Chapter 23: 13 Years 2
Paul started living more often in the apartment near his university. He wanted to cook the things he liked better and also wanted to learn to play more instruments, but he didn't want to drive the Denali coven vampires crazy.
Irina didn't think Paul would be in his apartment eating in secret, so she didn't visit him much knowing that he was learning to play an instrument. Nevertheless, Paul would always go to the Denali coven's house and spend time with Irina.
Soon the years passed and Paul graduated from Mechanical Engineering at university. Paul knew he couldn't stay in university for more than 8 years before everyone started to suspect him, so he decided to take three courses this time.
Paul decided to take the complementary course in International Commerce, so he could use his background in Business Administration to avoid repeating classes. Paul enjoyed studying but didn't want to take the same classes after 7 years.
Paul also decided to take the Law course, so he could use this identity of his for a while to solve any legal problems he might encounter and not be deceived by lawyers when he needed them.
Lastly, Paul decided to take Fashion Design. He had started to like fashion ever since he had to make several masks for himself pretending he had a scar on his face, and he knew Irina liked to wear fashionable clothes.
Paul always wanted to take courses that could be useful in his everyday life, and creating clothes was one of those things. This time, Irina supported him in taking the Fashion Design course, as she would love to wear clothes designed by Paul.
Officially, Paul was now 26 years old in his fake identity. He didn't show his face, so nobody suspected him, and the few people at the university who knew him knew that he liked to study, so the three courses didn't attract attention.
During the years that passed, Paul learned the basics of several instruments he had always wanted to learn, so he could show the Denali coven vampires what he had learned by playing various songs on different instruments.
He also learned to create various different dishes, using his vampire skills and his love for food. Paul realized that he could become an excellent cook, which is why he understood why Esme cooked so well even though she couldn't taste the food she made.
Paul learned to make French, Italian, and even Japanese dishes that he would eat with his father. Of course, the best part was being able to taste everything he cooked, as Paul never thought he would have a chance to cook for anyone other than himself.
In these many years, Paul also continued to train his samurai skills. He learned to use both katanas and could already perform most of the moves his father did, but with much greater speed.
With his telekinesis ability, Paul learned to cut things from a distance of 20 meters with his katanas. He couldn't cut a vampire yet, as vampire skin was tough to cut with air, but he might be able to in the future.
Paul also tried to improve his blacksmithing skills. He had learned the basics from his father when he was very young, but Hideyoshi taught Paul more about blacksmithing and let him watch him create katanas and other things.
Paul could already create some household items with blacksmithing, as it was part of his training since creating sharp weapons was more difficult for him. However, only he could use the household items he created.
During these years, Paul continued to train his telekinesis ability every day, improving his control greatly. He could now make a baseball change direction using telekinesis, and he could move objects at high speed more effectively than using his hands.
Paul also practiced his flying skills using telekinesis several times. He used his telekinesis to fly at heights of over 100 meters with good speed, although it was much slower than running as a vampire.
Unfortunately, flying wasn't very useful in a fight against vampires, only for escaping, so Paul was trying to learn other ways to use telekinesis in battle and had learned several telekinesis-based skills.
Five more years passed, and Paul had graduated from the three courses he had started and could play most of the musical instruments he was interested in. He made some clothes for Irina, Tanya, and Kate, and even made some for Carmen when she asked, and Paul saw that Eleazar didn't mind.
Unfortunately, this time Paul had to be one of the worst students in class. If he showed his abilities, he would expose himself too much, and that wouldn't be good for keeping his secret. But the other students noticed that Paul always changed into more beautiful masks.
Irina also finally found out that Paul could eat human food. She made a surprise visit to him and saw Paul eating. It was unexpected, as Irina had never visited Paul in his apartment for over 10 years.
"Paul, if you could eat, why didn't you tell us? You didn't need to keep such a secret. We would have been happy for you. After all, you may have a different type of vampire mutation that allowed you to eat and digest food," said Irina.
"I'm sorry, Irina, I didn't want to make you jealous. I know you would be happy for me, but it would be hard for me to eat in front of you knowing that you can't eat," said Paul.
"You're worrying about this for nothing, Paul. After we became vampires, seeing someone eat or smell food just disgusts us. I don't have any memories of eating anymore, and I don't have any desire to eat," said Irina.
"Besides, you know that we vegetarians have great self-control. After all, the taste of human blood is a thousand times better than any food I've ever tasted, but I managed to stop feeding on this delicacy."
Paul didn't know that human blood tasted so good. Fortunately, he had never tried it, otherwise, he might not have become a vegetarian. With his self-control, Paul could drink blood from blood bags without hurting anyone.
So Paul understood that for vampires who couldn't eat, feeling disgusted by food might be a protective measure for their minds, so they wouldn't miss it or have the desire to eat.
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I started to advance in time in the story, in a few more chapters we will arrive at 2003.
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