Author: Happy Halloween!!!

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Forest of Darkness, from the beginning was the birthplace of the Henituse family, their family's duty was to watch over that forest.

Every Henituse has at least once entered the Forest, to learn about their nature, and the birthplace of the clan.

Deruth Henituse, the heir determined after his other siblings had all denied the inheritance, was always attracted by the existence of beautiful creatures in this world, whatever species they are.

Maybe that's why when he saw a girl with blood red hair and snow white skin drinking the blood of the forest creature, he was not afraid, fascinated by the beauty of that person.

Deruth didn't hesitate to help that girl when she fainted.

"You really are a strange human, Human."

That's how the young girl commented, observing Deruth who was still looking at her engrossedly without fear like other normal people looking at her.

"Oh, excuse me for being rude. My name is Deruth, Deruth Henituse. What your name?"

The girl blinked and couldn't help but chuckle.

"You're really interesting, ask the name of a Vampire that almost killed you after wake up."

Vampire, Deruth's mind automatically memorized, then looked at the girl in confusion.

The girl looked at the stupid expression Deruth had now and added.

"Or too stupid."

Deruth was lashed out and lowered his head sullenly, causing the girl to giggle again at Deruth's expression.

"My name is Jour Thames, nice to meet you, Deruth."

It was their first exchange, which gradually led to a life-long love affair, marriage, and children.

Deruth never asked why Jour appeared in the forest, nor did Jour mind when she had to pretend to be human to live with the person she loved.

They just know, they love each other, that's enough.

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The most precious treasure Jour gave Deruth was their child, the child Jour named and bore his family name.

Cale Henituse.

Blood red hair like Jour's, reddish brown eyes mixed with Jour and Deruth's eye color, and a delicate face like his mother's and the expression Jour always teased was inherited from his father.

"I'm really worried that our child will be as idiot like you in the future, Deruth."

Deruth could only smile shyly at that, happy to see the baby in Jour's arms.

Deruth should know, this happiness will never last.

When Jour expressed his desire to go to Harris village, Deruth only thought that Jour wanted to get "food", so he nodded in agreement.

Unfortunately, Deruth was busy with an important job at the time, and Cale also had a slight fever, so no one could accompany Jour at that time.

Deruth watched the carriage slowly leave, sighed and went back to work and his own child....

He should come along.

Deruth always regretted that, regretted not quitting that job and going with her.

Because the Forest of Darkness gave him the person he loved the most, it would take that person too.

Leaving only their child is the only proof of their love.

The child is half-human and half-vampire.

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The one who brought Deruth out of that pit of despair was a merchant woman named Violan, carrying with her her sun-fearing son Basen.

They met while Deruth was on a business trip, and Deruth couldn't help but falling in love with her.

Deruth always spat at himself about how quickly he could "forget" Jour, even though two years had passed since Jour's funeral.

No, he still loved Jour, and that love never diminished.

But Violan is so beautiful, strong, independent, ethereal, gentle,....

Deruth couldn't help but sink into the Violan's good presence.

A new love appeared in him, similar and different from when he loved Jour.

For some reason, there was also something else about Violan and her child that attracted him.

Deruth was surprisingly calm as Violan revealed her true nature as a half-blood Dark Elf, with her adopted child a Necromancer.

Deruth is helpless to accept that he has a peculiar aesthetic, of always being attracted to people of the dark race and falling in love with them.

Maybe he should make his territory a place that can accept all races?

That would be fine, just tell his "best" friend Zed Crossman.

With that monstrous king having a wife named Dark Elf, maybe this plan of Deruth will work?

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At the birth of their baby, Violan looked at the baby in Deruth's lap, breathing a sigh of relief.

Lily is very much a human child, with only slightly dark skin inherited from her mother's Dark Elf bloodline, which can be blamed on too much sun exposure.

With her child like this, Viola won't need to fear for the future her daughter will have fate evaded like her.

