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   Waking up to the blinding light coming from the wide opened window, she sat up and rubbed her eyes. Sighing to herself before going to the bathroom to wash her face.

  The fact that she's in another world hasn't really sunk in her mind that well, she's still in the process of adapting. The whole city and how this world works overwhelmed her, in contrast to her usual brave and proud image, she's a total coward who can't let others know her secret.

She was wearing a mask to appear brave, but that mask became a part of her. It's a little unsettling sometimes that she cannot act out of character, but she embraced that fact already.

She won't be the Yurika today without the mask she is wearing.

  Seeing her clear reflection of herself, clear platinum blond hair were flowing softly, brushing onto her white pale skin. Emerald orbs held in an adorable petal shaped eyes. Small pinkish lips and tall, small nose.

"Did I always look this beautiful?" She asked herself, but hearing her say that kind of words to herself, she felt embarrassed. "Shameless.." She whispered before walking into the shower.

It took her half an hour before she could figure out how to work the shower, once she was showered by a scorching hot water coming from the shower, once she was washed by an ice cold water. Let's just say that her first experience of shower weren't really good, infact she seemed to despise the showers already when she came out of the shower.

Her expression were enough to tell that she didn't like that experience at all. She felt the sting from her burns from the hot water. She never experienced anything as embarrassing as this before in her life.

  "Who created such a shower?" She grumbles and putted her clothes on.

She twirled infront of the mirror, inspecting her new clothing. Her first new cloth in another world!

  She was wearing a brown oversized sweater, and a short skirt reaching up to her knees. Along with her outfit, she wore a gray knee high boots.

   She awed at herself, "Woah, this world's fashion is not bad..."

 
She thought it wouldn't suit her at all, but it looks really good on her! She grinned and thought that it's because she's so beautiful everything would suit her well!

  Alright, enough of that boasting - she noticed the lack of presence in her room and kind of felt down and gloomy. She missed her servants. Sighing, she looked at her wrist and contemplated whether she'll create a human right there and then. But then again, she hated cutting herself honestly.

"I guess i have no choice, since it's getting kind of lonely here by myself.." She sighed to herself. Looking for a sharp object around the room, she headed to the kitchen and found a knife. "Perfect."

Grabbing a sharpest knife, she pointed the knife on her smooft white wrist. For a second, she hesitated to cut her beautiful skin. "Ahhh! Just do it Yurika!"

Feeling the sharp stinging pain in her wrist cutting open on the surface, she bit her lower lip hard to stop herself from screaming. She felt the blood rolling down to her hands.

"T-This is enough.."

  She controlled the blood to float and slowly started to shape it into a human male body. Imaging a beautiful face, its personality, its skills, its color of skin, his height and all the things needed for a human.

After a whole thirty minutes of completing her creation, she finally saw the result. And she had to praise herself for creating such a handsome guy, even her cold heart pounded for a moment. The male opened his beautiful emerald eyes, similar to hers.

  He looked at the female infront of him and the whole place, not hiding the confused expression on his face. Yes, he is confused where he is, but he is certain that the girl infront of him is his creator because he felt such a strong connection and respect towards her.

  Yurika gripped her wrist to stop anymore blood from coming out, she's need to wrap it later. But first, she needed to give this guy a name. "Zero, that would be your name. My name is Yurika, i'll be in your care from now on, Zero."

The guy felt something warm inside him, and immediately bowed in gratitude towards his master. "I thank you for the name, Yurika-sama."

She nodded and walked to the bed, she felt a little dizzy from all the blood loss. "Yurika-sama, are you alright?"

"Yes, i just feel a little dizzy." Zero immediately felt Yurika's discomfort from her open wound. Rushing to the one of the paper bags, he struggled to find a suitable cloth to tie it to Yurika's wrist.

Looking around, he saw a cabinet and rushed to open it - revealing a white polo. He grabbed it and effortlessly teared it.

"Yurika-sama, i'll tie your wound." Yurika opened one of her eyes and saw Zero's naked body walkng towards her with a cloth in hand. "Okay." She let Zero do all the work for her because she felt her head becoming dizzy and a thirst for blood.

  Ahh, she loss a lot of blood this time. Well, it was worth it because she made Zero like a perfect ideal husband.

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After sleeping for three hours, Yurika is now standing infront of the tall buildings, the city, the outside of her comfort. Even though she's kind of nervous and scared to wander alone at this unfamiliar world, she had to do this for her friends. And for the princesses. Yurika knows how grave the situation of losing another princess is in her world, she doesn't want to let their sacrifice be in vain.

Walking with a determined expression, she wandered around the big city, going to unfamiliar places, asking numerous people if they knew where Ako and Koharu were by describing their appearance.

