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), here is a short update of Chapter 8, part 1. I hope you guys enjoy this. 
Chapter 8 [Part 1]
At this moment, we were all in Yui’s hidden place. It was a huge cave in a hill outside the city of Kyoto. The entrance was covered by many large leaves from the surrounding trees so it was pretty hard to find this hideout. I found out that vampires really love choosing caves as their hideouts since I remembered that Takamina’s hideout was also a cave in Mount Fuji. Even it was like the rock age, the place was very comfortable and warm. Torches and candles were everywhere in the cave so it was lightened enough for reading and other activities. Well, it was someone’s home anyway.
Enough with describing the house. After Yui treated the injured people, Takamina and Kumi had already woke up since they were vampires while Mayu and Kanon were still out cold. Kanon was hit pretty hard on her head so she would be out for at least 2 days. But in Mayu’s case...
Currently, Yui was still treating Kuumi’s wounds while Minami was lying on a bed with her forehead bandaged. Jurina was siting on a chair near the entrance and sleeping soundly since her energy was drained out in the mission. Acchan was right beside her, scolding her for being stupid and many things else. They were like a typical married couple. Not so far from Minami’s bed was Mayu’s with Yuki sitting next to the bed. The cyborg girl was still lying there like a statue since the time Yuko took away her soul.
Yes, the blue light ball I saw before, from what Yui told me, was her soul. According to her, every creature had a soul, which was represented as a small light ball, controlling their emotions and actions. The color of the soul told us which kind the person were. For example, vampires had their souls blue while human’s soul was light yellow. The brighter the light ball, the purer the soul. So basically, Mayu was like a puppet without her strings. She was still alive but she would never be able to do anything without her soul.
But I thought it was a good time for her so she wouldn’t see Yuki’s face right now. Her face was filled with pain, concern and anger, which was not a good mixture of emotions. In short term, Yuki was a time bomb, waiting to explode.
“Anou Yuihan...” I quietly called the girl. Yui turned around to face me while her hands were still working on Kumi’s broken one.
“What is it, Rena?”
“... Nothing really.” I wanted to ask her about Mayu’s condition but then I changed my mind. It wasn’t a good idea to talk about it in front of Yuki right now. I turned away and supported my chin with my hand.
“There is something bothering you and you don’t want to talk about it out loud, do you?” Suddenly, I heard Yui’s voice inside my mind. I turned back to look at her. A smile formed on her lips. Then she continued her task with her back facing me.
“There are only me and Takamina can telepathize but she is currently busy so no one is going to interrupt our conversation. Use your thought to talk to me.”“Erm... Like this?” I thought.
“Yes. So now, what did you want to ask me earlier?”
“About Mayu. What will happen to her?”
“...Well, she’s still alive, like a doll...”Suddenly, Yui stayed silent for awhile. I looked at her beck with concern. She was hesitating on something.
“Yuihan? What’s wrong? Is there something that you haven’t told us?”
“... Actually, yes. It’s just because I don’t want to worry Yuki-san so I hide it...”
“... Can you tell me what it is? I want to know and see what I can do.”
“... I guess it’s fine to tell you then. Well, honestly, Mayu’s in a very bad condition now. It’s true that she’s still alive but without her soul, she won’t be in this world for more than 24 hours.”
“What?” I gasped surprisingly. Suddenly I realised that we were having a secret conversation so I looked around. Luckily, everyone was already occupied to notice my reaction.
“What do you mean by that Yuihan?”
“Biologically, her body still functions. But without soul, her body like loses its central control system so it works on its own wildly, which means soon or later, the messy body will destroy itself. And that soon is 24 hours.”
“Why didn’t you tell us about this before? We don’t have much time left! We have to do something or else Mayu will die!” I thought angrily.
“Calm down Rena. This is the reason why I didn’t want to tell the truth, especially to Yuki-san. I knew she would just storm out and find her own death at the enemy’s place after she was told about this. We’re already lacking of members so we can’t stand losing anyone.”
“Then what do you think we should do now? Watching her dying?”
“... I’ll exchange myself for her soul like what they offered.”“WHAT?!?!” This time, I couldn’t hold back my emotion anymore. I shouted out loud, which shocked everyone in their places and forced their attentions on me.
“Woah, what’s wrong Rena?” Minami asked me surprisingly.
“Yuihan is planning to hand in herself in order to save Mayu.”
