Seeing the emissaries of the two clans bow and salute, Babro and Claire exchanged a glance and revealed a smug smile. Look at that—millennia of Blood race traditions have both shaped and shackled them. When dealing with arrogant vampires, simply playing games with the rules can make them bow their heads obediently.
To pirates who treat rules as nothing, this kind of novel experience is truly fantastic.
Although the two had no interest in so-called orthodoxy restoration, if this was merely a game, then from this point on, they seemed to have grasped the "true gameplay" of it.
"Come on, you two. If this is a performance, then it should stop here. As Triss once told me, holding a Duke's seal doesn't mean you have truly become a Vampire Leader. The respect we're showing now is toward the past and legacy represented by that seal. This respect is not for you two."
Just as the two pirates were feeling triumphant, Murphy's faint voice rang beside their ears.