Along with the adventure to find her friends, she discovered a lot of things in this world - including that, is quriks. It's a similar copy of their special abilities.

  When the sky started to turn dark, Yurika decided to go home but was suddenly grabbed by multiple hands and waa dragged to the dark alleys, away from the sight of the people. Yurika felt incredibly furious, some dirty hands is touching her face!

  She struggled to get out but was suddenly stopped when she felt her hair being pulled roughly, "Stop struggling and just come with us if you don't want to get hurt." A disgusting voice said from behind, thinking it would scare the little lady in his grasp. His comrades snickering evilly while eyeing Yurika with lustful eyes.

"Oi oi, don't scare the poor lady." Another one snickered.

"Even if she is scared, it won't do anything right?"

But contrary to their expectations, Yurika is very very mad, despite being weak from all the blood loss earlier, she still had strength. And the poor group of villains are not aware of the situation they were in, until one of their comrades suddenly died.

Hearing a loud thud beside them, they looked at their comrade with confused eyes, "Oi! What happened to him?" A guy near the dead man pulled him to face him infront, only to regret it when he saw the dead and soulless eyes. He screamed with all his might and scrambled away from the body.

  The guy holding Yurika asked in an alarmed state, "Oi! What's wrong!"

"He is dead! He's dead!" Like a cue, multiple of the villains fell to the ground. Yurika had to smile evilly, her eyes glowing red. The hands that was holding her suddenly got paralyzed, staring at her in fright and horror. She slowly looked at the ugly creature infront of her with her sadistic smile.

"I am a descendant of the great Count Dracula who has wandered a mortal plane around six hundred years ago, I am a vampire far from being your usual little lady. Say, who gave you the right to pull my hair, and touch me with your disgusting hands?" She smiled and stared icily infront of her.

She is furious, "How dare such an ugly creatures like you, touch this great Yurika-sama with your filthy hands! You will suffer in my hands as payment."

The two remaining villains stared in horror at the little lady that they thought were fragile as a flower, turns out it was a monster in a sheep's clothing.

  Yurika didn't waste a minute to make them suffer by clotting multiple bloods in their heart, body and brain. It didn't take her less than three minutes to finally kill them.

She released a scoff, "This world is full of disgusting creatures." Shaking her head in disbelief, she walked away to exit the dark alley. But soon got lost.

  She could always use her wings to fly, but she currently have no energy - she's afraid she'll go on a bloodlust if ever she use anymore of her power.

Ahhh, she's badly thirsty for blood right now - but not where she could not handle it anymore. Her head's still clear and not muddled, so she's fine. For now.

Sighing for the nth time today, she shook her head. Disappointed of herself for not accomplishing anything. Not a single clue of her dearest friends.

  She thought it would be peaceful right now, oh how wrong she is - not long before the silence, a group of villain caught sight of her fragile appearance and decided she would be a great profit if they sell her.

"Look what we got here, a little girl wandering around in the alleys on a night time!" Yurika who heard the villain, suddenly became grim and annoyed. Just how dangerous is this world? She doesn't even get a breath from all the villains earlier and another group of them suddenly came.

"What a jackpot! A beautiful one at that! We'll sure get a fortune out of her!" When they walked towards her with evil grin, Yurika got even more angry and annoyed. She doesn't want to use her powers anymore, and the only option she has right now is to run.

She doesn't have a choice but to run, immediately alerting the villains. "Catch her! Don't let her get away!"

  Six of the mutated villain flew to the building to watch where the girl was going, and some were chasing after her, splitting into different directions to trap her.

Yurika gritted her teeth, "This is getting annoying..." She badly wanted to kill them brutally, but her morals were stoppin her from doing it.

She just had to endure this and look for a sign of escape, but unfortunately - she doesn't know that she is surrounded already. 

She stopped when she sensed that all the villains were surrounding her. She looked ahead in a blank expression, a storm brewing up inside her heart.

Should she just kill them all in the spot? But the consequences is her bloodlust, and she doesn't want to suck people's blood dry.
She doesn't like it when she unintentionally kill someone, she doesn't like the feeling of guilt that was surging inside of her if ever she goes in a bloodlust.

But she also doesn't want to let these villains do what they all want. She has two at risks options. She closed her eyes to think deeply, but could also feel the presence of the villains nearing her.

"Looks like you gave up pretty easy huh? As expected of girls like you, hahaha!" The villain cackled and motioned to the two villains to capture her.

  The two villains walked towards her with an evil smirk, a rope and a garbage bag on hand. Yurika opened eyes and stared at the villains, it's now or never.

To be continued....
 

  Okay, unlike Ako and Koharu - Yurika had to experience the hardships in the world of heroes. Well, i have a reason for all this okay? I'll explain it to the next chapter! Thank you for reading!