Taming My Vampire Servant - Chapter 217

Rosanna assessed Anastasia if she could enter Qawiun Academy by checking her strength and stamina, as well as checking her state of mind. This gave a positive result, and even though Anastasia entered a week late, surprisingly, she was able to catch up to all the lessons and activities. She became superior at magic and combat, so almost all of her classmates and even upper class students admired and respected her.

However, despite being superior, she was new to human emotions and desires. This made her seem quite odd, but her exquisite beauty made her popular among the students. Many of her female classmates wanted to be her friends and always asked her to eat with them at the cafeteria or hang out at Alpharion City.

There was one afternoon when she went out with two girls because they were persistent.

“Do you want to check this shop, Anastasia? They have the prettiest dresses here,” one of the girls, who had a short curly bob, asked her when she saw her staring at the mannequin wearing a white off-shoulder frilled knee length dress with accents of light blue and light brown.

Anastasia, who was still surprised with how pretty she thought it looked, only nodded her head and followed her classmates inside the shop.

“Welcome to my shop! How can I help you?” A pretty young lady greeted them with a big smile on her face.

Upon entering the shop, Anastasia’s eyes widened in amazement. She had never seen such beautiful pieces to be worn with different colors, designs, and materials. Compared to these, her clothing when she lived as Goddess Destinia seemed to be too sophisticated. Apart from the mannequin displayed in front, there were also dresses which were only hung in the clothes wooden stand.

“Do you have new designs? We’d like to see it first,” her classmate told the shopkeeper.

“Of course!” she smiled wide as she led them to the center part of the shop where five mannequins were aligned and were dressed in short and long ruffled dresses. All of them looked at the displays, while Anastasia checked the dresses closely.

“Can I touch it?” Anastasia asked the shopkeeper.

“You should, miss! Apart from the colors and the designs, you should also touch and feel the material used to know which you will prefer,” the pretty lady handed the skirt of the first dress.

Anastasia felt her heart skip a beat upon feeling the softness and smoothness of the cloth used on the dress.

The shopkeeper noticed her eyes were glistening, so she told her, “You can also try the dress to see if it fits.”

“I can?”

“Of course, Anastasia! Why are you being so hesitant?” her classmate chuckled when she passed by them. “Is it your first time going to a shop?”

“Then, I’ll try this one,” she pointed at the dress at the center, which was the newest one.

Inside the dressing room and after wearing the dress, she gazed at herself in the mirror. She lifted the sides of the dress and even did a twirling motion to see how it fitted her. Her eyes sparkled and felt really happy with the way she looked in that dress. Because she liked it, she bought her first ever dress in the mortal world.

Apart from shopping wearing pretty dresses, shoes, and accessories, which became one of her pastimes, many boys have also expressed their feelings towards her. However, she never showed interest in men.

There was an instance when she was only walking in the hallway and an upperclassman with red spiky hair confessed his feelings right in front of the other students.

“I always see you around, and your beauty caught my heart,” he stood in front of her, blocking her way.

“I beg your pardon?” she raised her brow, confused with what he meant.

“You really want me to repeat what I just said?”

“I don’t even know you. Why would I even waste my time,” she glared at him.

“My…my… I didn’t know you’re a bit scary,” a smirk escaped from his lips, “I’m Jasiel, a second year student,” and he knelt and handed her the bouquet of flowers he prepared earlier that day. “I really like you, Miss Anastasia.”

“Those flowers are just going to wither in the garbage can. Throw it away because I’m not interested.”

Even before the guy could finish his confession, she already walked away, which left the others with their mouths agape.

How could these humans confess so easily to another person? How could they laugh easily about silly things? How could they cry just by becoming the top in class?

Being a goddess before, she didn’t really understand humans, and all the feelings she felt after becoming a mortal were new to her. Ever since she became surrounded with more people and saw how they reacted to different situations, she started observing them and knew more about her own people.

Although she was pretty, she had her own world, and some students were weirded out by her when she stared at them.

One afternoon, when she turned second year, she searched for a scroll for her magic class in Qawiun Academy’s library. She scanned the books on the shelf until she found it on the topmost layer. She tried reaching for it by tiptoeing until she lost her balance and bumped on someone. When she glanced over her shoulder to see who it was, it was the blond guy from the Blue Gem section and as far as she knew, he’s the son of General Goldwine.

Lucius reached for the scroll whilst Anastasia’s head was leaning on his chest. After handing her the scroll, he moved to the other side and took the scroll he was looking for.

“Thanks,” she looked at him, while he only looked at the scroll.

“No worries. By the way…”

“Yes?”

“Stop staring at people. It’s rude,” Lucius said and walked away.

Anastasia blinked. It was the first time that someone directly confronted her about it. Ever since then, she gets cautious whenever he’s around.

That night when Anastasia was about to sleep, she widened her eyes when she saw two scrolls beside her pillow. She opened one scroll and recognized the handwriting from Juno, one of her pure holy brothers in heaven.

“Destinia, I have retrieved the Holy Scroll of Destiny stolen by Lyria,” was written in the first line of the letter.

Juno stated that they did not trust Lyria at all, so he came to check her room and found out that her God Protection Amulet was missing. He believed that she was able to descend and ascend from and to heaven, using Destinia’s reputation as leverage.

She furrowed her brows because she had not suspected her at all. She trusted her messenger so much, but turns out she was a demon in an angel’s clothing.

Anastasia opened the other scroll, recognizing it as the scroll of Destiny. Now feeling the human emotions called ‘anger’ towards Lyria, she read it for a long while as if it was a novel, wanting to know how she should face her situation.

She came across Ivory’s information, and a sketch was included in it. She gazed around the room as she thought who Ivory was, and when she remembered her in one of her magic classes, a smile escaped from her lips.

“Interesting,” she murmured, then read the remaining details, “This woman would be able to help the Silverblade Prince reclaim the throne after her graduation…”

According to the Holy Scroll of Destiny, this is the right time to meet her, and as a goddess, she opted to follow fate obediently.

…

A year later, after her apprenticeship at Valios City, the awaited graduation ceremony commenced. The grand hall was decorated with long banquet tables on each side with long golden candles entwined with vines and strings of pearls as decors. The hall was also lit with luxurious wooden chandeliers and flags of the academy were hung on the walls.

Outside the hall, Anastasia noticed that Ivory was not in the long line of students yet until she panned her sight towards the back of the room.

When she caught a glimpse of the silver-haired Master with her Vampire Servant, a wide smile escaped from her lips.. She had been waiting for this moment – the day wherein she would finally meet the destined savior of her Kingdom.