“WHAT?!?” Now it was conscious people’s turn to shout, except for Yuki though. She just stared at Yui with a disbelief look.
“What are you thinking Yuihan?” Minami shouted but then immediately held her belly since she hurt it again.
“I’m thinking of saving her life.” Yui answered calmly.
“But we can’t lose you Yuihan! You know what he will do to you if you come with him!” Minami said in pain.
“You know Mayu is a genius and your right hand, Takamina. You’ll lose this war immediately if Mayu is gone.”
“I know but... We can’t lose you too. We’ll find some ways else to save her and you!”
“We don’t have much time for that...”
When Yui finished her sentence, the atmosphere went cold. Yui let out a loud sigh before continued.
“And you know, even when you managed to steal Mayu’s soul back, there is no way we could return her soul back to her body.”
“Why is it?” Yuki asked in mono tone.
“Because controlling souls is a rare skill of vampires like my telekinesis. We can see ourselves souls but can’t control them without that skill. And the person that we know to have such a skill like that is Yuko. To make it short, if you want to save Mayu without handing in me, you have to kidnap Yuko as well and somehow make Yuko return Mayu’s soul back to her body.”
“...” Again, awkward silence covered the atmosphere.
“I think we can.” Suddenly Minami spoke up, which received herself everyone’s attention. “Even Yuko is brainwashed but somewhere in her mind remains her good memory. If she’s completely evil, she would have left me in the explosion, not saved me out of that and returned me to you.”
“... You have a good point there, Takamina.” Yui scratched her chin. “In that case, maybe I could help her to gain back her good memory and return to her good side. But still, how can we kidnap her when she’s so strong?”
We all closed our eyes and thought for a moment before an idea swept over our minds. We all opened our eyes almost at the same time and looked in the same direction. And of course, the person who received all the attention knew what we were thinking about.
“Why are you all staring at me like that?” Jurina raised an eyebrow . “I can’t beat her! I’m half human, remember?”
“Of course you can’t...” Minami smiled. “But the other you can... it’s proved in the last battle with Yuko.”
“Wait... Are you saying that you want to release that monster? I almost killed her in the last battle, for God’s sake!”
“We’re not going to release the monster. We’re just borrowing its power.”
“Huh?” This time, not only Jurina but also me, Yuki and Atsuko that looked at Minami and Yui in disbelief.
“Mayu’s new seal. It’s not just a simple seal that controls the monster. It also allows you to use its power. But you have to be strong enough to control it or else it will control you.” Minami explained.
“OK... That’s something new to me...” Jurina slowly said. “How can I do that?”
“Well... Rena needs to weaken the seal to release some of dark spirit and you will have to control that. When you succeed, you’ll have your new power that even stronger than anyone in this vampire world.” Yui replied.
“Doing it is harder than saying it.” Jurina hissed.
“We don’t know until we try. How long ago was your last drink from Rena?” Minami asked.
“3 days ago, i think?”
“Good enough. Yuihan, can you guide them how to do it?”
“Sure. Rena, Jurina, come here.” Yui gestured us to go with her.
Both of us followed her and went out of the room. We walked on the rocky hallway until we reached another room, which was completely empty. There were only torches on the wall and a strange large circle on the ground in the middle of the room.
“While I’m getting ready, Jurina, you should have some of Rena’s blood. Just in case, you know.” Yui said then leave us alone outside when she entered the room and closed the room behind her back.
And then, an awkward silence covered us. Even though we had done this several times already but somehow I still felt shy around her. It wasn’t bad that she drank my blood. The problem was I couldn’t control myself when her gentleness during each time was irresistible. I couldn’t my heart from beating so fast and... Oh God! I couldn’t stop myself form wanting her lips on mine.... Oh snap out of your fantasies already Rena!
“Um... Rena-chan?” Suddenly her voice startled me. I quickly hid my flush face before answered her.
“Y-Yes Jurina?”
“I don’t think Yuihan will wait for us forever...” She said, not even dared look at me. I saw her cheeks turned red. Was she shy?
“Ehh... Yeah... I know...” Slowly, I pulled my right sleeve up and raised my wrist to her lips level.
She took my hand gently and held it up before her lips. I blushed at the sight of her kissing my wrist before growing her fangs. Her eyes changed into gold color and in a second, she inserted her fangs into my skin. I let out a painful gasp before her tongue did its good job in soothing my pain. She drank my blood in a few seconds before cleaning the bite with her wet flesh and then pulled out.
