At nine or ten o'clock last night, Grande's phone was bombarded by parents, all of whom came to ask why their children didn't come home. Vertex 23S. The fastest update. Even Mr. Smith, who has always admired Zach's character, sounded irritated because of this "Is Kepler with Yuri's kid!"
Facing questions one by one, Zach couldn't say such hypocritical words as 'your children are settling their emotions in order to become adults', so the only thing he can guarantee is... let's use Smith's example to explain, "I will guarantee that Kai Puller and Jimmy Urie were not sleeping in the same room.”
So you can predict that Grande's dining table will be full for today's breakfast.
Yes, last night in Grande, the first ever friend sleepover took place.
Zach just sat at the main seat with interest, watching a group of teenagers crowding the table and Alice making breakfast for her friends.
Of course, everyone still has time to chat. One topic was raised by Kepler, pointing to the wine glass in front of Zach, "Why don't you eat, Eve and Lydia will eat." The girl's thinking is always so quick, "Chris, your family Where are the others, do you want to eat?"
Zach has no intention of popularizing science. As long as something like this touches Chris, a guy will jump out to take over. Zach is not needed.
Sissi at least did not roll her eyes at this question, "Vampires are not supposed to eat anything in the first place. The definition given to them by the Holy Lord is to be punished in this world, not to enjoy. Food is enjoyment, the original enjoyment of living creatures. As for Rimel , Lydia and Eve, they are not full vampires.”
"I don't understand." It was Kyle, "If vampires are punished in this world, why give them eternal life and give them those, ugh, abilities." As a victim of the vampire ability, the Charming Eye, he has full The position expressed doubts.
"Why are there guards in the prison?" Sissi answered with a rhetorical question.
"Uh, to prevent them from escaping?"
"Yes." The saint answered such a question, haha, it was too easy, "You can't let people who have not completed their sentence leave the prison, right? Eternal life, the eternal existence of the body and material form is the vampire's guard, so the vampire's soul cannot leave this world."
"Okay." Kyle curled his lips, "Then why give them those abilities, speed, strength, blood, transformation, shadow..." Staring at Zach, "Eye! Since they are the ones being punished, why give them this, Tsk, privilege!”
"What is the antonym of privilege?" Sissi still answered with questions.
"Uh, I don't know, average?"
"No, just think of it in a derogatory way."
"You're making things difficult for him." Zach intervened, "People of this era can't understand." Zach glanced at Kyle, "What are your historical results? Move the time forward... Well, thousands of years. What is privilege. And then, what is the opposite of privilege."
A new person joined the conversation. The guy floating above the dining table, Jackson, said, "Why are you making things difficult for these people? Don't you know that the top student in the third generation of the West District is dead and not in Barton?"
Zach raised his head and glanced at the proud Jackson. He really didn't know what this guy had to be proud of. He was the one who died in "One Death and One Absence". "Everyone, say good morning to Jackson." He pointed upward. .
"Good morning." Everyone was well-behaved, but few of them focused their eyes correctly.
Jackson didn't care and continued. Anyway, Kyle who asked the question could hear, "There is no need to find out when the first vampire appeared. Anyway, it was very early, and the human civilization was very early. They are all triangles, and the ones at the top are privileges, no, that is, rights. They have all the rights that humans can enact at the moment. The people in the middle are those who have been given rights. The people at the top have given these people some of their rights as human beings, but Part. Finally, the bottom, the people without any rights. The people at the bottom have only obligations. The antonym of rights. Their existence is to serve the people in the middle and top. Just like cups, cups have no rights, cups exist The meaning is to fill water for others, it only has obligations.”
Sissi glanced at Jackson, relayed the words, and finally looked at Kyle, "The Holy Lord does not have vampire privileges, but only gives vampires responsibilities. The Holy Lord made something for humans, one of which cannot be broken. A cup, an ox that won’t get tired, and a piece of paper that can’t be finished. And then it gave humans the most legitimate reason to enslave them to vampires to suck their blood.” The white eyes still appeared, “What a sinful act. But.” Lower your head. Regarding breakfast, because the topic is about to take a helpless turn, "I don't know what went wrong in the history of human civilization that allowed vampires to rise."
The atmosphere was very weird for a while. Is Sissi kidding? There is something wrong with the history of human civilization?
