The young man would have to go ahead and get his Ki lessons from Maki. At least when Yuki wasn't working her to death. He'd leave the scheduling to the demoness. He'd also need to dig up what Tear, Melody, and Natalia were planning. Alice was in on it, which made sense due to her being the new Hades head. Not that she made any declaration.
The school day breezed by like normal, except with the looming storm cloud known as the exams on Wednesday. Clyde studied on his off time, but especially during school hours. None of the women were there to distract him. If only he knew enough of this dimension to take the number one spot from Chika.
Clyde strolled down the hall to deliver papers for a professor. On his way, he caught a few pleasant glimpses of day to day events. Harumi working hard in a culinary class, Alice carrying things for a professor with a classmate while smiling and chatting. Chika presenting something complicated to a fascinated class, Sazuki running a meeting with her student council. Melody and Toru seeming to recite something from a book to a group of awed students. Kitome appearing to be bored in her class, until taking notes. Her eyes then flashed to determination. Getting into a difficult school like the academy left no room for goofing off. Seth appeared to be working in a group project with three beautiful girls and someone hooded. Someone who apparently gave no fucks about the school's dress code.
Clyde's mind wondered to Ming for some reason. He'd have to talk to her. Either she was with the party or not. What was her true purpose anyway?
He spotted Yusuke down the hall, chatted with him for a bit, then headed off to finish his delivery. He did not forget the slight trail of purple aura that seemed to latch onto Yusuke's white like a parasite. Something about that bugged him. Was Yusuke hiding something? Pssh, it seemed like everyone had something to hide these days. He couldn't possibly stretch his already thin time to worry about their problems. Not unless they told him they had any, to begin with.
After classes finally ended, he decided it was time to give crafting some loving. Items built in advance saved his ass during crucial fights. He needed to please the gamer inside anyway—improve his pathetic inventory. Maybe he'd pass this task off to one of his party members, have them present him something once a week, maybe once a month. Ideas for later. None of his current party members showed any sign of crafting, not even in their analysis. Another thing he wanted to do was analyze his stats, pair them to something physical. Test them. See if his speed stat actually walked the walk, rather than just being numbers in his head. That, of course, applied to all of them.
Clyde suddenly stopped, gaining the curious stares of the others. Why couldn't he stop thinking about Yusuke's foreign aura?
"Kitome, is there anything weird going on with your brother's demeanor?"
"No, why do ask?"
"Nothing important. I guess it's just me," he said. "Just let me know if he starts freaking out or showing any signs of....just keep an eye on him. I need to confirm something."
"I'm not his goddamn babysitter," Kitome snapped. "Besides, he's inviting that girl over for the first time today. To think that sneaky bastard got a girlfriend without my approval."
Harumi placed a hand on the fiery magical girl's shoulder.
"You have to let him be a man on his own, Kitome," she said.
"I know," she said, voice still snappy. "That doesn't mean I have to like it."
"Women," Seth said, drawing all of their glares. Alice's cold look seemed to finally start his sweating. Chika looked as if she had an invisible knife in her hands. Clyde laughed then pat his friend on the shoulder.
"Seth, there are some things best left unsaid. Where do you want your funeral?"
"Anywhere that Toru won't be present," Seth said, grinning. "Can't have monster girls raising me from the dead to enslave me. Though it may not be so bad. Daily sha-banging." He made a thrusting motion.
"You're disgusting," Kitome said.
"Agreed," chimed the other young women. They spun to continue forward.
"They always play hard to get," Seth said.
"Maybe," Clyde said, then started after them. "By the way, who was that hooded person in your group? Fuck the school rules, right?"
"What hooded person?" Seth said. Everyone stopped to look at Clyde.
Alucard yawned as he read Hisa's diary. Why keep one if you didn't want it read? That ordeal never made sense to the vampire prince. He sat the diary on the dresser, looked onto the mirror and straightened the collar of his shirt. The buttons were left undone as usual. White hair and red eyes peered back at him. Today would be the day where he'd sneak into Kiko's room to have sex with her.
As if it'd be that easy. If he could muster of up the courage to ask her to view the moon with him, then maybe. She should be vampire enough by now and received the lessons to understand the culture. Viewing the moon—two vampires on a romantic night hunt. They take one gulp of blood from the same human, let it rage their hormones, then have wild sex. The event had little to do with the moon, except that if done when full, the passion supposedly intensified. Romantic stuff that only girls cared about.
Alucard left Hisa's room to man up and hopefully get laid. Vampire girls weren't the easiest to tame—at least not for vampire men. The king told him that newborn were easier to talk to because they hadn't adopted the snobby attitudes of the nobility just yet. They also had no desire to plot and needed at least ten years to learn the game. Learn how to move up in the clan.
Suddenly, Hisa burst through the front mansion doors, looking as if she was beaten up by a planet's worth of people. And of course, she fell on her face, crying. The vampire princess didn't fight much—she had people to do that for her. Hell, she didn't carry her own things, she did…nothing on her own. Now she wept pathetically in a puddle of her own tears. Served her right.
