Volume 1, Diary of a Butler Chapter 4: The Master’s Safety at Risk

Translator: Raylight

Dear Father,

You have said once before that no matter what happens, a good butler must always stay calm and collected while keeping a straight face, so as not to let his own mood affect that of his employer. However, you have never mentioned what I should do if even keeping on a straight face is not enough to hide my feelings from my employer.

Please bless me from the heavens, as to prevent my own mood from affecting the young master henceforth.

When I first arrived at the garbage dump, there was not a single person there. Thus, I could only pick an empty spot that was not overly dirty to wait there.

It was very clear today with an abundance of light. It seemed like the other party had specially picked a sunny day and, as expected, the day they had picked so meticulously was good. I felt as though my entire body had been thrown in an oven.. After saving the young master, shall we have roasted fish for dinner tonight? I wonder how many fish will be necessary to satisfy the young master’s appetite?

I am not sure if twenty fish will be enough, but the oven at home definitely cannot roast that many fish. Maybe I should purchase a bigger oven and then buy another smaller oven. The large oven can be used to roast main dishes, while the small oven can be used for desserts..

I tried my best to ponder over how to be a better butler, shifting my attention away from the word “hot.” However, the more I thought about it, the hotter I felt.. Sure enough, I should not have thought about something like ovens.

Hm, then how about we have ice cream for dessert? Though we had just eaten some not too long ago, in such hot weather, the young master should want to have it. The ice cream from last time made him very happy, and he finished no less than three tubs by himself.

“Charles Endelis!”

I turned my thoughts on desserts back to the current situation and looked in the direction of the voice. There were about thirty or so people, and in each of their hands they held a gun. They were standing quite a distance away from me, about a hundred meters. I also saw my previous employer, Mr. Burt. He was standing in the center of all the bodyguards. It seemed like everything had gone well for him since I had left. Furthermore, it appeared that he was even heftier than before.

In the past when I was still his butler, the only duty I fulfilled as a butler was preparing food for him. The food that he liked coincidentally happened to be rather similar to the young master’s taste; they both liked high calorie food. Though the amount he ate wasn’t as much as the young master’s intake.. the young master is able to maintain a third of Mr. Burt’s width. The young master’s stomach really is something that is even more mysterious than a vampire.

Though I saw Mr. Burt, I did not see the young master An Xiang Ye.

I frowned, and in a loud voice I asked, “Mr. Burt, may I inquire as to the whereabouts of my young master?”

Mr. Burt, extremely lacking in manners, gave an enraged roar, “Did you think that I would be foolish enough to bring him here? I’m warning you, Endelis, my other subordinates are currently watching that lad. As long as you dare to attack us, they will immediately slaughter him!”

I fell silent for a moment, and then taking a step forward, I practically vanished into thin air. When I re-appeared, I was standing in front of Mr. Burt.

I looked at him, but he had not seemed to manage to react yet and was only staring at me blankly. Actually, he was not the only one. Not a single one of the bodyguards on either side of him managed to react in time, though these bodyguards had more or less modified their bodies.

However, regardless of how strong or fast one is after modifying their body, if one’s brain cannot keep up, then what use is there?

Just like now, if I had wanted to kill Mr. Burt, he would have long since been dead. Regarding those modified bodyguards, no matter how numerous they are, they would not be of any use. That is because their reaction speed simply could not keep up with my movements.

It was only when I reached out my hand and grabbed Mr. Burt’s neck did I see a reaction from him. He stared at me with wide-open eyes. Though this action was something that the young master did rather often, when the young master did it, it would always make others want to answer his questions. However, for Mr. Burt, it instead.. Cough! I nearly thought of something lacking in manners.

I indifferently told him, “Sorry, but I am also not so foolish as to let you do as you wish simply because you are using my young master as a hostage. I must tell you, if you do not hurt the young master, I will guarantee that your life will be spared. If you do or have hurt him, I would also not kill you. It is just that you would not be alive either. You know that vampires can turn humans into ‘blood thralls’ who will unconditionally obey their master’s orders, right?”

I watched with great satisfaction as his pupils abruptly shrunk, and I nodded my head as I continued. “I would definitely turn you into such a thing. Then, I would let you spend eternity in pain. You would not wish for that kind of situation to happen, right?”

At this moment, those slow-witted bodyguards finally came to their senses, and all thirty or so guns were pointed directly at me. However, before Mr. Burt gave a command, they would not dare to do anything.

I gave a flat demand, “Mr. Burt, please set the young master free.”

