Chapter 10: He Disappeared and the Truth 2
Is Lagude a gorgeous vampire?
In the room that suddenly became quiet, I stared at Jiusha blankly.
Jiusha looked back at me with a gloomy expression.
Is Lagude a vampire?
how can that be possible?
Vampire... It's obviously me, how come Lagude suddenly became a vampire too?
"Are you lying? Lagud is not a vampire at all!" Intuitively, my first reaction was to loudly deny Jiusha's words.
"Really? I lied? Qiqi, do you really think so?" Jiusha looked at me, curled his lips slightly, and smiled with a hint of sarcasm. "There are many races in this world. Compared with the gentle and harmless vampires from the vampire planet, there is another kind of real dark creature in this world - the gorgeous vampires. And Lagude is a member of the gorgeous vampire clan."
No, Lagude is not... I wanted to shake my head, but found that no matter how much I wanted it in my heart, my neck seemed to weigh a thousand pounds and I couldn't move it.
I stared at Jiusha blankly, and recalled that strange dream. In the dream, Lagude, a very evil man with long silver hair, looked at me sadly with a pair of blood-stained eyes. His slightly opened mouth revealed long white canine teeth, and he called my name softly.
"No - I don't believe it." I gritted my teeth and uttered these words with difficulty.
Jiusha looked at my painful expression, hesitated for a while, and finally sighed and said, "I didn't intend to tell you, but since I can't help but say it, you will know it sooner or later, so - if you have the courage to verify it, I can take you to the Human Research Institute now."
"Go to the Human Research Institute?" I looked up at Jiusha, feeling confused.
To go or not to go?
The answer can only be yes, because no matter what Lagude's true identity is, I want to meet him.
I gritted my teeth and nodded at Jiusha: "Please take me to the Human Research Institute now."
Jiusha looked at me for a long time, then smiled as if to say "as expected": "Let's go."
He turned around and walked out of the house first. I looked at his back and felt for no reason that he seemed very lonely.
"Are you not leaving yet?" Jiusha seemed to sense my gaze and looked back at me.
"Ah, here I come." I hurriedly closed the door and followed him, trotting to his side.
"Qiqi, if you really decide, I will support you no matter what you do." Jiusha said in a voice so soft that it was almost inaudible, "I didn't understand it before, but now, I will learn to like someone correctly."
My body paused. I didn't expect him to say such words to me. I opened my mouth slightly and tried to say something like thank you, but I found that no matter what I said, it seemed so pale at this moment. So, in the end, I chose to follow him silently.
When I followed Jiusha into the Human Research Institute, several members who had gathered together for discussion looked up and looked at me in surprise.
"Why did you bring her here?" Ran frowned, venting his dissatisfaction to Jiusha directly because of my unexpected appearance.
"Don't you think I am the one who has the most right to know the truth?" I looked at Jean without giving in and said, "I want to know the results of your investigation."
After saying that, I looked at Mr. Akashi with a determined gaze.
Mr. Akashi sighed, "It's not that I don't want you to know, it's just - well, you two sit down, and let me tell you the results of our investigation over the past few days."
Teacher Akashi pointed to the empty seat next to him, then dug out a piece of information and handed it to me: "Take a look at this first. Qiqi, what I'm going to say next may be a little hard to accept, so I hope you can be strong enough to face it."
My heart tightened and I nervously took the information from his hand.
"Ai Qiqi's heart transplant case? Is this the information of my transplant operation?" I looked down at the information that Teacher Akashi gave me in surprise. At his signal, I opened it and read it carefully.
“Lagude?” The name of the donor that suddenly appeared on the information shocked me. “The person who donated his heart to me is also called Lagude. What a coincidence!”
"It's a coincidence. What's even more coincidental is that not long after the Lagude you know disappeared, the Duke Lagude who had been missing for a long time in the Kingdom of the Gorgeous Blood Clan suddenly returned mysteriously. Duke Lagude, who was originally the most powerful blood clan, looked dying after returning. Even among the blood clan nobles, there was a rumor that Lagude came back this time because he lost the Heart Stone and his heart, which were the source of his power, and his body was in a dying state."
