Inside the palace, the clan's nobles were discussing how to eat the food before them.
The food they were preparing to eat was a girl who had been frozen through special means on the day of her eighteenth birthday. The moment the freezer opened, the naked girl appeared before the nobles amid the cold mist.
The long period of freezing had covered the girl's body in a thin layer of frost. Even her hair and eyebrows had been dyed white.
She looked just like crystal.
"I've already thawed her out a little." The vampire who had presented the girl for the nobles to taste proudly picked up a dagger and seized the girl's arm.
The Vampire Noble's movements were remarkably gentle, as if it were taking a dance partner's wrist... Then it lightly drew the dagger across the girl's wrist.
The blood, congealed by the freezing, was extremely viscous, so it did not spurt out... The blood merely seeped out little by little from the girl's wrist.
It raised the girl's wrist and kissed it, slowly sucking for a moment before lifting its head to look at the surrounding nobles, who could barely restrain their instincts and had bared their fangs. Smiling, it said, "My family, why are you still waiting?"
They began to gather around the girl, who seemed merely to be asleep, crowding around her completely... Then they began smearing blood across one another's lips, as if savoring supreme bliss.
"Marquis Guda, aren't you coming?"
Marquis Guda sat quietly to one side and merely smiled at their invitation before slowly rising... As a vampire with considerable prestige among the nobles, it should not have acted aloof.
It was elegant and composed, but it did not immediately join the revelry before it. Instead, it walked over unhurriedly.
"Come, Your