Act 1 Permission

I placed down the telephone after I and Rikka finished talking.

It felt like I had just been given a booty call as she asked me to meet her.

At first she wanted to go to my house, but in the end I decided on the school’s roof.

With my plans on making more acting props tonight ruined, I went to the princess to ask for permission to leave the manor.

“Good evening princess, I would like permission to leave the manor house for a few hours.” I asked her as she was brooding, her scarlet eyes gazing out the window of the dining room.

I always see her like this and I still don't know what she was thinking about, was it her old home? Her plans in this succession war. . . or something more simple.

“Why?” She asked, as I thought about her, and as spoke she did not turn to look at me as her focus was on a butterfly landing on the window's crystal glass surface.

“A friend at school wanted to meet me.” I said honestly but vaguely as I mentally debated if I should explain the circumstances or not.

“You may go Shiro, but don’t be out for too long, you are too young for nightly dalliances.” She said as a bat came and ate the butterfly.

The red eyed bat stayed at the window’s surface, staring at her as she did the same, I saw her reflection as her neutral smile turned grim.

Still her comment made my cheeks redden, my body reacting sensitively as it was going through an apex human’s peak puberty, even my mind sometimes wandered more often than I wanted it too.

Was my thought as I can’t move my eyes to the tightness of her white night dress, the silk almost letting me see her curves and the faint view of her pink underwear.

“Thank you. . .my princess, I will be taking my leave now.” I said bowing to her, forcing my eyes downward as I left her candle lit dim dining room.

The bat stayed for a moment longer before leaving as well, and in that room the princess was alone with only her thoughts and the small maid for company .

“I have a bad feeling about this.” She said to her only companion, as I was already leaving the house after a quick change of clothes, and grabbing a few of my magical things.

As the princess and Flenna watched me leave, from the second floor, she saw the bat wasn't too far behind, following me.

“Flugga?” The android maid said in question.

The princess didn't answer, as she casually left her dining room and headed to the kitchen.

Act 2 Girl at night

I rode my bike to school quickly, the town felt empty and dark.

Except for the main streets, as light shines upon the convenient stores, theaters, bars and night cafes, but those I avoided, preferring to take the quieter still fairly lit residential streets.

And as I rode I thought of starting a nightlife soon, not just to have fun.

But to start building an information network around the town, it’s concerning how we only knew about assassins when they're already at our doorsteps.

The question is, has the princess already made one herself? Or not.

It’s cornering that I don’t know, and I feel like she’s being half-hearted with her security.

She's not even hiring more guards, building fortifications around the manor or ensuring she’s truly hidden.

She already expressed her desire to have more servants, but what is stopping her from hiring more? Here in the human world or in the nether-realms.

I know why she left the netherworld, it's because of the dynastic warfare that’s going on in her family.

But if she’s a princess, what happened to her royal guards? Why did she leave her own holdings, if she fled leaving everything behind then why does she have so much money? and why come here to Yamato?

The questions were piling up and it’s becoming harder and harder to subtly get any answers from her. . . should I start being direct?

Those were my thoughts as I traveled through an open gate of the school biking directly to the back door of the highschool section of the main building.

I talked to the guard about it, and asked why they don’t lock it and she told me they specifically do not lock that door so that students and faculty can get in if they forgot something.

Which was a lie, after I asked more people about it.

The real reason is the lock was broken years ago, and until now no one bothered to change it and the guards just made an excuse to tell students and low rank faculty.

I entered and quickly walked up the stairs to the roof, as I ignored the sounds and glimpses of things in the other floors.

Damn, didn’t know the school was haunted at night, explains why the guards stayed in their break rooms and guard houses all night.

As I entered the roof I saw Rikka was there looking up at the crescent moon, I walked silently towards her, after I casted an erase-presence.

Quite in my steps, I was able to sneak to her and whisper to her, pale pink tip ear.

“It’s a beautiful night isn’t it?” I said gently, but still she jumped back in fright as I started laughing.

“Ha ha ha, Sorry Chinomi-senpai, I didn't know you frightened so easily.” I said smiling at her as she gave me a frown.

“Shiro! That's not how you treat a lady!” She said now fuming but with an amused smile on her face.

“So. . .” I started but she cut me off.

“First, stop calling me Chinomi-senpai, Rikka’s fine Shiro.” She said as she gazed into my eyes with her lips redder with a delicate smile.

