"Yes, sir, I caught her, and just like expected, her anti-magic is real. I tried using a slave crest spell on her, and it failed; she is the real deal boss." I heard the man who had saved me from drowning talk to someone else while using what looked like a cell phone!? For my part, I was only getting hungry, which meant I would need blood soon.

  "Yeah, I know, I know, but she is too ferocious for me to trust them. Alright, I get it. I'll treat them the best I can, but she loses all her privileges when she tries to run away." The man says while walking toward me, freeing my hands and finally letting me move a little more.

  "You're lucky my boss thinks you can be trusted. I still don't feel comfortable with you, so I will keep your collar on until I deliver you to him." The guy who was wearing imperial armor and attire spoke, troubled by something, which I caught right away but kept to myself.

  "Who is your master, really? How come you rather obey him than the Emperor!?" The man sitting across me near the fire he made now looked at me with the face of a man who had seen horrible things as he answered my question. "I owe him a high debt that can never be truly repaid, so that's all you need to know. We will start moving soon, so you better eat something before we go."

  A debt that can't truly be repaid? What could that be? How much money does he owe him? Or was it something else? I had to find out one way or another because that might buy me more sympathy points. I have to tell you I was iffy about being a girl, but it's honestly not as bad; for one, my charisma is just better.

  Sure, I also don't have as much strenght or stamina as a male vampire would, but who cares? So long as I stay a vampire, I will always be just a tad stronger and faster than a male human. That's just something I find remarkable. Now, I genuinely wonder how much stronger I would be if I were a guy.

  Then again, vampires in this world have such a huge disadvantage that I somehow lack. Most can't go into direct sunlight and die almost instantly with a simple light spell. No wonder they all live in hiding inside a deep forest. Why am I immune to sunlight, though? I know I am immune to light magic, but light from the sun isn't magical, is it?

  "Hey! I told you to eat before we go." The angry man who managed to capture me yells at me after I start daydreaming about important topics about myself as he hands me over some roasted fish, which I didn't want to eat, to be honest. Human food wasn't tasty enough for me, and it could not be called food, at least to my taste buds.

  "I'm not hungry. I also don't like dead fish." I respond ot the guy who just scoffs at me, suddenly taking a bite out of the fish I refuse to eat. "Fine, I'll just have a double portion, you ungrateful twat." Something was clearly fishy about that man and his weird way of handling me for sure, haha, get it? Fishy? God, I am so funny.

  Well, I just had to look at things from the bright side; at least now I had an experienced fighter back on my side, which could prove helpful, unlike having a useless child who didn't even bother to toss me a stick or something while a bear almost killed me.

  Hopefully, his town will be there when he gets back to it. Even though I didn't like Chimaru, I still felt terrible about his town because of that lady; what was her name again? Necri, no, was it Nochi? No, It was something with coral. Necrochicoral? Or was it Nefricoral? Something like that.

  I hope that she is fine; that old lady wasn't much different than Buster, to be honest. Nefricoral was a sweet old lady who taught me that raw medicinal plants are magical, but once you condense them and make them into a potion, they suddenly turn into magic. I still wonder how that works.

  The good thing about knowing stuff like that is that in case there's some sort of poisonous potion, I will be immune to it so long as it's synthesized, which means I am poison-proof! Unless I eat it raw, in which case I will just die. {Annabel's stomach rumbles} Oh man, I am getting hungry, though.

  How will I explain it to the man without making him even more worried about me being 'ferocious?' How do I tell him I need fresh blood and not just human food? "I knew you were hungry, but there's no more fish left, so you're out of luck today, young lady." The guy brags about it as he tosses the roasted fish stick to the ground, leaving only the bones.

  "If you know why the Empire chases me, then you should also know I am a vampire, right? I don't eat human food; it's disgusting; just let me go hunt a rabbit or something." The man only looks at me concerned after hearing a vampire but laughs at the same time as the sun hits my face spot on.

  "Ahaha! Good Joke, kid! Are you a vampire!? How come!? The sun is hitting you right in the face! You would be melting right now if you were a vampire!" Oh man, would I really have to expose my secret to him? Goddamit, what other choice did I have?

  "I don't know why or how, but I am just immune to the sun. You probably also saw my teeth, didn't you?" I say to him while opening my mouth just enough to let him see my sharp fangs on the top of my mouth teeth. "Well, those sure look big, but you can't be a progenitor vampire; only males can become those. There's no way you're one."

  Progenitor vampire? What the fuck was that? "A progenitor?" I say out loud, catching the attention of the man who follows up with more information.

  "Normal vampires turn regular people into ghouls with their bites, but progenitors turn regular people into vampires. That's why they're immune to the sun. You could say it helps them blend into a transformation spree, but only males carry that trait; I've never heard of a female progenitor."