[The Twilight Saga·Carlyle] Hidden God

Edmund took Carlisle's hand. —they were marble-smooth to the touch, and cold.

"Are you cold?"

"Actually——I don't feel cold at all. Of course, I don't feel hot either." Carlisle blinked. "And here, you'd better come and check for yourself."

The boy hesitated for a second, and then, driven by strong curiosity, followed the strength of Carlisle's arm and lay on his chest.

one second.

two seconds.

three seconds.

"You don't have a heartbeat?!" Edmund suddenly raised his head to look at the handsome surgeon who was close at hand, "You... are you—"

"Go on, Edmund."

"A humanoid biochemical weapon injected with the T virus by the company?!"

"..."

Carlisle raised his forehead. ——It would be great if everyone would think so.

"Not yet?"

"Look at my teeth, Edmund." Carlisle opened his mouth, revealing his vampire fangs.

Edmund blinked blankly. ——It can be seen that he has no idea of ​​the danger of those fangs.In other words, in his perception, they are no different from tiger teeth, except that they are a bit sharper.

"They're tusks."

"Fangs? Oh—wait a minute." Edmund finally connected Carlisle's features into a line. "Handsome...with cold skin...without heartbeat...with fangs.—You're not a vampire, are you? But it's not right...you can go out during the day and don't sleep in a coffin... ...And you are a surgeon! How could a vampire be a doctor?"

"Actually, I am. ——Really, I'm not kidding you." Carlisle smiled and touched the boy's head, while carefully observing the latter's reaction. —He felt that Edmund was already a little afraid of him.

but it is not the truth.

"So——Esme, Edward, they...the rest of the Cullen family—all?" Edmund finally spoke after a long silence.

Carlisle nodded but said nothing.

"Then—you won't bite me to death, will you?" the boy asked seriously.

"No, we'll never do that.—You're well liked in the family, Edmund." He had to admit he was relieved. ——The boy didn't show a frightened expression or say something like "I regret joining the Karen family."Otherwise, even he would feel bad.

This was much better than he expected.

Therefore, even if the boy asked the question of lack of trust such as "whether he will kill him" in a serious manner, he felt very happy. ——Trust is not innate.It is an emotion that builds up gradually.

He thought he should give the kid some time to digest the information.

Then the whole living room fell into a panicking silence. ——The only sound is the boy's regular heartbeat and shallow breathing.

A few minutes later, Edmund quickly jumped off Carlisle's legs as if he suddenly remembered something, went into the kitchen and opened the window like a gust of wind, and threw all the garlic in the refrigerator out of the room with all his strength.

Carlisle, who was sitting on the sofa and saw this series of actions, was amused.

"Hey, relax, my boy.—those don't hurt me."

Edmund felt his eyes blur, and Carlisle, who was supposed to be sitting on the sofa, appeared in front of him in an instant, and hugged him with his hands through his armpits.

"How did you come here?" Edmund's eyes widened. "You were sitting there just a second ago!"

"Have you heard that vampires have unparalleled speed?"

"I've also heard that vampires are afraid of garlic." The boy threw the only garlic tree left in his hand into the sink across the chopping board. "It says so in the book."

"A lot of things in the book are true. But about the fact that vampires are afraid of garlic, I think their point of view may be wrong." Carlisle patted the boy on the back, in order to prove that he was not afraid of that at all. stuff, so I reached out and picked up the garlic in the sink, "Look, I'm fine."

"Maybe you should eat it? It might give you a stomachache." Edmund tilted his head. ——It can be seen that he has a very strong interest in this.

"Vampires don't get sick," Carlisle said patiently.

"Won't get sick? Don't get any disease? ——It's so cool! What other characteristics do you have?" The boy kept tugging on Carlisle's sweater collar as if he had beaten chicken blood. Going out? Aren't you afraid of being burned?"

"Sunlight doesn't burn us, but it exposes us.—As soon as we are in the sun, humans know at once that we are different from them."

"Why?—do you grow bat wings in the sun?"

"No, the sun just makes us shine."

"From your description, I can't hear any difference. ——You guys are very shining." The boy rolled his eyes and muttered in a low voice.

"I'll show you when I get a chance.—Any more questions?"

"Wow - so many questions! I don't know where to begin!" said Edmund excitedly, "I honestly never thought I'd have a vampire family! - that's pretty cool !"

"No, it's not cool." Carlisle held down the restless boy in his arms with some headaches, thinking about how he should tell him the danger of vampires.

"why?"

"Don't you know what vampires eat?"

"Blood.—Of course I know." The boy fell silent immediately when he noticed that Carlisle was looking at him seriously.

"Vampires are not the same as mosquitoes when they prey. We will directly suck the blood from a person. So humans who are attacked by vampires rarely survive."

"What about the part that survived?"

"Transformed into new vampires by vampiric venom.—We call them 'newborns.'"

"Newborn?"

"Because they have just become vampires, they don't know anything about themselves or their own kind.——They have no reason and only act on instinct."

"Sounds bloody.—But Carlisle, you don't drink human blood, do you? I've never heard of anyone bleeding to death near town."

"We hunt animals and drink their blood. Animal blood is far worse in taste than human blood, but it is enough to keep us alive.—Don't try to distract me, Edmund.—I just want to Tell you, vampires are an absolutely dangerous creature for humans."

"But you are not in danger."

"That's because I have enough endurance. It took me a whole century to hone this. Yes, a century.—You are not a vampire, so you have no way to understand our thirst for blood. And I Part of the reason why I promised you to live here is because we are vampires, Edmund. Your blood will stimulate us to some extent, especially when we are hungry.——An uncontrolled one may be Instinct will take your sanity and kill you. I don't want to see your dead body, Edmund, not at all."

The author has something to say: This is today's update~~~

Little Edmund is usually so smart, why did he become an idiot when he met Katie? ——Is this how selective mental retardation is formed? (All express me (╯‵ ′)╯︵┻━┻)

PS: Thank you Sima Yijun for your long comment~~~ hug and kiss~~~