People have a strange habit...maybe it's custom, I'm not sure people really consider a place as home based on the presence of visitors. Vertex 23S. Fastest update
Hear me out.
Forcing the people under this roof to stand in the position of the host, distinguish between the guests who will leave after a while and the host who has to stay to clean up everything. When the responsibilities of guest and host are clearly divided, people will have the consciousness of 'Oh, I am the host, this is my home'.
Celebrating a housewarming. I guess that's the name people give this kind of thing.
Back to our story.
Zach did not move to his new home, it was the home that Lutrecenbra gave him for many years. So there is no celebration, invasion is more appropriate
"Where is the housekeeper that Lesembra originally assigned me?" Zach touched Nick next to him, "I don't know how to clean these things myself."
What to clean? Some ordinary things, an overturned coffee table, broken cups and plates, a broken antique clock, torn paintings, collapsed doors... Yes, ordinary things.
"I won't pass the message for you." Nick refused simply, "You have to ask yourself." Nick was about to stay away from Zach, but was glared at by a policeman with a bad expression and decided not to move.
What time is it now? Oh, it's almost noon.
Yesterday three vampires went into the desert at sunset and returned to the city during the evening news. We went directly to the city museum and consulted historical documents from nearly three centuries until midnight. Then they went to Revro's house to discuss the matter. Due to Zach and Lutresembra's awkward communication style, the discussion was extremely inefficient until early in the morning.
Zach and Nick returned home roughly 3 hours ago, and then spent 2 hours thinking about what happened in this home when they left here. Basically, Zach looked at Nick in the swimming pool in a daze.
An hour ago, a call came from the hospital, "Where is my son?"
At this moment.
"We found blood on the stairs to the third floor." The policeman who had previously glared at Nick glared over again.
"It's not me." Nick showed no expression. "I told you, the blood on the balcony was the food I spilled, and the rest has nothing to do with me."
The policeman looked at Zach.
"I haven't eaten at home." Zach replied expressionlessly. If you have any questions, I can only say control blood. Since entering the West, Zach has been controlling blood continuously. He only uses food when it is handed to his mouth.
The policeman didn't move away, looking at Zach and Nick as if waiting for something.
Zach had no idea what the other party was waiting for and glanced at Nick.
Nick curled his lips, "He's waiting for one of us to confirm whose blood it belongs to. Skip their blood test."
Zach raised his eyebrows, looked at the police, and sorted out his words, "Are these my civil rights or my obligations? Remind me, I'm new here."
There is no need to popularize the difference between rights and obligations.
The corner of the policeman's mouth twitched and he walked away.
Nick watched the policeman walk away, then turned around and looked at Zach in confusion, "I thought you were going to help?"
Zach was also confused, "Why?"
"Isn't your hobby in Barton just helping the police? When Anthony was not the mayor, and James."
It was Nick who wanted to respond at this time, not the human being. So Zach didn't have to talk about 'universal values' like he did on the ship, but was extremely objective, "Anthony is because we first arrived in Barton, and there are many restless aliens in Barton. He is a friend, and I am willing to help. James." Zach shrugged, "At first, I was just bored, but then... forget it."
Grande’s funeral life a year ago, hahaha. Looking back now, I can feel Zach's inner excitement when he waited for Benjamin to come home in the woods, and when he saw Benjamin returning to his human form carrying a dying human on his back~
"Oh." Nick looked a little disappointed.
"Why do you look like this?" Zach didn't understand Nick's disappointment.
"The police don't like vampires. Whether it's the police who know about vampires or the ones who don't, they don't like vampires." Nick shook his head, "Lesembra has tried many things but failed to change the situation. I guess I just have some I hope you can fill our gaps in this area.”
At this time, Zach was a little confused, "Police, hate vampires?" This is unreasonable, especially with the atmosphere of the West, not to mention, "How can you hate something you don't know?" Zach thought of a person, "Darcy?"
"Darcy? That guy who was transferred to your Barton?" Hey, I guess many of the names we are familiar with are like this to the masters of the real West. We need to think back to correspond. "Darcy is the inheritance He is not a vampire."
"So?" Zach didn't think Nick had explained clearly.
"Well, I can't explain this for a while. You can feel it for yourself."