"Can I interject?" Zach swung his glass.
Sissi had no reaction, so Zach continued, "Although it is not the era I experienced, I often hear my father mention history. The fact is that there is nothing wrong with the process of human civilization. The problem is religion. Religion began to lose control over politics. The political upper class of human civilization, which controls the power, no longer thinks that 'going to heaven' is the ultimate reward of their lives. They begin to realize realistically that staying in this world is what they want." Shrugging, "This is how vampires rise, because there are those at the top who hold power and begin to desire immortality."
After Zach finished speaking, he glanced around the table. No one was listening. Even Kyle, who asked the question, seemed to be concentrating on eating, not to mention Kepler, who brought up the topic. He had already been with Laura. Let Alice send a message to Jackson together.
Zach shook his head. He still had some feelings about this topic and wanted to talk about it, which was the gathering of the thirteen clans, which was another attempt by religion to control politics. Too bad these guys can't hear Zach's amazing views.
Maybe he wanted to go home before going to school. Chris was the first to finish the meal. "Thanks for this wonderful breakfast." He said politely, "I'll go first..."
"I'll go with you." Zach put down his wine glass and glanced at Sissi, telling the saint who had shown a wary look to rest assured that Zach had no intention of doing anything to her boyfriend, "Nenad and I I have something to deal with today, so. That old car." The key was thrown to Chris and he pointed in the direction of the warehouse.
Chris did not refuse, took the key and said thank you. Under Sissi's gaze as a reminder, he blushed and pecked Sissi's face, "See you at school." Then he went to warm up the car.
Zach didn't worry too much and wandered around the dining table, "I hope that when you go home, you will try your best to mention the fact that you slept in the Grande's new living area for one night."
No one paid any attention to Zach, mainly because no one understood him.
Zach was speechless and could only continue to remind, "No parent would be comfortable with their child spending one night under the same roof as a group of ex-criminals."
Explain it. Originally, Grande excluded the new living area, and the beds were enough to accommodate these guys. After doing the math, we know that Zach doesn’t occupy the bedroom, neither does Mo, nor does Benjamin. Then do everyone really think that Zach has the ability to fulfill Mr. Smith’s wish and separate these young lovers? . There is no need to worry about these guys making any mistakes. They are all too aware that there are too many security gaps in Grande, and they are not so incapable of self-control.
But this group of people were unwilling to sleep in Grande last night, and the reason was quite arbitrary. They just didn't want to. The new living area was full of people, so they slept in crowded places. Quite boring and willful.
Still no one paid attention to Zach. Zach waved his hand, forget it, and prepared to leave.
"Wait a minute." Maya called to Zach, just to stop. When Zach turned around, Maya was already looking at Alice.
He seemed to push Alice's arm tentatively, "Alice?" as if to confirm something.
Zach waited.
Maya saw the 'You tell me' sign on Alice's face, and then turned to Zach again, "What I didn't tell you yesterday, John came to our school to find Alice."
Zach curled his lips, looking like he didn't care much. Anyway, it must have happened after he separated from me. I thought that John would not go to Alice's place to cause trouble as soon as he thanked me.
But Zach had a high opinion of John’s personality after all.
"He wants Alice to move out of Grande and live with him."
"Uh..." Zach pursed his lips, "Did he say the reason?"
"He said Alice wouldn't be safe around you and would be implicated."
"What's involved?" Zach was speechless.
"Assassination." Maya looked at Zach very seriously, "He said that the bus case in the South and North Districts yesterday was an assassination attempt on you."
"What?" Zach frowned. He himself had no idea what happened yesterday, so John had already come to such a ridiculous conclusion? "Assassination of me?" Zach noticed that everyone's eyes were on him and wanted to laugh a little, "I'm still standing here."
It was Caesar who interrupted, "Yeah~" in a nonchalant tone, "You're still here~ But that John sounded very sure~ And if it wasn't for that, uh, uh, I'm afraid of saving you in the middle of the night, then you Not here anymore, right~"
Uh, is John sick? Doesn't he know how to control his mouth? It's already very inappropriate to say this to Alice. Didn't you see that Zach came back yesterday and told Alice that he almost died today? Of course, Zack had a lot to discuss with Louise and Sam throughout the night, so let’s not mention it for now.
