Vampire In The City
Searching for Truth

“Shoot heart to kill vampire.” Taehyung shot towards the human cushion and hit the heart. He shot twice and no one missed.

Dorr! Dorr!

Jungkook stopped punching samsak. He turned his gaze to the left side, seeing Taehyung shooting right at the target of the human bearing.

“Wow...” muttered Jimin surprised as he looked at Taehyung.

Jungkook opened his gloves, he rushed there near Taehyung, Soojung, Seokjin and Yoon-gi. Jimin followed him behind. Hoseok who was lying down lifting weights turned his head, Namjoon was distracted even though he was lecturing Hoseok about muscle building tips.

Taehyung gave a smirk and his eyes were puffed up. “Shoot the head to kill humans.” He fired at the human head many times until the pads were torn in the head, the bus came out slightly due to the damage made Taehyung.

“Tae...” says Yoongi sadly. Seokjin was only staring at his clan members while Soojung was raising her eyes, not because of Taehyung's skill or speech just now, but because the vampire's eyes were white. This was the first time he had seen such a creepy-eyed vampire.

Jungkook felt his head hurt. And for a moment he saw the shadow of a white-clothed female man, like a medical worker, holding a syringe. They chatted something and then chuckled while moving the iron table containing the medicine bottles with a cross on the packaging.

“Tae!” Jimin's words startle Jungkook back to the real world. Seeing Jimin holding Taehyung's arm, Yoon-gi holds Taehyung as well while the Alpha takes the gun from Taehyung's hand.

Jungkook looked at Taehyung with wide eyes. What exactly did he just see? That's not his memory at all. After all, he could feel resentment and hatred from Taehyung's eyes.

Taehyung looked up and saw Jungkook who was looking at him. Jungkook's brows curved downwards, as if he was thinking of something pathetic. Taehyung would not blame Jungkook if the man reverted to thinking of him as a monster. Well, he admits he's a monster.

****

It has been a few weeks that Jungkook took additional courses at the campus. He took photography courses because his hobby would be snapping objects. This class is only followed by dozens of students, maybe because this is an additional course that is not mandatory so there are not many who are interested. Of course, those who take this class are those who are concerned in the field of photography. Classes in consist of students from various majors on campus.

Lecturers have just explained the technique of taking objects by using the technique of panning. And in the rest of the time ahead, each student is asked to take pictures with the technique using their own camera.

Jungkook pulled the camera out of his bag. Honestly, some of this time his passion was lost in photography. A lot of things happened that made him not have time for this camera.

Jungkook. He will try it again, honing this hobby.

Jungkook checked his memory card which turned out to be full. He clucked in annoyance, he had not even moved the photos on his camera and emptied the memory.

“Aishh...” murmured his own annoyance. Now can he take a picture like this.

“Sounds like you have a problem?” said someone surprised Jungkook. He saw a student who had been sitting not far from his desk. Jungkook did not pay much attention around, who was sitting nearby in the additional course, he did not recognize the woman.

“Umm, well..” say Jungkook stiff. The first conversation with a stranger is not always smooth for Jungkook.

“Your memory is full?” asked the beautiful woman while raising her eyebrows and looking at Jungkook's camera.

“Well.. that's what happened.” Jungkook breathed a long breath.

“I can help.” said the woman with a smile. He opened a small puch that seemed to contain photographic equipment. The woman gave an SDXC (a kind of camera memory card) to Jungkook.

Jungkook's eyes grew bigger and realized what was happening. “A-anni.. no need to bother, I–“

“Receive it, you can return it later. It’s ok.”

Jungkook nodded and accepted the memory card. He muttered thank you. And it felt like he would be like a cold-hearted man if he did not introduce himself. “My name is Jeon Jungkook, I am from Chemical Engineering.”

The woman smiled. “My name is Lalisa, people used to call me Lisa. I'm from veterinary school. Nice to meet you, Jungkook-ssi.”

