< Would you like to turn into a former human and become a vampire half-ling? >

Ryan's body froze after reading the message twice.

"I will heal her," Doc moved forward to heal Gwen but before her hand could even touch Gwen, the two puncture marks on Gwen's neck started disappearing.

"Looks like there's no need," Gwen pulled her clothes together, she flowed her hand over her neck, "It doesn't hurt. I thought it would hurt."

< Decision pending. Waiting for the host's decision >

"Ryan. are you okay now?" Doc grabbed him by his shoulder. Ryan turned to Doc with shocked expressions, "Okay. take your time. This is not something I can help you with."

Gwen could sense bitterness in Doc's words. Even Doc found the situation she was in awkward and bitter. She was not feeling the spark between her and Ryan.

"Ryan~? Are you okay? You have been staring at the sky for a long time~" Gwen patted him on his back to bring him back to his senses.

"Oh.. yes, I feel better now, thanks Gwen," he smiled.

'Got it.'

< HP: 40/40 >

< Blood level: 40/40 >

< Blood storage: 25/25 >

Ryan received a message from the System. He realized that he sucked 105 milliliters of blood from Gwen, which was really low considering a normal human has five liters of blood in them.

He was not sure how much blood Gwen has in her body but he was sure she was not anemic which means she had enough blood even after Ryan sucked 105 milliliters out of her.

'Wait. does that mean I have only 80ml of blood in my body?'

"Can we get going? It's getting late now,"

****

Mr. Heffley saw his sons who were laying on the bed in a hospital.

The whole family was present there. The doctor was also standing in the room right beside Mr. Heffley.

"They..." The doctor looked down before answering, "They both are beaten pretty brutally. Not only beaten but there are blade cuts all over their body. They were knocked around pretty bad.

"It must have been a clan who attacked them. It doesn't look like the job of a single person or two. Sir Edward is not hurt that bad but there is a sign of being hit hard in his face which almost dislocated his jawbone.

"Sir Finn on the other than, he has cuts and stabs all over his back. I would like you to see it for yourself, whoever did this to him.. he was a monster. Come with me,"

The doctor took them to Finn's body. He was lying face down on the bed, he wore a light shirt that was not tight for his body.

The doctor grabbed the end of his shirt and started pulling it upwards, he pulled the shirt completely, revealing tons of different blade cuts and stabs over his back.

Mrs. Heffley covered Tim's eyes, Sofy was about to throw out at the moment. Erin stood there with no emotions whatsoever inside her for her brothers.

"Thankfully, his backbone is alright. Only if the stabs were his the lower part of his back rather than his shoulders..." Mr. Heffley had raised his hand to stop the doctor from speaking anything further.

"Father..." he heard a soft moan from his elder son. He quickly rushed to Edward's bed which was a few steps away from Finn's.

"Edward! Are you okay?! Tell me, who was it? Who did this to you? Which family was it? Whose assassins were they?"

Edward slowly parted his lips apart, then in a low voice he answered his father, "Not.. a.. family..." he muttered.

"What?" he leaned closer to hear what his son was saying.

"It was not a family attack..."

"Huh?! Then who was it?"

"Two people. A woman and a male student,"

"Student?! Are you freaking serious, Edward?"

"They were alone... They were ordinary people,"

"Names. Tell me their names and their appearance."

"The woman was tall, had long red hair, and a pretty face, she was dressed in a lab coat."

'A teacher? Or a healer?' Erin wondered.

"And the student?"

"He had grey hair... No. they were white hair." as soon as those words escaped from her brother's mouth, Erin gasped. Although the possibility of the student being her ex, the description of the student having grey hair made Erin think about her ex.

"White hair, yes. He stood taller than the woman, he had a muscular build." this description was getting closer to how Erin's ex looked like. She started thinking more and more about the suspect being her ex.

'It can't be. Why would he? No. that's impossible.'

"He had a sharp jawline and his eyes..." The image of Ryan's red-blooded eye's glare came in front of Edward, "A red-eye."

"A?"

"Yes. his other eye was closed, injured, he lost that eye, I guess." Edward choked on his own words. He coughed a few times. The doctor brought water and checked Edward.

Erin let out a sign after the description changed. It was all the same till the eye part. She was sure her ex never told anything about losing his eye, and she believed nothing would happen which will take away his eye. She felt assured.

Then he looked at Mr. Heffley with a sad expression, "Sir, you should not push him, the patient should really not talk right now, their jaw is in pretty bad shape."

"Hm. fine," he sighed, "Tell us when he's all right," Mr. Heffley turned around, ready to walk out of the room.

Erin was surprised at how easily her father gave up, she knew how stubborn her father was, if he wanted something, he would get it no matter what.

"W- wait." he heard his son behind him, "Wait a min-" He coughed again.

"Sir-" Edward pushed away from the doctor, he continued coughing and finally calmed down.

"Let me speak." he demand, the doctor moved away from him, "They were strong, the boy is probably stronger than me," when Edward claimed that, his family members' eyes went wide.

The father and the sisters found it really difficult to believe what had just happened. Their egoistic brother just claimed someone's stronger than him.

Mr. Heffley found it hard to believe because there was someone stronger than his son despite still being just a student. He felt all of his hard work behind his sons was wasted.

"He cut Finn all over with a smile on his face. He stabbed Finn and I was not able to do anything,"

"Tell me," his voice changed deeper, "Tell me his name,"

"Name.. his name..." he forgot what his name was.

"Ryan." they heard a soft voice from the other corner of the room, "His name was Ryan, Ryan the beast." Finn completed his sentence with a dreadful look.

Erin's heart skipped a beat and started pounding hard. Sofy's gaze turned to her sister, Erin felt like she was under immense pressure.

'It.. it can't be....' Erin thought looking at his sister, 'He's- it's- he's my ex-boyfriend.. My- my ex-boyfriend!'