"On to the rooftop!" Ryan shouted as he told Devon and Brandon to follow him to the building's rooftop.

"Why are we running?" Devon asked while he tried to keep up with Brandon and Ryan.

< Superspeed activated >

< Agility: 75 kilometers per hour >

"His speed.. it has increased," Brandon was easily able to keep up with Ryan's speed but he sure noticed the slight change in Ryan's speed to run additional 30 kilometers more.

"If you do not want to die your.. step brother's hands then please run," Ryan shouted from the front.

That.. somehow offended Devon. It was not as if he was denying the fact that he is born from a human and a vampire whereas his brother is born from only two vampires making him an Elite vampire.

But still.. being called a step-brother sure hurts although it was not directed to him, he felt bad because his big brother is purely a vampire but Devon is a Hybrid race.

Which, in the end of course makes Devon's mother the step-mother and eventually makes him a part of the stepfamily.

"Watch your mouth, Ryan, that is a sensitive topic."

Ryan ticked his tongue as he looked back at Brandon, "Yeah, whatever" Ryan was annoyed.

Finally,? after climbing tens of stairs, Ryan and his team were on the fourth and the last floor. There was the rooftop door in front of him, with a fine kick, he opened the door.

"Was that a good decision?" Brandon thought as he looked at the door when he went past the doorway.

"Maybe not the best," Devon muttered when he went past through the doorway onto the rooftop.

"Now what?"

"Hide till that vampire calms down?" Ryan replied sarcastically, "Obviously we will have to get away from his vampire which is a lame thing to do, I believe."

"Should not we just have killed Darell while we had the chance, Brandon?"

Brandon looked down, "I have killed a lot of humans... I have killed a few vampires too but.. when Ryan pushed Stanley and he fell on my scythe, ultimately making me the murderer of Stanley, I felt guilt,"

"No way." Ryan threw his hands, "I thought I helped you guys by killing that–"

"Yes, yes you did, Ryan!" Brandon cut him off in between, "But.." he turned to Devon and shook his head, "I fear the consequences."

"What consequences?" Ryan asked.

"...." Devon looked at Brandon with big eyes, "You mean.." Brandon nodded.

"Can someone please, please explain- or at least, tell me what are the consequences?"

They both looked at Ryan, "The council. We killed a guardian vampire from our own family..."

"So? It was not like the guardian vampire was really guarding you or was being super nice with you guys. Throw that aside, you know what? I think it was the best decision to kill him.."

"You do not understand, Ryan.. it is complicated." Ryan's eye finally turned to Devon. Devon, who had betrayed Ryan a few minutes ago.

"Yes, he is right. The council does not care if the vampire who was killed was a good vampire or not, that is not their job,"

"Well, then what is their job?" Ryan applied pressure on the last words.

"Their job is to trial the vampire who killed their family member and then.. punish them,"

"Haha- sorry. But, punish? What is this council? Are they some primary school's principals?" Ryan joked.

"Do not. They may be some school's principles but believe me, they are way stronger than literally any vampire in the whole universe."

"What I want to know is, why would they punish you?"

"Because we freaking killed Stanley and now we are betrayers!"

Ryan's face turned to Devon, slowly a frown appeared on his face... "Right. You really are one," Ryan scoffed and continued to look at Devon.

"I- I– okay, listen." Ryan wanted to smash Devon's face with a powerful level 15 blood fist.

"No, you listen." Ryan bolted in Devon's direction.

"God. we are already in a crisis, we do not need another one," Brandon groaned in annoyance.

Ryan suddenly stopped, 'Wait. I forgot to do something important.' Ryan thought as he brought his eyes to shut.

< Blood simmer activated >

< As the target is far from the user, it will take about two minutes for the skill to activate completely. >

"You bastard, what do you think you were doing the whole time? Spying on me? What is the meaning of this?" Ryan went back to Devon.

"Right-"

"No, wrong! How can you do it? Man, I believed in you so much! I had faith in you. I was ready to stake my life for your life. I decided to risk my life and tried to protect you from this vampire business you are in!"

