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Chapter 142: I am not an ungrateful child.

Bonk!

"Darling, what are you doing?" Violet, Sasha, and Ruby hit Victor on the head.

"Eh...?"

"Don't scare your parents!" The three spoke.

Victor looked at his parents and saw that they were paralyzed with fear.

"Ah..." Victor scratched the back of his head; he felt bad now.

And then he did something that left both Leon and Anna surprised.

"I'm sorry about that, Father, Mother. I didn't mean to scare you."

He bowed his head and apologized...

"..." Even Victor's wives were surprised by this demonstration. They thought he wouldn't ever lower his head to anyone, not even his parents.

"Hmm?" Victor looked up when he noticed the silence in the room.

"Is something wrong?"

"…Didn't you just say you wouldn't bow your head to anyone? Not even to God himself?" Leon asked.

"Yeah? What's the problem? Oh… I see, that's what this is about." Victor understood what Leon asked, so he displayed a gentle smile:

"You are my parents, the people I respect the most in this life. You are the people who gave birth and raised me from a young age without asking for anything in return, the people who took care of me when I was sick, the people who fed me, the people who taught me all that I know... How can I not bow my head to you?" Victor felt that the people who deserved the most respect from him were his parents.

Without them, Victor wouldn't be who he was today. It's sometimes hard to realize that the people who raised and looked after you without asking for anything in return are the most important people in your life.

But Victor? He always knew that. He still remembered all the times his mother took care of him when he was sick, all the times his father worked several extra hours to get a little more money to help his mother and himself.

Even though a lawyer's job is good, it's very taxing, and Leon knew that. Because of that, he always worked very hard to help Anna and Victor.

And he always kept those precious memories to himself.

Even the little moments when Victor watched movies with his father or his mother gave him advice.

All these memories were stored in his heart.

For a moment, the image of the current Victor seemed to stand out from the image of the old Victor.

"...My Son..." Anna's eyes watered a little, and she understood that even though Victor had become a vampire and changed a lot, he was still the same boy she'd taken care of since he was little. He was still her son.

And, in understanding that, somehow a weight that she felt in her heart, that she didn't even know existed, disappeared like leaves in the wind.

"I'm not an ungrateful son of a bitch." Victor laughed a little.

"Language," Leon spoke while looking out the window as if there was something interesting in that place.

"Yes, Yes. Sorry."

Seeing that the atmosphere around them became softer and warmer, Violet, Sasha, and Ruby all flashed gentle smiles. They were happy that everything worked out.

"Anyway!" Victor suddenly got up and put Zack on the couch.

"Mom and Dad, you must meet Violet Snow."

"Eh?" Violet was taken aback by this abrupt change.

"She is my wife. She is a very caring woman who always wants the best for me, to the point that she sometimes even forgets about her own safety, and she is so cute."

"D-Darling, what are you talking about!?" Violet's face turned pure red.

Anna wiped her eyes a little as she displayed a gentle smile, "Ara, she really is a good girl."

"..." Leon displayed a gentle smile and understood why Victor suddenly changed the subject. 'He has matured, huh?'

"Umu, Umu!" Victor nodded in satisfaction.

"H-Huh?"

He approached Sasha:

"This beautiful woman with long blonde hair, and green eyes, is my other wife, Sasha Fulger."

"D-D-arl-guh ." Sasha stuttered too much and ended up biting her tongue.

"As you can see, she is a very shy woman, but recently she has been getting better, so please be patient with her." Victor pat Sasha's head: "And just like my wife Violet, she is very kind and loving! She has her sadistic side too, but I won't tell you that. After all, a couple's private activities should be in the bedroom, right?" Victor made a silent gesture with his finger.

"Eh...?

"Fufufufu, and she seemed to be the most innocent of all. I can't believe she likes that kind of play."

RUMBLE, BOOOM!

A small burst of lightning appeared above Sasha's head, and she overloaded!

"Umu, Umu!" Victor nodded his head several times.

