"Professor.. do you have any ideas on how to deal with a betrayal?"

"No." He received a straight answer.

"I might lose myself.. I want to kill Devon right now!" Ryan grunted his gritted his teeth.

< Blood fists activated >

"Calm down. Accept the truth first. Accept the reality as it is, accepted the fact that being betrayed by a friend is deeply hurtful."

"Nah. Being betrayed actually feels pretty irritating. It makes me angry than upset."

"Good. Think of nothing in your mind. Keep your mind empty, do not rush any decisions, the mind must be empty."

"Done." Ryan had his eyes focused on Devon and Darell. His mind was totally blank from the shock anyway.

"Hm..." Darell turned his head around, "does not seem interesting.." he said lazily.

"Yes... so, would you please tell me what is going inside the vampire world? What is the current state of the council?" Devon asked. He was obviously a little scared of what step the council might take, or make him take.

"Why? You do not need to know," He turned around and started walking towards the little cabin, "But, whatever." He threw himself on the cabin's stairs, leaned against the chair with one of his arms on the edge of the stair.

He turned his sleepy head to his butler, he raised his eyebrows and shook his head a little in Devon's direction.

"Yes, Lord." Stanley bowed and took a step forward, he was standing in front of Devon and Brandon now.

"It is not helping, Professor.."

"Oh? Fuck it then." Professor left his innocent and calm side, "Your relationship with Devon, ask yourself if the relationship is worth saving or not. If not, then let it sink."

"Uhhh."

"Shut yourself and stay calm. Later, have a talk with him, ask him if he is sorry for what he did, which he most probably would not because he is a spy agent after all. If he is not guilty a bit, then say goodbye. You should never trust people like these."

Ryan did not say anything. He continued to look at Devon with a flame of anger within him. His fists went back to normal.

Stanley stood in front of both of them without saying anything at first.

"What?" When Devon asked what was he doing, Stanley started speaking up.

"The Aceved planet" Ryan's anger started flowing out of his mind when something this interesting caught his attention. A planet that belongs to vampires only.

On the other hand, Stanley continued, "It is doing going well. The stocks are high, market value, market capitalization is going well, the industries are developing at an amazing growth rate. Every vampire is living a–"

"Why are you telling us the financial situation of Aceved?" Brandon interrupted Stanely in between.

Stanley raised his eyes up at Brandon with a little red glint in them.

"I am not telling you. I am telling Devon about it,"

"Why are you telling me about the financial situation of Aceved?" Without wasting any time, Devon quickly repeated the same question again to Stanley. Stanley looked down at Devon and replied.

"But, you said you wanted to know about the Vampire world.."

"What I meant was, I want to know about the Vampire council and what they are doing right now." Devon was a little annoyed by Stanely's reply.

"What do you mean? Can you be even more precise?"

"I mean, what does the council know about? Why did they send you here, what is going on!?"

"Devon." Devon's eyes followed his brother's voice. Darell was looking at Devon with a deadly smile [In a bad way].

Devon gulped and looked away. His body shivered when he received the warning to keep this voice down.

"Okay... Fine." Stanley took a deep breath before he went forward with his report, "The council is in heat. They are having a little controversial conflict going on between themselves which we believe will calm down soon."

"A controversial conflict? What kind of?"

"That is classified. But we hope the situation to calm down."

"Yeah.. that is what I hope too. We do not want yet another vampire war soon. Please calm down," Devon looked truly worried about the war breaking out.

"A war? Huh... so a war happened between them even before?" Ryan sounded surprised when in reality he was not, "I guess the vampires do not have a strong unity like the humans, too." Ryan guessed.

"It will not happen." Stanley affirmed, "Recently, a few days ago, we received a.. missing report about a vampire going missing."

"Missing? Now, what kind of joke is that? That vampire must be hidden somewhere in the mansion, playing idea and seek." Brandon annoyingly represented his thoughts.

"No." Stanley glanced at Brandon then back to Devon, "The council is in chaos, the lady who went missing is the heiress of the Ashiro clan."

Brandon's eyes went wide, he looked at Darell. Darell was sitting calmly with a disturbed look on his face.

