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Chapter 134: Helsing Family (5)
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I realized the vampire was up to something the moment our eyes met.
I had also learned what to watch out for with vampires from the pastors, deaconesses, and deacons.
Vampires cannot cross running water.
Vampires can turn victims into draculs, draculinas, or ghouls through bloodsucking.
Vampires can undergo mist transformation and bat transformation, with mist transformation considered the superior ability.
The most dangerous of their abilities was Charm.
Put simply, it was enchantment.
Since vampires could only enter someone else's home after receiving an invitation, it was an ability meant to charm the homeowner into naturally inviting them in.
A sort of magic eye.
Unlike spiritual sight, it worked through eye contact, so the countermeasure was simpler than expected.
Let your gaze graze theirs at an angle.
The best option was not to meet their eyes at all, but even that could greatly reduce the effect.
But was that possible in the middle of a fight?
I had accidentally met his eyes.
And the result was...
"Ah, Master! I 'love' you!"
"???"
What the hell was that supposed to mean?
"Adrian, what is he saying right now?"
"Uh, well... Do I really have to translate it?"
"I only know a little English and some Latin."
Just then, the male vampire reacted to something.
"Te amo et desidero..."
"Oh my God, what the fuck is he saying?!"
The bastard had suddenly confessed in Latin, "I love and long for you."
It was a literary, tender, refined Latin sentence, but that was not the important part right now.
"No, you punk! What the hell are you saying all of a sudden?!"
"Ah! Do not reject me! I have already become your captive!"
"Oppa! What are you talking about?!"
This was strange.
He was the one who had used Charm, so why was he the one affected by it?
"Ah?"
One of the powers I had been given came to mind.
The Power of Love, Beleth of the 72 Demons' authority.
It could not be normal love.
It was an exploitative, forced love, the complete opposite of the Agape Jesus spoke of.
The instant it encountered Charm, it had counterattacked.
Love that controlled and exploited others fundamentally belonged to demons. It was the superior power.
The moment his Charm tried to take hold, the Power of Love dormant inside me had reacted on its own.
"What happened? Did you do something?"
"Um... I guess I did, if you put it that way."
Did Charm failing mean that whenever someone tried enchantment or a mental spell on me, it would automatically reflect like this?
"What's your name?"
"Finn Dake."
"You 'love' me?"
Ugh. I had said it myself, but still...
"Yes! I adore you! I can do anything for you!"
"Uh... okay? Do a backflip and stand on your hands right now."
"Yes, sir!"
Finn immediately followed my command.
Maybe because he was a vampire, he carried out the movements without hesitation.
"O-Oppa! What are you doing?! Aren't you ashamed to kneel before that inferior creature?!"
I could not understand Dutch, but it did not sound complimentary.
In the end, Finn struck the female vampire.
"Elise, you bitch! How dare you disparage the one I adore! It is true that he is an inferior creature with less than a century to live, but he is the one I cherish and love!"
...
Were you taking a shot at me while defending me?
Anyway, I wanted to try Beleth's magic on this vampire named Elise too.
Shouldn't I try using it when I actually wanted to use it?
How had Beleth's magic worked just now?
"Do I just need to meet her eyes?"
"W-What are you doing?!"
I met Elise's eyes.
I was trying to repeat what had happened earlier.
"My beloved, Elise is too low-ranking to use Charm."
"Oh, really? Then why are you so good at Latin?"
"Vampires are the aristocrats of the night. Latin is basic knowledge."
So they were just putting on airs.
Anyway, eye contact alone was not enough.
How had my spiritual power moved within me just now?
Once I had used it once, it was not difficult.
Beleth's Power of Love was similar to Paimon's Authority.
I drew on the vampires' Charm, making the power manifest through eye contact.
Then...
"S-Stop! St-Stop!"
Perhaps Elise felt an instinctive aversion. She squeezed her eyes shut and tried to resist.
But Finn did not let that happen.
"Open your eyes! You too are being invited into a new world!"
"Aaaah! Oppa! Stoooop!"
"...This is making me look like a villain."
"..."
When I turned to Adrian, he immediately averted his eyes.
What's with you?
I'm not trying to enchant you.
"S-Stop! Sto... Eek! I... I'm... I'm losing myself... Y-You vile...!"
No, it was that bad?
Elise's pupils trembled as if there had been an earthquake.
She seemed terrified by the change in herself.
That fear soon turned into hatred and rage, sharpening her voice.
"Yooou! What do you think people's hearts are?! You vile! Evil! Monster! Mooooonster!!"
Forcing someone to love you was vile, sure...
"Are you people-eaters really in any position to call someone a monster? Where did you sell your conscience?"
"Uuugh...!"
"Shut up and 'love' me!"
The moment I poured my last bit of spiritual power into Elise and let it seep into her...
"Hehe... I love you, Mastew~!"
"..."
"Yohan, what kind of bizarre thing did you do?"
"Ahem!"
This really was not something a person should do.
I should probably release them later. There had been no major problems after Paimon's Authority was released, so this would probably be similar.
"Master! I can do anything for my beloved Master!"
"Yeah, yeah. The locations of the other vampires..."
"You came to stop the 'world war' being prepared in The Hague, right? We will help you!"
"Yeah, yeah. The world war being prepared in The Hague... what?"
A world war?
What kind of insane nonsense was that now?
* * *
The Dake Clan was a fairly influential vampire clan in Europe.
It had a Clan Lord who strongly inherited the blood of the first vampire progenitor, the Count, and had recently expanded its influence considerably.
Those people had recently begun devising a strange plan.
"Start a war."
War was a most appetizing banquet hall for vampires.
