"After he tried to harm you and your disciple, how can you assure the clan's safety with him in the premises?" The clan leader argued.
"A dog is your enemy till you tame and train it, Master Shu. This creature has an uncontrollable amount of yin energy, which makes his qi unstable." Shensi explained while she walked towards the vampire and stood beside him. "I promise you, if he causes any trouble..."
In the next moment, Shensi snapped her finger, and the shockwave returned in Vincent's body.
Surprised by a sudden attack, Vincent's eye dilated, his fangs, which were hidden behind his gums, protruded, and he slumped on the ground, while fingers trembled on the cold floor.
"He is far too weak to be afraid," Shensi concluded her statement and snapped her finger again, withdrawing the attack.
"Or perhaps, he looks weak because he formed the Golden Bond with you?" Said one of the men sitting in the crowd.
Shensi raised her brows gave the man a meaningful look. Her eyes followed the man standing from his seat, walk ahead and stand in front of her.
Vincent lifted his head and glanced at both of them.
The man looked intimidating but Shensi didn't care. She took a few steps back before questioning deadpan, "So what?"
"There's a possibility that you try to use him for your advantage to take over the clan." The man stated with a cunning smile.
Shensi looked sternly at the man for few seconds before ignoring him and walked past his shoulder, to confront the clan leader.
"Give me 3 months. I want to train him for 3 months, and if he does anything that harms the clan or any subject matter, I will bear the full consequences."
Vincent couldn't understand why this woman was so persistent in keeping him. More importantly, before asking the clan leader, shouldn't she ask him at least once if he wants to train under her?
He would absolutely refuse. And significantly, she called him 'dog' and 'mosquito' without acknowledging that he was a vampire.
But did he dare to say that? No.
But did he imagine sucking all of her blood out and killing her? Yes.
Vincent looked ahead of him and saw the clan leader in a deep thought with hand resting on his chin.
While Shensi waited patiently for his answer.
Soft whispers could be heard from the crowd as they gave Vincent a meaningful glance and retreated quickly whenever he caught their eye.
But the man who came to stand in front of Shensi and deliberately got ignored, clenched his hands on the length of his robe, and gritted his teeth with humiliation.
He summoned his sword and swung it right towards Vincent, in a flash.
Everyone turned their head to the headless body of Vincent, lying on the ground, and his head rolling away to a distance.
"Oh, indeed, he was a weak beast." The man claimed while his sword disappeared in the thin air like a flake.
"Ming Bo..." The crowd exclaimed the man's name, while he stood all tall and proud.
Shensi looked at the headless Vincent and then at his head.
"Ming Bo, that was an absurd act. What were you thinking?" The clan leader asked with rage.
"I had no intention of killing this creature, but when Shensi mentioned of him being a weak creature, I purely wanted to check if he actually was."
This was a very Ming Bo way of handling matters. Nobody was surprised, but the only thing they were worried about was Shensi.
She was like a serene mountain, quiet and lonely, until it decided to erupt lava and destroy everything in their way.
The fear was witnessed when every lamps and candles in the room blew out with a whoosh, and darkness fell across every corner.
At the centre of the pavilion, a string of red light flashes, before clashing with a blue light.
The crowd sat on their seats, watching them, breathing very quiet in silence.
It was a new moon day, the night was darkest, and with no light, they couldn't take the pleasure of the fight.
"Two of you, stop." The clan leader rage filled voice echoed through the pavilion, where only the slashes of sword could be heard.
But they didn't heed his word.
Instead, in the next moment, the crowd could hear the duo crashing against the timber frame and escaping from the area through the beams and flying out in the sky.
And before the people inside the pavillion realised, one of duo fell from the rooftop onto the ground.
The fellow coughed laboriously, and everyone could guess he was spitting blood at that moment.
"Wenzhi enough, come back." Shenshi's cold voice shocked everyone in the room and with a movement of her hand, every unlit lamps and candles lit up, bringing light to everyone's eye.
To everyone surprise, Shenshi stood in the same position she had been standing before.
Only Ming Bo and Wenzhi was missing.
And with Shenshi's command, the vampire immediately jumped from the rooftop, standing next to her, completely fine from head to toe.
Ming Bo on the other hand, stood up with difficulty and walked towards slowly towards Vincent as his wound healed simultaneously slow.
He looked at the clan leader but before he could open his mouth, the leader spatted, "Ming Bo, I wish no more words to come out of your mind. You have commenced a fight in our peaceful conversation, and faced the consequences. You are not longer needed, please leave."
"But..."
"Leave." The clan leader slapped the atm of the chair and left no room for argument.
Ming Bo quietly left the pavilion while other stared at his retreating back.
"And you. What are you?" The clan leader directed the question towards Vincent.
"My name is Vincent, a vampire. People say, we are too cruel to be an angel and too kind to be a demon. Some refer to us as monster, but eww, we are better, ofcourse. Also, we are neither alive not dead. Just stuck in time and fulfilling our hunger with human blood." Vincent replied, while his eyes curved with smile and little fangs peeking out of his mouth.