EP.71 The Puppet Progenitor and the Unpleasant Puppet Play – The Last
Pajijik.
An electric current emanated from the tip of the skewer. It flowed through the true blood, penetrated the founder’s heart, and spread throughout the body along the blood vessels.
pounding.
The vampire’s body reacted greatly to the familiar electric shock. His mouth opened slightly and a moan came out. The exhilarating pleasure that flows through the heart that the body has learned now.
It lifted the vampire’s sanity from the depths of the water,
and at the same time Finlay started screaming madly.
“Aaaaaaa!”
Blood dripping from Finlay’s body. Thousands of earthworms seem to crawl under Finlay’s skin. His nosebleeds flowed and the thread veins in his eyes ruptured and stained them red.
The whole body’s blood is scattered in all directions. While Finlay crawls on the ground in excruciating pain.
The vampire’s heart beat again.
The focus returned to the blurry eyes. As if the sunset is setting in your eyes, it is dyed in a bright red color. The doll-like face returned to life, albeit a little.
While the shaking blood and darkness are all silent and waiting for the return of the progenitor.
The vampire began to move slowly.
“I had a dream.”
The fight is over.
Ralion suddenly stopped fighting. Enraged, Aji tore Ralion’s body into dozens of pieces, but this time, instead of regenerating, Ralion chose to flow around the vampire. Ralion, who had returned to the vampire’s side, collapsed as if exhausted.
“It was only for a moment, but I thought it was a dream come true. But it quickly leaked through my fingers. I wanted it so badly that I tried to find a way.”
“Your sleep was a bit too much. So who wants to leave the bed and sleep in a coffin?”
The true blood that had settled in every corner of the regressor’s body came out. Then, quietly hovering in the air, it flew towards the vampire.
The regressor, who had regained his composure, walked among the stopped black knights and came to this place.
“Was it crazy? Did you dare to exceed what you should not have hoped for, a lost life? I was only wishing, did I sin against God?”
“no. It just bothered me. Have you ever thought about how miserable I feel when I see trainees doing everything they are told not to do despite teaching so hard? You sinned against me before God.”
The vampire muttered with dark eyes.
“Tell me. What have I done wrong? What did you dream about? What do you wish for?”
“First of all, there are many mistakes, but the biggest one.”
I raised my finger and pointed at my chest, where all my ribs were exposed.
“What do you do when someone who claims to be discreet goes around barefoot? It’s embarrassing to see. Take care of your demeanor.”
My answer was completely different from the vampire’s expectations. I’m sure you read my mind.
The vampire, who opened his eyes wide in surprise, smiled a little.
“What are you doing when you see a lot of scenes?”
“It doesn’t matter if you do it in front of me. That’s the charm point.”
“Ahahaha!”
The vampire laughed out loud. The laughing vampire covered his mouth a beat later, until tears seemed to be welling up.
“sorry. In the future, don’t be afraid.”
“You will have to put in a lot of effort. My score has already been drastically reduced. Not just for me, but for others as well.”
For a moment the vampire looked around.
A small sun floating in the air, and scattered blood and darkness, a shattered black knight, and a wounded and crippled Ralion.
A regressor who walks with difficulty while clutching her chest, Aji with her clothes messed up, and even a to-in’s discolored arm.
Shijo, who looked around once, muttered with a faint smile.
“That’s a bit unfortunate.”
And the vampire waved a finger.
Finlay’s scream, which had been interrupted, resumed. The reason Finlay’s screams hadn’t been heard so far was because the vampire didn’t allow him to scream.
Shijo spoke coldly to Finlay, who was rolling on the floor.
“It seems that a lot of time has passed. Now, even homage is arbitrarily tailored. So, how was your experience of moving me, even for a moment?”
“Father…”
Finlay gasped, raising his head. Jaws with missing teeth, cheeks discolored black, and veins still popping out uncontrollably.
Finlay, who had a terrifying appearance, looked up at the returned Sijo and shouted desperately.
“It is true that I have committed a sin I cannot bear, but, Father! Please listen! You must go to the surface! We desperately need you! The deepest blood that will lead everyone to one place!”
“I will not go.”
“Why why?”
“There were several reasons, but recently one has been added.”
The vampire gathered his parasol again and looked down at Finlay with red eyes.
Even the eyes that used to briefly shine with warmth when facing their own people were infinitely cold towards the traitor.
“The family who wished for this will deceive me, so that wish will not come true.”
Finlay’s already terrifying face was stained with even more despair. Denying this situation for a while, he soon turned his dregs-like emotions into anger and vomited them out.
“why!! Sijo! Are you not helping us!!”
