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Chapter 1026: Provide for a Vampire
🕑 Added 2024-02-26 09:18:41 +0000 UTCAfter returning to the room, Evan recounted the entire incident in detail to Hermione and was pleased to entrust Elaine's care to her.
Elaine, having limited exposure to normal society, lacked common sense and often made suggestions like sleeping together with Evan, biting each other to taste the flavor, licking for a numbing effect, or even leaving her first night to Evan. It was all very headache-inducing.
The key point was that she was still serious and didn't realize that she said something wrong. Instead, it made Evan wonder if he had made a mistake somewhere and felt embarrassed.
Take the licking part, for example. Evan couldn't confirm if vampire saliva had any anesthetic substance, and what if it did?
But doing this was not a good idea after all...
Explaining to Elaine was also not an option, as it often led to more complicated questions.
Consider explaining that, in normal society, people generally didn't bite or lick each other. But this wouldn't work because Elaine might say she didn't usually bite others, only Evan, because it was good for him.
Once she said that, there would be no way to argue.
Then, he would have to change tactics and tell her what the normal way of handling such situations was. Tell Elaine in a subtle way at the appropriate time that what she did was not wrong, but too intimate, and should only be done between men and women on special occasions, such as on the bed, in empty rooms and classrooms, or in cauldrons, or places with privacy.
Elaine was quite easy to embarrass. When she understood what Evan meant, she would stop talking, just stare at him with her big, smart burgundy eyes, with the word "pervert" clearly written in them.
Although Evan didn’t mean anything else, he would be misunderstood!
The key was that she was sinister enough to remember the things that offended her firmly, never forget them, ready to tell Hermione, or even talk about it in front of everyone...
There was no way to explain it even if you wanted to; imagine trying to justify why you were talking about these things with a girl!
In short, it was very troublesome!
Hermione had enough patience and was suitable for explaining these basic common sense concepts to Elaine, so this kind of work should be left to her.
Let her handle all the licking and sleeping together stuff.
Taking care of and educating Elaine was just not Evan's cup of tea.
Another thing worth mentioning was Elaine's food preferences. Her taste was actually the same as everyone else's.
In other words, she was similar to Ginny in that she liked sweets and meat and didn’t like vegetables, but there were obvious differences in the specific details. Elaine’s favorite sweet was Blood-flavoured lollipops, while Ginny liked orange-flavored candies. Elaine liked her beef medium-rare or raw, while Ginny preferred it well-done...
Unlike what Evan had thought before, Elaine could eat all kinds of food. There hadn't been any occurrences of vampires vomiting when they consumed regular food, as rumored. However, if she didn't consume blood, she couldn't satisfy her hunger and was unable to draw strength from blood, which made her weak.
Once in that state, she seemed to have the urge to bite Evan, to engage in some kind of initial embrace with him...
Therefore, Evan specifically ordered a variety of flavors of dragon blood, spending a lot of Galleons, with Sirius sponsoring him some.
It was worth noting that this dragon blood wasn't cheap, and Evan was purchasing them in large quantities.
Providing for a vampire was not easy, especially a high-level vampire like Elaine who only drank dragon blood.
His purchasing behavior directly led to the shortage of dragon blood in Diagon Alley, and the prices skyrocketed in a short period of time. Others bought it as precious potions or alchemy materials, and occasionally used a drop or two, but Evan bought it as a food for three meals a day.
Even if Elaine ate very little, over time, it added up to a terrifying number.
Elaine probably had money, or rather, her uncle Caresius and the family were wealthy, but she didn't have any on her.
Moreover, she didn't have much concept of money and didn't pay attention to this matter at all.
Anyway, if there was dragon blood, she would drink it; if not, she would drink Evan's. She was not picky, that was probably her mindset.
Caresius was still unconscious, lying in the room on the second floor. Evan had gone in to check on him several times.
In this state, naturally, Evan couldn't ask him for money. As for the other vampires, they had all disappeared without a trace, and Evan had no idea where they had fled.
Even if Evan wanted to ask them for money, he couldn't find them; he could only spend his own money to support Elaine.
Now, after every meal, Elaine would go back to the room with Evan to drink blood.
She could accurately identify the taste of different types of dragon blood, which ones tasted good and which ones didn't.
This impressed Evan a lot. In his opinion, all these dragon bloods were just fishy!
Of course, it was not that Evan got nothing in return. Elaine had something to offer as well.
She had many ways to repay Evan, which could be regarded as paying for the meals, and these were very precious things.
No matter how to look at it, it was Evan who took advantage.
For example, in the dead of night, he would ask Elaine to cast or write down the unique vampire magic she knew for Evan to study.
These were very valuable spells, not available to the outside world.
For another example, Salazar Slytherin’s wand was now with Evan.
Evan had studied it for a long time. He wasn't a wandmaker, and his knowledge of wands came from books.
But it was certain that this wand was not simple.
Even as a novice, he could feel that, regardless of its special historical significance, the power of the wand itself was beyond imagination.
For example, he initially wanted to conjure a flame to light a candle and input weak magic power, but using this wand, he could conjure a fireball with the same amount of magic.
Evan had never used Dumbledore's Elder Wand, but he felt that Slytherin's wand should be similar to the Elder Wand.
In any case, it was a legendary magic item.
Not to mention, the red lines on this wand were the same as Slytherin's Locket. From this, Evan speculated that Slytherin must have left some message, which was engraved on his wand and Locket. The information on the Locket, ring and double snake scepter must be related to the evil god.
Thinking about it, the evil god originally didn't want to cooperate with Voldemort, but as soon as Caresius appeared, he changed his stance.
Harry said that he wanted something Caresius owned, something that could make the evil god feel emotional. What exactly was it?
Considering the items on Evan that interested the evil god, it should be an item of the same level as the Philosopher's Stone and The Book of Abraham. Could it be this wand?!
In addition, there was a power inside Slytherin's wand that Evan did not understand, which hindered his further exploration and made it impossible for him to know what the core was without destroying the wand. Perhaps only an expert like Mr. Ollivander could figure it out.
