04. Louis Daniel Fernandesh

"VAMPIRES do exists and I'm one of them."

Daniel only thought of this way so they could believe his words, but it seemed that this method alone wouldn't be enough.

"Y-your eyes … change color." Rieki had trouble uttering a sentence.

Daniel smiled faintly, it was impossible for an ordinary human to change the color of their iris.

"You have a disease, sir? Is that called ... Wesdeburg syndrome or something?" Rieki said again.

"Waardenburg Syndrome," Shinji corrected. However, his eyes took care of Daniel very well. "But I don't think he has that rare disease."

Daniel smiled crookedly. "I'm immortal, I can't die let alone sick. I'm a vampire, you can tell, right?"

"Hm."

Shinji fell silent, then his head stared at the ceiling. He was sitting on the sofa and watching the madness of Daniel who is now sitting on the glass table in the living room.

"So, vampires do exist?" Rieki repeated, taking his notebook. Daniel can judge if Rieki is a person who will work hard for anything.

"Are you still in doubt? Do you need any other evidence?" asked Daniel again.

Shinji glanced lazily at Daniel, he believed it enough, because Daniel didn't have any motive to lie to him. However, somehow ... he still couldn't accept that immortal beings actually existed.

"Do you have a sharp object, Rieki?" Daniel held out his hand.

"For what?"

Shinji glanced at Daniel once again, the man's red eyes and also the sudden bursting fangs frightened him. His sharp and intimidating gaze also managed to make him lose his heart.

Shinji let out a harsh sigh, ever since becoming a cop a few years ago, he was sure he had thrown all his fear away. However, this time, Daniel managed to return the disgusting feelings to him.

"I only have a gun and a knife," said Rieki, taking out a penknife from his pocket.

"I'll prove something to you."

"Prove what else?" asked Shinji lazily.

Daniel smiled crookedly. That terrible smile that made both Rieki and Shinji hold his fear in mind.

Daniel unfolded the knife, then cut his left hand until the blood spilled. Rieki and Shinji then glared, even Rieki looked panicked as he stood up.

"What are you doing, sir? Doesn't it hurt? Where is the medicine bo—"

Rieki opened his mouth when he saw that the wound was slowly regenerating. Like time being played back, the blood returns to its original place.

"Am I dreaming?" he asked, rubbing his eyes with his hands.

"You don't dream, this is the reality you will face."

For the first time after Shinji served as the top police officer in Akita, the man sighed roughly. "What the hell is this nightmare? How can I overcome this terrible terror?"

"How?" Daniel repeated, not understanding the meaning of the words of the man he had been friends with a month ago.

"Yeah, it's fucking how!" Shinji's tone rose. "You are immortal, if you mean to show all of this, because you want to tell that the mastermind of the events so far is a creature like you, then how can we solve it? We won't be able to kill vampires!"

Daniel was silent, his mouth closed tightly. Humans will not be able to kill vampires without sufficient provisions. However, he was there to help humans. Even if that means, he will expose his own weakness to them.

"Wait, aren't vampires afraid of the sun, are they?"

Daniel smiled crookedly. "That's why they carry out terror at night."

"Tch, we will catch them and dry them until they disappear!"

Daniel then burst into laughter at the stupid suggestion of Shinji's men. Rieki is too naive. If a vampire can die from sunlight, that too must be a very long time. But before that ....

"How did you catch them?"

Rieki fell silent.

"Before you catch them, you will be sucked alive and lose consciousness, that is the lightest effect. The most fatal effect of bleeding was, of course, death."

Rieki lowered his head, his gloomy face explained everything.

"Then, how can humans face all of this? Why only in Japan, why don't we reach foreign countries?" Shinji ruffled his always neat hair because he was so frustrated.

"I don't know, but clearly, more than one offender."

"More than one vampire? One vampire can drive me crazy!" Shinji suddenly fell silent. "You're also a vampire, do you know the culprit?"

Daniel closed his eyes. "This is just an assumption, but the only thing that can turn a human into a vampire is a noble vampire."

"You mean?"

"My cousin, Carlos. However, I don't know where he is right now. I couldn't find his scent, but it was clear that he was in Japan, because he wanted to stay in this country for a long time."

Shinji fell silent. "Why did you say you turned humans into vampires? After all, the other vampires weren't here?"

Daniel shook his head. "There are a few, but I'm sure they wouldn't be so stupid as to start a terror. Obviously the ones who kill humans every night are just thirsty, stupid vampires. Whereas vampires who have understood the flow of this world, they will find other ways to live without killing humans."

"Tch!" Shinji chuckled. "So, how do we deal with the vampires? If they are immortal, then how do we solve all this? We can't let them keep running around and killing every night. Daniel, you must know something, right?"

"Vampires are immortal, but they're not lizards."

"You mean?" Shinji frowned.

"A hand that is broken will not be able to come back again, if the part is not there. There is only one way of killing vampires that humans can do."

"WHAT?" asked Shinji and Rieki together.

"Break their necks and separate them from their bodies or take their hearts and burn them."

Shinji fell silent, Rieki immediately vomited. Imagining severing the neck of a vampire with a sword and seeing the blood spilled, then storing that bodyless head somewhere.

"Heck!"

"Your doubts will only make more victims fall, while your courage will save some. What you will choose is what you can do, it all depends on how dare you kill them."

Shinji closed his eyes. In other words, there is no other choice but to fight against the terrible terror itself.

"Do you want to help?"

Daniel smiled faintly. "I'll help you take care of Carlos, because he won't be able to fight alone."

"Thank you, in the meantime, I'll take all of this and start tracking down where it will happen again."