"What do you mean? Lagude, heart donor, vampire duke, dying..." I repeated Akashi's words in a daze, but I couldn't connect them together. I heard Lagude's name several times, but none of these Lagude was the Lagude I knew.
"Teacher, you guys made a mistake in your research, didn't you? The Ragud mentioned here is not the Ragud I know!" I threw the information in my hand on the table. "Jiusha just scared me that Ragud was a vampire. I knew it was impossible. Sure enough, it turns out that you guys made a mistake in your research!"
"Really, teacher, you are too careless." I smiled dryly at Teacher Akashi, but my heart was beating so fast.
"Qiqi, there is a difference between the blood clan and the gorgeous blood clan. There are also different races in the blood clan, just like there are different races in the human world. You are a blood clan member, so at the beginning, we all thought that you were also transformed into a blood clan member. But in fact, you were transformed into a gorgeous blood clan member. The gorgeous blood clan is a race that is very different from the blood clan members on the blood clan planet. "
"I, I don't understand..." I said tremblingly.
"He just came back from the kingdom of the gorgeous blood clan." Teacher Akashi looked at me sympathetically and said, "I know it's hard for you to accept it for a while, so we didn't plan to let you know so early."
"What do you mean? What if he went to the kingdom of the gorgeous blood clan? He is not my Lagude, so what duke? Let him——"
"They look exactly the same, except that the Duke has long silver hair, blood-red eyes, and long white canine teeth." Jean interrupted me, "But anyone who knows the Gorgeous Blood Clan knows that when they transform into humans, these features will disappear. Therefore - Duke Lagude is the Lagude you know."
With a "click", I heard something in my brain break into small pieces in an instant.
"Is Lagude a gorgeous vampire? How is that possible? He is clearly a human!" In my heart, I actually believed what Jean said, because that kind of Lagude had appeared in my dreams before, but I still couldn't accept it emotionally. "If he is a gorgeous vampire, why didn't he resist at all when I sucked his blood those times?"
Everyone looked at me in silence and no one answered me.
"See, you can't answer it either, so you must be wrong. Lagoud can't be--"
"Maybe he felt guilty." Jiusha interrupted me before I could finish my words. "Because he approached you for an ulterior motive, he felt guilty towards you. That's why he didn't resist when you tried to suck his blood. Maybe this is his way of compensating you."
"What ulterior motives? Jiusha, don't talk nonsense!" I glared at Jiusha angrily, "I know you have always been prejudiced against Lagude, but please don't frame him."
"Did I frame someone?" Jiusha chuckled. "Qiqi, if there is one coincidence, we can think it is just a coincidence, but if there are so many coincidences, then it is definitely not a coincidence, but a premeditated plan."
"You're talking nonsense!" I refuted Jiusha loudly, but apart from this sentence, I couldn't provide any other convincing arguments.
"I'm talking nonsense? Akashi--" Jiusha turned to look at Teacher Akashi, "According to you, is the donor of Qiqi's heart the Duke of Lagude ?"
"This..." Mr. Akashi looked at me sympathetically, "Qiqi, although we don't know why Duke Lagude's heart was transplanted into you, we all agree that the donor is the Duke himself."
"It is because you have been transplanted with the Duke's heart that your body has undergone alienation, and the Duke has become so weak and suddenly appeared beside you." Teacher Akashi said.
"No, no, you are lying." I covered my ears in pain, unwilling to listen anymore.
The person who donated his heart to me was Lagude. Lagude, who lost his heart, tried his best to get close to me. Lagude is a vampire, and without a heart his body became very weak... Putting all the things together, it is not difficult to determine why Lagude appeared by my side, but even if everyone understands the reason, no one is willing to say it out loud.
"That's not the case." I shook my head desperately, unwilling to accept the results of the investigation.
