[Vampire Knight] Briar

【'History' is the process of progress in which all human beings have freedom. 】

——Hegel (Lectures on the History of Philosophy)

Under the "selfless dedication" of You Ji and me, Jiayuan Akatsuki finally woke up.

I found that when I handed the sycamore leaf filled with blood to Ryuka Saozono, Yuuki had been staring at me blankly, as if remembering something.

Jia Yuanxiao woke up after drinking my third handful of blood.

Seeing him wake up, Kaoru took my bleeding arm and gently licked the wound to help it heal.

"It's itchy...it's okay, Kaoru, you don't have to be so careful." His long eyelashes poked on my arm, and his breath was warm, like a small brush, scratching the tip of my heart.

Kaoru licked all the blood around my wrist, and brought her own wrist in front of me.

I looked at him, and he raised his wrist, looking at me stubbornly.

How could I refuse his kindness?However, considering that he had just finished fighting with Zhui Shengling, I just cut his veins lightly with my canine teeth, took a couple of sips, and kissed lightly to heal the wound on his wrist.

"Too little." Kaoru's tone was somewhat dissatisfied.

"I'm a little tired." I said coquettishly to him. "Wait until you are rested before eating."

I want Kaoru to rest.After all, everyone has seen the madness of Cone Shengling just now, who knows if Kaoru, who fought against him and trapped him, suffered any internal injuries.

"Okay. Let's go, I'll take you to sleep." Kaoru said to me.

Everything that needs to be done has been done.

I did these things just as I wished, and I never thought of getting them anything in return.So, I don't bother to care about what they will do next.So, Kaoru and I interlocked our fingers and prepared to leave here.

Yuuki kept staring at us blankly.When we were about to leave, she suddenly spoke, her voice was ethereal as if she was talking in her sleep.

"You gave the blood to Miss Lucia, but turned around and sucked the blood of Mr. Changteng. After going around like this, why didn't you agree to Mr. Changteng's proposal, and he was the one who gave the blood to Senior Jiayuan from the beginning?"

"Because the nature is different." I turned around, thought for a while, and said to Yuuki, "I wanted to save Akatsuki, and Kaoru just loved me. Therefore, I can't take advantage of Kaoru's kindness to me and directly ask him Give your blood."

Yuuki stared at me blankly for a long time, then lowered her head: "...I understand." She covered her eyes. "...I realized how much I had hurt others. I thought that I had hurt Zero by letting Zero suck blood without knowing that I was a pureblood. I always thought that the only one I was sorry for was Zero. But Brother Shu... when I begged him to give Zero his blood, how did my waywardness born out of his love stab him?... No wonder..."

I realized through Yuuki's slightly choked voice that she was crying.

"You Ji? Who hurt you! Why is the air full of the smell of your blood?!" Walking staggeringly, was Aisheng Ling whose clothes were already tattered and his body was full of fighting scars.Apparently, he has regained his sanity.

Look, even if I don't have to mention it, I think Coni Sheng Ling can understand who the person who can quench his hunger and thirst is.Although these two people have always shown the "businesslike" attitude to others, but in this urgent moment, the tension and care for each other are fully exposed.

I thought about what You Ji said just now, and I couldn't help but light a row of candles in my heart for the relationship between the brother and sister of the Jiulan family and the relationship between Zuo Shengling.

Really.

For things like feelings, can you deceive yourself and others by deceiving yourself?

"...Zero..." Yuuki was like a confused child, staring blankly at Cone Shengling.

"Who bullied you?" Zhui Sheng subconsciously touched the Blood Rose Spear in his arms, but found nothing.The famous blood-hunting weapon was left alone on the ground, and it was just blown away by Xun's vines, and now it looks like a pile of scrap iron.

But Cone Shengling still didn't show any flinching, he looked at me and Kaoru unkindly. "Vampire! Black Master Academy prohibits blood-sucking, you know! Yuuki, who bit you?!"

I couldn't help rolling my eyes when I heard Cone Shengling's words.

big brother.Besides Yuuki, the air smells like mine, Kaoru's, Luca's, and Kain Akatsuki's blood.Although the smell of Yuki's blood here is relatively strong, but the rest of us, were you swallowed?