People could die anywhere at any time without it seeming strange, and there would be plenty of corpses to drink enough blood from.
In truth, obtaining blood itself was not terribly difficult in modern society, but war was also an excellent environment for increasing their "kind."
"No, but you're starting a world war? How?"
"The Russian ambassador attending this international conference in The Hague is one of our people."
Their plan was as follows.
At the international conference gathered in The Hague for peace talks, they would have the charmed Russian ambassador declare an invasion of Europe.
At the same time, charmed Russian generals would fire missiles and rockets along the border, then advance with forged orders.
At once, I contacted Pastor Go about the disturbing plan.
"Can this really work, Pastor Go?"
[...It is not impossible. Russia's ability to prepare for the occult has declined exponentially in recent years.]
Normally, important national facilities and personnel were equipped with talismans or barriers against monsters and ghosts.
Precisely to prevent situations like this.
[They tried something similar in the United States before. The supposedly impregnable White House and Pentagon nearly fell under their control, and a civil war almost broke out.]
"That's insane... What happened?"
[Pastor Kim and Lincoln stopped it together. They saved the world.]
It seemed things like this had occurred from time to time throughout human history.
World wars, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and various attempts to start wars during the Cold War.
Come to think of it, it was not that difficult.
If they seized the command structure and set things in motion, the rest would run on inertia.
Amid the chaos and confusion, vampires could naturally expand their influence.
And not just vampires.
[Demons operate that way too. They are the ones who seek the destruction of the human world.]
Once again, I realized how dangerous and threatening powers that controlled minds were.
If even an ordinary vampire could do this much, imagining what the beings called kings might do once they descended...
"That's horrifying."
[The coming-of-age ceremony is not the issue. I will contact the Helsing Family's Head of House immediately.]
"Um... Can we act as we are?"
[...What are you thinking?]
Well... Now that I had heard all this, I thought I had come up with a decent method.
* * *
The Hague, a city on the North Sea coast in the western Netherlands.
As ambassadors from various countries gathered for peace talks, the city's police moved more actively than usual.
Willem van Dake, the Dake Clan Lord, scoffed at the humans' security measures.
'Inferior humans. What a pointless effort.'
He had already charmed the Russian ambassador and military units near the border.
That was not all.
He had also taken control of some people in the Eastern European countries bordering Russia.
The numbers were not large.
But they were enough to light the fuse.
The moment Russia launched its attack, the Eastern European officers under his control would strike back on a grand scale, making war a foregone conclusion.
Then, three days before the conference began, vampires who had come from all over the Netherlands gathered.
"My brothers and sisters. The time has come."
Willem examined the vampires gathered in the hideout.
There were twelve pure-blood vampires, while most of the rest were mongrels with only faint traces of the progenitor's blood.
Even this was something to be grateful for.
The Dake Clan boasted a long history, but its power had declined greatly compared to the past.
Hunters and exorcists who hunted vampires had relentlessly thinned their numbers in the modern age.
If only the Count had revived, they would not have fallen into such a miserable state.
'Holy Temple Church bastards! If it were not for those garlic-crazy fucking Koreans!'
Their attempt to start a civil war in America had failed.
The attempt to revive their progenitor, the Count, had also failed.
Many vampire clans had infiltrated Korea just to find the coffin holding the Count, but every one of them had vanished without a trace.
Vampires simply could not endure in that cursed land.
'Once we conquer Europe, Asia is next. I will exterminate every last yellow monkey from this world!'
Crazy bastards who chewed garlic like vegetables.
The vampires' future would only be bright after they exterminated those Garlic Men who thought garlic was a vegetable.
"The time has come. We will rise together and conquer the world!"
"......"
The response was oddly lukewarm.
His subordinates had been excited about starting a war in Europe just recently.
"Sniff!"
Willem caught a strange scent.
A vampire's keen nose detected a sharp scent hidden among his kin.
"What is that smell? Which one of you brought garlic to this sacred meeting?!"
Despite Willem's fury, the gathered vampires showed no particular reaction.
Instead, they spoke as if trying to restrain him.
"Easy now, Clan Lord. Calm yourself. Is it not fragrant? It is the scent of our beloved."
"What?"
"That is right. True love means loving everything. If it belongs to that person, even the scent of something close to our natural enemy is fragrant and lovely."
Had these bastards gone insane?
Then scraps of paper began fluttering through the hideout.
The holy paper that instantly sealed the windows and doors looked familiar.
"Gutenberg Bible?! Those damned Vatican bastards?!"
As befitted a vampire who had lived a long time, Willem immediately recognized what it was.
He promptly commanded every vampire.
"Find the intruder! The Vatican's dogs are here!"
"......"
But the vampires did not react.
That bizarre response made Willem even angrier.
"You idiots! What are you doing?! I said find them, now!"
"I'm right here."
"...!"
At that moment, the vampires parted to either side, revealing a young man sitting on the sofa.
The rosary characteristic of clergymen and the holy armor coat made by the Vatican were familiar sights to vampires.
Other than being a black-haired Asian, he was undoubtedly a combat priest of the Vatican's Paranormal Military Force Management Bureau.
"You... What are you doing?! Kill him!"
"Clan Lord! What outrageous thing are you saying?"
"What?"
"You want us to harm that lovely person with our own hands?"
What... What kind of bullshit was this?
What had they eaten wrong that they were talking nonsense about loving a church bastard?
Then he saw it.
The pupils of his subordinates had warped into heart shapes.
They had lost their minds.
And at the center of them all, the young man stood.
"I pity you for not knowing how wonderful love is!"
What the hell was this lunatic saying?!
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