What You Can Do

"..."

Silence began to grow in the grass.

Only the sound of the wind continued its incessant, noisy clamor.

Arcueid simply held her cold drink, head down, remaining silent and not reacting to what the Fang Li was saying.

Just as Fang Li said, Arcueid was also very clear that his vampiric impulses had only been temporarily suppressed, not eradicated.

After all, the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception were not a power to save people, but a power to kill.

Even if the targets of killing are not limited and everything becomes a target, it is not impossible to achieve the effect of saving lives if used properly, but that is at most a side effect.

From beginning to end, the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception have always been an ability that can only be used for killing.

It can bring death, but it cannot bring new life.

Even if these Magic Eye can kill diseases, it doesn't mean Arcueid won't get sick in the future. That's the point.

Therefore, what Fang Li did was only treating the symptoms, not the root cause.

Arcueid was perfectly aware of this.

"But I am already very satisfied."

As she said this, a smile appeared on Arcueid's exquisitely beautiful face.

That smile was as bright as ever, without a trace of gloom, appearing so innocent and romantic.

"Although I'm very annoyed by that stupid woman from the church, she's right, I was almost at my limit before."

Arcueid said nonchalantly, "Our vampiric urges are something that accumulate over time, and the first time I had a vampiric urge was eight hundred years ago."

In other words, Arcueid has been suppressing his vampiric urges for eight hundred years, allowing this desire to accumulate until now.

"In order not to give in to the urge to drink blood, I did choose to spend most of my time sleeping. But the urge to drink blood did not subside as a result. It continued to accumulate. By today, eight hundred years later, it had reached the limit that I could suppress."

Arcueid sighed, as if feeling powerless against her own limitations.

"So, originally, this was supposed to be my last trip outside."

After this operation was over, Arcueid planned to fall into a deep sleep forever and never wake up again.

"But now, because of you, the blood-sucking urge that I've been accumulating for eight hundred years has been killed all at once."

Arcueid smiled sweetly.

"Although I don't know when the next blood-sucking urge will arise, even if it does, I can suppress it for another eight hundred years."

"I'm already very satisfied with this result."

From Arcueid's tone, Fang Li indeed didn't hear a trace of negative emotion.

Therefore, Arcueid was telling the truth.

However, Fang Li is not so easily fooled.

"This so-called eight hundred years is just the outside world's time, isn't it?"

Fang Li mercilessly exposed the truth behind Arcueid's words.

"Even if it's eight hundred years for the outside world, for you who will immediately return to sleep after completing the mission, I'm afraid the actual time you've been active is less than half a year, right?"

That's right.

For Arcueid, eight hundred years was not a long time at all.

For the previous eight hundred years, Arcueid had been in a deep sleep, only waking up at specific times to go out and exterminate vampires.

The entire duration of this event was less than six months.

Furthermore, Arcueid spent the last six months eliminating her targets, leaving the princess with virtually no time at all.

Can this really satisfy our needs?

Isn't that just prolonging Arcueid's suffering?

"Unless you intend to end your slumber of eight hundred years and live for yourself," Fang Li, looking at Arcueid and enunciating each word clearly, "If that's your plan, then I won't say anything more."

Arcueid remained completely silent.

The smile on his face gradually faded.

"... That won't work."

After a long pause, Arcueid spoke in a voice fainter than ever before.

Even if you tell me to live for myself, I don't know what to do.

"Besides eliminating vampires, I have no idea what else I can do."

The powerless words rang out from Arcueid's mouth and reached Fang Li's ears.

It was only at this moment that Fang Li realized that this seemingly omnipotent True Ancestor Princess was actually the opposite; she couldn't do anything at all.

From the moment of her birth, the True Ancestor treated her as a weapon and never taught her anything else.

Since that's the case, Arcueid naturally doesn't know anything; all she can do is annihilate vampires.

Live for yourself?

Arcueid has never done anything like that.

Since he had never done it before and no one had taught him, how could Arcueid possibly know what to do?

This Bai Ji is just a child.

"Nobody ever taught me," Arcueid said softly. "So I never do anything unnecessary."

What is superfluous?

That's something other than exterminating vampires.

Unfortunately, Arcueid's somewhat fragile words were once again ruthlessly exposed by Fang Li.

"No," Fang Li said. "You're lying."

Arcueid was taken aback.

"You said you wouldn't do anything unnecessary, right?" Fang Li said bluntly, "Then why did you choose to speak this time? Why did you choose to stay with us even during the day? Why did you make me play with you? Isn't relieving boredom unnecessary?"

Fang Li's words pierced Arcueid's heart one after another, causing Arcueid to open her eyes wide.

yes.

"Why?"

Arcueid was bewildered.

Why did I do so many unnecessary things this time?

Since it is a weapon, speaking is superfluous, so Arcueid has never uttered a word.

Because she was a weapon, loneliness was inevitable, so Arcueid had never felt bored.

But this time, Arcueid spoke.

But this time, Arcueid started to get bored.

Therefore, Arcueid would find chatting to be a joyful experience.

Therefore, Arcueid would complain to Fang Li, feeling dissatisfied and sad about being neglected.

"Never before..." Arcueid murmured, "There has never been anything like this before..."

In other words, Arcueid has changed.

"You've already done a lot of unnecessary things."

Fang Li offered a qualifying statement.

"But you find joy in these unnecessary things, don't you?"

"In that case, you can continue doing these unnecessary things."

"That's all you can do."