John still said it in front of these people, still talking nonsense without any responsibility. There's something wrong with this guy's outlook on life.
"Ignore him." Zach waved his hand. What he cared about was: "Alice, have you replied?"
It was Maya who answered for Alice, "Rejected. But John said he would protect Alice near the school for a few days." It was an impatient tone and a complete eye roll, "I told him not to bother, but he insisted. "
"Let it go." Zach felt a little sympathetic to John. How blind is this guy to be able to say something about protecting Alice in front of Alice's little group
No more delays. Zach left the restaurant, and Chris had already driven the car to the backyard exit and moved his position in the car.
Zach raised his hand to signal that he didn't need to move. Everyone knows Zach, who loves to enjoy having a ready-made coachman. Zach sat in the passenger seat.
As soon as Chris started up again, Zach frowned, leaned forward and glanced at the east, then looked up at the sky, "Wait for me a little longer." He got out of the car and went to get his sunglasses.
Remember when Zach came back to Grande yesterday, under the night, only the street lights lit up the night. Zach came to the conclusion in passing that today would be cloudy. The fact is that the vampire's four centuries of life experience were eaten by dogs. Today is clearly a sunny day.
When he came back, Zach was already wearing sunglasses, "Let's go."
It should be noted that Zach didn’t go with Chris entirely just for the sake of being along for the ride.
Just as they left the dirt road and Chris was carefully crossing Route 27, Zach said, "Do you like my sunglasses?"
"Uh, okay, okay."
"Do you think your father would look good wearing it?" Zach shook his head and showed off the thing on the bridge of his nose.
Chris's face turned ugly in an instant. What does Zach mean by this? Adding insult to injury?
Stop making Chris feel bad and tell him the answer.
"If everything goes well, your father should be able to move during the day in a few days. I was just thinking about giving him these sunglasses as a gift. What do you think?"
"Wha, what?" Xi was in shock.
"You didn't ask yesterday." Zach smiled and shrugged, "I said you didn't ask when I came over from your house. I thought your atmosphere wasn't right, so I didn't tell you. You can tell me now. Naina De has decided yesterday to change your father’s blood, and he will become the fourth generation of Cappadocia of the Thirteen Clan.”
"Really?!" He was completely overjoyed. He was so happy that he had to reach out to help the young man steady the steering wheel. "He doesn't have to hide at home all day long without seeing anyone. He doesn't have to..."
It was foreseeable that Chris would talk about a lot of shortcomings of being an 'abandoned' to express his joy at this time. Zach interrupted with a smile, "Yes, no need, he can work and live normally in the future." Pointing to himself, "like me."
A bit of a joke about the facts, "But he still has to avoid interviews with reporters~"
"Thank you! Thank you Mr. Grande!"
"Thank you Nenad." Zach kept smiling and had to add, "Also remember to thank Hamilton. Haha, you know who is the captain of the eight of them."
"I will!" and impatiently, "Last night..."
"Yes, the blood exchange ceremony was performed last night. I believe that when you go back now, you should be able to see him learning to act in the sun." The young man was asked to calm down with experience, "Give your father a few days, Of course, I won’t take up too much of Nenad’s time…”
Zack didn't finish.
Just when Chris was still looking at Zach in the passenger seat expectantly, waiting to hear more, Zach disappeared.
The available field of vision is the passenger door that was opened, Route 27 that is being crossed, and the front of the car that is zooming in on Route 27.
Chris didn't have time to react before inertia took over.
His whole body hit the backrest, and with a sudden impact from behind, the enlarged front of the car in his field of vision was instantly pushed out of sight.
On the side of the road on Route 27, Zach pulled his coat that had been picked up and torn by the collision with the rear of the car. He looked sideways and ran a distance before finally stopping the old car. Chris pushed and was squeezed. He stood up from the back door with a confused look on his face.
Finally, Zach looked at the empty Route 27.
"Did you see the bus just now?" Zach said.
"Look, I saw it..." Chris stuttered a little, "Crashed into us..."
"Yeah." Zach was not in the mood to hear what Chris said. He took off his sunglasses, squinted his eyes, and looked at Route 27, "Then, where did he go? The bus that just tried to murder us."