Well damn's. The woman didn't even look at the veterinary department. Jungkook is actually cute around him but he still did not expect that this fashionable-looking woman came from the veterinary department.

“Shock yes?” Lisa chuckles softly, “I'd rather enter this major than regular medicine.”

“Wae?” Inevitably Jungkook was quite interested in this chat.

“The structure of human anatomy looks boring. I want to know the anatomical structure of other creatures and I aspire someday to be able to heal sick animals.”

Jungkook nodded. A very noble ambition.

“So what are you going to photograph?” ask Lisa because the other students have spread to look for photo objects.

“I'll be shooting in the canteen,” suhut Jungkook, “Panning technique will be suitable for crowded places like canteen.”

“Good choice,” Lisa said, “I too seem to be taking a photo in the canteen.”

The two of them went to the cafeteria and chatted.

“What chemical engineering is an exciting major?” asked Lisa while walking next to Jungkook.

“Well... same as other majors I guess. Student is heterogeneous.”

“I guess serious chemical engineering students are all because you look so, Jungkook-ssi.”

Jungkook laughed softly. “People say so too. I only have a few friends.”

Lisa nodded. “If your friends are a little sure you are very close to them huh?”

Jungkook smiled to himself, somehow he had to answer Lisa's question. “You could say so.”

The two have arrived at the cafeteria and Jungkook was also excused to part ways. This is so that both have space in each of them in photographing objects. Not bad either, Jungkook feels he already has a new friend.

***

Tonight Jimin returns to the Kim Brothers mansion to perform the ritual. Jimin needs to do this once every two weeks: receive a vampire blood transfusion. As usual the blood that will be transfused is the blood of Yoon-gi. The dhampir was still trying to find a cure to stop Jimin's dependence.

“How's your mother, Jimin?” yongi asked quietly while he was preparing a transfusion hose. Jimin was already lying on the bed in the room that was used as a medical room by the Kim clan.

“She is healthy..” she said. Jimin was no longer afraid of this ritual, maybe he was already very confident in Yoongi and the others.

“What has your mother ever received a guest?” ask Yoongi.

“I was thinking of course there would be people coming to see your mother and maybe asking about the vampires that were once in the basement.”

Jimin's eyes grew. “Is that?”

“Your mother has lost her memory of vampires. If anyone came like that and told her it would definitely make your mother very confused. And if so your mother could be reported to the organization that already provided the vampire for your mother.”

Jimin gulped. He shuddered himself imagining how dangerous it was. “What should I do, Hyung?”

“You can tell me if any such person comes to your house.”

“But what if the person came in while I was in college?” Jimin panicked himself. If it's like this, the blood pressure will rise and Yoongi can't transfuse the blood until Jimin's blood pressure returns to normal.

That's a hard question to answer for Yoon-gi. “Then... are you ready to tell your mother about what happened? No need for you to mention our clan, maybe just tell in general.”

There goes. This is what Jimin always feared, when he had to invite his mother to talk about vampires. “I'll try, Hyung.”

.

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After the ritual was completed, they joined the others who were in the living room. Namjoon and Hoseok are struggling in front of the laptop completing the paper task, Taehyung is lying on the sofa while eating ice cream in a big cup, Seokjin is busy with her phone.

Jimin immediately joined Taehyung, looting the vampire ice cream that makes Taehyung can only mislead.

“Have there been any developments from the vampire board?” ask Seokjin Yoon. He was inquiring about the case of the hunter attack on the bamboo villa.

Seokjin raised her face. “Ah, I forgot to tell her yes. A few days ago I was talking to Jackson. He said that Vernon, one of the council vampires who was caught was a soulmate vampire. So the vampire council is trying to track Vernon's whereabouts via telepathy from his soulmate.”

Suddenly Taehyung immediately coughed upon hearing back the word soulmate. Jimin was confused to see the reaction of his friend.

Yoongi glanced at Taehyung at a glance. Namjoon immediately stopped typing and looked at Seokjin.

“Soulmate?” ask Hoseok wonder.