"Jiu Lanshu didn't know what he did in the Blood Hunting Association, which caused the 'source metal' to go out of control. Not long after the 'Blood Rose Spear' went berserk, I noticed that the 'melting furnace' that was the core of the blood hunting power suddenly went out. Therefore, your weapon naturally lost its power. I just trapped you just now. This society will soon be chaotic. The blood hunter who has lost the power of the weapon he has always relied on... No matter what the dispute between you is, I didn't hurt you just now, I hope you can make the best use of everything to ensure that the Black Master Academy will not be involved in the war initiated by the Blood Hunting Association." Xun said such a long sentence to Cone Shengling for the first time.Then, he took my hand again, "Let's go, Ryo. It's time to sleep." He said to me.

"Hmm... ah, good." Actually, I still really want to continue to eat melons, after all, this is much more fun than the drama in TV dramas.Live version, and the appearance is higher than those actors!

But... I glanced at Kaoru who was looking at me, waiting for my reply, and smiled at him.Of course, my "Youth Tuaner" idea is more important.

"Zero, I want to suck your blood." Just when I turned around, I heard You Ji say so.Her tone was low, and she couldn't hear any emotions contained in it.

I was a little surprised and turned around again, wanting to see the reaction of Cone Shengling.Just now he just said that heizhu academy is not allowed to suck blood, so what will he do now?

Kaoru sensed my curiosity, sighed slightly, and stopped pamperingly.

"You Ji, are you seriously injured? Where? Let me see!" Zhui Shengling didn't deny or affirm Yu Ji's words, he leaned in front of Yu Ji.

Yuki stood up.I saw her pupils gradually turn red: "Sorry, Zero."

"!! You Ji! What are you doing!" Zhui Shengling definitely didn't expect that Yu Ji would directly pounce on him like this, and forcefully suck blood from him.

He seemed to be in a hurry to push Yuuki away, but he never pushed her aside.

Oh, bumbling man.From the movements, even I could see that he didn't use much force, he was just 'struggling' in a half-compromise and half-awkward way.

The mouth is not the heart.

"Wait! You are... Yuuki! Stop!!" But after a while, shock and fear suddenly appeared on the face of Coni Shengling.He started to really struggle, but he couldn't get away from Yuuki who was pressing on him. "Stop! You can't... I won't allow it! Don't take it from me!!"

But Yuuki ignored his resistance.In her bright blood red eyes, apart from tears, they were full of determination.

It's like a decision has been made.All the fragility and hesitation before are gone.

Zhuo Shengling's struggling movements gradually became smaller.

His eyes became very dazed, and his eyelids couldn't help closing.Finally, his arm on Yuuki's shoulder, trying to push her away, slowly dropped.

He passed out again.

"Hate me, Zero." I heard Yuuki whispering, "But from now on, your hunger and thirst will be greatly eased. Because, the girl who made you hungry has disappeared from your heart It's gone." She slowly put the upper body of Zhui Shengling on the ground, and I saw her tears falling on him bit by bit. "From then on, there are only pure-blooded vampires that you hate. If you have hatred, add it to me. If Zero is not dragged down by me, he will definitely be happy. So, hate me."

Yuuki slowly stood up from Rei Kazuki.When she looked up again, she had stopped crying.

"Senior Jiayuan, Miss Liujia, before you leave, can you send Zero to the chairman's office for me?" Yuuki is like a rose that has finally bloomed, she is gentle but not tolerable to Liujia Talk to Jiayuan Xiao.

"Okay, okay, Lord Yuki. I will give birth to zero him..." Liu Jia agreed, but couldn't stop the worry and doubt in her heart, and asked.

"He won't remember me anymore. I erased all his feelings and memories of me." You Ji closed her eyes, but her voice was not regretful. "After that, it's between me and Shu. I won't let him continue to be self-willed like this. I'll settle it." She turned to me, "Ling, can I hold you up for a while?" Yuuki said to I showed a smile that was the same as usual, and that smile concealed the drying tears on her face.

