"Where did Rias go?" Rudy wondered.
He used the new tracking ability that could show him the location of the objects and the people he had marked. It was a similar concept as GPS, but better as it not only had precise location tracking but also worked simultaneously for multiple markings at once.
"Found her…"
Rudy landed in front of a familiar convenience store and waited for Rias to co out of it.
"What is she doing here?" Rudy wondered. "Or... I think I know why she is here."
Rias was in the convenience store where Rebecca worked, although she was at ho now as she only did night shifts.
About a minute later, Rias walked out of the store empty-handed. She was wearing a hoodie and a mask on her face as though she was trying to avoid being seen. Her hands were in her pockets, and she was walking with a lowered gaze to avoid eye contact with anyone.
"..."
Even if Rias walked with her eyes closed, she wouldn't bump into anyone or anything as her senses were sharp. Even though she was almost a human, she had the basic vampire abilities that one needed to survive.
Rudy approached Rias and said, "Hey there, miss. Are you going sowhere? If yes, then I will have to report you to the police since you are running away after stealing my heart."
"..." Rias looked at Rudy and stared at him for a few seconds before saying, "La."
"Of course, it was la. I read it sowhere. If it was my original, it would have been the best pickup line in the world," Rudy said proudly.
"How did you know I was here?" Rias asked with a glint of curiosity in her eyes.
Rudy puffed his chest and confidently said, "I am the world's best stalker."
Rias took off her mask but kept the hoodie on.
"More importantly, why were you here?" Rudy asked with a knowing look on his face.
"Uhmm… I was just looking for sothing, but it was out of stock."
"I see."
Of course, Rudy knew she was lying as he was aware of the reason why Rias was there.
"Perhaps, the thing you were looking for was a human nad Rebecca?" he asked with a judging look on his face.
"What do you…"
Rudy smiled at Rias and said, "You were also wearing a hoodie when we t for the first ti."
"No, I was in my normal… oh…" Rias' eyes widened as she realized what Rudy was referring to.
She looked at him with a surprised look on her face and asked, "You… rember now?
"Well, more like I experienced it firsthand," he chuckled.
Rias' eyes suddenly got teary as though she couldn't hold her emotions anymore. Her tips trembled as she tried to speak, but words weren't coming out of her mouth.
"I… I am so happy!" She hugged him tightly and embraced his warmth. "Finally…"
"Sorry… you had to go through all that for ."
"There is no need to. It was just a test of my love, and I hoped I passed."
"Yeah… you did. You passed with full scores."
They stayed like that for a few seconds and kissed a couple of tis while looking into each other's eyes.
"You were here to et mom, right?" Rudy asked calmly.
"Yes. Although it hasn't been long since I ca here, I spent my free ti looking for your mom's whereabouts. When I was here the last ti, and you took to your house, my mories— about everything else besides you— were still sealed.
I think Rebecca had recognized , but she was pretending to not know . But even if she hadn't, I wouldn't have understood anything. No wonder she wasn't surprised at all when I revealed that I was a vampire. I tried to scare her off and steal you from her, but that… oops."
Rias gulped down in fear and prepared herself to receive Rudy's wrath.
Rudy raised his brow and asked, "What did you just say?"
"Nothing." She averted her gaze and avoided eye contact with Rudy.
"You tried to scare mom by revealing your vampire self?"
"No… I an, that wasn't my intention. I was just letting her know about …" she muttered.
"You did all that when I wasn't around?"
Rias nodded ekly in response.
Rudy shook his head in disbelief and said, "Well, let's forget about that. Mom is the only person who knows everything about everything. That also makes sense why you didn't look all so surprised when I ntioned Nyxia's na as one of my love interests."
"Hmm? Oh.. yeah… yeah. Exactly!"
"You need to learn to lie, you know? Take lessons from Angelica, she is quite good at this stuff."
"Umm… correct if I am wrong, but… Angelica is Jessica, am I right?"
"Yes."
"So that's why I kept forgetting her na again and again."
"What do you an? How does that relate to my ti travel event?" Rudy asked with a confused and curious look on his face.
"I am not exactly sure, but your seal still has its effect. It's keeping away from learning a few things. For example, you introduced Jessica as Angelica many tis, but I forgot her na even after learning it a couple of tis.
It's like… Your seal is alive, and it's preventing from learning things I shouldn't. But I no longer feel that as I now rember Angelica's na. Perhaps your seal lost its effect after you rembered everything?"
"That's the only possibility," Rudy nodded. "By the way, is that why you were stalling to reveal everything to Jane?"
"Yes. I didn't want to take any risk by ssing things up. It's just like… err… when you study hard for an exam and get all the answers written, but you forgot to write your na on the answer sheet, so you failed."
Rias chuckled nervously while saying that.
"Yeah, that was a good example."
"That's also why… I was… you know…" Rias squird a little with a flushed face and muttered, "I was avoiding to… have sex with you."
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