Well, Zach accepted that reply for now. The fact that Zach is new has not changed, so in the West controlled by the Sabbat, the tone of this place begins to be a place where blood can be purchased with money and there is inequality and equality. This tone begins to fill in the understanding of this society. .
"Hey! You." Nick picked up a passing policeman casually, "Do you want to ask any more questions? If you don't ask, I'll leave. I'm very busy."
Zach glanced at Nick, not ready to speak.
The policeman who was pulled away made no secret of his irritation. He said hello, touched a notebook, stood in front of the two vampires, and said, "Why didn't you call the police earlier?"
"We didn't find out until we came back in the morning." Nick answered briefly.
"It's not morning, it's noon." The policeman looked at Nick. Zach saw it right. The corners of the guy's mouth pulled down, showing an expression of boredom and contempt. "You, the new guy. Zachary Grande, Right."
Zach glanced at Nick, then at the policeman, "Yes."
"I don't like Toledo." The policeman was not asking a question, but expressing his emotions, although no one cared about his mood.
Zach looked at Nick again with a look like, 'Is this normal?' How should I react? '
Everyone must understand Zach's confusion and regard it as a discomfort with the impact of the questioning.
Nick just shrugged. It didn't help Zach, who looked back at the policeman, "No matter what you think Toledo is, I promise you, I am the first real Toledo you have ever seen."
As a testament to the culture shock, the policeman looked Zach over and said, "Hmph." That's right, he snorted, "I don't care about the real Toledo, Mr. Zachary Grande." and, "You're the most There is a reasonable explanation. They stayed in hotels on business trips, but you stayed in the most expensive villa in Vega. The owner of the funeral industry in a small eastern town knows the mayor of Vega? We can't write any written documents about this kind of thing superior."
There was realization on Zach's face.
I see. This is why vampires are hated. It is impossible for rule defenders to like the class with privileges above the rules. This is a fact that has not changed in any era. Here, the corresponding ones are the police and the vampires, the masters of the West.
Okay, now that he understood this, Zach smiled, "Then I won't explain, it's not my job."
While Nick was laughing, the policeman's face turned gloomy and he emphasized, "Then Mr. Grande! The note left by your employee."
Zach was waiting for a clear question, but it didn't come, so he kept smiling.
"Tsk. Danger, that's 'danger' on the note. Do you understand what your employee is expressing?" The only ones who give in are the police who need information.
"I don't understand." Zach answered quickly, "I am not a human being who cannot adapt to the environment. As far as I know, there is no creature here that can transcend my will and threaten my life. So, I I don’t understand what the ‘danger’ in his note means.”
The policeman was stunned for a moment when he heard this answer, looked at Zach again, his emotions were a little complicated, and then he fell into thinking.
But Nick was beside him, "Really? So confident?" He was joking, "Then why have you been hiding for a century." Maybe Nick was also really curious.
Zach responded, "I'm not hiding," quibbled, "No one found me," and added, "Except Craig."
The police are still thinking, so this brief hiatus will continue.
"No." Nick frowned, "We found you first, uh, James found you. It was our Sabbat who basically revealed your identity. Barton's vampire is Toledo."
This must be corrected, "You have not revealed anything. Both wizards and fallen angels knew my identity before you. It turned out that Rimel (Eve) hiding in the middle bumped into me, and Nophele (Dora, Bu m) went to find Barton. Any information about my identity was released through these channels under my intention. Sabbat, I really didn't do anything." After the correction, "When I was in the North Kingdom, Craig Just found me.”
There is nothing more that can be revealed for the time being. The police's thinking is over.
Surprisingly, what he was thinking about didn't seem to be Zach's strength, but "Where are your employees from?" This was a real question.
"Dale Walker is not his original identity. I can save you from tracing this. His hometown is in the middle of the country, Moriarty Manor." No one would think that the name of the Toledo ruins is Toledo Manor. , a surname that cannot be iterated cannot be left in the literature, isn't that the truth
The policeman took note and glanced at Zach, "So, he doesn't adapt to the West?" Just to confirm. This also shows that what the police were thinking about just now was the motive, the motive for kidnapping.
"Very, unaccustomed. He has known about the existence of the alien race for no more than two weeks."
