Defending Himself

"I never knew drinking blood would be this nice," Allen said to himself with a satisfied look on his face. "Being a vampire isn't entirely a bad idea, it is better than being a damn human."

As he spoke, he glanced at the dead silver monkey on the kitchen table. "I wonder how it'd feel to eat raw flesh... Nah, I better not do it, I'm not a monster. But then, I'm starving and there is nothing in this place to cook, it's all empty and rusty." 

The kitchen and the entire house were old-looking and empty with nothing but only a few things like worn-out clothes, a tattered bed, and walls that were already broken. There was nothing in the kitchen to prepare as food and he was extremely hungry for something cooked.

"I haven't eaten a nice meal for a month now, thanks to my evil parents. If only I can find something eatable, I will be happy —" Just while he was talking, his nose caught the smell of something and thus, he began to sniff the air while walking out of the house. "That smells nice like food," he mumbled and began to follow the direction of the smell.

He walked through the bush until he finally came to a stop at the front of a hut, he sniffed the air and as guessed, the smell was coming right from the back of it. Curious, he walked to the back of the but only to see a pot above a fire.

"Food!" He gasped and was about to take a look at it but then, he halted and moved back. "No, it doesn't belong to me. What if it's a trap to lure a monster or something? I can't just rush to it but..." He paused as he massaged his belle. "I'm starving... Never mind, I'll just take a bite," he concluded and rushed to the pot.

As he opened it, he took the plate and the spoon kept by the side of the fire and fetched a little of the soup inside the pot, and then covered the pot back. He went by the corner and of the hut, looked around for a while, and began to drink the soup.

"Uhmmm, the soup tastes so good... " He said and downed the content of the plate in one go. He then went back to the pot and served again, this time, he added some meats before covering the pot back. As he drank the soup, he would take a bite of the meat and chew it along with the soup. "I can't remember the last time I had something like this," he mumbled in delight.

Over and over again, he went to the pot and served the food until he finished everything in it. Seeing that he had mindlessly finished a full pot of food, he dropped the plate in shock.

"How could I have finished the whole food? I don't remember having such a wild appetite before," he mumbled in shock as he kept staring at the emptied pot. "I think I should run before the owner gets back," he said and made to run but then, an arrow came flying in his way. He quickly ducked, causing the arrow to fly past his head and when he stood up and looked ahead, he saw a man standing with a bow and an arrow, ready to shoot at him again

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"Thief, you dare to steal my food, huh? You'll have to pay with your life!" The man said and shoot another arrow towards Allen.

"Is the food worth my life? Come on, old man," Allen said as he dodged the flying arrows. 

"I wouldn't have aimed to kill you if you had only eaten a little but you greedily ate everything up. You should pay with your life because I was told that, one needs to pay with their lives to atone for their sins!" The man said and fired more arrows toward Allen.

"I love the teaching but then, it's not yet my time to die. How about I pay you with something else, I can try cooking for you, how about that?" Allen as he dodged the arrows replied.

Seeing how Allen was swiftly and easily dodging all the arrows while maintaining a sound conversation with him, the man was irritated and thus, he dropped his bow and arrows and rushed at him. "Only your life is enough!" He yelled as he created a ball of flames in both of his hands while running towards Allen.

"Are you so eager to kill me? That's very bad of you," Allen said to the man as he saw how eager he was to kill him. "Well then, I don't want to die yet," he said and waited for the man to launch his attack on him first. The man shoot the balls of flames at him but he dodged them, allowing the flames to hit some grasses and setting them on fire.

"Since it's you who is so eager to kill me, all I'm doing is defending myself," Allen said to the man before rushing at him with his claws longer than usual.

"What the hell are you —"

The man wasn't given enough time to react as Allen grabbed his neck and dug his claws inside his skin, he dug his nails deeper until they all disappeared inside the man's skin. The man tried to struggle but his efforts were useless and soon, he gave up.

Seeing how easily he had died, Allen scoffed and flung his body away.

*Ding*

[Consume his blood to gain a new ability]

Hearing the notification in his head, Allen sighed. "I'm not hungry even the tiniest bit but then..." he paused and bent down to the man's level. "I need the reward," he mumbled and began to drink the man's blood.

[Task completed, you have gained a new ability]

[Name: Copy]

[Description: With this ability, the host can copy the abilities of those he bites as long as he consumes their blood] For now, the abilities copied can only last to five minutes.

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"Not that bad, I'll only need to get stronger for the abilities to last longer."

The new ability he gained was a good one, it would be very easy to use more abilities than he had and with the help of it, no one would know that he is a vampire. That is, he won't have to use his vampire abilities when in public.

"I think I'll have to leave this forest," he mumbled to himself and threw the man's body by the side of the fire.