Shock and silence took over the room again, especially for the Vasilescus. The platinum girl didn't say anything, she just looked horrified at her aunt, whom she once considered her trusted person. Was her affection all a lie?

With the expressions the woman gave it was more than obvious.

"Mara... You... You killed my wife years ago with vervain? AND YOU TRIED TO DO THE SAME TO ME, YOU'RE INSANE!" A mixture of resentment and pain took over the Vampire King's body.

Doraemon, Gian and Suneo didn't say anything but were equally stunned. Shizuka put her hands to her mouth while crying, that level of evil that the adult vampire displayed was also too much for her.

"M-mom..." Selene kneels down with a sea of tears coming out of her eyes, Nobita kneels down worried and sad for her, after all, she had discovered that Lady Kharu didn't die from a mysterious illness as everyone thought, but was poisoned to death by her own sister-in-law. A fate that the Vampire King and the little heiress almost went through.

"Mamaaaaaaaa!" Selene brings her hands to her eyes crying and screaming like a little girl, the same reaction she had years ago when her father told her that her mother died from not being able to handle the weakening any longer, she felt as if she was living that moment for the second time.

"Selene!" Nobita tries to cheer her up but to his surprise he gets a hug from the platinum girl as she continued crying loudly. The Earth group runs towards them to comfort her, the vampire's pain made even the earthlings cry.

("Tell me I'm dreaming, Nobita! Tell me she didn't tell me that, tell me she wasn't the one who did that to my mother... Please...")

The silly boy just sighs sadly while crying, this was too much for her ("I... I really want to say it but, I'd just be lying, I'm sorry Selene.")

The human boy knew what it was like to lose someone who was gradually weakening, that happened to him with his grandmother and he felt a kind of deja vu about that day when she passed away when he was younger, he had the same reaction that his friend was having. Although now knowing that everything was the work of a third party, he didn't know whether to feel sadness towards Selene when remembering the loss of his mother or anger towards Lady Mara because she was the cause of what happened.

"It can't be... My beloved Kharu... How could you?! She left everything for us!" Count Caleb impulsively got up from the wheelchair with his red and tearful eyes, but then fell to the ground since he was in his treatment, he was weak to walk yet. Gian and Suneo ran to him and helped him back to his chair.

Donovan just exhales "I see, not only did you act against your own planet wanting to usurp the throne with assassination attempts on the Vampire King and the princess, but you already previously killed the lord's wife. And who knows how many more vampires passed through your hands, even if they are from your own clan"

"How can you be so cruel mother? You said you were doing it for us, but not only did you hurt Zurie, you traumatized Selene, killed Aunt Kharu, almost brought Uncle Caleb to the brink of death and tried to kill our cousin again in different ways with a false identity! What's in your head?!" Kaige one of the older twins looks at his mother with contempt while Locke was now the one comforting his younger brother who was sobbing from everything he had heard.

"For you? I only did it for Zurie, he's my little prodigy, Caleb was only saved because Zurie decided to be a doctor as an adult because of what happened to that turned vampire, he was lucky. When I'm the Vampire Queen, Zurie will be the heir because I will change the rules that Caleb didn't want to change because he was the council's lapdog."

"I don't want anything from you, mother." Zurie raises his gaze, he was crying but he exuded contempt for her. "Partly it was my fault that she found out about Nobita and the others because I let myself be manipulated by their way of treating me and I told her everything that Selene told me through the communicator thinking it was because she cared about my cousin's condition. I became someone obedient who never wanted to disobey our mother because I thought it was the right thing to do. I see that you didn't deserve it."

At that moment is when Lady Mara reacts, changing the proud smile of confessing her crimes for a worried face "D-don't say that my little one, I did all this for you, because your mother loves you. I did it for us!"

"Because of you, it hasn't crossed my mind to be a Vampire King even though my cousin even said I'd be good at it because of my abilities. I like having chosen to be a doctor. And no, I don't want to rule Amarant, not if it's because of your ambition, thanks to you it was hard for me to relate to other kids my age because you were too overprotective of me, which didn't bother me until I found out it was for this. Don't involve me in your madness because as far as I'm concerned, I only have 2 older brothers now."

