My Vampire System novel Chapter 556

Chapter 556 Getting along

Fex was busy keeping company for both Paul and Kazz. As usual, just like last time, no one was talking to each other at all. Kazz seemed nice, and all, but Fex felt like he could never read her.

It also scared him that if Kazz did ever get in a scrap, he and Paul wouldn’t be enough to save her. As for Paul, he had just been a grumpy old man ever since he was turned into a vampire.

’Are we really that bad, did becoming a vampire ruin his life?’ Fex thought. ’Well, maybe you shouldn’t go invading other people’s places then. If vampires suddenly started going to earth and some of us died, we wouldn’t exactly be sulking about it.’

"What’s wrong?" Paul asked as he could see that Fex had stopped and was looking at him.

"Oh, nothing," Fex replied. "I was just looking at the price of everything in this market. Is it normal to be priced like this? We don’t really use credits in the vampire place, but we do have them."

The vampires had their own way of getting credits, perhaps making trades on Earth that Fex didn’t really know about. He used to have a card that was supplied to him by his father. The primary use of it was purchasing things online in the marketplace.

However, since he left his family, his privileges were taken away. His sister Silver was kind enough to leave him with a gift. In his back pocket, two advanced tier crystals were given to him. They were the death bat crystals, so they couldn’t really be used to turn into anything. But most humans wouldn’t know that.

Today, Fex hoped to do a little exchange. After seeing the armour being used and how much it had improved the human performance, he was hoping that he might find something for himself.

More than anything, he was looking for armour, since his weapons really only worked with his bare hands. Anything else and it would be difficult for him to control the strings.

Kazz seemed to be uninterested in weapons and armour. Instead, she was looking at the shiny jewellery. However, she had no money, and Fex was in control of the money card.

He saw her lifting up what looked like a pair of red ruby earrings.

"Is it okay if I try them on?" Kazz asked.

"Sure, go ahead." The man behind the counter said. She looked at the earrings in the mirror for a few seconds and smiled. "These are perfect."

"Those cost around 1000 credits since the red ruby is actually crafted using parts of a rare beast. But because you’re so pretty, I’ll sell it for nine hundred for you." The man said.

"Are you sure?" Kazz asked. "Don’t you mean you’ll give them to me for free?"

From where Fex was standing, he couldn’t see Kazz’s eyes, but he could see the shopkeepers glowing slightly red.

"Of course you can have it for free." The shop keeper said. Now wearing the earrings, she walked away, and Fex was quick to move on as well.

After they had left, the man felt that his head was slightly hurting. "What did I just do? Did I just give those away for free?"

When they were eventually far away enough from the shopkeeper, Fex had turned around and was looking at Kazz, who still seemed to be smiling about the pretty red earrings.

"Kazz you can’t do that. You used your influence skill on him, didn’t you?" Fex asked.

"Of course I did. I don’t see a problem with it. He won’t even know what happened to him. It won’t affect the mission." Kazz replied.

"But it’s wrong, don’t you understand?"

But it seemed like what Fex was saying wasn’t getting through to her. Seeing this, Paul decided to step in.

"You think what you did was harmless, correct?" Paul asked. "No one got hurt, so it’s all okay?"

Kazz nodded.

"That’s where you’re wrong. How do you think that man got that jewel? Most likely, he had paid some Travellers for those parts. Then he spent hours of his life and time crafting it into a fine piece of work. He comes here to this market place, hoping to sell them. Make a bit of profit. If he is successful, then that means he can eat that night with the money.

"Perhaps he has a family he needs to look after. Now that you’ve taken that jewel, perhaps his family won’t be able to eat today."

Tears started to fall from Kazz’s cheeks.

"Really, should I return it then..." Kazz said.

"If you really want to apologize, then do something grander than that. Leave it for now and think about it." Paul said.

It was the first interaction Fex had seen between the two. When looking at them, it was as if he was looking at a father and young daughter having a conversation. Fex was surprised at this, maybe they wouldn’t be too bad left alone after all.

They continued to walk through the marketplace, and Paul started to think. He began to think about his own family. Back at the military base, he had made sure that his daughter Hayley had joined with him. He had told her it was random, but in truth, he had asked the supreme commander a favour so that she was close to him.

Now he didn’t know how she was. It seemed like the generals had managed to escape the second city from the news, so she should be with the military. Still, it was a worry on his mind, but he had to make smart choices.

One wrong move, and he felt like all the men counting on him in the vampire world would die. The weight of their lives was on his shoulders. With all these things on his mind and the changes in his body, he was right to feel a little stressed.