Dawn Of Twilight

A loud growling noise escaped from Tobi's stomach, which shifted his attention to the foods on the table. He had been so sad during the previous days, that all his appetite had been lost even with him being a Hybrid Awakened it could only get him past a day or two despite using Mana Technique.

Unfortunately, no matter how hard he tried he couldn't stop the perpetual taste of bitterness he felt when Horus told him the recent development about his family.

Tobi had given every love he could muster to his family, and for a moment when heard what had happened to them, he hesitated.

What was the use of working without a family to enjoy what he had worked for? What was even the use of all his strength and training? Wasn't it to protect them now that they were gone who would he protect? Who would be his motivation to work?

He couldn't stop blaming himself every time he thought about them.

He would have loved to end his own life, he couldn't care less about being Pride Dracula or his own life nor Horus. He was much more scared of losing the opportunity to revive his family, losing every ounce of opportunity the moment he died.

After settling his business with the foods a few minutes later, Tobi sat down as he tried to completely rethink the concept of attending an Academy and reform his own belief to live again.

With the coronation of a thing over, there was nothing interesting to do anymore and again his training section with Horus had long come to an end, without Horus willing enough to teach him which he knew he wouldn't, he couldn't train himself nor grow stronger as well.

And since he needed to become stronger, everything pointed toward attending an academy would be the best course of action rather than trying to force Horus to teach him or learn by himself.

Tobi's goal was to improve himself and become stronger than ever and almost in the most shortest time if possible.

If there was one thing he had learned ever since he came into this new world, was that strength was the only truth and path.

It was a perfect win-win situation.

Tobi hoped to maintain Horus as one of his official backs having him, call him young master was not enough, being that he was just fulfilling the duty of being a Pride Dracula nanny.

Tobi was just one of chosen who could die at any moment, and the Moon Goddess would immediately create another book for a new Pride Dracula to be chosen, he didn't believe it was out of love she created them but rather as weapons.

If there was one thing Tobi was doing, it was to create a backup plan he could fall back to, he didn't know if there was a solution to bring back the dead or if it was a taboo but he could only reply on Horus for help.

Even as Pride Dracula, Tobi was still no one with enough strength, if the rumors of what he had in mind spread, he might be attacked or directly killed.

After he was done, Tobi looked at the table only to see a grey envelope with an intricate nine tail fox design embroidered on its body, it seemed to had been kept for him by Horus.

Tobi stretched his fingers as he retrieves a letter onto his hands, it didn't seem like the person intended to use a Holo communication amulet device, but rather a scratch enchanted letter.

Being the host Tobi took the liberty to read what was written within, the letter was written in perfect penmanship.

Instead, the words began to form phantoms in mid-air, a male voice slowly retell the message written within the letters.

The voice said in a perfect audible tone:

"Dear Tobi, Pride Dracula the ruler of Sins,

"Once again congratulations on your coronation, and sorry for the belate wish my dear friend. You deserve the best, sorry for neither I nor Arthur(Matthew) my brother attended, even though we really wanted to come, even on his ends we could hardly contact each other if not for the communication thingy it would have surety be nigh impossible.

"To this end, even as friends and brothers we missed you, we would have loved to visit, since we have so much to talk about and discuss. But we could hardly breathe with all the workloads on our heads, hopefully, we would maybe be admitted to the same academy.

"I urge you to contact us as soon as you can via the communication thingy.

"Manohar sin Fox (Elijah) and Arthur Sin Wrath(Matthew)."

After listening to the distant but familiar voice, a smile slowly crept up his face, for the first time in the past few days. For Tobi, it was like he was talking to a close relative he hadn't talked to for a very long time.

Due to the recent development, Tobi had forgotten that his two friends he met along the desert and blessings process, neither of their faces were present during the coronation.

Even though he was absent-minded, Tobi could still recall some things that transpired on that day, he didn't know why but he saw none of the sins on that day.

Despite how the time had flown by, on the contrary, Tobi could still remember his two friends' faces, the lively Elijah and neutral Matthew, Tobi spent the next few minutes reminiscing on the moments they spent together.

After changing into his afternoon robe, Tobi went to see Horus giving him his affirmation on attending the academy. The event took him by surprise, the dragon-lion hadn't expected such a quick reply especially since he knew what Tobi was going through at the moment, after looking at his young master he felt something might have changed about him, maybe it was his own impression or maybe it was the letter Horus thought.

With this confirmation, he was obviously thrilled at the idea Tobi had finally accepted to go to the academy. His hopes for Tobi in the academy skyrocketed.. After countless rejections from him, success was finally in sight.