Blood Queen Reborn-Chapter 30: Vampire Weaknesses

After cleaning up his mess, they decided to take a break from working out. Quinn sat on a bench and drank some water as they were going to test out vampire weaknesses.

Seeing as he didn’t have anything left in his stomach, Erin grabbed a protein shake from her bag and tossed it to him.

"Here, drink up."

While Quinn opened up the protein shake, Layla took out her bag. Inside were a few items that she wanted to test out.

"I got a couple of things... an umbrella, a cross, sunscreen..."

As Layla was saying these things, she took them out and placed them on the bench next to Quinn. He started investigating the umbrella, noting its pitch black color.

"Let’s test out the sunlight stuff first," Layla said as she tossed a bottle of sunscreen to Erin, "This one has an SPF of 105, the best I could get."

After applying it on her skin, the trio left the gym and Erin stepped outside of the shade and into the light.

[Erin is being hit by direct sunlight. All stats will be halved]

"This isn’t working," Erin said.

"Did you miss a spot?" Layla asked, looking at Erin’s bare skin.

When realizing what she was doing, she shook her head with a bit of a blush forming on her face.

Erin turned to look at Layla and noticed her slightly red face.

"Why are you red? It’s not that hot out today."

Layla shook her head, "No! Not hot at all!"

"I think I know why it isn’t working," Quinn said as he grabbed the sunglasses from the bag and tossed them to Erin.

After putting them on, there were still no further messages about being out of sunlight.

"Okay... I think we need to try the umbrella," Quinn said as he began opening the umbrella and handed it to Erin.

"...Anything?" Layla hesitantly asked.

Erin frowned.

"I’ll take that as a no."

An idea popped in Erin’s head, and she began adjusting herself to have every bit of her body in the umbrella’s shade.

[Erin’s stats have returned to normal]

It was something at least, but the moment Erin had shuffled a little bit in her pose, a bit of sunlight landed on her skin.

[Erin is being hit by direct sunlight. All stats will be halved]

"It worked, until I moved. How am I meant to fight like this?" Erin complained.

"Er, do you think we can get a bigger umbrella?" Quinn asked.

"It’s the only method so far that works," Layla shrugged, "That umbrella’s meant to be a special one that blocks about 90% of the sun’s UV rays. I don’t think I can buy another umbrella with my current money."

Quinn leaned back on the gym’s walls, a hand on his chin, thinking about Fex.

"Hey, Erin, do you think we could ask Fex for help?"

Erin turned around and visibly gagged, "Ask that conniving vampiric dolt? No."

"He’s a vampire?!" Layla almost yelled, excited by the news.

"Oh, haha, Erin is just describing his personality. He’s— y’know— he’s a bit of a shut in," Quinn nervously lied.

Erin gave Quinn a weird look, "Why are you trying to hide the fact that he’s a vampire? Layla literally knows I’m one."

"Er— Erin, I don’t know if we should tell her. I mean, there’s got to be a reason why vampires aren’t public knowledge, we should keep this under wraps," Quinn explained.

Erin shrugged, "She promised to keep me a secret."

Quinn was scrambling for words, "Well— I’m trying to help you— and— We don’t know why Fex is even here! He could be a spy— or— or—!"

"Maybe I can ask him to turn me," Layla thought out loud.

"...Or she could ask that," Quinn sighed.

Layla was scratching at her cheek, trying to remember who this person might’ve been, "Wait— Who’s Fex?"

"What— OH! You’re still good! You don’t know who he is! We can keep this secret!" Quinn said.

Erin, however, didn’t care, "He’s this really annoying guy who smelled me in a library. He uh.... What did he look like again? He has black hair, or was it brown?"

"Erin!" Quinn scolded.

"What? I don’t see what the big deal is," Erin shot back.

Quinn sighed, realizing that he wasn’t going to win this, "... Fex’s the one who saved Erin yesterday."

Layla smacked her face, "Of course he’d be a vampire, he’s super pale and has red eyes! Why didn’t I realize this sooner."