Mr. Burt’s face became gravely distorted, as though he was extremely conflicted. In the end, he instead roared, “I can’t set him free. However, I can send you to hell and reunite you with him! Open fire! Shoot him dead!”

“I had thought that you understood my strength.”

Mr. Burt’s reply made me feel a little shocked. Though I had not shown my true strength in front of him, I should have shown him sufficient strength. Otherwise, under the situation where he already had a bunch of bodyguards with modified bodies, he would not be willing to fork out ten million to hire me.

“Of course I know how strong you are. However..” Mr. Burt hollered, “I also know that you don’t dare kill people and are a spineless fellow, Endelis!”

After hearing this reply, I suddenly felt that it was a little funny. Do not tell me that the reason I left, which was my unwillingness to follow his orders to kill, had become that I did not dare to kill?

At this instance, a gunshot rang in the surroundings, and simultaneously I raised my hand up, grabbing hold of something.

“A silver bullet?”

I opened up my hand and gave a dull smile as I examined the silver bullet in my palm. For vampires whose “generation number” is further off, silver bullets might actually be considerably lethal. However, for vampires whose “generation number” is only a single digit, they simply do not count as a type of weapon. They are not as much of a threat as energy weapons, which are currently the most popular.

Mr. Burt’s expression turned into one of disbelief. He stammered, “Y-You’re not afraid of silver? How is this possible? Aren’t all vampires scared of silver!”

“I am scared..”

I gently tilted my palm, and watched the shining silver bullet fall onto the floor. Then I lifted my head up, and smiled as I continued, “I am scared that it will contaminate my blood. However, you would have to let it touch the blood in my body before that would work.”

Once Mr. Burt heard that, he immediately roared, “Shoot! Hurry up, shoot him! Didn’t you hear what he said? If you can hit him until he spurts blood, then we can finish him off!”

To have had such an employer in the past, this is really enough to make me feel ashamed for eternity!

Within moments, gunshots rang out. I hesitated for a moment, and threw aside Mr. Burt, who was in my hands. Then, I dodged the majority of the bullets with lightning speed. I did not manage to avoid a portion of them.. Combat was simply not my specialty. However, it actually did not matter that much. The silver bullets were not enough to cut my skin open and subsequently contaminate my blood.

As for the reason why I wanted to avoid those bullets, it was purely for the sake of the clothes on my body. However, that too was not important now, for whether there were three or three hundred holes, it would be the same. In conclusion, this set of clothes could not be worn again.

The other party fired at me non-stop, but other than that, they were completely unable to do anything else. Just as I had said before, their reaction speeds could not match up to my movement. However, even with their random firing, they never seemed to run out of bullets in their magazines.. I could not help but sigh. Modern weapons sure are advanced. It is practically as though they have unlimited bullets.

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Even though I was extremely reluctant, I still had to raise my hand against them and attack. The young master’s situation was unknown and if I were to delay any further, I was afraid that the young master’s life would become further endangered.

I dodged behind a bodyguard and just as I was about to knock him out with a chop, he suddenly gave a violent shudder and fell to the ground. This made me a little puzzled. What exactly happened?

“Hurry up and stop! We’re hitting our own men!” The others yelled in a panic.

I see. I felt that it was a bit laughable. Before they came back to their senses, I darted to the back of another person and knocked him out. Then, I once again darted behind another person.

This person’s reflexes were not bad. He sensed me and spun around, and immediately there were the loud sounds of gunfire. However, while he was turning, I had long since followed him and shifted behind him again. I was just in time to see him shoot down a few of his comrades who were originally standing behind him. I could only raise an arm to knock him out so as to prevent him from killing more people.

In less than a minute, I once again returned in front of Mr. Burt. He was half sprawled on the floor and was the only human left on the scene who was not lying down. However, the credit for this was truly not completely mine. I had only knocked a few bodyguards unconscious; most of them had fallen under the gunfire of their comrades.

I lowered my head to look at Mr. Burt and softly told him, “You still do not understand my strength, Mr. Burt. Otherwise, you would not have come and pursued me for such insignificant secrets. That is really not worth it.”

Mr. Burt was like a fish out of water.. Perhaps a puffer fish would be more appropriate. His mouth opened again and again, but other than breathing in hard, he did not manage to form any words the entire time.

I looked at the sea of people on the ground surrounding me and gave a sigh. After this experience, Mr. Burt would probably not come and pursue me again. Therefore, there should be no need to slaughter anyone to warn him.

