Chapter 481: Tragedy Comes To All
Chapter 481: Tragedy Comes To All
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Anna had changed Dan so much that she even inspired him to become a writer and to portray the worlds he imagined himself with her exploring.
“I will one day write a book for you…” he said.
“Huh? Really? But you don’t know how to read or write…” she sighed.
“I will learn, and I will write it… it will be about us… exploring the world. And many others too.” He said.
Anna’s eyes shone brightly.
“Really?! Will you do it?”
“Of course! You’ve changed me a lot, Anna… I want to give you something that you can enjoy, a book is something you enjoy a lot, right?”
“I do! I do!”
“Then you have to help me out learn how to write and read… as quick as possible so I can one day gift it to you…” he said, holding her hands.
“D-Dan…”
“I… I want to tell you something after I finally give you this book… Will you wait me until that day?” he asked.
“…I will.” She said, while nodding.
“Young lady, it is already too late. Please come back home, your father has called you for dinner… young Dan, you can return to your home for tonight.” Said the butler.
“Ah, see you tomorrow then, Dan! We’ll begin your classes right away!” said Anna.
“O-of course!”
Dan waved his hand with a smile, as he saw her off.
He slowly made his way back to the red-light district, back home, until he came into his group of “friends”.
“Yo, Dan. Long time no see, buddy. What’s going on with you lately? We haven’t seen you anywhere for the past weeks, you’re way too busy with that bourgeois girl?”
Drugo emerged from the darkness alongside his two lackeys.
“I… I have been fine… I will go back home now.” Said Dan.
“But why don’t you stay some more with us? Don’t you remember we sued to hang out?”
“But he changed after meeting that dumb girl.”
“Look at him, wearing those rich kid clothes. Its like a sewer rat trying to disguise itself as a lion…”
“I… I don’t want anything to do you three… And Anna is not a rich girl! She’s… someone special and amazing.” Said Dan.
“Is that so?”
“Then go ahead.”
“Go on then.”
The three were strangely complacent of his words, but Dan shrugged them off and walked back home.
When he finally reached home, he quickly jumped to his bed and began to wonder what could be next tomorrow, it was surely going to be filled with fun if it was at the side of Anna.
He forgot about those three idiots and just thought about tomorrow, as he dozed off.
However, his mother looked at him sleeping, with a sharp and malicious glint in her pale eyes devoid of any light, or humanity.
When Dan woke up, he found himself tied up. His hands and legs were tightly tied, and his face was covered in nasty-smelling leather.
“Ungh…?! (What’s going on?!)”
He looked around everywhere only to find that he was inside a moving carriage.
He found himself with several other people in the same situation, all of them being transported somewhere…
They were all nervous, scared, and tired.
“Mmwuffhg…!”
He saw as two guards looked at him, they were guarding all of this people.
“Oh look, that tomboyish girl is awake.”
“You’re now ours.”
“Mefgh?!”
“She’s probably wondering what happened to her.”
“Well, your beloved mother just sold you as a whore! Hahaha!”
Dan heard these words as he felt his heart shatter into pieces and his mind warp.
Sold… as a whore?
He? A kid?
He knew that there was illegal trafficking of young girls and boys, but had never entered into such a business himself and only did the most basics of thievery…
But to think that one day his own mother… would sell him off?
What kind of horrendous joke was this?
The guards took out the leather on his mouth as they let him speak.
“I-I am not a girl! I am a boy! Y-You got it all wrong! Mother committed a mistake! S-She… she loves me! She would never do such a thing…”
“So she’s a boy?”
“Well, not like it makes much of a difference.”
“Eh?! D-Did you heard what I say- AGH…!”
CLASH!
Dan was kicked in the stomach, as he vomited saliva and fell over the wooden floor.
“Shut up for once, we let you talk so we could hear your sweet voice and we ended with hat of a kid…” sighed one of the guards.
“Well I don’t mind…” said another.
“You do you but I prefer girls.”
The guards quickly put the leather around his mouth once more, as the sick guy looked perversely into his eyes.
“You’re such a good merchandise… That soft and long hair, and those tender thighs…”
“Eh? Aggh…! Shtop…! Guhgh…!”
“Oi, stop with that, he’s not yours.”
“Alright…”
Dan was then moved far away from everything he knew, from anywhere he belonged to. Plunged into a world of horrors and traumas, of utter suffering, of infernal disgust, of aberration, and the innermost perversion of humanity.
Sold as an illegal sex slave, he was used by countless owners through the months, utilized as a mere toy for these perverted demons to do all kinds of atrocities to this innocent and dreaming soul.
Years went by in such a horrendous world, the only thing that kept him somewhat conscious was Anna’s memories.
However, one day, when he was being used by a guard, a sudden riad stormed the dungeon where he and many others like him were being stored, the guards began to slaughter one by one as the scent of blood woke up his dulled senses.
He felt a blade pierce the chest of the man violating him, alongside his cry of agony.
His eyes faintly looked upwards, a young woman with sharp crimson-red eyes looked down at him.
“Oh, the horrors of humanity…” she sighed, her face was as pale as candlewax, and her hair long and blue. She looked almost spectral.
“Boy… I can end your suffering if you want, just ask, and it will be painless… but if you want to continue, I can give you the tools to fight back…”
“Ah… Anna…” he muttered.
“Such a strong soul… I see… So you have someone you want to meet? Then drink my blood and be reborn.”
And since that day that Dan tasted the blood of Clementine was when he was reborn, washed out by her own blood, he became no longer a human, but a Vampire.
Reborn amidst the infernal world where he had lived the past five years, Dan held countless traumas within his broken heart and his warped and insane mind.
But the only thing keeping him up was the woman that became the light of his life as a child.
Anna…
Clementine took care of him ever since then, in one of her many trips back to Europe which she had done secretly, she ended finding a new member of her family.
However, when Dan finally went to visit Anna, he found her house in ruins, and everything was burned down…
What could had been of her?
“Anna…”
He later learned that there was a revolt, the civilians protested against the rich aristocrats, and a revolution happened once more, many families were burned in their own houses by the angered people.
Even after knowing of her premature death, he kept his promise, and held on a smile, inheriting her adventurer personality, and her playful nature.
“Anna… I have to put on a good show for you.” He thought, smiling at his adversaries. This was going to be another event he was going to write on his book.
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