
...
On the veranda of Scathach's house, two women are enjoying the serene atmosphere of the endless night of Nightingale. If strangers saw them, they would think the women were sisters because of their identical appearance, but they could hardly imagine that they were actually mothers and children.
"Mothers... Be honest with me..." Ruby spoke in a neutral voice.
"Hmm?" Scathach looked at his daughter.
"Why are you interested in my darling?" He looked into his mother's eyes to find answers. Ruby knew that her mother was attracted to people of great power; an example was Siena, her eldest foster sister. In the past, Siena showed great potential, and therefore, her mother adopted her.
Victor's potential is clear; this is undeniable. Ruby still remembered the day that Victor took the form of 'Count Vampire' with just the awakening of power, this kind of potential only appeared in the children of the Vampire King and the vampire Count.
But if it's a small interest, Ruby will understand, but... His interest in Victor was so abnormal, he went so far as to build an entire coliseum just for Victor. Building a coliseum is not cheap, and it mainly employs witches for the service.
"..."
Scathach's neutral face suddenly turned into a wide smile, "Ah~, my sweet and dear daughter, my precious little Ruby. You really don't know what you're up against, do you?"
"...?" Ruby did not expect this response from her mother.
Scathach got up from the chair she was sitting on, and slowly she walked to the front of the chair where Ruby was sitting, she knelt down in front of her daughter and lightly touched her daughter's face:
"Look at you, so young, so innocent, so pure, like a little red flower that just grew~. I was always worried that someone might try to trick you, "He started stroking his daughter's face.
"B-Mother?" Ruby did not understand her mother's sudden reaction.
"Because of that, I've always been overprotective of you. Who knows I could feel something like this soon..." Scathach put her hand on her chest, and her face showed a hint of contempt, "First, I hated that feeling, but... That's not so bad ... "
"..." - ".Ruby looked at her mother's expression without understanding anything. In times like these, when he was frustrated with himself, he always said that he understood his mother, but in the end, he couldn't understand anything.
"...Mom, are you running away from the question?" Ruby asked
"..." - ".Scathach showed a gentle smile, she looked at her daughter and stroked her face again:
"Who knows? Maybe I am, you know, right? I'm old, and I'm easy on emotion."
"..." - ".Ruby looked at her mother's smile with neutral eyes; once again, she always avoided questions, she was like a slippery eel, she never gave me a satisfactory answer, she said, how can I try to understand him if he doesn't say anything? I am not a psychic!... It's frustrating...'
Ever since she was a child, Ruby had always felt this way. Just when she thought that she understood her mother, something happened that made her realize that she really did not understand anything about her mother. For a child who wants to get closer to his mother, it's frustrating, it sucks! ... And most importantly, it's lonely ...
Scathach smiled lovingly and pulled both of Ruby's cheeks.
"Fua~!? S-Stop."
Scathach releases her daughter's chubby cheeks. "My little ruby... Don't try to understand me; you'll go crazy like me" She stroked her daughter's head.
Ruby looked at her mother, and she thought; 'Oh, I already know this pattern, she would say something like.'
"The creature that has lived for two thousand years on this Earth always has a screw loose on its head."
"The creature that has lived for two thousand years on this Earth always has a screw loose on its head."
Ruby repeated her mother's words in unison.
"..." - ".Scathach showed a surprised face.
Ruby smiled faintly, "It's the same pattern; when you don't want to say something to me, you keep throwing these confusing phrases to distract me."
"..." - ".Scathach's smile began to expand, "Pfft..." Then, unable to bear it, she started laughing, "HAHAHAHAHA!"
"...?" And that laugh just made Ruby's brain stop working again.
Scathach laughed as if finding something very amusing; after a few minutes of laughing, he looked at his daughter with a gentle smile: he was:
"Ah~, ever since Victor showed up, it seems like I've been laughing more."
"!!!" Ruby looked at her mother with a look of caution, "Mother!?"
"Hmm?" Looking at his daughter's gaze, he understood something, "Oya? Are you thinking about indecent things? You're that age; I have a perverted daughter~."
Ruby's face flushed red, she never imagined her mother would tease her.
"Hahaha, you're so cute," Scathach pulled her daughter's head to her chest, and soon she started caressing Ruby's head.
'Different from Darling.' he thought as he felt his mother stroke his head.
"..." - ".Ruby let out a tired sigh and buried her head into her mother's chest, "It's frustrating.I'm your daughter, but I can never fully understand you."
