Chapter 126: Mother and Father were vampires too?

“How did a Lesser Vampire become my mother’s disciple?”

At her question, Lucian remained silent for a brief moment, his crimson eyes lingering on her face—on the confused frown that had been there for quite some time.

Then slowly, he turned his head toward Valentina.

“You have a daughter?” he asked, carrying a genuine curiosity in his voice.

As if he hadn’t even heard Vivienne’s question.

Valentina tilted her head slightly toward him, her scarlet hair sliding across her shoulder as she briefly glanced toward Vivienne before returning to him.

A playful glint flickered within her gaze as she answered.

“What? Is that surprising?”

Lucian blinked once, then spoke again.

“I didn’t expect someone like you to have a daughter her age… though I suppose age means little for vampires,” he said calmly.

Valentina gave a small approving nod, as if agreeing with a statement she already knew.

“But that would mean you are older than—”

Lucian suddenly stopped mid-sentence, instantly shutting his mouth as Valentina’s golden eyes turned threatening.

The smile on her face slowly widened dangerously.

“Boy… don’t you know you shouldn’t ask a woman’s age?” Her voice was soft, almost playful, but the pressure behind it was sharp enough to make the air itself heavier.

“You might not even know what would happen to you if you ask such stupid questions to a beautiful woman like me…”

She leaned forward slightly on the side of her throne, resting her chin on her knuckles and tilting it upward as she looked directly at him.

The air grew even heavier than before.

But rather than backing away, slowly, Lucian leaned forward as well.

“My dear master,” he said lightly, his voice calm and a bit teasing.

“Will you kill your new disciple so quickly?”

It almost looked as though Lucian was impersonating Valentina’s personality, as the expressions on both their faces were strikingly similar—something neither of them noticed, except for the two women standing near the bedroom entrance.

“There are many methods far more painful than death,” Valentina answered casually, and Lucian couldn’t help but inwardly agree with her at that point.

He himself had tasted both death and torture… mostly emotional torment after seeing his mother suffer and his sister’s death.

He didn’t even think about those memories of humans, the monsters that had scrambled his mind, or his father’s beatings, because by now, they all felt like nothing more than an inconvenience.

Listening to them talk to each other as if they were old acquaintances while completely ignoring her—

Vivienne could only stand still with a blank expression for a second.

“…Did that worm just ignore me?”

She didn’t get any answer.

Kanna let out a faint sigh as she watched the two lunatics talking to each other, unaware—or maybe just unconcerned that anyone else was even in the room.

Vivienne’s eye twitched violently.

“How dare he…”

The temperature around her increased again, invisible heat rippling outward from her body, slightly warping the air as her irritation grew.

For a second, she truly considered throwing another fireball at him, but after clenching her fists and seeing her mother beside him, she stopped herself.

“And mother… why is she talking to him like that?” she muttered, her voice tightening.

Her teeth ground against each other.

Her face looked as though she might explode at any moment, her golden eyes burning fiercely like a bomb waiting for the right moment to detonate.

Meanwhile—

“…what happened to my sister?”

Lucian suddenly asked, his previously playful tone completely replaced by an unhidden trace of concern.

“You mean my niece?” Valentina asked calmly.

Lucian frowned.

“Niece?” he asked uncertainly.

“Lia is your niece?”

He leaned back and straightened his posture, his expression sharpening faintly.

“You didn’t know?” Valentina asked curiously, her golden eyes locked onto his face as though she had already expected him to know about them.

But seeing his genuine confusion, she continued without waiting for an answer.

“Well… your mother—oh, wait, she’s your stepmother, right?…

Seren Scarlett.”

She paused, then corrected herself again with a mild amusement.

“Seren Foster… I think that was the surname she used.”

Lucian’s frown deepened.

“Mother and Father were vampires, too?” he asked immediately.

He almost didn’t want to believe her words, as they sounded ridiculous. He had been with them for years, and despite that, he had never noticed anything like that.

But if he truly thought about it… then Lia being a vampire made far more sense now.

Unknown to his thoughts, Valentina lightly shook her head.

“No, just Seren. That man was a human,” she answered in a casual tone while observing the subtle changes in his expression.

Lucian’s silence deepened.

