Did you wait long?
It is a really weird feeling knowing that your clothes are apart of you. I came through the gate in a plain white t shirt, jacket and shorts but not that I'm a vampire they are a part of my body and can change to whatever. Like I changed it to be a pair of blue jeans, a thin gray sweatshirt, and a black leather jacket on top of that with the hood up. That is what I decided on after going though as many changes I could think off to wear as I showdown with the limb thief's.
I thought I looked pretty snazzy in this getup but Shinobu forcefully changed the outfit to something with less coverage on my upper body showing off the muscles that only grew to another league in my transformation to a vampire. So I have a black tank top and a loose sweater jacket that only was closed by like two buttons showing a bit of shoulder of any shoulder fetishist out there. All this happened as the I was holding Shinobu and jumping at high speeds chasing Guillotine cutter.
Once we landed on a building nearby I looked down at the guy. He really wasn't anything special as by the time he detected the two of us I was moving and behind him leaving him to look line an idiot. I guess he wasn't expecting this type of attack or situation at all since I had him at my complete mercy while holding him by the throat. It was like taking candy from the baby and made me feel powerful. I am but I need to curb that sensation before it turns into arrogance not pride.
With the limb I place it into the inventory and knock the specialist out since even if I completely outclass him in raw power I can't underestimate a specialist. With that out of the way Shinobu pops the top of her head out of my shadow "You know it is pretty crowded in here. I'm glad my little pocket of space can't be invaded unless I so choose."
I nod to her "Sorry, I kinda have to keep my army close after all since they are loyal to a fault. Can't trust what they will do unsupervised in my name for my sake." It is true if not for me Beru would have probably built a castle like he did for Jinwoo already. High orcs might crush anyone they consider a threat to me and the knights aren't kind to any crime under my domain which is everything in their eyes. I'm getting distracted, I jump back up in the air and get moving as I don't want to spook the other specialist away and not find any trails to track so with my companion safely in my shadow I kick up the speed another level with the quicksilver or sprint skill for a tiny amount of mana.
You know for a bunch of guys trying to kill a vampire they do not put much effort into disposing or destroying her limbs that are parts of her power. I say this because I quickly and easily find my second target the vampire hunting vampire, Dramaturgy. He is able to detect my presence as I come rocketing toward him and assuming I'm attacking he uses shapeshifting to turn his arms into swords. He was right too since the moment I became visible sparks were flying between his sword arms and my short swords. Too fast for a human to see a flurry of strikes were traded between the two vampires and to test my regeneration I let a handful of cuts to land and watched them regenerate too fast for me to see without sharingan for the glancing blows.
Deciding the wounds were too light to test my limits I sacrifice my left arm to my enemy and before the arm could even drop it had disintegrated and grew back so fast I was able to catch the shortsword and get a deep gash in Dramaturgy's chest. Because his regeneration was nothing compared to mine he had to jump back to distance himself "You are just playing with me to see what you are capable of, Aren't you?" I smile while admiring the handy work of my vampirism but I might have a couple problems like pretending to get hurt, or do I.
Well I mean I don't want everyone to know I'm immortal but it isn't like anyone can do anything against me at this point. I'll worry about it when the time comes and leave it for future me. "Not toying but yes I wanted to find what the next evolution of vampirism is capable of. Don't you think it is pretty nifty thing to have? Mind handing over the limbs I wouldn't want to hurt you too badly since you won't heal like I can after all." The look on his face is about as pretty as someone being told they have to eat horse shit but he has no choice I completely outclass him giving zero chances of beating me. This is a world without quirks and he is a lower tier vampire than me and I'm not even sure if I'm in the same league anymore. Then again I didn't really get to test the limits of the royal blood or kiss-shot before the evolution.
Limb in hand he watches as I just disappeared with two shoe prints leaving a crater where I just was even to him a fellow vampire. Helplessly he looks out to the moon as it's strengthening glow can't settle the turmoil in his heart knowing a monster like me has been unleashed into the world with no supervision. A man in a psychedelic Hawaiian shirt lands before him with a grave and serious look. I am flying through the night sky with a little application of ruler authority to make platforms to jump off of every once in a while looking for the half vampire that likely won't serve a challenge being only half of what he could live up to.
Man that vampire superiority is strong but I can't say it is wrong. If I remember right the last one is Episode the six year old half vampire wielding a giant cross. The thing about half vampires is half the strength of a normal vampire and none of the weaknesses. So he uses that advantage to hunt vampires by being study and skilled enough to survive them and also beat them with their weaknesses that don't effect him like crosses. I don't know how effective it will be against me but I can handle sunlight with no trouble so I have my doubts about it being more effective than just bludgeoning me to death.