Meanwhile, Deruth hugged Lily, looking at his two other children gathered to look at Lily, suddenly realizing something.

Somehow, he had three children who could represent all three dark races in this world.

Vampire, Necromancer, Dark Elf.

And they're all half-human, considering that Basen was a human before turning into a Necromancer.

....Good, looks like he really needs to urge some close friend to hurry up and accept his plan.

For the safety of Deruth's three children, and his wife Violan.

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At the age of 15, Cale started drinking alcohol.

Deruth looked at the dark red wine Cale was drinking and realized what problem Cale was having.

Cale is half Vampire, even though he lived as a human from childhood until he grew up, when he reached the appropriate age to awaken his Vampire side, Cale would begin to thirst for blood.

Of course, Cale, his innocent and kind son, would not want to drink innocent blood.

Henituse's wine, once commented by Jour, has the effect of slightly quenching the Vampire's thirst for blood.

Considering that Jour once said that if Cale drank blood from intelligent creatures would begin to develop slowly according to Vampire standards, Deruth looked at Cale's 15-year-old appearance and decided to let Cale continue drink.

Let his child keep his 15 year old appearance for a hundred years or more? Sorry, he didn't want Cale to suffer so much.

Perhaps when Cale was around 20 years old, Deruth would tell that truth to Cale.

Now, let the boy quench his thirst with wine.

Oh, he also had to tell the chef to cook some undercooked food for Cale. Simple animal blood wouldn't affect Cale's development, luckily.

That will help Cale become less bloodthirsty.

(To be honest, Deruth was even more confused every time Cale got drunk, because according to the only Vampire he knew, Jour had also talked about Vampires treating these wines as snacks, so they wouldn't get drunk.

Maybe it's because of the human blood in Cale's body?)

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As the only non-blood-related child in the family and a Necromancer, Basen was clearly a shy and insecure child.

Although considered by outsiders to be the biological child of Violan, his mother, Basen knows that he is just a poor, ugly existence that Violan mercifully adopted.

Basen doesn't have any memories of his life before waking up as a Necromancer, but he knows that his existence is cursed, and is probably the only Necromancer alive in this world.

Why did his mother adopt him? Why didn't his (new) father hate him when he saw the black lines on his body?

Basen always wondered that, when he was brought into Henituse's house.

Then he saw the creature of the most noble and heavenly beauty in Basen's life, and Basen was even more afraid.

This noble, pure existence, will be his Hyung?

It was like a dream for Basen, just like when he was adopted by Violan.

Basen unconsciously lowered himself down a notch when facing Cale, always adding "-nim" every time he called him.

Cale seemed dissatisfied with Basen's overly careful attitude, but Basen didn't mind much.

Basen will definitely, 100%, definitely hide his ugly appearance in front of him.

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Lily realized from a young age that her own family was very strange.

Mom has two forms with contrasting skin between black and white, although in either form she is very beautiful.

Orabuni always liked to drink blood-red wines, sometimes Lily even had hallucinations that he actually drank blood, but dad did not stop him.

Basen-hyung's room hides small skeletons, Lily even saw Hyung making those skeletons move without any strings attached to them.

Both of her Hyungs also like to stay away from sunlight, but Basen-hyung's is instinctive, Orabuni's is simply disgusted.

All four people including Lily had a physically stronger type than everyone else in the house....except for Orabuni's personal butler and the young head chef who was his child.

This immediately made dad seem the most normal person in the family, just a bit forgetful and strangely seemingly quick to accept everything.

Just like when Lily expressed her desire to become a swordsman, dad just blinked once, then agreed.

Then when Lily accidentally broke her own wooden sword, dad just calmly gave another, more durable wooden sword to Lily.

Let's not talk about the fact that Lily once climbed a tree in some magical way when she was a baby according to her mother.

Dad just casually installed some safe climbing tools for children in Lily's newborn bedroom.

Yes, her family is really strange, but Lily loves her family.

