The Fallen Vampire

Chapter 175: Claim & A Rise to Fame?

The screaming started mere seconds after Taira plucked out Sawyer's eyes.

The young man fell back onto the ground; bucking and wailing in horror as he held his empty eye sockets.

"MY EYESS!!! MY FUCKING EYES!!! GOD, WHY?!"

Raymond and Corey, both in the process of eating at the time, both panicked and screamed aloud at the horrific sight.

It should come as no surprise that they both ended up fainting and collapsed on top of each other like 90s sitcom characters.

"T-Taira??"

Vermeil quickly ran over to look at her husband and found him still staring into his hand where the eyes of Sawyer rolled around.

Enyo, who had been promptly awoken from her rest was now floating just a few feet off the ground and taking in the scene quietly.

She could be lazy, and somewhat ditzy, but no one could ever claim that she wasn't smart.

She knew exactly what'd happened with only a single look, even if Vermeil didn't.

Sawyer's body eventually went into shock from the pain.

Vermeil quickly realized that she had to act fast if she was going to save him at all.

"Honey... Will you give me his eyes?" She asked, her voice so soft it was barely a whisper.

Taira blinked a few times and he seemed to snap out of his trance-like state.

He watched Vermeil take the eyes from his hand, and made no moves to stop her.

"...Can I have one of those?" Vaal said with unveiled hunger.

He couldn't help it if eyes were his favorite!

They were delicious!

Vermeil ordinarily would have said no, but before he could respond Enyo floated above her head and removed one eye from her palm.

"S-Sister, what-"

"Just trust me, my darling. This is fair." Enyo replied warmly.

She floated over to Vaal and dropped the eye into his bowl like it was a little dumpling.

"Here you go, Vaal. Consider it a little token of gratitude for your warm welcome."

"Glory be to blood!" Vaal's eyes lit up like stars and he quickly popped the still-warm eye into his mouth as if it were the best delicacy ever.

"...Where is my offering?" Tiche's eyes narrowed.

"You did hear me say that it was for a warm welcome, right?"

"Tch..."

Vermeil knelt down beside Sawyer and inserted his remaining eye back into his head.

She then removed a healing pill from her pouch and placed it in the back of his mouth to dissolve.

Once everything started stitching itself back together and he was no longer heading for death, Vermeil stood back up and went to her husband's side.

She took his hand and gently wiped away the blood with her handkerchief.

"Will you come with me for a moment...?"

Taira didn't answer, but he did not pull away when she started to lead him into the woods with her.

As they left, Enyo suddenly kneeled down and gently slapped Raymond and Corey awake.

"H-Huh..?"

"What in tarnation..!"

Enyo smiled eerily, making the two men's skin crawl.

"Hello there. Now that you're awake again, let's ensure that we understand boundaries if you want to keep your sight going forward, okay?"

-

Vermeil and Taira had ended up several yards away in the woods.

They were surrounded by nothing but a grove of glowing trees and silence.

Eventually, Vermeil took Taira's hand and placed it upon her own cheek.

"...Why did you do that?"

'He was staring at you' was the short answer.

The truth of the matter was that things were more complicated than that.

Taira had never not been possessive.

"They sound like they're really into it though... I've never made that sound with my husband before."

"S-So what about last night when we were drunk and-"

"Sorry, darling."

"She's right, I was watching you guys while I rubbed one out and she was not this loud."

"...I hate this village.

Corey and Raymond had no idea what the people around them were saying, nor were they aware of Vermeil's moaning just yet.

Their minds were just a hair too broken from Enyo's little warning to care.

'S-So many eyes... So many eyes..!'

Even though the boys weren't paying attention to the moaning coming from the woods, the girls certainly were.

They had coincidentally chosen that moment to emerge from the lake after cleaning themselves, and as a result they actually got to see what everyone else was hearing.

Three red-faced girls were crouched behind a rather thick set of bushes as they stared at the scene occurring just a few feet away from them.

They could see Vermeil clinging tightly to Taira with her legs wrapped around his waist.

With her back currently pressed against a tree, she was unable to run as her husband impaled her repeatedly at a fearsome rhythm.

It didn't seem like he was being very gentle with her, as every time he slammed his hips home, the tree holding her up made a groaning sound as if it were about to give way.

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Vermeil finally locked eyes with the girls hiding beneath the bushes.

Though her vision was blurry and her mind was all over the place, she could tell that they were watching her.

She recalled the way that they looked at Taira when he appeared in front of them for the first time.

And unknowingly, her own jealousy and possessiveness caused her to act.

Without breaking eye contact with the girls, Vermeil parted her lips and licked Taira all the way from the crook of his neck to his ear- eliciting an audible groan.

A final thrust from his hips caused her eyes to roll back into her head as she let out the loudest scream yet.

Though the forecast did not call for rain, the plants underneath the couple's feet did receive an impromptu shower.

And because the two lovers were nowhere near done, it would only be the first of the day.

-

As one might've guessed, Amarok family did not end up leaving that day as planned.

While Vermeil and Taira spent a few hours in the woods reaffirming their passion for one another, Aveena, Lucia, and Keran eventually woke up.

But instead of joining the pair, they left them alone for just this once and went with Vaal and his sister.

Since the plan was to make for the Sanctum together, Tiche assembled a small force comprised of her twenty best hunters.

For the past couple of hours, they had been running over strategies and devising group tactics to use against the qilin who guards the entrance.

As of right now, Aveena stood alone while she watched Lucia and Keran draw up a new scheme with the group behind them watching closely.

Unbeknownst to her, a familiar feeling began to spread within her heart as she watched the proceedings take place.

And a deeply buried wish bubbled up to the forefront of her mind.

"You seem quite happy."

Aveena felt her husband's arms wrap around her waist from behind and her pleasant mood was amplified 100-fold.

"Hey, you. Have you finally pried yourself from between Vermeil's legs?" She smiled.

"With great difficulty, yes. You should have come to join us, my love."

"I thought about it... b-but I had only just woken up and it wouldn't have been proper of me to do something to put me back to sleep again."

Though sensing Vermeil's satisfaction as she slept, Aveena was already regretting her decision.

"Ah, I see. So there should be little stopping me from embracing you tonight then?"

"O-Of course not, but... I wanted to ask you about something." Aveena said, already trying to force her mind to focus and not turn against her.

Because he could tell she seemed serious, Taira temporarily put his flirting on pause.

"Feel free, wife. You may ask me whatever you like."

Aveena turned around and hugged Taira as she searched for the words that seemed to escape her.

"I-It's... I don't know how to say it properly. I know that this is a turbulent time for us what with the heroes, and Inadu joining our family, and your new influence over the demonic cult, but... I wanted to know if... maybe..."

"Maybe?" Taira goaded.

"If maybe... we could restore the Drifting Snowfall Sect..?"