I Have No Plans to Date

Fang Cheng's sudden return from the dead left Kanzaki Rin's mind blank for a split second.

She had clearly driven the silver dagger into his heart, so why was he still alive?

Silver was a lethal weapon against vampires; while high-level vampires could ignore it, for low-level ones—especially a rookie like Fang Cheng who had just been turned—silver was undoubtedly a deadly poison that killed upon contact.

That was why Kanzaki Rin had let her guard down after stabbing him, and Fang Cheng's "resurrection" caught her completely off guard.

After a moment of shock, Kanzaki Rin reacted quickly.

But it was too late. Fang Cheng tackled her and immediately wrapped himself around her body like an octopus.

Kanzaki Rin's limbs were agile and powerful; she grabbed Fang Cheng's elbow joint and twisted it outward, trying to break free.

Fang Cheng, remembering the lesson from just moments ago, gritted his teeth against the excruciating pain and refused to let go.

The two tangled together, rolling from one side of the living room to the other, their heavy breathing echoing in the space.

The struggle didn't last long. When Kanzaki Rin snapped one of Fang Cheng's arms, he seized the opportunity to pull the dagger from his chest and press it against her throat.

Both of them froze, face-to-face with less than a palm's width between them, their breath hitting each other's faces.

Yet the atmosphere was anything but intimate. Both stared at each other with eyes full of rage, and sweat from Fang Cheng's nose dripped onto Kanzaki Rin's face.

He wasn't just tired; he was in agony from his broken arm.

Kanzaki Rin bit her lip, staying silent as she frantically searched for a way out.

Ten minutes later, Kanzaki Rin was bundled up and tossed onto the sofa, bound in the ancestral art of Kikibari.

Fang Cheng put his clothes back on, finally avoiding the exposure of his "assets."

The number in his field of vision was still 3, unchanged.

Kanzaki Rin had thought she'd finished him off, but the dagger had grazed his heart, failing to inflict a fatal wound. Once the blade was removed, the injury had healed.

Fang Cheng walked over to Kanzaki Rin with a baseball bat, looking down at her like a big bad wolf eyeing a little lamb.

Kanzaki Rin's mouth wasn't gagged, but she didn't scream or shout. Instead, she pressed her thin, pink lips together and met Fang Cheng's gaze without a hint of fear.

Her look of unyielding defiance only fueled Fang Cheng's anger—who exactly was the intruder here?

Even though his broken arm had healed, the memory of that pain wasn't so easily forgotten.

Fang Cheng raised the baseball bat and jabbed it hard into Kanzaki Rin's stomach, making her nearly retch up the acid in her gut.

Then, he tapped the bat firmly against her head, thud, thud: "What's your name?"

Two bumps rose on Kanzaki Rin's head, but she didn't cry out in pain. She just stared at him coldly: "You'd better not mess around. I have teammates waiting outside; they'll come looking for me at any moment."

"So what if you have teammates? I have four in any random game I start."

Fang Cheng looked at her face, and the more he looked, the more familiar she seemed. Soon, he wore an expression of disbelief: "Kanzaki Rin from Class 2-A at Kashima Academy?"

Kanzaki Rin shuddered, blurting out: "How do you know that?"

Fang Cheng knew, of course, because they were classmates.

Fang Cheng also attended Kashima Academy High School, also in his second year, just in a different class.

Kanzaki Rin was a famous beauty at the academy, consistently topping the rankings for "Female Student I Want to Date" and "Ice Queen I Want to Be Insulted and Stepped On By" ever since she enrolled.

No wonder she looked familiar; it was just that the original owner's memories were a bit chaotic, and Fang Cheng hadn't recalled it immediately.

"How do I know?"

Fang Cheng let out a cold, mocking laugh: "I've written you a few love letters, so how do you think I know?"

That was right; Kanzaki Rin was one of the original owner's crushes. Even now, photos of her were hidden on his computer in a folder disguised as study materials—everyone knew what those were for.

Fang Cheng wanted to look up at the sky and sigh. The woman who broke into his house in the middle of the night to set his butt on fire was his secret crush. Could anything be more cliché?

Kanzaki Rin was stunned to hear that Fang Cheng had actually written her love letters.

What was even more shocking was that Fang Cheng wasn't subtle at all and had just blurted it out.

Writing love letters to a crush only for them to not reply or even remember you—for any other guy, this would be a dark history they'd take to the grave.

But Kanzaki Rin truly didn't remember. She received a dozen love letters every day; by the end of a semester, she could have sold them to a recycling plant.

She never opened them, so how could she possibly remember who wrote them?

However, the fact that they were classmates actually made Kanzaki Rin breathe a sigh of relief. She had been racking her brain trying to figure out how to escape.

"Thank you for the love letters."

Kanzaki Rin softened her tone, trying to make her expression look gentler: "But I'm sorry, I don't have any plans to date right now."

Fang Cheng nodded understandingly: "Then should we just get married?"

Kanzaki Rin: "..."

Was there something wrong with this guy's brain?

Seeing Kanzaki Rin's expression, Fang Cheng knew she must be cursing him internally. He said in surprise: "I was just joking, you actually took it seriously? Is something wrong with your head?"

Kanzaki Rin gritted her teeth, feeling her blood pressure spike and a stifling tightness in her chest.

Thwack!