For a moment, Scathach stopped stroking Ruby's head, "...Silly, it was impossible for one to fully understand another being."
"Most understand people like me." Scathach chuckled, and then she started stroking Ruby's head again.
For a moment, the face of a man who was smiling like him appeared in Scathach's mind, but he shook his head inwardly, saying it was impossible.
"...Who knows...? If there was such a person, I would very much like to meet that person. Sometimes even I don't understand myself completely, I just do what I want, hahaha."
Sigh up!
Ruby sighed again, she curled up in her mother's chest and said without looking at her mother, "One day... One day, I'll understand you completely." He made a promise to himself.
"..." - ".Scathach didn't say anything, he kept stroking his daughter's head. Then, slowly, he turned his face to the moon and thought; 'Ah~. Beloved daughter... I really hope that day will never come.'
...
After Ruby's conversation with her mother, the redhead decides it's time to visit her Darling.
Ruby walked through the forest with an annoyed face; only when she left her mother's presence did she understand something:
Sigh up!
Ruby sighed again, "He tricked me!" He stepped on the ground in frustration.
She wanted to ask about her mother's interest in Victor, but at some point, the conversation turned into a mother-daughter conversation, and she avoided the topic entirely.
"He's always been like that!" He stepped on the ground again, and when he touched the ground, the ground froze completely, he ignored the frozen ground and shouted in frustration while ruffling his hair, "Gaaah!!"
"He always used that lip service and tricked me! Goddamnit! I should have known this, but why am I always fooled into this trick!?" With frustration piling up inside her body, Ruby looked at the poor tree with her fiery red eyes.
"REALLY!" He closed his fist and attacked the tree.
BOOM UP!
The poor tree flew towards an unknown place...
Now that he was releasing steam, the various feelings he had stored in his heart started to come out.
He remembered an arrogant blonde vampire, "And that arrogant bastard! He always got me into trouble, and I had no reason to kill him, but the first reasonable reason I found, he ran away! Goddamnit!"
He started attacking the surrounding scenery in frustration!
Rocks, trees, sand, plants, everything is not safe from Ruby.
"Violet,******** this spoiled! Always gets me in trouble! Does he not know how difficult it is to clean up his mess!? Especially in the incident where he blew up a fucking building in downtown New York!"
He created ice out of nowhere and attacked the rock!
"I mean.I know he's angry about being harassed, I'm angry too, but he doesn't have to blow up the whole building! He could have killed that guy! This would avoid attracting human attention, and it would also avoid any trouble with the royal bodyguards! If not for the fear that the royal guard had towards my mother, we would be in much bigger trouble!"
"MUHHH!" He ruffled his hair again.
He sighed a little relieved, but soon a sense of frustration arose in his heart when he recalled something:
"Sasha is not out of the circle either! Even though he wasn't as troubled as Violet, couldn't he be less reckless!? He was almost killed by the hunter, and instead of seeking help, he isolated himself and did not accept anyone's help!"
"Annoxious! Does he have no idea how worried I am!?"
"Fuck up! Fuck those! Fuck those! Fuck that!" He kicked the ground several times, and every time he kicked the ground, a small ice explosion occurred, so the entire area around Ruby felt like a fairly epic battle had occurred.
"And Darling is so insensitive! Because he hasn't come to look for me! Does he not know how much I miss him!? And why do I have such strong feelings for someone I just met!? Ahhhhhh!" He ruffled his hair again.
After screaming in frustration.
He put his finger on his lips and thought, 'This is his blood, right? It's his blood that got me interested in him, right?' He tried to convince himself that this was him.
'But what is this feeling of obsession!? I felt like she was just for me, and I felt annoyed when Sasha and Violet were around me; I wanted to kidnap her and lock her in the basement. I want him just for me!'
"Aaaah! What is this feeling!?" He's very confused.
He lay on the ground and looked at the moon for a long time, he sighed, then he said, "This is all Violet's fault ... Yes, it's all Violet's fault, she always forgets what matters when she's angry, and I have to clean up the mess later! If not"
He would say more but stopped when he heard something.
"Whistles!" He heard someone whistle.
"Who's there!?" He stood up and looked at the visitor in a fighting position. As the moonlight shines on the visitor, Ruby's face darkens.
"DD-Darling!?"
"Yo," Victor smiled gently as he looked at Ruby's disheveled appearance.