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Cale knew what he was from a young age.

That was another common secret shared between him and his mother, except that his mother could see time.

Fingers gently rubbing his head, sharp red eyes, a mysterious smile on lips, she whispered a secret shared only between them, about the blood circulating in their bodies.

As a half-Vampire, Cale knew that at some point he would crave human blood, after which if he drank the blood of an intelligent being, he would begin to develop very slowly by Vampire standards.

When he reached the age of 15, Cale began to grow sharp teeth that could naturally retract, and his keen sense of smell could make Cale smell different blood scents of people.

For some reason, Violan and Lily's blood smelled of nature, and Basen's blood was strangely reminiscent of darkness.

Luckily, mother (Jour, not Violan) had talked about how wine and normal animal blood would quench their thirst.

Cale didn't want to harm innocent animals, so alcohol would be a good choice.

That would also be more favorable to his "trash" reputation.

Staring at the food on his own plate that was less cooked than everyone else's, Cale looked at Deruth suspiciously.

Does father know....?

Biting into a piece of undercooked meat that still had some blood on the inside, Cale held back so as not to eat all the food on his plate, continued to wear his own Trash mask and skipped the meal.

No, Cale definitely wouldn't let his own other family find out he was a real danger to them.

(Seriously, Cale really wanted to pinch Basen's cheeks every time he kept looking at Cale in a strange, adoring way.

Not hitting Basen's head was entirely because Cale loved his two little siblings  too much.)

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Kim Rok Soo, no, Cale Henituse right now, is extremely confused with the body he has now.

For some strange reason, his senses were extremely sharp, even more so than his old body.

Especially the sense of smell, Cale swore he could smell the scent of lemon tea on Ron's evil hand before he opened the door, and the scent of blood flowing under the skin...

Cale stared at the lemonade in front of him, really wanting a bottle of wine instead.

For some reason, Cale didn't know, was it like an instinct in this body?

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Later while sitting at the table, Cale became even more confused when he realized how different everyone in the family's food seemed.

Deruth and Basen's was a normal steak, Violan and Lily's seemed to be the same, but according to the scent that Cale smelled and experienced in the past, it was a type of vegetarian steak.

And Cale's.....

Cale looked down at his plate, doubting life.

Is this an undercooked steak?

Cale cut it open, staring at the blood still inside, more skeptical of life.

The original Cale Henituse was a person with strange tastes?

Or is it simply the chef's do that on purpose?

Cale still put the food in his mouth, quickly brightening up at its delicious taste.

Regardless of whether it was Og|Cale's strange taste, or whether it was the food cooked by Beacrox, Cale now only knew that the food was the most delicious food Cale had ever eaten in his life.

Then, when he sipped the wine in the glass, Cale immediately knew why he wanted wine instead.

Alcohol reduced the strange craving inside him since waking up.

Happily processing all the food, Cale ignored his family's strangely shocked and happy eyes, calmly asked for money and was quickly happily agreed by Deruth.

Cale decided to ignore the strangeness in this family, for now.

The important thing now is to make plans to meet Choi Han.

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Some time later, Cale accepted (adopted) two cats that were actually two children of the cat tribe.

Receiving information that he would be the one to go to the Capital and attend the King's birthday, ignoring how excited Basen seemed to want Cale to be the one to go instead.

Go to the village where the dragon is kept, face an extremely hateful Venion Stan, and plan to rescue the dragon.

Cale was now in the cave containing the tortured little dragon, staring at the little dragon and suppressing the thirst that suddenly flared up in his heart.

In the name of his respected captain, Lee Soo Hyuk, why did Cale want to lick all the little dragon's blood off of him!?

Is he a pervert or what!?

Cale covered his mouth, trying to block out the strangely sweet smell of blood coming from the dragon.

It was really bad, he really should quickly get the dragon out of here and heal it.