"Qiqi, don't be silly. Lagude came here just to take back your heart." In the end, Jiusha couldn't help it and yelled at me jealously.
"You're talking nonsense. The heart in my body is not Lagude's." I shouted back, "No one can survive after losing their heart, not even the vampires."
Yes, that's the reason.
No one can survive without a heart, no one.
"Yes, it is true that a vampire cannot survive if he loses his heart, but have you forgotten what I told you before? Lagude is a type of vampire known as the 'Gorgeous Vampire'. They have something called the Heart Stone, and after losing their heart, they can temporarily use it to replace the function of the heart and stay alive, but their bodies will become ." said Jean.
"Heart Stone?" The image of the ruby that Lagude held in his hand that time flashed through my mind.
"Yes, that's right, the Heart Stone. Every powerful and gorgeous blood noble has his own Heart Stone, and the stronger the master's power, the brighter the red of the Heart Stone." said Jean.
Could that blood-red ruby be Lagude's heart stone?
I clutched my clothes tightly, thinking back to the dream that night when the ruby in Lagoud's hand suddenly disappeared. Where did it go? And was it because of the disappearance of the ruby that he could no longer live on Earth and had to leave?
"However, no matter how powerful the Heart Stone is, it can never completely replace the function of the heart itself. Moreover, a vampire who survives solely on the power of the Heart Stone will eventually become weaker and even die slowly like humans." Jean said, "The saying that the gorgeous vampires are immortal will no longer apply to him."
"How could this happen?" I jumped up from the chair in fear, "No, Ragud won't die!" At this time, I didn't care whether that Ragud was my Ragud or not! As soon as I heard that Ragud was in danger, my heart was filled with pain!
"You still wonder if he will die?" Jiusha stood up angrily, "Ai Qiqi, wake up quickly. That guy approached you to take back his heart. Haven't you ever thought that if you lose your heart, you will die immediately? That guy - he is here to kill you, do you understand?"
Kill me? Lagude, is he here to kill me?
I felt as if I was completely struck by Jiusha's words. I could only stand there blankly, motionless.
Lagude approached me in order to take back my heart. If I lost my heart, I would probably die immediately... It's not that I couldn't guess these things, I just didn't think about them like an ostrich.
"No, Lagude won't do this to me." I shook my head, denying Jiusha's words, "He said he would protect me and wouldn't hurt me."
I remembered our vows in front of the old church, his sadness in my dream and the words he said to me, how he had always chosen to believe in me without hesitation, and all the good things he had done for me.
He said: Qiqi, no matter what happens in the future, I like you - I hope you will never doubt this...
I don't want to doubt that he likes me, so I can't believe what Jiusha said.
"Jiusha, I won't believe you." I looked at him with a firm expression, "Unless I see Lagude with my own eyes and hear him say this with my own ears, I won't believe it no matter how much evidence you have found."
"Qiqi you--" Jiusha looked at me angrily and wanted to persuade me, but was stopped by Teacher Akashi.
"Qiqi, the teacher believes in you," he said.
I looked at Mr. Akashi and saw him showing me a gentle smile: "Although I always felt that Lagude was a little strange, but - I believe that guy must really like you, otherwise of course I would not agree to let him protect you. Qiqi, you believe in your heart, and the teacher supports this."
"Akashi—" Jiusha glared at Mr. Akashi in dissatisfaction, "It's okay if Qiqi is just making trouble, but why are you doing the same? The facts are already in front of us, we can't help but believe it, okay!"
"Based on the evidence, I think what Kusako said is right." Kawakami expressed his opinion.
"Yes, I agree with Kawakami." Someone followed suit and expressed his own opinion, but because I had never seen him before, I knew nothing about him except that I could infer that he should also be a member of the Human Research Institute.
"I have already said what I wanted to say," said Jean.
"No, Lagoud won't." I stubbornly objected to what everyone said.
"Since everyone has their own opinions, why don't we just see it for ourselves?" Mr. Akashi slammed the table and finally decided.
