Chapter 73 73: Father

"You think you can? There is a Vampire Warding Formation around me. You can't get inside," Lia calmly stated. "You can't kill me. You better leave me alone. You already got what you wanted."

"Yeah, I got my sister," Atlas affirmed. "I was leaving the city. I am glad to see you safe."

"You don't have to lie about your sister. I know there isn't a sister. You're a Vampire! You just used the story to win my sympathy to get my help. Since things didn't turn out the way you wanted you changed your plan. Didn't you?"

Since Lia had a formation around her which she believed kept her safe, she let out all her true thoughts. She had never felt so betrayed as she did because of Atlas! She couldn't believe she had even started to fall for this liar!

"I told you a few lies; I accept that. But it's not a lie that I came here to get my sister back. I alone couldn't do it, so I did look for your help, but I also realized that Witches hate Vampires and would never help us. So I had no choice but to lie about my identity. Other than that, I didn't tell you a single lie."

"If you don't believe me, follow me back to the Castle. I'll show you."

"I trusted you once, and you broke it. I won't trust you again. You will kill me as soon as I step out of the formation since I'm the only witness as to who did all this here. You Vampires are so..."

Atlas let out a tired sigh. "You know, I don't have time for all this. You can believe what you want."

He turned his back on Lia. "If I wanted to kill you, I didn't need to call you out. Even though it'll hurt me a bit, I can break your formation. Or I can just toss a human body at you, which will push you out of this small formation. As I said before, I have a thousand ways to kill you if I really wanted."

"Today, I'm leaving with my sister, and we might never see each other again. So I just wanted to say one thing before I left... Thank you... Thank you for agreeing to help me. Thank you for trusting in me. Even though the need for your help didn't arrive, I'm still grateful for what you did. Thank you..."

Atlas departed after saying what he wanted to say, disappearing from her view before long.

Even as Atlas left, his voice echoed in Lia's head. He truly sounded as if he was serious. And he was right. Her formation was small, and she could be pushed out. Holding her head, she dropped to her knees, wondering if Atlas was actually telling the truth?

Did he never lie to her about anything other than his true identity? That meant all the insurances where he kept her safe... Everything he told her about his sister... His personality... It was all real? Was the one reason he lied because he didn't want to be hated by her for his species?

Her head started aching the more she thought about it. She clenched her fist as she decided to check. She didn't want to have to worry about it all her life if he truly left.

She stood up and stepped out of the safe formation before running to the Castle.

*****

Atlas returned to the castle to find a Carriage already waiting at the entrance. The carriage had the insignia of Carlisle Castle. It was the Royal Carriage.

Yovana was certainly very fast. In such a short time, she had arranged everything.

Lilith, Yovana, and Lancaster were all waiting at the entrance of the Castle for Atlas. Lancaster still had Misella in his arms. He hadn't placed her down for even a second.

Holding Misella in her hands, even he felt that she was too young to have died like this.

Lilith had already changed Misella's clothes with completely new clothes, leaving not a single droplet of blood on her. She even cast a spell on Misella to make sure her body wasn't affected by the environmental factors.

In the new clothes, Misella truly looked like she was sleeping. No one could guess from first glance that she was dead.

"You're back. As you asked, the carriage is ready, and so is the driver. We can go wherever you want, so shall we get going?" Yovana opened the door of the Carriage as soon as Atlas arrived.

"Lancaster, can you place my sister inside the carriage? Sit with her as well. It'll be a long ride."

Lancaster nodded. He was really curious as to where they were going, but he didn't care.

He sat inside the carriage with Misella. Lilith and Yovana also stepped inside.

Atlas walked to the carriage driver and gave him directions as to where to take them before he also got inside the carriage.

Standing in the distance, Lia watched everything. She understood that Atlas was telling the truth. He really had a sister who was kept here... So it wasn't that he had lied. It was that she just refused to believe him.

****

A Carriage with Carlisle insignia left the city. The carriage traveled for two weeks straight before it finally stopped in a faraway land.

The carriage stopped in a small town, which even Yovana was unaware of.

As she stepped out of the carriage to observe it, she found this town quite ordinary. There seemed nothing special here. Even an ordinary town back where that came from was better than this town.

"What's this place? Any reason we came here?" she asked Atlas.

"This is the place where it all started. The place where I was born... This is my hometown," Atlas answered calmly.

As he talked about him being born here, Yovana thought Castiel was born here, but only Lilith knew that he was talking about himself.

"This is also where Misella was born. She loved right in this town until... Until she had to leave," Atlas calmly stated, glancing at the town.

He instructed Lancaster to follow him. Carrying the body of Misella, Lancaster followed Castiel to the nearby forest.

The small forest near the town appeared to be so beautiful. It had a crystal clear pond and land which was covered in beautiful flowers. The view from here was also great as they could see mountains in the distance.

The sun had just started rising in the distance, making it seem like the sun was coming out of the mountains itself.

"Wait here; I'll be right back." Telling Lancaster to wait near the pond, Atlas ran back into the town.

He went straight to a coffin shop in the town and bought a coffin. For the coffin, which only cost one bronze coin, he paid a pure gold coin, surprising the seller!

Atlas took the coffin and a shovel. Despite the coffin being so heavy, he picked it up with one arm only.

Atlas dashed to the mountain, only stopping as he noticed a figure in the distance, buying a bottle of beer from a shop early in the morning.

Seeing that person, Atlas couldn't help but clench his fist. That person was the entire reason all this happened to him! The whole reason they ended up in that hell! He was their father!

If that man hadn't done what he did, they wouldn't have been forced to run from the house. They wouldn't be captured by a slave merchant! They wouldn't have ended up in the palace of Vampires!

If this man weren't an alcoholic and hadn't tried to sell his daughter for money, she would've been alive!

He was equally responsible for Misella's details as Carlisle was!

The old man got the beer bottle and started walking back, using a stick. Because Atlas had stabbed him in the leg when he ran away from the home, the man hadn't been able to walk without support.