Perhaps I shall. You've ... read or heard of both of these, but allow me to shed some light onto how they connect. In the end, this shall be a story of hope, but you'd be forgiven to not understand that until then.

[ she exhales, and she... adopts a somewhat somber expression. Sayaka's heard more or less all of the second half of this, just with a more flowery tone. And the first half was implied by the secret she showed her, though she's filling in the details. ]

Two hundred years ago, the church decided that they were done with my people. They had a lead to hunt down the major houses, and the humans gathered up their soldiers and their inquisition to purge Europe of vampires. Many, many died. My ... the whole Marker clan save for me was lost. But the one who whisked me off, and I hated him for it at the time, was James Edwards. I screamed, that my parents or brother might've escaped to the woods. But in the end, it was clear...

I was alone.

He took me to a boat, a boat where he and many others had gathered up all the vampires they could find in secret, and us survivors set out, going into the oceans and across the world. When I boarded the boat... He told me that I was never to see my homeland again. It's true - it's true that was the case. Never would I ever return to Europe's soil or see what was left of them all there.

For months, we were at sea. And eventually, we came to that land where we knew no one could possibly recognize us- a land called Japan. We vampires are solitary creatures to begin with, bound more to our families than anything else. When we landed, they all went their different ways, settling in other parts of the country. And once more...

I was alone.

[ She... ] Or so I thought. But once more, that roguish man, James Edwards, followed me. My loneliness, my despair, my hatred - all of it threatened to swallow me whole. Even now, I've relinquished little of the last. Even now, I can't help but find James naive for what he told me, about how meeting violence with violence would only make it never ending. About how he would prefer that we could befriend the humans, live alongside them. But I rejected him, over and over.

... I thought I had pushed him away, as I sat on a cliff, looking over at the end of the night. The sun would rise soon enough, and some part of me couldn't help but wonder what it would matter if I saw it for the first time since I was a little girl. I was alone. Without my family, without friends to call my own. Without anything.

But then, for a third time, that man came to me. He kissed my hair, and said he wanted to spend eternity with me. He pulled me close and said he wanted to be mine. He... he saved me, James. [ She... ] Loneliness is the most insidious of killers, but that man - he was true to his word. I had two hundred years of happiness alongside him. I had a beautiful son and three beautiful grandchildren. Those memories... they're the reason I'm still here.

[ She... ]

... He saved me from that loneliness. As long as I can see my family, as long as they're with me. I'll never want to see that sunrise, ever again.