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Slightly shorter, but I'm hoping it answers all of the questions from previous chapter. Leave comment if there's still anything confusing, and I'll see what I can do. Enjoy.


The night after the chiropteran attack, everyone who had participated in the fight gathered back at the Omoro.

"Ok, Akemi's asleep now. Let's get started," Kai said while taking a seat on the table everyone was gathered around.

"All right then, first things first. Do you remember everything now?" the blond haired man asked.

"Yeah, I do now. But I'm sorry, you look very familiar but I don't remember you," Saya replied with a puzzled look on her face.

"Oh, right. I'm sorry I didn't introduce myself. We haven't met, but you did know my father," he apologized, and stretched out his arm, "I'm David."

"Saya. Your parents helped out a lot back then. A lot's changed while I was asleep," Saya said while returning the handshake.

"Yeah," he answered as his expression suddenly twisted into that of sorrow and agony, "a lot has changed."

The sudden change in the atmosphere confused Saya and she looked up at Kai for an answer, but he seemed to share the same expression.

He soon snapped out from his thoughts and faced Saya. "Saya, we're going to tell you everything that's happened while you were away. Starting with the beginning of it all."

"Beginning of what?" she asked, almost too worried to find out, judging by the expressions on both Kai's and David's faces.

"Two years ago, Akeno was taken from us," Kai whispered after glancing towards Akemi's room. "Cinq Fleches is still around and the CEO of it is a man named Von Argeno. The real Von Argeno has been locked up and is believed to have died in prison. This man must be a relative or someone of close relations to take up his name and company."

"We have intel suggesting that they've been producing chiropterans with prisoners sentenced to death. We all know the only way to produce chiropterans is through the blood of a queen chiropteran, so we're thoroughly convinced that they're the ones who took Akeno," David continued as Kai left to check on Akemi.

"Somehow, they've managed to make the chiropterans more obedient and intelligent and they've been trying to eliminate Akemi. We also found that her blood does not crystallize the blood of the chiropterans created by her sister, but changes them back into humans. Normally, when the mother of the queens receives the blood of either of her daughters, she is turned into a human. But, it seems that Akemi and Akeno are different in that their bloods behave this way between each other. So you can see why Cinq Fleche doesn't want Akemi around. If she manages to change a chiropteran into a human, the entire world will know about their secret experiments," he explained.

Saya understood how grave the situation was getting and remembered the timid and frightened look in Akemi's eyes. She shouldn't have to go through this, Saya thought.

"We're trying everything we can to bring back Akeno, but we have no idea where they're keeping her. We've narrowed it down to three bases," David assured her after noticing the worried look on Saya's face, "It's only a matter of time before we find her."

"I understand. But what I don't understand is how Kai's and your guns were able to kill the chiropterans. They just turned into humans and died from one shot," Saya asked.

"Oh, well my mother, Julia, developed an anti-chiropteran weapon using the structure of Akemi's blood. Just this year, she successfully managed to copy its properties and integrate it with bullets. Unfortunately, chiropterans seem to lose blood much more quickly than humans, so by the time they are fully transformed into sane, independent humans, they die of bloodloss. No matter where we shoot them, they die once they turn human. The only way to save them, is by injecting the blood into their system, but you can imagine how hard it will be to even capture one and keep it still," David explained.

"Amazing. Julia-san still continues her researches after all these year," Saya exclaimed as she tried to imagine her, changed by the inevitable fate of time.

"No, she quit her researches ten years ago and just recently returned to the field after the incident," Kai interrupted the conversation, knowing David wouldn't want to continue it.

Confused, Saya looked over at David and noticed that his expression had once more turned sullen. "Incident? What incident?" she asked Kai.

The blond haired man excused himself and stepped outside of the pub as Kai started to explain to Saya.

Kai took a seat across from his adopted sister and took in a deep breath before starting. "Saya, David…the David you know from thirty years ago…he died in a chiropteran attack two years ago, right after Akeno went missing. Julia only returned to researching right after it happened."

"Oh, I see," Saya mumbled as she shifted her focus from Kai, to David, who stood outside.

"Saya," Haji spoke for the first time that night. He took a deep, long look at her face to make sure that she would not blame all of this on herself.

"It's not your fault, Saya," Kai broke in, "he died protecting his family. I'm sure he didn't regret anything." "The old geezer was getting too old anyways," he grumbled to himself, but Saya already understood that Kai was hurting as much as David.

Saya broke her gaze from the doorway and aimed it towards her loyal chevalier. Tears streamed down her face as she asked him, "Haji, what should I do? Did I make the right decision by allowing myself and Diva's children to continue living in this world?"

"Nankurunaisa," he simply replied.

The drop of tear teetering on the edge of her eye finally gave in and streamed down her cheek and was the last to fall. A slight smile that only Haji noticed, formed on Saya's wet face as she said, "Haji, you've changed. Thank you." The Haji who only knew how to obey every one of his queen's commands without question, had changed to express his own opinions for her. Saya's previous three years awake had changed him and it made her happy.

Moments later, David reentered the pub and Saya announced, "I've decided. I will once more end this war between man and chiropterans, for the sake of tomorrow."

Shocked by the sudden change in Saya's resolve upon entering, David couldn't help but smile at her devotion. "Ok then. I'll drop by tomorrow morning to take you to see mother. We have to see how your blood affects the blood of your nieces," he replied before turning on his heels to walk out once more. Father, I can finally understand why you risked so much for the sake of protecting this girl. I will take up your will and protect her and her family with my life, David thought to himself as he drove off into the night.


aww, felt so sad writing this chapter...