Mizu: ... So I want to take this chapter to explain how we usually work on our stories. Usually either me or Konton take lead role, lead role for this one is me while in vampire king it is should be Konton. Konton usually works at his own pace so he doesn't finish chapters often, I on the other hand work at a regulated pace and try to make sure to do something at least once a month. The point in this is to say that Vampire King might take awhile to get another update.

Chapter Two

"Madam, please wake up..." I hear some girl say... I don't think she is referring to me since she said madam so I turn to my side and ignore her. "Madam if you are feeling better than you should get up."

I start to get a feeling that this girl is stupid and doesn't understand the word madam... I open my eyes to find a girl staring at me... I get up and look around the room.

"Where am I?" I ask, my voice comes off a bit too high of a pitch. The girl gives me a weird look.

"Madam, excuse this humble servant of yours... but what do you mean by asking where you are?" She asks.

I see a mirror in the background... why does this room look so old fashioned... in fact this whole building looks old fashioned from what I can see. I pick up the mirror and look into it...

I find a beautiful girl staring back at me... She has long black hair... a small nose... beautiful hazel eyes and a flawless face. I drop the mirror where I stand and look down putting my hands on my chest... I wouldn't be surprised if I fainted on the spot.

"Madam, you can't be so careless as to drop stuff like this!" The girl scolds me. "If you aren't feeling well you shouldn't have gotten out of bed."

"Get out..." I say in a dark feminine voice.

"Madam?"

"I said get out!" I yell.

"This humble servant shall heed your orders..." The girl says bowing and walks out. I sit back down on the bed and start meditating... it was the one part of martial arts I enjoyed learning about from tsukiko... that's right I got hit by a bus.

I wonder if tsukiko is okay, I wonder if I died and if tsukiko will get over it. I wonder how it will affect my family.

"Young master... please help me she has been like that for awhile! Usually she is rude and loud but right now she is deathly quiet." The girl says.

"Why should I care?" A guy that sounds to be about my age asks.

"She's your wife!" The girl mentions in an outburst.

I open my eyes and narrow them at the girl and the guy. The girl immediately lowers her head and the guy just stares back at me.

"You seem healthy." He says holding his stare at me.

"Why should you care?" I ask positioning myself in a pose that says I am in charge here.

"Madam!" The girl interjects.

"I don't." My husband responds. "Hana! Will you please leave me and my wife alone for awhile."

I close my eyes and listen to my husband begin to move into the room. "Yes young master." He closes the door behind him. He then rears his head and begins to stare at me.

"Are you going to meet mother?" He asks, I think I hear a bemused expression. I have a feeling his mother isn't somebody I would enjoy talking to.

I stay quiet and time starts passing by, it seems this guy has the patience to drive a snake crazy! I think snakes are really patient by the way, think about it. They wait for a long time for prey to get into the right spot before attacking, sometimes going for days without eating.

"Dear, I think we need to go see mother." He says, I can feel his lips creep up into a smile. He is obviously saying something he finds sarcastic.

"Very well." I stand up and my feet feel as if they are asleep. I follow him to another room in the house to where his mother is.

"Mizuki, how nice it is to see you..." His mother puts an emphasis on the word nice. Obviously it isn't nice to see me, I am beginning to think I landed into a house of snakes!

"Thank you mother-in-law," I say giving her a bow. "It is nice to see you again too."

His mother's eyes widen in response to what I said. What kind of person was Mizuki before! It seems she had no idea what graceful was.

"Have you recovered from your fever? It was really bad, I was thinking you were going to die." His mother states in a matter of fact tone. She obviously thought I was going to die, in fact I am willing to bet my life she was hoping that I was going to die!

I look up to mother and give her a smile. "Mother you obviously were being too cynical, how could you think that you daughter-in-law was going to die at such a young age, I haven't even given you a son yet." I add in the last part because based on the rules of divorce in ancient times a man or parent could divorce a woman if she was:

Unfilial towards her parent-in-laws

Fails to bear a son

Is vulgar or lewd

Has a vile disease

Gossipy

Commits theft

I am pretty sure Mizuki didn't commit theft and she doesn't have a disease but I don't know if she has broken the first three and number five. With the sounds of it she might have already broken all of them.

"Daughter I want to speak to my son, I grow weary and wish to go to bed." She says.

"Of course." I say backing out of the room and closing the door. I have good hearing so even if I was far away I might be able to hear them.

"Son... I want you to get a divorce as fast as possible! She has been unfilial towards me, she doesn't have a son, she has behaved vulgarly, I know she has gossiped about things she shouldn't have, she has committed theft as well! But now she seems to be possessed might as well use that as having a vile disease!" Mother begins the semi-yell. I can't believe she didn't even try to hide her intentions, she must not like me in the slightest.

