Really. I Hate Her.

"Fine, I'll do it. I don't have any use for someone as useless as you so just get out of my sight. Your body will form tomorrow, right? Just stay in that plate till you form back and then I'll kill you. Bye."

Raz closed the lid again and then walked away from the room. Gretha couldn't help but feel like she did something wrong, but she was only thinking of herself at that time, so what Razz was feeling didn't matter to her.

True to his word, once Gretha reformed the next day he told her exactly where he would be in a hundred years. Things wouldn't change excessively by then so she should be able to find it without a problem. And then he killed her!

Things went smoothly for a few years with Raz and Gretha. Raz would meet up with her at the appointed location where they were supposed to go and he would kill her over and over again

Raz killed Gretha when she was just a child. He killed her when she was a fully grown woman and sometimes he even killed her when she was a teenager. For close to eight hundred years, Raz kept his promise to her and killed her.

During that time. Things were starting to change again. The Roman Empire finally crumbled to the ground and Raz's dynasty as a prince crumbled with it. It was fine though. He was already bored of all that.

Ceaser was already going crazy and Raz just gave a bit of information for an assassin to finally end the mad man.

......

"I knew it!! So he did it on purpose!

Joe looked toward Maria curiously, but it didn't look like she was going to explain anything. She coughed into her hand and told him to just continue.

.......

As time went in, Raz continued to move around the world. He would travel for a long time and only come back when the appointed time would come for him to kill Gretha again. He didn't know it, but he started to look forward to those times. The time they spent together was always short, but he found himself opening up to her as time went on.

He learned more and more about her. Her life was different every time he met her. Once, she was a maid in a palace and had to escape to meet him, and another time she was the daughter of a cobbler in a remote village. There was even one time when she was a princess and the entire kingdom was chasing after her when she ran away. Raz killed a lot of people at that time.

The most interesting time was probably when she was a student of Shakespeare. She never wanted to die more than at that moment. Raz felt that Romeo and Juliet probably played a big role in that death. She took part in writing the play and she just became even more depressed because of it.

He learned of her likes and dislikes during their small talks and he told her about his own life. What happened during the last hundred years for him and how he changed. To tell the truth, he didn't do much in those times when she wasn't with him. You are usually limited when you can only go out at night, so your influence on the world is also limited.

But Raz didn't mind. He could always look forward to meeting Gretha. That is good enough for him.

The current time was 1655 AD. The location was the city of love itself. Paris, France.

It was just a few years ago that the world entered the age of enlightenment and Raz was suddenly finding himself enjoying the nightlife of this world more and more. He was still alone, like always, but he didn't think it would be strange to say that he had a few friends here and there. Some people knew of him and he tried to make sure that those people stayed shut no matter what.

Today was another day for him to meet up with Gretha. Shockingly, this city was built close to the ground where they usually meet. Raz went out of his way to get there before Gretha arrived. She came like she usually did.

Clumsy as fuck.

"Ugh! This floor is still so rocky! Why can't you just build stairs for me!!?"

"Why would I do that? It's fun watching you climb,"

Gretha clicked her tongue in annoyance. This man is still as annoying as ever!

"So, I've come to be killed again. Getting away from my family all the time is really a pain in the ass,"

Raz listened to her say this and he couldn't stop the irritation he felt inside his heart. This woman is still treating life like something she should be throwing away. It disgusts me.

"Come, let me buy you a drink,"

Gretha rose a brow at the sudden statement. This is the first time they will be moving out of this location whenever they meet. Why would Raz suddenly want to go somewhere else? And what is with his accent now? He sounds so sophisticated. France must really be treating him well.

"Will you join me for that dink?"

Gretha thought about it for a while. Die now or die later. There really isn't much of a difference, so long as she died, she is fine with it.

"Okay then. Let's go. I don't think I have had a drink in this body yet,"

The thing about Gretha is that no matter how many times she was reborn she always ended up in the same appearance. Her face, her body, and even her eyes always stayed the same. It was truly strange.

Raz led her over to a bar in the middle of Paris where he always hung out in his free time. The bartender there was a black man that looked like he was supposed to be a bouncer instead of a bartender. He had sharp eyes and big muscles that scared Gretha a little. But once he saw Raz he bowed and immediately poured them a drink. Nobody in this entire bar would dare to mess with Raz.

Raz and Gretha drank one glass at first and Gretha was actually shocked by how good it was! How long has it been since she tasted alcohol!? She didn't even have time for it since she is always planning her escape from her family to meet Raz.

