Kaiser's goal today was to finish folding a thousand paper boats nonstop without resting and not getting distracted. The reason that she was doing that was to increase her attention span that she thought was just a bit better than that of a goldfish. The moment something distracted her, she would have to start from zero once again. It was brutal, but that was how Kaiser was. She always gave herself brutal training, and that was how she got to where she is right now pretty quickly. To make sure that she was undisturbed, she even had her mythical staff to swat away anything that bothered her.

She sat in the garden that was beside the main guild building. It was the garden overlooked by her office and sometimes when she was stressed out, she would just go over to the balcony extending from her office and take a breath of fresh air while she took in the greenness of the garden and let the trickling of the fountain water calm her nerves. However, at some point earlier that day, that sound made her want to throw the whole fountain off the face of the earth, because it distracted her a number of times and she had to begin again. She started this training after lunch and it was nightfall already. The lone vampire sat at one of the garden tables that had a little chess board etched into the center so that members who wanted to play chess while enjoying the tranquility of the garden could do so.

Towards the end of the day, Kaiser began to get the hang of it and had finished over eight hundred paper boats when it started to drizzle. Due to the fact that Kaiser could barely get sick, she persisted with her mission, and the madness went on. At the nine-hundredth paper boat, the vampire was so concentrated, that every sound she was hearing as well as everything she could sense normally had drowned out, making it easy for her to catch any sound that was not a part of these noises that were going in some kind of a loop, or anything that she could sense out of the ordinary while sat there folding her last hundred paper boats.

Kaiser’s idea of a productive evening was ruined, first by the rain that had her soaked from head to toe, and then the random assault from her guildmate that was just totally out of the blue. She wanted to complete this mission; she really did. And she was really close. So close that if anything stopped her from finishing, she wouldn’t hesitate to blast whatever or whoever it was, off the face of the earth. This madness was also fueled by the spirit of Morrigan, always trying to corrupt Kaiser from within the staff. Being uber focused on something meant that the slightest disturbance in the flow of things in her range of detection would alarm her, and in this case, it was the arrival of someone in the direction that she was completely giving her back to, whom she was unable to detect until they came within the range in which her necklace could pick up their mana traces, which was within fifteen meters from her position, to be specific. Driven by the dedication to finish today’s mission, the vampire would resolutely remove anything that obstructed her from her goal by any means necessary. That was the kind of person she was in most cases, and the majority of the people within her guild, those who chose to follow her in this journey, knew very well of this.

She may have gone a little overboard, however, since she was unaware of who exactly it was that was planning to take her life by sneaking up on her from behind. She wasn’t having any of it. After an entire day of folding paper boats, the woman was alerted by the slightest disturbance and easily angered as well. The moment that the figure entered the effective detection range of the Millenium Talisman, Kaiser opened both of her palms at the same time, activating two spells simultaneously and dropping the final paper boat that she would fold for the night. Fun fact, it was the nine hundred and eighty third one. It was needless to say that at this point she was infuriated as fuck. She had never been this close to completing a mission and then having to stop. Just when she was about to be done, one of her guildmates decided to attack her. Of course she wouldn’t know automatically whether it was one of her guildmates or not, but she assumed it was since outsiders needed permission to enter. It could very well have been an outsider who had been given permission by one of the guild aces. In any case, the spells would have done hardcore damage to whoever it was, and knocked them back twenty meters away from whichever point they would come into contact with her spells. Since her spell motions were done with her hands while her back was given to the assailant, there was no way that the attacks could have been anticipated. Only after casting the spells, the sorceress would stand bolt upright in her position and turn to face the person who was bold enough to sneak up on her. She was ready to follow up with any more attacks should the need arise.

