Take your fangs, thanks

After returning home, nothing seemed to change.It's just that Josh is no longer allowed to go out to play casually. According to Mrs. De Winter, they will move to another city soon after the news of this period passes.

This situation of relocation is very necessary for vampires, because their life span is too different from that of humans.Once the fangs of newborn vampires stop growing, their appearance will stay at about the same age for a long time, and then slowly age.

So every ten years or so, vampires will move to another city - don't worry about identity and property issues. As mentioned above, the upper echelons of human beings know the existence of vampires. There are institutions in place to deal with these things.

Just when Derwent's parents thought things would be settled after the move, another accident happened...

As night fell quietly, the cicadas at the end of summer were tirelessly making their last chirps in their short lives. On clear nights, the moonlight was always extra bright, which was Josh's favorite weather.He sat on the bay window, blowing dry and fresh wind.One leg fell outside the bay window, dangling, very comfortable.

Rigoletto was arranging some draft paper on the floor of the room. The messy lines and all kinds of strange auxiliary lines on it always gave Josh a headache when he looked at it.To be honest, these things are always a little too early for children of this age, but Rigletto cannot be classified among ordinary children...

"Rig, did you hear something?"

"Hmm." Rigoletto raised his head at the right time. He frowned and carefully focused on his ears. It was a kind of chirping, the chirping of bats.

According to common sense, most bat calls are beyond the detection range of human ears, but some sound waves can still be received, especially for vampires.

The location of Derwent's house is close to the mountains and forests, and it is quite normal to have bats, but... there seems to be a large group.

"Josh." Riglito ordered, "I'll call my mother, and you close the window first."

Josh nodded, and before he could raise his hand, suddenly a group of dark things rushed in through the window at an extremely fast speed.

"Ah!" Josh exclaimed.

Rigoletto also took back his foot that was about to leave the room, and immediately wanted to pull Josh over, but unexpectedly, the four or five bats seemed to have been trained, and swooped over after spotting Josh's shoulder!

Rigoletto reached out to block it, and Josh grabbed the sheet from the side, trying to cover him and Rigoletto.Unexpectedly, the group of bats took advantage of the loophole and bit Josh's shoulder fiercely, blood seeped out from the two small holes that had been bitten through.

"Ah, let's go!" Josh didn't care about the pain at this time, he swung the bat away violently, and the bat that succeeded didn't want to fight, and quickly flew out of the window again.

"What's wrong?!"

There was a rush of footsteps downstairs, and De Winter's parents rushed over immediately upon hearing the movement.Strangely, these bats seemed to suddenly become obedient at this moment, and fled out with just a few waves of their hands.

"Damn it, it's Dewar's old guys again!" The expression on Mr. De Winter's face was hideous that Josh had never seen before. The moment he spoke, Josh seemed to see something, but soon Just flashed past.

Mr. De Winter was obviously in a very unstable mood. He closed the window forcefully and made a loud noise, which made Josh tremble.At this moment, Mr. De Winter rubbed his nose. He turned his eyes sharply, and he happened to meet the bright red blood oozing from the white short sleeve on Josh's shoulder. Josh felt that in an instant, his father It seems that it has become strange like never before.

He let out an angry growl from his throat: "This is the consequence of us leaving the court?!"

"Father..." Josh murmured in a daze.

Mr. De Winter finally calmed down, and he said a few words of comfort: "I'll ask your mother to come up and look at the wound for you." Then he went downstairs with the sound of heavy footsteps.

"It still hurts." Josh lowered his head and tried to look at the wound himself. He was only bitten by a bat. It didn't look like the wound was very big, but out of habit, he still raised his head to look for Rigg, trying to get out from there. I got some encouragement from my brother, but——

"...uh, Rig?"

Rigoletto didn't know why he was squatting in the corner against the wall, his hands were crossed and hugged his shoulders tightly, the knuckles of his fingers were almost making a sound because of too much force.He was trembling, and a large drop of sweat slid down his chin to the ground. He lowered his head, and Josh couldn't see his expression.

Josh walked over worriedly: “Rig, are you hurt?”

"Stay away from me..." Rigoletto's voice was very small, almost squeezed out of his throat.

"What did you say?" Josh moved closer again.

"Stay away from me!" Rigoletto raised his head and pushed Josh away forcefully.

Josh fell back two steps and sat down on the ground, his eyes widened in horror—Rigeletto's face looked as pale as a piece of white paper, and his pupils seemed to undergo some subtle changes , he tightly covered his mouth with both hands, the veins on his neck throbbed, as if he was trying to endure something...

"What's wrong with you, Rigg?" Josh trembled, the wound on his shoulder suddenly felt hot, and a fire burned it repeatedly.

