The vampire heiress is two-faced

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Yin Shang picked it up and saw several lines of large English text written on it:

【Elysium Blood Agent - Early Production Model】

The liquid inside the bag was dark red like blood plasma, but it was thinner than thick blood plasma.

He examined it carefully, but there was no ingredient list on the bag, so it was clearly not a legitimate commercial product.

Yin Shang tore open a hole and let Reinhardt smell it.

Reinhardt was clearly taken aback:

"Master! This is... some kind of hallucinogen!"

Yin Shang rubbed his chin: "Hallucination?"

"Yes, Master, it contains a very small amount of vampire blood, mixed with many other unknown substances. Just the smell alone... is enough to overwhelm the senses of an ordinary human!"

Reinhardt placed the cat's paw next to Yin Shang's neck, where it glowed faintly.

"Without me, Master, just the smell alone would affect your nervous system, causing you to fall into some kind of hallucination that would excite you. Not to mention ordinary humans who drink it."

Yin Shang's lips twitched twice:

"What are they planning to do with all this hallucinogens?! And they've stockpiled so many..."

He shook his head.

"No matter what the group's purpose is, we cannot keep this warehouse and the things inside."

Yin Shang gripped the "long stick" behind him.

"Hmph, Reinhardt, let's make a scene."

...

...

At the entrance of the house, Ruo Keke was already standing upright, waiting for a long time.

As the silver-haired girl approached from afar, she gave a slight bow:

"Miss, judging from your expression, you seem quite satisfied with the result."

Ludwig skipped in with her hands behind her back, then turned back and smiled at her maid.

"Coco, judging from your expression, you also find it quite interesting, don't you?"

Coco sighed and shook her head, saying:

"No way, Miss, you're just being silly. Putting on such a show to scare people only makes humans have a worse impression of us vampires. And you used to complain about how humans demonized vampires."

Ludwig tilted her head: "But if I don't scare them, they still won't learn their lesson. I can't let them forget who I am. If I just confiscate the photos, they'll dare to come back next time."

"So you've decided to work with me to scare them all into insanity?"

Ludwig smiled and said, "Yes."

"Sigh, you always like to tease others, young lady. As the future queen, you can't have such interests..."

...

"Pfft."

Ludwig smiled and reached out to lift Ruoke's chin.

“That kind of teasing is different from this kind of teasing.”

The silver-haired girl raised her head slightly; her lovely face was framed by blood-red eyes that remained unfathomable.

"Do you understand, Coco?"

If Coco's cheeks flushed red, she would say, "I...I don't understand, Miss."

She turned her head and walked quickly toward the bathroom.

"You're making fun of me again. I'm going to take a shower now."

Ludwig hugged her from behind, around the waist:

"Oh? What a coincidence, I need to take a shower too. Coco, come and scrub my back."

"..."

"Sigh, there's just no way to deal with the young lady."

Chapter 12 Undercurrent

"According to our reporter, an unidentified explosion occurred yesterday at a storage warehouse in the suburbs of Shigekawa City."

"Viewers can see from the footage that the entire warehouse, built with prefabricated panels, has been completely destroyed. We just don't know the extent of the damage to the goods inside."

"Miss Host, the Spire Group has prevented the media and police from entering the scene. They claim they will use their legal team and private security to hold the perpetrators accountable for this loss."

"Strangely, the well-known multinational corporation Spire Group has always enjoyed a global reputation for actively cooperating with local laws in various countries. Why is it acting out of character this time, refusing police assistance?"

"Please see our detailed report below."

...

Early that morning, Ludwig was woken up early by Coco to prepare for her meeting with a client scheduled for today.

But she didn't start the complicated dressing process at this moment. Instead, she lay on the recliner in her nightgown, looking anxiously at Ruokeke who was fiddling with a small box next to her.

"cocoa..."

She swallowed.

"Be gentle, okay? It'll hurt a lot..."

Coco took a pair of pliers out of the box: "Young lady, open your mouth."

Ludwig's already pale face turned even whiter with fright.

"Alas!"

"Young Miss, open your mouth."

"Coco, my stomach suddenly hurts. I need to go to the bathroom, okay? I'll get it done another day..."

“Miss,” Ruo Keke said, enunciating each word clearly. “If you hadn’t been so greedy with eating so much sweet blood cake, your teeth wouldn’t have decayed so quickly.”

Ludwig, who had tried to get up, obediently sat back down.

"But, isn't it because Coco's blood cake is so delicious?"

Coco remained expressionless: "This isn't my fault, Miss. Who threw those blood cake wrappers in the trash cans outside?"

Ludwig scratched her head: "Hehehe..."