It took him a few seconds to process those words.

Valentina didn’t bother saying anything else, letting him take his time.

She knew it would take a while for him to take in the realisation that the parents who had adopted him were something he had never expected.

Her attention shifted toward Vivienne, who was silently seething, standing with crossed arms.

Finally, Vivienne’s patience snapped as her voice cut through, a bit sharper this time.

“Mom… why are you acting so chummy with this… lesser thing?”

The words clearly carried a disdain.

Valentina didn’t answer her at first. She just sighed inwardly.

‘She’ll never learn,’ she thought, her lips parting slowly.

“You have something wrong, my daughter.”

Valentina spoke lazily, almost sounding annoyed by her daughter’s behaviour.

Vivienne’s brows tightened slightly.

“Do you think a lesser vampire could stand before me and talk casually?”

Seeing those sharp golden eyes fixed on her, Vivienne’s frown deepened.

Her gaze instinctively moved toward Lucian again, who was still lost in thought after hearing that his late stepmother was a vampire.

His crimson gaze lowered slightly, blankly tracing the carved edges of Valentina’s throne while his mind silently processed the shocking revelation.

Seeing the distracted man standing right beside her mother, so close and yet without any fear in his face—

Vivienne’s face turned more questioning.

Valentina sighed quietly, feeling a bit disappointed.

But just as she was about to lose hope and shift the topic, Vivienne’s eyes widened slightly as a thought suddenly flickered in the red head.

“Bloodline…?” she asked slowly, talking to herself.

Valentina immediately closed her eyes for a second. A silent exhale escaped her scarlet lips.

She was finally using her brain.

The moment her eyelids opened, Vivienne immediately let out a huge amount of bloodline suppression from her body.

The invisible pressure swept through the chamber violently.

Kanna’s fingers twitched violently as she folded her hands behind her, forcing herself to remain perfectly still without changing her expression.

Both Kanna and Vivienne shifted their attention toward Lucian.

Meanwhile, Valentina merely glanced at him calmly despite already knowing the result.

Lucian, who had been lost in deep thought just moments ago, finally felt something brush against him.

He felt something he didn’t fully understand, though it felt strangely annoying for some reason.

Frowning slightly, he lifted his head and turned toward Vivienne, noticing her eyes widening as she watched him move without any stiffness or signs of resistance in his body.

It was as if… he hadn’t felt the suppression at all.

“That’s impossible…” Vivienne muttered aloud unconsciously.

“Not even average Noble vampires can move so easily…”

The words slipped out of her mouth, making Lucian even more confused.

“What happened to her?” he asked Valentina, seeing her staring at him with a visible amusement in her golden eyes.

Even Kanna seemed faintly surprised, though, as always, it was difficult to know with her eternally emotionless face.

“Don’t worry about her,” Valentina said casually, a small curl forming on her lips.

Vivienne’s expression slowly changed again, her eyes narrowed as she looked at the man in a new light.

But still, the disgust didn’t lessen too much, though there was a newfound curiosity in her.

Lucian didn’t care about noticing any of that.

“Leave about my dead parents’ past, is Lia fine right now?”

Valentina quietly thought for a second before shifting her gaze toward Kanna.

Lucian followed her line of sight.

The maid took a step forward, her hands once again resting in front of her, no longer trembling.

“Rest assured, she is just resting and recuperating after turning into a complete vampire.”

Lucian had no idea what she meant by the term “Complete vampire”, but hearing safe and just resting peacefully, a relieved breath escaped his lungs.

“Thank you for taking care of her.”𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

Kanna gave a small nod in response. Vivienne remained silent the entire time, and Lucian didn’t even glance toward her, as if she didn’t even exist before his eyes.

Finally, his gaze shifted back to Valentina as he gave her a grateful nod.

The Duchess’s crimson lips slowly arched upward as a seductive smile formed on her face.

“Anything for you… my dear disciple.”

Lucian simply chuckled quietly at her words… while Vivienne could do nothing but watch the two of them in stunned silence, genuinely unsure what she was even supposed to feel anymore.

200 Power Stones = 1 extra chapter.

Yeah, I know I increased the number of Power Stones but I’ll run out of ideas if I rushed myself too much, so bear with this lazy author.