In the afternoon, Grande was empty. Vertex 23S. The fastest update: Alice came back once, and she and Old Hank took all the employees in the living area to vote, oh, except Evan. Then Zach sent Evan away again and asked him to go shopping for clothes. So there were only three vampires left in Grandery.
Zach was passing the time chatting with Siris.
"Are you planning to continue maintaining your small construction team after the new year starts?"
"Well, I'm not ready. Those people will also start working on their own farming in the spring. The money I have..." glanced at Zach, "I'm going to give it to Benjamin to do that, um, outdoor equipment store."
Wow, Benjamin really took that advice.
Zach was really curious as to where Siris' money came from. But since Nenad told Zach to leave it alone, Zach held back and didn't ask, "Can I ask you something?"
"Just ask."
"You are Cappadocia, the fourth generation Cappadocia of the Sabbat. Has your 'father' Nenad ever talked to you about changing your identity as a vampire?"
Sires tensed up and looked at Zach, "We talked. I..." hesitated, "Mr. Allen and I both received an identity system description from the Sabbat."
Zach actually had some too, but unfortunately, he threw them into the trash can twice.
"Oh~what's written on it?"
"I, uh, I have two choices. One is to retain my human identity, Sires's identity. Even if I, as a vampire, can no longer live using Sires's identity, I can still retain Sires's family. Genealogy. The second is when my identity of Sires should expire, to completely give up everything contained in this identity and start over."
Zach called Louise over, this was a topic worth talking about among the vampires. "Let's talk about the first option first."
"If it's the first type, I need to establish a complete family tree for 'Serys' in the next ten to twenty years. That means I need to have children, inherit the surname 'Serys', and let' The Sires' family continues to exist in society."
Zach explained to Louise, "I am familiar with this, just like Toledo once created the Moriarty family. Most of Toledo's core members are constantly rotating and occupying the Moriarty family tree. This is very convenient. If a vampire needs a new identity, just ask the humans of the Moriarty family to register a baby name twenty years in advance."
Louise was very studious and asked, "Are there any real humans in this Moriarty family?"
"Of course." Zach frowned, "If Murphy hadn't been so obsessed with having children with me, we would have had 'real' descendants on Moriarty's family tree."
The sudden mention of Murphy was naturally not what Louise wanted, so she asked again, "I mean, is Moriarty's human child really born?"
"Yes." Zach shrugged, "They grew up normally and enjoyed the status and resources created by Toledo for the Moriarty family until it was time for them to hand over their identities." Zach smiled He smiled and said, "It is very easy for Toledo to replace the memory of a person's face by everyone in the social circle. Haha, what you have to imagine is that at that time, there was an entire clan of Toledo controlling Moriarty. Everything about the family.”
"Then, what should we do with those humans who have given their identities?" Louise blinked.
"Becoming a slave. In the past, it was the most convenient way to deal with excess population." A very objective statement.
The corners of Louise's eyes twitched, "So, the ancestors of Dale and his brother might be the real owners of Moriarty Manor."
"Yeah." Zach nodded.
Off topic, Louise said, "So, when slavery began to turmoil, Toledo just returned the human rights that the Moriartians once had to them."
"If you want to beautify Toledo's behavior, so be it."
End of digression.
Louise asked Zach, "Are there any benefits to this option, preserving the human family tree?"
"The advantage is that resources and wealth can be passed down with the surname." Zach shrugged, "If every vampire's identity change is a clean beginning, then this vampire cannot achieve anything in human society."
It's easy to understand. Humans use generations to manage their identities, but vampires only have twenty years at most.
Louise nodded.
Zach motioned for Siris to continue, "Are you going to choose this?"
"No..." Sires frowned and shook his head, "Among the options given by the Sabbat, if I want to use the identity of the Sires family again in the future, I need to kill Sires at that time. I It would take killing my child’s child to take his place.”
Louise pouted, "The only good thing about slavery."
Siris shook his head and added, "I am just a farmer. I don't need to achieve anything in society."
Zach smiled and said to Siris, "So are you going to completely abandon Siris's identity and start over in the future?"
Sires' face darkened, "I don't know, but if I want to start over, I can only start over in the west. I want to leave here, leave the east, where I was born."
Zach raised his eyebrows and nodded, "The population registration that the Sabbat can control is in the west."
"It doesn't matter. The population is inherently mobile. You can take the identity of a westerner and live in the east." Louise said.
"It is related." Zach was a little helpless. "Vampires that can flow like human populations are..." Zach motioned to Siris.
Siris added knowingly, "It's a foreign vampire."
Zach looked at Louise, "Perhaps because of my relationship, I am too free and there are not many rules restricting me. This makes you feel that vampires are also very free. But unless you are like me, you are already a member of a former clan. The only survivor, I make the rules and I can do whatever I want. However, ordinary vampires have the rules of the vampire clan to abide by."
"Uh, like what you did four centuries ago in your original country, in Toledo, to maintain the reputation of vampires?"
"Yes. At that time, there was no difference between the foreign vampires and the clan vampires who could walk in the sun, and the vampires did not have the reputation of the current Thirteen Clans to maintain. Still, the vampires were excluding and eliminating those who were not subject to the regulations. They controlled the wandering vampires and gave them the title of alien vampires. Now, they are the same. A vampire who is unwilling to integrate into his own clan and wants to live outside. In the eyes of the thirteen clan vampires, he is the same as those vampires who cannot walk in the sun. There is no difference. A redundant, trouble-making presence.”
After hearing this, Louise blinked, and then smiled, "Then I won the lottery, right? I tied myself to you, the ancestor of the Toledo clan~" Tie, haha, yes Yes, tied.
Zach also smiled, "Yes~ you are so unfortunate~" and then looked at Siris, comforting him, "You don't have to worry about this now. The Sabbat now only controls the west, but in the future, I believe that the entire federation will They are all under the control of the Sabbat." After all, Secret, the vampire organization that blocked the Sabbat in the middle, is gone~ isn't it~ Wait a moment, Zach raised his eyebrows, "At least in the east, the Sabbat should be able to rely on the Republic Won the trade." The middle part was given up by Zach. Who did you let go? Wizard family.
Zach ended with the last sentence of comfort, "Don't worry, your time as Sires is still long."