ATAPOW Chapter 2
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Chapter 2: At the end of the day, it’s all about money.
Ji Bai stopped reminiscing about the past. After letting out a large yawn, he rolled and got up from his bed. He then went to his bedside cabinet to take the top and trousers that he had neatly arranged last night.
Ji Bai had once been a very carefree and easy-going guy. If one was to exclude his bottom line and beliefs, he was an elegant and freedom-loving guy who was unyielding and dissolute. If this was before, those clothes would had never received such excellent treatment— Let alone being tossed into the bedside cabinet, they would be directly thrown on the floor, and pick up the next day.
Yes, his character was originally so at the beginning. But after going through a year that was the stuff of legends and epics, a lot of habits that Ji Bai once had had already disappeared. Or rather, the habits that he thought were cool and oozing off confidence had been torn off by its roots from the sadistic loli queen’s inhuman and ruthless teaching. Furthermore he had been forcefully implanted with a brand new set of habits that he had never used before— A complete set of formal etiquettes for vampire nobilities.
To Ji Bai, the teaching had already stunk incomparably. On top of that, it had come with various nobie etiquettes that one had to pay attention to, giving him an endless headache. Fortunately, as he was currently surrounded by humans, the influence he would receive would not be too deep.
Ji Bai walked to the bathroom and performed his everyday routine to clean and maintain his body. After doing some slight adjustments to his appearance and attire in front of a mirror, he wore a pair of flip flops and went to his small kitchen.
He closed his eyes and with a thought, a dark marking hidden on the back of his hand flickered with a strange scarlet radiance, which immediately expanded and covered Ji Bai’s body. Within the scarlet light, a large crowd of pitch-black bats flew out, flapping their wings with a “fluttering” noise and spreading themselves all around the environment. However, all of them disappeared the moment they touched a wall. Meanwhile, the silhouette enveloped within the scarlet light was gradually becoming more dainty and delicate.
In the blink of an eye, the youth whose eyes were filled with gloom had vanished without a trace; in its place was a petite, silver haired girl whose white skin was unhealthy pale.
Her thickly grown eyelashes were reminiscent of a palm leaf fan while her bright ruby-like eyes were as luminous as the water ripples in spring. While her delicate petite face was an unhealthy pale, there wasn’t a trace of embellishment or makeup on her. It was a natural beauty that was non existent in the mortal realm.
The girl was wearing a black, Lolita-esque dress, which was accented by the soft white stockings wrapped around her slender, youthful legs. Her outfit was also adorned with two accessories: A ribbon attached to her thigh, its colors alternating between black and white; as well as two small bells, with each tied to her ankles. As for her hair, the long, soft, and silky locks had been pinned up into twin-tails with a pair of bat-shaped hair clips. The restrained hair simply drooped downwards, as-if embodying the current of a river flowing downstream, which in-turn exposed her small, slightly pointed ears.
The silver-haired girl opened her strange alluring eyes, and vaguely saw her appearance from a window near the kitchen stove. A sense of disgust flashed through her eyes. This image was too similar to the creature in her memory that she hated and feared the most. The clothes on her wasn’t something she wanted to wear; it was something the wretched woman forcefully made her change to.
Her eyes slightly drooped, she let out a sigh.
She had to follow her familiar habits this morning as well. Ji Bai stretched out his tender wrist, and opened the fridge’s door. He took out a rigid and frozen bread and a medical blood bag within it, then went to the door and retrieved the newspaper wedged between the crack of the peephole. He then strode back to the living room with his slim, small and white legs.
Sitting on the sofa with an elegant posture and facing the blood bag, he closed his eyes and put his palms together, the model example of eating etiquette. Only after a moment had passed did he slowly tore open the blood bag, took out a straw, and suck up his meal while looking at the newspaper.
As far as vampire’s unique eating habits was concerned, Ji Bai had already gotten used to it over the past years. He was now capable of doing this without panicking, and was treating the normally joyous occasion of sampling blood in a calm demeanor.
In actuality, Ji Bai didn’t need to change into his vampire form and have a vampire-like meal everyday. He was actually forced by circumstances. If he didn’t take in blood once every five days, he couldn’t ensure that he wouldn’t be driven crazy by the strong desire of fresh blood in his heart. It would cause him to directly forage for the easily noticeable ‘blood-bags’ on the streets. Moreover, the blood that Ji Bai drank had all gone through the proper channels and bought in the hospital. The problem of it harming humans was nonexistent.
“It seems I don’t have enough blood bags.”Ji Bai couldn’t help but knit his eyebrows while looking at the newspaper.
As the proverb goes, a hero without money is no hero at all. Ever since the day Ji Bai had escaped from calamity, his expenses had been going up instead of the reverse. Not only did he need to supply the energy required by his mortal body to function, he also had to satisfy his vampiric desire for blood. This was indeed a tremendous challenge for his wallet. After deducting his rent and various expenses at present, JI Bai’s pocket was almost empty. This couldn’t help but made him feel a sense of anxiety.
If he had known about this while making his escape, he would have brought some valuable vampire handiwork with him. Maybe he could treat it as some sort of spoil of wars and sell it for a good price, allowing him to not worry about sustenance for his entire life at least… But aren’t vampires immortal?
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