Blood Awakening: The Strongest Hybrid and His Vampire Bride

The moment that Nikolai noticed Ryan, his blood started pumping, a strange sensation it was to face your old friend with a desire to kill. Maybe he wasn't involved, and he would never follow his father, but since embracing his monster bloodline and meeting the council.

Nikolai's confidence and priorities became straight, and he could never put a human friend before his family, friends, and lovers again.

'Even the Alliance comes first.'

"You look a little different, almost unrecognisable."

Ryan's words shook slightly. Perhaps able to sense Nikolai's changes, or was it his sharp and red glare and silence?

Neither of the two could answer the other's doubts easily.

Instead, Nikolai took the first step, and after observing Ryan's body, noticing only a single pistol on his body, he shook his head.

"Forget it, let's go inside and get a drink."

His words came across like orders, but Nikolai just didn't want to deal with this right now. For the moment, he would just drink with his friend and see where it would develop from there.

"You've grown… I feel jealous to have missed it." Ryan muttered, following Nikolai's confident stride, almost rushing to keep up the pace of the long strides the werewolf took.

Boom Boom Room Boom~

The bass from the onsite DJ echoed through the club, a decent place where monsters and humans intermingled. Nikolai chose this place exactly for that reason. If Ryan caused any trouble, he would use the humans as shields before crushing his old friend.

After meeting Alucard, and facing the reality of his station, Nikolai couldn't hold back.

'Though I would rather not become someone who blindly kills humans…' Nikolai thought to himself, and nodded, discarding that plan and changing it to only use human scum in the future.

"Wooh!"

"Dance with me, baby~ let's go!"

The surrounding people, no matter their race or creed, even gender, might not matter to a few. All of them enjoyed a wonderful night, drinking, dancing and doing drugs.

Ryan followed Nikolai, where they met with a male in a suit, who bowed to Nikolai.

"Take me to the private booth."

With the flash of his VIP card, something that his grandfather gave him, a card that worked in all establishments used by the alliance and monsters.

"Yes Sir, please follow me!"

"Come on, Ryan, don't fall behind, it's busy tonight."

'Well, this is the deal with the SSS.'

To help them divide crimes of passion and those of feeding by hungry strays, all registered clans gave their members a card of various levels. The white card didn't offer any protection and just told the SSS that the person was a low-tier member of a clan, usually a thrall.

However, the dark red, dark blue and black cards were those of elites and carried significant protection, and even the highest members of the SSS couldn't mess with them directly if they had a reason for their conflict.

'Such a dirty loophole that puts humans in danger.' Stay tuned to empire

Ryan could only watch.

The memories of his friend from only a month ago now became distant and blurry. His eyes narrowed, while rubbing the back of his hips where the pistol clicked in his fingertips, a feeling that he might have to use it tonight.

Nikolai followed the male in a suit up the stairs, with people chanting and screaming when he did because only the rich and famous could walk up them.

"Oh my god! He's so handsome!"

"So is his friend!"

"We have to speak to them!"

Humans and monsters alike took notice of the people heading upstairs for different reasons. Monsters knew it was due to their card or identification, which could help them rise through the ranks.

Meanwhile, human women saw money and a sparkling future.

Nikolai closed his eyes, his ears flicking slightly as he picked up the gossip and words from various people, causing his lips to curl upward into a smirk.

'So it doesn't matter, human or monster, we're all so similar at the end of the day.'

"Haha."

"What's wrong, Sir?" The male asked, turning back as they came to the dark VIP corridor with various rooms ranking from low-level officials to the high-class heirs of the monster world in S-City, all enjoying one or two clubs under their thumbs.

"Nothing, I just found the people amusing."

"…"

The male couldn't quite understand Nikolai's atmosphere or mood and thus remained quiet, unable to guess which side he spoke about.

Behind the male, Ryan showed a bitter grin, noticing that part of his friend's seemed to have remained unchanged by his sudden transformation.

'That's right… Nikolai is someone I can trust.'

Ryan reassured himself while relaxing and stepping forward, losing his apprehension and remembering why he contacted his friend in the first place.

"Here is the Top-Class VIP suite, room number one. Four attendants will arrive shortly, while the menu is digital and if you wish for anything, please don't hesitate to call. I hope you enjoy the evening, young lord and his friend."