Like that time when she had to escape from her family as a princess. She even to,d them she was eloping with Raz because he was her one true love. Raz killed everyone when they started challenging him for her hand. It was really hilarious

The next bottle was even better than the first and Raz wasn't surprised that Gretha was already drunk. She didn't hold back at all as she gulped down another bottle! The entire bar was surprised! Seeing a woman drinking so much was very strange at this time and at first, they thought she was a prostitute. But she didn't dress like a prostitute and everyone knew that Raz hated prostitution. Why is she with Raz and drinking like that?

There was music playing in the bar and Gretha finally became drunk enough that she wanted to dance as well. She dragged Raz onto the dance floor and he awkwardly followed after her. He could never taste the alcohol he drank and he couldn't get drunk either so he usually came here because he just found it fascinating to watch people get drunk.

But she was different. He could watch her drink forever and her reaction would always be strange to him. For someone that wanted to die so badly, she looked so happy! Why did this kind of woman want to die? Why did someone that was on the dance floor and moving around without a care in the world want to die!?

She can go out in the sun. She can kiss and love and feel pain. She can hold onto her loved ones. Even if it is only for a second when compared to her life, is it not worth it?

Why did Gretha want to die so badly? Did she even remember why she wanted to die anymore? Raz didn't think so.

Somehow, Raz and Gretha found themselves in bed together that night. Raz couldn't help but notice how inexperienced she was? For someone that has lived even longer than him. She was like a regular woman in bed. Well. He wasn't surprised, she spent most of her life dead so she never really had anything that can be called a full life. The number of lovers she had was surprisingly low, for someone that lived thousands of years already.

What a waste! What would he have done with something like this!? He would have lived! He would have gone under the sun every day and he would have cried as he took every conceivable food under the sun!

It was truly cruel, wasn't it?

......

"Hey, are you okay?"

Joe suddenly noticed that Maria was crying. She had her hands bunched in her lap and she was silently crying. Did the story affect her that much!?

Maria tried to clean her tears quickly. It wasn't fair. She didn't know. How would she know that it was this bad!?

"Raz seems like a good person. Even when he is feeling this kind of pain he is still helping Gretha."

Joe smiled at her when she said this and turned back to the road. Yeah, Raz seemed like a good person.

"But the morning after, things didn't go so well for them..."

.......

Raz woke up first on the day after, and even though the curtains were completely closed he could still tell that it was daylight outside because he was so tired!

He felt Gretha stir beside him and then she opened her eyes. The first expression on her face was sock to see him and then she slowly started to laugh! She didn't think they would ever end up in bed together!

Raz smiled at her. She didn't even care about them having sex at all. This idiot.

"Okay, okay. Can you just kill me now?"

The way Gretha said it this time was so nonchalant and Raz finally realized that she was no longer invested in anything. She did not even realize that she was tired of it already. She was just telling him to kill her because it is the first thing she can think of. She was even tired of death.

Raz didn't want to kill Gretha anymore. He didn't like it. He didn't like that he was taking away something that he wanted so badly.

If it was just a normal human then he would have felt nothing if he killed that person, but Gretha was different. She was immortal! She was everything he wanted to be and she was just squandering it!

Raz tried to explain it to her, but it didn't go as planned.

"What the fuck do you mean by that!?"

Obviously, she didn't like his decision.

"I want you to kill me! It's my decision and you can't say anything about it!"

Raz finally lost all his patience!

"If you want to kill yourself then go and find someone else! I won't be the one that kills you so forget about it!"

"You promised me! You said you would kill me for as long as I wanted it!"

"Have you even seen yourself lately! You don't want anything anymore!! You're an empty husk of a woman that doesn't realize that she is missing out on so much because she wants to always die! What do you think sometimes!? Have you ever thought about how your family will feel every time you leave them!? You're a living being and those people love you."

Maria narrowed her eyes. She has always known that her family will find it hard to move on in every life after she dies, but she cannot be the one to get hurt when they die instead and leave her behind. It is better this way.

Raz got up from the bed and grabbed his clothes.

"I won't be the one to tell you how to live, but I sure as hell will make you live! If you want to die then go and find another vampire! And good luck with that! I've been alive and alone for a hundred thousand years and I've never seen another vampire for as long as I searched, so you're going to have to live whether you like it or not!"

Raz left the room and that was the last time she saw him for a very long time.