Chapter 0:

Prologue

Ice-Cold Vampire Princess


"Yukito!"

"mhmm"

"Yukito!"

"What could she possibly want this early," I thought.

"Yukito!"

Finally, I opened my eyes and decided to confront the loud voice.

"Yukito it's about time you woke up. Can you go over to Haruka-chans and give her this set of blankets?" The being known as my mother asked as she pulled the blanket off of me.

"Mom, it's snowing like crazy outside". I yawned and then spoke.

"Well, then you better hurry up and get there then!" My mom replied obviously annoyed.

Even though my name would suggest otherwise I'm not someone who likes the snow or the cold. My name is Yukito Setsuko a male 16-year-old first-year high school student. My hobbies include reading manga, watching anime and playing games.

Currently, I am on my way to my childhood friend Haruka's House.

"The snow really has picked up huh". I said out loud as I walked.

Walking across a footbridge I stood there and waited for Haruka to show up. I already texted her asking her to meet me halfway. It's very odd to me how much my mom dotes on her. I do understand her situation since she is living alone away from her parents right now. Even though I don't know the entire story I can conclude that it's not a pretty one.

Still, I stood there and waited for Haruko at the bridge. After about two minutes I leaned up against the railing and pulled out my phone as I admired the frozen river below. I looked up past the fast-falling snow and laughed.

"Of course, she would be late in this situation, how cliché."

As I sat there waiting, I noticed a group of men chasing a red-haired girl and they finally caught up to her.

"You talked a good game, but how about you pay up the money your father owes us." The man in front scoffed.

"This money is mine! I worked hard for it, and I need it to survive! " She shouted in a defiant voice that I immediately recognized.

"Your father shouldn't have gambled himself into debt then! It's fine though, you're a good-looking woman I will let you pay it back with your body if you wish". The man in front laughed.

"Exactly" The man to the left echoed.

"That's right" The man to the right commented."

Hearing enough I finally stepped in and confronted the three.

"The three of you better get away from her," I said scoffing.

"Yukito!" The red-haired girl exclaimed.

"Yo Haruka" I waved while walking up to her and she ran towards my side.

"Oi Kid you better get away from here before it gets messy"! The black-haired man in front threatened.

"I already called the cops so that gives me about a 3–5-minute window for me to beat your ass". I smirked.

All three of the seethed and charged headfirst at me. I stood there and dodged the first man's punch. Not only is it blistering cold, but he lunged headfirst for me on this icy road, so I didn't even need to hit him as he slid headfirst crashing into the railing. His next buddy came at me from the right side, but I was prepared so I preemptively shoved my palm into the center of his chest winding him, and then delivered an axe kick to his back cracking it as he fell over screaming in pain.

"You shouldn't have messed with Yukito. He's way stronger than you losers" Haruka mocked while sticking her tongue out.

"Haruka stand back. I don't want you to get hit" I said laughing.

"AHHHHHHH!" He screamed withering on the ground in pain.

The last one backed up slowly clearly afraid of me.

"Go get the last one Yukito!" Haruka cheered.

"Who the Hell are you?" he questioned.

"I don't know. I would suggest your typical high school boy that got so interested in martial arts that he studied all of them at a young age" I laughed as I slowly walked toward him.

Out of nowhere he quickly drew a gun and tried to fire it at me but I quickly flung a knife at his wrist and jumped to the left hoping to make him miss. The knife hit his wrist as the gun fired and the bullet grazed my face. I threw another knife at his arm pinning it down and he dropped the gun, and I secured it.

Until I turned around and saw a sight I never wanted to remember. Haruka was drenched in a pool of blood flow from her body. At the same moment, police showed up and surrounded all of the men and the first responders put Haruka on a stretcher.

"Haruka..." I croaked out.

One of the police walked up to me and tapped my shoulder.

"The doctors will do what they can, but I'm sorry we didn't get here in time." He said as he grabbed the gun out of my hands.

One of the men they had finished handcuffing turned around a mocked me "I told you kid you should've woken up and stopped trying to play Hero! If that girl croaks, it's on you!" He yelled.

Looking towards the ground I couldn't say anything to refute it, he was right.

I followed the ambulance to the hospital and waited in the waiting room for 30 minutes and by then my mom showed up.

"This is all my fault," I thought.

