Haru here, that was one hell of a beauty sleep I’ve had in years. Heck my mentality finally accepted that I was now a girl after so many years with Ava. Not that I’ll complain which part of me even cares about my current gender now. At least I’m powerful enough to not get my friends killed in this life.

“You do know that you did ignore those certain lines when using your death perception eyes right.” (Trea)

Oh shut up. I just woke up for one, it’s 3 am in the damn morning and I’m not in the best mood. Plus one destroys their cultivation the other is destroying their soul. I’m not gonna throw off the balance here. The last one is obviously destroying their body. If it was a Qi cultivation world it’d be called destroying their spirit roots. Even I’m not as stubborn as to torment them. Plus it was Trea in control the first time for a meal. As for the bear fight I wanted to train my strength against a beast and have a meal.

“Don’t forget we’re sharing a body, even if you’re a half vampire now.” (Trea)

Oh kill joy I was organizing my damn thoughts but then again we’re only still in this world for lessons on aura control. Plus at least we know it’s so damn thick like an bottomless ocean in our environment.

“This would be so much faster if you just ate her.” (Trea)

I will not reason with your ideas and stomach talking. No one wants to reason with a hungry persona who’s crazy. Well except Ava. But I still have no damn clue what she did yesterday when I fell asleep. How do I know, I asked Iris. But I’m not gonna invade her privacy. Technically she is a personality made due to me choosing Abyssal bloodline. Not the best choice to choose a op bloodline at the start of the story but hey I waited for so many hundreds of years for that. A few years with the little boy and training in between the hotel will help. Well it speeds up time in there while it’s only a few hours out here.

I can try my Abyssal bloodline there and my death perception eyes there. Less work for me later when I eat Sora’s father. Who the heck said that it was not wise to do so. Why would I save an idiot battle genius who loves fighting and doesn’t think things through. Hey as Trea said I had enough consciousness to make her avoid tormenting her victims (aka food). Plus why would I want the whole world against me just because I can’t control some cravings. I didn’t completely ignore the mystic eyes of death perception either over the years. Actually slight headaches here and there but hey it’s not that bad. At least not like the one I saw in Iris’s system store.

Sure you’d see souls lifeline but being half blind is so not an option I want. Yes when using it you go half blind and only see the light of the soul in that darkness. So I’d rather have my current one. Krow has been staring at me for quite some time too. I’m guessing she has something to say.

“Something is bothering you isn’t it.” (Krow)

“Which part of me looks bothered.” (Haru)

“The part that fell asleep right away when she came back from a meal.” (Krow)

“The mistress is just tired.” (Ai)

“Right master is just not in shape these days.” (Chi)

“How is she not in shape even spaced out she can even hit me in the right spots and disable me.” (Nana)

“Right that’s more of a subconscious thing for her. Her fighting instincts honed over the hundreds of years. At least she didn’t try to kill you a few times.” (Ava)

Well my mystic eyes of death perception is always on so it’s pointless. Why would I ignore it. At least thanks to Iris I can filter it to seeing them look normal to me sometimes. But it doesn’t help much since the lines would overlap either way. With or without the system’s help. Also Trea so not helping me at the moment.

“Can we like have a teeny tiny bit of her since I know she can regenerate at least a limb or so in a day.” (Trea)

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So damn not helping me now. I wasn’t even thinking of food damn it Trea. That suggestion is denied. Plus why would I torment my foods like Trea even suggested. I still get all memories from them after eating them along with their soul. Since the Abyssal race is a race that eats all races. Tormenting isn’t really option for me. I don’t want side effects that can cause my mind to fuck itself up also. Meaning her words of destroying their cultivation and whatnot isn’t even an option.

“I’m fine.” (Haru)

“Define fine when you yourself fell asleep so fast like that.” (Krow)

“It’s just mental tiredness.” (Haru)

“What I think she’s trying to get at is how much is your race cravings getting to you when you’re trying to resist it.” (Ava)

“I thought I told you not to go there Ava.” (Haru)

“And what have my own partner out of it and act strong.” (Ava)

Nana seems confused Ai and Chi didn’t seem to want anything to do with us arguing at each other.