“Yuihan said I just needs some.” I heard her mumble. I pulled down my sleeve to hide the bite mark while watching her wipe away my blood on her lips. Somehow, I couldn’t take my eyes off her.
Startling me again, the door opened and Yui peaked her head out with an amused smile on her face.
“I guess you’re ready. Come in.”
I and Jurina entered the room. The circle on the ground was glowing in white light. Yui then told Jurina to stand inside the circle while I stood next to the Kyoto girl.
“OK, Jurina. When we release the dark spirit, you have to fight against your killing desire OK?”
“Got it.” Jurina nodded.
“Rena.” Yui turned to me then offered for my left hand.
I gave her my hand. She looked at the palm then mumbled an ancient language, pretty much like what Mayu used to say. Then the seal slowly appeared on my palm.
“Ready Jurina?”
The young girl nodded. Yui ran a finger on my palm, across the seal. Then, the seal was faded a little. At the same time, Jurina looked weird. Her breaths were fast and her eyes changed to red. She sweat a lot and her hair started to change into white.
“S-Stop.. Y-yuihan.” She tried to say in between her breaths.
Immediately, Yui chanted to strengthen the seal on my palm again. I saw the young girl turned back to her normal and fell donw on her knees, catching her breath.
“I... I can’t do it...”
“You have to try harder Jurina. Tell me, what did you feel when it came to you?” Yui calmly said.
“I...” Jurina hesitated. “I felt awful... guilty... hurt... desperate... depressed... and lonely...”
“That’s what you feel right now. Your sorrow and fear just help the dark side in you grow stronger. If you want to control it, you have to control yourself first. Don’t use your pain as your strength. Use your happiness.”
“Happiness?” Jurina’s eyes went wide when Yui mentioned about her happiness.
“Yes, your happiness. Don’t tell me you don’t have one.”
I watched Jurina thinking. Why did I know that? Because her eyebrows furrowed, which made her look like a confused puppy. All of sudden, her gaze turned to me. I was surprised to see how soft and caring her eyes were when they locked on me. It felt like she was melting me just by the look of her beautiful dark eyes.
“OK... I think I can do this. Let’s give it another try.”
Jurina stood up and said to Yui, who just smiled that the statement.
“Good. Now Rena, do it by yourself. I have showed you how to do that already. You’re the key to open Jurina’s pandora box. Gambatte ne.”
Yui took a steeped back away from me. I looked at Jurina in hesitation, not sure about what I was going to do. But an urge pushed me to do it, for everyone’s sake. So I prepared to open the seal by touching my left palm with my finger in the edge of the black seal. Then, I turned to look at Jurina.
“Are you ready, Jurina?”
“Anytime, Rena-chan.”
She gave me her sweetest cat smile that I fell in love with it. I gulped then moved my hand across the seal. Jurina once again in her fighting mode. Her eyes and hair changed again, sweat rolling on her pale cheeks. But this time, veins were seen on her face. She ground her teeth and curled up her hands into fists. She fell on her knees again and groans in pain.
I watched her fighting with her own dark side in concern but I didn’t know what else to do. I looked at Yui but Yui shook her head like she was telling me to leave Jurina alone. I turned back to look at the girl again. Her hair was completely white and it was growing longer. Her nails were turning into claws. She couldn’t hold back anymore. I wanted to seal her but it wouldn’t help. If she couldn’t fight then it was useless to keep repeating this.
From the bottom of my heart, I gave her all of my strength to help her enlightening her soul.
“JURINA! GAMBATTE!”
Hearing my voice, Jurina’s body moved. She let out a scream then punched her fist hard on the ground, sending smoke and dust cover all the room. I immediately covered my eyes from the dust and coughed. Smoke was everywhere so I couldn’t see anything beside myself and Yui who was standing next to me. I couldn’t hear anything from Jurina and that worried me.
“Jurina? Jurina! Are you OK?” I called for her, hoping she was still alive.
Then, a blurry black shadow appeared on the blanket of smoke. I looked at that direction in shock and surprise. The smoke was dispersed, slowly showing us a clear view of a new person.
It was her, but a new Jurina. Her cat smile was still there, but her appearance had changed from what I remembered about a half-human vampire.
“Let’s go save Mayu now!”
She had succeed, in controlling her pain.
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