He approached Ruby.

"W-Wait, do not say-."

"This beautiful woman with long red hair and green eyes is also my wife; her name is Ruby Scarlett."

It was too late! She couldn't stop him!

"As you can see, she has a cooler attitude, or so it would seem," Victor spoke in an extremely serious tone.

"Oh oh?" Anna was enjoying being part of this game of Victor.

"But this is all a lie!" Victor exhibited a kind face, "She is a kind woman who always cares about those close to her, but she keeps a lot to herself and rarely talks about it to me. My god, she's so troubled…" Victor caressed Ruby's face.

"..." Despite not saying anything, Ruby's face was almost the same color as her hair.

He brought his face close to Ruby's ear, "I still remember what happened in the forest..."

"Forget it!" Ruby yelled with a completely red face.

"..." When she realized she screamed, Ruby looked at Victor's parents and saw them smiling.

"Ugh..." She quickly turned her face away, desperately wanting to stick her head in a hole! She was so embarrassed! And most of all, she wanted to kill Victor a lot now!

"See?" Victor displayed a gentle smile.

"So please be kind to her... She keeps a lot to herself, but I hope that one day she will confide some of that weight to me." His voice was so calm and peaceful that it surprised Anna and Leon a little.Ruby looked at Victor's face out of the corner of her eye; 'Darling...'

Victor looked at his parents:

"And these are my three beautiful vampire wives."

…

"I'M DONE!" Mizuki yelled and hurried out of the room.

"E-EH!?" Fred didn't know how to react when he saw the woman's reaction.

Mizuki couldn't take it anymore. She felt that if she were to get any closer to Fred, she would likely kill him! That man was just too disrespectful!

He seemed to live in his own world! He never listened to what she was saying!

And what is this holy liquid!? He is so shameless!

[...] This time, her master didn't say anything since he felt the same as his disciple. This boy was very difficult to talk to... But he was very interesting, mainly because he could actually touch a spirit.

In theory, this should be impossible.

Mizuki opened the door and left. She didn't even bother to close the door.

"Oh, oh. She left." Leona didn't look sad.

Fred left the room and walked towards Leona and Edward, who were at the front of the store.

"Oya? It's already night."

"Yes, didn't you notice? You've been talking for quite a while."

"Yes, that woman was beautiful, a Japanese Milf who is a vampire slayer. If Victor were here, he would've enjoyed such a sight."

"Don't compare Victor to you, he's not a degenerate!"

"Hahahaha, I know that; he's a very loyal man. But I think he would like a Japanese woman who works at a suspicious organization called The Inquisition. He seems to have that kind of taste for psychopathic women."

"Well, that's true…" Leona didn't deny Fred's words.

"..." Edward facepalmed again. He didn't really know what to say when his sister didn't notice the obvious trap in Fred's words.

"..." Realizing the store was suddenly silent, she looked at Fred. When she saw her friend's face, she realized what had happened.

"Fuck."

"Looks like you guys don't even intend to play dumb, huh?" All of Fred's frivolous behavior disappeared.

"Sometimes I feel like you're too perceptive for your own good, Fred." Edward spoke.

"Well, it's not like I never suspected anything. You were always much stronger than the common people... But you knew how to hide it well, but... Our friend Victor, he doesn't have that kind of personality." Fred took his phone and showed it to Edward.

"I was able to save this video before it was deleted." The video was about Victor jumping from the middle of the court and burying the basketball in the hoop.

"...As expected of you, I think?" Edward chuckled.

"One of the benefits of being an Otaku is that you spend 24 hours on your computer looking for information about your favorite Animes." Fred put his cell away.

"I wouldn't call it a benefit." Edward was honest.

"So, what is he?" Fred pointed

"A vampire." Leona was the one who spoke.

"From your face, I can tell you don't like that fact... And knowing Victor's personality, he wouldn't accept bullying if he had the strength to do anything about it... So it's like in anime? If you get bitten, do you turn into a vampire?"

