This border town is one of the few gathering places where the Bloodline gathers.

Quiet day, colorful night. The reversal of the day and night pattern of life with the outside world makes Eve feel out of place as an alien every day, with no one around her to rely on, and instead, surrounded by a group of vampires...... But she can't go to Eren willfully, and she doesn't have the ability to leave here. can only be trapped in the quagmire of fear on the one hand, and hypnotize herself on the other hand, as if the place where she lives is just an ordinary human town, yes, just an ordinary town, nothing special. Even so, sometimes dreaming and doing, I still can't help but be awakened by nightmares, and my mind is full of vampires' sharp fangs and scarlet eyes, shivering in the middle of winter night.

Eve wiped the beads of sweat from her forehead every time, trying to tell herself that she had to learn to grow up and not be the same as before.

But as the days of separation passed, her stomach slowly swelled like a blow. Once when I went out with Rita, I was stared at by several vampires for a long time, as if I smelled the umami of sheep.

Rita specially recruited an experienced human woman from the town next door to prepare a nutritious daily meal for her and take care of her life. And she herself, as if she didn't have anything to do, stared at her almost every day. From the time she opened her eyes in the morning to the time she closed them at night, she was not far from her bed, carefully watching the movements around her. Eve was uncomfortable being watched like a prison sentence, and once tactfully told her to go to rest for a while, or move a bed in, but Rita vetoed her.

Despite the depression of living in the town and her distrust of the outside world, Eve would force herself to take a walk in the small garden behind the house, because the doctor said that it would be good for her body and the child. When she was about six months old, she could be called a pot-bellied poop, and she could often feel the little guy in her stomach kicking her. The body was clumsy like a ball of meat, and it was clear that he was sweating after walking a few steps, and he felt tired all over his body inexplicably, panting and panting heavily.

Counting the days, she and Alan have been separated for almost three months, Eve endured it for three months, and finally couldn't help it, "Rita, when will Alan and Ford come back?" "Maybe in three months, the baby will be born.

"I don't know yet." Speaking of which, Rita was no less upset than Eve. Ford used to send a letter bird to report her whereabouts every day, but more than a month ago, she suddenly received no information from Ford. After realizing that something was wrong, Rita immediately sent her subordinates to investigate, but the subordinates sent out disappeared one after another, and there was no news. Rita vaguely felt that this was inseparable from Meg, who was hiding in the dark, however, she was in a hurry, for the sake of that little vampire, she had to sit in the town and not leave half a step.

Eve heard her impatient reply, and subconsciously touched her belly, as if looking for the last bit of comfort. Ever since Helena abandoned her, Eve has been extremely insecure. At the beginning, she didn't want to leave Eren, and she was even willing to go to the Dragon Cave with him, but she was afraid that Alan would leave her here.

"But you don't have to worry." Rita remembered what the doctor said to take care of the mother's mood, not to worry too much, and to be happy and sad, "in more than a month...... No more than two months, at the latest before the birth of the child, he should be able to return. ”

Eve is smarter now than before, and naturally she can tell that Rita herself doesn't know when Alan and Ford will return, "Are they in danger in the Dragon's Cave?" ”

"There is danger, but it doesn't cause substantial danger, they are just delayed by some trivial matters on the way." Rita asked the chef to bring today's nutritious meal, Eve still had some appetite, but when she saw the duck blood coagulated on it, she felt nauseous in her stomach, and she couldn't eat anything, "It's not just Lauren's problem, he and Ford have to take a detour to run errands somewhere else, which can be done in a day or two." It takes time to run errands, and it takes time to get on the road, these are not things you should worry about, and it is enough for you to take good care of the baby in your belly. ”

"Oh." Rita's explanation was obviously not convincing, and on this day, she deliberately slept a little longer in the middle of the day, so that she could stay up longer at night. Rita was afraid that something would happen to her at night, so she kept watch in her room every night, and even if a subordinate reported to her what Ford needed to deal with, she would go to the cubicle of the house, which would not be too far away.

That night, a vampire came. "How's it going?" Rita asked her subordinates directly.