Coco sighed, “The self-healing ability of vampires cannot be applied to teeth, which are inherently incapable of self-healing. For thousands of years, vampire teeth have served as both organs for drawing blood and weapons for tearing the skin of prey, making them the most easily worn-out part of our bodies.”

"Once they are decayed or damaged, they can only be pulled out completely, allowing the body's self-healing ability to grow a new tooth."

"Even a new vampire like me, with only five years of memories, has memorized these little bits of knowledge. Young lady, you've lived for so long, you must not only know them, but have also pulled them out more than once, right?"

Ludwig pouted and said, "Fine, I'm just afraid of pain. But don't underestimate me. I'll pull it out then."

Painkillers are of little use when treating dental problems in vampires, as their teeth quickly regrow. But the momentary pain still terrifies Ludwig.

"Open your mouth, ah——"

Ludwig reluctantly opened her mouth:

"what--"

...

Even vampires like Ludwig, who have a long bloodline, have teeth that are basically no different from those of humans.

The only difference between her mouth and a human's is the two prominent canine teeth located on either side of her mouth. They grow downwards to 1.5 times the length of ordinary teeth, with sharp ends like real tiger teeth, but they do not harm her mouth.

It has a thin, hollow structure inside that can draw blood from the prey's skin like a miniature water pump, allowing the vampires to feast on it.

These two teeth are one of the more subtle features among Ludwig's many obvious vampire characteristics. But as soon as she slightly opens her cherry-like mouth, the two sharp teeth reflect a dangerous glint, and can even be exposed when she slightly retracts her lower lip, to intimidate her prey. Most vampires can do this.

"what..."

The silver-haired girl mumbled something, but she was forced to keep her mouth open, so she couldn't speak.

If Coco's pupils light up slightly, her vampire night vision allows her to see her mouth clearly without any equipment.

“咕呜。”

Ludwig's soft little tongue twitched uneasily, and her throat emitted equally uneasy hissing sounds.

"Woo?"

Ludwig suddenly felt something cold and metallic enter her mouth and clamp down on her most precious right fang.

Ludwig's pupils shrank dramatically: "Eek!"

puff.

"Ooh-a-ah!"

...

After a while.

Coco wiped the drool from Ludwig's mouth, while Ludwig, who had just lost one of her precious fangs, covered her aching cheek, looking aggrieved.

　"Woo-"

"My teeth... my teeth..."

She looked as if half her soul had been ripped out, staring at the folding mirror with her mouth agape, looking up, down, left, and right.

If you could wrap the extracted decayed tooth in a tissue and hand it to the young lady.

"Alright, young lady, it's not like humans whose teeth don't grow back. Vampire teeth can recover in three days at most, so there's no need to be so sad. You'll have to handle this tooth yourself according to local customs."

Ludwig wiped away the tears that came from the pain:

"That's not why I'm sad."

She suddenly said in a very serious tone.

"That's because that means I can't drink Coco's blood for three days."

"...Miss, please do your own makeup and dressing up today."

"Huh? No—"

...

About an hour later, Ludwig, dressed in a vampire gown, casually greeted her clients in the living room.

The newcomer was a man wearing sunglasses who didn't look friendly. He crossed his legs and looked at the elegant young woman sitting opposite him with distrust.

"So you're Ludwig, the mediator who's quite well-known in the local vampire community?"

The man in sunglasses took them off, revealing that one of his eyes appeared to be injured and therefore somewhat impaired.

He scrutinized Ludwig for a moment, then put his sunglasses back on, covering his eyes.

"Although you look like a young girl, I'm sure you're not just a teenager like you appear," the man in sunglasses said.

Ludwig picked up the black tea on the table and took an elegant sip.

"hiss..."

Although a sudden, piercing pain in her gums almost made her lose her composure, she managed to endure it without flinching.

"Hehe. How did you figure that out?" she said with a smile.

The man in sunglasses said, "Business people all have some ability to read people. Your girlish appearance and demeanor... seem to me nothing more than a clever disguise to hide your true self."

"Hmm?" Ludwig tilted her head.

"If you utter any more offensive and irrelevant nonsense, sir, don't blame me for asking you to leave."

The man in sunglasses sneered, "Hmph, you have no reason to refuse this commission."

The man in sunglasses slapped a large sum of money in front of her, along with ten blood collection vouchers that could be used to collect high-quality blood at a designated store.

“Those annoying bloodsicks destroyed one of our warehouses last night. Vampire lady, I can tell you that the warehouse contained a large quantity of daily necessities and medicines that were intended for vampires, and now they have all been destroyed.”

"This is not only a loss for us, but also a significant matter for the vampire clan. As a member of the vampire clan, you wouldn't just stand by and do nothing, would you?"