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“Alright Rikka, and you can just keep calling me Shiro, so why did you ask me here? If you wanted to go on a date we could have talked about it after classes tomorrow.” I said as I walked towards the fence, looking down at the lit parts of town.

“Well, if I did that, who would have shared with me the beauty of this night?” She said questioningly as she stood on my side.

“Well it’s not as beautiful as you Lady Rikka.” I said as I turned to her and gave her a royal curtsy I learned from Flenna’s video tapes and lessons.

That gave her pause, and as I stood up straight again I saw her gentle smile gone, replaced with something thirsty and her delicate red eyes turning predatory, as I was shocked still by the change as she spoke.

“Come here Shiro, Come here, Come here” She repeated as I did so, I felt the powerful compulsion in her words, and the subtle enhancement on her blood red eyes.

As I was infront of her I went in for a hug, that made her gasp even though I was a head shorter than her.

“The gentleman’s being aggressive, what a surprise.” She spoke as I felt her breath on my neck.

“Do you want to drink my blood Rikka?” She stopped at my words and then tried to push me away.

But she wasn't able to, her strength felt like the push of a young delicate girl, but after a few more tries she calmed down, as her voice turned even sweeter.

“Shiro-kun~ you weren’t hypnotized?” She asked, her voice almost sickening in her bloody sweet scent.

“No I wasn’t, your compulsion was respectable but, I have a trick for stopping such things.” I said as the bead bracelet on my wrist turned to dust, her eyes widened as she saw it.

“So what now? Rikka, do you bite me and turn me to your thrall or. . .” I was being mysterious, as I had another trick.

“Hmm no, I think I will retire for now.” She said as she once again tried a half hearted struggle and stopped, her skin was cold, and she smelled of sweet wine and blood soaked in rum.

“How about our date?” I asked her as I looked up and saw she was looking down at me, her sweet smile twitching.

“How are you keeping me here with just a hug?” She asked, her voice starting to hint of her anger.

I broke the hug but kept one of my hands on one of hers, then showed her my free hand, a blood red Yamoto character saying ‘Lock of evil’.

“You're a sorcerer Shiro?” She asked shocked, as I started walking her towards the exit of the roof.

“Yeah, why else do you think a princess of the Royal family would turn a regular human into a half-immortal?” I asked the leading question, acting puzzled at her shock, making her silent in contemplation.

Act 3 Ride home

As we made it to my bike near the entrance I saw Lizel running in the distance.

“Hey! Lizel you're late!” I yelled to her as she sprinted towards me and Rikka.

“Repulsive, your friends with a mutt Shiro?” She asked as Lizel was in earshot.

“Filthy Vampire! Let go of Shiro!” She yelled, as her arms transformed and punched towards us.

I felt Rikka trying to float away, but I pulled her back to the ground and then pointed a free hand towards the changing Lizel.

“Shield of the winds.” I asked the spirits as Lizel stopped mid jump and then stumbled forward.

"She's my prisoner Lizel, please don’t harm her.” I gently said to Lizel as I helped her up and patted dust off her.

She had a look of great violence within her eyes as she looked towards Rikka but she immediately shifted to me looking greatly concerned.

“Are you okay Shiro?” She asked, her voice worried as she looked all over me, especially on my neck.

Then with great hostility returning to her as she looked back towards a smirking Rikka, I showed her my other hand.

“It’s a sealing spell, she’s basically a human if I’m holding her like this.” I said, showing Lizel my hand holding, and that made her nod.

“But still we need to kill this filth! Her race killed hundreds, no thousands of mine!” She yelled relieved that I was safe but angry at the Rikka.

“And you beasts had done the same, killing thousands of my kin, but that’s to be expected with animals like you, shouldn’t you be in a zoo beast?” Rikka shot back her face was a mask of superiority and mocking.

Which angered Lizel more so I yelled.

“We humans have killed millions of each other! Do you see us killing each other in town over it?” I said, making them both look at me, in silence.

I gave them a breath of time before I spoke gently.

“Lizel, I’ll be taking Rikka to the princess, asking her what I’ll do with her, Rikka you are to stop antagonizing Lizel as my prisoner.” I said to them being diplomatic but still they looked violent.

“If both of you don't stop, I will put both of you to sleep and carry you back to the manor.” I threatened as amber light glowed in my eyes and the symbols on my forearms glowed red.

