Yeokcheon Trial – 2
The vampires who were standing indifferently as if they had no interest in Liir’s trial were also surprised by this statement. The trial that everyone expected was a people’s trial in which only the suspects were brought to trial without any evidence or witnesses.
A country with a hierarchy that vampires cannot break. If you believe that the progenitor and the elder are guilty, you can dispose of them without even needing a trial. Everyone believed that this event was just entertainment.
But the suspect suddenly confesses?
‘Really? ‘Just Yeiling and Elder?’
‘There are rumors that she has escaped the bondage of her blood…’ ‘Really?’
‘If you are the founder who created the bridle, you can break it. However, the bondage was broken not only from above but also from below?’
Her shock was even greater because most of her vampires did not think she was her culprit. Vampires who felt the bondage of blood more intensely than anyone else did not think that someone like Yeiling would kill the Elder.
I glanced at where the Elder was sitting. Erzsebut smiling, Kabila looking astonished, and Runken looking bored after coming to play and getting caught. And Valdamir looks at Lir with an expressionless expression.
One would not expect a change in expression from Baldamir, who is the most political of the vampires who do not show much emotion. However, his thoughts, read through mind reading, were secretly colorful.
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‘… This is unexpected. Although it wasn’t specifically mentioned, I thought it would be natural for a vampire to deny it.’
It’s amazing. Liir’s sudden actions were not agreed upon. It wasn’t like taking responsibility for Valdamir’s sins.
Then what on earth is it?
Interesting?
“… “You have made known your sins, so you also know the punishment you will receive.”
“I know. You will take the blood given to me. That damned….”
After speaking up to that point, Liir lowered his head for a moment. For a moment, a conflict arose within her. She doesn’t want to talk, but she has to. Liir decided on one of the two.
“… “The blood of the progenitor that my father instilled in me.”
Lir confessed her hidden truth. She does this not to avoid punishment, but to discredit her father and squire, Elder Ruskinia.
Regardless of time and place, scandals have been a fatal blow to those in power, but I never thought it would happen in the Principality of the Fog.
While Tyr was speechless, startled at hearing that her vampire had conceived a child, there was a commotion beyond her.
“O progenitor, there is nothing more to hear!”
One of the demihumans of Ruskinia stood up and shouted. She didn’t know how she got it, but with her feathers straightened, she cornered Lir.
“We are different from ordinary humans. Under the bondage of the great blood, direct blood kinship is deeper than a relationship that only receives seeds! Such a low-level relationship is a concept that only applies to livestock! Now Liir is trying to apply the laws of livestock to vampires… !”
“It is enough.”
Suddenly.
A red line was drawn on her chest. Ain stopped speaking and let out a breath mixed with blood. With her blood-soaked feathers fluttering about. Behind her bisected body, Valdamir stood holding a thin cutlery knife.
Baldamir, who held on to the upper body of the falling vampire to prevent it from falling, spoke softly.
“It is the safety of the founder. “Keep your voice low and be polite.”
“Hmm… sorry….”
“Even if it’s for the honor of Ruskinia, which perished forever. “Don’t make me have to work twice.”
Tuk. After finishing the warning, Valdamir placed her severed upper body back on top. The blood bubbled again, and the cut skin wriggled and merged into one. Luskinia’s Ain, barely able to save her life, fell to her knees as she fell.
Valdamir, who showed off the feat of cutting a vampire in half and gluing it together, shook his hands and said as if it was no big deal.
“There was a brief commotion. “I’m sorry for not being able to stop you in time, my ancestor.”
Lies. If I wanted to, I could slit her throat before she even opened her mouth. You deliberately waited until they said everything they wanted to say. While establishing Tyr’s authority, they also allowed their opinions to be exposed. There is no other way to explain it than that it is truly political.
“It is done. “I’ll skip that point.”
Whatever the process, Ruskinia’s argument was accepted as valid. Tyr also calmed down and spoke.
“It’s just as she said. Lyr Nightingale, what your relationship is with Ruskinia is meaningless. He is an Elder, and you are his blood relative, Yeiling. Yeiling’s guilt of daring to kill the Elder still remains. A mortal sin that never existed before. “You must pay for your sins.”
Tyr’s ruling was the most correct. It means that this is the verdict that all vampires most expected and understand. As Tyr was about to pronounce her solemn sentence in the name of her father, she said Lyre raised her head.
“I have an objection.”
“Objection?”
How dare the reactionary who broke the chain of blood respond to the founder’s ruling? This is unacceptable. Tyr had no intention of listening, and neither did the vampires.
But it wasn’t me, so I intervened and asked Tyr before he could say anything.
“If there is an objection to Sijo’s ruling, it must be a serious reason, right? What is it?”
My official position is the founder’s mistress. I myself am nothing, but my words move the most important progenitor in the principality. Tyr, who was about to pass judgment on her, leaned back on her throne. I missed it for a while to raise my spirits.
Thanks to the authority, I allowed Lire to object. Lire spoke with a vampire-like indifference.
“Because my father deserved to die.”
A family story that is not at all like that of a vampire.
Vampires didn’t pay much attention to family matters. Having a grudge against someone is something that happens often over a long period of time. But I am different. Elder’s family affairs, what a curious story this is.
I read Liir’s thoughts. I read Valdamir’s thoughts. Lire is not the culprit, Valdamir is the culprit. Mind reading conveyed the obvious.
However, mind reading alone had its limitations. Even in the two books, the ones with only the truth, there were dark parts left. All I’ve read is human experience and memories. Excluding humans, the remaining facts were still unclear.
Normally, I would have said, “I don’t know,” And moved on. If you read the intentions of the two with mind reading, your curiosity will rise.
Lir tried to kill the Elder.
Valdamir tried to save the Elder.
The results turned out to be exactly the opposite.