"Your head runs fast as usual." Leona exhibited a little smile.

"You just need to connect the dots. Any fool could do that." Fred snorted.

"Tell that to Andrew." Edward leaned against the counter.

"Andrew is more concerned with chasing after Milfs... Although I don't judge him, if I had those social skills of his, I would do the same thing..."

"Well, I hear he stopped doing that." Edward displayed a small smile.

"Oh, that's a good thing. He would end up dying if he continued on the path he was treading."

"..." Edward and Leona felt strange when they heard Fred talk about the death of a possible friend so coldly.

"Well, what are you guys?"

"Werewolves," Edward spoke.

"Cool."

"..." Leona raised an eyebrow, "Aren't you going to ask why we never told you this?"

"Everyone has secrets, Leona. I have no right to demand that people tell their secret to me... But yeah, I'm a little upset that you didn't tell me anything, but... As I said, I understand you."

"..." Edward and Leona flashed a small smile when they heard Fred's words.

"Did you piss her off on purpose?" Leona was curious.

"Huh? Of course not, I don't even know why she got angry." He was completely honest.

"..." An awkward silence fell around.

Sigh

Edward and Leona sighed in unison, and they didn't know what to say. He was always a strange man. He was very insightful about some things, and sometimes, he was very scary. But most of the time, he just seemed like a useless man.

In the end, they couldn't understand their friend's head, even after they've known each other for years.

Chapter 143: A stubborn man.

A day later, in the basement of Victor's house.

In the underground complex, a room had been created by June for training, designed to be able to withstand the power of the noble Vampires that would train there.

Of course, this room was situated quite far underground, and June had made sure to put in lots of magical protections.

It would take several missiles to even cause a scratch on the protections she'd placed in that place.

As the greedy witch she was, June charged a hefty sum to make this place, though Victor paid without even thinking if he was being robbed or not. After all, he now earned a lot of money, which in turn caused his money sense to be completely shattered.

Victor was standing in the middle of the ridiculously large room. He had his eyes closed, the air around him was heavy, and the magic circles on his gloves were glowing crazily.

'Scathach, and Vlad told me not to use that transformation, but they didn't say anything about using my own blood power.' Victor thought.

Victor bit his lip, and soon a drop of blood left his lips.

Slowly, the drop of blood began to fall to the ground.

But like magic, just as the drop of blood would make contact with the ground, it began to float.

Victor opened his eyes, which were glowing dangerously.

He reached his hand forward as if he were grasping at something, and suddenly, the drop of blood turned into a GreatSword.

He held the Blood Greatsword and pointed forward.

"I finally managed to use blood manipulation without needing to transform." Victor spoke with a sigh as he wiped some of the sweat that was falling off his forehead.

'Ugh, it's hard…' Victor grumbled inwardly.

Unlike the powers of Fire, Water, Ice, and Lightning, Victor had a hard time controlling his power over blood. It was a power that was just very unruly, and didn't seem to listen to his commands.

'Although when I'm in that transformation, I can control my power easily.' Victor thought as he looked to the wall in front of him.

Victor raised the Greatsword, and with a quick movement, cut through the air ahead of him.

Woooshhh

A blade of blood came out of his attack like a Sword Beam and flew towards the wall.

When the blade touched the wall.

BOOOOOOOOOOOM!

An explosion happened.

The entire basement seemed to shake violently.

"Master!?" Hearing the noise coming from the room, Kaguya, who was guarding the room Victor was training in, quickly entered.

"...Bloody hell..." She spoke with her mouth open as she looked at the damage caused by Victor's attack.

A gigantic fissure had appeared on the wall. The attack had been so strong that it easily destroyed the barrier created by the witch June!

'Just how deep was this cut? I can't see the limit.' Kaguya thought as she looked at the fissure, and, even for her being a creature that could see in the night at a very long distance, she couldn't see the depth of the size of the cut that Victor made.

Wrong…This is not a cut. It can already be said that he created a cave in a straight line.

