Chapter 194: Dancing with the Devil (Part I)
"That's what it is...... Sunshine ......"
Remilia raised her head and raised her hand, the shadow of her fingers covering her face so that she would not be dazzled by the dazzling sunlight. She peered through her fingers at the sun wheel hanging high in the clear sky, and a wonderful sense of illusion sprouted in her heart, as if she were in a dream.
She felt herself snuggled into her father's arms, embraced and gently caressed by a pair of strong arms. A warm current flowed through her body, and that was the blessing that nature bestowed on every living being equally—sunlight. It smelled and smelled like her childhood.
How many years, how many years, I haven't felt this way. The last time she was bathed in the sun, she could still hug her father, reunite with her family, and live like a little girl immersed in happiness, until the stupid war destroyed her life, and the blood of sin cursed her, and she had to flee into the infinite darkness and live alone.
She had been banished, and now she had returned. Five hundred years passed like a white horse, and when Remilia Scarlett stood under the sun again, she could no longer remember the life of human beings, the voices and smiles of her parents. Experiencing geometry, gains and losses, thousands of thoughts filled her heart, even she couldn't figure out whether this was happy, sad, laughing, or crying.
But when she lowered her head and returned her gaze to the ground in front of her, the smiles of Flandoro and Nalan took everything away from her at once. It doesn't matter if you're happy or sad.
For five hundred years, Remilia Scarlett has never walked alone, not before, and not in the future.
"Yes-too-yang-ah-"
Flandrew made a trumpet with her hand and shouted at the sky:
"You-good-wam-"
She laughed and ran at the front, as if she had been in an amusement park. Unlike her sister, Fran has never had any "sorrow" or "trouble" in her heart, happy is happy, unhappy is unhappy, and nothing else.
What an enviable child.
"Alright, okay, don't be sassy!"
Nalan Yu smiled helplessly, put up a folding umbrella, and quickly followed. He remembered that Sakuya, or Misuzu, would often be like this when she led Fran on a walk in the garden.
"The 'medicine' has just taken effect, and you are not yet fully transformed. Nalan Yu said, "When the time comes, the sun will peel off, but you will have to bear it!"
"No, no, no, I'm strong!"
Fran turned her head and said, smashing a "muscle-showing" pose, showing off her non-existent biceps.
"Yes, yes, I believe it all!"
The four vampires who came to the Eternal Pavilion from the Red Devil Pavilion are now on their way home. They had already walked out of the bamboo forest into an open field. Although it was past noon, the sun was still scorching, and it had no intention of subsiding in a short time. Walking in the sun without a parasol was the first time for the Scarlet sisters since they became vampires.
"That's right, Nalan Twilight!"
Remilia, who was walking behind, suddenly went up and grabbed the corner of Nalan Twilight's clothes, and said to him:
"The doctor seems to be saying, there is no similarity between our genes or something?"
"Huh?" Nalan glanced back at her, "Ah, that's exactly what she said!"
As he spoke, he handed Remilia the parasol that Fran refused to use, and said:
"No, do you want an umbrella?"
"No," Remilia pushed the umbrella away, "I don't need anything like that anymore." ”
"Aren't all girls white?" Nalan quipped.
"I'd rather get a tan...... Okay, back to the point. "That means that we are no longer related by blood...... Are you a brother or sister?"
"Well......" Nalan Yu pouted and nodded, "You can say that, but ......"
"We're here again. ”
"Huh, why?"
Remilia's eyes flashed with anticipation, then loss, then a burst of joy. Nalan Yu really couldn't see through her wonderful psychological changes, so she simply didn't think about it. He took out a small clear, glass medicine bottle from his pocket, shook the crimson capsules in the medicine bottle, and said:
"Didn't I say that my blood can give a vampire a second first embrace. ”
And she did. ”
"Inside these capsules is an extract of my blood. These drugs are more stable and reliable than direct blood drinking. No matter what bloodline you were before, if you eat it, you will have the same bloodline as 'me now'. That being said, in essence, a vampire clan is a whole family connected by blood, and I don't think it's reasonable to look at it in the traditional concept of a human family. The family relationship of vampires is more like a cooperative team than a real family, not so close, but really needs each other. ”
"That's right...... There is still some truth to it. ”
Remilia nodded understandingly, and when she looked up again to ask a few more questions, she saw Nalan Twilight holding the bottle in the sunlight, staring intently.
The small capsules were translucent by the sunlight, as beautiful as a whole box of evenly cut rubies, casting a vivid red light onto Nalan Twilight's face. The color, the same as his eyes and blood.
"Do you know what this little bottle of medicine means?" Nalan muttered as he stared at the bottle intently.
"What does that mean?"
"It means the future, the future of the entire Bloodline, and the future of you and me. ”
"Imagine, Remy, the ability to overcome the sun, a vampire without weaknesses, this is simply the temptation of the devil, isn't it?" Nalan turned around, turned his back to the sun, and said with a little excitement, "In order to get it, even if you sell your soul, it seems that you can't do it?"
"I can imagine. Remilia nodded.
If she didn't know Nalan Twilight, after five hundred years in the dark, suddenly a devil jumped out and told her that she could exchange her soul for the ability to bask in the sun.
To be honest, she would be heartbroken, very heartbroken, even though she knew very well that demons were absolutely not worth believing. But...... What vampire could refuse?
"Really?" Nalan said, "just open a window and those vampires who are tired of the darkness will swarm. And I, of course I wouldn't be stupid enough to give them manna for free. They have to pay a price, a high price. ”
He turned, raised his right hand high, and stretched it out to the sun, and then grasped it so tightly that it seemed to hold the whole sun in his palm.
"It's been 1,200 years," he lamented...... "and this is the first time I've grasped the hope of 'victory' with my own hands." ”
"Victory, do you mean you're going to hunt down a True Ancestor?" asked Remilia.
"So you remember. Nalan Yu glanced back at her and smiled, "Then you should also remember the reason why I left you more than four hundred years ago, right?"
"It's about getting stronger...... "Remilia pouted, clasped her hands, and said as she tried her best to remember, "I don't remember very clearly, I just remember that I was so angry that I almost demolished the house. ”
"Haha, I'm sorry, you're right. Yes, to get stronger. Do you want to know how I have become the way I am?"
"Didn't you tell me about it?"
"Now that I'm willing to speak, would you like to listen?"
"Then why are you asking these questions, you are talking about it!"
"Good, good, huh...... Where do I start? Or the weather, after all, the British love to chatte...... It was a summer night, thunder and lightning, rain pouring down, and half of London was almost under water......"