“Xenados…”

Antonia looked at her son with eye’s filled with sorrow.

“Mom… sorry, I became like this…”

Averting his eyes from her Xenados didn't want to face her. Her son who she sacrificed her life for, for her precious son to become a monster, a heartless murderer, he doesn't want to see the detection in her eyes. No he fears that he would find dejection in her eye, although not personally he knows how much love she has for her son.

[Throughout all the lives I’ve lived through, this is the very first one where I have felt genuine love from my parents… my first one, before I was pulled by that bastard god, I felt love from my family but… after a hundred years of experiencing thousands of lives… the memory, the feeling from that life, has already been lost]

Antonia didn’t mind what her son has become, she knows that in this world being kind and forgiving is but a naive way of thinking. Her son has changed, though he may not have changed for the better but as a mother she knows what her job is. The emotions of her son are currently in a swirl, he may not have taken their lives with his own hands but it’s not a lie to say that he’s the reason they died.

She knows she understands, this is his son’s very first kill, the most important thing is that she is able to lead her son to the right path. Her son was able to easily kill B-rank adventurers if he continues in this path, he would surely bring chaos to the world and to himself.

What she doesn’t know is that Xenados can perfectly think things through, he has experiences from many lives and with those he understands how to weigh the pros and cons. Also losing oneself and becoming a murderous monster is something he would never want to become.

“Xenados… dear”

Antonia ran up to Xenados taking him into her arms, she hugged him tightly. Feeling the warmth of his mother's embrace, Xenados’ mind relaxed.

[This feeling of warmth… it’s been so long]

“Mom… are you not disappointed in me?”

Xenados looked up to his mother's face and asked this question. He fears that he will be hated by her and most of all he fears to be seen as a monster by her. But he mustered up his courage and asked.

“Son, I don’t care if you use power for good or evil, as long as you make the right choices and not fall into a path that you can’t return from… I will never hate you even if you did, but I want to see you live your life without having someone chase after you, hunting you down. As long as you live a life that you enjoy I will support you no matter how good, idiotic, evil or naive it may be, mom will always be here for you. Okay”

Hearing his mother's words, tears uncontrollably gathered in his eyes, streams of tears flowed down from his face. His eyes that looked cold, emotionless and filled with hate now looked like that of a child's.

His profound eyes that would make even the gods shiver now looked joyful bringing with it more profoundness. In the evil darkness a light bloomed and brought with it salvation to the the darkness.

Light dissolves the darkness and darkness blankets the light, the world will always have a good and evil side a dark and light side. Xenados is the same, his evil emotionless personality is but one side of the coin. He may be heartless, he may kill anyone that goes in his way without batting an eye. But he still has a heart, he still knows how to love.

All living beings have desires, Xenados desires for revenge but more than that he desires for the thing that has been taken from him… Love, he wants to feel the warmth of genuine feelings of love.

[I don’t care what kind of love, as long as it’s genuine love towards me, as long as there’s the warmth that has been taken from me. I’m fine with it, I will protect it, this time, this time I won’t lose it! Even if I have to kill all the gods even if I have to face the whole universe! I will protect this, the one thing that’s important to me… the one thing that keeps my humanity.]

On his emotionless cold face a smile was born, it’s been a hundred years since Xenados had smiled from the bottom of his heart.

“Mother… I promise you I will protect those that are important to me”

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“Yes, yes as long as you are happy I will be here”

“Mnn”

In a big mansion hidden deep within the blood forest, ten men and women were seated around a large table.

The room is filled with various furniture, paintings and expensive works of art. They were all having their meal, various delicious looking dishes were on top of the table.

Though no matter how attractive the foodstuff are the person seated on the highest seat of honor was simply holding a glass of blood red wine with a frown on his face.

“Father what is the reason for that frown? You haven’t even touched your dinner, we may be immortal but it’s not good to skip meals and just drink blood”

The person who said this words towards the frowning man is a young man who looks to be 15 years of age. Though he looks like this he is actually more than a hundred years old. And although he called the man father he simply called him that because the man is the person who gave him immortality, the one who turned him into a vampire.

Vampires can be born but the fertility of a vampire is so low that it would need them a hundred years of continuous sex to get pregnant. Also when a female vampire gives birth, she loses half of her powers, as such vampires would rather use their blood to turn other races into vampires. When this happens the races turned into a vampire would become the child of the vampire who turned him to one.

