Chapter 24: Shameless
What she meant was—don’t get involved.
Jasmine keenly noticed something: Adele might have already guessed that she was the one who killed the doctor. However, in Adele’s eyes, it wouldn’t be too strange for her, a frail maid, to kill the doctor. After all, the doctor was already at his limit, and there were three maids present. As long as they worked together against the doctor, killing him wouldn’t be a difficult task.
In Jasmine’s opinion, even without the three of them joining forces, as long as one of them mustered the courage, they could easily kill the already dying doctor.
But Adele overlooked one thing. As a strong individual, she naturally thought: Strike while the iron is hot, even if you only have a sliver of strength left, you must finish off the enemy. However, for the maid and the freckled Anna, it wasn’t the same. They were facing the doctor, the vampire who treated them like livestock, who had been beating and scolding them for a long time, who had become their psychological shadow.
When the maid saw the doctor stand up again, her whole body stiffened. She couldn’t judge whether she could defeat him. Even if she later had the thought of fighting back, she would be easily controlled by the doctor’s mental magic due to her agitated state and become his food.
Mental magic was quite metaphysical. If it was used against someone with strong willpower and stable emotions, it wouldn’t be easy to succeed. The stronger the willpower, the less likely they were to be hypnotized. Conversely, it would be much easier. This was why the doctor had a 100% success rate when using it on these 18-year-old human maids.
Adele naturally assumed that the three maids could easily deal with the doctor, but in reality, without Jasmine, they would still end up being killed. Looking at Adele’s expression, Jasmine could guess what she was thinking. Jasmine pursed her lips and remained silent. Unlike before, when Adele asked questions slowly, she now poured out her words in a torrent.
“Jasmine, don’t be afraid. I will protect you. I will never let you get hurt. Just pretend you don’t know anything about the doctor. You never went there. I will take responsibility for everything.”
Adele was indeed a very reliable master, and her words sounded trustworthy. But the reality was that Jasmine had protected her, fed her blood, and carried her back from the ruins. Adele spoke eloquently for a while, then suddenly thought of something, and a blush crept onto her face.
Jasmine was puzzled and couldn’t help but ask, “Miss, what’s wrong? Are you still feeling weak?”
“No!” Adele immediately denied it. She lowered her head, clutching her nightgown with both hands, kneading the soft fabric. After a while, she said in a voice as soft as a mosquito, “Jasmine, was it you who fed me blood, brought me back, and then bathed and changed my clothes?”
There was nothing wrong with admitting it. She had already said things that shouldn’t have been said, so Jasmine nodded decisively about this small matter.
Unexpectedly, Adele suddenly raised her head. Only then did Jasmine notice that Adele’s cheeks were as red as a burning sunset, and her eyes were even more crimson than usual. She pointed at Jasmine, her mouth opening and closing several times before finally saying, “Shameless!” After saying that, she fled back to her bedroom and slammed the door shut.
“Miss?”
Jasmine stood outside the door and knocked, puzzled. Adele’s voice came from inside, “Jasmine! Go back! I need to rest!”
Jasmine waited for a while, and seeing that Adele was determined to stay in her room, she turned and left, preparing to do her own things.
Inside the room, Adele hid under the covers, her face buried in the pillow, not knowing what to say. The moment Jasmine admitted it, various scenes flashed through her mind, including Jasmine pulling down her clothes, holding her head to her neck, and letting her drink blood; struggling to half-drag, half-carry her from the doctor’s small building back to her room; Jasmine blushing, but still helping her undress and bathe…
It was so embarrassing! How could Jasmine do such a thing!
While feeling shy, Adele also felt a pang of heartache. Jasmine was just a weak, helpless, and pitiful little human maid, and she was an adult woman. The doctor’s small building wasn’t close to the student dormitories. While carrying her back, even though the other students were still in the teaching area, she must have been terrified, right? And she had to carry her all the way back…
How did Jasmine bring her back? She might not have been able to carry her, maybe she carried her on her back. She must have been panting, her sweat soaking her hair, yet she still gritted her teeth and brought her back to the room.
Just thinking about these things made Adele’s heart soften. She was completely captivated by the imagined scenes in her mind, her heart pounding rapidly. Jasmine must have liked her very much. Because she liked her, she was able to carry her weight on her weak shoulders and walk all the way back.
Adele thought more and more, even imagining that Jasmine must have been both worried and shy while bathing her.
Then, something she had been ignoring surged into her mind uncontrollably: she had drunk Jasmine’s blood! Thinking of this, Adele couldn’t help but hug the pillow tightly, burying her flushed face in it.