"Hahahaha, Vlad, you old man, you were right." Victor chuckled contentedly, "I really need to train my basic powers first."

Victor was a stubborn man. He really wanted to know the extent of his power. Before, he could only access his blood power in Vampire Count form, and because of that, he couldn't accurately tell how powerful his blood manipulation really was.

After all, in Vampire Count form, all of his power is increased, and he could previously only use his blood in that form.

Looking at the damage from his attack, he was not disappointed with the result...

Slowly he began to collapse backward. 'Natashia, that monster managed to dodge several attacks like that, huh? As expected from an older vampire.' He thought as he dropped to the ground.

"Master!!" Kaguya used her speed and appeared beside Victor to support him.

"Oh? Thank you, Kaguya." Victor smiled kindly.

Looking at her master's face, Kaguya spoke:

"What are you doing? Why did you get so tired?"

"I was just testing something…" He wore a neutral smile and didn't say much.

"Don't worry too much, I'll be fine soon, just give me a few seconds."

"Master..." Kaguya felt her urge to sigh. Her master was hopeless, just doing whatever he wanted and never bothering to listen to her!

And just as Victor had said, when a few seconds passed, he was fine again.

"Thank you, Kaguya." He patted Kaguya's head.

"..." Kaguya exhibited a small satisfied smile when she felt Victor's hand caress her head.

Victor chuckled amusedly when he saw Kaguya's expression and then walked away from her.

After he moved a bit away from Kaguya, Victor spoke.

"I don't have a choice. I can't rush my training as it will only hurt me in the long run. I will train properly." Victor's eyes began to sparkle wildly, and so did the magic circles on his glove.

Wooooooshhhhhh

Suddenly, Victor's entire body went up in flames.

"First, it's going to be my wife, Violet's, power. Fire, this power is the easiest to control but also among my more annoying powers because it messes with my emotions. "All the powers associated with the Count Clans had a side effect of power itself.

Clan Snow's Fire amplified strong feelings. If Victor were to experience anger while using the power of fire, the feeling would be amplified.

If Victor experienced bouts of jealousy while using the power of fire, this feeling would also be amplified.

It was due to these traits that the members of Clan Snow were known as pretty intense individuals who were prone to losing control.

Of course, this quirk didn't affect older vampires who had fully trained their power.

Victor took a deep breath:

"I'll master it in 100 years... Maybe 50 years... preferably in two years..."

Victor decided that focusing on one power at a time was a better strategy than trying to master them all at once.

His thought process was along the lines of: 'Take a problem, divide that problem into several smaller problems, and solve them in due course.' He applied that thought process to the situation in which he found himself.

"The time barrier is absolute, but…" Victor's face twisted in disdain, "Who made the rule that only a vampire who's trained for several years could control their power perfectly? Who decided that?" He growled.

"Bullshit. Rules and standards are meant to be broken. I will master the power of fire in a year! Somehow I'm getting excited!" Victor was very motivated, and he was literally on fire!

"...Master." Kaguya wanted to say that even though he was a monster genius, fully mastering the power of a Vampire Count Clan in such a short time was not an easy feat... Wrong, it was literally impossible.

But she didn't want to break Victor's motivation.

Slowly, Victor started floating in the air, stopping a few meters above the ground while pointing his hand forward.

Victor spoke, "Scathach said: The secret to training power and controlling it is to use it to the limit. Consequently, you'll be exhausted, but that's a good thing. The more you use your power, the more you can control it…"

The secret Scathach was talking about was: Abuse your regeneration as a vampire! So what if you get mentally exhausted? That's normal! Get used to it! Inappropriately using your powers can kill you? We will all die one day! Why not risk your life to get stronger!?

'HAHAHAHAHAHA' Somehow, Victor could hear Scathach's crazy laughter in his mind.

He stopped thinking about it and shouted!:

"Since I have so much power, it's a very difficult task to make me tired..." Victor's eyes began to glow with a blood red glow.