“I don't know about vampire soulmate,” said Seokjin honestly, “But there don't seem to be many such events.”

“Taehyung is also a soulmate vampire..” Namjoon said plainly.

“Mwo?” ask Seokjin and Jimin together.

Taehyung hasn't had time to prevent Namjoon's bucket mouth from directly saying, “Jungkook is his soulmate.”

Silent. Seokjin frowned, Hoseok blinked and turned to Taehyung, in shock. Taehyung felt like he wanted to shout angry, rampaging, but somehow to whom.

“But Jungkook is not a vampire..” muttered Jimin. He turned to Taehyung, looking at his friend's face as if there was an answer on the vampire's face.

“Taehyung can only drink Jungkook's blood, if he drinks another blood he will vomit.” continued Namjoon at length without caring about Taehyung's emotional upheaval now.

Yoongi. He could feel how Taehyung's current emotions were like an erupting volcano. If not careful Taehyung can rampage and silence all residents of the house.

“Is that?” Seokjin frowned at Yoongi, wondering why the dhampir had not told him.

“I don't know much about soulmate,” said Yoongi finally, “But that was the first conclusion I took for Taehyung.”

“Then it is like that.. what does it mean that Vernon is dead?” tanya Seokjin, “Because she's been arrested for weeks. He will die if he does not drink his soulmate's blood.”

“Lah..” Namjoon so gawking. The Alpha speech was out of sync with the soulmate theory he heard, especially in Taehyung's case. Taehyung can only drink Jungkook's blood, while Vernon has a soulmate from a fellow vampire. If true vampire soulmate could only drink the blood of his soulmate alone could be sure Vernon had died because he was kidnapped for weeks.

“Different case because Vernon met his soulmate who is also a vampire.” said Yoongi. “If Vernon's case he can still drink human blood, well he can also drink his soulmate's blood but that doesn't mean he can't drink human blood anymore. Jungkook is human. The first time Taehyung bit and sucked blood was from Jungkook. I think that's what makes–“

“Stop this nonsense!” cut Taehyung can not stand to be a topic of conversation. “I admit I can only drink Jungkook's blood, but there's no need to connect it to soulmate. It makes me very uncomfortable!”

Taehyung immediately got up and left the middle room towards his room. His mood changed drastically due to the theory of the soulmate.

“Taehyung can only drink Jungkook blood?” jimin's back is still dumbfounded. He who is an ordinary human needs to think extra in the case of vampires like this.

“We take that as a matter of fact,” said Yoongi sighed, “Kurasa Jungkook would feel uncomfortable if he heard he was the soulmate of a vampire. Isn't that right, Jimin?”

Jimin's mouth was still open because of the shock. He also nodded in agreement. He knew that since childhood Jungkook had hated vampires due to the death of his parents. If Jungkook knows that he is the soulmate of a vampire, Jungkook may feel that he is cursed. He wanted to take revenge on vampires but was instead given the opposite.

“At least I'm a little relieved, there's a chance Vernon is still alive.” Seokjin said as she pinched her head.

“Vampire captured must still be alive but the condition has been exploited.” said Yoongi.

“We must immediately find the vampires,” said Hoseok while biting his nails, “And there may also be other vampires who become his victims.”

“Indeed many vampires are missing,” said Namjoon, “Only we always think that vampires are lost because they were killed by hunters, either burned or what until we can not find the body.”

“That's what we think,” said Seokjin, “But now we know exactly what those hunters did.”

Hoseok bit his lips, recalled with a web of Delicious Pasta. He wondered if there was any development Taehyung had obtained from the Black Dragon club? Is Delicious Pasta really a web of vampire sales syndicates?

Jimin's face was now so pale. He was still shaken by what the vampires were talking about. This further proves that even humans can be more savage and heartless, exploiting vampires to reap profits.

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shout out the new character (again) in this novel... LISA

basically everything in this novel is just a fictitious 😔 about Lisa want to say yes

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