However, following that, a difficult problem arose. Even though I grabbed Mr. Burt’s neck and interrogated him, he changed his attitude from before and kept insisting that he had not captured the young master and was only deceiving me.

I did not know what to do. After all, I could not really kill him.

Maybe Mr. Burt was telling the truth. However, inside my heart I understood that a greater possibility was that he had already killed the young master, and was only insisting that he had not captured the young master in order to save his life.

I released the person in my hands with despair in my heart. If something has truly happened to the young master, the only employer to have associated with me this pleasantly, and he actually met an unfortunate demise because of me, then tell me, how am I to have the courage to look for the next employer?

Should I obediently go back to my ancient castle, and become a vampire served by others, never to dream of being a butler anymore?

“Miscreant!”

I froze for a moment before returning to my senses. With a quick look around, I found the person who had spoken.

He was standing on top of a high mountain of trash. Even if one did not want to notice him, it would be difficult to do so.

When he saw that I had noticed him, he instantly roared, “To have actually hurt so many people! Miscreant! As a hero, I will never let you get away with this!”

So it was a “hero.”

I took measure of him. His entire attire looked rather stylish, and he was wearing a mask on his face. The body part that he had modified was his left arm. This was the body part that most people would choose to modify. A modified arm was after all, not as meticulous as a real arm, and was unable to do some finer movements. Therefore, a majority would choose to keep their right arm and modify their left arm into a formidable modified limb.

However, he did not seem to be a famous hero. As everyone knows, the most violent hero, Dragon Peace, has exaggerated muscles as his trademark. He does not seem to have modified his body, but everyone has speculated that that pair of strong arms must have been modified. His arms must simply have been made to look very much like real ones. Moreover, he does not wear anything to cover his face, yet for some reason, no one has found out where he lives.

The most dashing hero is First Wind. Though he is nicknamed the most dashing, it is because he has handsome posture and elegant movements. As to what his face looks like, no one actually knows. That is because he is always wearing a mask that covers half of his face. The place that he has modified is his left arm.

As for the only female hero, there was no need to even mention her. The person in front of my eyes was definitely a male, not a female.

The last one, the one nicknamed the most mysterious hero, Dark Sun, always wears silver goggles. He also has a very special trait, and that is that he never speaks. Furthermore, the duration in which he appears has never exceeded three minutes. Therefore, he has seldom appeared on the media. The media could only interview the people who had been helped by Dark Sun as to what had happened.

Since this person had shouted miscreant right at the start, he was obviously not Dark Sun either.

The only possible candidate was First Wind. However, my disrespectful speculation was that this person was definitely not him either. His presence was simply not enough to be named the most dashing hero. Compared to this person, Young Master An Xiang Ye’s presence could practically be that of a prince.

As of now, other than these four heroes that have been established, the others are not really heroes. After all, these so-called heroes could not appear more than a few times before getting killed by the villains or vanishing without a trace.

At most, this person in front of me can only be considered a “hero apprentice,” right? To this hero apprentice, the thirty or so people who had surrounded and attacked me with guns were all good people, and I was the miscreant who ought to be beaten down?

I gave a small smile and told him, “For a hero who has just started their career, it is a little risky to pick a malefactor who can defeat over thirty people, right?”

That person lowered his head to look at the people lying all over the floor, and gulped. He then bellowed, “Don’t think that I don’t know that you had them kill one another. It absolutely wasn’t you who had defeated them at all!

“So? If it were you, could you get thirty or so people who had modified their bodies, who are even wielding guns, to kill each other?”

I held my temper, and then used the last shred of my patience to explain to him, “I am not a miscreant. They are the ones who are the kidnappers. Not only did they kidnap my young master, they even tried to use the young master to threaten me. Right now, I must hurry and look for my young master. Therefore, please do not try to fight me.”

That person hesitated briefly, but still raised the weapon in his hands. The handle was shaped like a sword hilt, but what extended from the hilt was something that looked like a shining blade. It was an energy blade.

I gave a sigh.

The weapons of humans have really made rapid progress with each passing day. Now, energy weapons have almost replaced silver blades and silver bullets as the weapon that vampires are most afraid of. For vampires whose generation numbers are higher, whether they are pierced in the heart by a silver blade or an energy blade, both would turn them into dust.

For vampires whose generation numbers are relatively lower, blocking silver blades is not something difficult. The high heat of the energy blades is what is truly difficult to block. Also, if one were to have their limbs chopped off by an energy blade, due to the wound being cauterized by the high heat, it would be a more difficult matter to re-attach the limb.

