124. Bloodsucking

"How did you get here?" The danovus lady grimaced.

"Right now? From the other side of the room! I'm almost always with Rahul anyway. So can we get to the point and can you finally tell me what I want to know?" Etele clapped his hands on his hips, and Tele Tete let out a loud sigh.

"It all started when I was a little boy." He started.

"No, now I have to listen to your whole life?" The danovus lady groaned.

"Shut up, bitch, I'm not talking to you." Tele Tete slapped the woman on the head. "So, even though the Koál tribe is famous for being good at ghost contracts, I've never been able to do it. No matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't. Then the years passed, I was almost eighteen and I still hadn't managed to make that fucking contract. Finally, I was so desperate that I went up into the mountains and went into hiding, hoping that my ghost would find me." He explained, then looked at Physalis Alkekengi with burning eyes.

"And?" Etele encouraged him to continue.

"And? And suddenly I noticed that someone hugged my chest from behind and bit my neck. And I panicked and bit back. Then we were stuck like this. Since then, I try to call her as little as possible." Tele Tete grimaced.

"I understand." The ghost ancestor nodded, then turned to the danovus woman. "Now I want to hear it from you." He declared, whereupon the lady rolled her eyes and folded her arms in front of her.

"Now should I tell you the story of my life?" She asked, scrunching up her nose.

"As a matter of fact, I'm interested." Rahul raised his left hand. "I'd be happy to listen to you tell me, if you don't mind." He tilted his head to the side with a faint smile.

"Well, look at that what a polite young man we have here." The woman smiled. "I'm telling it just because of you." She pulled herself together. "So, I think you can guess that I'm not a child of today. I don't really know when I was born, but I'm sure there were no people near or far among the mountains. I've always been an eccentric. I'm kind of an explorer in my species. It's hard for a woman to stand on her own two feet among men. That's why I invented the nails. Don't anyone dare mess with me like this. I easily crushed them. Thanks to the nails, they could only use a tenth of their strength. But of course, we wouldn't be living in a world dominated by men if they hadn't confiscated my invention. So I decided that they could go to the Fene. I retreated into the mountains of my empire and lay down to sleep."

"Sleep?" Citar blinked, grimacing.

"Yes, sleep. We danovuses can sleep for decades. We only have to get up once every hundred years to eat. So I went to sleep and the next time I woke up, there were already people living in my kingdom among the mountains, and baby danovuses, but they seemed boring. So I ate and went back to sleep. Then it went on like this for a long time, until during my last meal I noticed that someone had come to my mountains by themselves. I thought it would be an easy meal. I would suck their blood and go back to sleep. At that, this beast bit me back and now no matter how many times he screams my name, I have to appear next to him, or else I will die. Then it depends on how hard he calls, whether I appear next to him or in him." The woman grumbled.

"Yeah, we got stuck like this and now we will stay like this until I die." Tele Tete rolled his eyes.

"Why?" Etele blinked, then simply stretched out his right hand in front of him, bent his thumb, ring finger and little finger and made a cutting motion from the bottom up with the other hand. "There you go. Done, the bond is broken."

"How?" The pair's eyes widened and they turned towards the tattoo that marked their contract, which immediately began to fade and disappeared.

"Etele may be an unfortunate madman, but you have to acknoledge he is a genius." Razvan shrugged.

"Ah, don't mention it. It's no big deal to break a ghost bond between two living beings." Svihák waved.

"If it's no big deal, then..." Rahul began grumpily, and the shost raised his hands.

"Hey! I'm telling you, between two living beings, what you have on is not that. I don't mess around with something I only understand half of. It's no big deal with two living people. Children often ruined the binding, you just cut it apart. With them..." He pointed to Tele Tete and Physalis Alkekengi, who were still blinking at each other and then at themselves. "With them, I had to listen to both sides to know how the binding was formed. If you know how they did it, you can easily reverse it. That's obvious." He spread his arms.

"But the ghost binding can't be reversed." Teveli huffed.

"Of course it can be. I just explained it." Etele shook his head disapprovingly. "Don't let me be the only one who understands it, just because I invented the whole thing."

"Svihák, you were always the only one who could break them." Razvan remarked, which made Etele open his mouth.

"Grandpa, did you invent ghost bindings?" Rahul distracted his ghost relative from Teveli and the boss of the team.

"Yes. If you hadn't noticed when you last met. My unfortunate son didn't even have the talent to keep a ghost. I had to make it easier somehow, if like the other idiots in the camp, my son was good for nothing." He folded his arms in front of him, when Rahul suddenly covered one ear and raised his left hand to the side, in which his sword Ghost Bell appeared.

"Speak quieter to him! He won't hear!" Rahul growled. "Your son sent you to your old mother." The boy said, looking straight at Etele, but one eye still narrowed and constantly grimacing.

"Calm down, Laik, be glad you didn't end up like most of our relatives." The ghost noted.

"How?" Rahul blinked and lowered his sword.

"Only one in thirty people in my family was born with good summoning skills. The rest were only slightly good. Thanks to multiple ghost summonings, the average age is twenty years." The ghost sighed. "So you are free, kids. Choose more carefully next time." He remarked, turning to Tele Tete and Physalis Alkekengi, then his figure faded and simply disappeared.

"If twenty years is really the average age, then I'm glad he came up with the contract." Teveli shivered.

"Now that we are free. You might as well get out of here, bitch!" Tele Tete growled at the danovus lady.

"In your dreams, Teveli. I just had a little son, I'll stick to you for a while." The woman put her arms around the man, who groaned and, taking off his hat, ran his hands through his hair.

"Why me?" He asked desperately.

"Because you are the only one I know. But don't worry, I'll only stay on your neck at night. And now." She clapped her hands and stepped next to Wandi. "Come on, little one, mom is giving you a training." She didn't even wait for the answer, she already started dragging the boy out of the room.

"Don't look at me, if that woman decides something, you won't stop her." Tele Tete raised his hands when the group looked at him pleadingly. "But we can go after them and see what they are doing. I've never seen danovus training before." He offered, and the Athamanas didn't need much convincing, they quickly agreed and so the small group followed the danovus pair who left the room.