Even in the face of that unreasonable rage, the vampire did not show any emotional agitation. Sijo, who had a stopped heart, responded coldly without wavering.
“I am not helping you. You didn’t help me either.”
“Everyone waits for you! You, like our root, who made us and created this blood! You must lead us! With victory, with glory!”
“What I have given you is only an extension of your life. Victory and glory I do not remember promising anything like that.”
Finlay’s expression turned dumb.
What you get by becoming a vampire is a postponement of death.
Instead of a stopped heart, he receives the power of the founder and moves the blood with blood manipulation. That’s why all vampires can walk on the ground even after facing death once.
Vampires whose numbers were called in this way hid among humans and acted secretly, becoming called the nobility of the night. A certain great vampire even became the master of the principality.
however.
Shijo never promised that.
“We held you up!! But why aren’t we getting anything in return?!”
However, reason does not always follow logic, and the more extreme situations are, the more thoughts go to extremes.
Finlay spat out the words at random, without any logic. It’s like being hit by a stone thrown at random.
Of course, even the seed was not eaten by the founder who lived for 1200 years.
“It is noisy.”
pop. Finlay’s voice cut off. He opened his mouth wide, but no sound escaped through the gap.
“It bothers me to breathe.”
His breathing stopped.
“Even moving your body with my authority.”
His blood flow, which was returning to the hemorrhoids, also stopped.
Finlay, whose life-forming activities stopped for just an instant, only rolled his eyes. The fear came a little late because I just didn’t recognize the situation.
Only then did Finlay face his death more objectively.
‘no. if you die like this My bloodsuckers, my people, and the species called vampires.’
“Everything even going wild without knowing my subject.”
Right. The vampire snapped his fingers, and blood began to swirl around his shoulder blades.
The blood that was rotating furiously in the veins became more intense and sharper at some point, and then gradually grew in size while grinding to the flesh.
And at some point, Finlay’s right arm burst open.
Not even allowed to scream, Finlay struggled in pain with his eyes wide open.
‘Keep it off. uh why so sick I am a noble of the night!’
But the pain is not over yet.
He had one arm and two legs left.
Right.
The blood pooled in his left arm cut through his body like a saw blade. Finlay let out a mental scream and tried to twist his body. However, Finlay’s body only trembled because he was not even allowed to move.
Right.
This time it was the left leg. Strands of blood vessels broke and ran wild. Blood vessels running wild like a whip tore through the whole body. Drops of blood leaked through the skin.
‘It hurts! Hee hee hee! It hurts!’
Right.
the last right leg. This time, drops of blood became sharp as needles and slashed through his body. Finlay’s mind vanished halfway from the pain of the needle running through his veins.
Eventually, when all his limbs fell off.
Finlay, half dazed, had only one thought in his mind.
‘I… was not wrong… Something someone should have done…’
A final flurry to protect the spirit. A rope that we cling to in order to protect our dignity in the end.
Even when the vampire saw Finlay struggling like a bug, he didn’t feel a single pity. Just do what you have to do quietly.
“- and even living things. It doesn’t bother me.”
I stopped the vampire who was about to kill Finlay right away.
“Wait a minute, Tyrkanjaka trainee.”
I felt a strange longing.
Why don’t you have a bit of naughty playfulness in your childhood?
How would an ant react when it fell alone?
How hard do you have to shake a spider that comes down from a thin web to fall off?
How much more do you have to pull a damaged and worn rope to break the strands?
“Hello, Finlay.”
Sorry Finlay.
When you go, even if you go, you have to be honest with yourself.
“I gave you a chance too. Everyone here had a choice. But you made the stupidest choice.”
‘…I am… for my kin…’
“But you know? There was an opportunity to turn back in the middle. And you were clearly aware of that. Even if he went up to the ground with Tyrkanjaka and returned to the Mist Principality… It is a serious crime that will never be forgiven for the insignificant Yailing to dare to rule over the founder.”
‘…know. Life is… not worth it.’
“The excuse that I did it for my blood relatives. very good. But can we be a little more honest?”
The last rope that I barely hold onto even right before death.
But as I knew the identity, I couldn’t bear not to touch it.
“When you try to deceive and dominate your ancestors. You didn’t think at all about the safety of the blood lord you admired and loyal to and the blood relative you wanted to make great even at the cost of your life…”
‘…what?’
You’re finally seeing this.
I grinned and asked the vampire with an exaggerated attitude as if it were a play.
“Tirkanjaka Trainee! Finlay dared to commit a felony by coveting the power of the Founder! This is the first time in the history of vampires, and it is a terrible tragedy that will never happen again! Then how do we punish Finlay for committing that felony?”