Alucard walked over then flipped her with his foot. Tears and a little snot. He shook his head and grinned.
"What the hell happened to you? Did you get raped by a lawnmower? I mean this isn't the most dignifying manner for a princess to enter our clan's estates. You're lucky the others aren't here."
He pulled out his phone and took a picture. "That look on you is a keeper." He laughed.
"Get…get the king," Hisa said then whimpered. She really did look like hell. Who did she piss off? Alucard felt a slight electric sensation radiating from her. What the hell happened?
He watched her weep on the ground, begging him to get the king.
"Do I look like a messenger to you?" Alucard said. "You crawled here, you go get him. That's what you get for picking fights too big for you." He shook his head, wagging a finger at her nose.
"Please," Hisa said, whimpering. "Please…It hurts…" She continued to cry.
"Pathetic and you dare call yourself a vampire. I'll call the king, but you'd better get ready to do me a favor. Maybe arrange it everyone in a way to get Kiko and me alone."
"But she's—"
"Just lay there and keep silent," Alucard barked. "Pathetic filth." He would've kicked her if he had the anger in him. Seeing her in that state was instead amusing. Someone who spent their time looking down on others, yet had no strength to make them fear her—she was as pathetic as the newborns. He wouldn't let her so much as touch his shoe.
Alucard pulled out his phone and dialed the number. Seconds later, someone answered.
"Great King, I've got news for you. Hisa has turned up in a…distasteful state, to say the least. She has things to say to you."
"You know I'm a busy man," the king said on the other line. "I'm running the academy, loaded with paperwork, and spicing up my next meal. Filling her up with fear and false hope. And when it's time to stick my log in her pleasure hole, she'll have the desired taste of despair that I want. I've been working on her all school year." He cackled. "Pass the phone over to Hisa."
Alucard watched them talk. Eventually, Hisa turned over his phone, tears falling from her eyes.
"What now crybaby," he said. "Let me guess, he's going to spank you."
Hisa groaned.
"Send for one of our healers."
"You do it, I've got a date with Kiko."
"Kiko's gone, you asshole," Hisa said. "Gone! They took her."
Alucard's eyes widened.
"Explain now or I'll make you beg for death."
Hisa explained a hilarious defeat to him—she couldn't lie while inside the mansion due to the magical oaths—so Alucard ended up tipping his head back to laugh.
"Kiko belongs to our clan," Alucard said. "So, this is what you're going to do, crybaby. Unless you want the world to know, you will send out your annoying mosquito-vamp girls. While I personally will never acknowledge them as one of us and I can't for the life of me understand why you keep them around, they will be useful. There's going to be a full moon on Friday. I can't afford to miss it because your mistakes or Nina's mistakes. Also, bring me the girl who did this to you. She'll make a brilliant personal bodyguard. Maybe a good bedwarmer too."
He chuckled. "Don't fail me."
**
Monday. Week 4. Month 1. Year 1. Season: Autumn. Last week of the month…
The alarm felt like an electric shock to Clyde's head. He reluctantly opened his eyes, not ready for school. That's when he realized there was someone else in his bed beside Alice. She held his other arm. His guess was Tear, but he couldn't have been more wrong. The succubus was mischievous, but never intruded on her cousin. That red hair only meant one person.
Alice was glaring too—he felt that through the bond then looked at her.
"Any idea how this happened?" he said.
The half-demoness let out a breath.
"She has a lot of nerve entering our bed. You didn't do anything with her, right?"
"What? No," Clyde said. "How'd she get through the wards?"
"I don't know but we're going to teach her lesson," Alice said. "This is the one place where you're fully mine. I won't share your attention here. Well, nowhere, but definitely not here. I value our privacy more than cake."
She kissed Clyde as she crawled on top.
"We do have class—"
"She just needs to see," Alice said, grinning. She pulled out Clyde's horn, mounting. And they bucked. The half-demoness didn't hold back, moaning as loudly possible. She rode hard enough to make Clyde grunt.
When Melody woke, Alice grinned right at her. The trickster's face made tomatoes look pale. She hurried from the room, her last words being, "I'm sorry!"
"I wish we had time, I would've made you cum as she woke up," Alice said, still galloping.
"You're evil," Clyde said, laughing. "Talking with her is going to be awkward."
Alice shrugged.
"I deal with enough intrusions from Chika. We can't have another."
It was then Clyde realized Melody left the door wide open. The two gazed at Natalia as everything seemed to freeze.
"L..L—lewd! Hey everyone look, check—"
Alice slammed the door in time, blushing furiously.
"That brat," she said. "Well, wait until she finds out about her missing taiyaki."
"You didn't!" Natalia whined on the other side of the door. Her hurried footsteps indicated a bolt for the kitchen. The scurry of a frightened cat.
