The Vampire Empress.
The two of us soon reached back to the town hall where Ayaka suddenly opened the door and jumped straight towards me, her eyes were filled with tears which made me unconsciously look around with a glare before turning back to the little girl, patting her back.
“Did someone hurt you, my sweet darling?” I kissed her forehead before she shook her head, snuggling onto my shoulder.
“There is no one within the vicinity, there shouldn’t be someone who could have attacked her,” the Demon Queen spoke which made me frown, “Could it be she had a nightmare? I heard children cry a lot because of nightmares.”
My eyes looked down at the cute little elf who was crying on my shoulder, patting her as I asked as gentle as possible, “Did you have a nightmare, sweetie?”
She looked at me and nodded a bit before a soft cry escaped her mouth, “Mama… don’t leave me…” which made a certain Demon Queen beside me look at me with sarcastic horror.
“You abandon your children?! How could you?!” she mockingly spoke.
I really wanted to smack her head, but I understood that our power gap would simply make me fall to the ground, I still don’t understand much about my powers, nor do I understand anything about this world at all even after reading many of those books.
There are a few more powers of mine that have revealed themselves, like for example, when I first arrived here. There was this voice or window that showed the skill I was using but somehow that vanished… now there was also this voice or window back on the other town that told me I completed a quest.
It seems like the only way to find out what all the powers I hold is either to force that tomato sauce deity to tell me or to figure out what can trigger them to activate.
“Mama…” Ayaka’s voice whispered into my ear before she slowly fell asleep on my shoulders as I continued to pat her before walking inside the town hall as I looked at the Demon Queen who is possibly another troublemaker like His Majesty.
After placing Ayaka down on the sofa, taking off the leather jacket that somehow appeared over me without me knowing then placing it on Ayaka. I turned my attention back to the Demon Queen before asking, “Do you have any other purposes for coming here?”
“Well, I do have to formally register myself as a resident here which requires me to file some paperwork at the town hall, and also, according to traditions here, I have to offer a gift of some sort as well to the town hall… what do you want?” she smiled.
Taking a seat on a chair, I looked at her in the eye with both my hands supporting my head: “A gift is supposed to be given as a surprise, why are you asking me what I want?”
“Well, wouldn’t it be better to get what you like over something random that may or may not be the item that you really want to get?” she replied.
“You can skip the tradition part if you like, after all, I was not born on this kingdom… not even on this world to add. There is no such tradition like that back in my world, instead, just pay the proper amount of taxes on time and don’t make trouble,” I looked out at the window with a wry smile before turning around as I asked, “By the way, you cooked that barbeque right?”
“I could have sworn I said I did cook it myself,” she showed a bitter smile, but I ignored it with a shrug.
“How about this, if you want to stick to traditions then how about cooking us a meal or two?” I suggested while resting my head on the table, “You see… I want to be lazy today like always and sleep on the table without having to cook stuff myself.”
“Were you perhaps a lazy person?” she asked.
“Were is not the right word to use here, because I was never unlazy and is always lazy,” I lazily spoke before a soft giggle escaped her soft lips.
“To think that you are asking a ruler of the strongest kingdom of this continent to cook you a meal, aren’t you quite amusing, little vampire?” she walked over to my table, sitting on top of it as she grabbed my chin seductively.
But that seduction force of hers was useless as my stomach growled loudly in anger, “Rulers or whatever, they look the same to me. Peasants can become village chiefs; those village chiefs can become town chiefs and those town chiefs can be city lords which makes them a noble.”
“And those city lords could eventually grow into major leaders of several fiefs before marrying a random crown princess and turning into rulers themselves. There is no difference between them anyhow, anyone can become one as long as they persist,” I sighed before she looked at me with a surprised gaze.
A silent moment stood between us for a few moments before it was disrupted by a loud laugh from her as she looked at me as if a tigress preying on a rabbit, “You are quite the amusing girl indeed, it’s no wonder why that idiot ruler’s son had taken an interest over you.”
“You also managed to take my interest as well, are you sure you aren’t some sort of succubus hiding behind the skin of a human and a vampire?” she smirked, “Well, succubus, vampire or human… whatever you may be.”
“As long as you remember that you are mine then I won’t mind a single bit of your race, even if that idiot ruler’s son had taken an interest over you… no one will have you other than me even if it means war,” her eyes turned bright red for a split second.
I felt shivers running down my spine, it was like I was being stalked by some kind of yandere or a love-crazed killer. Sweat dripped from my forehead as I soon realized that the Demon Queen isn’t just some kind of person that I could messily talk around with… she is more terrifying than that.
“You can wait here if you like, I will make the best meal you will ever try,” she hopped off from my table and showed a bright and confident grin before she suddenly winked at me as she spoke in a seductive and teasing voice, “The meal will even make your stomach growl for me and will force you to starve for a bite of me.”
