Shade could only watch with wide eyes as the hero and his gang devoured food like starving wolves. She had to constantly run back to the kitchen to bring more food as they constantly pestered her for food.

Even Ryan turned out to be a complete glutton, despite his relatively small and thin frame. Shade cursed in her mind as she grabbed the tenth plate of rice with chicken and brought it over.

As she did her job as a waitress almost perfectly, Shade's mind was still in chaos.

A pretty big part of her wanted to rampage and turn the fake hero into an empty carcass and destroy whoever dared to profane her own idea of her hero. However, the other part of her also wanted to see just where this would go. 

The last part of her even felt some form of affection towards this brain-dead hero, even if simply because he was from the same world as her own hero. 

As she debated her next move, the starving wolves finally satiated themselves and started chatting about pointless things, mostly Ryan and the girls asking the hero about his world or some of his preferences. Obviously, they were flirting.

Shade learned that this new hero's name was Shiro, the oldest was a princess from the country and the other 2 were sisters the hero had picked up in his first travel. Apparently saved them from bandits.

'Oh yeah... Bandits... Saving people...' Shade snorted as she remembered the end that occurred to the people who had been captured by bandits who had also then captured her.

"Shade-san, why don't you sit down too?" Shiro the hero asked. Ryan tensed up for a bit and looked at Shade with a look she couldn't understand.

"Sir hero, I'm a waite...ress. I do not think it would be appropriate for such a low-ranking, poor, stupid piece of stupid like me to sit with such majesty as yourself." Shade said with a straight face, her flattery skills obviously top notch.

"Ah... Uh... I don't think you're stupid!" One of the sisters said with a red face. Shade glanced at her and then suddenly looked at her wrist.

"Oh my, I have some stuff to do. Important stuff, sorry and thanks for coming now bye!" She said as she bowed before leaving, awkward gazes following after her.

After Shade had left, Shiro looked a bit doubtful for a moment before he turned to Ryan and asked, "Ryan-san, are watches a thing in your world?"

Ryan looked confused. "Watches? As in looking?" 

Shiro scratched his head as his tiny heroic and woman-focused brain tried to think. A small light bulb went off as he said: "The gesture she did there, that's something the people in my world do too..."

Shade had gone too far to hear. Well, if she wanted to, she easily could, but she didn't care. Instead, she was busy formulating a plan for her next course of action.

As she walked so fast she might've as well been running around like a headless chicken, she ended up in her favorite part of the city: the poor people area, a.k.a the slums.

Less than 5 minutes after she walked in, a bunch of dirty, ugly and rough-looking men surrounded her. 

A minute later, a bunch of dirty, ugly and rough-looking corpses were lined up nicely on the ground. Shade licked her lips as she bit her own finger.

"Damn it... I've been waiting too long. I want to do stuff, I NEED to find my hero... Human society is just not my thing..." She sighed. She knew that what she said wasn't completely true, as she did really enjoy her time with Jeff and being a waitress even if it had it's boring and irritating moments, but she truly had to find her hero.

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Why did she need to find him? Hell if she knew. She just wanted to get her hands on him and after that... Either she would... She didn't know. Her feelings were still pretty mixed up about him, as he did brutally murder her, but at the same time, he had been the one person she had ever completely opened up to, and he had accepted him back then. 

Her face turned rosy as she thought about getting her hands on him, having him completely in her grasp this time. This time, there would be no human army filled with the most powerful beings on the planet to back him up, and there would be no grand heaven-destroying attack powered by the will to live from humanity. 

She licked her lips even more violently as her body shook nervously. "But first... I need blood. I should also train this weak body." 

An hour later, the slums had been completely ravaged. Gangs had been wiped out, and those who hadn't had all ran back to their bases trembling in fear as the Ravanger that had plagued them for the past months went berserk and killed everyone it saw.

Shade let out a pleased smile as she sunk her teeth into a charmed and brainwashed gang leader. He was relatively strong, but in front of Shade's hypnosis, he just wasn't strong enough.

After finishing up her latest meal, she threw the corpse away and decided that that would be enough. If she continued, it might even get the higher nobles hot on her heels. After all, almost all of these gangs worked for one or another noble, either for extortion or influence.

Vampires could grow stronger in multiple ways. Shade didn't know whether there had been any other vampires before or after her, but she highly doubted. After all, when she became the vampire, she had to build up the Kingdom of Shadows all by herself and had to single-handedly create the Shadows as a living race.

When Shade first became a vampire, she was barely stronger than a knight and had little magical power. However, every time he ate a living being, he would grow stronger and absorb some of their strength and power. It depended on the respective level of powers, though.

For example, if she drank all the blood of somebody equally as strong as her, she would get 20% of their power, and if they were much weaker, it would struggle to even reach 1% of their power. 

Therefore, Shade disdained that method. She would usually drink from people when hungry or when it was convenient and wouldn't bring trouble. Her favorite method was instead to simply train like a normal human.

Her body was already very adaptable, so by training in extremely harsh conditions her body would naturally strengthen itself. While she was nowhere near the level of insanity that her hero had reached in terms of training speed, she was already monstrous compared to even the most genius of geniuses.

As she thought about this, Shade grinned slightly at the thought of going back to the hellish training she had endured for the first hundreds of years of her second life. She remembered fighting against sea monsters that were tens of kilometers long and trying to survive the insane pressure of the deepest parts of the sea, and even trying to survive the maddening heat of an always-erupting volcano.

Shade closed her eyes for a moment, blocking out all those useless thoughts. The now was now, not before, not after. She debated for a second before deciding to go tell Jeff that she decided to leave and that she would probably never return.

The other thing she wanted to do was give the hero a little something. She reached down into the ground with her hand, and instead of hitting solid ground, the hand went straight through like it was water.

After searching for a bit, she fished out a small talisman. 

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The talisman could directly communicate with her, and it had a slightly intelligent conscience in it. If the hero was to ever end up in mortal danger, the talisman would send a signal to Shade, and if she decided to, she could rush to help him. It also held a teleportation spell inside it, so she could instantly get there.

Shade used to give these to her puppets within the human kingdoms. Whenever one of her rats was found out or in danger, she would rescue them and then give them a new life as a Shadow. 

Now, however... Shade sighed. She truly had changed quite a lot, as she was willing to give such an important object to her theoretical mortal enemy.

Although arguably, vampires weren't necessarily the priority of a hero's kill list. That was usually the Demon, or demon king.  But that didn't really matter. Shade took a deep breath as she started walking back towards the restaurant she had lived in for the past months.

The times were changing. She could feel the demonic powers waking, and her own Shadows had risen up due to her return. She smirked evilly as she stared at the cursed sun that she hated so much.

"You shiny bastard... I always compared you to that hero's eyes, but now, why do even you look so bleak?"