After Clyde and Alice washed up and got ready for the morning, they met with Melody, Harumi, Chika, and Maki. Yuki sent them off with smiles, though an extra look and a whisper for Clyde. They Jumped to a secluded area, secured by Seth and Toru, then walked to the school. Yusuke and Kitome awaited them at the gates.
For a moment, the young man sensed just a tiny bit of unusual aura streaking off Yusuke. It was purple and foreign, barely visible. It didn't belong to Ruri, whose essence was light blue. Clyde wasn't an expert on reading auras and he'd only recently started looking into them. It seemed to be a part of his main character talents, though not stated. Main character stuff, a cluster fuck of an OP ability that randomly activated extremely rare skills at unpredictable times. Apparently, all anime protagonists had some variant of it: sudden power boosts that made no damn sense, the power of friendship, transformations, and the list went on. Clyde seemed to have it all.
Well, if Yusuke was actually in some kind of trouble, he'd tell him. Clyde didn't babysit his party, which they probably appreciated. Wait…aura. His ability to see aura only improved to this degree due to having sex with Chika—at least after he gained the Ki system. This was definitely a Ki ability—how did he not see this before? The silver-haired girl's crests were: vitality, speed, and aura. He almost laughed. The amount of sex needed to boost these stats was absurd.
He glanced at Chika, who was already looking at him. She blushed and turned. The young man would have to go ahead and get his Ki lessons from Maki. At least when Yuki wasn't working her to death. He'd leave the scheduling to the demoness. He'd also need to dig up what Tear, Melody, and Natalia were planning. Alice was in on it, which made sense due to her being the new Hades head. Not that she made any declaration.
The school day breezed by like normal, except with the looming storm cloud known as the exams on Wednesday. Clyde studied on his off time, but especially during school hours. None of the women were there to distract him. If only he knew enough of this dimension to take the number one spot from Chika.
Clyde strolled down the hall to deliver papers for a professor. On his way, he caught a few pleasant glimpses of day to day events. Harumi working hard in a culinary class, Alice carrying things for a professor with a classmate while smiling and chatting. Chika presenting something complicated to a fascinated class, Sazuki running a meeting with her student council. Melody and Toru seeming to recite something from a book to a group of awed students. Kitome appearing to be bored in her class, until taking notes. Her eyes then flashed to determination. Getting into a difficult school like the academy left no room for goofing off. Seth appeared to be working in a group project with three beautiful girls and someone hooded. Someone who apparently gave no fucks about the school's dress code.
Clyde's mind wondered to Ming for some reason. He'd have to talk to her. Either she was with the party or not. What was her true purpose anyway?
He spotted Yusuke down the hall, chatted with him for a bit, then headed off to finish his delivery. He did not forget the slight trail of purple aura that seemed to latch onto Yusuke's white like a parasite. Something about that bugged him. Was Yusuke hiding something? Pssh, it seemed like everyone had something to hide these days. He couldn't possibly stretch his already thin time to worry about their problems. Not unless they told him they had any, to begin with.
After classes finally ended, he decided it was time to give crafting some loving. Items built in advance saved his ass during crucial fights. He needed to please the gamer inside anyway—improve his pathetic inventory. Maybe he'd pass this task off to one of his party members, have them present him something once a week, maybe once a month. Ideas for later. None of his current party members showed any sign of crafting, not even in their analysis. Another thing he wanted to do was analyze his stats, pair them to something physical. Test them. See if his speed stat actually walked the walk, rather than just being numbers in his head. That, of course, applied to all of them.
Clyde suddenly stopped, gaining the curious stares of the others. Why couldn't he stop thinking about Yusuke's foreign aura?
"Kitome, is there anything weird going on with your brother's demeanor?"
"No, why do ask?"
"Nothing important. I guess it's just me," he said. "Just let me know if he starts freaking out or showing any signs of....just keep an eye on him. I need to confirm something."
"I'm not his goddamn babysitter," Kitome snapped. "Besides, he's inviting that girl over for the first time today. To think that sneaky bastard got a girlfriend without my approval."
Harumi placed a hand on the fiery magical girl's shoulder.
"You have to let him be a man on his own, Kitome," she said.
"I know," she said, voice still snappy. "That doesn't mean I have to like it."
"Women," Seth said, drawing all of their glares. Alice's cold look seemed to finally start his sweating. Chika looked as if she had an invisible knife in her hands. Clyde laughed then pat his friend on the shoulder.
"Seth, there are some things best left unsaid. Where do you want your funeral?"
"Anywhere that Toru won't be present," Seth said, grinning. "Can't have monster girls raising me from the dead to enslave me. Though it may not be so bad. Daily sha-banging." He made a thrusting motion.
"You're disgusting," Kitome said.
"Agreed," chimed the other young women. They spun to continue forward.
"They always play hard to get," Seth said.
"Maybe," Clyde said, then started after them. "By the way, who was that hooded person in your group? Fuck the school rules, right?"
"What hooded person?" Seth said. Everyone stopped to look at Clyde.