The angry red-eyed look of the vampire boy was present in the room, he had already accepted reality and had seen the true face of his mother, or the person he stopped seeing as his mother, even though his brothers used to tease him, they showed support for him in the most painful moment of his life and didn't take her side, which meant a lot to him.

"Well, that's enough interrogation, I still have more things to ask you before you spend your time in the dungeon for life, and as you see, for our kind, it will be for a LONG time." The leader of the council rolls his eyes, despite everything, he remained controlled by his personality.

Or not?

"It doesn't matter now. Zurie will understand one day the sacrifices I've made for him, I don't regret AT ALL what I did." The woman had her head bowed, but she looks back to the front smiling "BUT PLEASE DONOVAN! You're not free of guilt either"

The old leader sighs indifferently "I know I'm not the best person, but I wouldn't physically hurt the Vasilescu just for power"

"That's true, you wouldn't do it for power, but for pride. Or should I tell them how you bribed the children who bothered Selene's previous friend to leave her? Or how you got the idea into her that erasing her human friend's memory was the perfect excuse to get rid of him just for being a nuisance? Hmm?"

Of course, everyone stared at the vampire council indifferently. They already knew that Donovan was an idiot, but messing with the girl's friendships just because he considered her friends to be in the way? He wasn't innocent at all and that confirmed it.

"You paid some kids to mistreat Selene's former friend?!" Count Caleb was very upset by this point, not as much as with Lady Mara but he was "You really haven't changed at all, I know that boy could have endured more if his friendship with her had really been important to him, but still, paying others to break them up is really aberrant!"

"Was the memory erase just an excuse to get rid of Nobita?!" Doraemon also shouts angrily "My best buddy spent his time with depression just for an excuse, we had to take him to a doctor thinking he was sick! Not only that, you also made Selene feel guilty on purpose, no wonder I was surprised that there wasn't another reason to be able to face the Scarlet Moon before!"

"Are you really going to believe that I did those two things?!" Everyone answers a "YES" in unison to the old vampire except for his companions, so he only has to resign himself and cough a little to divert attention "E-even so, I did it for the good of Amarant, my lord, the girl had to mature and those little friends were distracting her, they already scolded me a while ago, so we should focus on the real problem"

"For now, I'll talk to you after this. There are going to be some changes in this place, BELIEVE ME"

"My Lord, you know that you can't fire me for being a member of the council and son of the pioneers, my position is permanent until I die or have committed a crime such as killing an heir, so..."

Donovan looks at how the Vampire King looks at him annoyed. "I know I can't do it, but I'm only going to agree with my ex-sister on one thing, and that is bending the rules a little and interfering with my daughter's happiness to such an extent gives me the right to do so, SO KEEP SILENT FOR THE REMAINS OF THIS DAY"

The pressure in Count Caleb's blunt words shook the old vampire to such an extent that he just nods nervously, the pair of twins and even Nobita can't help but smile at that, as it seems that the old man's debauchery to do whatever he pleases will soon have its limits. Who blames the reactions of those children? The guy earned it.

The Vampire King is pushed by one of the older twins towards Lady Mara with an expression of contempt "As for you, you are no longer my sister after having caused a deep wound to my daughter and my nephews, in addition to killing my wife and wanting to harm the world where these earthling children come from. I will take care of Zurie, Kaige and Locke now, because it's obvious that they don't deserve someone like you who calls herself their mother."

"Guards, take Lady Mara to the worst cell possible to spend the rest of her life there, I shouldn't be benevolent for everything you've done to us, but..."

Lady Mara smiles in a psychotic way, she was at her breaking point. With great force she throws one of the guards towards the Vampire King knocking him down, while she takes out a long stake as if it were a wooden sword that she had hidden under the sleeve of her dress and stabs the other guard in the chest turning him into dust while he screamed in pain.

All in the presence of the human and Amarantian children who turned pale as they saw how she literally killed another vampire in their presence and without caring that even her own children saw her like that.