I want to know everything.

...

After the return of Sofia, who had just accompanied Miya and Mike in The Room Designated by her Master, she joined the latter in the living room.

But as soon as she closed the door leading to the basement behind her, her expression also darkened by noticing the silence of Lucie of her master.

"Sigh, if I had been a little careful with him, none of this would have happened." She murmured.

"There is more urgent than the murder of a noble vampire by milord Kasel, Miss Sofia," Lucie answered her words of guilt with this sentence.

"Huh? More urgent than that? Sigh, you may not know it, but even if murder is commonplace in our community, it's also proportional to our laws. But especially when it comes to noble vampires like Alfred. Even if he has viscount status, this event could create a conflict between noble families if the identity of the murderer is not known. In addition, there's a high probability that the order will intervene in this case!" She said as she approached them.

"Lucie is right, Sofia. There's more urgency than this murder case. Anyway, even if my Darling hadn't killed this son of a bitch, I'd have personally taken care of his case!" Evelyn replied while sitting on one of the sofas with one leg on the other."

"..."

"In short, what do you think of Miya's words?"

"Of course, She's lying! I think her goal was to do something crazy like she usually does to compare herself to you constantly. But the situation eventually worsened, and she lost all control over it. And now, she plays the innocent girls to leave us all the responsibilities!" Sofia responds instantly.

"Sigh, I'm not talking about her intentions, but about what she said about my Darling's powers. You must have known too that he wasn't a vampire like us, right?"

"U-Um, I think anyone will understand this just by seeing the color of his eyes. And I think it's thanks to this factor that he didn't suffer curses despite the fact that he killed a vampire as his first victim." Sofia also nods while standing behind Eve.

"... Sigh, so Lucie may be right in the end," Eve spoke in a rock voice.

"Hm? About what?" -Sofia.

At that moment, Lucie, sitting before Eve, scraped her throat.

"As I had already explained to Milady Evelyne, milord Kasel has probably been a hybrid since his birth. And since we were unsure of his father's identity or the family to which he belonged, we agreed to wait for Milord Kasel's return to learn more about his vampiric powers and have an idea of the family to which his father belongs.

-But if Miya's words turn out to be accurate, Milord Kasel's father must surely be the son of one of the members of the Royal Order.

"... It's impossible." Sofia immediately shakes her head after hearing Lucie's explanations.

"What exactly is impossible?" Lucie asked with a frown.

"I'm not saying that Lord Kasel isn't a hybrid, nor the fact of possessing the same power as the members of the order, but it is simply impossible that he is the son of one of these people. Because they don't have the right to have a family." She insisted on her words while giving this explanation.

"Hm? Even if this is the case, it's not impossible that one of them had a secret liaison." Lucie was not ready to give up her assumptions either since it was the only valid theory to explain the current situation.

Hearing her words, Sofia remained silent and looked at Eve, who seemed worried about something else.

But feeling Sofia's questioning eyes, she nodded and spoke calmly.

"Lucie, there are things you don't have to know about vampires, but since I don't care about their rules, and it's a particular case that concerns my Darling, so, I'm going to make an exception this time.

-But in exchange, you must not only promise me not to use this information for your benefit or that of others, whatever the situation or the amount you are offered to sell this information, but you also must deal with me to get it!" She revealed with an erratic smile that went from one ear to the other.

"Ugh! In this case, what's the point of making a deal without me having anything to gain?!" She asked with incredulous eyes.

"Hehe~ it's non-negotiable!" She added, guessing Lucie's intentions.

"... All right, but you must first tell me what you expect from me before we conclude anything."

Hearing Lucie's words, Evelyne nods nonchalantly without changing her expression. "I want you to become the oathed witch of my Darling!" She retorted, making both mouths open!

"What?! Impossible! You know, like me, that apart from the king and queen, no vampire has the right to enslave a witch. I don't know what you have behind your head, but I refuse to commit such a great taboo! And this, no matter how much you offer me!" She retorted with rabid eyes.

Without even realizing it, she got up on the couch and looked at Evelyne as if she were looking at a person who had lost all her reasoning.

'What exactly is Lady Evelyne playing?! Unlike vampires, witches are more sheltered and firmer with their laws. Not because they want them, but because when they commit these taboos, the weakest punishment is to lose their powers entirely because of dreadful curses; otherwise, in the worst cases, it is assured death accompanied by torture worse than death itself!' Sofia murmured in her thoughts with wary eyes.

'Being an oathed witch means no longer following the orders of the queen of witches and being enslaved to a vampire or an individual until her death! Like the maid's contract, it is also said that this type of contract is impossible to break once established. But the problem is that whatever the witch tries to establish this kind of contract with someone other than our king or queen, she'll die instantly! It's a taboo that a witch prefers to die in atrocious suffering than to commit such a foolish thing!' She continued to remember the information she knew about it.