{Quinn} Erin... is this racist? Species-ist? Vampire-ist?

{Erin} Huh? How would I know?

Layla’s eyes widened, "Wait, how’d you find out he was a vampire anyways?"

Quinn looked to Erin, realizing he let something slip out. He really didn’t want to explain that it was the system who told him that Fex is a vampire. Even with abilities going around and space dragon people attacking humanity, being connected to someone who has a built in video game system felt too out of place.

Erin would’ve told Layla the truth under normal circumstances, but she didn’t want to explain to her that she had a video game system attached to her now. It just sounded dumb in her head.

"He told me," Erin half lied.

"Really? That easy? Even though you haven’t always been a vampire?" Layla slightly tilted her head.

"Yeah, pretty much."

"Huh."

Layla then grabbed her bag again and started handing Quinn a bunch of clothes.

"Here, if the umbrella worked then surely covering up every inch of her skin is going to do something."

Handing the clothes over to Erin, Quinn began trying to help her put them on until she snapped at him saying she could ’do it herself.’ Which Quinn was slightly glad about since he did feel a little awkward doing so.

After Erin’s entire body was covered, she looked quite goofy with how there was no visible part of her head that was exposed.

"...Well?"

[Erin is being hit by direct sunlight. All stats will be halved]

"I don’t think it worked," Quinn said.

"Can we please take this off? I’d rather take my chances with the umbrella," Erin’s muffled voice said under the numerous layers.

"If the umbrella worked, then surely this should’ve too," Layla said as she looked at Quinn expectantly.

"...Do you want me to say something?"

"I dunno, I think there might be more to this, maybe we need more layers."

Erin upon hearing this, sighed, "Fine, continue covering me..."

Layla and Quinn continued to cover Erin, up until she looked like a walking cloth homunculus. She couldn’t even put her arms to the side of her body properly with how many layers there were.

[Erin’s stats have returned to normal]

"Wait, I think it’s working!" Quinn said after seeing the message.

"How can you tell?" Layla asked.

"It works!" Erin yelled underneath four layers of clothing, "Now get me out of here!"

After quickly discarding the clothes, Erin grabbed the umbrella and lifted it over her head.

"So sunscreen doesn’t work, but a specialized umbrella and four layers of clothing works," Layla began, recounting their recent findings, "But if this Fex guy doesn’t seem bothered by the sun then there has to be a method behind why. I didn’t recall someone walking around holding an umbrella on campus, and the dress code wouldn’t allow all those layers of clothing. Think he’s part of a special vampire bloodline that lets him survive the sun?"

"He doesn’t seem too special," Erin scoffed.

"I’d ask him myself, but I don’t think he’d be willing to tell his secrets to a human," Quinn said.

"Does it have to be me?" Erin groaned.

Quinn and Layla were silent, giving Erin a look. She sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose.

"Fine..."

Afterwards, Layla tested other vampire weaknesses such as a religious symbol and silver jewelry, but neither of them had an effect on her. Both Erin and Quinn were glad that it was only the sunlight.

Before they left the gym for the day, there was one last thing Erin wanted to do.

"I need your blood," She bluntly said to Quinn.

Quinn stopped his actions at that moment as he was little surprised hearing that. He knew what she meant, but her words were a little... forceful.

"So... are you going to bite into me or—"

Erin took out a small cup from her bag, then her sword.

"I’m not going to bite into you like some sort of freak," Erin scoffed.

Layla choked on her spit, but pretended like Erin wasn’t talking about her.

"I’m... going to head out... yeah..." She nervously spoke, and proceeded to quickly pack her things.

Putting the tip of his finger on the sharp blade, a tiny little droplet of blood fell into the cup. Erin then proceeded to taste the blood

[Blood type O- has been absorbed]

[You have gained +1 free stat point]

They were both a little surprised by the new notification. Neither of them expected that this was something that could’ve happened.

Without further thought, Erin put that point into strength.

[Strength: 17]

"...Don’t you bite Layla?" Quinn said.

"Shut up," Erin replied.