My Three Wives Are Beautiful Vampires

Chapter 275: Scathach joins the club. 2

”And I thought… Why not? And so I did that and gave her blood. A large amount.” He displayed a small smile.

”After that, itʼs like you already know.” Victor went back to reading.

ʼJust from these two pages of this book, Iʼve learned the importance of the world tree to the gods...-ʼ His thought was interrupted when he heard Sashaʼs voice:

”Darling then gave a drop of his blood, causing him to start screaming in pain.” Sasha continued Victorʼs story as she read her book.

”...That took me by surprise.” Sasha muttered.

[...Eve, you were around... Why didnʼt you stop the master?]

[...] Eve was silent.

[Stop, Kaguya. You, of all people, should know well enough that when the master starts something, no one can stop him.] Maria spoke.

[Heʼs just very stubborn like that.] Bruna continued.

[Indeed.] Roberta agreed.

[.....]

[Sigh, youʼre right... Iʼm sorry, Eve.]

[Itʼs okay.] Eve replied.

”....” Victor flashed a small apologetic smile when he heard his Maidsʼ conversation in his head.

Realizing that the girls needed an explanation, he said:

”That was because I got the memories of the individuals she fed on.” Victor added in the story.

”.....” An awkward silence fell over the place, and all the girls looked at Victor.

”What!?”

”...?” Victor looked out of the corner of his eye and saw his wivesʼ expressions of shock.

”Oh, hadnʼt I told you this before...?” He just remembered that he forgot that fact:

”When I feed on an individual, I can see their memories.”

”When did you learn to do this!?” Violet asked.

”It was the year I spent with Ruby.” He replied in a neutral tone and went back to reading. Unexpectedly, he was enjoying reading about the mythology behind the world tree. It was quite interesting.

Sasha and Violet looked at Ruby:

”... I did not know that.” She quickly spoke as she thought back a bit and started to remember all the times she felt awkward and caught off guard when Victor would talk about something he shouldnʼt have known.

After the initial shock, Scathach said, ”...That makes sense now, as you absorbed a lot of memories, you couldnʼt handle it all, thus, you passed out.”

”Yes.”

ʼHas he already awakened this ability? Huh? That should only happen when he becomes a 1000 year old vampire!ʼ Scathachʼs mind was confused. The information she knew about the Night Kings didnʼt match the experiences sheʼd had while observing Victor.

The skill that Victor just talked about was a passive skill of all Night Kings with a Vampire origin.

But this ability could only be awakened when he was at least 1000 years old, considering it was an ability heʼd only acquire during an evolution.

But... Victor had already awakened it...

ʼWhy is he so special?ʼ A smile began to grow on Scathachʼs face; ʼHeʼs like a box of surprises, always surprising me and not allowing my life to be dull at all...ʼ

”Although this skill is complicated... Every time I use it, I just take it all in, and if I donʼt focus on what I want to know, information just gets thrown around in my head, and I donʼt learn anything.” Victor made a difficult face; he had quite a hard time controlling this ability.

”And sometimes, the skill doesnʼt work...” Victor had already come across cases where he couldnʼt use this skill on other beings.

”...By biting a person, you know their whole life...” Sasha swallowed hard and thought how absurd that was.

”It makes me uncomfortable... Is Darling going to be okay with having lots of memories that arenʼt his, in his head?” Violet talked about her concern.

”...” The girls fell silent as they began to share the same concern as Violet, except for Scathach.

”You are wrong Violet, and Sasha.”

”...” Victor and the girls looked at Scathach:

Seeing that sheʼd gotten everyoneʼs attention, she continued while looking at Violet:

”He wonʼt get lost in someone elseʼs memories. Itʼs impossible for that to happen, after all, heʼs the ʼpredatorʼ that swallowed that individual... A predator wonʼt get lost in the memories of his prey. Victorʼs own blood wouldnʼt let that happen.”

”...Oh... Thatʼs good then.” Violet didnʼt fully understand what Scathach was implying, but knowing that Victor was going to be okay, was enough for her.

Scathach looked at Sasha, ”By biting a person, he wonʼt know their whole life, this skill is not that gentle.”

”He needs to kill the individual, and after he kills the individual, a process called ʼthe absorption of an existenceʼ takes place. And through that process, he absorbs a fragment of the individualʼs soul.”

ʼFragment of their soul?ʼ Victor thought, confused. Now that he thought about it, the times that the abilities didnʼt work were when the individual had died a long time ago, despite having absorbed that individualʼs blood, he couldnʼt see their memories.

