"...No."

Tougo remained silent for a while before smirking.

"Then you agree to become my bride?"

"Are you suddenly capable of feeling love?" I asked, expecting a reasonable answer.

*Silence*

"Maybe I have felt love before, with Christa and your Mother...and you; anyone other than those two, I've felt nothing."

A chuckle left my lips, "I'm surprised. You love three females...but marrying two is still wrong. Karma's a 6:+c#, isn't it, Tougo? I abide by the Lord's law, meaning I refuse to become your wife and I refuse to kill you because you are still useful to me."

He took a step away from me, "As cruel as your Mother."

"You got it twisted, as abusive as my Step-Father."

"Hm, touche. Now, what is it I am useful for?" he questioned, bowing his head to me.

"Why do you wish to know?" I asked with my left eyebrow lifted in curiosity.

Tougo looked up at me with a grin, revealing his fangs, "Because I am at your disposal now that you're more powerful than me; you always have been, you just never used it nor acknowledge it."

"...On the night of the Lunar Eclipse, I want you to lift the spell to the Underworld for me to enter; I'll handle Carla and Shin myself."

"Are you that confident?" he asked with a small scoff.

"Do you disbelieve in your Step-Daughter that much?

Tougo growled at my rhetorical questions, then had me sitting atop the wardrobe by using my thighs.

"Even you get aggravated if someone pushes your buttons right," I chuckled out.

He leaned his head onto my chest and his hands slid up my thighs, which lifted my night gown.

"Get your hands off m―ah~..."

He squeezed my thighs as I pursed my lips, but that didn't stop me from breathing heavily through my nose.

"Ah, I was right...you're in heat, yet you're not bleeding, *sigh* too bad...but that does mean you're more receptive," he said, moving his lips up my chest to my neck.

Before I lost myself, I tried to kick him away with my left leg, but he grabbed it by under my knee and pushed his body against mine.

"Haah~...Tougo, st-stop, please~..."

"Hearing you beg like that makes not want to, darling, but I shall since it is your wishes," he said and took a few steps away from me. "I assume I'd be seeing you on the night of the Lunar Eclipse?"

I couldn't respond verbally since my heated physical being was preventing me so I just nodded.

"Very well then, Miyami. Take care of yourself," he said and disappeared into the night.

My skin was still burning from where he touched me. Slipping off the wardrobe, I steadied my balance, then walked to the window to open it and get some fresh air. Hopefully, it'll cool me down.

Staring at the night sky, I moved my eyes to the water fountain to look at the beautiful reflection of the stars...only for my eyes to meet a dark figure staring at my window.

'...Who is that? Is that Tougo?'

Squinting my eyes―due to the heat effecting my vision―I looked the figure from bottom to top...

My body froze.

The figure stared at me for a few seconds before grinning...

I pressed my fingertips to the window and my eyes sparkled in bewilderment.

"...Ayato?"

Ka-chack

Looking in the reflection of the window, I saw Ruki enter my room, closed the door, and walked towards me quickly.

"Ruki, you-"

He slid his arms around my waist, then pulled me away from the window, and nuzzled his his head on my right shoulder.

"...What's wrong, Ruki?"

"Your...scent is alluring," he whispered in my right ear, licking the shell slowly.

'Damn, I must've been giving off sexual pheromones earlier. Though I'm in a accidental situation because of that―I'm guessing it effected Tougo earlier, too―it's better than bleeding. I don't understand how human females do it...'

His tongue darted at my neck and licked aggressively and nibbled.

"R-Ruki~, mn~..."

'Is my being a vampire and having sexual pheromones of different beings effective on vampires because I am one and capable of turning into another?...No, this is heat as being Eve, I'm yearning for my Adam...'

"Eve..." Ruki grunted, sliding his hands from my waist to my hips and moved his against mine.

I let a pleasured sigh out, pushing my hips against his. Unexpectedly, he turned me around and tossed me back by my hips, then immediately pierced his fangs under my left collarbone.

"Ruki~! Agh~..."

He was eyeing me...but I felt that his attention was elsewhere...

Suddenly, I felt my body trembling and my vision was becoming blurry...he was taking too much blood.