"Yukito! What happened to Haruka!" she shouted.

"She got shot" I mumbled the words out.

"Where is she?!" she shouted holding onto her tears.

I pointed at the room down the hall, and she ran toward it.

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Two weeks have passed since that day. Haruka died on that night, the same night I never went in to see her.

I never entered her emergency room since I didn't believe that I deserved to. At her funeral, I couldn't bring myself to show up which enraged my mom. From my perspective, I couldn't protect her that day as I always do. During those weeks the rage coursed through my veins was uncontrollable. I took her phone and searched through it for her father's contact.

I texted his number telling him that we needed to talk about something. He met up with me at the bridge where it all happened. I dressed in a black hoodie, black pants, and white sneakers.

Snow was picking up quickly as he showed up. He was dressed like wealthy folk even though his daughter hardly ever had enough money to make ends meet.

"Ahhhh it's just you, Yukito, I was careful to be a bit on my toes because I thought you may be an assassin, but I'm glad that it's just you". He said as he drank the bottle of whiskey in his right hand.

"You realize this is all your fault right" I grinned as sanity started to leave my face.

"Eh," He deadpanned.

"Those men were after money that you owed them! While you sat around on your ass your daughter was threatened to be raped because you won't pay your debt!" I shouted.

"I never cared if the runt croaked. I was only with her mother for the money so I could keep up with my gambling and now that you mention it, I'm doing pretty well right now since I've been on a winning streak for the past couple of weeks." He laughed historically.

I grabbed a knife and stabbed him right in the throat. His body spasmed a few times then it fell over right next to the same railing that the incident happened on.

As I stared at the blood on the knife, I felt a voice calling to me. It was over the bridge in the Icy Lake.

"Child you have fulfilled your revenge, but at what cost?"

I looked down and spotted a glistering figure in a snow and ice-covered lake.

"Would you like to try again in another world as my reincarnation?" she asked.

"Please Clarify?" I asked her.

"I'll take that as a yes," she said, and she snapped her fingers and the lake seemed to pull me into it. I tried to grab onto the bridge railing, but it did nothing, so I felt myself slip away and drown in the ice-cold lake.

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"She's beautiful," A voice said.

"What will we name her," another voice asked.

Opening both of my eyes I saw two figures hovering over me. A beautiful silver-haired woman with crimson red eyes and a Middle-aged man with blonde hair and another pair of dark red eyes.

"Didn't I just die?" I thought.

"Or maybe I was saved, but how and why am I within this woman's arms..." I thought.

Looking outside the window I could see a snow-covered medieval-looking city.

"Is this, Reincarnation?!" I thought.

"How does the name Eira sound?" The man asked.

"I love that name, Einar" The Woman responded.

"Eira is a weird-sounding name for a boy, right?" I thought.

"Our girl will be the pride of the Demon Empire once we've passed on, Erika. I can already feel immense Magical power radiating off of her. " Einar said.

Looking around the room at all the faces I locked in on my mother's face.

"Don't Tell me that I was reincarnated into another world as a Girl!!!!" I thought.

"Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" I cried.

"Oh, Dear she started crying," Erika said smiling.

Einar had already started panicking. "Krisa?! What do we do?!" He yelled.

"Relax... Einar it is perfectly normal for a baby to cry." Krisa responded.

"There, There Eira, it's going to be ok. Your mother is the strongest." Erika said as she rocked the young child to sleep.

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3 Years Later

Since I've been in this world for about 3 years, I can update you on what I've learned about it. First of all, where I am. First of all, I can tell that I've been brought into another world nothing here resembles Japan or anywhere on Earth. This also seems to be a medieval era or this world mainly because it is nowhere near as technologically advanced as the world, I used to call home. The name of this continent is called Vertus, a name originating from the Humans who first lived on it.

Lastly, in this world, I am a vampire. Being the heiress of the great Vampire Tribe, which is not great at all. In this world Just as in my old-world Humans are the most dominant species. Over the past 300 years, Humans began to hunt all species other than their own. This led to the Demons, Elves, Beastmen, Dragonoids, and Vampires forming the Demon empire to repel them. Eventually, the war became a stalemate and a mutual treaty came from both sides to end it, but the humans still occupy 60% of the land on this continent because of it.