ʼSo... What I absorb is not their blood, but a fragment of their soul?ʼ He thought to himself, but soon he heard Scathachʼs words that verified his thoughts.

”When he absorbs that shard, he gains all memories of the individual he killed.”

”I see... Thatʼs what you meant by an ungentle skill, huh?” Sasha spoke up, and she thought this skill was perfect in a war situation or when Victor wanted to get information from the enemy.

ʼHe could just skip the torture process and kill the individual.ʼ She thought it was a very useful skill.

”One of the restrictions of this skill is that it cannot be used on individuals who have already died, the user himself must kill the individual, although it is a good skill, it is not perfect.”

”Ohh... So he canʼt go to the grave of someone who just died and absorb that individualʼs memories, huh?”

”Eww, drinking a corpseʼs blood? There is a limit to nasty tolerance, Sasha.” Violet made a disgusted face. After all, for vampires to drink the blood of a corpse is basically the same as eating garbage.

”... It was just an example, Violet!” Sasha growled at Violet.

Violet just stuck her tongue out at Sasha and hugged Victor!

”...This bitch.” A vein bulged on Sashaʼs head.

”You seem to know a lot about this, Mother...” Ruby commented curiously.

Nod, Nod!

Violet and Sasha nodded in agreement.

”Well, Iʼve lived a long time, you know?” She flashed a seductive smile, and her mature charm seemed to explode throughout the room.

Gulp, Gulp, Gulp.

The three of them swallowed hard when they realized that this woman was unconsciously showing off her charm to Victor.

”…But I used it on a corpse?” Victor suddenly spoke up.

Her smile faded, her charm faded, and a shocked expression appeared on her face:

”…Eh?”

She looked at Victor and asked in disbelief, ”What did you say...?”

”I said I used it on a corpse, and I could see his last memories.” He remembered that as long as the corpse hadnʼt died for a long time, he could do that.

An example of this were those vampires attacking the tree, they had died recently, and because of that, he could see the last moments of those vampires.

But... He didnʼt understand how he could see the memories of those individuals the tree killed.

ʼIs it related to the soul...?ʼ Victor touched his chin and began to think:

ʼScathach talked about the soul fragment, by absorbing it, I can see the individualsʼ memories... The key point here is ʼsoulʼ.ʼ

Wait... Could it be?

When the tree absorbed beings, did it absorb everything?

By everything, I mean…

The entire existence of that being...?

ʼThat innocent little girl is so scary, huh?ʼ That thought couldnʼt help but put a small smile on Victorʼs face.

ʼBut... that makes sense... The tree was like a soul prison, and when she gave me that fruit, I received the soul fragments from all the blood she absorbed?ʼ

But... Why didnʼt this happen the first time?

Hmm... Victor started to think deeply until he remembered Roxanne saying:

”You ate a part of me, and I ate a part of you...”

ʼ... WAS THAT!?ʼ Victor held both of his hands to his head when he realized that by eating that fruit the tree offered, he had basically agreed to ʼmarryʼ Roxanne.

And in the process, he ate a part of Roxanne, and in that part he had eaten, all the memories/soul fragments of the beings she had absorbed over a millennium passed onto him.

ʼFuck, no wonder I passed out.ʼ

[Tsk, Tsk, Tsk. If you werenʼt a vampire, your brain would have exploded, you know?]

Victor heard an annoying voice in his head.

A vein bulged on Victorʼs head, and he thought, ʼSeriously, there are so many people in my head that I feel like I have a lot of personalities at this point. Will I become the son of that wheelchair-bound bald man from the comics?ʼ Victorʼs thoughts ran wild as he remembered a comic that Ruby had introduced him to.

”....”

”Did Scathachʼs brain just stop working?” Sasha commented with a smile on her face.

”Oh, I know that feeling, itʼs when this man...” Violet grabbed Victorʼs cheeks and tugged.

”Ouch, Ouch.” Victor lost his concentration and looked at Violet.

”...does something so absurd that she feels her common sense breaking.” She flashed a smile so beautiful it made Victor freeze.

All thoughts in Victorʼs head emptied, and he just remembered that he had another promise to keep.

”... Come to think of it, I had promised you 7 days and 7 nights-.” Victor was about to say something, but they were all interrupted by Scathachʼs sudden scream.

”THATʼS IMPOSSIBLE!”

”… Wha-.” They all put their hands to their ears when they heard the womanʼs sudden scream.

”A Night King doesnʼt have that ability!” She refused to believe such nonsense.

”What you just described is literally the work of a death god!”

The work of a Death God, when coming into contact with a dead body that had died a long time ago, the God could ʼlearnʼ about his last moments by absorbing the fragments of the soul that remained in the body.