"Hm." He nodded, "It is true. Ah, every time I hear it.. my head feels like it is going to bust."

"But- why would Japan's Superpower family's lady leave the clan? It makes no sense!" Brandon raised his voice.

"Japan's superpower?" Devon repeated it.

"Japan..." Ryan looked down. He realized that in the vampire world Aceved, there live vampires from many other countries.

"That is what the council is trying to figure out. The master and elder of the clan are irritated all the time. They are throwing tantrums in the council room." Stanley continued.

"Believe it or not, they had to rebuild the council hall thrice already." Devon's eyes went wide.

Brandon sighed, "And then? Do they think she is back in Japan?"

"Not actually.. actually, they were only 40% sure, there was only a 40% possibility for her to come back to Japan as she has lived her whole life in Aceved... But."

Brandon shook his head, Devon was looking at Stanley intensely, "Because of yesterday's fight.. the council is not 80% sure that Ashiro Saori is in Japan."

Brandon grabbed his head with both hands, "Damn." He turned around and grunted hardly. Devon was frozen in place.

"H- how the council..why does the council know about yesterday's fight? I mean, how?" Devon muttered a question.

"And as one of the Bostick family members is in charge, the Bostick family's Ambassador was sent here to check the situation." Stanley ignored Devon's question and continued with his report.

Darell raised his head, " Although the council has its secret agents all over the world already working for them, you, Devon Bostick are a legit spy. The secret agents, as you know are not from a family. They are either punished shadows or the vampires who have gone rogue."

Devon nodded. Brandon was still not out from his grief, he knew what the future held for him and for Devon. Things were about to take a tragic turn.

"What do you think of the council...? It is not like the Earth's government. The Vampire Council has been active for more than 400 years and is still being managed by the oldest and the most experienced vampires around the world.

"They have their spies all over the world. They are reported about everything that is done. Yesterday when the presence of a Pure vampire was detected, the agents quickly reported it back to the council."

"Why did not they take any step then?" Devon asked.

"Huh. Cause the council wanted to wait, if they had made an attempt to catch her, they would have failed. She is someone who managed to get out of the headquarters. What is the human world then? If she can run once, she can run always."

Brandon finally threw his hands down, turned back to Stanley. Stanley's eyes fell on Brandon who was agitated, "So what? Now, what are they trying to do?"

Brandon asked without having any patience to wait for the answer.

"The council is looking for Saori. Ascendants are behind her beside the already active special secret agents and spies. Looks like we did underestimate the council a big this time... Cause, it has been over a hundred years since the last time the Council got serious about treason or missing report." Stanley adjusted his hair.

"Can you.. please get to the point?" Devon said. His eyes were fixed at Stanley.

Stanley again pushed his hair back, looked at Devon from the corner of his eye. He scoffed and turned to Brandon.

"The council suspects that Saori from the Ashiro is hidden here, kidnaped or hiding on her own." Stanley's eyes turned to Devon.

"Fuck.. what is going on? Why are they so tensed up about a vampire girl gone missing? Maybe she just ran away with her loved one cause their parents did not approve of them?" Ryan tsk-tsked as he shook his head.

"Because of yesterday's vampire presence, the council is 80% confirmed Ashiro Saori's existence in this Academy. The presence sensed yesterday was of a pure vampire."

"Yeah. what are you intimating?" Brandon bit his lip slightly.

"And fortunately or unfortunately..." A grin spread over Stanley's face, "Ashiro Saori, a pure vampire is missing. Which confirms her existence by 90%."

A smile spread over Darell's face too. Devon was confused but... Brandon got what they were about to do.

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The Novel Review.

Yo, this year, 2021, has been a real hassle. If you ask me, it was not the best year for me. But it was not the worst either. Anyway, to focus on the future and on the present, I will and I am working hard to make 2022 the best year of my life ever. I mean it, seriously.

For now, let us take a break from his New Year Resolution thing and go back to the yaer 2021. This year has been a fascinating journey for me as a writer on Web Novel. I wrote my first novel on Web Novel.

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