"Tsk." The policeman's annoyance appeared again, but obviously, it was no longer directed at the two vampires, "So the suspect is a guy whose actions are completely unpredictable, which is great!"
"It's not completely unpredictable." Zach said calmly, "He used to be a contractor, killing people and handling scenes. So, the normal behaviors that this kind of person would do when committing a crime, such as covering up their whereabouts, creating false impressions, He will probably use it to mislead investigations and the like."
This didn't help the policeman's mood at all. The policeman became more irritated and stared at Zach. "Do you have any worse information to tell me? Mr. Grande?"
"He keeps a diary." Zach satisfied the other person's eyes full of 'curiosity' and "helped him figure out what he wanted to do."
So, don’t embarrass James all the time. Seriously, even a policeman can’t stand Zach.
The policeman closed his eyes and took a deep breath, "So he is an experienced, calm, and purposeful criminal who is very difficult to deal with! That's great!"
"In fact, that's the best-case scenario."
I never said 'invade' Zach's home so that Zach had to accept that he was the host's guest, only the police. And this one
General Lance walked over with the support of Weiss. James' father.
Any image expected of a well-known general does not belong to General Lance... He is just an uncle who is still wearing a hospital gown and has a larger body than ordinary people.
The only thing that showed a bit of his characteristics as a general was probably his voice. It's a bit like old Hank's voice, full of confidence that people can't ignore, "He knows what he's going to do and what he's doing, so James is just a 'lucky charm' picked up on the battlefield." He didn't even look at Zach. As he walked past with the support of Weiss, the voice continued, "When he leaves the battlefield, he will return to his original owner."
He turned around and looked back and forth between Nick and Zach, "The blood on the stairs on the third floor is vampire blood. I tasted it and it probably saved me half a month of recovery time. No matter which one of you it belongs to, pay It will be delivered in the afternoon.”
"That's mine." Zach gestured and nodded. After all, judging the etiquette based on social status at this time seems a bit... complicated in the Sabbat. "I gave it to Dale on the way here. "Inexplicably curious, "Why are you Chang? You should be killed, right??" Zach didn't know what he was thinking, but he asked anyway.
For some reason, Zach began to have an image in his mind of a well-known federal general lying on the stairs in a hospital gown and licking the floor. Tsk, shake it off quickly.
"I mixed some water." General Lance was also stunned for a moment before answering Zach's question. Then he glanced at Wes beside him, "Don't follow me anymore." He frowned, "You only have one job, watch James, you failed."
Wes looked terrible. But he still stepped away, saluted, and watched the general leave at a slow speed.
When he was about to go out, "That's enough." The general said, "Since the owner has no intention of cooperating, you don't need to investigate. Don't open a case." He said to the police. Oh, by the way, it was not Zach who called the police, it was the general... This is not accurate either. Judging from the effect achieved by his current command tone, this is not a police action after calling the police, but a simple general leading a group of people. Here comes the men, "Leave it to the vampires to deal with."
The police are evacuating here.
After they all went out, General Lance looked back and looked at Zach, "You'd better deal with the blood stains on the stairs. I can mix it with some water and taste it, and others can do it."
"Thanks for reminding me." Zach saluted with thanks. If it has nothing to do with status, then it’s no problem, “I’ll take care of it.”
The general is gone.
Wes stayed, contrary to his always good attitude towards Zach, "You hurt me!"
But that's what Zach should have said, "I'm sorry. I'm really sorry."
"Uh, forget it!"
Don't know why? Didn't anyone realize when James showed up alone at Zmich's place yesterday? Wes went back to the West to accompany James! So why did James act on his own? It's still the kind of trouble maker that fits James' model!
No, the receptionist said Dell's comments weren't the only ones that day
In Barton, James can only fight against Zach. In the West, haha, he can fight against the sky, the earth, and everything! The first attack was naturally directed at Zmich, who cooperated with the military.
Everyone should understand one thing, Zach is not the only one who is causing trouble.
Ah, not off topic.
The reason why James acted alone.
Have you thought of it~ Yes, the tough guy who was sent to Wes by Zach.
He once kicked Jason out of bed because of James' visit. Haha, life in the closet... Wes deserved it.