“We don’t make the rules. Our Lord does. We are merely the ones who follow them.”
“Lord? I remember you speaking of the lord before too? Who is it? Someone even higher position than you?” Rudy asked with a curious look on his face.
“Something like that, yes.”
“Be more specific, please. Take me to that lord then. I will talk with him myself.”
“I am afraid that’s not possible.”
“Why? Do I have to make an appointment or something?” Rudy scoffed and laughed out loud.
“You can’t meet him even if you want to. No one can,” Virgil said in a calm voice. “One can only meet him when the Lord wishes.”
“You didn’t answer my question. What exactly is this Lord? A God?”
“Hmm… you can say that. But we don’t have a god. We don’t believe in them.”
“Oh? Atheist vampires…. Not surprising at all. Well, jokes aside, tell me more. I have so much free time.” Rudy shrugged his shoulders and continued, “Thanks to your lovely granddaughter, I am stuck here for 15 days with nothing to do.”
“I don’t truly blame you for what you did with her. When a vampire sucks someone’s blood, it creates an aphrodisiac effect that leaves one in a state where he or she can’t think straight,” Virgil stated. “But tell me one thing…”
Virgil made an inexplicable expression on his face and asked, “Did she consent?”
“Of course, it was. We share the same worries, so you don’t have to— never mind.” Rudy raised his brows and uttered, “Stop changing the topic. This is my third time asking. Who is the Lord?”
SIGH!
“I guess I have no other choice.” After a brief pause, he said, “Lord is… almighty. The one who watches over the worlds but never interferes. He is supreme, and his words are commands. He simply needs to wish for something, and that will occur. He can bend the very reality.”
“Sounds like an interesting job to me. Where do I find him?”
“The Lord doesn’t exist.”
“Uhhh….” There was visible confusion on Rudy’s face.
“Lord is an entity with no form or body. Every ten thousand years, he chooses a body to incarnate into,” Virgil asserted. “The last time the Lord was seen was when I was two years old. My father took me to the summit, and there I saw him.”
The tone of Virgil’s voice changed from calm to meek. That showed how scared Virgil was of the Lord.
“Whenever someone mentions him or talks about him, a calamity occurs. That’s why I wasn’t saying anything. But now it’s too late.” Virgil glared at Rudy from the corner of his eye and said, “Whatever happens, you would be responsible for it.”
“I accept the responsibility. Honestly, I am going to get bored here with nothing to do,” Rudy sighed.
“Anyway, who is the current incarnation of the lord then?”
“He died…”
“Uhh… what?”
“The problem about the incarnation is that the person himself would never have the idea that he is the incarnation. And he would spend the rest of his life as a vampire, dragon, fairy, elf, or whatever he was supposed to be. He wouldn’t possess the power of the lord.”
“Hmm. So you are trying to say that I can kill him?”
Virgil narrowed his glare and said, “You should watch what you speak. You are a human. Are all humans like this nowadays?”
“It was a rhetorical question. Because I have broken a rule created by him, if I want to defend myself and my two beautiful vampires, I will have to know how strong he is.”
“Then you should have phrased it better.”
“So, how does this incarnation work? And if the incarnation has died, who is the next incarnation?” Rudy asked curiously. His interest in the Lord and piqued as he was learning something new.
“The incarnation basically lives his entire life without ever knowing that he is one. And no one knows what’s the criteria to figure it out. Every one thousand years, a summit happens, and the kings and leaders go to the summit to report everything to the Lord.”
“They can’t lie in front of him, and he would know it if someone did. After hearing the report, the Lord passes a judgment. If there is any rule to be removed, he removes them and adds a new one in its stead.”
“Does the Lord know that he is in someone’s body? I know this sounds like a stupid question, but won’t the host realize something is wrong if his memories are missing. Not only that, but even if the host is unaware of the fact that he is the reincarnation, others would know it, though, right? So wouldn’t he realize it by the way others treat him?”
Rudy was feeling like a detective in a mystery film, but the only difference was he was asking questions even though he had limited knowledge of the topic. However, that’s what detectives do.
“I think I forgot to mention that no one can see the Lord when he is awake. Our eyes can’t comprehend his figure. And no one dares to look at him, to be honest. Except for a foolish kid who still regrets his actions…” Virgil uttered in a low voice.
“Let me guess, that foolish kid you are referring to, is you?” Rudy asked with a knowing look on his face.
Virgil quietly nodded and continued, “I was two years old when that happened. I had no idea what was going on, and for some reason, my dad decided to take me there even though only the strong leaders were allowed there.”
“He took you with him because he wanted you to get the Lord’s blessings, Rudy uttered nonchalantly.
“Huh?” Virgil froze after hearing that. He turned to Rudy with a baffled look on his face and asked, “How… do you know that?”
A cold breeze passed from the balcony, swaying Rudy and Virgil’s hair along with his cape.
Rudy stared at Virgil with a neutral expression on his face, but then he smirked and said, “How Indeed.”