"Mother, please calm down. She has obviously improved in her attitude towards you just now, she just said she was planning on having a son and I think her personality has vastly improved since the fever." My husband responds.

"Very well, but I know you plan on divorcing her anyway so do it soon." His mother says, I think I hear her leave.

"Junichi." My husband calls. "It seems mother plans on putting a wife she can bend to her will in Mizuki's place."

"Yes, what will we do Katsuro?" Junichi responds to my husband who I assume is Katsuro.

"We will keep Mizuki until we find ourselves a better replacement and marry her instead." Katsuro says.

"What about Mizuki's sudden attitude change?" Junichi questions.

"She is probably just trying to get attention." Katsuro says and flicks his sleeve as he leaves.

The building is exactly what you expect out of a Japanese building but I somehow found it weird... I saw some writing and I couldn't read it. From the looks of the time period though I don't think it would be strange I couldn't read. Or at least I didn't see many books around so... it didn't seem like a big deal.

I walk with the Hana following me. I then walk into a room that seems like a study, good I have been searching for this for awhile.

"Madam? Why are you in the study, you can't read." Hana asks me. As I figured, I shouldn't worry because I can't read. Obviously I came from a weak family and mother-in-law hoped to use this to bend my family's will, obviously it didn't work.

I begin to look over the documents. It seems there are three systems of writing. One for simplistic symbols which are augmented with more complicated ones. The other is a Latin alphabet which is used to do business because the other writing systems can be too vague for business.

I end up sitting in the study for the entire day and it even grows dark out. I begin to get the grasp of the language starting with the Latin alphabet, called Yanto, because it is in use due to simplicity. I then move onto the Joita written form which is the simplistic symbols that stand for sounds. I am still working on the Ruto when my husband comes in.

"Why are you in the study?" My husband asks me. I ignore him and continue studying Ruto, my husband sits down and stares at me.

I continue for awhile but then it starts irritating me because I hate being watched while studying. "I am reading, can you leave me alone?"

"Why is my wife, who can't read, reading right now?"

"Because she is figuring out the written system, it's not that hard." I respond, he just raises his eyebrow at me questioning me.

"It's not that hard?" He continues, "Where was this attitude when I hired you a tutor and you left within the first hour complaining that it was to hard?"

"I suddenly found the desire to read." I say not looking up. He just responds with an ah and continues to think for a while longer.

"I still doubt you can read, or if you can finally tell what a few of the words I doubt you can read that particular document." He says giving me another doubtful look.

This guy doesn't know when to give up! I wonder what this world looks like. I continue to read the scrolls, I mean some of this stuff is pretty cool. Too bad I have been studying the language so I haven't had time to learn about the world I am stuck in.

"Well it's not like I need to prove it to you..." I mutter and pick up another scroll. Katsuro picks up the scroll and begins reading it. The scroll is piece of poetry that wasn't common where I lived but was nice. Actually I noticed this but I am not speaking Japanese anymore and instead I am speaking this new language which I believe is Lotai based off of Mizuki's knowledge. I can actually vaguely remember details of her life but nothing is for sure and what I do remember isn't on command. In fact the same applies for my original life, I know that the memories are attached to my spirit but because of that my spirit is at war with my mind.

"This is about the snowy mountain top, did you understand it?" He asks.

"I did understand it, but it seems you can't read. It's not about a snowy mountain top at all." I say not looking up but I feel him nod his head.

He then gets up from his spot and sits down next to me and begins asking me things. Since I am still studying Ruto I take a bit of time on some parts but I eventually answer him using my knowledge of Yanto and Joita. I am leaning forward to get a better vision of the words. He continues this for awhile and I start to get bored.

"Are you just going to quiz me all day?" I ask turning my face to stare at him in the eyes. He just gives me a lazy smiles and asks another question.

"The answer is obvious because the small line there changes the word to mean exceed or the go beyond." I answer him. I then get up and walk outside and see my maid standing to the side.

"Madam, are you going to bed?" Hana asks. I nod my head and walk to my room. I remember where it was from this morning and after all the exploring I did earlier looking for the study.

I get to my room and undress feeling weird about being a girl, and an attractive one at that. I then get into my sleepwear and go to bed.

Mizu: I found this really cool picture that fits what I think Mizuki should look like: pin/328551735297977030/

Mizu: I really don't know who illustrated the picture personally but this is where I got it from so yeah... if the artist comes here and gives me a link to his work I will correct the link. I am a huge supporter of fair use and copy right so I don't like using others work but this was to good to pass up. Anyways this is the first story that I am working on kinda full time, Rise of the Bitomi is just a side project so it doesn't fit into my schedule.