There weren’t a lot of people who attended the funeral. They were just the same people Alice had seen in the wake. She wasn’t familiar with any of them, and Alice knew that none of them were their relatives. She eventually learned that there were neighbors whom her mother had been friends with after she moved. They were also the ones who also discovered that she died alone in her house when she didn’t come to their weekly church service. "Your mom always tells us how sorry she is to her daughter. She said that she regretted not believing her when the truth was waving in her face. We never knew the entirety of the situation that’s what she always told us. You might be angry at her, but please know how much she regrets her decision and how badly she misses you. She really is sorry, and she loves you so much, Alice." It was what one of her closest friends in the neighborhood said to Alice. Unlike the other day, when all she did was cry when she saw her mother on her deathbed, Alice was

Of course, Elijah felt his blood servants' distress and the pureblood lurking around. Raven lifted her hands as if she were surrendering. "Calm down. I didn’t do anything to your blood servants. Look, all the limbs are intact." He hissed at her, "You’re a Mondragon, aren’t you? What do you want?" He recognizes the woman from years ago. Elijah glanced at Allen, and he simply nodded, indicating that both of them were alright. Elijah wanted to sigh in relief, but he couldn't be complacent when purebloods kept appearing. "That fucking surname precedes my reputation." She rolled her eyes, "I was ordered to figure out what the hell you were up to and why you aided a hunter. I was with that jerk, Benjamin, but I made sure to arrive here while he stayed preoccupied. To make a long story short, I don’t want to be involved in their ridiculous goal of killing you. I want to propose an alliance. Let’s just kill all of them." Aside from being a huge fool, Benjamin is known to be a huge womanizer

"We’re going to regret this." Elijah’s voice was the first thing that echoed in her mind as she opened her eyes. The wave of memories and feelings flooded her mind faster than she could recall the memories from her past lives. She was about to curse at herself when she realized that Elijah was still on her bed and was currently staring at her in all of her naked glory. His eyes reflected desire, and it made her more awake than ever. Alice’s hands quickly worked and pulled the blanket to cover her upper body… although he had already seen all. Her face reddened after remembering more details about their night. She has never felt this flustered before. "You should sleep more. You fell asleep about three hours ago. You’re... probably aching all over." He said it so casually that Alice just wanted to jump out of the nearest window. She fell asleep only three hours ago because Alice already lost count of how many times they did it. A mistake could have happened once, but they kept going

Alice quickly stabbed his chest and crushed his heart. She did so without removing her eyes from the vampire's. The vampire remained still and was just looking ahead, despite being conscious. She hasn’t felt sympathy towards vampires before, but she is starting to see them as people. After all, they were still humans who had fallen victims to vampires, mostly purebloods, who are apparently after her as well. "Area five, one down." She informed the headquarters and moved on. Alice knew the risk of being outside like this. The pureblood she met by chance might still be around, but she can’t live her life hiding. She tried, but bad things kept happening. It's as if the world is telling her that there is no other way out than death or the slimmest chance of surviving all of this. Maybe she just had to face it head-on. "Or maybe I’m losing my mind and this is all madness." She mumbled and went on to find more vampires. Not even five minutes passed, and she saw another vampire. This time

“My whole body aches. I need a month vacation after this…” Alice heard Art complains as they gather to the headquarters. She looked around and she hasn’t seen everyone gathered like this in a while. The only time she sees all the hunters being gathered is during the quarterly assembly. There's a lot of people but Alice was sure that there were still a lot missing. She figured that they either injured and is in the hospital or they already quit because of how dangerous their job was getting. Alice was starting to wonder if the trainees are already considered quitting too. It’s the proof that the situation was getting more out of hand and she is pissed that she couldn't do anything despite being aware of what was happening."Alice, how are you?" Alice's train of thought were cut by Carl's question."Homicidal." She answered without any second thought.Carl smiled, quite the opposite of what she was expecting."You're back to usual I see." He couldn't stop smiling which confused Alice e