"...Okay." Although I don't know what decision she made, but seeing how determined she is, I don't think it will be a good thing.But seeing that You Ji has been taking good care of me these past few months, and I have an indescribable admiration and envy for her 'good person' character, so I agreed to her request. "Let's find a secret place." I suggested to her.

"Alright." She said to me.

"Xun, you go back to our dormitory first." I turned my head, saw Xun's worried eyes, and smiled at him: "It's okay, she won't eat me."

"Go to the dormitory of the night, the empty room next to us." Kaoru said, "If you are worried about concealment, I can build a barrier with vines for you."

"Don't be so cautious. That's Yuuki, don't be an asshole." I said to Kaoru.

"It's okay, Ryo. Just do what Iris-san said. I believe that there is no other place where the secrecy of Iris-kun's barrier is better. I would also like to talk to you there." Yuuki But he answered lightly.

Kaoru nodded as a reply to her.

We're back in the night house.

Along the way, no one else was seen.The campus was dead silent.

"It should be the ability of Zaoyuan Ryuka. She has arranged a dreamland in this academy that will make people fall asleep. Don't worry, it will not have any harmful effects on those humans." Kaoru explained to me.

Yuuki and I went into the room next to my bedroom.

Xun was still a little worried, but I leaned into his ear and whispered to him: "Warm me up first, lie down on the bed and wait for me, and I will pamper you later."

He coughed unnaturally, and glanced at me reproachfully.Then reached out and rubbed my hair: "Be careful."

Then, he withdrew from this room, laying a barrier for us half-protectively and half-restrictively.

Yuuki and I were the only ones left in the room.

"Cool," You Ji sat on the edge of the bed, "I know I shouldn't be weak anymore, but I still found you before I left and wanted to talk to you." She hugged her legs, curled up into a ball, her voice stuffy. "From the day I met you, Ryo has made me feel very close. I envy the relationship between you and Iris-san, and I think that if anyone can understand the things between me and Shu, it's probably you. "

"Tell me." I sat next to Yuuki and patted her on the back lightly, "Xun once told me about your Jiulan family. It's okay, I can understand. Are you confused or If you feel confused, you can tell me. I guess, Kaoru and I will return to Europe soon, so don’t worry that knowing these news will be bad for you.”

"It's okay, it's just my personal problems. It's not a big deal. It's just that no one can talk about it before. Now, with you who are also a pure-blood and your lover is also a pure-blood, I think, maybe you can give me Some guidance." Yuuki raised her head from her lap and said to me with a smile.

I didn't speak, just looked at her quietly.

"You should know that I used to live as a human, right?

"In the human world, there is no obvious love-hate entanglement like vampires, and there is no hunger and thirst for someone's blood. I am like any ordinary student in the day department, going to and from school every day, maintaining To maintain discipline, by the way, watch those 'beautiful' vampires in the night department at that time.

"It's not like I didn't have the dream of a girl. I secretly wondered if the head of the dormitory of Yezhiliao at that time, Mr. Shu, would see the small me among the girls. But every time I was woken up by Zero's poisonous tongue, and I was carried by him. , to continue to perform the duties of the disciplinary committee.

"Thinking about it now, what a naive and happy time it was." Yuuki closed her eyes lightly, a sense of happiness full of memories appeared on her face.

"Afterwards, I don't know how it all happened.

"But I seem to screw everything up. I'm the one who makes people I love sad.

"I discovered that Zero is a vampire, watched him being tortured by hunger and thirst every day and night, and watched him stubbornly resisting his own nature, afraid of being discovered by others as a vampire.

"He hated the vampires so much. The vampires killed his family and took away his brother. But he became a vampire himself. So, he hated himself like that.

"Zero, he would rather degenerate into Level E and be executed than suck blood. But how can I watch him die? So, I let him suck my blood, and even asked Brother Shu, when Zero was about to fall , feed him blood.

"But I don't know, I'm actually a pure-blood. So, my previous actions that I thought I wanted to help Zero actually hurt him.

