Chapter 39 – Diagonal Lines (4)
“Vampire blood?”
“Okay. Vampire’s Blood”
Hiannisti stroked his chin.
If it’s vampire blood, I remember asking to bring it some time ago.
It wasn’t because I needed to use it right away, but I obtained information that vampire blood could be transfused regardless of the type of blood and saved it for emergency use.
He hadn’t written anything to anyone, so it must have been in a warehouse where valuables were kept.
“Let’s go into the room and talk.”
The butler, ahead of Hian’s words, led them into the room.
It was a spacious, comfortable room.
Hian guided Stion to a seat and sat across from him.
And next to Hian, Rose quietly sat down.
“… Rose?”
“Keep talking.”
“It’s important, so why don’t you leave?”
“I will be quiet, Dad.”
Hian gave up persuading Rose rather than noticing her, and continued.
It was because Stion looked impatient.
He didn’t even seem to care about Rose’s presence or not.
“So Stion… Why are you looking for that?”
He said he was here because of her brother and found the vampire’s blood.
I heard that Stion is a gatherer like the younger brother Stion in front of him.
Whatever it is, risking her life.
Hian was almost certain that something was wrong.
Rose Nicety also worried about the situation on her face.
“It’s because of her brother. She’s badly hurt… She can’t find a blood transfusion. Her brother’s blood seems… Special.”
“How special is it that it even needs vampire blood?”
“When I checked it with jewels… It came out white.”
“It’s white… It’s unusual.”
She did not mention that there was no vampire blood.
Stion’s heart started to beat.
If she didn’t have it, she would have said there wasn’t, but she doesn’t.
Hope appeared.
But Hian’s nerves were focused elsewhere.
He glanced at Rose, watching her.
The reason why Heian saved the vampire’s blood.
Rose didn’t notice that gaze.
“I-I’m white too!”
She cries.
Stion’s gaze is focused on him, and Hian closes his eyes tightly.
Hian said while holding his head that was about to throb.
“Rose. Stay still.”
But it wasn’t Rose who would listen to her.
“Miss Stion. Mr. Starchis hurt? How much? I can give you a blood transfusion.”
“…You’re white too?”
When Stion showed interest, Hian stopped him.
“Rose!”
The conversation between Stion and Rose is interrupted by Heian’s cry.
No matter how much Rose said she wanted to transfuse the man, Hian had no intention of giving her permission.
After her wife left, she was a daughter whom she cherished for the rest of her life.
Inheriting her weak mother’s body, she is the Rose who was bedridden every time because of her frequent illnesses when she was young.
As a result, she spent her innocent childhood too much because she couldn’t meet her childhood friends, and she started to overprotect her little by little because she didn’t want to be hurt.
Now that she has reached her adulthood, Rose has read many books and heard stories from her maids, but she knows what to know, but her protection under her eyes has become established as a habit and has not changed.
She had several first aid kits at home, and she was not allowed to go outside unless it was with her.
It is unacceptable for such a woman to transfuse her blood for a man outside of her.
How much blood may she need.
Then what if her physical condition deteriorated?
She is a pale daughter in Hian’s eyes.
“No, Rose. I can’t give you permission. Stion, the vampire’s blood is still there.”
Hian said, trying to take Stion’s gaze away from Rose.
Sure enough, Stion saw Hian.
To Stion, it didn’t matter whose blood it was.
Vampire or Rose.
He just needs to save her brother.
Still, if she had to argue, the vampire’s blood was also comfortable for him.
Apparently, Hian was reluctant to let Rose transfuse her blood.
There is no need for her to obsess over Rose’s blood.
Also, it felt awkward to show Rose, who was so similar to the imaginary ‘Elzain’ created by Starchis, to the three people who were still in her hospital room.
Stion leaned his upper body more toward Heian.
“Please. Lend me some of that blood… Save my brother.”
Hian crossed her legs and rested her arms.
“Stion… Yes. Borrowing is not a thing. It would be right to give it to someone who needs it right away. I want to maintain a good relationship with you.”
The mood was going in a good direction.