"No trace of the prince and duke has been found...... However, the squire who had been planted with Prince Meg received news that Meg's recent breakthrough had been very rapid, and that she had crossed the boundaries of legend. ”

"It must be him." Rita gritted her teeth at the thought of Meg, "He's probably using some kind of black magic." ”

"So what do you think we'll do after that? Although the adults are not there, we are not stupid and waiting for death. The subordinate said, "Look, we're going to ......."

Rita raised her hand to stop him: "Don't act rashly, you have to make it clear, our biggest task at the moment is to wait for Eve's child to be born safely." Don't expend too much energy on Meg before the child comes out, so as not to give birth to side branches. ”

“…… Be. ”

Eve lasted a few nights, and the dark circles under her eyes were about to come out, but Rita seemed to have set up some kind of barrier to isolate the sound, even if she was close to the door panel, she still didn't hear anything, she didn't get a single useful message, but she had to be blamed the next day.

This state lasted until his stomach was swollen like a watermelon, and Ellen did not return, and Eve finally couldn't wait for him to return, and one evening, the amniotic water broke early.

This was much earlier than originally estimated, and the doctor had just returned, and the blood clan could not smell the smell of blood, and the scene was immediately in chaos. Rita had never had any experience with childbearing, and she was in a hurry and didn't know what to arrange. Still in pain, Eve asked them to go to a nearby town to hire a maid and a midwife, a doctor.

Even from the nearest town, it's at least an hour's drive.

Eve lay on the bed, clutching the sheets and looking at the ceiling in pain, her body as if it was about to be torn apart, and the pain came over her like a tidal wave, so painful that she couldn't even shed tears. All I thought about in my mind was where Eren had gone at this time, he wouldn't give himself and his children to those vampires and never pick her up again, right?

In the hazy eyes of tears, there was a joyful and eager voice in his ears: "Here it is, here the doctor is." ”

After Alan and Ford had gone to great lengths to kill Lauren and bury the body, they went to the valley where Queen Catherine died, trying to find the source of the Bloodline's curse and how to break it.

After Lauren's death, Alan prepares to see Eve. However, Ford calculated, there were still some days before Eve's birth, and the curse happened to have a slight eyebrow, so he delayed the return time.

Eve gave birth for the whole night, and did not come out until the next day, when the sun broke. Rita looked at the child who was sleeping with her eyes closed in surprise, her eyelashes trembling slightly, revealing her reddened eyes. He is still young, he doesn't know how to control the characteristics of his blood clan, and the new tiny fangs in his mouth are also against the tender lips, just a cute vampire baby.

"This is the blessing of the queen and the protection of God." Rita walked around the house excitedly with the child in her arms, and the people around her kept saying good wishes and surrounded Rita in a circle.

Eve leaned back against the bed, and Rita held her child, as happy as if it were her own, no ...... Maybe my own birth is not as good as this baby who has high hopes.

"Madame, what are you going to give him a name?" A maid looked curiously at the young child, who was curious about the newborn because none of the bloodlines could have children.

"Name?" It's up to Ellen and Eve. Only then did Rita remember that the child had just been born and had cut the umbilical cord short, and she had taken it away, and Eve didn't even have time to look at it. Thinking of this, Rita walked up to Eve, looked down at her, and said in as soft a voice as possible, "Do you want to see him?" It's a boy and it's cute. ”

Eve didn't have much strength to take it, but it was Rita who placed it in front of her, and she barely wrapped her arms around him.

She gave birth to a little vampire. Eve thought weakly.

Before leaving, Alan told her about the matter, and that Otto had a marriage with the Bloodline, so he and the child might both have atavistic phenomena, and the signs of this child would be more obvious. Originally, she was very repulsive to vampires, because Eren slowly accepted it, but now that she has this child, she has no choice but not to accept it.

"You have worked hard, I will ask the servant to prepare some things for you to replenish your body, and then you can take good care of your body, I will let the person who took care of you before stay, until Alan comes to pick you up."

"Thank you." Eve nodded.

Rita felt that perhaps it would be appropriate to leave the mother and son alone for a while, for she had already informed the House of Elders, and in a few moments, she was ready to take the child away and hand it over to the respected elders of the clan to take care of him as he grew up.

Rita lowered the curtain and glanced through the veil at the red-faced child, and Eve, who caressed him with trembling fingers. He's not just an ordinary human child, he's the hope of the Bloodline. They can't leave their children in the hands of delicate humans to raise.