I felt the two girls stilled, I wasn’t sure if they believed my threat or were scared of the flashiness of what I was doing with a battle magic spell called eye-glow.

Should I make up a branch of magic and call it Esthetic magic? Like eye-glow, it just makes your eyes glow.

It's a good low level spell to practice for apprentices so they can use more complex ocular spells later on but that’s it.

That was my thought as I mounted my bicycle, placing Rikka on the front passenger seat, I was making her hug me as I placed my hands on the handle bars.

“Hey Lizel are you riding with me or running back?” I asked her, she coughed and sat at the back seat.

“Were you really that worried Lizel?” I asked as I smiled as I paddled quickly as we moved through and crossed the town in a handful of minutes.

“Do you need to ask, idiot?” “Thump.” I felt her fist hit the top of my head, it was a soft strike and not like the ones I feel whenever we spar.

Act 4 Responsibility

We were now in the manor, in front of the princess on the back balcony, she was seated with Flenna attending her with a tea set on her small table.

“Shiro?” She asked curiously as she scrutinized Rikka as I held her hand and Lizel angrily seated on the balcony’s railing.

“She’s Rikka Chinomi princess, an upperclassmen and the vampire that tried to seduce and turn me against you, an hour ago, as she asked me to meet her.” I said as I checked the time on my phone.

“Princess, let me just say I am honored to see you.” Rikka said as she gave the princess an awkward curtsy as I was still holding her hand.

The princess to her credit gave her a moment, and then looked towards me again, her calm never broke as we spoke, and oddly I only see amusement in her eyes.

“What do you plan to do to your prisoner Shiro?” She asked as she might have already realized why I was still holding the vampire’s hand and she wasn’t trying to escape.

“I don’t know princess, at first I thought about making her my servant.” I said as the hand holding her glowed red and she gasped in surprise as she kneeled on her knees from the sudden weight on her.

“Like how she tried making me into her blood servant, so I may let her into the manor so she could have a chance to drink you princess, but.”

I relented my spell, as Rikka sat on the stone floor, breathing heavily and her pale cheeks redden with flushed blood.

“I wanted to be merciful, as much as you are princess. . .I’ll let you decide her fate, and advice for mercy.” I said as I gently helped Rikka to her feet and helped fix the rumple of her skirt.

“Are you sure Shiro?” The princess asked as she stood and placed her hand on the cheeks of Rikka, looking into her.

Rikka looked back with a smile, her vampiric pride, wounded but still there.

“You know princess, every vampire only recognizes their progenitor as their true ruler and no one else.” Rikka said as she met the gaze of princess Komiko.

Both there eyes where red but of different shades.

“Let her go Shiro, but remember Rikka, this is the only time I’m pardoning you, the next time you scheme for my blood again, I would order Shiro to be the demon he tries to hide from everyone.” The words made my blood turn cold, as it stiffened Rikka.

I looked towards the princes as fear gripped my veins. She saw something on my face which she responded with a confused mask, and that made my fear worse.

Did I ever show it? Memories of the lifetimes I was called, the Executioner slave, curse of the gods and the ender of bloodlines-

-Surfaced, with a shackle broken I moved swiftly, pinning a surprised Rikka to a glass wall. I ignored the shock from Komiko and Lizel, as I spoke in dominance, everything in my eyes where red.

“Drink, my blood, traitor of the blood!” My voice excuses nothing, only obedience would be forgiven, as I saw not Rikka but just another traitor to my mistress.

I placed my forearm into her opened fanged mouth, before she tried to protest.

“Shiro Stop!” The princess said as I felt my heart pulse greatly, but even with her command I did not stop.

“Flenna!” The princess ordered as the android tried to separate me and Rikka.

“Shiro no!” Lizel came towards me, but she was stopped as well as Flenna, as they both where stuck at place, as Rikka choked on my gushing blood, fainting as I began my incantation.

“My Lady of the blooded river, I offer. . .” My magic boiled as the night turned blood red, but then I stopped as I heard a pleading voice.

“You can stop now Shiro, I’m sorry, I promise to never order you to do evil.” And with that my trance broke, as everything became clear.

I felt the princess on my back hugging me, and then I felt hot bloody steaming tears coming from my eyes.

“I’m sorry. . .” That was the only thing I could say, as the hand struggling Rikka left her neck leaving only a circlet of blood on Rikka’s neck, and then the world turned dark.