Before this, Adele had always been rejected when she wanted to drink Jasmine’s blood. This made her a little conflicted. She didn’t know why Jasmine wouldn’t let her drink her blood and even consulted her sister’s maid. The maid said with some difficulty, “Actually, being bitten isn’t a very pleasant experience. Your head will feel dizzy, your whole body will feel weak, and you’ll feel like the world is spinning.” Adele didn’t know what it felt like, but it didn’t sound comfortable.
Jasmine must have known this too. Maybe that was why she didn’t want to be bitten by her. Sometimes, she felt that Jasmine’s affection for her wasn’t sincere. If she couldn’t even overcome the discomfort of being bitten, how could she say she loved her! After feeling indignant, Adele thought again, maybe she refused because it was really uncomfortable.
With this slight conflict and the unwillingness stemming from the attraction of Jasmine’s sweet scent, Adele always pursued Jasmine, wanting to drink her blood. This time, Adele finally got her wish.
The only problem was—Adele had been unconscious when she drank Jasmine’s blood, so she didn’t know what it tasted like at all!
“Ahhhh!” Adele couldn’t help but pound the pillow with her hands. She now regretted not being able to taste Jasmine’s blood. Adele suddenly pulled her head out of the pillow, her silver-white hair drawing a curve in the air before falling behind her back.
Adele was on the verge of tears: she wondered if she would be rejected if she asked to drink Jasmine’s blood again.
“She likes me so much, she definitely won’t refuse, right!”
“Achoo…” Jasmine sneezed, raised her hand to rub her nose slightly. The vampires sitting opposite and standing behind her subconsciously frowned. The teacher from the school administration even waved his hand in disgust, “That’s why those lowly humans are so fragile…”
The group of them crowded into Jasmine’s small room, making it feel even more cramped.
The incident had happened suddenly. Just as Jasmine was about to return to her room, she was approached by the vampires from the school administration and forcefully taken to her room for interrogation. The teachers weren’t fools. They easily figured out the cause and effect, realizing that everything was caused by Jasmine. They also learned from other low-ranking vampire maids that Jasmine was supposed to go to the doctor for a change of dressing yesterday.
For some unknown reason, Jasmine hadn’t gone. Instead, Anna, the maid of a second-year student, had gone to the doctor’s small building and disappeared afterward.
Vampires had a keen sense of smell. Although Jasmine had deliberately concealed her scent, preventing them from realizing she was also present, they still detected Anna’s presence. They must have already visited Anna’s room, discovered her disappearance, and followed the clues to Jasmine, wanting to find out the truth.
While they were interrogating her, Jasmine accidentally sneezed. She felt that someone must be talking about her behind her back. With her physique, how could she possibly catch a cold?
The teacher from the school administration started with normal questioning. When Jasmine’s emotions were stirred up and she became flustered and bewildered, he seized the opportunity and used mental magic on her. Naturally, the weak human in front of him was successfully hypnotized. Now, this human could only tell the truth in front of the noble vampires.
“You were supposed to go to the doctor for a change of dressing last night, weren’t you?”
“Yes.”
“Did you go?”
“No.”
“Why didn’t you go?”
“I found that Miss Adele had a set of clothes that hadn’t been cleaned yet, so I planned to wash them before going. But as you can see, I’m not feeling well. I’ve had a bit of a cold these past two days. After washing the clothes, I felt tired and took a nap in my room.”
“Did you see Anna yesterday?”
“I saw her once earlier in the evening.”
“What did she say to you?”
“Nothing much. She just mentioned that the food in the dining hall has been a bit repetitive lately. I haven’t seen her since.”
“Do you know what happened yesterday?”
“I don’t know. I just know that something big must have happened because the vampire maids were quite noisy today.”
The teacher and the staff behind Jasmine exchanged glances, confirming that this little maid had nothing to do with the incident. She was just an innocent bystander. Moreover, she was a maid belonging to the Blake family, and the Blake family’s eldest daughter was even willing to clash with other vampires for her. Naturally, they wouldn’t be as foolish as the doctor to cause trouble for a human.
The teacher nodded, his crimson eyes once again fixed on Jasmine, “Very well. Forget that we came to see you today. You just took a nap because of your cold.”
“Okay.”
The teacher left with peace of mind. The arrogant vampires were overly confident in their mental magic, not believing that a weak human could possibly resist it. But in reality, if the target of hypnosis had strong willpower, it wouldn’t be so easy to hypnotize them.
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