Sun was about to rise. Akiya quickened his pace. Technically, he could run, but humans have already started to leave their houses. He didn't want to see newspaper articles about a man suddenly fading into thin air. From a human point of view, a running vampire basically looks like he's teleporting.

Finally he reached a rather small building. He opened the door and stepped inside. He walked to the bar and sat down on one of the chairs. The red-haired man behind the bar spoke to him right away.

“How are you, Akiya?”

“I’m okay. But humans’ life still isn’t easy in this town” replied Akiya.

“What do you mean?”

“I had to save a conqueror from a red-aura vampire” explained Akiya. “It was Kaoru, Dai.”

Dai looked down. He knew Kaoru very well. He and Suna were his best friends.

But one day Kaoru killed an innocent person and lost his conscience - the last piece of his humanity.

“At least he’s not gonna hurt anyone anymore” mumbled Dai, cleaning the table top. “I need a new cloth.”

Dai turned on his heel and went to the back room.

"Hi, Akiya" said black-haired man, who sat at the table top. "How are you?"

"Satoru's subordinates are annoying" replied Akiya. "They're killing innocent people."

"Bad vampires don't have conscience" said the man. "That's why they're evil."

"It wasn't some new discovery, Yuji" noticed Akiya, resting his head on his hand.

"Sorry?" Yuji looked at the ceiling. "By the way, did you fight them again?"

"Yes. I saved a conqueror. He wasn't smart, but he was young and innocent" replied Akiya.

"Then I'm glad you did this" Yuji smiled slightly, but then winced, when someone smacked his head with a cloth. "Ouch!"

"Yuji! Get your ass off the table top!" yelled Dai. "How many times do I have to repeat that you can't sit here?!"

"For over a hundred years you kept telling me this... I think it was 20 thousand times" replied Yuji.

"I don't care, how many times I told you this before. Get your ass off here" ordered Dai.

"Alright, alright" Yuji jumped off the table top and sat beside Akiya. "By the way, where are our friends?"

"Suna probably is going to be late as always. He's probably sitting right now in some closet and whining that he has to wait there until dusk" Dai poured dish soap on the cloth and returned to cleaning the table top. "Ikari is asleep already and Sakamo came back an hour ago, smiling radiantly. When I asked him, why he's so happy, he told me that he helped his old friend and he got some reward. To be honest, I don't want to know, what his friend gave him."

"Their virginity?" suggested Yuji.

Dai and Akiya looked at him, confused.

"What? We don't know, if it was a man or a woman."

"Sakamo insists that it was a man" explained Dai.

"Well, it changes everything" Yuji thought for a moment. "But Sakamo is still young. We don't know everything about him. Maybe he's bisexual?"

"This womaniser? Bi?" Akiya glared at Yuji. "We can quickly assume that this friend just let him drink his blood."

"Do you think so?" Yuji became interested.

Akiya nodded.

"If Sakamo didn't kill him, it means he was innocent. And you know, innocent blood..."

"Is delicious" the short, blonde-haired vampire chimed in, slamming the door behind him.

"Suna, you're fuming" noticed Dai.

>>Suna<< wasn't his real name. He hated his real name, so Kaoru named him >>Sunanezumi<<, because when he met him for the first time, the younger vampire had two gerbils in his pocket. After years there was only >>Suna<< left.

The only thing they knew was that Suna's surname was >>Nakamura<<.

Of course, Dai has been Suna's friend for so long that he knew, what his real name was. Akiya also knew this, but he wasn't sure, if Suna knew that he knows.

"I noticed" Suna shook his head. "But what can I do, if these girls were so tasty?"

"Did you seduce some girls with white aura?" asked Yuji.

"Two at once" Suna smiled, his fangs flashing with crimson blood. "But don't worry, they're both alive and well. They're just a little dizzy. I have to take a bath, maybe my skin will stop stinging."

Suna went to the bathroom.

"Typical Suna" Dai shrugged and began wiping glasses from the shelves.