3 Chapter 3: Spectacle!

"Judging from his clothes and the fact I can't smell Sunink tattoo on him, he appears to be an F tier.", Ringo thought as he "knocked out" Adam.

"Your Blood Magic is weak.", the vampire started stretching his shoulder that was, in fact, not really damaged.

"Ha, you are a confident F tier, aren't ya?"

"Confident enough to know you are around my level."

"Is the lack of Sunink tattoo linked with your lack of insight?"

"My reward for disposing of you will be a Sunink, so let's finish with supper."

After saying that the vampire took an obvious fighting stance. Ringo also became cautious, leaning slightly towards his opponent. It was about to start - the first vampire fight to ever be witnessed by Adam. While knocked down Adam was putting his all into not falling asleep and as for Ringo, he was thinking.

"Ok so, he is bigger than me, and has a bigger range. I will have to evaluate him before, starting to solve him."

The vampire started with a wide hook to the right. Ringo easily dodged under it and from that position touched his opponent's liver and solar plexus.

"Do you know why I touched you there? These two places are the only parts of the body a vampire should target with a blunt attack. You, however, decided to use a hook against me instead of using Transformation and sharpening your nails.", as he explained that Ringo himself transformed his left hand into a claw like appendage.

"What in the world?"

"You still think, I am around your level, pal? From what I have seen so far you've been a vampire for no more than 2 months, maybe even 1."

"How would you..."

"...know that? Well, it is true that you are an F tier and how I am now, I truly am around the level of a low E tier, but it is experience, you lack more than anything."

"I will give it to you little guy, as a vampire you have me beat, but can you hold off 30 of us?"

As the vampire said that, Ringo started to notice dark silhouettes, complete with red eyes and bloodlust, pop up all around the buildings. There were around 30 as the vampire said.

"So can you? Is this claw of yours enough to take 30 of us. You are real quiet now, aren't you?"

Although the taunting didn't stop, Ringo was deep in thought. This predicament seemed a little too bizarre to be happening in a fight with an F tier. This jigsaw was getting interresting.

"It is unlikely that they sent 30 vampires just for me so this will appear to be his Advance...", before finishing his observation, however the silhouettes started to shorten the distance.

"It is now or never. You might want to surrender or me and my guys will make a quick work of you", said the vampire smugly.

"Yo, can you shut up for a second, even though you are weak I will need sometime to find the most satisfying way to solve you."

"WHY YOU!!!"

This exclamation was followed by a wild charge. The vampire wildly started throwing punches and kicks towards Ringo. Ringo dodging most of them and taking the weaker ones, continued to think. Even though the silhouettes started closing the distance, they didn't seem to have come much closer and most importantly didn't assist their subordinate in the fight even from a distance. This confirmed what Ringo had thought. After taking another weak kick to the right leg, Ringo made two quick jumps and created around 10 meters of distance between himself and the tall vampire.

"Hah, I need to give it to you for a rookie vampire, you sure know how to optimize your Advance."

"My Advance? I haven't even used it. Are so afraid that you have started to bluff, o wise one. Don't give me this crap! Stop talking and dodging and come fight me like a man!"

"Firstly,", as he said that the air around Ringo changed. It became thicker and harder to breathe. Even his cocky opponent started to appreciate the distance that Ringo himself created between them."you are the one that is bluffing F tier. I knew from the very beginning that these silhouettes are your Advance. At first, I thought that it was some kind of Object Manipulation

Advance. Items you made into human shapes, but that couldn't have been the case as there is an obvious bloodlust coming from them . After that, I thought it was Shadow Magic Advance, but such an unskilled vampire, such as yourself, couldn't have made almost 30 shadows. So what was my conclusion, you ask?"

"..."

"Mind Manipulation. It was indeed easy to guess after your second attempt at an attack. It would've been logical for "your guys" to help you out. They still don't even bother to support you with even Blood Magic. If I had to make an educated guess your Advance is something along the lines of Minor Illusion."

"H-h-how?"

"Secondly,", saying that Ringo seemed to disappear from his position, just to appear a single step from his opponent."you told me something about fighting like a man. You see there is a fundamental flaw with that request. Neither you, nor me are "man". We are vampires."

Ringo's opponent was thrown in a state of panic. Realizing he was no match for the behemoth of a vampire in front of him, the tall vampire started to look for options for escape.

"Tell me your name, o tall one."

"M-m-my name is Larry."

"Do you have a surname, Larry? Or did the cat get it along with your tongue?"

"Smith, sir. My name is Larry Jefferson Smith, sir."

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! What is this name dude? It is literally the most normal ass name I have ever heard. What are you, the first enemy in a webnovel?"

"..."

"Anyways, Larry Jefferson Smith, it is time to show you how a vampire fights."

Larry tried to run, but to no avail. He made about two steps back and then Ringo delivered a blow to his solar plexus. The air in Larry's lungs painfully left them, leaving him leaning forward with his hands trying to protect his stomach, while gasping for air. Ringo, however, didn't have any intention of stopping there. He put both his thumbs up and pierced Larry's closed eyes. A gushing sound was followed by a scream of pure pain and horror. Larry was left on his knees, with his eyes, now useless and covered by his hands, in the direction of the now visible stars. In this position he was left wide open for a low kick to the liver, which Ringo, of course, delivered with precision and ferocity, that can be hardly imagined. This time Larry didn't even make a sound; the pain was far too unbearable for him. He was left lying on the ground; for him the fight was over, but not for Ringo.

"For an F tier I must say you weren't so bad. You were like a 25, no 30 piece jigsaw with a picture of a flightless bird on it. An easy solve, but quite enjoyable."

That was the last thing Larry heard Ringo say before he passed out.

After the fight Ringo pulled out what he had gotten from the Gardening club's clubroom from his right pocket. It was a butterfly knife that when he opened looked to be silvered. With the knife Ringo cut, the now knocked out, vampire's achilles tendons and hamstring muscles, which made sure that even if he woke up he wouldn't be able to walk. After doing that Ringo walked up to what he thought was a sleeping Adam.

"Man, I am dumb. Why would I give him my groceries and then knock him out? I hope the lemonade is ok."

"Nah big bro, it's all good. I made sure to fall in a way that wouldn't damage any of them."

"Oh thanks! Still we aren't brothers...Wait a second, aren't you supposed to be passed out?"

"Oooooh! So I was supposed to. I thought you wanted me to watch and did that to make him think we are also enemies."

"Why would I want to do that?"

"Because you will be my vampire hunter teacher! Pretty please?"

Ringo refused a couple of times, but Adam's determination was unwavering and at the end Ringo gave in. He could always wipe Adam's memories with Mind Manipulation later on and needed someone to help him carry the body and the groceries anyway.

"So, I will pick him up from the armpits and you grab the legs and groceries."

"Yes, sir master sir. Oh, I never officially introduced myself. In my defense, I thought you were a bloodthirsty vampire. Wait! You, actually, are a vampire, but not bloodthirsty, I guess. Are you? If you are, I might reconsider, you being my master...", Adam's rambling continued for a little while longer when it was cut off by Ringo.

"The name is Ringo Roads and I am a vampire, but not a bloodthirsty one."

"I am Adam Handler and I am a vampire hunter.", Adam said with a big smile.