Kaiser’s expression reflected her emotions a hundred percent when she realised who had tried to attack her, as she stood there frozen for a moment before a pair of blood-red wings sprouted out of her back as she launched herself off the bench towards the spot where her Voidling guildmate had been knocked back to. If she had known that it was her, she wouldn’t have been so aggressive. She would probably have used just one spell. However, now that she realised she had hurt her guildmate badly, the vampire did the first thing that was only appropriate to do. She would take her to the guild’s very own infirmary, to make sure that her guildmate was alive. Upon reaching the wall under her balcony, Kaiser came to a half, kneeling down next to her guildmate’s completely still body. She first checked her pulse to see if she was still alive, and then lifted her off the ground, carrying her in her arms bridal style before flying off to the part of the guild compound where the infirmary was located.

The sanguine appendages that grew out of her back dragged against the dirt as she brought Nuala into the infirmary, gently placing her on one of the beds with a look of extreme worry. A nurse immediately arrived at the side of the bed, and Kaiser had to explain the whole thing. The nurse couldn’t believe what just happened. She couldn’t believe that Kaiser had just attacked a dear guildmate with so much force that she was knocked out entirely after taking a hit from her crash magic. Kaiser couldn’t hide the shame, but rushed the nurse to just shut up and give her treatment right then, to which the nurse nodded and did as was told. The vampire stood by Nuala’s bed, arms folded over her chest as she kept her eyes on the Voidling. She wasn’t dead, so that was good news. But hopefully she hadn’t hurt her to the extent that she couldn’t function like a normal person again.

It took awhile for the anger to set in once again, and when it did, Kaiser had to leave the infirmary to blast some more crash magic at a line of trees just outside. She was angry at Nuala for being so careless, and mostly she was angry at herself for being so reckless, within her own guild walls too. The vampire bit down on her clenched fist as she came back to Nuala’s side. When she picked her up from the dirt, Kaiser noticed that the weapon she wielded was shattered to pieces by her crash magic. She didn’t really think of herself as being challenged by Nuala when she gave her the Rusty Dagger. She expected the voidling to go after weaker opponents. However, it seemed that the lady of the void was more ambitious than she thought, going for the bigger fish already. If it had been someone else other than Kaiser in that spot, Nuala had a higher chance of being able to take their life. The vampire ordered one of the orderlies to go up to her office to bring her the dagger in the lower left drawer of her desk. Of course it wasn’t usual for anyone but the mistress herself to be allowed in her office—save for the title holders. Kaiser was going to kill the orderly later, maybe feed on her so that her sacrifice wasn’t for nothing.

Once the violet-haired rogue began to stir, Kaiser raised her head and blinked. She was about to fall asleep right beside Nuala if she didn’t wake up anytime soon. She stood up immediately, wanting to yell at her for being so careless, but being unable to after seeing the look on her guildmate’s face. She inhaled sharply and pressed her lips into a thin line. At this point she wasn’t even sure what to do. Lean over and hug her? That would hurt though. A kiss on the forehead and say ‘Sorry for that, I didn’t really mean to really hurt you’? But her pride wouldn’t let her apologize. She wanted to bang her head into the wall next to Nuala’s bed. After hearing what the voidling asked her, her lips parted to utter an apology and instead managed to call her stupid. “No...that was pretty stupid,” she said. She was slightly impressed with Nuala’s bravery and ability to sneak up on her up until the range of her necklace’s detection. If she hadn’t worn it today, she would have probably taken a critical hit and would be in Nuala’s place right now. Kaiser brought out the shiny new dagger that she had meant to give Nuala after she was able to show some improvement to her. “Here’s compensation for the one I broke. Make sure this one stays intact for at least a month, alright?” she said and placed it in one of Nuala’s hands. She had a feeling the rogue would want a feel of the blade as soon as she could. It was much more potent than the Rusty Dagger she had before. It was known as ‘Death’s Ghastly Dagger’.

“I’ll see you later. Don’t try to get up before they tell you to,” she said as a goodbye and left the infirmary. Since Nuala already came back to the world of the living, Kaiser could finally stop being so emotional like she was going through menopause and return to her duties. No more paper boat folding though. Look what that caused.