He had not just died normally, but gotten his heart eaten in front of him as he watched while a scary, buff vampire showed him absolute defeat. If I had seen this in a movie in my past life, I would be sleeping in my mom's room for the next week.
But finally, it's over…
I let out a tired, but triumphant smile as features got back to pale white, as if I had fully digested Sue's core.
I let his body go as he fell on the ground with a thud. I touched the barrel Alya was in, softly, "We did it!" I smiled as I opened the lid.
She was still sleeping peacefully. Though her thighs were curled over her, her spine twisting like a ball inside the tight barrel, her body balanced by her neck and head. It revealed something I shouldn't look at without her permission, but couldn't forget, no matter how much I tried.
I should give her Sue's robe! I decided while covering my flushed red face.
After checking on her, I nodded. Time to complete the quest, and… drink his blood! I couldn't help but grow excited about the rewards and the opportunity to use my new ability.
I turned around, his body lay face-first on the stone ground.
Wait… Wait… Wait a minute!!
Drink his blood?!
I glanced just once at his fat neck, double chin, and wrinkled skin oozing with a disgusting smell of sweat and…. shit. He seemed to have shit himself after death.
"Nah!! Hell No!" I shook my head, puking a white liquid beside me.
"No way I am bringing my mouth any closer to this filth!" There's no way I am about to suck his fucking collarbone and neck.
It was heaven with my wifey Alya, but this just sounded disgusting, worse than any torture before.
[Newbie gift pack. Daily Quest rewards. additionally…]
The system tried to negotiate awkwardly, but my response wasn't something I needed to think about, "I don't need it."
"Even if you say my heart will stop the next second, I still won't do it!" This was an attack on my freedom! Just kill me if you want me to live like this!
"I am not some clanker slave you know system," I said, my arms spreading in T-pose with a prideful smile. "Now, stop my heart. Try it!"
[...]
[…You can also drink blood through your nails, or any gaps in your body, like an open wound on your palm.]
Hmm? I coughed lightly, releasing my T pose with a thought, I can just push the nail in his head, then! Yeah, I can complete this quest! My face brightened as I nodded again and again, forgetting I was just saying with a grateful smile.
[The quest's purpose was to test the host's will to kill…]
Errr… yeah, you did that! Eating that heart was quite bad! Good job! The red screen just vanished in a self-deprecating manner.
I crouched beside him, "Let's see how many stats you will recover for me, Sue. You made me lose quite a bit of vitality, you know." I sighed, growing my index finger's nail to five inches.
I pierced his forehead without hesitation, and tried to gather all his blood to my fingertip naturally, and my finger trembled as Sue's body bloated first at the stomach, then his chest, and finally swelled towards his forehead.
With every tremble of my finger, thick hot blood rubbed against the inside of my finger's nail, pushing itself forward inside my body like it was a magnet.
My eyes twitched. The blood was opening a wider and wider gap between my nail and finger. Definitely not a pleasant feeling when the air touched the sensitive part under the nail.
It wasn't pleasurable, I had to say. But it still was pleasant, like drinking cold water instead of a perfectly chilled soda in heart of summer.
Even the blood that dripped onto Sue's clothes had started to climb towards his forehead, to my nails.
What happened to Alya to not hate me? Why didn't Sue run away with Acier for the guards when he noticed us missing? He didn't want to fight me at all! For money? No, he still wouldn't risk his life to stop us. It has to be something other than that.
I thought to kill my boredom as Sue's body looked more like a giant dried leaf than a man's, but there was still some blood left.
The system did say 'every bit.'
With a deep exhale, I increased the speed of extraction.
[Vitality: 40…45/80]
[Strength: 12/12]
[Agility: 10/10]
[Dexterity: 7/10]
[Intelligence: 18/20]
"Hmm… I still need more blood." I sighed at the absence of pain on my fingertips; that was all the blood. My stats still weren't fully recovered.
Cons of having high stats and early game level heals, I guess.
I Bit my lip at the sound of tens of footsteps of men sprinting that were too loud to ignore any longer.
With a sharp sting in my eyes, I activated the [Eye of Sanguine] and a frown crept. _10...20… Over thirty guards! Their speed was crazy fast, like faster than cars on highways. They were not normal humans at all.
My face sank. With how hard it was dealing with this one untrained bum… I didn't even want to imagine.
There's no way I can win all while protecting Alya…
[Ding!!]
{Daily Quest completed!}
At least something's good.