"Ru-ki...too much...fain..-ting..."

"I can't; I'm sorry, Sister."

~Flashback/?~

"Sis...Sis? Sis?!" a voice whisper-shouted.

I looked up to my left to see Ayato sitting next to me...

"She was asking you a question," Subaru whispered on my right.

Glancing around...the table, I caught Miss Christa's gaze on me.

"Um...I'm sorry. What were you asking?"

"I asked about your recent book, Ataraxia. How is coming along?" she asked nicely.

"It's...fine..." I spoke uneasily since all eyes at the dinner table are on me and her/

"You sound so unsure of yourself. Stuck, perhaps?" she responded, then questioned.

The reason why they were staring at us is because...

"...Unfortunately, yes..."

Miss Christa...

"Why is that?"

Only talks to my Mother...

"Christa, maybe you shouldn't ask her so many questions; she is baffled," my Mother said to her.

Only to me...

"I am simply curious, Lucille." She turned her head back to me, "If you don't mind, that is, Miyami?"

And sometimes, Subaru.

"You don't have to, Sister," Subaru told me.

"..."

I looked straight into Miss Christa's eyes.

"How do I finish a book where I know nothing of peace?"

*Silence*

My Mother clapped her hands and stood up, smiling at me. "I am sure you'll get lots once I send you off to university! Despite the harshness of it...I know you'll have fun and have some type of peace."

My eyes slowly widened... "U-...University?"

She smiled sheepishly, "W-well...yes. I meant for it to be a surprise when you graduated next year..."

"Mother Lucille, I'm assuming you're sending her to a kind of private university," Reiji spoke.

She chuckled nervously, "...N-no...it's a human university..."

"Lucille," Father spoke sternly and she kind of flinched, but ignored him.

I got up from my seat, slamming my fists on the table, whilst staring at her with fiery determination. "I accept!"

"Miyami," Father said, narrowing his eyes at me.

"Have you gone insane?!" Cordelia yelled.

I looked at her before grinning, "Well, I was never right in the head to begin with," I retorted.

"Miyami," Father spoke again.

"This is an opportunity to study humans more! Learn more about their emotions, their self-knowledge, and their personal beliefs!"

"Please, Miya..." Laito spoke, closing his eyes and looking down slightly.

"Miyami. You will stop this at once and obey me. You will not attend college with humans; they are nothing more than prey and experiments," Father told me.

My hands clenched into fists, "What will you do...if I refuse you?"

"Lock you away if it has to come to that."

*Slap*

None of us were expecting for her to do something like that...

"Touch my child, and I will show you no mercy, Karlheinz," my Mother spoke darkly.

"Luci-" she cut Miss Beatrix off by walking around the table and grabbing my right forearm, pulling me out the dining room.

"Listen to me, Miyami. Don't let anyone, not even your..Father, prevent you from doing what you want to do. I cannot speak for your brothers and neither can you, it is their choice who they want to follow up. I absolutely refuse for you to not be happy...you understand me?"

"Ah...yes, ma'am," I responded.

She turned around and hugged me, "You're my pride, joy, and little light."

I returned the hug, "...Thank you, Mother..."

She pulled back from me slightly and placed her right finger on her lips, closing her left eye. "Now, let's go to my room so we can discuss my will and your future."

For some strange reason...I couldn't help but feel like she knew something bad was going to happen when she said "my will"...

~Flashback/? Ends~

Moving slightly on something soft, I fluttered my eyes open.

Sitting up, I found myself on the bed in the room I'm residing in.

I looked outside to see the morning sun...

"...No...the sun is...setting...? How long have I been out for?"

Getting up, I looked outside the window...seeing a limousine drive away from the mansion.

'Are they going without me...? Well, it would be suspicious to see a teacher getting out of a limo with some of her students...'

Walking to the door, I was pulled back by something...no...someone? I felt arms around my shoulders...

"Where do...you think you're going...Miyami?"

(Mildly short chapter, but I have to cram in these last two bites...*Sigh* I'm ready to get to this epic idea in my head already...I should just cram these last two bites into a single chapter to make it go by faster...)