"There is only one way to prevent Zero from becoming Level E, and that is to give him blood from the person who turned him into a vampire. But before that, other people's blood is only a catalyst to accelerate this person's transformation into Level E. In particular, It's pure blood.

"So, I'm the one who accelerated the zero fall.

"Later, Scarlet Sakura came to the night department.

"At that time, I just foolishly thought that she could save Zero who was bitten by her, so I agreed to her request and replaced Zero with myself.

"I'm not a fool." Yuuki smiled wryly, "After awakening, I can imagine how much Brother Shu has sacrificed for me who was ignorant. But I didn't know anything at the time. I thought that as long as I sacrificed, I would be fine." Wouldn't it be nice to save zero?

"But not only did I fail to save Zero, but I dragged down Shu.

"My lord is dead.

"It's all my fault, so, Ryo, you should hate me." She looked at me.I patted her on the back lightly again without comment.

"After that, many things happened. I awakened the memory of being a vampire, and Zero's state stabilized.

"In the end, I chose to leave Heizhu Academy with Brother Shu, thinking that I would never meet Zero again.

"But I didn't expect that apart from sucking Shu's blood, sometimes I would still feel hungry. I wanted to hide it from Shu, but he still found out. So, he doesn't want me anymore.

"I waited and waited and waited and waited in our secluded villa. But he never came back. The news came that he started hunting other purebloods.

"Senior Lantang who tutored me told me that brother Shu believes that pure bloods are the source of all crimes and wars, so he wants to eliminate all pure bloods.

"It suddenly occurred to me that when I was a child, I told him that I hoped to live in a world where there were no conflicts and no fear. I realized that maybe it was because of my words that he did this?

"I tried to persuade him, but he stubbornly refused to listen to my persuasion. So, I reopened the night department, trying to prove to him that humans and vampires can coexist, and neither side needs to be killed."

"Brother Keshu doesn't believe it anymore.

"He thought that I lived with him, not on my own will. Because I still have a nostalgia for Zero, because he can't fully satisfy my hunger and thirst.

"So, sometimes I really hate the vampire's physique of 'living on love'. I really want to live with Brother Shu, but my body tells me that I still have some reluctance for Zero.

"Sometimes I think, is it because of my half-heartedness that Brother Shu and Zero become so miserable?

"Although Zero said it wasn't my fault, I know it's all my fault. It's all my fault for being emotionally unstable."

"Jiu Lanshu and Zhui Shengling, what are they to you? You are not a flirtatious person, so why do you care so much about them at the same time?" I asked You Ji.

"As a vampire, Yuki was born to be Shu's bride." Yuki replied to me. "So, I love the pivot. That love is born with the blood.

"But I was sealed with all memories, emotions, and the past.

"As a human, Yuuki is just an ordinary girl. Although brother Shu is the benefactor who saved me, he is too far away from me. Zero is always by my side, comforting me when I am sad, but he will The one who delivered chocolates to me on Holy Chocolate Day. Zero filled the blank time when I was a human, he was my family. I used to...can't let him go."

"So, it's not your fault that you have a hunger for zero. After you wake up, you have both the memory of being a vampire and the memory of being a human. It will be difficult to choose, and it is inevitable." I advised her.

"No, it's my fault." Yuuki sighed heavily, "I just realized that the reason why Zero became a vampire, in the final analysis, should be my reason too. Because Shu wants to protect me, so he Committed a 'big crime'. It would be fine if I didn't exist, if only I could make up my mind like I am now. Wouldn't it be that Shu will not be disappointed in me, so he chooses to put all his eggs in one basket to kill the pure-bloods?"

"What decision did you make?"

You Ji stood up: "It's because I couldn't let go of Zero that I acted so resolutely. Therefore, I will give up everything. I am willing, from now on, there will be only him in my own world.

"I have been evading. I hesitated. I couldn't let go of Ling, but also hurt Shu. So, I have made up my mind now, I will go after Shu. As for Ling... I have hurt him so much, let him treat me My impression is only of 'that annoying pureblood', so that's fine.

"I can see that Miss Maria likes him very much. After forgetting about me, he should be happy."