WOOOOOSHHHHHHHHHH

And as if by magic, a fire sphere similar to a sun manifested in front of him. This sphere appeared to be much bigger than the one he created during his fight with Einer and Tatsuya!

"…The amount of power is higher than when he used it in Tatsuya's fight, and Einer…" Kaguya spoke in a low voice.

Victor pointed his other arm towards the wall, and soon another gigantic sphere of fire was created.

"Holy Fuck…" Kaguya knew her master was abnormal, but this? This was Bullshit! What is that!? He has so much power! No wonder he needs a magical tool to help control his power.

For a moment, she completely lost her composure.

Looking at the two spheres of fire, she said,

"...I hope this place will hold..."

...

While Victor was training, Ruby, Sasha, June, Natalia, and Violet were in a room talking.

Quake, Quake!

Feeling the tremor caused by Victor's training, June's face darkened:

"Is this place okay? I really don't want to be buried underground…" June spoke, a little scared.

Violet and Ruby's eyes twitched:

"...Don't you trust your own magic?" Violet spoke.

"Yes, I trust my own magic. The room I created should be able to withstand the power of a 1000 year old vampire easily, but… That man is very abnormal. Honestly, I don't feel confident that the room I created will last that long. I think it will only last 50 years?"

"…" The women were silent when they heard what June said, they had the same thoughts as the witch, but they wouldn't speak out loud.

"Normally... This room should last about 500 years." She looked pretty depressed.

"...That's something you don't see everyday." Sasha spoke.

"What?" June didn't understand.

Sasha elaborated, "A witch that has no confidence in her spells."

"Oh..." June nodded, thinking that this is true. Witches were usually very proud of their magic, and she was like that too...

Why did she change? June began to think about why she had changed.

"Ahh..." And in less than a few seconds, she understood!

The culprit is Victor! That man breaks the spells she is so proud of as if they were nothing! Hateful man!

"Ugh." Several veins started popping in June's head when she remembered that Victor easily broke her magic.

Quake, Quake!

"…" Everyone was silent when they felt the tremor again.

"It was a good idea to leave the training room in such a deep place." Natalia spoke in a gentle tone.

"Yes..." Everyone agreed with Natalia...

Sasha looked at June and suddenly remembered why she was here, "June, tell me why you're here? What did you find out about the Horseman Clan?"

"…" All the women looked at June while waiting for her next words.

Seeing all the women looking at her, June started to sweat a little coldly, but work is work, and she needed to share what she found!

"Well..."

Chapter 144: Report from June.

"Well..."

June made a difficult face like it was a very troublesome subject to talk about and seemed to have discovered something very important.

Gulp.

Somehow Sasha, Violet, and Ruby got anxious when they saw June's face, wondering what she found out.

"I didn't find anything." She made an apologetic smile.

"…" All the women were silent, thinking they had heard wrong.

"Sorry, but... what did you say?" Violet asked.

"…" June didn't answer Violet's question. Instead, she quickly turned her face away and ignored the woman's sharp eyes, as their gazes seemed like they were creating holes in June's body.

"Ara, Ara..."

June's whole body shook when she heard Natalia's voice.

Gulp.

She swallowed hard and slowly turned her head toward Natalia.

"Did you say you didn't find anything? Even after you received that ridiculous amount of money?"

"Hiii," Natalia's look terrified June a lot.

"Perhaps I should report this matter to the witches..." She touched her cheek innocently.

Although witches charged dearly for a service, they had strict work policies. If a witch failed in a job that she said she could complete, the punishment was very severe.

In some cases, if the witch failed to achieve the results required of her work, they were never seen in the human world again.

"…" June broke out in a cold sweat when she saw Natalia's gentle smile.

"I wonder what the witches would do to you when they hear of your sloppy work, fufufufu."

"W-Wait." June hid behind the sofa and looked at Natalia, who had started to walk towards her.

"Do not do this! I was kidding! I discovered something!"