After he had activated his energy blade, the hero apprentice’s confidence appeared to have increased. He shouted with a fierce and vicious voice, “I have seen your fangs, you are a vampire! Do you think that I would believe your words?”

“So, you intend to make a move. I feel that this is very regretful, extremely regretful.”

If this were as per usual, I would not get involved with him and would quickly depart from the scene. I believed he would not be able to keep up with me. However, at the moment, I had run out of patience due to my interactions with Mr. Burt and his underlings. Moreover, I had already given this hero apprentice his last chance.

Though I mostly drank from blood bags for survival and rarely used my fangs to have a meal, I did not mind doing so every once in a while.

With one step of my foot, I quickly ascended the mountain of rubbish. This distance was a little far, so I was not able to rush in front of him in one go. Thus, I could only separate it into several spurts. The hero apprentice’s eyes grew wide. His gaze would always be a step behind, pausing on the blur of my shadow. Obviously, he could not keep up with my speed. He panicked for a moment, but following that he showed a resolute expression. He used his modified left arm to swing his energy blade and wave it at lightning speed, and it became a shining web of blades to protect him.

By this time, I had already sprinted to his side. After seeing this web of blades, I paused in my assault and temporarily circled once around him. At the same time, I commended his reaction. It seemed like this hero apprentice was indeed more powerful than the thirty or so bodyguards from earlier.

However, while the course of action that he had carried out was good, the mesh in the web of blades seemed to be a bit too big. Once I glanced over, I saw many gaps. Aiming at one of the gaps, I stuck my claw-like hand through the web and firmly grabbed hold of his left arm.

He nearly jumped in shock and tried his best to struggle out of my hold on him. He used too much strength with his left arm, so it started to heat up and even emitted sounds similar to an engine overheating.

However, his left arm still did not manage to escape from my grip. In this time period, if I wanted to kill him, he would have died more than a hundred times.

In the end, he finally gave up. He only looked at me in panic as he muttered, “How is this possible, how could this..”

“Modified limbs are not as strong as you think they are.” I calmly said, “You really should not have picked me as an opponent.”

I am a vampire from the fifth generation. To humans, the strength of a “fifth generation” is probably very hard to understand. Simply put, if my opponent was a vampire and had found out that I was a vampire from the fifth generation, probably the only thing that he would think of is escape.

After thousands of years, among the vampires who are still active in this world, the earliest generation would be the fifth generation. The vampires who are from the fourth generation and before have long since become but a legend.

Though I am only a hundred and fifty some years old, and am simply a child within vampire circles, my generation number can intimidate quite a few vampires who are three hundred years old or older. They would not rashly try and mess with me.

This is also the reason why few vampires would actually try and mess with me, even though as a vampire whose profession is that of a butler, I had received a lot of criticism from other vampires. The reason is very simple; they do not have the confidence that they would be able to beat me.

Even vampires who are three hundred years old and above would not come and provoke me, yet this “infant” who has merely modified his left arm, wields an energy blade, and whose age could not possibly be over thirty, actually dared to wave a blade at me. I really did not know whether to laugh or sigh at that.

Seeing how he was still in a state of disbelief, I simply ripped off his left arm and grabbed his neck. I pulled his face to the front of my eyes. Even his mask could not block me from seeing his fear. Then, I used the low roar unique to vampires on him.

This was a hollow roar that sounded as though it had echoed from a valley.

“Child, to be a spectator and to experience it for yourself are two different matters. Now, are you able to truly understand my speed? Do you still believe that those thirty or more people had died because they killed each other, and that it had no relation to my strength at all?”

Under the situation where he was being held by the neck, he frantically shook his head with much difficulty.

However, I actually did not mind whether he replied or not, for words from food were not important. I bared my fangs and was about to dig into my meal.

But I abruptly let him go and jumped aside in an instant. An energy beam had been shot at the exact spot where I had been standing just now. It was not only fired once, but in multiple streams of assaults. These beams continuously forced me to retreat backwards.. Moreover, they were forcing me to go further away from my “food.”

“Please don’t move. I have no intention of hurting you.”

The energy beams stopped, and I too, naturally paused in my footsteps. I looked towards the source of the voice. That person was standing some distance away, with hands wielding dual guns. What was so special was that one gun was an energy gun, but the other was a traditional gun that shot bullets. The person wielding dual guns was wearing a tight leather suit that outlined the curves of her body, and had a black butterfly mask on her face.

