10 Chapter 10 Repent

I have to stay standing. I have to hold myself up. I must end this. I have to get use to this.

I tell Edward to put Lucinda back in the cell. And ask for another and he does. Or tries at least. When he goes for the next person I name from the mens, he quickly bulbs for the back of the room screaming at him in fear.

"No!! No please, don't hurt me! I'll do anything!! I-I have money! I can return all my earnings! I'll confess everything, but please don't hurt me! I don't want to die. I didn't want to do all those things that witch told me! I was just scared! No!!"

Fucking Christ. Will you stop your bitching if you don't wanna die then hold the fuck still and answer my questions. It'll be over quickly. He continues to beg as if his life was on the line as he's dragged out of the cell by his cuffs and forced to kneel before me. The richest man in church, Hampton Lenard. Not really much to say about him. He fooled around a LOT and even attempted to rape some of the girls in the church as well as the maidens they kidnapped. Most of those maidens went missing every time he was incharge of them, and everytime it was him, I would find them dead by the hillside over the cliff with hand marks on their throats. And unlike Lucinda, he doesn't have a red cloud over his heart. This simply proves my idea of my ability To see corruption. Not only can I tell of someone has sinned, but I can also see if their hearts themselves are sinful. He's looked like a piece of coal got wet and turned muddy on the inside. His body may not be as corroded with black like hers was, but his heart sure as hell isn't ever gonna be in the right place.

He looks up to me and tears are already forming in his eyes. He just doesn't want to get bit by a vampire because he believes in superstitions like that. Despite being the way he is, he was always very paranoid with that sort of thing. I lean into his ear and ask my questions, but he hardly answered them.

"What are your sins?"

"I-I can be your servant. You can have everything I own. Please, please, just spare me." god! answer me! Your worse than a... Really he pissed himself, he's so scared? Gross man.

I ask him the next one a little louder.

"Do you wish to repent?"

"R-repent?"

"For the sins I see in you. Will you repent?"

"I-I dont know what your talking about!? I only did what they told me! I was only following orders! I-it was that priest! He did this to me! he made me sin! he made me this way!" Ok. I've just about had it up to here with this fool.

Last question. "Where is your faith?"

"M-my faith... My faith is in the blood! My faith is in the blood!" Is it? Is it really? Whatever. I'm done with this asshole. I take a bite and the pain rushes again but it was different from before. It was more of an annoying pain as he screams in my ear. He was struggling all the while too, until he gets out of Eddie's grip and falls back on the floor which made me bite down harder so I don't lose my grip on him. I'm never gonna get use to this taste. Something different happens as I return the blood through his system. His heart started to race faster than normal and kept picking up speed until everything suddenly stops pulsing all together. He stops screaming and goes completely limp and cold. He died. He panicked and struggled forcing his heart to be unable to withstand the rush and it burst in his chest. Everyone heard the sound of it echo from his chest. Poof! And a heavy hush. He died for his sins. He refused to claim them. And he refused to repent. So this is the punishment for those with a black heart.

I look around and see everyone had a black heart like him. All but the two in the back of either cell at the end. A calm man with white hair and closed slanted eyes. And a timid girl shivering in the corner that simply inherited her families ruin. Both abandoned by their loved ones. Both quietly awaiting their fate. Edward looks to the body and check his pulse. He was for sure dead as bricks, I can tell you that. He looks at me in horror and amaze when he realized there wasn't a single drop of blood on either of us this time. It was a clean bite. A simple rush. And a failed return. That's all. "Go on and take him back. There's no saving the damned." I felt nothing for the man. He was corrupt in his heart and had no thought for repentance or forgiveness. He knew he was wrong and he paid the price. As will everyone else.

The rest of the day goes on like this for a while now. Some hearts chose to be saved, and allowed themselves to be cleansed while the others die wicked deaths thinking they'll be forgiven just because they admit to their corruption. Doesn't mean you'll be saved for it. It was time for the other two. Mikoto Harusakutori, the first eastern man to ever actually join us. He initially came to us because he was made to find someone to follow, but we weren't the first ones he went to. It was only because we were the only ones willing to accept him and teach him english that he joined us. And I in turn asked him to teach me his language, Japanese. He was happy to hear that someone would willingly offer to trade languages and we soon became close friends. Until I became a priest. Then things got strange between us and he went quiet for the longest until my final moments. He was one of the few that tried to protect me and begged me not to sacrifice myself. I must admit, he is the most noble and humble of all of them. And I'm glad his heart wasn't tainted. I can probably say that his only sin was probably not doing anything about the crimes like me.

"Mikoto Harusakutori." I call to him trying to keep my composer. I'm actually super happy to see him. He looked so calm until he approaches me and kneels. It hasn't been that long since he joined the church of blood. Only a year. So he's only seen the brutality of our works. Our careless sins. It was heartbreaking. "What are your sins?" Whisper to him.

A tiny flicker of black fills his throat. He's going to lie. "I killed five of people and joined church of blood." Ouch. You're not wrong there, but, man, that one hurt.

"Do you wish to repent?"

Shigaimasu.*" No." No?

"... Why?"

"... Because I make good friend that die honorably. I do not regret being with him to his end." Right, we didn't have long to talk before or after I became priest, so his english is still off. Before I ask my last question.

"「Why did you lie to me about your sin?」" I asked in his language and he looks up at me in complete shock. Yeah, that surprised you.

"「... I am sorry. I thought if I had sinned now, I would be able to meet, the late priest again if only once.」" He misses me?

"「Answer me honestly this time. What is your sin?」"

"「Not having the power or courage to save my only friend from everyone's sins. He would not have sacrificed himself if it weren't for this... And joining the blood church. These are my sins.」"

"「Do you wish to repent?」"

"「No. For I have nothing needing forgiveness. My only regret, is not bidding my friend farewell.」" Hold it together, me! Tell him later me!!

"「Where is your faith?」"

"「My faith is in the blood. Do what you must.」"