“Ugh”

Waking up on the cold hard cave floor, Xenados’ body was aching all over as he slowly stood up. He carefully examines his surroundings and was shocked, he immediately jumped and started searching as if his earlier sluggish movements were just an illusion.

“Oh you woke up?”

As if removing his distress a soft feminine voice passed through his ears, with a face filled with disbelief Xenados mechanically turned his head to see the figure of a beautiful woman making her way to him. She was deathly pale and now had pure white hair but her facial features and her voice are things that Xenados would never mistake.

“Mom!”

Although her tail and wings were gone, her skin and hair became pure white with dark tattoo like lines all over her body, Xenados would never mistake the face and voice of his own mother. His mother, the only person who cared for him and loved him, sacrificing even her life for her son…

“...”

Before he could even reach his mother to hug her he stopped, looking at her like a stranger the demoness fell silent.

“What’s wrong Xenados?”

“Who are you?”

“What do you mean?”

[Can’t you understand? I mean-]

“My mother… she’s… de-dead, so who are you?”

Hearing his words the demoness showed a face of shock before slowly coming to understand.

“Don’t you remember?”

“Remember?”

“You brought me back to life, don’t you remember?”

With her words Xenados fell silent, he remembers, but at that time he can’t do it since her soul has already merged with the world. It should have already dissipated and bringing her to life should be impossible but...

[Nothing is impossible, all you need to do is to accept your own power and rise up to your rightful place]

Xenados felt the presence and heard the same familiar voice but just as it came and whispered those words it disappeared again. Although confused he knew that it was thanks to that presence that his mother was saved so as confused as he may still be he thanked the presence to the bottom of his heart.

“I remember”

Losing all his previous hesitation, Xenados ran and hugged his mother. He doesn’t know why his mother changed so much but he knows that if this didn’t happen he would not be hugging her now.

“Okay okay, mommy understands so let’s go eat”

Next to a small lake Xenados was staring closely at his reflection, snow white hair, pale white skin and a pair of different colored eyes.

Scanning through his memories he realizes that even he had some sort of racial makeover. But the most eye catching of them all are his eyes, his left eye is a deep crimson and although faint he could clearly see that there is some sort of mark on his eyes. He doesn’t know what it’s for but it surely has something to do with his mothers revival.

His left eye on the other hand is the same, though his pupils became pitch black when he looks closely his pupils are not simply a cold darkness but a deep black color. He felt a profound aura from his own eyes, though Xenados is not some sort of narcissist but he could see that even he could not understand himself.

Closing his eyes he tries to recount everything that happened in his life. Though he was not able to fully merge last time but right now he is fully in sync with himself, you could say the world traveling soul Eric and the dhampir Xenados are now one and the same in body, mind and soul.

When he remembers his past he can’t help but curse at Vincentius, the curse he placed on him, it didn’t take even a millisecond before he befall disaster.

Xenados is a dhampir born between the demoness, Antonia and the vampire, Sabien. Antonia is a normal demoness she possess not a single trait to make her differ from the crowd. But though that may be the case she still made the Vampire Noble Sabien who is a well known to be picky of everything fall for her.

The two people fell in love, married and had a child, but since their child is a half breed that most vampires despise Sabien was forced to throw the mother and son away. The reason being that he will lose all his authority in the vampire society if he keeps the mother and son, especially if he keeps Xenados.

In the end, the two were thrown away and vampires who saw this as a chance to go against Sabien tried to take Xenados hostage and sell the demoness to the humans.

In the eyes of Xenados that experienced many lives this kind of scenario to him is too much of a template to a tragic life. He feels sad about it but for some reason he can’t express much emotion.

If it were in the past even if he already experienced it he would still feel sadness, but after what happened, his mother getting revived and that presence he feels nothing for what happened.

[It could be that mother is already alive and father doesn’t care about me so I feel nothing with all that happened?]

Those were his thoughts as he tried to make a reason to explain the situation. Although he experienced many lives, as a monster, demon, human, he lived as many kinds of races in all kinds or evil and tragic environments. But even so, he still kept one thing to him, a way of thinking that came from his very first life, the humans way of hiding from the truth.

Though not all humans do it, it’s not a lie to say that many humans hide from the truth. And that is what Xenados is now doing, he may not want to face it but he will soon need to.

“Do you want to go out?”

From behind him Antonia came and asked Xenados, she saw her son sitting, facing the underground lake and pretty much understands his feelings. She ran away and in her struggles she found a lake and dived in, underwater she found an entrance, swimming her way to it she found that it led to an underground cave whose only opening is through the underwater cave.

Antonia didn’t think that they would be chased by any beast of even the vampires to the cave. First is that the vampires can’t enter the water, it’s one of their many weaknesses aside from the sun. Also the beast that hunt them won’t waste their time trying to get to the cave.

Finally there are no aquatic monsters in the lake, there are only a few large fished but these fishes understand that Antonia can easily slaughter them.

In a sense the two are safe underwater, what’s more the opening is like an underwater lake as there are still fishes that swim in the water. THe two could live their lives in the cave until they are strong enough to walk among outside again.

“No mother I- I was just thinking of something”

Antonia knows that her son revived her through some inexplicable means and that her son had some changes. No matter what happens she would make sure that her son is happy and that he could feel the love of a mother.

“If there’s anything that you need tell me okay”

With a smile Antonia made her way deeper in the cave where she made some stone furniture with magic.

Xenados thought for a while then he walked towards the deeper parts of the cave where his mother, Antonia is.

“Oh what is it Xenados?”

“Mom… do you still love dad?”

Hearing her son’s words Antonia froze, his father, Sabien. He threw the two of them away but the reason is not simply because he won’t be able to keep his power but also because if that happens when he is taking care of the two they would surely die.

Though one thing led to another making it so that they would still die anyway, Antonia still didn’t think bad of Sabien after all he did try to ensure the two of them get out of the continent and be safe but it was not his fault that they almost died.

“Yes, I still do”

Xenados looked at his mother, his eyes didn’t show any emotion whatsoever. His face was calm, though it may look weird but for the whole time his expression was simple null, he had no expression on his face in his eyes. They were not cold, they held no emotion to the very bone. Even his words, his tone were emotionless, much so that it would seem like he experience so much that he became numb to emotions.

“Then, I can kill all the vampires in this continent except for father, right?”

His words shocked Antonia and just when she was about to say something Xenados continued.

“I just want to enjoy life, and unless I kill all the vampires who want to kill me, I will never be able to relax and enjoy my life”

His words struck Antonia and she just stayed silent. As she was organizing her thoughts and looking at Xenados the little dhampir jumped onto her and fell asleep.