The flat, even voice seemed to drop the temperature of the entire house by a few degrees.
Everyone followed the voice and looked at Su Fan.
He wore a calm expression, sitting on the sofa in a posture that even seemed a little leisurely.
“Su… what did you just say?”
Carlisle could hardly believe it.
“Is what I said not clear enough?”
Su Fan asked calmly in return.
“I thought he was a pacifist. After all, he seemed so easy to get along with just now.”
Emmett couldn’t help whispering about Su Fan to Edward again.
“Pacifism comes with conditions. If they choose to draw their blades against us, are we supposed to just sit and wait to die?”
Su Fan turned his head toward Emmett.
The big, muscular guy with an empty head looked a little embarrassed.
“Well, looks like someone’s idea of a whisper ended up in the other person’s ears.”
Edward couldn’t resist teasing his brother.
On the other side, a stunned Carlisle began to explain.
“The Volturi family isn’t as easy to deal with as you think. Their power is enormous, and the supernatural abilities of their members are troublesome…”
“They even defeated the once most powerful Romanian family fifteen hundred years ago. After expanding for so long, their influence is beyond what ordinary people can imagine…”
“We should be cautious.”
Carlisle’s persuasion had barely come to an end when Rosalie spoke up from nearby.
“One comes, one dies? Aren’t you overestimating your own strength? Or are you treating the Volturi family like those vampires you killed before?”
“War means death, but you probably wouldn’t understand that.”
The more Rosalie spoke, the angrier she got, until her tone couldn’t help but carry a hint of mockery.
“You, spouting wild words, have no reverence for life at all.”
“You should say that to the Volturi family. Tell them about freedom and human rights, and see if they’re willing to let your brother and sister go for the sake of those lofty principles.”
Su Fan turned and looked at Rosalie.
“They can ignore others’ wishes and forcibly plunder people with special abilities to serve them, all to expand their own power.
I can also wipe out this group of people who might threaten me in the future, so I can rest easy from now on.
As for your claim that I have no reverence for life…”
The black-haired young man, who had previously given a gentle impression, stood up from the sofa.
“War is fair. I want to kill them, and naturally I’m prepared to be killed. Of course, they’d have to have the ability to do it.”
His voice was still calm, but to everyone present, it no longer carried the gentleness of their first impression — it even held a bit of undisguised confidence.
Carlisle smiled bitterly at that.
The family members had all been misled by Su Fan’s youthful appearance and their first impression.
From the very first moment they met, Carlisle had sensed the sharpness beneath that calm exterior.
“Su really does have the capital to be confident. The Volturi family won’t be able to get any advantage from him.”
Seeing the atmosphere turn somewhat tense, Alice spoke up.
“These are all future scenes I’ve seen.”
“So all we need to do is simple — tell him as much as possible about the abilities of the Volturi family members.”
With Alice speaking, the Cullen family members finally nodded, though still somewhat skeptical.
“Su, mind having a private talk with me?”
Alice stood up and extended the invitation.
The two then left the villa and headed into the forest outside.
After they had gone far enough, Esme looked at her adopted sons and daughters.
“I think I know why Alice came back.”
If she hadn’t been here, this conversation could very well have ended badly.
“You can’t blame Rosalie. That guy’s appearance and personality don’t match at all, and we don’t know him. Who would’ve thought a human really had that kind of ability?”
Emmett defended his partner right away.
“Even if you didn’t know, you still shouldn’t have spoken in that tone.”
Carlisle also sighed.
“Carlisle, even you…”
Rosalie looked incredulous, then turned and left in anger.
Emmett hurried after her.
…
“If Rosalie offended you, I apologize on her behalf.
I hope you won’t hold it against her too much. She’s actually always wanted to be human…”
The forest was covered in fallen leaves, and Su Fan and Alice walked side by side.
“Being turned into a vampire wasn’t her choice. Let me tell you a secret — she’s the only member of our family besides Carlisle who has never killed anyone out of thirst.”
“If it weren’t for Emmett, she’d definitely still be miserable now. After all, her biggest dream is to have a happy family.”
As Alice spoke, her tone was sincere.
“I actually think you’ve all spoiled her rotten. When adults are talking, children shouldn’t interrupt.”
Hearing Su Fan’s reply, Alice couldn’t help but laugh.
“The youngest person in our family is over a hundred years old, and you’re calling her a child…”
“To live through the years without any growth in mind — that makes one no different from a child.”
Su Fan answered lightly.
He had seen too many people like that, whether in his past life or this one.
When you deal with them, you realize that aside from their appearance aging into adulthood, their thinking and logic remain stuck in their school days or even earlier.
No growth at all — calling them children was not an exaggeration in the slightest.
“Hasn’t Carlisle told you about the differences between vampires and humans?”
“No.”
“Then let me give you a brief explanation.”
The two reached the depths of the woods, and Alice lightly leaped onto a moss-covered dead tree.
The smooth surface of the tree didn’t affect her movement at all — she walked along it steady and nimble, like a cat.
“All of a vampire’s bodily functions freeze at the moment of transformation. Hair stops growing, nails stop getting longer, and hormone levels are the same.”
“It’s like time stands still. Both body and mind are forever locked at that age.”
“Rosalie was transformed by Carlisle when she was eighteen.”
Su Fan found this rather interesting.
“I see. By keeping bodily functions from changing, they prevent their souls from rotting.”
It was one way to do it.
But that also meant their upper limit was completely locked. They would remain as easily swayed by emotions as young people, doing irrational things.
“People who are actually hundreds of years old keep the mindset of an eighteen-year-old, while someone in their twenties thinks in a way completely different from others their age.”
Alice walked along the dead tree with her hands behind her back, turning her gaze down to Su Fan.
“Although you could go head-to-head with them, the first thing you thought of was contacting the Vatican to cut them off at the root, right?”
Su Fan looked up at the girl above him and didn’t deny it.
The Volturi family was based in Italy, and they had even gone to war with the previous generation of vampire overlords in Romania.
The Vatican would surely be very interested in that.
With exorcists from that side watching them, Aro couldn’t send out his full force, which meant almost no threat to Su Fan.
And if they really did dare to send out their full force, Su Fan would immediately contact the foodie nun at the Vatican and have her pass the word up.
He’d just say Aro and his lot dared to set up their headquarters right under the Holy See’s nose and throw blood-sucking parties.
That was no ordinary vampire anymore — the Church’s knights would have to strike with a heavy hand!
By then, the Church would raid their home, and Su Fan would deliver a head-on blow to the Volturi family. This thousand-year-old vampire clan would probably be wiped out clean in less than a year.
