A step before the finish line

When Dominique and Jayden finally caught up to where the emperor was, they halted from a distance. The place Samael and Stefan fought was quite far from the ruckus in Minowa. Hence, there weren't people around to witness what happened. Even so, just by the figures they were seeing, the two of them knew it ended. 

"We're late," Dominique whispered as he balled his hands into a fist. 

"We took quite a while fighting those vampires from the mainland... this is to be expected," Jayden muttered as his eyes were fixed on Samael and Stefan.

It had been around three hours or more since Samael left them to clean up the vampires posing as Stefan and Zero. It didn't take them long since Stefan and Zero didn't have time to control those vampires anymore. But what kept them behind were the purebloods from the mainland.