× V | lamia hotel

@l. jieun Looks over the two vampires before they start a conversation, Joohyun just get along and pretend that she doesn't know anything about the wine they're sipping right now. Eyeing at thosejeweeelriees, they are not real, not even their personality. The etiquette of being a higher vampire should be be taught for a decade, and these two pretentious vampires doesn't know that.

When they asked who is the owner the blood wine, Joohyun just went silent and keep the two blabbering about it. Higher vampires know who she is and what she has, they are definitely, the suspicious ones. After minutes of talking with the two, they went back to their rooms as they finisheddd drinking the wine. Joohyun looked at Jieun and sighed, "You're reaction lately, it's priceless whenever you see fake jewelry." She chuckles, "Anyways, I need to know when will they gonna be out from their rooms and you help me tail them." Stands up from her tool.

@b. joohyun "Mhm, that's true. I'll contact my manager." Jieun replies, grabbing her phone to text her manager. After a few moments, she receives a reply. "Guest number 403 and 404 on the list. They don't have that much information, only their names, he said." She informs the older vampire, lowering the volume of her tone so as not to be heard by the others.

As what Jieun expected, the two vampires heard Joohyun. She faces the counter, casually taking a sip, expecting that the vampires will notice that she's the owner of the hotel. The two vampires stood up and approaches them, holding a glass of the same wine. Jieun grew more suspicious of them, they're trying to act like higher vampires, but higher vampires are all acquaintances of each other... And their jewelries--oh gosh. Cheap and fake stones. It disgusted her.

@l. jieun "The vampires in the corner, their outfits are not matched with their drinks... Burgundy Rose is only for higher vampire's like us." Joohyun told her before she looked at her, she already has an obvious hint of what's happening. "Perhaps you can ask your general manager about who are those guys." She added before pointing the two vampires.

Then she got an idea before looking at the bartender and gestured him to come closer to the two females, "Two glass of Burgundy Rose please." She told him before the bartender nodded and gave Joohyun and Jieun each glass of the wine which is similar than the vampires Joohyun is targeting. "Act normal, Jieun." She whispered at her before the glasses are served to them and they start taking a sip on it. Joohyun knew that the two will hear what she ordered and they will start a conversation with them which it is the great opportunity for them to extract the information.

@b. joohyun Jieun hums while listening to the older vampire following her and sat down on one of the stools at the bar, letting Joohyun to sit down beside her. "Oho, so you got a supply of good blood for the wine? I'm amused." She glances at her and smirks, motivated to finish this case to grab the jewelries as soon as possible. The bartender slides a cup of wine each in front of the vampires, and she took a sip.

It was expected for the older vampire to know the contents of the wine with just one sip, but Jieun is still astounded by it. That skill of hers is very helpful in her business, no wonder someone had the courage to hoard 20% of her wine. She places her cup of wine down, and glances at Joohyun, her face showing that she found a hint on who it might be. "I'm guessing you found a hint or something?"

She looked around the bar, checking her vampire guests. There's a possibility that someone is here right now. She squints at every guest around, seeing if they are suspicious or anything. She didn't mind if the guests find her creepy from the way she looks at them. If they're the criminal behind it, she'd love to kill him/her at the sunlight during the day, letting him/her to suffer. And, she could grab those jewelries and try them all out in her office.

@l. jieun Joohyun grinned as the other agreed to help her with the hoarding problem, "I have this gambled plan where I can sell wine as many as possible, but I can tell that because... it's a confidential topic." She responded before she follows Jieun to her bar and they sat on a stool as they start investigating who are the vampires involved with her problem.

"Oh, when talking about blood as the essential ingredient for my wine, it's easy to get it, my dear Jieun." She giggled before she listened to her, as usual, Jieun agreed only to get some of her jewelries. But Joohyun is not that easy to give her what she wanted, "Okay, I can give you half of my jewelries." She answered before looking at two vampires in a distance where they took a sip of her wine.

She knew that wine before she starts muttering its kind, "Burgundy Rose... 30% Blood... 70% Red Wine... Perfect for higher vampires..." But she just noticed the two vampires being lesser ones because of their outfit. Baggy outfits but they have the guts to drink her wine since it's expensive and only for higher vampires. Now she became suspicious.

@b. joohyun "Almost emptied the store?!" opened from shock. "Girl, if I was you, you should have really emptied the store." She's a bit jealous, wishing to go to the shopping mall too. Jieun's saddened face shows when she took all the jewelries, but when Joohyun's tone was serious, she knew there was a problem, so she rested her chin on her hand, "go on..."

"Ahh, those bastards. Probably some greedy vampires out there again." She gives a sullen glance, breathing off a slight sigh. "There's a possibility that they were once visitors here who liked your blood wine from the bar, and since you're famous for it, they hoarded it." She stood up, signalling the latter to follow her. "But don't you limit the selling of wine to customers, like a bottle a day or something? You do know that getting good blood for the wine is very hard." She walks slowly to the bar, starting to investigate.