Spotting the thing I am looking for I land in a large street to stare down my next opponent if you can even call them that. The next thing I find is a cross flying at my head well isn't that just peachy, using my left arm I deflect it in a random direction. I would have paid to more attention to where it went but I'm focusing on the small blue fire that accompanied a scratch I got on my arm. I guess I'm still not immune to the power of the almighty then but neither can he mortally wound me. Looking for the good looking bastard I don't find him, musta disappeared into fog already.
I hear the sound of the cross flying through the air before I see him and dodge it only losing a few hairs to it. Well I gotta give him credit he is doing better than Dramaturgy and he only hit me without me letting him much less get my hair. Instead of looking for the source I watch the path of the cross and naturally there he is teleporting to grab it and attack once more. Well how about we change that, or well I was thinking that until a little lost cat got curious so it went looking for trouble. Tsubasa hanakawa.
Thinking about it I am disappointed in myself or well something along those lines because I always disliked Izuku's type of personality to completely give oneself of another even if they hurt you or mean nothing to you is not me, I'm not such an asshole to not help someone I can save but I won't be ready to throw my life away and that is what I hoped to change in Izuku by giving him a quirk so he has a little better sense of self preservation by increasing his self worth.
That is why I'm bothered by my legs moving on their own to save this curious little cat looking for a life changing event. I'm going to burry the turmoil in my heart from knowing I did this and chalk it up to hoping to get a handful because I'm not a good person I don't do things without expecting some reward or purpose. It is the whole reason I'm in this god forsaken world to just become stronger not save people and play hero. Right?
I can feel the cross digging into my skin and desperately trying to eradicate me a blight upon the living world but with a little flexing I dislodge it and the piece of metal drops to the ground as the girl behind me drops to her knees. I can see the gears in her head turning as he figures that I'm most likely a vampire especially with the getting burned by a cross thing who just saved her life. "Stay right their if you don't want your organs spilling all over the ground okay." I say to her and focus on Episode. He just recollectioned his cross and I'm not wasting anymore time playing with this idiot so I start to use mana to reinforce my body and up all my stats then activate the quicksilver skill to make my speed hit the highest possible so before either of them can react my elbow is digging into the guy's throat.
Spittle is launched out of his mouth and he is forced to his knees desperately fighting for air from his crushed windpipe the only thing keeping him up is his vampiric traits. I kick him in the chin and send him laying down on his back while he clutches at his throat to finally start coughing "You lose and unless you want to die I suggest you hand over what I'm looking for now." I place my foot on his chest and apply pressure to his ribcage enough to slow his still trembling breath. With no choice but to listen he does as I ordered and I have no reason to stay in this world any longer once I find the heart thief. Though I hope he won't be any trouble since I don't plan on hanging out in this world for too long.
Walking away I can feel the question gaze from Shinobu and Hanakawa as I lift the girl to her feet and walk away "Come on. You are so curious as to wonder into a death match you shouldn't just sit there when I invite you to follow." She hesitates looking to Episode then quickly follows me as I head to the only place I can think of to either find or wait for Meme Oshino. Well I would if the human wasn't so slow, stopping that train of thought because I need to retain some humanity, I lift her up in my arms and launch into the air gunning straight for the abandoned cram school.
Landing on the roof I lower Hanakawa as the girl once again hesitates wishing to soar through the sky once again to feel the novel experience. Shinobu raises herself from my shadow the question written on her face and I can only shrug because I'm not really following any plan, thought, or emotion more like just following my gut. "Now all we are missing is your heart. Correct?" She nods her head and without turning to her I address Hanakawa "So tell me if I'm right but this is what you were looking for right? A life changing experience."
She seems shocked to be read so thoroughly. "I can give that to you. An escape from this life, the world as you know it, if you want. You won't ever have to go back unless you want to either." She is thinking it through after all because she has no clue what is in store for her "I go back if I want to right?" I finally turn to look at her and I can see it in her eyes, hope "You can go back to your old life yes that is assuming you don't become a vampire then it won't be the exact same as before." Now this catches her attention as she made a few small assumptions but I did leave the wording vague on purpose after all. "Tell me will you join me. If not I will just erase your memories of this encounter and you can live life like this night never happened. Never thinking about what coulda been since you likely will think that."
It is tempting, human nature is to want an escape from that which you find unpleasant the only question is how far are you willing to go to reach that escape. "Please, I want to go with you." I smile softly expecting this answer since my memories of her life in this world aren't very pleasant to the point of almost killing her parents from all the stress and envy. "We will be waiting a little while before we make to be on our way. Get comfy for the meanwhile." It is true I don't know how long we will have to wait in this world to encounter psychedelic Hawaiians and if it takes longer than a day or two I might send those two ahead to wait for me.
It was only a few hours and a little before dawn until he finally arrived. Although he was dancing on the edge of my senses trying to figure out my game before approaching. "So did you wait long for me?"