Chapter 221: Liar

"The temple?" Aira asked with a slightly confused look on her face, like she was yet to register what Liora was trying to say."Yes! You have to go there right? Since you’ve been recognized by the people. I saw your powers! You can heal!" Liora continued with a wolf smile on her face, even as Aira gently shook her head.

"Yes, but I havn’t even heard anything from the temple. If they wanted me to join wouldn’t they have reached out?" Aira responded with a deep look in her eyes, even as she heard Liora continue to speak.

"Give it sometime! I’m sure they would reach out!" She told her, even as she lightly patted her sister on the shoulder as she continued to speak.

"...but when they do, remember to take me along. I heard that it’s not everyone that’s allowed to the main part of the temple. I’m sure they won’t say no to your sister!" Liora pointed out, even as Aira instantly nodded her head.

She didn’t consider it a big deal if that was what Liora wanted. She herself was curious to see what the deal of the temple was and why so many people, both humans and vampires, seemed to revere both the place and the priests and priestess’ there.

"Have you been able to settle down? The money you have is enough?" Aira asked, shifting the topic back to Liora’s wellbeing since that was the most important thing to her.

"I’m fine Aira! I have enough money and I’ve been gotten a lot of mercenaries we can work with! Of course they are not enough but it’s a start!" Liora pointed out, even as she slowly got to her feet, making it clear that she intended to leave.

"You’re leaving?0" Aira asked with a hint of shock in her tone, especially since she hadn’t been expecting it when Liora only just got there.

"This isn’t even your room! If he last thing I need is for Zyren to come back!"

"He’z not coming back any..."

"It doesn’t matter! I have a couple of things I have to figure out!" She told Aira, the thought of telling her about the ritual she did not once crossing her mind.

’Hopefully the temple will be able to fix this blood urges of mine!’ She thought to herself, worried since just simply sitting beside Aira made her crave for her blood in a way that her as a human shouldn’t.

It was clear that something had gone wrong and something she had to figure out quickly before it got worse.

Liora hadn’t gotten fangs but a craving of blood had set in the second the ritual was over, so much so that before she could kill and torture the two vampires she had used, she had bitten into them one after the other and sucked their blood dry.

’Clearly something went wrong with my ritual!’ She thought to herself, turning to look at Aira who had also gotten on her feet to see her off.

She didn’t speak which instantly prompted Aira to do so with a curious look on her face.

"Is something wrong? You look worried?" She asked her, stepping forward almost like she was about to touch her head and forehead to ensure that she wasn’t sick.

"Can you...can you use your ability on me?" Liora suddenly asked in a low tone. She was courageous and brave but the idea of becoming something close to a vampire but still human terrified her.

There was only one name for something like that and it was called ’Monster.’

Aira didn’t hesitate, allowing the pure bright light Aira to ooze about of her palms as she moved to place them on Liora’s head. But barely had the light touched her that Liora jerked away sharply, almost like she had been burned.

It was like she had been burned, since it took all she could not to open her mouth and scream as she hurriedly backed away from Aria who was beyond stunned.

"Are you okay? What’s wrong?" She asked, aware that there was no reason that Liora should have reacted in such a way since the light and Aira she emanated was to heal and never caused any kind of pain.

"Nothing! Nothing! I’m fine!" Liora responded, but clearly Aira didn’t believe it. It didn’t help that Liora was still shaking from the aftermath of what she felt—one that showed that whatever had happened had clearly been good for her.

"Don’t worry Aria, I’m fine!" But the more she said it while backing away from Aria, the more Aria refused to believe as she stared more intensely at her sister who showed that she had every intention of leaving.

"If you take one more step back I’ll blast you with as much healing energy as I can!" Aira said, which was her name for it, thinking that Liora was seriously hurt but keeping it away from her.

But Liora simply grumbled out loud, aware from the tone that Aira used that she had every intention to do as she just said she was going to do.

"I’m fine!" Liora sighed, taking off the huge coat she had on just to show that she was indeed not wounded. Relieved to see Aira stop pointing her palm at her when she did it.

"Then why did you flinch?" She asked, confused, even as Liora scrambled to look for the best excuse but finding it utterly difficult to find a suitable one.


Silence ensure for a while before Liora finally said something.

"Nothing! I just...I’m just not used to the idea of you having an ability. I guess the concept itself is strange to me!" Liora said in a defeated tonez.

"...or maybe I’m a little jealous and I want something like that too...I don’t know Aira! I don’t know why I flinched," she said in a defeated tone that sounded genuine as she fixed her gaze in the ground waiting for Aira to accept it.

Which was why she was stunned when she heard Aira take a couple of steps forward and opened her mouth to speak in a clearly pissed off tone.

"You’re lying!" She said in a flat tone that said that she was confident that she was a hundred percent right.