Suddenly, Rigoletto yelled in pain, his irises turned red like blood in an instant, he threw Josh to the ground, his hands on the ground trembled uncontrollably, and he frowned tightly, He read Josh’s name: “Josh…Josh, I’m sorry…”

A sharp pain hit his shoulder again, and Josh's perception was magnified a thousand times in an instant. He could feel Rigoletto's heavy breathing on the fragile skin of his neck.At this time, Josh couldn't connect the creature on his body with his dear second brother no matter what, it hurt too much, this pain was spreading along with a strange feeling, the pain gradually weakened, and his consciousness It also gradually blurred, and his nasal cavity was filled with the smell of blood, which was the smell of death.

"Ah!" He let out a scream.

……

There was a panic, and he seemed to hear the exclamation of his mother and father.

"Stop, Rigg! You're killing your brother!"

The weight on his body was finally removed, Josh felt relieved, and he closed his eyes.

……

Until the day when Josh was about to leave the Derwent house, Rigoletto did not appear in front of him. Rigoletto seemed to have disappeared from the house out of thin air, if it wasn't for the wound on Josh's shoulder that was still lingering Reminding him of what had happened, he almost wondered if Rigoletto really existed.

Derwent's parents accompanied Josh almost all day while he was recuperating from his injuries, and Arman was also rarely careful, caring about Josh's daily life.

Everything is so normal, as if this is what life should be like, a pair of loving parents, a naughty brother who cares about his younger brother.It seems that as long as Josh plays the role of the most beloved youngest in the family, this peaceful life can last forever.

But he didn't.

He asked about Riglito's situation every day, but he was always diverted by De Winter's parents with other topics. If they were really forced to ask, they would leave Josh's room and leave Josh alone in the room Be quiet.

This is the room of Josh and Rigoletto. Josh once squeezed into Rigoletto's coffin with the excuse of being afraid of the dark, and his coffin had fallen to the other side.Now when he lies in it every night, he can still smell the fragrance of Rigoletto, which is like the cool aroma of some kind of pine tree on a snow-capped mountain.He can always dream of Rigoletto, and when he wakes up, the smile has not yet been put away, and he just wants to wake up the people around him loudly, but finds that there is no one around him.

Just before Josh was about to go crazy from being tortured by this kind of life, he got the news that Derwent was going to move before autumn came.

"We will let you live at Anne's house for a while, remember her, Anne Black." Mrs. de Winter looked very sad, her eyes were so red that tears were about to fall in the next second, "do you want All right, Josh." She hugged the shocked Josh.

"You...you're not going to take me with you?" Josh couldn't believe it, "I thought... I thought..." It was Riglito who left.

"It's too dangerous to stay, Josh." Mrs. de Winter finally couldn't help crying.

Josh also shed tears, crying and shouting: "You said that you have always regarded me as your own son, but what about you now! Now you want to drive me away!"

He pushed Mrs. de Winter away, ignoring her subsequent explanations.

Sorrow engulfed his still immature heart like a tide, and he didn't even have the energy to think about why.He used to selfishly think that it was Rigletto who left the Derwent house, and now he felt guilty and amused by this thought, yeah, how can two races, hunter and prey, coexist?

But no matter what the person involved was thinking, finally, before the first autumn leaves fell, the Black family's car stopped in the front yard of the Derwent family's house.

Josh dragged his luggage and walked towards the black car step by step. He made up his mind never to look back.The parents in my mind are a pair of outstanding orators. They narrated their parents' love so eloquently that they almost moved me...

"Josh!" Mrs. de Winter couldn't help crying and calling her little son, "I'm sorry, Josh...say goodbye to us, everyone is here..."

Josh's footsteps paused, and finally he couldn't help turning his head stiffly.

Father, mother, Arman, those eccentric grandparents... Lucifer was there, only Rigoletto, who still didn't show up.

Just when Josh was about to close the car door, Lucifer suddenly rushed over. It jumped onto Josh's knee, and its soft tail brushed against his wrist.Josh buried his face in Lucifer's increasingly obese cat's face, tears wet Lucifer's hair, it gave a "meow" in disgust, and finally rubbed Josh as farewell.

When leaving, a piece of white paper suddenly appeared on Josh's lap.

Before Josh had time to take a closer look, the car had already set off.Annie sat beside him, she didn't seem to be surprised by Josh's arrival, she greeted as usual: "Hi."

"Welcome to human society."

……

A teenager stood quietly in front of the attic window, his eyes followed the fading car until it disappeared from sight for a long time.

"Meow." A cat meowed at the door of the attic.

Rigoletto turned around and hugged Lucifer, and said in a low voice, "I'm sorry, Josh, wait for me..."