"Oh...?" Natalia kept smiling, as she looked at June with an expression that said: what are you waiting for? Speak up soon!

"...I haven't been able to discover any visible irregularities with Clan Horseman...But."

"I heard this." She got up from behind the couch and took a device from her pocket. She placed that device on the floor, and then a little magic circle was formed on the floor.

The women approached June and looked at the device:

"Is this a spy device?" Natalia asked.

"Yes, I couldn't record images, but I recorded some interesting audio."

A small blue sphere appeared on top of the device, and soon audio began to come out of the device.

"Tsk, failed again." It sounded like a man's voice, but his voice was distorted.

"I wonder what we're doing wrong." It was a woman's voice.

"Does not matter! We need to demonstrate results!" The man sounded terrified.

"I do not want to die…"

"Are you scared to die? Pathetic." The woman spoke with disdain,

"Shut up!"

"All things die, this is inevitable. Perfect immortality is just an illusion of people who refuse to see reality." The woman spoke in a neutral tone, "Even the king of all vampires is not immortal."

"...Stop talking about philosophical things! What happened to Number 0?" The man seemed to change the subject.

"We haven't found it yet." The woman continued in the same neutral tone.

"Ugh, she was perfect…" The man looked disappointed.

"I wonder what-." Suddenly the man stopped talking.

BOOOOOOOOM!

And an explosion occurred.

Soon the device's magic circle disappears, indicating that the audio had ended.

"I don't know how this is possible, but they managed to feel my presence. The explosion you heard was them attacking me." June made a hard face since she realized she screwed up. After all, now they were bound to be more careful with the presence of enemies.

'I hope they don't ask me to do this job again; it smells like something rotten... I don't want to risk myself for nothing. What's the point of getting money if you can't use it?' June thought.

"Were you wearing enchanted clothes?" Natalia asked in a neutral tone.

June woke up from her thoughts and looked at Natalia:

"Yes, and it wasn't just any outfit. It was one of the most expensive outfits available, the ones made by our queen's daughter. It should have been impossible for anyone to detect me wearing these clothes."

June is still crying internally when she paid that ridiculous amount of money; 'Ugh, I know the product is good, but why is it so expensive? This is price inflation!' She didn't even realize she was being a hypocrite now.

"My Darling could do that." Sasha flashed a sneaky little smile.

"That's because he's abnormal!" June growled.

"Hmm... The keywords of this conversation are: Number 0. She was perfect. The result failed." Ruby, who was thinking about what she heard, just said.

"..." The women looked at Ruby, who was deep in thought.

"What are you thinking of, Ruby?" Violet asked curiously.

"...I'm still not sure, I need more information...June, I'm going to borrow this device." Ruby suddenly stood up, walked towards the device, and took it. She seemed interested in this subject.

"Hmm? Where are you going?"

"Visiting an acquaintance," Ruby spoke in a neutral tone.

"Wait, you can't go out alone!" Violet spoke.

Ruby's eyes twitched, "...Are you treating me like a child?"

"I am not. I trust you, and I know you're strong, but at least take a maid for company." Violet turned her face away, and then she continued, "You know that if anything were to happen to you, and Darling and Scathach were to find out…. this world would burn... And we'd help them do so as well."

"..." Ruby displayed a gentle smile, "You're right, I can't worry my family, can I?"

"..." Sasha and Violet flashed a small smile when they heard Ruby's words.

"Natalia, go with Ruby, you seem interested in the subject." Violet walked towards the sofa and sat down elegantly.

"...Yes, Lady Violet." Natalia was a little surprised that Violet noticed her interest in this subject. 'I'm sure I didn't show any emotion on my face... That's weird, she usually only cares about Victor. Is she now paying more attention to me?'

"To think that I would have someone from Clan Alioth protecting me, that's an honor."

Ara." Natalia flashed a gentle smile, "Protecting someone from Clan Scarlett is a great honor, you know? After all, everyone wants to be on Scathach's good side... And the new Count Alucard."

