The Fallen Vampire

Chapter 144: Fight! Fight! Fight!

Unlike the other races of light, fairies or fae are extremely secluded and don't really openly engage in the war as humans, elves, and dwarves do.

Instead, they guard only their own domains with a rather fierce demeanor.

The only reason in particular that they are even counted among the races of light is due to their beauty which humans and elves find so captivating that it is worthy of reverence.

It also helps that they have more of an aversion to fallen than other beings.

Fae are said to be so powerful that if they put their mind to it they could overturn the balance of the world with their numbers alone.

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And whether or not that is rumor or fact, the fallen don't particularly want to find out so they avoid the domains of the fairies like a plague.

So needless to say, the fact that the fallen here had been led right smack into the waiting room of the fairy king himself was about as appealing as a sandpaper fleshlight.

If the demon and elven fallen didn't believe that Taira was a traitor to their race before, they certainly were starting to now.

"Are you anxious? I assure you that you're welcome to leave."

As soon as Aja got down from his back, Taira's body went up into a surge of blue flame.

A moment later, he floated down from the ball of fire and allowed his feet to stand on the surface of the misty lake beneath him.

Different from his usual black kimono, he wore more simple dark black pants and a sleeveless shirt made of a nice, breathable material.

Around his waist hung a blue and gold kimono the same color as his flames.

His wild silver hair was tied up in a long ponytail and gave him a much more refined, non caveman-like look.

Briefly, Ayame, Aja, and Ja'Zaki felt their breath's get caught in their throats.

Taira was unfairly charming, yes but that wasn't the main concern for them.

Though they would never tell him on account of his feelings for them,... he really did look so much like his father and mother that it was damn near scary.

Especially with this cold yet calculating look of murder in his eyes.

"I don't need you to be here... I didn't even want you here. If you're feeling the urge to tuck your tail and run, I hope you aren't counting on me to stop you. But let me be absolutely clear about something..."

Taira closed the distance between he and Kyoen step-by step, with his presence becoming all the more sharp and dangerous at every second.

"Fighting will only weaken us and draw his attention!"

"Naturally."

"Then why in the name of the gods would you ask me to stand aside and watch this foolishness?!" The dark elf monarch was on the verge of tearing his silver hair out from stress.

Ayame based briefly to look at Taira.

He held out his hand and allowed his spirit weapon to appear within his palm; a very sinister looking kusarigama with a blood red chain.

He landed back on the water without causing so much as a single ripple, and rushed at his opponent with a seemingly unenviable bloodthirst.

"Because... he's smarter than this." Ayame finally muttered.

"Not right now he isn't!"

"Just shut up and listen damn it!" Ayame grabbed Ja'Zaki forcefully by his long ponytail in the hopes that she could make him see with her line of thinking.

"I haven't exactly gotten to know Taira the best since he keeps himself so closed off, but... I have never seen him discuss so much as a single step without calculating the risks at least three times over.

"..Tch." this admittedly did cause Ja'Zaki to pause.

Any good assassin no matter how they were trained will always think calculatedly at every single moment.

They have no choice, since this entire line of thinking is beaten into them from the moment that they begin their careers.

Wasteful movement, effort, and thinking all leads to death.

And since Taira is no mere street alley hitman, he should also know this intently.

"I don't know what the man is thinking but, I am content to wait and see. What about you?"

Ja'Zaki folded his arms and resign himself to waiting to see how this all plays out.

"I'll step in the moment it looks like Kyoen is about to die."

"Don't you mean the moment it looks like either of them are going to?"

Ja'Zaki smirked momentarily before it quickly disappeared.

A glimmer of recognition shone in Ayame's good eye before she nodded profusely.

"Right? I was thinking the same thing."