Amnesia?
After a moment's thought, Mu You understood. This was probably another curse the Vampire Earl had acquired while absorbing some ability in the past.
Whatever the case, he had happened to encounter someone who knew the original owner, yet she had not seen through him as a Fool. Instead, she had mistaken him for the skin's original owner, and that vampire just happened to have had a curse of forgetfulness...
It looked like he could keep this story going!
[You choose to play along, admitting that you have indeed forgotten many things since awakening this time. You remember only that you come from the Rheine Family, but have no recollection of its individual members. You ask her to explain what happened in the past.]
[Rheine Mai gives you a look of confirmation and recounts her elder brother's experiences.]
[The Rheine Family was once a large family, long ago. However, a prolonged lack of powerful members gradually led to its decline. Its numbers dwindled over time, until the birth of Rheine Liston, the original owner of your skin.]
[Aside from their physical levels and attributes, the most important component of vampires' power is their family talents.
Every vampire family has its own unique talent tree. Some are powerful, others ordinary. Acquiring certain powerful talents is enough to allow vampires to fight opponents above their level.
However, these talents can only be acquired randomly when a vampire's noble rank rises. Noble rank is unrelated to the level system. Advancement to Baron and Viscount each offers a 50% chance of acquiring a talent, while advancement to Count, Marquis, and Duke guarantees the awakening of a new talent. Thus, even vampire Dukes, who hold the highest rank currently in existence, can acquire no more than five vampire talents.]
[Yet Rheine Liston awakened a