"Heh~" Ruby's eyes glowed red for a few seconds, then she turned her face away and said, "Let's go."

"...?" Natalia didn't understand Ruby's reaction.

"Yes, Lady Ruby."

"..." Sasha kept watching Ruby and Natalia's back until she turned to Violet, "What do you think they'll do?"

"I don't know, and I don't care." Violet says, then she continued, "Ruby never does anything without purpose. She's probably only interested in this subject because of you."

"...I see." Sasha displayed a small, gentle smile.

"Hmm." Somehow Sasha was feeling restless; she didn't like to do nothing while her friend was off working. "I'll go out too."

"Okay," Violet replied in a disinterested way.

"...Aren't you going to ask where I'm going?"

Violet looked at Sasha with eyes dark as black holes, "Are you going to need any help?"

"Hmm...not that I know of," Sasha spoke after thinking for a while.

"Then it's settled." Violet turned her face away and continued, "Just be careful out there. Even though you don't like her, I recommend you take Maria. I don't need to say what will happen if something happens to you, right?"

"Yes..." Sasha nodded her head in agreement. She knew that if something happened to her, Victor would freak out, literally speaking. She then continued, "And that's a good idea, I'll take Maria."

Sasha got up from the couch, and she looked at one place, her eyes starting to glow blood red:

"Maria!" Sasha yelled, her voice like a lightning rumble.

"Yes!" She heard Maria's voice.

"…Why are you imitating Scathach and Darling? Can't you call her the normal way?" Violet spoke in an annoyed tone as she covered her ears.

"Oh... There is that option too."

...

Around afternoon, Victor came out of training.

"Hmm..." He was walking in just a pair of black shorts that looked to be badly burned. His suit had long since been destroyed, and all that was left was this little piece of clothing. "I need sturdier clothes, the clothes Scathach gave me can't withstand all my power."

He was speaking his thoughts out loud, "I can use the money I earned to make 10 pairs of clothes, the problem is finding a trustworthy witch who won't steal from me."

Victor knew that the witch's wares were way above what they really should be, and good prices depended on the connection you had with a particular witch.

"Have you made any progress today, master?" Kaguya, who was walking beside Victor, asked.

"Umu?" Victor looked at Kaguya:

"I made little progress, considering I don't know what to train..."

"What do you mean?" Kaguya didn't understand.

"The power of ice is very different from the power of fire." Victor looked ahead and continued explaining, "And when I trained my ice power, Scathach taught me personally. She was very proficient in ice control, and in teaching people. Because of that, I was able to evolve more quickly." Victor points his palm up and starts creating ice sculptures:

"Look, I just need to imagine, and I can do it."

Kaguya looked at the sculpture of Scathach, Violet, Ruby, and Sasha with awed eyes.

The ice sculptures looked exactly like the real ones.

As she looked at the sculpture, Kaguya thought, 'It doesn't work that way, even if the teacher is proficient in teaching, you don't learn something at that level that quickly if you don't have the talent.' But she didn't say it out loud.

"I see... So you need a teacher?"

"I don't need a teacher."

"Eh...?" Kaguya didn't understand.

"I need an experienced opponent who knows how to control the power of fire. If I were to fight against this opponent, I feel I could improve at a rate faster than what simple training can provide..."

The reason he thought this was because that was the feeling he had when trained/fought with Scathach. He evolved better through battle.

"Ah..." She understood now. After thinking for a moment, she said, "In that case, how about Hilda?" she suggested.

"Hilda, are you talking about the Chief maid of Clan Snow?" Victor remembered hearing about her from Violet.

"Yes. She is a vampire who is about the same age as Agnes, and she is very proficient in the power of fire."

"Oh?" Victor's eyes gleamed with interest, "I wonder what I have to do to get her to help me."

"It's hard to know. Unlike other maids like Yuki. Hilda only accepts orders from Countess Agnes."

"Hmm, I think I'm going to ask Violet for help."

"That might work."