Roses need not grow tall, for a lover will bend down.
A daughter need not be taught by her mother, for she will naturally ride her mother’s waist.
With just one encounter, Valo was easily pushed down onto the sand by Anqi.
This time, Anqi didn’t need to rely on “threats and inducements” to make her give up resistance; she could just use brute force—the Blood Source Curse had eroded Anqi’s body, but it had also granted her physical enhancement!
The girl straddling Valo’s waist easily gripped her wrists with both hands, and her hot, dense breath, carrying the scent of rusted blood, blew against Valo’s earlobe.
At the same moment Valo instinctively turned her face to dodge, the girl had already keenly seized the opportunity!
With her mother’s permission, without the constraints of their identities, and because the erosion of the Blood Source Curse on her sanity had already pushed the girl to her limit!
The next moment, the girl hesitated no longer, completely surrendering all thought to desire! Her black-red wings whooshed open, truly like a beast guarding its prey, as she claimed and monopolized Valo before her.
Instinct drove the girl to lick Valo’s neck, followed by the pair of fangs that had grown in her mouth at some point due to the Blood Source Curse, piercing her skin!
[Blood Sucking], a term beautified by many light novels and anime games, has become something as sweet and indistinguishable from lovemaking.
For example, a vampire girl and her kin biting each other’s necks for a mutual exchange of blood, or the First Embrace being treated like a first intimate encounter.
However, in reality…
Valo was now trembling all over after being bitten by Anqi!
It, it hurts so much mmmmgghhhhh!
How can blood sucking be so painful!? It’s as if the doctor sister took a super thick syringe and jabbed it right into her neck, the pain making her shiver so much she couldn’t even scream!
Struggling to alleviate the pain was futile—Anqi was treating her like captured prey at this moment, her delicate body erupting with savage force, pinning her down so she couldn’t move. The sound of “gulp, gulp” drinking came from beside her ear.
Soon, Valo felt the raw, stinging pain at her neck gradually being replaced by “pain mixed with pleasure.”
Probably the intense pain had muddled her brain a bit, making her think: Heh, it actually feels a little good?
Then she was jolted back to clarity by Anqi’s fangs pressing in harder: Damn, does this body of mine have a bit of a masochistic streak?
Fortunately, the suffering wasn’t in vain.
Just as Valo had thought: as a pure-blooded Villainous Demon King, her blood, combined with Anqi’s gradually returning sanity, was enough to temporarily suppress the erosion of the Blood Source Curse from the Blood Ancestor on Anqi’s body.
Just as a feeling of emptiness, like “her body being drained,” came from her neck, Valo caught a glimpse from the corner of her eye of the changes in her saintly daughter’s body atop her.
Anqi’s wings, which had been stained black-red by the Blood Source Curse’s erosion, were slowly retreating back to pure white.
The color of the girl’s hair and the skin on her chest was also visibly returning to normal.
Most importantly: in the [Nurturing Panel], Anqi’s [Justice Value], which had just started climbing—twenty-five percent, thirty, forty…
Finally stopped at ninety percent. Although it didn’t reach the peak, this was enough proof that Anqi had rekindled hope, still maintaining her identity and stance as a Saintess.
Whether from pain or pleasure, Valo, who had already started drooling uncontrollably, let out a “hehe” laugh and heaved a long sigh of relief.
Listening to Anqi’s voice beside her ear, which seemed to be growing more and more distant, she thought to herself: Now I can finally relax and close my eyes.
“Mom? Wow… Mom!? I’m… I’m sorry! I couldn’t control myself!”
“Are you still conscious? You can’t die!”
Slurp…
No talking while eating.
Later.
A clear sensation of pain lingered at Valo’s neck. Her body, having been fiercely drained of blood by her saintly daughter, couldn’t withstand the seaside temperature at all; a cold breeze made her shiver immediately.
But her daughter wasn’t saved in vain—when Valo woke up, she found herself cradled in Anqi’s arms.
The Saintess’s pure, holy white wings now served as a comfortable pillow for her to lean against.
The girl beside her was carefully using healing magic to repair the marks left by the bite on her neck.
Valo didn’t need to be told: they were definitely two ferocious-looking puncture wounds.
After all, Anqi had just been in full-on “beast mode.” Her rough, forceful actions shattered any beautiful filter Valo had about “blood sucking” into nonexistent pieces.
Seeing her wake up, the girl smiled and apologized, “Sorry, Mom. I thought you’d only feel pleasure from something like blood sucking.”
Oh, fantastic. Mom saves your life, and the first thing you say when she wakes up is a sarcastic remark?
Annoyed as she was, Valo felt much more at ease: It seems I don’t need to worry about Anqi’s mental state anymore.
So she waved her hand, using a voice that was still a bit weak, to give the girl a reminder for the future.
“It’s said to be a temporary suppression, but I estimate it should keep your body normal for at least ten days to half a month, no problem.”
“In short, from now on, whenever there are signs of Blood Source Curse erosion, come find me, your mom, as soon as possible.”
She paused, then added, “And don’t let your mind wander into those pessimistic, angsty literary thoughts in the future, and definitely don’t think about dragging me down with you. The Blood Source Curse isn’t a dead end. Once there’s a possibility of solving it, I’ll tell you.”
