"Umi!" Viktor was appalled to see Umilia hurt as he quickly helped her get up and checked her injuries.
"I am fine. I can heal myself. You go take care of her…Oh no…" Just when Umilia thought she and Viktor could finally take down that mysterious woman, she had already disappeared along with Linard's body.
Viktor also noticed this and asked with furrowed brows, "Who was that woman? Why were you two fighting?" He was barely restraining in his rage after seeing some random woman hurt his wife like this. If it wasn't for Umilia being injured, he wouldn't have stopped after punching her once.
He was on his way to Umilia to her workplace just to surprise her by following her from behind for fun. But after following her till here, he was surprised to see her involved in an intense fight with some woman.
And here he was after stopping that mysterious woman from further hurting Umilia. He also didn't expect that woman to be powerful enough to give Umilia a hard time.
Umilia sighed as she used her sacred light to heal the decayed skin on her neck, "I don't know…Whoever she was…she is really powerful, and I think Linard had been involved in something dangerous and fishy."
Suddenly, blue and red lights began to reflect on the walls, followed by the sirens of police cars, and Umilia quickly grabbed Viktor's hand as she said, "Let's get out of here, first."
Their battle had surely attracted the attention of the local bodies, especially since half of the buildings surrounding the narrow street had been broken down. But of course, it was destined to show up in the news as an earthquake and nothing more.
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Back in the Snow Mansion, Viktor immediately grabbed Umilia's arm and pulled her towards him, "You better tell me what's going on. I feel like you have been keeping something from me."
Viktor didn't expect Linard to turn into some kind of malformed vampire after going missing. He thought the dude was probably depressed after seeing his dream girl being married to someone. It was something understandable, but he never thought things were this serious, especially when it involved the company Taya previously worked in.
He then inwardly sighed in relief, seeing that Umilia's injuries had healed just like she said. Still, he was still angry thinking about the woman who hurt Umilia and wanted to know how Umilia got herself involved in these things.
Umilia sighed and said softly, "I am sorry Viktor. It's not that we were keeping you in the dark, but we were planning to tell you once we got some solid information. Until then, we were just investigating on our own."
Viktor narrowed his eyes as he asked, "We? Don't tell me…You and Taya? Why…Why didn't you tell me you two were investigating something so dangerous? I could have helped! Look at what happened to you today."
Viktor was frustrated since something bad could have happened to Umilia, and if he didn't follow her, he wouldn't even have known. But inwardly, he knew Umilia wouldn't do something foolish like involving herself in battles with dangerous people without telling him, and so was expecting a sound explanation.
"Wait. You are misunderstanding. We weren't actively putting ourselves in danger or anything but merely using our connections to find out about things. Taya was doing it through Eva while Linard's sister has been contacting me, and I was trying to find out if she could find out more about the kind of work Linard did in VBIOS. And Linard was the one who was stalking me before those people followed him to take him away. But I tried to stop them, and that's how I got into a fight. We never expected vampires and a woman with the power to cause death on whatever she touches to be involved in these things. Otherwise, we surely would have told you. But without confirming anything, we didn't want to distract you," Umilia knew Viktor was angry that they didn't tell him about what they were doing, but she wanted to tell him that things weren't exactly as they seemed.
Viktor rubbed his forehead as he calmed down and understood what they were thinking. Still, he gently held Umilia's shoulders and looked into her eyes as he said, "This time, I will let it pass. But next time you two involve yourself in anything that even remotely seems dangerous, no matter if beings like us are involved or not, you two will have to tell me. Okay? Otherwise, I won't forgive you two that easily. You know how sensitive I am about these things. I have just lost too much to not be careful."
Umilia caressed his charming face as she felt guilty for making him sad and gave him a warm hug as she said in a feathery voice, "I am sorry, husband. I won't do anything like this again. If I do…then you can…punish me in any way you want."
Viktor couldn't help give a soft chuckle hearing her words, and he had to admit she indeed knew the right way to turn him on and change his mood.
"It's all fine, but now you might be in their crosshairs since they never expected someone like you to exist in this town," Viktor said in a concerned tone as he caressed her soft hair.
"The same goes for you too. You showed yourself, and they know we both are together. But they don't know our civilian identities for now. Still, we have to be careful, especially you. There might already be people like them walking around you," Umilia said with a serious expression as she looked at him.
"Then how will I exactly know they are not human? So far, everything seems normal in the college, but I am not sure if hidden elements are hiding within it like you said," Since Viktor had lived most of his time with humans and only recently started to come upon other supernatural beings like him, he wanted to know how to identify them if they were trying to maintain a low-key profile like him.
However, for some reason, his gut was telling him that he might have already come across them.