"No, I can– wait, what?" Devon was left surprised, "You what?"

"I want to kill you, I might be dangerous than your brother if you piss me off or break my trust!" Ryan shouted as he ran towards Devon.

"Wait- do not come closer, Ryan. Wait right there!" Of course, Ryan did not. He continued to run. Ryan was close enough, he threw his hands towards Devon's collar.

"No, dude, I can explain!" Devon was continuously shaking his hands in front of him.

"You fuck–" Before Ryan could get hold of Devon's collar, Devon went swept underground, as if the earth ate him as a whole.

Ryan quickly turned around, he threw his hand to grab Devon's arm behind him but missed, Ryan quickly went for Devon's neck again.

But again, Devon went underground, 'What the- did his reflexes improved a lot?' Even Devon was surprised by his quick reaction.

"Come out, Devon! You can not hide forever!" Ryan shouted in rage.

"See dude, I will explain everything when you calm down, till then, farewell—"

"What farewell?" when Devon was about to get out of the ground, he felt a suffocating grip around his mouth and neck.

"Ryan, careful," Brandon warned.

"Tell me. Why did you spy on me, what made you do that, are you really just an agent or truly my.. friend?" Ryan threw Devon away from him.

Devon took that opportunity and dived deep into the ground, "You should not have let me go,"

When Devon went down into the ground.. he felt a stinging hot sensation inside his obliques.

"You may want to stay above the waters when a shark is underwaters." He heard Ryan talking with a sinister tone.

Because of the stinging, burning pain, Devon leaped forward and came out of the ground.

Devon continued breathing. Ryan grinned when he saw Devon come out of the ground in front of him.

"Fuck.. what was that? As if someone bit me from inside," Devon's hands quickly went to his left oblique.

He rose up from the and turned his body to look at the burning pain, "....." his eyes went wide in fear when he saw... A little drop of blood.

< 2 HP deducted for using the skill: Blood Simmer >

"As long as you do not want to be burned inside your waters." Ryan grimaced.

"You-!" Devon angrily turned towards Ryan.

"Now.. answer me. Why did you do something like that? All the time we spent together.. was that just because of you spying on me or were you really my friend?"

Suddenly, the time Ryan spent with Devon telling him about his love life, started flashing in front of Ryan's eyes. He started regretting doing it but did not let the regret appear on his face.

"Both." Devon finally answered.

"Good. now I guess I will get my answer too," Brandon muttered and sat down on the ground, crossed legs.

"At first.. I was with you cause fate bought us together as a team. Then second, as the time went by and I.. I started likin Naomi," the bitterness in his words, "And saw you get-"

"Ah, that shit. Tell me something else," Ryan interrupted, "I can swear, I have no whatsoever interest in your Naomi. I do not care if she has any interest in me."

"You say that.. but it is hard for me to get used to the fact that Naomi likes someone else."

"Huh- you got it wrong, she does not–"

"Do not lie to yourself, Ryan" Devon shook his head, "You know it yourself." Then he looked down with teary eyes.

Ryan too dropped his head after the bitter realization of the reality that Naomi [according to Devon] likes him.

He finally got Gwen's situation handled somehow, Doc.. who knows what Doc is going through; then Naomi?

I should have thought twice before asking God for a harem as a Christmas gift.

"I.. I lost it, man.." Tears flew down Devon's eyes, "I could not bring myself to look at you two.. to look at my love while she enjoyed her time with someone else."

"You forgot one thing.. that someone else.. was your good friend who would have sacrificed his love life to keep you happy." Ryan shook his head as he spoke.

Devon's eyes reached Ryan's eye, "Dude.." Devon felt like crying even more.

"YES. I am not just saying, I would have really done it for you,"

"I.. who rejected the way vampire world works and their projects, their stuff, their missions, their spy agency.. I was compelled to take their top priority mission when I could not bear seeing you two so happy together anymore.."

"What mission?" Ryan asked.

"To spy and report whatever Ryan Walker does," Devon replied with red eyes from crying.

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