There are also cases where a vampire mates with other races, when this happens chances of having children shoot up. Especially if the vampire is the male and the female is of another race. But in this cases the born child would never be a vampire but be labeled as a dhampir.

Dhampirs are not only shunned by the vampire community but also by the other races, not only dhampirs, half-humans, half-elves, half-orcs there are many races that have interracial relationships but the children of this relationships are all shunned.

In the whole world half breeds are seen as the common enemy, the reason for this is the races hate for each other.

Since ancient times the various races of the world continously had wars against each other, the hate piled up to such extremes. But love between two individuals is something that can’t be stopped that easily.

“That demoness actually believed that you fell for her”

A youthful feminine voice then entered the man's ears, with these all the vampires in the room started talking with each other about the relationships of their “father” and the demoness.

Their “father” is of course Sabien, though in Antonia’s eyes his different in actual fact he’s no different from the other vampires, if anything is different it would be his perverted sadistic side.

Sabien, if he were a human would be classified as a “Pedophile”, he is sexually attracted to “younger” women but not only that he’s an extreme sadist.

Before he met Antonia he played with many children, and although he lived for three years with Antonia, she was never able to enter deep within the mansion of Sabien. In fact he used the Vampires, his slaves to make it so he seems to be the kind who would move for love.

“I really wanted to play with that bitch, well, if she gave birth to a daughter then I would have kept her for longer but since she gave birth to a son and the young vampire princess is travelling and would reach here sometime in the future, I could only throw them away”

“Father really is worthy of the title “Great Pervert””

One of the vampires said but Sabien was not fazed, right now he was thinking of what to do since he lost all his playthings. A few days ago he threw the mother son pair away without showing Antonia his true side.

“If I showed her my true side and told her what I’d do if she gave birth to a girl… I would love to see the look on her face, it’s just so….”

Sabien controlled his urge and then a thought came to his mind, [What if I got the human princess as a toy?].

The human princess of the kingdom he is closest to just became three years old. The same age as his “son”, if he kept the mother son pair he could have made and arranged marriage and make it as a way for the vampires and humans to make peace. They don’t need to have eternal peace but at least some treaty or agreement, the humans being greedy and all he only needed to show some riches that are a good trade to make them nod their heads.

In this way he could play with the human princess whenever she came to his mansion. More than that it’s not like he will give his “son” a wife right? If needed he would murder his son and make it so he died in an unfortunate “accident”.

After which he would direct the marriage towards himself and it’s not like age matter when marrying a vampire so using his son is a great idea that he came up with. But instead of having the title of married man and playing with the human princess, throwing them away for a greater, vampire princess is a better choice is it not?

He could try making the engagement for himself directly but if he did, the humans would not accept this. By playing the victim and using his son to make it so the engagement could not be cancelled is a great idea but then again the vampire princess is like a gem among them all.

Vampires age slowly, ten years growth to a human is a hundred years to a vampire. In a sense 1 year growth to a human takes 10 years for vampires. Dhampirs are not like this as their blood is not pure. The other thing is that vampires can stop their bodies aging whenever they desire.

Though they stop they can't make their age suddenly continue. This is why most vampires pick to look between ages 18 to 30, only a few "eccentric" vampires choose to look younger or older than that range.

Sabien can make one of his subordinates children do this but will that satisfy him?

His subordinates are his slaves, they would do whatever he desires, compared to someone like the vampire princess or anyone with a noble lineage breaking this kind of people are a lot more fun and satisfying to him.

“I want all of you to kidnap village children from humans, demons or ogre villages, girls only and be sure to not spread the info of who ordered this”

“Yes Milord”

After which the nine vampires disappeared and started their mission.

From this day little girls would disappear from various villages across the continent. All these little girls would be brought to Sabien’s mansion.

When the first little girl was lost, from Sabiens mansion pained cries would be heard throughout the night. Since no one is allowed to enter 1 kilometer from Sabiens mansion and since it was guarded by his most trusted men no one knew what was occurring in the mansion.

This event would cause the whole continent and all the various kingdoms in it to classify the disappearance of little girls as a “Mystery”.  And following this many parents would tell their children to stay indoors especially if it’s getting dark.

But no matter what the kings of the various powers do they can’t pinpoint a culprit and no matter what they do disappearances can’t be stopped.

As such even the adventurers guild put up a job to hunt for this “Little Girl Devourer”.

Chapter Title: Understanding and the Great Pervert