Nikolai gazed at the male, realising his black card was limited to two or three people, as the other council members would be dark blue at best.

'Smart man.'

"Good job, I hope you can get us some human-style snacks to fill the table, and I would rather not be disturbed too much by others."

"U-Understood! I will ensure to have them in your room as soon as possible, please do enjoy."

The nervous male looked amusing to Nikolai, the way he started sweating more each time Nikolai spoke or used his deep voice to give a subtle threat to him.

'Well…'

"Ryan, let's go inside, the dance floor can be seen from the wall since it's a window."

Nikolai's sly smirk deepened as he stepped inside, using his tail to open the door for Ryan. The moment he reached the VIP area, he stopped hiding his monster parts and a pair of fluffy ears and tail appeared from the slits in his clothes.

'Werewolf Tailors are the best!'

He remembered the painful sensation when his tail used to pop out when getting excited with Nikita in the past… it was worse than getting an erection in tight jeans.

"No worries, Nikolai, are you okay?"

Ryan's question might have seemed to be genuine as the two sat down beside the massive window, a massive U-shaped bubble couch covering the entire wall apart from the entrance, with Nikolai flopping back and Ryan to his side.

Nikolai turned to face his friend for the first time.

"Well, considering your bastard of a father tried to kill me. I am okay, yeah."

The room instantly became ice-cold, Nikolai's aura naturally expanding, copying his grandfather and father's style, but with his twist. He added the devil god's blood to his aura, making it more potent and carrying a physical restraint.

"N-Nikolai… that was…"

"What? Will you tell me the truth?"

Ryan visibly struggled, his lips opening and closing as sweat dripped down his cheeks. The power of Nikolai's aura with devil blood caused his blood arts to be woven into his aura, allowing him to see lies, tell a person's feelings and stop them from telling outright lies.

'Though it's incomplete and stronger people could easily shred it right now.'

They watched each other, one with doubtful eyes, the other with shocked and guilty eyes. It was difficult for the broken cracks to be mended. After what Ryan's father did, even if he disowned him, there wasn't a good way to fix everything.

"Nikolai… my father was wrong!"

However…

"I see."

Nikolai's lips trembled, before curling into a sarcastic smile. Though he liked what Ryan said, the emotions emitted from his body made Nikolai angry.

Embarrassment.

Shame.

Anger.

Those were the feelings that Ryan felt.

There wasn't an ounce of genuine guilt, or maybe he didn't believe a monster like Nikolai deserved it any more.

"Why do you look like that?!" Ryan shouted with his eyes opened wide, his hands on the sofa shuddering as if filled with nerves.

"You tell me."

"You're not the same person!"

"Hahaha." Nikolai's eyes narrowed, his smirk fading into a faint smile as he tapped on the small tablet to order some drinks, "Don't be so stiff, aren't we here to drink?"

"…"

Ryan could only sit and watch, confused.

The person beside him wasn't the same person and friend that he met only a few weeks ago.

'I can't… why do I find him scary now?'

The way Nikolai's red eyes would turn in his direction and flicker with power, it was not the same. After being with the SSS and serving as a mercenary for over two years, he could tell that Nikolai was dangerous. But he was just a friend, someone with whom he would go to the arcade, and play basketball or football. The person he trusted.

"Have a drink."

A glass of red wine was held in his direction, it seemed to be complimentary as it was placed in a small ice bucket beside Nikolai. The bottle looked expensive and Ryan's lips became moist, but his mind was still in turmoil.

"N-Nikolai!"

"Drink."

The word echoed through his mind, becoming stuck on repeat, his body acting of its accord, grabbing the glass and taking a large gulp of wine.

"Ugh…"

Nikolai's lips curled up, watching his friend drinking wine that he hated, the dry and fruity scent of the blackberry wine making Ryan look amusing. His scrunched-up face and the fact he couldn't help but follow his orders was a source of amusement.

"Let's have some fun tonight."

"Y-Yeah… fun."

Ryan didn't quite grasp the meaning behind the words, but as the door opened, four attractive females entered the room. Two were human girls with brown and red hair, but the other two made Nikolai's lips tremble for a moment.

'Why is Risa here with Kumiko?'

"Well… should we play a little game of truth or dare with our guests?" Nikolai added, looking at Risa wearing a blonde wig and Kumiko who became strangely seductive with a beauty spot beneath her right eye.