Fang Cheng struck her head with the baton again, raising a bloody lump.

Kanzaki Rin glared at him in pain: "You!"

"You what? Start talking! Why did you come to my house in the middle of the night? Why did you try to burn me? Wait, how can you use fire? Are you even human?"

Fang Cheng fired off a series of questions; he wouldn't be able to sleep tonight if he didn't get to the bottom of this.

"Who exactly is the one that isn't human?"

Kanzaki Rin endured the throbbing in her head and retorted: "Do I really need to explain why the wound on your chest has already healed?"

Fang Cheng felt a slight jolt. He hadn't been bitten long ago; how could this woman possibly know?

He remembered that the street surveillance cameras had all been destroyed by that vampire.

"How did you know?"

"My drone has been tracking you the whole time."

Fang Cheng was speechless. He had noticed drones flying overhead on his way back, but he never expected they belonged to this woman.

Kanzaki Rin continued: "You have been turned into a non-human anomaly by a vampire. I am here to retrieve you."

Fang Cheng was thoroughly annoyed: "What business is it of yours if I turned into a vampire?"

Kanzaki Rin didn't get angry; instead, she looked at him as if he were mentally deficient: "Have you never heard of the Natural Disaster Countermeasure Headquarters?"

Fang Cheng paused. He had only transmigrated recently, and his memories were still a bit hazy. He searched his mind carefully before finally locating the information regarding the Natural Disaster Countermeasure Headquarters.

To deal with the threat of supernatural monsters, governments around the world had established special law enforcement agencies.

The agency established in Area 11 was called the Natural Disaster Countermeasure Headquarters, or Countermeasure Department for short, which specialized in handling incidents involving supernatural monsters.

This department held a high rank and was equipped with an armed force independent of the police and military—the SAT Mobile Unit. Its predecessor was the Area 11 counter-terrorism unit, and it held higher priority than criminal cases, possessing the authority to summon and detain citizens for 48 hours without conditions.

The soldiers who had fought the vampire earlier must have been members of the SAT Mobile Unit.

If Kanzaki Rin truly belonged to the Countermeasure Department, then her actions against Fang Cheng were indeed legal.

At the same time, Fang Cheng recalled that some operatives in the Countermeasure Department seemed to possess supernatural powers—a topic that had been discussed to death online.

Without the prompt, Fang Cheng really wouldn't have been able to find what he needed from the original owner's decade-plus of memories so quickly.

"Are you really from the Countermeasure Department?"

Fang Cheng looked at her suspiciously: "You're just a high school student, aren't you?"

Did government departments hire child labor now?

Kanzaki Rin stared back at him with a skeptical gaze: "Are you messing with me? I'm an intern."

She suspected Fang Cheng was intentionally wasting her time by asking questions that everyone knew the answers to.

It was fortunate that she was an intern and not permitted to carry a firearm, or she would have already blown this guy's head off.

Reminded by Kanzaki Rin, Fang Cheng remembered that the Countermeasure Department had an internship program designed to cultivate talented individuals, though the identities of these interns were kept confidential.

This put Fang Cheng in a difficult spot. If Kanzaki Rin were just a common burglar breaking into a private home, he would have no psychological burden beating her up.

But now that she had official backing and was acting legally, Fang Cheng had to weigh the consequences of capturing her and turning her into a slave.

After a moment of silence, Fang Cheng asked: "If I let you take me back, what will happen to me?"

He stared into Kanzaki Rin's eyes as he spoke, trying to judge if she was lying.

Kanzaki Rin met his gaze with a calm expression: "You have no prior record, so in all likelihood, you will be locked up."

Fang Cheng found this incredible: "I haven't done anything, so why would I be locked up?"

Kanzaki Rin lowered her eyes and said slowly: "Because you have turned into a vampire, and vampires must attack humans to survive. Therefore, we have no choice but to lock you up."

Fang Cheng was full of questions: "Why do I have to attack humans? Can't I just go buy blood?"

Although he didn't have any desire to drink blood right now, he didn't necessarily have to bite people to get it. Wouldn't artificial blood donations be fine?

At the very worst, pig or duck blood might suffice.

Fang Cheng was actually quite fond of stewed pork blood with vermicelli.

This time, it was Kanzaki Rin's turn to be silent. She truly hadn't considered that possibility.

But even if blood could be purchased, the authorities would never tolerate a dangerous creature moving freely among the general population.

In the awkward silence, Kanzaki Rin suddenly felt her micro-communicator vibrate against her collar; someone was sending her a communication request.

Fang Cheng noticed this as well and reached out to touch her collar, feeling the vibrating device.

The atmosphere suddenly turned heavy.

The moment he touched the communicator, Fang Cheng realized Kanzaki Rin wasn't lying. She really did have teammates, and they were currently trying to contact her.

This pushed Fang Cheng into a dilemma.

Should he let Kanzaki Rin go so she could contact her team, only to be captured and locked away himself?

Or perhaps dispose of her, then face the pursuit of the Countermeasure Department?

Of course, he could also abandon her and run, embarking on a journey as a fugitive?

Fang Cheng didn't want to choose any of these three options, but he couldn't think of any other way for the moment, his expression growing increasingly grim.

Kanzaki Rin stared intently at Fang Cheng, her heartbeat quickening until it thrummed like a drum.

She knew that Fang Cheng's next choice would decide whether she lived or died.