Chapter 439 - Who Want To Come?

During Albert's talk with Carrie, all the other vampires have awoken. And seeing us in front of them, they realized that the other vampires that attacked us have all been defeated.

If I use the depressing gases on them, they might take their own lives.

…let's not do that since Albert still needs something from them. But can they give it to Albert?

I know what he wants. It's the vampires' loyalty. But that's difficult to get. They are monsters after all.

Maybe Albert will get a summoner or tamer to tame the vampires and make them their familiars. That should be possible to trust them then. But the chance of me becoming a vampire hunter will be zero.

Wait! I'm already a vampire hunter. I killed their strongest vampire. There's no need to aim for that title anymore.

Now that all of the vampires have awake, Kayla opened their cages. We don't need them anymore since they won't attack us out of nowhere.

They don't have any spirits. Seems like everything is too much for them.

Losing the battle, losing their hometown, and they have no home to return to.

That's what you get when you mess with me.

Carrie brought all the vampires together to discuss about Albert's idea. Although they hadn't heard what Albert needed from them, they think it's best to talk about it first.

As for me, I'm about to return to eating. But Albert stopped me. At least Graham the archangel doesn't eat much. Since I can't go over to eat, I can just ask Graham to bring me the food here.

Albert also asked someone to bring another person over. He told me that the one's coming is a summoner I taught before back in the training camp. I already forgot about them.

He said that this guy has reached intermediate level, but he hadn't made a decision of what monster he will make a contract with. I guess his next monster will be Carrie if the vampires agree.

But would the vampires agree to have the Vampire Duke to be their leader and obey her? I don't think so. They are not even vampires who obeys their king to drink the blood of their own kind.

"You want us to live in their world?" one of the vampires asked Carrie.

"It's up to you. I'm not your king or queen. For me, I want to go somewhere safe. But I will need to ask the human king what he needs from us," Carrie said.

"Since everyone is here, I'll tell you what I want. I want you to live in my world, and become my soldier. I want your loyalty. I will give you a place to live, and you will do as I say. There will be battle coming soon in our world, and I will need as many helps as I can get. And if you don't want to be under me, that's fine. As long as you obey the rule of not drinking the blood of humans, you can stay in our world as much as possible. I will still pick some people that you are allowed to have their blood sucked out. But if you still choose to drink the blood of human other than those I allowed, I will have this Roy over here to find you and kill you. Since he's the Werewolf King as well, he can have the werewolves under him to find your location by your smell," Albert said.

So, I ended up as blackmailing material? Well, if they didn't break the rule, I won't have to do anything.

"So, other than drinking blood of humans, we are free to do everything else?" Carrie asked.

"Other than that, I will offer you, or anyone who is interested, to be a familiar for a summoner under me. Of course you can refuse it," Albert said.

"…let us discuss it before answering," Carrie said.

Now that Albert has told them what he wants, it's up to the vampires to decide.

"Roy, after this, we will be visiting the Vampire Queen," Albert said.

"Yeah, sure. Let's get everything done before I return you back home," I said.

If I refuse, it will take longer until everything is over.

After a while, Carrie and the vampires have finished their discussion. Though it's not really a private discussion, so I can hear them clearly.

"So, how is it?" Albert asked.

"We will all live in your world. But we won't follow you other than when we participating on the fight you talked about. Can you tell me about that fight first?" Carrie asked.

"Well, simply put, it's a much bigger scale than the battle between us. In fact, it's something that will affect both worlds," Albert said. Then he explained about the cult, the fact that I'm from the future, and the fact that the cult will destroy everything.

The vampires are too shocked to say anything. They just blankly stare at Albert or me. We just let them cool down for a bit.

"…so, there will be war?" Carrie asked.

"Yes," Albert replied.

"And if you lose your world, they will attack us even if we don't want to have anything to do with it?"

"Yes again."

"…I guess I have no choice but to go with you. Does everyone here with you know about it? Including the monsters?" Cassie asked again.

"Yes. Though they are not under me. They are under Roy," Albert replied.

"…we will go with you. I won't make a contract with your summoner, but if there are any vampires who are interested, feel free to do so," Carrie said.

"Sure. But I won't accept you as the leader of the vampires. I know that some of the vampires won't obey you. So, I will ask you all individually if you want to live in our world or not," Albert said.

Yup. That's Albert's idea of finding someone he can trust.

He instantly asked someone who is obviously doesn't like the idea of being under human.

"Sure. I will live in your world, and join your war," he said.

Albert then looked at me, and pointed his thumb at the vampire who just answered. I guess he's lying.

And I quickly charged at the vampire, severed his arm with the blade or Reizpear, and use it again to stab at his chest. Not deep enough to kill him.

"You mustn't lie, fanged fool," I said to the vampire.

"Fanged fool? Don't you know a better word for insult?" Albert asked.

"I'm not good at making names," I said.

"Sigh… Anyway, if you don't like it, just say so. I will only let those who speak the truth and can be trusted to live in my world. If you want to live there but don't want to join the war, that's fine. You can say that. But if you lie, well, this guy is a bad guy who made you kill your own kind. I doubt you can forget about him. Even if you didn't see him killing your king, you saw him making you kill each other," Albert said.

With that, the vampires became wary of their own word. As for the vampire I attacked as an example, he's still alive. But he won't be allowed to live in our world, so he will leave after this.

After that, as he said, Albert started asking the vampires one by one. They are afraid of lying after witnessing what happened. Either that, or those who lie and said that they don't want to come to our world is being ignored by Albert.

In the end, there are just twelve vampires who will come, including Carrie.

"Twelve? Well, that's fine. As for the other twenty-three, you are free to leave. It's fine if you won't be together again, right?" Albert asked.

"It's fine. We have discussed it before. From now on, we will live for ourselves and not for anyone else. We will think about everything by ourselves," Carrie said.

Yeah, I heard that when they were discussing about it.

"Excuse me, but… for us who doesn't want to go to that world, is it fine if we stay in this village?" one of the vampires asked.

"Well, it's up to you. But know this. Each race in this village have their own leader. But all of them are under Roy. So, if you choose to stay in this village, you agree to have Roy as your leader. And he's much scarier than I am," Albert said.

The vampire who asked no longer has the intention to stay in this village anymore. Including those other vampires who want to stay.

It's great that we have more allies. Just twelve of them. And among those twelve, only five of them will be Albert's soldier. Including Carrie.

"Hmm… just five, huh? Well, I will let you live in our world for a month as a test. All twelve of you will live with Roy and his friends for a month, and after that, you can decide what do you want to do," Albert said.

…so, I will be babysitting them?

"Don't worry. It's not like he will stay with you at all time. And as long as none of you break the rule, he won't do anything to you," Albert continued.

Twelve vampires. Five of them will be soldiers or agents. That's good enough.

Next would be a meeting with the Vampire Queen. Will there be a fight?