Chapter 5: 5. Will you go with me?

It had been couple of days since human hero Julian Beleng turned against his will in to a little vampire girl named Julia. Ever since that unfortunate encounter with the vampire queen Loriam, is this formal hero refusing to leave bed in a hope that all of this was just a bad dream that will end soon.

“Your highness A-Are you perhaps still asleep?”

Blonde haired maid named Mirei entered the room with her trademark nervousness and quietly approached the bed on which laid pile of blankets.

“I-It’s time for breakfast, your highness.”

The only answer she got had been silence. Mirei gulped nervously and stepped closer towards the bed.

“You haven’t eaten for days your highness, please you should go to eat something.”

To this, a pile of blankets shook and a head of silver haired girl peaked from it. Her blood red eyes landed on the maid who trembled in response.

“I said that I don’t want to eat anything so just go and leave me alone.”

The girl; Formal human hero named Julian, and currently vampire princess Julia answered to the maid lazily and wrapped herself in to the blankets. Mirei however didn’t seemed willing to drop the subject in the slightest.

“B-But your highness it was sever…”

“Don’t call me that!

Julia throwed blanked from her body and yelled at the Mirei, her face and voice filled with anger. Mirei trembled more than ever before and hurriedly lowered her head in a deep bow.

“I-I am sorry. Please, forgive me!”

Mirei was franticly apologizing on verge of tears. Julia came back to her senses when she heard Mirei’s crying. Julia felt terribly for yelling at her for something that isn’t even Mirei’s fault to begin with, everything was that overaged loli’s fault.

“Mirei… I am sorry. I didn’t mean to yell at you…. Stop crying, ok?”

Julia approached Mirei but stopped half meter from her, unsure of how to comfort her. Though it didn’t seem necessary as Mirei started to calm down slightly on her own once she heard Julia’s apologetic voice.

“Huh? Do-Doesn’t your high…y-your excellency doesn’t wish to throw this useless maid to the wolfs?”

“…Why would I want that?”

Julia was baffled, was this the reason she was so nervous and scared?

“Because I displeased you? It is a common practice for nobles to throw eyesores, such as myself to the wolfs after all.”

Mirei answered as if throwing somebody to the wolfs for something so banal was the most natural thing in the world.

“Well, I don’t want that, so don’t worry about it, okay?”

Julia gave reassuring smile to Mirei, who in turn looked at Julia in awe her eyes sparkling with admiration. Then she proceeded to kneel in front of Julia.

“Your excellency, I Mirei Yassale, offer up my services and my undying loyalty to you, my master.”

Mirei spoke as she kneeled her previous nervousness disappearing in to thin air. While Julia watched Mirei’s change in demeanor, as if she was completely different person from the Mirei just few minutes ago. What is with her? I only said I will not throw her to wolfs.

“So, you two are getting along after all.”

Their silent moment was interrupted by a cheery voice that came from the door. Its owner was no other than Loriam dressed in her at this point typical black lace dresses. Her warm smile and the backpack that she was caring made her look just like a young innocent girl, if Julia didn’t know who she really is they would be charmed by her.

“Why are you here?”

Julia didn’t bother to hide her annoyance as she faced Loriam, who just kept smiling at her.

“Just brought you somethings, that’s all.”

Loriam pated her backpack for emphasis. Mirei could felt tension in the air between her mistress and her employer. Unsure of what to do she opted for her top-secret technique; Run away, and leave it to somebody else.

“I will go and make some tea.”

“Yea, please do.”

Relieved that the queen gave her permission Mirei left the room with a deep bow and an excessive smile on her face, her vow forgotten. Julia was just watching in disbelieve how her supposedly loyal maid left her behind with this loli hag. You goddam traitor!

Loriam ignored Julia’s expression as she walked towards now empty bed, all while humming happily as she looked around the room.

“So, why did you come here for?”

Julia repeated her question once Mirei closed doors behind herself. Loriam just planted herself on to the bed and turned to face Julia, her smile being replaced with more serious expression, closer to the expression that Julia saw on Loriam’s face back when she was still men.

“It has been a week since I brought you here, you can’t just stay holed up in your room forever.”

Loriam smiled slightly as she pated the fabric she spread on the bed with her palm, before continuing without facing Julia.

“Incidentally there is going to be a birthday party of one rather important noble girl next month. So, I want to ask you to come with me.”

