Campione: Strongest Godslayer!-Chapter 258: Captivated by Blood

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Altrouge stared at Haru's vacant face with uncertain eyes.

As Fou was her beloved hound, she naturally believed what Fou had said. But the matter was truly shocking—someone had actually gotten aroused by her pet.

"Can humans really be this depraved? Truly, live long enough and you'll see anything," Altrouge muttered to herself.

Suddenly, Altrouge frowned slightly and questioned Fou. "Strange, how could a human touch you there?"

"He touched me when he picked me up!" Fou replied, rubbing its cheek with its paw.

"He accidentally touched there while picking you up, making you mistake it for a courtship proposal? I see." Altrouge nodded, looking as if she understood. Then, her pretty face showed slight astonishment. "...Wait, didn't I tell you to capture him? Why did he end up picking you up?"

Fou's paw froze mid-air. It finally sensed something was wrong. Its dark eyes darted around, recalling the previous scene. After a moment, it spoke.

"...My privilege against humans seemed ineffective against him. Then he came over saying he wanted to raise me, and then he just picked me up directly. Because the aura on him felt very comfortable, I didn't resist."

"Privilege against humans ineffective? Has Roa's Dead Apostle characteristic awakened already? But the aura felt comfortable?" Altrouge tapped her chin with her index finger, narrowing her eyes slightly, carefully observing Haru's face. "How was it comfortable?"

Hearing Altrouge's inquiry, Fou began to ponder how to describe the feeling of that aura in words. Just then, inspiration flashed, recalling the sensation at its birth, and it said in shock, "...It felt like... Lady Gaia's aura!!!"

Hearing the name of the Counter Force, Altrouge's gaze sharpened instantly, looking warily at the vacant-eyed Haru before her. A guy connected to the Counter Force—how could he possibly be hypnotized by her Single-Action magecraft?

Simultaneously, Fou pushed off forcefully with its hind legs, leaping lightly out of Haru's embrace, landing beside Altrouge, watching Haru warily. Likewise, it had also sensed something amiss.

The gazes of woman and hound locked tightly onto the blank-faced Haru. The atmosphere instantly became tense.

"..."

"Still playing dumb? Who exactly are you?" Altrouge spoke to Haru, her expression grave.

"..." Haru remained expressionless. 'Should he admit to the crime of molesting an animal instead of playing dumb?' Anyway, the two before him couldn't harm him. Haru continued to play dumb.

"Awoo!"

Fou let out a low growl, kicked off lightly with its four legs, leaped to Haru's feet, opened its mouth, and bit down. When its sharp teeth touched the bare calf exposed beneath Haru's pant leg, that familiar, intimate feeling made it subconsciously retract most of its force, biting gently before retreating several steps.

Crimson blood slowly seeped from the skin broken by the sharp teeth.

Altrouge's nose twitched slightly, her eyes widening in pleasant surprise as she looked at the trickles of blood oozing from Haru's leg. As the dominator of blood and contracts, she immediately detected the immense life force surging within those few drops of blood.

The allure of the blood made Altrouge ignore the danger. She stepped forward cautiously, crouched down before Haru, lightly touched the oozing blood on his calf with her index finger, then placed the finger in her mouth, gently sucking.

Watching Altrouge before him, sucking her index finger with an entranced expression, Haru instantly reacted, almost unable to restrain himself from taking her right there and then.

Altrouge, lost in the taste of the blood, happened to miss Haru's physical reaction, simply saying with intoxicated delight.

"...This taste, this taste! It's better than my sister's taste I managed to savor eight hundred years ago—No! It's even richer than that! This is comparable to a True Ancestor born from nature itself!!"

"Eh! Your Highness, are you saying you've actually tasted Lady Arcueid's blood?" Fou looked at Altrouge, utterly shocked.

Haru instantly perked up his ears. Altrouge had actually tasted Arcueid's blood? This was big news.

"Tsk, it was just a few trickles spilled during battle. Unfortunately, I couldn't bite her neck. But it's all that fool's fault; for a hundred years after that, nothing tasted right." Altrouge licked the corner of her mouth, speaking with dissatisfaction.

"Well then, Your Highness, judging by his reaction, this guy does seem like an normal person, aside from his special blood and aura. What should we do with him?"

Fou said, troubled. For some reason, it just couldn't bring itself to harm Haru. The previous bite that broke the skin was already its absolute limit.

"A blood bank for regular feeding? No, no, with this guy's bloodline, one bite from me and he'll turn into a Dead Apostle, possibly even a True Ancestor directly. It'll be hard to control him then," Altrouge said, supporting her forehead, looking troubled.

"How about locking him up and drawing blood regularly?" Fou looked eager to try.

Haru saw through it instantly. Fou seemed to be planning on playing some imprisonment games. Tsk, animals in heat are truly terrifying.

"No, damn Roa possessed this guy's body. As time passes, Roa will eventually awaken. If Roa obtains this body, I'm afraid I won't be confident in dealing with the transformed Roa." Altrouge frowned, knitting her delicate willow-leaf eyebrows.

"Then... kill him? Get rid of the problem once and for all?" Fou asked hesitantly.

"How can such a rare treasure be destroyed? Rejected! Rejected! I reject this proposal!!!" Altrouge stomped her foot, loudly reprimanding Fou.

"Then how about using your contract concept to sign a contract? Control him with a contract?" Fou said helplessly. This was the last method it could think of.

"...It's feasible, but forcefully binding him with a contract might provoke strong resistance," Altrouge was instantly tempted, her gaze flickering uncertainly towards Haru.

"Then what if it's not forceful binding? Sign an equal contract? But how would that make him willingly offer his blood to you?" Fou crouched on the ground, looking dejected.

"Willingly, huh?" Altrouge repeated softly, seemingly lost in thought.

Then, her crimson eyes lit up brightly. Altrouge lifted her skirt and spun around, addressing Fou. "Fou, do you think I'm beautiful?"

"...With your True Ancestor bloodline, your beauty is unrivaled. This answer can be derived from the countless humans over the millennia who became infatuated with your beauty and did foolish things," Fou replied after a moment's confusion, its face serious.

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Seemingly thinking its statement wasn't convincing enough, it even brought up past humans who had been infatuated with the Black Princess.

It knew that even in modern times, numerous humans were infatuated with the Black Princess's beauty, constantly working as human collaborators, loyal unto death without regret.

Hearing Fou's flattery, Altrouge smiled slightly, lifted her fair hand to hook Haru's chin, and chuckled softly.

"Well then, let this human fall for me, and willingly offer his blood for all eternity!"

"...Of course, a contract is indispensable!"

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