But the next moment, she understood that Eve had a hind thought just by noticing her smile that had not left on her lips.

"Don't worry about the curse; it won't start as long as it's with my Darling that you establish this contract!" She said, crossing her arms.

"Tsk, Tsk, tsk, what you're actually asking me is to die! No matter the witch's power or the person with whom she establishes this contract, she will die. And you don't seem to know the worst, but since you are so persistent, I'll make you hear it. This type of contract will kill not only me but also Milord Kasel!"

"I know all that! But you seem to have forgotten a detail; apart from our king and queen, some other people can establish this type of contract; I'm wrong?!" She responds instantly by hearing Lucie's words.

"Of course, I know; witches can establish this contract between themselves and our queen. But apart from them, there is no one else who--!!

She stopped suddenly in the middle of her sentence, suddenly realizing something.

"W-Wait, you still don't think about bypassing our rules with this detail that has not yet been justified, right?!" Sofia stutters this question with sweaty hands.

Seeing her expression, Evelyne always remained inexpressive and slowly nodded her head.

"?! Fuck! You're crazy!" Sofia shouted these words and collapsed on the couch.

"What exactly are you talking about?!" Sofia asked, noticing that she was totally lost.

"... As....as milord Kasel is a vampire with powers that he inherited from his mother, your mistress wants me to protect him at the cost of my life by establishing this fucking contract with him! But even if this kind of contract can necessarily work with him, I categorically refuse to leave my destiny and my life in anyone's hands. No matter what sacrifice I have to make!" She explains slightly in a roque tone.

"Don't worry; you'll be paid according to your services." Evelyne continued, completely ignoring the claims of Sofia, who had a distorted face and was red with rage.

-Bang!!

"I THOUGHT I WAS CLEAR ABOUT IT?! I REFUSE!!" She shouted again after hammering the table before her, creating tiny cracks in it.

In addition to this superhuman strength she showed, she also had a white glow around her body that made all the rooms in the living room tremble and even broke the glasses and decorations that were fixed on the living room walls.

Then, Seeing her so decisive, Evelyn's impassive expression suddenly changed into a strange smile.

"?!" Seeing her smile, Sofia suddenly got up from her sofa.

"Can I know what you intend to do?" Evelyne asked when she got up too.

"Of course, I'm getting out of here!" She murmured as she touched the jewel on her left earring.

"Hehe~ and you think you have the right to leave here?" She continued with her questions while keeping her mysterious smile on her lips.

Simultaneously, snowflakes begin to appear in the living room. But Lucie, on the other hand, was just as intimidating as Eve, with her white aura ethereal around her body.

And just by noticing the temperature of the living room drop mysteriously, Lucie understood that Evelyne wanted to force her to live a life that was no different from a life of slavery.

'Sigh, I wondered how crazy Lady Evelyne was going to be with her choices, but now it's too exaggerated.' Sofia mumbled in her thoughts as she became increasingly nervous, noticing that these two would fight each other the next second.

"Eve, is it fair of you to decide this way without even asking my opinion?"

-!!

At that moment, Kasel's voice resounded near them while sitting on the stairs.

"D-Darling?! Since when were you...

"Don't worry; I think I understood the essentials in your conversation. Hybrid, wizard, vampire, The Royal Order, and then what else? Ah, it's true. Do you also want to enslave this girl without her consent and without even asking me for my opinion? Eve, what exactly are you thinking about?" Asked Kasel while approaching them with his clothes that he had not bothered to change.

Apart from cleaning his body of blood stains, there was nothing else he had done.

"Darling, it's for--

"I know what you want to tell me. But you don't need to go so far as to want to betray the person who helped you for servals years. Finally, let's forget this story of enslavement; tell me the things you haven't told me yet. And this time, I want to know everything in detail, absolutely everything! I don't want you to hide anything from me. If you know me well, you must surely know that one of the things I don't like is a mystery!" He said as he sat on the sofa next to Lucie and looked at Evelyne with his eyebrows contracted for the first time.

Meanwhile, Lucie gave him lively and complex glances whose emotions could not be determined. But anyone in the living room could notice recognition in her eyes for Kasel.

'If he had not intervened rather, only the gods could know what this madwoman would try to do to protect him.' She said to herself, also sitting with a deep sigh as if she had just removed the chains that hindered her.

"Do you want to know everything? Are you sure you won't regret this decision afterward?" Eve also asked in a roque tone.

"Don't worry about me. And between us, I think you already know my answer." Kasel continued while nodding his head with his sharp eyes.

"... Sigh, very good. In this case, I would trust you as always. First, it wasn't me who turned you into a vampire."

"...Continue, please." He said with a slight surprise in his pupils.