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Loriam peaked at Julia from the corner of her eye, her face barely concealing the fact she looked excited by the idea. Julia on the other hand was dumbfounded.

“And why exactly should I go with you to some stupid vampire brad’s birthday?”

Julia crossed her arms as she spoke, it wasn’t like she didn’t want to go out of the room after staying in it for the whole week but somehow hearing it coming out of Loriam’s mouth as the first thing after she didn’t show herself for several days, was kind of pissing Julia off.

Loriam let out exhausted sigh as if she finds the entire thing to be bothersome and jumped from the bed.

“As a member of the royal clan of Leranpe, we have to both attend this sort of noble gatherings. And besides, it will be perfect opportunity to allow all those nobles to meet their crown princess. But I understand you, I don’t want to go either. So please go with me so that your poor old mother will not have to be all alone there, okay?”

“Cut it out! Also, what crown princess? What members? you are the only member of the royal family in this room!”

Before Julia could do anything Loriam was right next to her, hugging her tightly and rubbing her cheeks against Julia’s, all the while she wailed about not wanting to go without Julia.

“Huh? What do you mean? Of course, you are also member of the royal family though, didn’t I gave you the… wait I forgot to give it to you.”

Loriam rampaged through the small pocked on the backpack and after a while pulled small golden ornament from it, and with an apologetic smile gave it to Julia.

Julia looked at the item that was now in her hand. It had an appearance of a neckless decorated with a winged sword crest on one side with an inscription in vampiric language, on the other side of the neckless were highly detailed engravings of flowers with an empty space in the middle.

Without a warning Loriam pricked Julia’s finger with a needle and let the drop of Julias blood touch the empty space on the neckless. Then the neckless began to glow with faint red light, and an inscription in vampiric language appeared.

“This is an prove of you being part of the Lerenpe clan, don’t lose it okay?”

Loriam placed the neckless on Julia’s neck with a gentle motherly smile.

“What does it say?”

“It just says Julia Beleng Lerenpe, so your name and nothing else.”

Loriam seemed happy by this outcome while Julia looked confused by it. But Loriam decided to ignore her.

“With this out of the way, back to the topic at hand. Will you go with me to the party?”

“Hell no.”

Loriam was shocked by Julia’s quick response and looked at her with her mouth agape for a bit. But she recomposed herself soon and spoke to Julia with sulking tone.

“Why not? Its perfect opportunity for change of scenery, come on would you accompany your poor old mother? My daughter.”

“Who is your daughter? You vampir…sigh. Just leave while I am still being polite with you.”

Loriam sighed but didn’t leaved, instead she went to the backpack that she had brought in to the room with her and slowly opened it.

“Sigh, I know it would be like this so I came ready.”

“Wh-What are you planning?”

Loriam didn’t answered just completely opened backpack and emptied it on to the carped. Julia looked dumbfoundedly at the Loriam’s ‘secret weapon’ that she readied in her attempt to convince Julia.

“What do you say? Will you accompany your mother now?”

“…What?”

To Loriam’s smug smile only answer from Julia was confusion. Her ‘secret weapon’ turned out to be several colorful packages and few bottles. Each one of them had labels in human language that Julia was so familiar with, all of it was obviously a human made snack food and sodas.

“If you go with me, I will give all of this to you, so what do you thing now?”

“Do you thing I am little kid or what?!”

“Look, what do you see there. Do you see anything other than a little girl?”

Loriam puled Julia towards a mirror as she asked with light smile. Julia didn’t have anything else to say to that. It was true that the reflection in the mirror was that of a little girl.

“No, but I am not a child. What made you think that this would convince me to go with you? And beside vampires can’t eat anything other than blood, did you seriously forgot that about you own race?”

“What kind of monster do you think we are? Of course, we can eat other things, maybe not exactly same things as other races but to a degree we can.”

Loriam looked little hurt by Julia’s words but didn’t let it bother her and picked a pack of bacon flavored potato chips.

“I also made sure that all of these thinks are okay to be eaten by a blood-clan so you can eat this…. If you go to the party with me.”

“You thing this will be enough to convince me? After all you have done?”

Julia didn’t understand why she was so defiant just seeing Loriam trying to convince her was making her happy for some reason, but some voice deep within her was telling her to not take a single step back, to define Loriam for little bit longer, even though she wanted to eat chips again she gave in to this unknown desire for defiance.

“Sigh, okay you won.”