“The late Prince Ruskinia. So, can I hear why Chief Chun deserves to die?”
“He killed my mother…” .”
“Wait a minute. If you’re so taken aback, you can’t sympathize, right? “From the beginning, if possible.”
Even to find out the truth hidden in the darkness. I wanted to hear Lir’s story. Is it because I’m not old yet, or is it because I’m special? Lir understood what I meant and began to explain calmly.
“My father was an Elder everyone knew. Prince Ruskinia, a powerful and cruel blood technician. In contrast, my mother was just a refugee who had wandered outside the country and came to the principality to live. Without power, property, family or friends. “A wanderer who came alone to survive by selling his blood.”
“I think I’ve heard of it. “There were secret rumors that the principality was seeking blood.”
“It’s true. Newly arriving refugees have a different taste for blood than the humans in this principality. Therefore, vampires who enjoy gourmet food often visit refugees who have flown in and criticize their blood.”
The taste of blood may not be compared to the food humans eat, but it seems that vampires who have lived for hundreds of years have the pickiness to distinguish even the subtle differences.
“That was the same for my father. His father’s blood relatives treated humans harshly, so there was always a shortage of humans under their command, and his father was also thirsty for blood. For such a father, refugees who lacked background knowledge about blood relatives were the easiest prey. “My father met his mother there, and something terrible happened.”
“A terrible thing?”
“It was her mother’s blood that suited her father’s taste. That too quite a bit. “My father, who had never had a mistress in his life, immediately made her mother his mistress.”
“Hmm. It doesn’t seem that terrible when you just listen to it. “Isn’t this what you wanted?”
It may seem terrible at first glance, but it is quite a blessing to suit the tastes of the elders in the principality. There is no need for any further explanation, just look at me. Because she is the progenitor’s mistress, she goes around all over the place, manipulating Ain as well? In a principality where hierarchy is absolute, a mistress is a symbol of power. Because it is the only way to upgrade from livestock to pet.
Lir also calmly admitted that fact.
“… There were no problems until then. My mother sold her blood, and my father tasted it. But the problem arose after that. My father was a cruel Elder, and I had to do whatever he wanted to be satisfied. “My mother had no choice but to be helplessly swayed by him.”
“Well, isn’t that something that can’t be helped? “That’s natural for couples who are out of balance.”
“I can’t help it either. “Just as the children born between them will also do the same.”
Tsk. Since you said that, I have nothing to say.
“And it wasn’t just a matter of discord. The father did not want her mother to die and no longer receive blood, or for the blood to deteriorate as she grew old. So my father tried various things. Even in a principality, it is difficult to show off proudly… “Experiment.”
“What if it’s an experiment?”
“There are too many to describe. Like a cocktail, mix with other people’s blood to increase your weight. Transplanting mother’s blood into a half-dead human. Trying to modify your body, etc. There have been various attempts, but the most representative one is me.”
“You?”
Lir answered his request with an expressionless expression.
“If a mother’s blood is delicious, then the child’s blood will be too. With such faith, her mother was conceived. Even in the midst of this, she went out of her way to use her own seed to test the hypothesis that blood that resembles her own is tastier.”
“Are you saying the vampire had a child?”
Tyr reacted to being told that he was his biological father, not his stepfather. Unfortunately, Lir did not give Tyr the answer he wanted.
“Vampires cannot have children. However, it is possible if she had kept her seed like her father did. “She is the one who raises the child in her womb.”
“You’re saying that women can’t have children…” .”
“If it’s a female vampire, that is.”
Lir emphasized once again and continued.
“I was born to be a replacement for my mother, but my blood was not suited to my father’s taste. That’s a good thing. If it was delicious, I might have had my father’s seed in it too.
In any case, most of my father’s attempts to preserve my mother’s blood were in vain. Because her mother was still human, she was worried that she might die. Of course, it wasn’t that I was worried about my mother, but I was worried that I would no longer be able to receive blood from my mother.”
Even the cynicism was cold. The person who would be called Uiseon recited his past in a cool tone, contrary to his kindness.
“My father, who believed that all of these failures were due to my mother’s weakness, ended up destroying my mother… Foolishly, he ended up making it his own.”
“I’m a human so I don’t know, so why is that stupid?”
“This is because the moment blood is divided and dominated, the blood is already deteriorated. Would you say it loses its taste? Her mother also had to take the blood of others to maintain her own blood system, and her father could now never be satisfied with her mother’s blood. “You must have been so heartbroken that you ruined something you had been so passionate about.”
With a cold smile on his face, as if mocking his father in the past, Lir looked around at his audience and spoke.
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“Of course, these stories will not inspire you at all. “It’s a too human topic for a vampire to accept.”
That wasn’t necessarily the case. Vampires live quite closely intertwined with humans. With cold reason, they understood why Liir hated Ruskinia.
“But there is also a reason why your father deserves to die to you too. “The one who committed the deadly sin first was none other than my father.”
And from here on, it’s an area beyond understanding. A remark that touched an emotional area that is taboo for vampires came out of Lir’s mouth.
“In order to turn my mother who had become a vampire, my father researched a way to break the bondage of blood. And he succeeded. “The result is that I personally killed my father, the squire.”
Several vampires jumped up. The sin of a family member going against the suzerain was not a cause for concern because it could not happen. Even when Liir was suspected of being Ruskinia’s murderer, he did not cause much repercussions because he was limited to suspicion.
But it actually happened, and the subject is speaking now. The vampires were filled with fear and worry. Now that even the progenitors are free from the shackles, if a way to break the shackles appears from below. It may happen frequently that the head of the clan is murdered by his relatives.
Liir continued to make remarks that could overthrow the principality.
“The vampire who first committed that evil sin that you are so angry about is Elder Ruskinia.”