I felt a bit afraid of what she was going to bring and could only swallow my regret for asking a Demon Queen to make a meal for me… I hope she doesn’t throw in some kind of aphrodisiac or poison that I can’t resist…
—Author note: Aya, are you sure you aren’t planting death flags for yourself?
I felt shivers running down my spine, it was like I was being stalked by some kind of yandere or a love-crazed killer.
this sounds nice :) I hope her "yanderess" will include Aya and ayaka :) it would be a nice scene seeing Aya and Helesta and maybe some other like Iona and the other Knight having a doting contest
preparara un platillo de salchichas Sangrientas (Moronga)
en mexico comemos eso y no la he visto en otras partes del mundo basicamente es sangre cuagulada mezclada con especias y secada al sol con sal dentro de intestinos; es igual como se preparan las salchichas y muy parecido al chorizo mientras su sabor es igual al higado.
Err... Can I somehow get an English translation (Google Translate failed me)?
XD yo quiero probar eso, tiene que estar potente
@Mihou i say in Mexico there are blood sausages its, the flavor is similar to liver
@Dreckons if you can talk in English why the hell are you talking in Spanish
@Tendo it is easier to read in english than to write for us
Aqui en Chile las llamamos prietas :)
@Meganjax no comprend
@Dreckons I will see your blood sausage and raise you blood pudding...
Who thinks these things up? Seriously, what is the logic behind looking at a bucket of blood and thinking it would be tasty if cooked?
@kaithar people who do not waste the food and the life of the animal offer respect to the dead animals using so much bones, skin, blood and even grease, excrement and guts. haha
that's why sausages exist and you eat hot dogs nowadays are old recipes like cheese or butter.
the same people who saw good cheese in a bucket of rotten milk.
@Dreckons certainly, using every possible part is the proper thing to do, but there are bits that we shouldn't eat... Brain, stomach and intestines of certain animals... I think lungs are bad too? Blood, as a disease vector, is pretty sus... Also, if I'm remembering correctly, human digestive processes aren't very good at processing blood.
@kaithar There are some poisonous animals that cannot be eaten if you do not know how to remove the poison (snake glands) or river fish with parasites, but knowing the method to remove it, eliminate or neutralize them, you can even eat jellyfish and puffer fish. (Do you want to eat a komodo dragon? They are super toxic)
Brain? o.0 There are tacos made of brains and lungs. pigs smoke ?? Mad cows go crazy for being cannibals? Most diseases affect only their species and not humans, Avian flu for example. You watch too many vampire movies. Animal blood doesn't have VIH.
People eat beef, pork, goat, turkey or chicken livers and have much more iron and toxin content compared to blood.
@Dreckons haaaaa, where to start.
Poisonous animals... there are *some* things you can detox, but I think you might be making the mistake of grouping poisonous animals and venomous animals together. In the case of venomous animal, such as a snakes and jellyfish, the toxin is going to be primarily accumulated in their attack method. A poisonous animal is a different problem though... they evolved that way to discourage being eaten, so they want the toxin to be diffused enough that there isn't a "safe to eat" part the predator could adapt to. It's common for the animal in question to bioaccumulate the poison rather than make it themselves, that way they just need to be immune to the effects. In some cases their skin, flesh and organs are all toxin containing.
So, since you can't "remove" a toxin that is diffused through the thing you want to eat, elimination/neutralisation... ok, that is feasible in some cases. If it's a protein you might be able to destroy or denature it with heat, but if you can't get rid of it by cooking it's a pain. If it's a counter agent you might have to soak the ingredient in the agent long enough to be confident it's saturated. If it's an antidote you're essentially hoping you don't get too poisoned while trying to eat it. I'll get back to a good example of a hard to deal protein-based toxin.
Then there's chemical toxins, separate from organic toxins, that are different class of headaches. One popular example is cyanide, though that's normally only a concern when eating flora. Another is mercury, organic mercury compounds specifically, which can bioaccumulate through fish and cause long term problems.
Worryingly, a lot of this poison class don't have direct antidotes, Batrachotoxin and Tetrodotoxin being interesting examples as one of the listed ways to treat the former is by use of the latter.
Moving on to brains... yeah, this is where that nasty toxin I mentioned comes in. Prions will ruin your day... more exactly, they'll kill you if they can, there's no known treatment/cure afaik. The BSE/CJD you reference is resistant to normal cooking methods... to normal sterilization methods... basically you're looking at straight bleach or an intensive autoclave process. Ah, but it's about cannibalism you say, well not quite... Prion carriers can appear by mutation, inheriting a mutation, blood transfusion... in the case of CJD we get it from eating infected cows. The problem is that infections are long incubation period, hard/impossible to detect and "Invariably fatal" once they do get going. If it were a purely cannibalistic condition it would be a self-limiting problem, but we've seen enough cases to have identified other causes.