”I would even understand if you were a witch specialized in necromancy like that bitch who visited my house a few hours ago. She could do that easily, considering the basic principle of necromancy was to take souls out of the reincarnation cycle and use them as your soldiers, and through that magic, the soldier himself could tell his memories to the witch.”

”She should also be able to just pull out the ʼfragmentʼ of the soul responsible for the memories and learn about it.” She explained everything correctly like a teacher.

”Those bitches donʼt have as much authority over death as a Death God does, but... They can do something simple like that, and thatʼs also one of the reasons why the witches are market leaders when it comes to information.” She looked quite elegant as she taught the lost ʼlambsʼ about this divine knowledge.

Suddenly, her body started to shake, and she pointed at Victor as if he were the culprit of a crime:

”But youʼre a Vampire!” Her next scream seemed to come from her whole soul.

”Me?” Victor pointed to himself.

”Thatʼs right. Youʼre a Vampire! Even if youʼre a special vampire who has special blood, you shouldnʼt have that kind of ability!”

”That goes against the rules!”

”....” Everyone was silent. They were just very surprised when they saw Scathachʼs reaction since they had never seen her react so strongly like that before.

Victor showed a small smile and thought his mother-in-law was very cute now.

A vein bulged on Scathachʼs head when she saw Victorʼs hateful smile, ”Stop flashing that smile, and explain what happened!” she growled.

”...Even if you say that, I just did it, and it happened?” He spoke with an honest and confused face. It wasnʼt like he was trying to trick Scathach.

”Ugh...” Victorʼs honest face caused cuteness damage to Scathachʼs heart.

She couldnʼt even accuse him of being a liar. After all, she knew he didnʼt lie to her.

She stopped talking and touched her chin as her brain began to spin with all her ability to try to understand what was going on.

”Mother...”

She stopped thinking when she heard her daughterʼs voice and when she felt her daughter touching her shoulder.

She looked at her daughter.

”You get used to it.” Ruby spoke with lifeless eyes and with a lifeless smile.

”…Eh?”

”You get used to it.” She repeated it again.

”Umu, Umu!” Violet nodded several times, ”Itʼs Victor weʼre talking about, I wouldnʼt be surprised if my Darling farted and the planet exploded.

”....” Victor opened his mouth in shock when he heard what Violet said; ʼJust what kind of image does she have of me in her head to think that?ʼ

”In my husbandʼs defense, he is capable of easily breaking common sense as if it were his typical 9 - 5 day job! Which means itʼs a normal routine for him!”

”.....” That was your defense!? You are not defending me! Youʼre just stating Violetʼs words!

”Oh...” Scathachʼs eyes opened wide, Violet, Sasha, and Ruby seemed to be glowing from Scathachʼs point of view.

”This…”

”This...” Scathach seemed to be in a state of denial.

ʼYes, my mother-in-law, defend me and say that this makes no sense! After all, Iʼm not that kind of irrational being!ʼ Victor was rooting for Scathach internally.

”Make sense...”

ʼWHAT!?ʼ Victor looked at his mother-in-law with shocked eyes.

”If you think about it, it actually makes sense.” Scathach spoke with a smug face.

ʼWhat makes sense, woman? I fart and the planet explodes?!?!ʼ

”It is Victor we are talking about here, for him, this is something common.” She looked like a woman who had discovered an immutable truth of the universe and achieved enlightenment.

Nod, Nod.

Everyone nodded in agreement with Scathachʼs words.

[She finally joined the cult of my god!] Bruna was delirious.

[Whatʼs this cult story?] Maria was interested.

[Come here, Iʼll tell you...] Bruna looked at Maria as if she had found another inductee.

[Ara, Iʼm also interested...] Roberta has joined.

[Me too.] Eve went along.

[...] Kaguya looked at this site with a dumbfounded expression.

”Scathach has joined the club at last.” Sasha flashed a happy smile.

”Yes, I thought it would take a while because she and Victor are so alike.” Violet commented.

”But Iʼm glad it was sooner than we expected.” Ruby flashed a small smile.

Several veins started bulging on Victorʼs head; ʼThese women, just what kind of image do they have of me in their crazy heads? And what Club are they talking about!? More importantly, why is Bruna creating a cult?ʼ

”...” Looking at the happy faces of his wives and his mother-in-law, who seemed to be having divine enlightenment.

Victor rolled his eyes and thought, ʼWhatever, I donʼt care anymore. Iʼll just go back to reading.ʼ He didnʼt want to spoil their happy mood.