To move towards the road of peace the Humans created the Grand Vertus Academy and invited royals from all races to enter at age 14. I plan to make sure I am ready for that. Knowing Human history, I definitely cannot trust them so I will have to become powerful enough to rely on nobody, but myself.

Since I reached the age of 6 months, I've been able to sense spirits which are the base of magic. There are multiple spirits in Fire, Water, Earth, and Wind being the main compound spirits for magic. There are a few more the Ice, storm, and Thunder spirits. There are lastly two others the spirits of Light and Darkness. Since my birth, I have sensed every one of them, but the main one is different. I am for some reason beloved by the spirits of darkness and Ice. Being beloved by the spirits of darkness rarely happens for vampires from what I've been told. My mother, Erika can only use Wind and Water magic.

Dark magic is mainly only used by demons, but most vampires are only able to Wind magic. Since I am a vampire, I would have the option to drink blood, but it's not as scary as the movies suggest. Most vampires get their nutrients from regular food. Only the rich vampires which mainly consist of royalty can afford to have blood every day. It is supplied to us by human slaves. I have one because I am a princess obviously, but I make sure that they eat well and have their own quarters. I'm not like those other rotten nobles who treat them like animals. Humans don't mind it since they want us to see it as reparations, but all of the demon empire is on alert for the humans' next move.

I have been practicing my magic like crazy and getting physically stronger, so I'll be able to protect myself. Currently, my dark magic already rivals most in the lower academy. The lower academy is where all Demonkind go before they reach age 14. My Ice magic has already reached the level of those in the Grand Vertus Academy.

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5 Years Later

Finally, I have reached the age to enter the lower academy. At age 8 I probably will be the youngest to enter. Most of Demonkind enters the Lower Academy at age 10, but since I am ahead in both education and magic and swordsmanship progression the grandmaster allowed me to enter 2 years early. At least I won't be alone though because I have to be watched by the first princess of the Demon Clan. I have no idea why she wants to watch me since she is a noble you would think they would just send some random teacher to do it.

"Eira! Make sure you make good friends with the princess!" My mom shouted towards me as I finished getting ready for school and my maid Freya combed my hair. Since I had to become a girl, I am not very interested in doing all of the work a maiden has to do to prepare to go out so I'm happy that people do it for me.

"Lady Eira how would you like us to do your hair," Freya asked me.

"Long twin tails please" I replied.

"As you wish"

Once they were finished looking in the mirror, I saw a beautiful silver-haired girl with crimson red eyes wearing twin tails. I touched my chest area and flushed looking embarrassed.

"I still haven't grown any..." I muttered out loud.

"It's ok lady Eira! You're still plenty young you will grow some soon" Freya frantically tried to reassure me.

I let some bloodlust flow and glared at her.

"Are you saying I still haven't grown any..." I said letting a bit of frost twinkle in my palms.

"Absolutely not Lady Eira!" She tried to apologize.

"Relax Freya I'm just joking" I let my face return to its neutral empty expression. I had no friends my age because I had been known as the Ice-Cold Vampire Princess. I have no idea what that means, but I guess it's I reject all inquiries from boys and girls from other head tribe members. All of them only want me for my looks so why would I give them attention?

"Well, it's time to go," I said and got up and got ready to walk out the door.

The moment I opened the door standing by there was a young girl around my age standing there. She had dark black hair with black colored eyes and the academy uniform I was also wearing. she had plump breasts which seemed to be the main difference between us.

"What do you want Jumbo tits" I plainly said expressionlessly.

I watched her expression slowly turn to anger and avoided a smack from her by slipping into her shadow and popping out behind her and starting to run away from her. I was running in the direction of the academy, but she is also wearing the uniform so it's likely that she is also a student. Why is she waiting right outside my door though?

"Wait." As I realized it, I knew it was too late.

The First Princess of the Demon Clan is supposed to be observing me.

"Get back here!" I heard a voice yell from behind me. As she gave chase she started closing in very quickly.

"You're pretty fast, but can you chase me in the air?" I mocked her as I started to use flight magic to soar through the air.

"That should put her in the dust," I thought smirking. Suddenly felt a mana signature go off right next to me and it was the princess. She had caught up to me quickly as she now had demon wings sprouting from her back.

"Huh I didn't think about that," I said out loud.

It's my first day of school and I've already made some fatal errors.