“No. If I don’t resist wouldn’t I have all other races attacking me indiscriminately if I do as my so called instincts said.” (Haru)

“How about just seeing other creatures like animals to eat instead of other intelligent races then.” (Ava)

“You’re avoiding the problem here.” (Krow)

“Well I can’t avoid the fact that other races taste fundamentally different. Like the bear I just had tasted like chocolate chip cookies. And you are so not helping with this conversation.” (Haru)

“Well they are known to be a gourmet like race my dear host.” (Iris)

Not helping Iris, especially so since I didn’t expect it either. The taste of humans reminds me of pork. Which wasn’t helping either from her words. Damn Ava is still eyeing as if she wants me to spill more.

“Look as my friend, partner and acquaintance I want you perfectly sane and stable. Not on edge with me and everyone else. Do you get what I mean.” (Ava)

“I’m as sane and normal as I’ll ever be.” (Haru)

“Then when were you gonna tell me about the other secret that’s been bothering you that woke up with that thing (system) which you mentioned a few days back.” (Ava)

I avoided eye contact, I hadn’t told her about my mystic eyes of death perception for reasons. It’s not my fault she can’t completely help me there either. No one's perfect at life. They have their weaknesses and mistakes in life.

“Haru don’t try to hide it, you yourself were naive back then but hiding things from isn’t getting both of us anywhere at this point. I mean come on it’s been hundreds of years with you and me together.” (Ava)

Ava POV

My partner, friend and companion for the hundreds of years of our life looked at me confused. She looked at me as if seeing me concerned about her state of mind was shocking. I wish she wasn’t so dense to my own feelings either. I found out about her diary when we were in our 100th year together. As for now she’s just being stubborn. Her pale skin seemed to be paler than usual. I forgot she has naturally white skin that can’t be sunburned. Not that we’d be burned by the sun since I was turned into a vampire.

As for how she got turned she did apologize for not asking first. She did explain to me after the 10 years together, which did get me mad. But at least she explained my condition of craving blood then. The how and whom did it pissed me off to no end, but at least she should’ve asked permission from me as the said person first.

But staring at her spaced out look at us at the moment annoys me. To others it might look like she’s thinking. Yet to me who knew her for so long, this mechanical genius needs something on hands to do. Either a hobby or something to keep her mind off things.

“So what about our clothes after this. You do have fabric right.” (Ava)

I distracted her train of thought before anyone else noticed anything odd. Krow frowned at mentioning clothes. Nana seemed to be shocked when Ava pulled out the fabric from the space ring as she explained it was from a former dead Ki cultivator she killed. Lying that she analyzed the space ring to create a functioning ring. Which made me smile, I’m thankful she put my spare hotel into her space ring in case of emergencies.

“You do have that right.” (Ava)

“Right, nearly forgot about it.” (Haru)

I rolled my eyes at her being a genius and airhead at times. Yes an airhead at times, she forgot she put a spare lab inside my hotel. The nerve of it, at least now it’s been put to use. She probably forgot she restocked everything there a few days back even though we don’t use it. Along with a collection of books she collected as a hobby. Her habit of collecting old traditional ways of making things or how to hands on create seasonings. Well now it helps in this exotic yet troublesome way.

“Hey don’t stare at me like I’m an idiot.” (Haru)

“Haru no more faking, you do remember you do have my hotel right, you did restock a few days back right.” (Ava)

“Way to break the ice, but yes. Just that I never restocked fabric there before. So once we’re out of the ones on my hand we’ll need to restock in an actual city. Or make leather from a beast we killed and process that.” (Ava)

“Great idea you’re the one in charge since you’ve done it before.” (Ava)

“Oh come on that was once and that was back in medieval era when you got turned.” (Haru)

“Rework that genius brain of yours then.” (Ava)

“Fine.” (Haru)

“Sorry for shocking you two none mages. But yes this genius made a spatial ring when we were back home by using magic. She thought it was just useless to use magic for simple stuff like spells, enhancement of your body. So she configured the whole structure from scratch and rewrote the rules she wanted it to be then reapplied that onto the ring. Somehow it works and the ring runs on magic from the surrounding.” (Ava)

“You’re telling me we could’ve had a normal bath all this time.” (Nana)

“Hey it was up to her at first. She wanted to do things the hard way. Well one problem is fixed but we still need to worry about clothes. Plus she’s the type to figure it out somehow.” (Ava)

Nana made a shocked look as she stared at Haru, hey it was her who called for that one. But I don’t really need to test Nana for so long since we’re probably gonna be here for a while. I don’t want her to be at odds with us later for us not telling her earlier on.