Just like the instructions a doctor gives after prescribing medicine, everything Valo said were important points for the upcoming “plan to hide Anqi’s affliction with the Blood Source Curse”!
However, the Saintess beside her probably hadn’t listened to a single word!
Anqi’s condition had now completely returned to normal, not just physically, but seemingly mentally as well.
Because: the hand Anqi had wrapped around her waist soon began to move restlessly. Anqi turned her face, bringing it close to Valo’s ear, lightly sniffing the scent at her neck.
“Alright, alright, I’ll agree to everything, Mom.”
After that absent-minded, perfunctory reply, she began her “reckoning” with a smile.
“So, isn’t it my turn now? Mom, you actually planted a member of the Blood Tribe within our Church, disguised as an Apprentice Nun. It seems your claims about just wanting to live peacefully in the Imperial Capital are becoming less and less convincing.”
Valo immediately waved her fist in protest, “I-I didn’t plant anyone! Emma’s infiltration was arranged by the Blood Ancestor! I, your mom, only found out not long after entering the Clock Tower!”
“Heh~ So that’s knowing but not reporting it, right?”
The girl blinked her golden eyes, smiling as she raised her pitch, “Sigh, maybe it really is better to reveal your identity and have me keep a strict watch over you~”
“After all, when the Blood Source Curse acts up, I just need to bite you, right? Where I bite doesn’t matter; it can be in a basement too.”
Valo immediately sucked in a cold breath, her toes curling tight!
Thinking about it carefully, from Saintess Anqi’s perspective: this approach really wasn’t flawed? Once her identity secret was exposed, even Kaika and Finney wouldn’t be able to save her then!
Oh no, oh no! She had calculated everything to save Anqi’s identity as a Saintess, but she had failed to calculate that her saintly daughter could turn out to be an ungrateful wretch!
This, this, this! This goes against all propriety! Good deeds go unrewarded; she’s going to make a scene!
Garbage game! Trash game! She’s quitting! She wants a refund!
Fortunately, Anqi beside her just happily admired her puffed-up, sulking appearance for a moment before immediately hugging her close, rubbing cheeks and whispering a reassuring answer.
“Alright, alright, Mom, don’t sulk. If you want me to change my mind, you just need to honestly answer one simple question for me.”
Before the words even finished, the girl had already flipped over, returning to the position of pinning Valo down.
Propped up on her arms, looking down from above. The scheming look was still there, but Valo felt this Saintess was now somewhat different.
“Mom, earlier when I was resisting the curse’s erosion, my mind wasn’t clear, and I didn’t hear very well. Can you answer me again? Why did you have Emma get close to me?”
“To figure out why you were avoiding me, your mom!”
Valo pouted. She wasn’t lying, and there was no need to lie. “To have Emma probe your thoughts so I could prescribe the right remedy… No one else could do that job besides Emma, right?”
The girl’s breath carried an excited tone.
“Heh~ Is that so~ So Mom was just afraid I’d ignore you and got so anxious you sent your subordinates. Huhu~ So cute.”
Valo puffed out her cheeks in displeasure: Cute my foot!
Anqi’s state of mind was directly related to whether she could enter the [Magneto Ending]; it was a very serious and urgent issue at the time!
The next moment, the girl leaned down even lower, their noses almost touching.
She narrowed her eyes, lowering her voice, “Then, Mom, do you need me to tell you? The reason I was avoiding you back then~”
“No need!”
Valo used her hand to push against Anqi’s mouth, pushing the girl away from the close distance.
She already understood the answer deeply now.
Given how Anqi had looked while sucking her blood earlier—that desperate, thirsty appearance as if she wanted to suck out her very soul—if she still couldn’t figure out Anqi’s thoughts, she’d be a ghost!
Her saintly daughter had been completely suppressing the impulse of her filial feelings transforming!
This left Valo with nowhere to vent her anger: They say a good horse doesn’t turn back to graze on old grass. How come Anqi’s scheme was foiled once, yet she acknowledges her mistake but doesn’t correct it? Where did the lesson go?
So the mistake wasn’t having schemes against Mom, but that the scheme to control and train Mom was discovered?
The next moment, the girl before her finally said something that made her feel a bit happier.
“Alright, Mom, everything you did for me tonight is enough to prove your sincerity to me.”
“I won’t recklessly reveal your identity, and… I won’t let you, Mom, suffer losses or lose face either.”
“Although there’s no master-servant relationship between us brought by the Blood Source Curse, in the future, in front of your Demon Clan members, I can act it out~”
As she spoke, the girl raised a finger, placed it by her lips, and gave it a light lick.
“Pretend we have a master-servant relationship, to make you seem more like the Demon King.”
“Are you happy? Master?”
Valo’s reaction was a direct “old man on subway looking at phone.jpg”: Ugh, no, no, no. An old married couple kissing gives nightmares for several nights—this title makes goosebumps rise all over my body!
“Just be a good Saintess; that’s what makes me, your mom, happiest.”
Besides, tonight’s crisis wasn’t over yet!
The next moment, Valo keenly spotted: on the distant beach under the night sky, a figure indistinguishable from a female ghost, after pausing for a moment… began floating towards her and Anqi’s direction with a speed as if chasing souls to claim lives!
Saintess Anqi! Still playing with Mom here!
The Sister Superior is coming to catch people!
Quick, use your invincible Saintess identity to think of something!