Chapter 10-Pride

He winced as the sickening sound of flesh tearing rang through his mind.

"You have royally screw up my life ever since the day I came into this planet." Every syllabus uttered was dripped with contempt and hatred. He stared directly into the bicolor eyes and gave a low chuckle.

"Well done, my dear Shizuka" He mentally praised, "Your skills in chess have improved, and this is certainly out of my calculation."

Rido Kuran's equations never fail. With précised calculations, he always reached his goal. There was never a single glitch in any of his operation. Coupled with his ever faithful and loyal servant, he is always the winner. In order to gain perfect immortality, he plotted to wake his ancestor. Everything was supposed to proceed as planned. However, he had never thought of that free radical that may ruin his equation. That woman.

Actually, it was just a simple equation. To summarize, he plans to use his sibling's son to awake his ancestor. That's it. But that free radical just had to bounce off from his sight at that stormy night.

He had already sensed her presence when he kidnapped his teenage niece from the Kuran manor. Of all places, that fiancé of his just had to end up at the wrong place. Yet, much to his surprise, he actually detected another powerful presence. A pureblood that was emanating the aura of the main Kuran clan power and the Hiou clan power. Impossible, he thought. Well, he is able destroy his fiancé easily in her current state. Nevertheless, he still commanded his loyal servant, Asato, to take care of the situation.

"Take that child away and raise it up. That child will increase my power greatly after I'm done with it." Rido instructed "Don't worry about my siblings, I will divert their attention."

"Yes, my Lord" Asato replied.

Dragging the teenage Kuran boy with his blood whip, Rido proceed to the basement to awake his ancestor. Kicking the lid of the magnificent coffin open, he turned to that teenage boy and whispered "Take a look inside closely, he's the reason for your death. Well, you are just unfortunate to be the product of my siblings." With that, he spilled the blood of the teenage boy into the coffin. "Time to wake up" Rido declared and exited the basement.

"KANAME, NO!" A voice hollered. A man appeared at the front lawn with a horror stricken face.

"Hello Haruka, it took you a while to realize your missing son."

"Brother, why?"

"Painful, isn't it, when your beloved was taken away from you." Rido muttered as he stares at his flustered sister with a phone in her hand through the window.

"RIDO, HOW DARE YOU." Haruka Kuran roared. He transformed into a beast and charged full speed at Rido.

While crimson whip pierced through that beast that was inches away from his face, Rido could hear the horror stricken shriek of his sister. Facing her, he mouthed "Juri" and gave her a regretful smile before the house containing both female purebloods exploded.

What a pity, Rido thought as he attracts the level Es to the area. A decade ago, he used to crave her blood, yearned for her presence and desired her soul. Her rejection had triggered unlimited sorrow and agony for him. He barricades himself from the vampire community and the human world, numbing himself from all possible emotions with the exception of hatred, anger and greed. She had to bear the equal amount of hurt she had inflicted upon him. It's the law of equivalence. If only she had chosen him, she would not have to bear the pain of witnessing her brother being blasted into crystals. Ten years ago, she had made her choice, and this is her ultimate end, Rido thought.

Lying on the ground, he stares at the soulless body of his oldest niece that was adjacent to him.

"Well I guess the strongest also tumble, even you, my almighty ancestor" He gasped before shutting his eyes.