Cale stepped forward and hugged the dragon, desperately biting the soft flesh inside his mouth to prevent him from suddenly acting like a pervert and actually licking the blood from the little dragon's body.

Luckily Choi Han arrived quickly.

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After healing and talking with the dragon, Cale looked at the blood stains still on his clothes, swallowed his saliva and shook his head.

No, even if he goes to hell, he will not drink the blood of a child.

When he returned, Cale quickly destroyed his clothes, then drank a few more bottles of wine.

The strange thirst quickly subsided.

Everything that happened that night gave Cale hints about the truth of this body, but Cale refused to accept that truth.

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In Puzzle City, when asked if he wanted to go to the Rock Tower Ruins, Cale looked at the sunny weather outside and wanted to refuse to go.

Although he didn't know why, ever since Cale came here, he hated the sunlight.

(Lying, Cale could vaguely guess the reason why if his suspicions were correct. But Cale refused to accept that suspicion, for now.)

It's okay on mild sunny days, but on extremely sunny days like this...

If it weren't for the ancient power he was planning to take and the expectant eyes of the two kittens, Cale would really rather lie lazily in his room.

In the end, Cale still went out and saw Taylor and Cage from afar.

The smell of Cage's blood....for some reason resembles Basen's?

Cale paid a little attention to this, but still decided to leave the two of them.

Getting involved with the two of them is definitely troublesome.

When he arrived near the cave, Cale decided to instruct Choi Han to follow him, entered the cave alone, discovered the dragon following him, had ancient power,...

The entire journey was so smooth, it should have given Cale a warning.

Because there's no way he'll have an easy life.

And that was quickly shown when【Heart Vitality】could speak for the first time.

《 Hmm? 》

A childlike voice sounded in Cale's head, different from the voice of an old man when Cale obtained 【Heart Vitality】.

《 Cale, why do you need me when you have Vampire blood in you? 》

Those words gave the answer that Cale always tried to ignore.

Yes, F***ing sh*t!!!

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In the future, Cale discovers that Deruth is the only fully human in the family.

Well, at first Cale thought the house only had Violan, Lily, and himself.

(Alberu seemed to believe Cale faster when he found out that Cale had half Dark Elf stepmother and sister.)

Also from that, Cale learned that Basen was Violan's adopted son, raising hope that Basen was human.

Perhaps Basen is secretly a worshiper of the God of Death? That's why his blood smells like darkness, right?

(When Cale saw Mary, he was slightly frightened when he realized that Mary's smell was more similar to Basen than Cage.)

But while bringing Mary home, Mary and Basen accidentally encounter each other, revealing the truth that Basen is a Necromancer.

Mary and Basen were excited and nervous about meeting the only kin in the world, Cale turned to glare at Deruth.

Great, Cale now has two siblings of the dark species...

For some reason, Cale had a bad feeling about this.

Cale Henituse's mother is human, right?

(Cale prayed that the original Cale Henituse was simply unlucky to be bitten by a Vampire, so he had Vampire blood in his body.)

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After the Henituse war, Cale looked at Clopeh who was worshiping him, muttering about "God, legend", and for some reason found that look somewhat familiar.

When he met Basen again, Cale realized why he found Clopeh's eyes somewhat familiar.

This is the same look Basen always looks at him when they are together!!!

Cale strongly denied that his Dongsaeng and Clopeh's abilities were similar, and decided to go to the Eastern Continent to calm down a bit.

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Underground Kingdom, Cale stared at a silver-haired Vampire who was probably his kin, looking at him with sparkling eyes, with the offer of becoming this person's son, desperately.

Why did he think it was a good idea to go to the Eastern Continent?

Oh yes, it's because of that white radish.

....At least Cale now knows that he is not too different from his two younger siblings.

Seriously, is Deruth making a collection about dark races or what, all three siblings are separate dark creatures of all three races!

Cale thought wearily, choosing to ignore the zoo (pokemon) that was gradually gathering around him.