In an extremely clear voice, she opened her mouth to speak. “I saw everything that happened. You are not a miscreant, and I have no intention of giving you trouble. I only wish that you do not hurt him.”

A female hero? The words slipped from my mouth by reflex, “Solitary Butterfly?”

“Yes,” she admitted without an ounce of hesitation.

“You really are Solitary Butterfly?” My prey struggled to stand up, and then shouted at her, “Let us beat down that nefarious vampire together!”

I must admit that I was truly rather joyful when Solitary Butterfly did not agree and instead coldly glared at him.

“Shut up. Have you properly comprehended the situation?” Solitary Butterfly icily told him, “Didn’t you see that he didn’t hurt anyone, but instead knocked all those people unconscious one-by-one? Also, regarding those people, do you not clearly see their attire and equipped weapons? If they aren’t from the criminal underworld, I will swallow my gun.. Both of them!”

The food probably did not expect to get such an answer. His eyes widened, and he seemed unsure of what to do next.

I figured I might as well tell him what to do, and coldly told him, “Scram! Otherwise, you will be dead.”

The food looked hesitantly towards Solitary Butterfly, but she only coldly told him off. “Didn’t understand what the vampire said? Then I’ll help him say it one more time. Scram!”

I admired this female hero. She really was a woman with personality.

After the prey had scrambled away, Solitary Butterfly went ahead and put away her dual guns. Then, she started to size me up, and I did the same to her.

“My apologies for interrupting your meal. I too think that he is foolish to the point of courting death, but..” She spread her hands open and said extremely helplessly, “As you know, I’m a hero! I can’t just sit there and look on helplessly as he turns into a dry corpse.”

I gave a smile and replied, “It does not matter. A meal in exchange for a meeting with the only female hero is extremely worth it.”

Solitary Butterfly was obviously filled with good intentions too, for she took the initiative to explain, “I saw those thirty or so people drive over here and thinking that those people probably wouldn’t be up to anything good, I followed them here to take a look. I didn’t imagine that I would actually meet a vampire.. Is your young master that has been kidnapped a young vampire?”

“No, he is a human. I am only a butler that the young master has hired.”

“To be able to hire a vampire as a butler?” Solitary Butterfly showed a glimpse of a smile as she said, “I’m a little interested in regards to your young master.”

My face changed color and I hurriedly tried to clarify, “Young Master is only an ordinary person, and I am a vampire whose profession is that of a butler.”

“Is that so?” From her tone, Solitary Butterfly sounded like she did not quite believe me, but she did not stay on this topic. Instead, she straightforwardly said, “Go and find your young master! I hope that the next time we meet, you won’t be in the middle of sucking someone’s blood. I have no wish to clash with you. A speed that fast really is troublesome to deal with.

“Until we meet again, vampire butler.”

After she said that, Solitary Butterfly jumped to the back of the mountain of trash. Following that, a sports car came driving out from behind the mountain of rubbish.. Moreover, it was even a brand that I was relatively familiar with, a Ferrari. The window of the car opened by a small crack, and with a shake of two of her fingers, Solitary Butterfly bid me farewell. After that, the car nimbly turned a corner and rapidly sped off.

I must admit that when I saw the car, I was a little startled and was even a little disappointed. I was originally hoping that she would use a method that was more “hero-styled” to leave. For example, raising up one hand and then flying away, or perhaps after pressing a remote controller, the car would drive here by itself. Then, it would automatically open the car doors and perhaps it might even talk or the like.

Obviously, I am a vampire who is too old-fashioned and has watched too many old-style hero movies to boot.

However, if humans continued to make such rapid progress like this, perhaps one day, there really might be heroes who can summon a talking car. Or maybe they would raise their hand, and under the gaze of the public, fly towards the sky?

Anyways, I still have many years that I can slowly wait.

After my encounter, I went to the university that the young master studied at and walked around once. Though I had tried my best to pick shaded areas with few people to walk in, my attire still attracted a lot of attention. However, I still did not see the figure of the young master. Inside my heart, I felt almost certain. Perhaps I was unemployed again.

To have actually lost my job because I caused the death of my employer .. My honorable father, if you were to know about this from the heavens, would you expel me from the world of butlers and forbid me from being a butler from now on so as to prevent another employer from getting hurt?

After walking around for quite a while at a loss, when I once again became aware of my whereabouts, it was already night. Moreover, I had even returne-->>

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