My family wouldn't want to hear it, of course, so I didn't say anything.
Meanwhile, some of the former social butterflies from the Imperial Capital's elite families were here too.
Not everyone was willing to become a vampire.
They'd all been resistant to the idea from the start.
And the thought of drinking blood had terrified some of them.
Those people had stayed behind, and Louis hadn't taken them with him.
The simple truth was that Louis couldn't take them with him.
After all, they'd only sided with him back then because he'd seemed so powerful.
But some of them were still afraid of vampires, and disgusted by them.
As a result, Louis couldn't fully consolidate the Imperial Capital's resources.
It wasn't as if he could start a civil war, was it?
If he really did, he wouldn't have time to escape.
The socialites had dressed themselves up like this, which only made Yuffie even less inclined to speak with them.
They could tell why the Ice Queen seemed even colder than usual.
And that wasn't all.
Yuffie was impossible to sway.
Whether they talked about how many admirers she'd once had, how many admirers Lynn had, or the people he'd had ambiguous relationships with—
Or whether they talked about jewelry, gems, or famous paintings—
Yuffie always responded in a way that gave them nothing to criticize. She even complimented them so smoothly that they felt good about themselves, while showing almost no emotion of her own. She simply didn't care about such romantic matters.
They were at a loss.
As for the rumors from their academy days—
The ones about Saintess Ria.
Or about Leticia, who'd once been the center of attention.
Or about how Lilim, the Demi-human Princess, had appeared out of nowhere to seduce Lynn, and how