Chapter 41 Entanglement

  As if he had drunk his fill, he licked away the blood flowing from my neck. He gently pushed me away, his eyes flashing with incredulity. I sighed inwardly, so he knew after all. Why did such troublesome things always happen these days? "Hey, Zero, I'm just the vampire you hate the most." The two holes in my neck healed at a visible rate.

  "······" Looking at Zero's mouth, there was still some blood left unlicked, and I raised my hand to help him wipe it away. What surprised me was that he knew I was the demon beast he hated the most, but he didn't open his hands and let me help him clean up.

  "Uh, I came to Hei Zhu Academy for this very reason. Originally, I just wanted to see how he was doing, but he found out."

  "Please don't kill her, she's the only family I have left besides my brother."

  "Hime was born when I was five years old, at which time all my memories were sealed away by my mother and I became human. Then Hime started taking care of me, who had no common sense and was completely dependent on her. Although she killed your family, please forgive her. Hime killed your parents because they killed the person she loved, a LEVELD who shouldn't have been on the elimination list, a very gentle man... I told him the reason, although I didn't expect him to forgive Hime, but I couldn't let him kill Hime."

  "......Alright, I won't go kill her." A faint glimmer of pain flashed across his pale purple eyes, then his eyelids drooped, and his thick eyelashes covered up his emotions.

  "Thank you, Zero. Aoi is doing well now. I've accepted him as my own, and he's become a Level B blood relative, one that doesn't lose to a true vampire in any way. He'll be with me forever, until the moment his life ends." For Zero, Aoi is probably the only person he has left in this world, the only family he has.

  Get up, tidy up your clothes, and lower your eyes so that no one can see your emotions. "After today, I will leave here, I will help bring some idle blood, so you don't have to worry about becoming a LEVELE. Probably this time leaving, it will never come back here again, this is the last...".

  "Where are you going?" was cut off before it was even finished, Zero's voice unexpectedly calm.

  "I don't know, probably to another world." I tilted my head, should be going to another anime, I don't believe God would be so kind as to let me stay in this time and space forever.

  "I'll go with you."

  He looked at her strangely. "Want to go together?" I don't think it's possible for a time-traveler to bring someone along, right? "I can't take you with me, and even if you went, there's nothing you could do."

  "......I like you." Zero's face was helpless. It was so obvious, how couldn't she see it? In this case, he had no choice but to say it himself.

  "Huh?" Do you like me? My brain automatically converted the format, liking me = wanting to enter the harem, I had an epiphany and clapped my hands. "I get it, Zero, you want to enter my male harem, right?"

  What's with the harem? Zero's forehead was covered in black lines, what is a harem and does she even understand it?! And who taught him all this nonsense?! The image of the director with a sly smile flashed through his mind, and he suddenly felt a chill run down his spine. Just as the director, who had just been scolded by Kyoran, was thinking of going back to sleep, he let out another cold sweat and accidentally stepped on a banana peel, landing on his back with his legs in the air.

  "Didn't Zero like Yuuki? " The strange gaze turned to Zero, wasn't it that since coming to the Director's house and meeting Yuuki, because Yuuki gave warmth to him who was about to collapse, he liked her? But why did he say he likes me? Is it a way of retaining me? Or is it the same kind of liking as with Kaito-nii?"

  "I don't like her! I like you!" He stared at me in surprise as he jumped out of bed, grabbed my hand, and then...

  "Ah!" My pupils shrank rapidly, staring at the face close to mine. The originally pale purple eyes filled with annoyance slowly closed, and the dense eyelashes lightly brushed against my face. As I opened my mouth in surprise, a smooth small tongue slipped in, clumsily kissing me...

  Slowly releasing me, my face flushed with a red glow because I'm not good at changing the air. There's some melancholy in my heart, why did you have to kiss me? My brother also often kisses me, but it was much gentler than his.

  "Isn't zero the one who hates vampires the most? I'm your most hated demon, after all." Yet, why does he still like me? What kind of feelings is it that he likes me with? Is it the same as how I like brother, or is it the same as how I like Lila?

  "I never thought you were a vampire, your eyes are the most beautiful I've ever seen, without any impurities, even crystal clear to the point of being scary. Maybe, when you first smiled at me, I... liked you already. That smile, like sunlight, can warm people's hearts. And your name, like sunflowers, shining brightly but warming the heart. If I had known from the start that you were a vampire, I would still have liked you. Probably, you are the only vampire in my eyes who can coexist with the sun." Zero gazed at me quietly, his eyes filled with tenderness. He spoke slowly and clearly about the impression I left on him, making my heart feel something it never had before... warm, sweet, but tears would involuntarily well up...

  "...... Zero, so you want to enter my harem that badly, huh? I get it. You can move into my house tomorrow, Zero shouldn't be late for school." I forced back the tears, after all, I wouldn't cry for no reason. But I couldn't help but smile at the calm and collected Rei who was waiting for my answer.

  "Ugh... I get it." Zero let out a helpless sigh, having used up his last trump card. He might as well compromise. Living in her house would allow him to see her every day, but why was she so obtuse? Hadn't Kyorin previously pursued Yukino with such enthusiasm? Had her emotional intelligence turned into book smarts or something? Still, her kiss had a peculiar flavor to it. Zero's face flushed at the thought - that was his first kiss, after all. What a waste, having it go to this dull girl who seemed to be infuriating the gods themselves.

  After being indecisive for half a day, Kiryuin Shou finally officially entered the beautiful harem of Aoi Sakuragi, whose circumstances were still unknown. Kiryuin said that if she didn't agree again tomorrow, she would disappear from my life forever. And why was she so slow?!

  Alright, Kudzu-chan has no idea how to write confessions and such, so readers will just have to make do. It's the school dance, let's look forward to Kudzu's performance! As many of you readers are hoping for Shiro-kan Maria to go to hell soon, in the next two chapters she'll be saying goodbye to this story forever.