ARCHDEUS

ALEX V'S. NIGHTCLUB(1)

It doesn't feel like nearly two seasons have passed.

The shady trees are now turning into arid.

The green leaves are now yellow.

Farmers began harvesting their crops that had been planted during the spring.

Everyone is now preparing for autumn.

If winter is believed to be the season of the remission of sins by the God Cearael (God of Darkness) and spring is the season of blessing from the God Elirael (God of the Sun), while summer is the triumphant season given by Larael (God of Fire), autumn is the season of gratitude presented to Lithrael (God of Earth).

In a luxurious villa that stood firmly in the seedy countryside, the,

Merry Itziel Alexandreia could currently only sleep limp in her room.  After Alex leaves, he is taken back to the villa so that his secret as a vampire is unknown to others.

His face turned pale and his lips looked dry.

Before Alex's departure to Otilia, he gave Merry a considerable stock of his blood. The entire blood was stored inside a magic bottle that was commonly used as a container of magic potions. So that Alex's blood will remain fresh.. 

So as long as Alex is gone, Merry shouldn't run out of blood to drink.

Unfortunately, for almost two weeks, she had run out of blood.

At first, Justin who also knew of Merry's condition tried to give him blood from farm animals. But Merry wouldn't even sniff the blood.

This frustrates Justin.

From day to day Merry's condition increasingly looks not good.

Even the others who were in the villa were finally aware of Merry's unhealthy condition.

"What should we do? Miss Merry's condition hasn't improved yet."

Rain, one of Alex's subordinates spoke frantically to the people.

Everyone is currently in an emergency meeting in the dining room because they are worried about Merry's condition.

"Aren't we supposed to take him to the temple? Why should we keep leaving it like this?"

Francess Khaterine Winbirth asked nervously. She is a friend of Ryana who currently works as a florist at Alex's magic plant estate.

"No! It can't be done!" said Justin.

"Why do you keep refusing to take Miss Merry to the temple? Look, because it keeps putting it off now it's not good!"

Erline hit the table. He was angry with Justin. Erline is a female knight who becomes the protector of Clara. But now he is more assigned to Alex even now.

"Ah .. that's k-because ...."

Justin could not give a good answer. But he knew taking Merry to the hospital would only bring new problems.

Justin is the only person besides Alex who knows Merry's condition. 

If the temple finds out Merry is now a half-vampire, the boy will be exterminated by the temple.

Inadvertently Justin's eyes filled with doubt met Alven's gaze.

Alven is completely unaware of Merry's condition. But with just a glance of eye contact, he can feel Justin is currently protecting Merry from worse problems.

"I think what Brother Justin said is true. We should wait for Dad to come back" said Alven.

"But ..."

Erline could not reply to that remark.

The reason is two things.

First, even though Alven was Alex's adopted son, he now belonged to the family of the Alexandreian Nobles. Although Erline gave her oath of loyalty to the Fertiphile House, but that does not mean she can underestimate Alven's words. Moreover, this concerns the condition of Merry which is an internal problem of the Alexandreia Family itself.

Rain also disagreed with Alven's remarks. But just like Erline, he had no position to speak. 

*huk! *uhuk!

Suddenly the sound of dry stone was heard clearly from behind the door of Merry's room.

By force, the door of the room was opened.

Merry who was still lying weak now started to continue coughing.

Her dry lips and skin that looked much paler now.

Even his body had a fever.

"We don't have time anymore! We have to take him to the temple!" 

This time Erline shouted furiously.

This was very different from her old self who looked cold and belittled to others.

However Erline could be said to be one of Merry's first friends.

He and the girl spent a lot of time with each other.

When he saw Merry who was currently lying weak made his heart ache. It was as if she felt Merry was her own sister.

Justin and Alven still reject him but this time their rejection becomes even weaker especially the doubts that arise after seeing Merry's condition.

Unlike Justin who knows the cause of Merry's condition, Alven does not know the cause of Merry like this.

If Merry's life was threatened by his decision, he would never forgive himself.

"I-i"

Alven's words were cut off because a servant came in a hurry.

"Fertiphile's Oldest Young Master is back!"

***

Amidst the cobbled country roads, a military march moved compactly.

Everyone rode on horses with some of them raising the flag of the Fertiphile Nobility.

The march was led directly by the eldest son of the count of Fertiphile, Alexander Ivanov Fertiphile, now Baron Alexander of Alexandreia.

There were at least one hundred and fifty soldiers who were members of this military march. Of course 90% of them were non-role soldiers. The military entourage was escorting Alex to the village where his subordinates were.

There the villagers looked in amazement.

All the children's eyes glowed radiantly showing their interest.

It could even be heard the screaming sounds of the boy who wanted to become a soldier.

"If I grow up, I'll be a knight!"

After a long journey they finally arrived.

Alex was immediately greeted by his subordinates such as the old servant of the villa, Rain, Justin, and others.

At first this march will be a massive march where all the soldiers will accompany Alex because of his victory in the fief war in Otilia and his achievement got the title of baron.

However it was postponed due to seeing the current state of the kingdom and county. In the state of a war-torn kingdom, the, and the county finances that were not well due to inflation and national instability due to fief war in various other noble areas made Alex as soon as the interim governor canceled the event for himself.

In the end, he could only return to his small villa by bringing a few people.

Otto and Alen can't leave. Otto, who was the leader of the Fertiphile County Security Authority, became busy with the various tasks he had left behind during his time with the fiefwar. Alen is also busy with various political affairs and county management.  

But that was no problem for Alex.

What is important now is that he has come back and seen everyone who is in his protection healthy, except ....

"What's? Merry sick?" said Alex.

Without seeing the worried expression of his subordinates, Alex immediately walked into Merry's room.

He just lets Justin in with him and orders Justin to lock the door.

"Darling .. wake up, I'm back."

Alex calls Merry but the little girl does not respond.

He touched the little girl.

Real hot.

"Justin, bring me a knife."

Justin immediately brought a fruit knife that was not far from them. It was a knife that he had brought along with fresh scum to eat. 

Alex took the knife and drained the aura.

A red aura immediately surrounded the dander of the blade. 

Alex then slashed his left wrist with a knife that had been fed by the aura.

He handed the knife to Justin. Using his right hand, he gently raised Merry's head and placed his injured left wrist near the girl's lips.

Although long enough but slowly Merry began to respond.

He started to sniff as if he found a very fragrant aroma.

Her little pink tongue started to stretch out and lick the blood slowly coming out of Alex's wrist.

Slowly the lick began to accelerate until Merry finally opened his eyes.

His blood-red pupils reflected the sunlight brightly.

He immediately pulled out his fangs and bit Alex's wrist.

The bite was extremely tight and even Merry let out a growl like a cat growling furiously when his food wanted to be snatched away by another animal.

Merry's bite looks quite painful but Alex doesn't feel the pain as he does as an incarnation of Archdeus. He just smiled gently and stroked his little girl's hair with his right hand.