Chapter 46: I Will Ransom Your Soul
“...Do you think I’m the only one being controlled, Priest?”
Mr. Layton continued.
“Imagine a puppy. The puppy grew up watching its mother wearing a collar from a young age. Whenever it sees its owner, it always wags its tail and sticks out its tongue to lick their hand, thinking it’s natural, because that’s all it ever knows. Vampires are like that too.”
The power of domination the Vampires have, is actually a great chain that binds them to each other.
“If you are born as a high-ranking vampire, you can dominate the lower ranks forever. And you think it’s natural. The dominating side thinks it’s natural for the other party to be dominated, and the dominated side has no complaints either. I, too, lived thinking it was natural.”
Until he realized it wasn’t natural in the Empire.
Of course, the Empire is also a class society. Those born as nobles live dominating commoners.
But even that has a clear line. Even if you are a commoner, if you have the ability or achieve merits, you can become a noble, and even if you are a noble, if you squander your family fortune, you will fall.
Movement between classes is not a very common story, but on the other hand, it’s not something that happens so rarely either.
But vampires don’t have that.
“Well, actually, I’m not in a position to harbor complaints. Because I was born into the lord class... Except for Her Majesty, I was in a position to dominate rather than be dominated.”