To my question, the vampire replied with an attitude as if asking why I was asking something obvious.
“It is extinct.”
‘…An extinct tribe?’
Two words are clearly engraved in the blurry reason.
extinction. A terrible and harsh punishment that contained the evil intent to completely annihilate a blood relative and cut it off from its roots.
It only existed in the principality but was never actually implemented, and the founder Tyrkanjaka simply spoke about it.
“He presumptuously tried to dominate me even though he was a member of his family. The family’s sins against the blood of the higher line must be paid for by the blood owner.”
But what Finlay didn’t know.
1200 years? No, just a few hundred years ago, extermination was a very common punishment.
‘for a moment. no way.’
It seems that he finally realized what he had done.
This is why the generation gap is scary.
I asked the vampire to tell me a more accurate story.
“Then what about Count Erte?”
“Isn’t he the blood of Finlay?”
Vampires have hearts that don’t beat. 1200 years ago, in that time of chaos and darkness, the vampire was born. Once as a human and once as a vampire.
Sijo sympathizes with the fate of those he created. I sympathize with those who cannot face the sun and are despised by humans.
But compassion does not relieve sin. Punishment is not commuted.
“Then you should disappear. Valdamir will regret it.”
chilly declaration.
Finlay shuddered, feeling the coolness that was inside him.
‘no.’
Finlay opened his eyes and shouted. My mouth is closed, so only in my heart.
‘No matter how much you are the founder, you can’t kill Ain that much! Because he’s the Red Blood Ball’s contributor! It’s just my opinion! My blood wine…!’
in denial
‘How did the sijo that didn’t even show his face! Do you mean that you can do whatever you want with the dukedom’s merits!’
Angry.
‘please! this is my dogma Blood relatives are not guilty of anything,’
they begged.
But that sad thought only reached me.
I sat down next to him and said.
“Finlay. you knew the answer When he made up lies, he boasted that all of this was for the sake of the blood lord and his blood relatives.”
A heart for others is good, but there is a problem.
I often use it as a reason to justify myself, but surprisingly often neglect it for something I cherish so much.
So the word for blood is just a psychological tool. like a saw or hammer.
“But why didn’t you think about what would happen to the blood lord and his blood relatives when he was found out? Didn’t you think of it? Did you refuse to think of the future as too dreadful? Or was it not particularly important?”
It didn’t matter. Because Finlay’s sincerity.
“Because I’m a fucking vampire who can control the progenitor. Because I became a god for a while. You couldn’t even think of a blood relative.”
My body trembles. Fear fills Finlay’s eyes. My limbs are all gone, but my mind, still unable to accept the fact, is reaching out to me. A desperately trembling hand reaches out in his fantasy. That hand holds my hand and begs.
‘no! No way! No way!’
“Goodbye, Finlay. Your love, respect, and loyalty were the kind of emotions that I forgot about for a moment. what can’t you do Humans have a very good ability to get things out of their heads that are not so important.”
‘ah. I am.’
“But you have achieved something no one else has done. Manipulating Sijo on the subject of his family. It will surely go down in history. Your kin will not remain.”
‘Maybe he was simply blind.’
“Please send it, Tyrkanjaka.”
And Finlay’s thoughts stopped.
With the vampire reaping the remaining power, the extension of life reached its expiration today.
I closed Finlay’s eyes. It didn’t make any sense. His body soon crumbled like dust.
Still, to the soul that barely became honest at the end. I expressed my condolences a little.
Silence passed. The light of the pseudo-sun shining in the air also faded and dusk began to set.
After the unexpected funeral, I got up. The vampire who had been waiting quietly for me to move started talking to me.
“The punishment for Finlay’s blood relatives will come down slowly. You can’t go up to the ground right now, can you?”
punishment?
what do you know about that
I didn’t really want to kill all of Finlay’s blood relatives. Just because he wanted to know his true intentions.
rather.
“By the way, I am a Tyrkanjaka trainee. Do you know anything about it?”
I am against association by association.
“The guilt-by-association system was recently abolished.”
“What?”
“There are very few cases where even family members are punished for committing a crime these days. Even if there are cases in which the money is paid back as a joint responsibility.”
The vampire was very surprised. It was a different technology that he always encountered, but the change in morals was a part that was difficult for the vampire to admit easily.
The vampire, having come across new knowledge, opened his eyes wide and asked.
“So how do you punish your sins and if you run away like Finlay cutting off your own tail, how will you be held accountable?”
A pure question expressed with twinkling eyes.
If I answered one by one, I thought I would have to explain for a few more days, so I answered roughly.
“I didn’t abolish it.”
