"Lady, do you think people are better at making laws than building logics?""What, Seraph? That's a sudden thought, isn't it? Well I think, people aren't any good either way. Even if they make laws full of logic, when they can't uphold laws like that then why make them in the first place? Maybe, they aren't so logical after all.""But people shouldn't be allowed to do whatever they want, right?""And why not? If they can do something, then they should do that. Aren't we born free? Then if freedom isn't about doing whatever, what's the point of it?""You say that, Lady but isn't it true that you follow some laws as well?""Perhaps more so than anyone else. But then when did I say I'm free?" ************"Deli-san, what...is this?""Seraph, if you keep freaking out at every single thing, people are going to think you are country bumpkin.""But...I am a country bumpkin."Deli sighed, "Well, do you have to show it?""But what a

I found myself in the middle of the most dazzling place I had seen in my entire life. I can't say it was beautiful but it was blindingly bright. Everyone was dressed in sleek tuxedos and silky gowns that sprawled and fluttered around as they moved. Nevertheless, they were never stepped upon, not even during one of the dances. This was the discipline that Deli had called "utterly meaningless and boring". I stood like a pillar of stone in the middle of that hall. Truthfully, I couldn't tell left from right in that place and had no idea where I should go.I think I got mistaken for a waiter once or twice. I hadn't realized Deli put her fur coat on me before she left. If it weren't for that, I'd have been denied entry into such a place. The saving grace is that the coat was black and perhaps not as fancy as the other ladies had on in Dernière. I picked up a drink from one of the waiters who gave me a surprised look but retained his silence. I don't know what kind of drink it was. I hadn't

"You are such a lovely guy, I couldn't just hold it in", a lustrous voice echoed in the darkness of that scarlet room."What...what are you doing...a...?""It's alright. It won't cost you much. I've been holding myself back for far too long. I can't afford to dry up like this or my beauty will..."A figure moved into vision."Amelia...?", the figure which was almost naked had bared its fangs, and was about to dig in.It growled in a low voice as its face moved closer. But just before it could thrust its teeth in, something stopped it."Deli...?!"She grabbed Amelia's neck and flung her aside as if she was a doll."Keep your filthy mug off him, ghoul!"She surely wasn't pleased though it was hard to discern what kind of look she had on her face."Ghoul...?", Amelia spat a gob of blood on her side and tried to stand up, "Who the hell are you?!"She flung forward like a beast to attack Deli who stood as calm as ever. Amelia grabbed hold of her, thrusting her claws into her arms and paws

"Granny, I just want to go home", I was on the verge of crying, and the old lady only wanted to tell incomprehensible tales of the family of Vlad Dracul. If I had even the tiniest bit of interest in anything, it was in the fact that the old lady occasionally made dramatic movements which seemed impossible for her age."When I was a little girl, my father hid me in a trunk for 7 days!", I could barely grasp the elements of exaggeration in her stories which I don't suppose were her faults at all. For example, even seven minutes would feel like seven days in a trunk."Oh but you wouldn't understand!", she seemed to be getting tired and sat down in one of the chairs."When his daughter was born, we were relieved. They say their women don't give good births, and some don't give births at all. That's why their men abduct ladies after their hearts and turn the poor girls into one of them. And then, she was wed into a political marriage, and then she was gone. And we were all happy and we rej

"Seraph, how far are you willing to go to find the truth?""The truth...? About you, Lady?""Truth isn't about anyone in particular. It just...is. Don't you think so?""I don't know. That doesn't sound so believable, though"."Is that right? Well, Seraph, I think truth isn't something as relative as you think it is. I mean if there weren't a few things absolutely set in stone, we wouldn't have a lot of hope in this world, now would we? And also, without something so scary as a hardcore truth, we wouldn't have anything left to fight for. It simply isn't worth living anymore without that sort of fear"."Well, I think it isn't worth it if we were never able to find closure. Even if some truth like you say exists, I don't think it is something we all will ever be able to fully accept. And that defeats the purpose. You know, if the world is all about us then the human will is the strongest thing of all. Even a hardcore truth like that would mean nothing against the stubbornness of the huma