Jieun turns around to face the older vampire behind her, "I'm willing to help, but you gotta give me a pair of earrings and necklace as payment. I don't give services free, and that also applies to the hotel." she smirks.

@l. jieun She watched the female vampire look on the accessories, as usual, she got tempted. So now is the time to get her to say yes. "Actually, I almost emptied the store from it." Then Joohyun took all the jewelries on her side and put it back to the shopping bags, "Look, I'm not here to give you the jewelry..." then she rubned her nape a bit. "I got a problem with my stocks and some bastards hoards 20 percent of my wine." She explained the problem.

She might think those hoarders were her employees from the factory but she's not sure yet, this is why she needs her help. Jieun knows more about the people in the city than she does, Joohyun might be more knowledgable about wine but she had a hard time remembering people. She so she needed someone who knows anything about people and their businesses. Then she lifts her other leg over the other, "This is why I'm here again, because I need you to help me find those bastards." She said to her.

@b. joohyun Jieun's eyes sparkled with the sight of the jewelries in front of her. She took one box and opened it, revealing a necklace with the design of silver metal and diamonds around a round, ruby stone. She was astonished. She took a quick glance at Joohyun who's smiling mischievously. Jieun squints at her, "How much was this one? And I can't believe that you were able to grab something like this..." She touches the necklace, looking at the small details in it.

She closes the box and looked at the contents of the shopping bag. They were all jewelries, most of them are colored like human blood, but some of them are in other colors, like sapphire and emerald. She can't help but feel in awe, she wanted to go out shopping too, but her damn android manager won't let her go out at night because of the hotel business.

She sneakily took the same box from earlier, trying to hide it by moving and changing her position while sitting on the sofa, wanting to grab the opportunity to hide the necklace from Joohyun, but she knows that she'll notice it, so Jieun just bit her lower lip and returned the box back on top of the table.

@l. jieun Joohyun cracks a mischievous smile before noticing the other glancing the shopping bags before she sat on the sofa. Jieun has been her favorite and closest partner when it comes to business and filling up various crates of blood wine in her basement, but only those crates she's been sending are only for her personally. She might topple up the price than the original price of it so she kept it personally to her. However, twenty percent of the various blood wines are sent in their bar for the vampires to enjoy.

When the hotel owner asked, she put the shopping bags on coffee table to let her be tempted on amount of hewelries she bought from the jewelry shops. Joohyun almost emptied the shops because of her large amount of money in her bank account. She knows Jieun of having her hands itching to get some gold in her palms.

"I bought jewelries from the mall since being very generous to give people money." She told her before opening one of the shopping bags, she revealed the boxes with engraved silver linings 'Cartier' on it. "Have a look of it, you might found something interesting on it." Joohyun kept on tempting the other by opening the boxes and revealed the glimmering and shining accessories in front of her.

@b. joohyun Another night came as Lamia Hotel goes to business, welcoming all vampires around town. And its vampire owner, Jieun, is looking at her set of jewelries once again, trying them out and looking at a mirror nearby. She hums as she wears them and tries different clothing to match the jewelries. She wore a red long-sleeved dress with its skirt down to the ankle. She puts in her ruby necklace and earrings, and black high heels to match it all up. When satisfied, she took her glass of blood wine and took a sip, smiling from the great taste of it.

Suddenly, the telephone of the hotel rang - it must be from one of her staff. She picks it up, and heard that a vampire is looking for her. She hangs up, and went to the elevator, going to the lobby to meet the visitor who wishes to see her.

She comes out of the elevator, approaching the vampire waiting in the lobby. As she recognizes the figure, "Oh, it's just Joo." she scoffs. Jieun's eyes started to glance at her, until her sight stops at the shopping bags that Joohyun is holding. 'She probably bought something again... must be another jewelry, hmm... I'm curious.' She sat down on one of the sofas around, her leg on top of the other. "What do you need? It better be about jewelries though."

@l. jieun As another day fell into darkness, it is time for Joohyun to go and pick some decent yet expensive jewelries for herself. She walks around the mall, the night is more lively than day as many vampires appeared to hunt for their prey or to walk around to see the beauty of the night. She only hummed as she saw the glimpse of the stall she waited for her to buy the expensive rubied necklace, she wanted to wear that jewelry in one event where she was invited by another higher vampire.

Few hours had passed, Joohyun isn't tired of seeing glimmering gems on the accessories when she got a call from her assistant. gaped open when she was told by her assistant that some bastards hoards 10 crates or more of her expensive wine, and also the blood money that they owed to her. She almost dropped the shopping bags she's carrying before hanging up the phone and groans. "Damn those rodents!" She muttered then looks at the shopping bags before she got an idea, her corner lips curved and she start going to the hotel where she knew someone might help her for her problem.

She walks inside the hotel after minutes of riding a cab then asked the receptionist about her, "My apologies, I'm not asking for a room number, I'm looking for the owner of the hotel. Can you call her for me?" She said with semi-polite manner and waits on the lobby for her.