It was Stion who was now completely excited.
“Hian, thank you so much-“
“-But… It’s not something you can just give away. We paid a fair price for the vampire’s blood, and your party would have earned the reward and fame for it. But isn’t it only good for you if you hand it over? Even so, vampire blood is an A-class collectible. It is not something that can be handed over easily.”
“Of course. Of course you have to pay the price. Just say what you want Just hand it over now, and I’ll get you whatever you want later.”
What Stion is lacking now is time. It wasn’t that I lacked the ability or wealth to do something.
While Hian was talking, he winked at the servant next to him.
He lowered his head and headed for the warehouse where the valuables were kept.
In fact, Hian didn’t want a big reward.
As someone who has lost his wife, he knows the pain of loss.
It is to sympathize with Stion’s situation, which is on the verge of losing his brother.
Even if Stion was in a situation where he could not compensate himself, he would have given up his blood.
However, the reason he wanted the price now was because he had no reason not to.
Making a request to an A-rank party is one thing, and leaving debt is another.
I didn’t think much of it, but it could be a big insurance if something happens.
Stion’s expression brightened when he saw the servant going to get something.
If he could receive the vampire’s blood now, he wouldn’t have to go to the dungeon, so he would save a lot of time.
His desperate heart also calmed down, and gradually he had the usual composure.
When the tension was released, it seemed that the legs would also loosen.
It was a pleasure to sit.
It’s been a while since I felt like this.
A sigh came out naturally.
Stion leaned fully back in his chair.
“Hu… Hian… I won’t forget this debt.”
“Of course, we must not forget. You will get expensive.”
Then, someone interrupted their conversation.
“..Me, Dad?”
It was Rose Nicety.
A restless maid named Elzain, who was standing quietly beside her, caught Gestion’s eyes.
Stion was amazed at the coincidence as he had room in his heart.
‘Rose Nistie.’
Her maid, ‘Elzain’.
When Starchis wakes up, I have one more story to tell.
“… I want to talk to you later.”
Hian felt uneasy and cut Rose off.
“Dad, it’s your birthday soon. I have something I want to receive as a present.”
Stion looked at Rose, thinking that he or Stachis could be implicated under the circumstances.
Hian’s anxiety was gradually becoming a reality.
But he took heart.
Whatever comes out anyway, you can refuse.
“Later. Rose.”
“Can I decide the reward to receive from Mr. Stion?”
“No.”
“Dad..!”
Rose Nicety’s face turns pouty.
“If you can’t, then no.”
“Why! As you can see, you don’t want anything!”
“Kuhm..!”
Hian coughed and turned his head away.
Stion couldn’t find her curiosity, so she asked.
“Rose, what do you want?”
“Stion!”
This time, Hian looked at Stion.
He looked like he was asking for help.
However, from Stion’s point of view, he also felt that Hian kept Rose locked up too much.
I was a bit embarrassed and tried to help.
And it got interesting.
“It’s not about listening. I want to hear it.”
“I can’t do it anyway, so what are you doing by letting me in..!”
“When Starchis wakes up… I want to have a meal. Please come to the mansion.”
“No way!”
Hian quacked, but Stion raised the corner of his mouth.
It could have been because I was able to relax and laugh at trivial things, or it could have been because the situation itself was funny, or it could have been because I could easily pay off the debt I had lent to the vampire’s blood.
Of course, it was Stion who would never forget the debt of saving her younger brother her.
“Stion, absolutely not.”
When Rose didn’t seem to back down, Hian looked at Stion.
“I didn’t say anything.”
“Dad, why not?”
“Do you know how valuable vampire blood is? It’s not worth a meal at all! Besides, if you were treated to a meal, you would have received it, what the hell is the point of paying off debt while serving it…!”
“I’m calling you to the mansion because my dad won’t let me go out! And, no matter how expensive vampire blood is, isn’t it the money I made?”
Hian was speechless.
As she said, Rose, who had been confined to the house all her life, read various books without hesitation, managing the Nisty family’s wealth and growing it more than doubled.
