บท 298: Vampires, yet not?

Elsewhere :

A man stands looking at a fireplace wearing Victorian era clothing consisting of a red tailcoat, waistcoat and fine pants. He had long black hair, red slit eyes and three claw marks trailing diagonally across his face. He turns around to look at a scantily clad woman with a white blindfold covering her eyes, her pale skin looking almost translucent. The only adding colour to her was her Blonde hair.

"I will not repeat myself, tell me, or you will suffer the consequences."

The woman turns her head in the direction of his face "My abilities are not meant for the likes of you." she says defiantly.

The man scowls at her, "You may think that we Belmont's seek justice due to our intervention long ago, but I assure you. We are the true monsters." he says as he walks towards the black curtain covering a window. He suddenly opens it, allowing light to envelop the room and severely burning the blonde haired woman. She screams in absolute agony as she feels her body beginning to turn to ash.

The man shuts the curtain and looks at her, a prominent grin spreading across his face. Looking as if the sun had no affect at all.

"M-monster!" she manages to shout through the pain as she realises what this means.

He walks up to the severely burnt woman and takes a handful of her blonde locks, "YOU WILL TELL ME WHAT I WANT, OR YOU WILL FEEL THE AGONY OF A THOUSAND SUNS!"

Katherine tries to resist, but she knows she will break eventually... She can only pray for her sisters forgiveness.

43 Elur street :

Talicia and her daughter were preparing to go to sleep as the night was over, she idly wondered what Reima was doing. The event must already be over, oh, how she wished to be able to participate in such festivities. This was an impossible dream however due to her vampiric constitution, maybe that miracle man Reima would be able to create something that would allow her and her daughter to experience the sun without instantly dying? With his many abilities previously thought of as impossible it seems more hopeful than she'd ever thought before.

*Knock, Knock, Knock*

...

Someones knocking on the door, at this time? Talicia shivers as she gets a bad feeling. She can't even open the door as the sun is already up...

*Knock, Knock, Knock*

Nerissa walks in, "Mother, could it be Reima and Master?" she asks.

Talicia ..."No, go to the basement, now!" she says, as the bad feeling gets stronger and stronger.

Nerissa runs off to the basement, however she returns quickly with a sword in hand.

Talicia tries to send her away to hide but she's interrupted as the door explodes, allowing some rays of light to collide with the floor.

Two tall men with black hair and sunglasses walk in, one wielding some kind of whip while the other has his hand in his pockets.

"Ah, just who we're looking for." the whip wielding man says with a smug grin as he eyes the young girl.

Talicia "Who are you!" she shouts while pushing Nerissa behind her.

The other man walks forward and gives a mock bow, "I am Juste and this is my brother Richter. I'm sure you've heard of the Belmont clan before?"

Her eyes widen, "What would they want with us!?!" she shouts at them.

Richter "That's none of your business sweet heart, well, it doesn't really matter since you're both already dead." he says while unclipping his silver whip from his belt, it's covered in numerous studs that would cause many cuts should someone be hit by them.

Nerissa steps forward with her sword drawn, "You won't hurt Mother!"

Talicia seeing no other way slits her wrists and starts coalescing a large amount of blood around her, she'd fortunately started training again recently and had started to regain her previous strength... This still might not be enough however as she'd heard legends of the Belmonts.

Richter steps forwards while flicking his wrist, causing his whip to flick at Talicia, she moves blood in-front of her and condenses it, creating a blood-crystal shield. The whip collides with the shield and pushes her back slightly due to it's strong impact.

Juste leaps forward with his hand still in his pockets at Nerissa, he sends a flying kick at her, reminding the young vampire of her first interaction with Ciri. She quickly ducks and slashes him, aiming for his achilles tendon but missing and hitting his calf instead.

He turns his head and looks down at his cut trousers, Nerissa realises that there isn't even a drop of blood from her heavy blow...

Juste "Is that the best you can do? I'm surprised elder was worried about you." he says, turning and performing a heavy kick towards her. Fortunately for her, she'd sparred with Reima plenty of times to learn to deal with quick martial kicks. She steps forward and gets inside and close to his thigh to stop most of the impact while brutally striking upwards to his face with her pommel. It strikes him in the face, causing his head to jolt back, she doesn't stay close however and immediately jumps back after connecting the strike.

Juste starts laughing with his head upturned. "Hahahaha! You're interesting! I'd love to meet who taught you!" he almost shouts as he sprints at her at a much faster speed than before.

Nerissa tries to block with the flat of her blade but finds it in two pieces as it shatters due to the strength of the Belmont's blow. The kick continues and collides with her sternum, causing a loud crack to echo throughout the room.

Talicia who was barely fighting off Richter had her attention drawn away due to this and is raked across the back with the silver whip, causing smoke to be emitted from her wound.

Nerissa looks up at Juste and towards her injured mother, feeling as if all hope is lost.