novelraw Chapter 242
Chapter 242
Chapter 242
Sheffy listened to their back-and-forth discussion, falling into thought as she recalled more and more memories of when Flo used to visit the Demon Domain for fun.
Suddenly.
Her face turned slightly pale.
She swiftly raised her hand into the middle of the group.
“Stop, I suddenly changed my mind. Even if we pass by the Blood Domain, I don’t want to see her anymore!”
“Oh oh! Royal Sister! What enlightened awareness! I support your decision…! Cough cough… of course I don’t oppose Royal Sister making friends, okay? Normal social relationships, Belith always supports!”
Unlike Belith, who only cared about the outcome,
Xiarette was rather puzzled about why Sheffy had suddenly become resistant.
“Did you remember something unpleasant that happened? I think… even if you argued before, it’s already been so many years, it should’ve passed. If you can meet, it’s still best to meet once. After all… besides us, Sheffy usually doesn’t have any friends. That’s too lonely.”
“Hey, Xiarette, can you take back what you just said? I obviously have a lot of friends, okay?”
“Hm? But ever since you returned to the Demon Clan, I’ve seen you staying in your room all day.”
“The big fish filling the entire lake are all my friends. I just bought fish fry today. Once they’re released into the lake, I’ll gain infinite friends again. And you still say I don’t have friends? How strange.”
“……”
Belith and Xiarette looked at each other. This time, the two sworn rivals nodded in tacit understanding, both grasping what the other meant.
—Indeed, it was necessary for Sheffy to have a few more normal friends.
That matter could be discussed later.
Right now, everyone was waiting for Sheffy’s answer. Sheffy did not keep them in suspense and succinctly explained why she did not want to go to the Vampire Clan to see her.
“Because I have a bad feeling it’ll be troublesome. I just suddenly remembered—during her last few days in the Demon Domain, I kept hiding from her. I couldn’t let her find me. That period was simply too painful!”
“Acting up? Hiding from her?” Xiarette tilted her head in confusion. “Does she have some illness… oh, oh, the ‘acting up’ you mentioned probably means she suddenly did something that made you avoid her? But why did you have to hide?”
“Exactly! Listen to me! Isn’t she anorexic? She clearly hates drinking blood, but for some reason she suddenly begged me to let her drink a little of my blood. She said my blood smelled fragrant! Good grief, isn’t that terrifying? I treated her as a friend, and she actually wanted to suck my blood! Those few days scared me so much! Even in my dreams there were bats suddenly popping out!”
““What?!””
Xiarette and Belith cried out in unison. Belith rushed forward first and pressed closer to Sheffy as she urgently asked,
“Th-then did Royal Sister let her drink your blood?!”
“Of course not. I’m so afraid of pain… uh, don’t suddenly get so close. Besides, even if she had drunk some blood, so what? It’s not like it’s a big deal.”
“Royal Sister, you really don’t…! Sigh… anyway, as long as she didn’t drink it, that’s fine. You’re right. We really should stay away from her.”
“Hm? You think so too?”
“Yes. There are thousands of friends; there’s no need to fixate on just one.”
Belith let out a sigh of relief, grateful that the young Flo had not “succeeded.”
It seemed… Royal Sister did not quite understand the common knowledge about how Vampires drink blood.
The method by which the Vampire Clan extracted blood was generally to collect it into a container, then use specific magic to prevent coagulation before drinking it. Only in a small number of extremely special circumstances would they directly pierce the skin with their fangs to draw blood.
Because… the saliva of the Vampire Clan had a strong aphrodisiac effect.
Therefore, unless it was during a period when the Vampire Clan needed to reproduce, they would never choose to drink blood directly.
But Vampire children—especially one like Flo, a blood-repulsed vampire who had never drunk blood before—she understood nothing at all.
If the young Flo had asked Royal Sister for some blood to drink back then, she would most likely have gone straight in with her mouth. Belith found it hard to imagine what kind of pink scene—one that could completely shatter her sanity—would have unfolded if Royal Sister had truly agreed.
But still, the same old words—thank goodness, thank goodness. Royal Sister knew how to refuse, and she was afraid of pain. She would never agree to such a ridiculous request.
Xiarette also let out a sigh of relief. When she had been in the Kingdom of Aurus, she had thoroughly studied the cultures and customs of various nations and races. She knew that if the Vampire Clan engaged in direct skin-contact bloodsucking—it was equivalent to a marriage proposal.
“Phew… thank goodness. Sheffy, you rejected her well. But she hates blood, yet she wanted to drink yours. Does blood taste different?”
“For the Vampire Clan, maybe it does? She wasn’t acting strange at first. There was one time we were catching butterflies in a flower field, and a leaf cut a small nick on my finger. That girl Flo was actually quite earnest. It was just a tiny wound, nothing serious, but she panicked. Seeing there was no medicine nearby to stop the bleeding, she directly put my finger into her mouth, saying it would stop the bleeding. Who knew that from then on, for the next few days, she kept chasing after me asking me to give her more blood. It was seriously outrageous!”
“I see… hm? Sheffy, are you saying! Her saliva directly touched your skin?!”
“Yeah. Is there a problem?”
“That’s not it, Royal Sister!” Belith hurried to interject, her eyes shaking violently. “That girl didn’t do anything strange to you, right?! Because the Vampire Clan’s saliva has special effects!”
“Oh, oh, I know. You mean the aphrodisiac effect, right?”
“So you knew!”
What else? I was just lazy, not ignorant.
Sheffy gave a wry smile and lightly patted her snow-white neck. That single action made the girls in front of her swallow subconsciously.
Sheffy quickly sat upright again, no longer making such dangerous movements.
“You only know half the story… The special effect you’re talking about requires the Vampire Clan’s fangs to pierce the skin for the most significant reaction. If it’s just saliva, it’s not that obvious.”
“N-not that obvious is still bad! Back then, Royal Sister, were you… were you… sob! I don’t even dare to imagine!”
“What are you imagining?! You lewd-brained idiot, did you forget the most fundamental issue?!”
“Hm?”
“I was only eight years old back then! What use do you think that effect would’ve had on me?! I was still a child!”
“Ah…”
Belith suddenly understood.
Xiarette was equally enlightened.
For the Vampire Clan’s special effect to activate, another condition had to be met first.
That was, the target had to have already grown and developed to a certain extent.
This… what was this?
Were they so full of lewd thoughts that they had even forgotten the most basic common sense and the innocence that should have been there?
Both Xiarette and Belith slowly lowered their heads, repenting in shame at how overly corrupt their perspective of the world had become.
“Lady Xiarette, just look at yourself. How could a child possibly have those kinds of feelings? Thinking about things that way is hardly proper—you’ve wronged Teacher Shaya, haven’t you?”
“That’s enough, Princess Livra. I already understand. If you keep talking at a time like this, I will find it very difficult not to become angry.”
“My fault.”