Hian wasn’t quiet either, but Rose’s talent was extraordinary, so it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that she owed 80 percent of the recent wealth to the Nicesty family.
“The hospitality and the removal of the debt… It’s because Mr. Starchis might not want to come home.”
“Still no. I have already prepared a present for your birthday.”
“So, isn’t it like a doll again?”
“That… How…?”
“I don’t know how they only give out dolls every year. I mean, I hate dolls now.”
“Ro, Rose..!”
Hian’s face turns into tears.
Stion thought that his birthday present was a doll every year.
“It’s nothing. Why won’t you allow me to have a meal with you?”
“Why are you asking for that?”
As the conversation deepened, Hian glanced at Stion once.
Stion looked at him quietly.
At that time, a servant who went down to the warehouse came holding a large glass bottle with both hands.
It looked like a wine bottle, and it was the vampire’s blood Stion had been longing for.
Hian is happy.
“Oh, here you go. Steon, take it with you.”
He jumps up and pushes Stion’s back.
Stion didn’t seem to be of any help to this conversation.
And she didn’t want to show her father-daughter conversation to others, nor did she want to show her stunned face in front of Rose.
“Hian, what will you pay for?”
“I will send someone later. Shouldn’t you go too soon?”
Stion nodded his head.
“That’s right. Thank you for sending me quickly. I get it, hey. Again, thank you.”
“Okay. Now, let’s go quickly.”
“Goodbye Mr. Stion.”
Stion received the bottle from the servant like a child and hurriedly headed out of the mansion.
Countless maids and butlers bowed their heads to him.
As soon as the mansion’s gate opened, Stion’s figure disappeared like a mirage.
But Rose and Heian still continued the theme.
“Yes? Dad. Why do you only have one meal?”
“Why do you have to be that request?”
The words of the two went round.
“Dad, I asked the question first.”
Hian opened and closed her mouth trying to find her words her.
In the end he scolded her.
“…You don’t have to know.”
“Isn’t it because Starchis is a man?”
“What..? Um, I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Hian was stabbed to the point.
He is the child he raised.
He was very afraid that his innocent treasure would be taken away by the dog bone he was eating somewhere.
“That’s right, Dad.”
“A..! Why are you so obsessed with that man! Aren’t there many other men?”
“You talk like other men would allow it?”
It wasn’t.
Hian, also speechless of her, turned his head away.
When did she grow up like this, every word Rose said was something she couldn’t refute.
Still, I didn’t want to be pushed, so I spat out anything.
“When the time comes, I will introduce you to a well-proven, polite, and wonderful son of an aristocratic family.”
“I am not interested in other men. This is my first time too.”
“Aren’t you a young man you don’t even know much about! Why are you interested in such a man!”
“A person is interested in a person, do you need a reason?”
Hian pondered over her words.
That’s what I’ve heard a lot about.
Oh
‘Do you need a reason to love a person?’ She heard a lot.
Of the many books of her fiction that Rose has read, this is her favorite part of her, a phrase she has shown Heian many times.
She still remembered Rose’s twinkling eyes vividly, though she was Hian, whom she casually passed over each time.
Could it be that Rose fell in love with him even at first sight?
Hian swallowed her saliva.
“… Did you fall in love at first sight?”
Hian is now breaking out in a cold sweat.
I thought Starchis was a true man, but it’s a different story if he bewitched his own daughter.
Rose firmly shook her head.
“It’s not like that.”
“Then why did the child… ?”
“Dad! It’s okay for me to have at least one male friend! Does it make sense that I’m an adult and I don’t have any boys I know?”
“Answer whatever I ask! Why does it have to be that guy..! Aren’t you still persistently wanting to have a meal with that man?”
“Why do you need a reason?”
“Need. If you don’t answer, I will never allow it.”
“You’re saying that if you answer, you’ll allow it, right?”
“Oh no… That’s not it… ! There can be no reason… The question ‘Do you need a reason’ is only possible in a novel..! Whether it’s because I liked the look or the voice, I need something to put my mind at ease.”
“Wouldn’t you be against it anyway, even if I heard the reason?”