Right now prion diseases are thankfully rare and mostly unable to jump species, we don't actually know very much about them. It's hard to say if more consumption of brains would cause an increase in human cases, but I personally would want to avoid anything that could significantly increase my exposure to anything related to prion transmission.
Blood and viruses huh? In theory, the cooking should break down a lot of viral and bacterial threats but it won't help you against some of the hardened vectors like spores, it won't help you against those prions, and it won't help you against unmetabolised bioaccumulated chemicals. I'm not knowledgable enough on the subject, but I do at least know that there are parasites that aren't killed off by cooking.
You have a valid point about liver, that does bioaccumulate some harmful things, but that would only apply to things the liver can metabolise or filter out of the blood and then store. If it's something that would then get excreted at a reasonable rate then it shouldn't build up in liver either.
Actually, the lungs are something I'm not sure on... as suggested, smoking is the go to for lung poisoning, but anything airborne could be a candidate for bioaccumulation in the lungs. I just don't know which ones can get in and which ones might be a risk. An illustrative example... radon. Radon is normally present as a gas, is naturally occurring, and is able to get into the lungs... which would be fine if not for the fact radon has a short half-life and a really horrible decay chain that has a 22 year pause in Lead 210 before decaying to a more stable Lead 206 by way of Polonium 210. We know what exposure to radon in the air does, but I don't think there's much in the way of studies on ingestion via the lungs of animals living in high radon concentration areas... my guess would be that the concentration of unstable isotopes and heavy metals would be high enough to pose a health risk with long term consumption.
On a more subjective level ... I know that some cultures do eat brains but I personally find it insulting to the animal in a way I struggle to put into words. I see the principle of not wasting parts of an animal as fundamentally a matter of respect for a creature that has died for your benefit, but by that same principle the remains should be treated with respect just in general. Eating brains just feels too much like a desecration, it being the "vessel" of existence. I know that's pretty much a pseudo-religious aversion, and I'm trying to limit my arguments to ones based on objective health risk, but I do openly acknowledge that such a bias exists.
Also, Komodo dragons are epic creatures, number 1 on my list of "creatures that really should be Australian" even though they technically once were. I don't know what kind of idiot would want to try eating one though, their poisonous AND venomous properties aside. The only appropriate interaction with one is to rapidly retreat to a safe distance before admiring. Seriously, don't mess with an animal that rams trees to speed up how quickly it can swallow things. Crazy things would probably come back from the dead and try to eat your kitchen equipment.
Fun Komodo dragon fact: In recent years we've discovered evidence to suggest they have poison glands, but it's unclear if it contributes to their bite being venomous in a practical sense. Lack of clarity on the process of their bite may have some relation to a lack of researchers willing to spend time close to the open mouth of a live (and presumably hungry) Komodo dragon.
@kaithar I could write an equally long spiel correcting each point but I better laugh at how funny it is very ridiculous hahaha
Ignorance is created from misinformation believing that you know everything but in reality you are fooling yourself with false information that you never question or report correctly, belived being only incomplete or partial true haha
There are so many things wrong with that that I will only laugh at the frustration and despair that they cause me hahaha all humans act like that which is worse and they allege you as if a book had all the answers hahaha * crying * * laughing * then they show you thousands of equal books they put everything together and claim that they cannot be wrong after 1000 years believing the same but they have never stopped to ask something so simple and easy "if the information was wrong from the beginning ?? those who wrote this book were only human that they can be wrong we have made billions of copies of that "(the bible is a true example of that * laugh * hahaha gravity is always continuous haha * laugh * time is always continuous haha * laugh * emptiness is empty there is nothing in the place full of that black energy haha * laugh* souls are immortal haha * laugh * (they are destroyed if there is no will) yes of course (not even the god Zeus is still alive)
the komodos no mystery they do not have a drop of poison but they are toxic to the extreme for other reasons unrelated to their own body of the small lizard of 6 meters. hahaha
hahaha by the way Do not go near hares or rabbits or guinea roedors, they are demon spawn that eat brains with souls even and they do it during the winter they are also atrocious cannibals that eat their children and their own species hahaha and remember The bible says do not touch the devil's fruit. Potatoes will curse you and you will die from diarrhea and poisoned. Potatoes are deadly. They are made of pure evil, damn mandrakes. hahaha
The satanic sausages of blood are delicious in tacos with lemon, cheese and a little coriander accompanied by a good sauce. It is delicious. Hoo also of brain and tongue, how good they are. (mouth water :v xD)
@Dreckons Um, are you ok? Do you need medical assistance? You seem to be posting unintelligible ravings.