A silver hair young man with pale face was sleeping in a bed. The room was bathed in a dim light that filtered through the window, highlighting the young man’s face and enhancing his charm. He was awakened and coughed up a quantity of blackish red blood. He weakly leaned against the wall for support. His once charming grey eyes now seem lifeless. He glanced up and noticed a woman grinning mischievously.

“Why are you here?” he said with annoyance.

"Oh, you have quite a look, my little boy. Does anybody hurt you?” she said with a smile.

He expressed frustration, stating, “I don’t want to be your servant, and I’ve told you this before.”

“You’re dying, my little boy, and only I, the Nobel vampire, can save you,” she smiles with laughter and said to him “My pathetic boy, why you didn’t want to, my servant. I can give you imaginary power so that the little poison doesn’t affect your body.”

“Even if I died, I would not accept your generous offer of being a demon servant,” he said, while coughing up more blood.

“Oh, my what I am going to do if my stubborn boy die,” she pretends to think for a while and said to him, “how about we play a game in which my little boy guessed who poison you and you only get one try. If your answer is right, then I will cure you with a bonus of disappear from your life for a couple of years. But if your answer is wrong, then you have to be my servant.”

His face looked more and more dead as time goes. After thinking for a couple of minutes, his face had shown a little life. Vampire was observing him and after seeing his face change, she asked him again, “which choice will you make? Will you play a game or not?”

“I will play a game if you are not the culprit,” he said with conviction.

“How could you think I would poise my little boy,” she said with fake tears and curiously asked, “So tell me who was a culprit.”

“There are only three possible culprits. Cat lady who serves me breakfast, a bartender who serve few drinks to me and Sam whom I spend dinner with,” he said.

“So, the culprit is Sam because he has more possibility to poison you,” she said.

“No, he was least likely to be the culprit as I ordered the foods, and we share same foods. If I was poison, he was most likely poison and if he is alive, then we can eliminate some of the possibility of me being poisoned during dinner.”

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She disappeared from the room. It was complete silence in the room. He was leaning towards the bed to rest. He was rather calm despite life threating crises looming over. A 168cm man looked quite the short. If you pass the charming face of a young man, you can see burn scar on the back of the neck cover by his medium length hair.

Vampire return to room and said “Sam is alive, so we have only two culprits left. Who is culprit cat girl or bartender.”

“There are two culprits left whom I hadn’t any relation or conflict. So, there is only possibility that they received the lot of silver coins for job. if bartender received silver, he most likely to spend the advance money on high quality good on brothel before completing the order. As brothels are only open at night if he went the inspect the goods before completing the order then he was more likely to spend in brothel day before yesterday. But from my observation yesterday, he was in a depress state and hadn’t been to brothel for week.” he leaned towards the women and said, “So the culprit from rule of elimination is cat lady.”

“If culprit is cat lady, then who is person behind your assassination.”

“It does matter. I have found the culprit who directly poison me. Now it is your turn to conform my guess and if I am right then cure me from this damn poison.”

She again disappeared from room. After some time, she appeared again with cat lady. She was holding cat lady like one would hold an actual cat. She threw cat lady towards the foot of the bed. Cat lady had blood on her face.

Cat lady stand weakly towards man and said “Mr. Lowell, I didn’t have any choice. A masked man threatened to kill my husband and kids.”

Vampire moved her hands towards cat lady. A scythe formed with blood appeared in hand of vampire. She slashed her scythe across the cat lady head killing her in an instant. Scythe disappeared leaving blooded body of women in the floor. Body of the women slowly starting to disappear into nothingness.

“She accepted lot of silver to kill you. At a death door she really wanted to gain sympathy. What a pathetic girl,” She grumbled and seat across the bed opposite to young man and said “Now, you know who poison you don’t you want to know who mastermind is.”

“I will find it myself. You just have to cure me and disappears from my life,” he said.

She uncovered the cloth from stomach area and gently placed her hand on him. Black Blood moved out of body. Lowell was suppressing the pain but it was clearly visible through his face. She threw black blood out of window and disappeared from room.

Lowell slept for hours and when he woke up it was already night. He changed to new clothes. He was wearing long white shirt over black thick trouser, black boots and dark brown belt over the waist. Dragger was hanging in a belt.

He exited the room and came down to tavern on ground floor. He sat on the bench across the dinner table and order the food. After eating food, he went out of tavern and walk across town for hours until he saw a tall muscular brown skin color man.

Lowell unsheathed dragger from his belt while followed him and put the blade across neck of man. He pulled him into dark alley and said” Sam, You son of bitch why you would poison me.”

“How do you know that.”

“Half of year that I have spent in this shithole town, I only make one friend. Yesterday when I saw you somewhat different behavior like inviting me to dinner, spending your own silver and taking to me politely. This chain of behavior somewhat can be ignoring as someone having good mood but after knowing about poison, it makes all sense now. Sam fucking Scott, tell me who order you to poison me.”

“You already knew who is masterminded why would you go to such length to find that from me. You have been running for that person for long time. Now is your time to rest and let go of eternal suffering.”

Five masked men appeared behind Lowell. Lowell knew that death was imminent. Masked men attacked from different side with their short sword. He fell down. Blood was flowing out as there was many cuts wound on his body.

“I want to give you a peaceful death. I even spends silver on that cat whore to poison you so that I would not have your blood on my hands. You are my closes friend but as a human being I can only chose power over friendship,” Sam rambled as he moved out of alley along with masked men.

As he was taking his last breath, he saw blonde 180cm tall woman with seductive body. Her hand was holding a blood red color long scythe. Her long golden blonde silky hair gently swaying in the wind creating a smooth rhythm. Her pale face with red eyes and lips made her deadly. She leaned toward him and bit him in the neck.

“I, Lorelei Sabine Thorn will make you Lowell Fox my servant.”