“I am against it, but the level of comfort is different. It is far better for a daughter to show interest in someone for a reason than to show interest in someone for no reason.”
Only now, for the first time, Rose was silent.
She was ashamed and embarrassed for nothing to tell her her honest thoughts.
Can’t she somehow cover it up, Rose searched for a gap in her father her,
As if not to be attacked by Hian, she now closed her eyes.
So Rose Lawson fidgeting for a while to have her answer her.
Whether I can say this or not, whether it seems strange or not,
I wasn’t sure if this was a good reason or not.
After being silent for a long time, Heian opened one of his eyes to her.
“… Rose?”
“… Ok..”
“What?”
At the words of her interrogating father her, Rose closed her eyes and spat out.
If she can get a friend this once, she’s willing to take it.
“It’s like the main character in a novel!”
Rose shouted.
Her face her turned red.
Hian also choked her mouth.
‘The main character of the novel?’
I know that Rose was only at her house her per Heian’s policy her.
I also know that she read this book after another to relieve her boredom her, and among them she liked novels.
But it’s like the main character in a novel.
What on earth did you read, and how immersed were you to see the character of the novel in a real person.
For the first time, Hian felt sorry for her daughter when Rose, unable to leave her fictional character alone in her fiction her, found it in her reality her.
‘Did I stay at home too much?’
She had been grumbling that she hadn’t had a single male friend before.
Whether it was embarrassing or resentful at having to say it, Rose’s face must have been red and her eyes her eyes were moist.
Hian finally could n’t find her curiosity about her and she asked.
“…The main character of a novel…”
“Dad doesn’t know anything?!”
She sighed and breathed heavily as she spoke to Heian.
“Dad. I’ve been living a good life so far. Please allow me one time. I’m curious about what real boys are like.”
“Ro.. Rose..”
“It’s not like I’m going to do anything weird. I am also mildly curious. Yes?”
“Umm..!”
Hian was pushed a little by Rose’s strong insistence on her.
And Rose could feel her hips her coming over.
So, she started to tease.
“Ah~ Dad~. Yes?”
Rose began to massage Hian’s shoulders from behind.
Hian, who has a hard expression, makes her mouth twitch like a wave at her cuteness her.
“Umm… Yes… Did you not let me meet the boys too much?”
It was Hian who could not get out of the remarks of the main character of the novel yet.
It was a bit of a shock for her to have a daughter who, by her own choice, was left alone in her home.
“You can’t never meet like this in your life… I also have to get married someday, so don’t you know how to talk to a man?”
Hian muttered as he enjoyed the massage Rose gave her.
“That’s right… You should get married someday too.”
Rose, her only child of her, must give birth to her heir of her, one day carrying on her family line.
Hian also meets her wife and knows what the ecstasy of her love her is.
The emotion that makes her heart overflow, tears come out over trivial things, and in the end she can even love herself.
It’s cruel to never hear and feel that emotion in your life.
It was n’t that Rose did n’t want to know her love her.
Still, Hian said she only wanted to find the perfect person.
I don’t know anything about a young man named Stachis yet, so will she be okay with eating?
As Hian could see her thinking for a while, Rose spoke up for her.
“Dad! What do you think is so complicated? I’m just thinking lightly..? That.. Just.. Looks like the main character of a novel you read… Heh heh..! If I don’t like it, I won’t see you again!”
“If you meet a man and get hurt, it’s already too late..”
“I know. I saw that in a lot of books too. I will accept it though.”
Book. Book.
It was a word that kept provoking Hian’s guilt.
She is a daughter who learns everything from books rather than learning about relationships from person to person.
Okay.
She is always unable to protect her daughter her.
What can happen to one meal, but he thinks worst. Even if a bastard named Starchis constantly ignores her favors her, hurts her, and gorge herself like a beast throughout the meal, maybe it’s better to experience it. I do not know.
If not, it’s okay to be good friends.
Rose did not have a straight crush on him, she said.
Hian turned her head to see Rose massaging her behind her.
Rose says.
“Yes? Dad.”
