Shota is surrounded by monsters!

Even if you eat like that, I won't be happy.

Senjougahara smiled knowingly and said something, while Rea, standing beside her, said with some concern, "Shota-kun, if that's the case, won't that Oshino reveal this place? Isn't it dangerous to stay here?"

"Hmm... probably not. Although I really want to beat that person up, he's probably not that kind of person. Otherwise, he would have ambushed me after my battle, meow."

Shota continued rolling around and said, "Speaking of which, I should thank him. Otherwise, even if we had won the battle, we wouldn't have been able to get Kiss-Shot's limbs back so easily, meow."

"YAHOO!"

With an excited shout, the floor suddenly cracked open, and a blonde, mature woman in her early twenties jumped out of the hole.

Gorgeous, elegant, graceful, breathtakingly beautiful.

No adjective is too much to describe her; almost every adjective used to praise a woman's appearance can be used to describe her.

Unlike the Kiss-Shot that Shota saw before, who was powerless after having her limbs taken away, the current Kiss-Shot exudes a strange attraction.

But her breasts are really big.

Shota swallowed hard, staring at the chest of her corseted evening gown. While it wasn't the largest he'd ever seen, it was certainly the most beautiful—was this some kind of innate advantage of Western women? And with each of Kiss-Shot's excited movements, her breasts swayed and bounced…

If she asked me to touch her breasts right now, I would definitely put my paws on them without hesitation, meow!

"Is this the little girl from earlier?"

Senjougahara said something with some confusion, while Rea nodded.

"I'm still a ways off from my prime, but it's good enough. After all, when exactly was my heart taken away?"

Kiss-Shot looked at her own body, then walked up to Rea and took Shota from her arms, saying, "Let me borrow you for a while."

"Huh?"

Shota wanted to resist—but he was sandwiched between Kiss-Shot's large breasts, so he decisively gave up his plan to resist.

"Bam—"

Once again, Kiss-Shot jumped upwards, taking Shota to the next floor.

"Alright, I've now recovered to about 6% of my peak level."

Kiss-Shot took out Shota and placed him in front of her, saying, "You did a good job. Not only did you take back my limbs, but you also found out where my heart is."

"What's the reward, meow?"

Shota scratched his head and then rested it on his forelegs.

“It’s more of a reward than a prize.” Kiss-Shot thought for a moment, then pulled Shota onto her lap and said, “You… have not signed a contract with me.”

Can I ask you a question, meow?

"Ask away~"

"Are we related by blood or not?"

After seeing Kiss-Shot transform into her adult form, Shota's feelings grew stronger. He felt that Kiss-Shot and he had a relationship that he was not yet clear about—just like how he could sleep peacefully while entrusting his life and death to a powerful youkai he had only known for a few days.

In the past, the stimulation of that demonic power would have woken him up and put him in a state of alert.

"Well, that's a question..." Kiss-Shot said vaguely, "Let's talk about it after I get my heart back."

"Then there must be a cat?"

If not, she certainly wouldn't have answered in this way. However, for yokai, blood ties are valued more than for humans, because there are already fewer individuals in a yokai race, not to mention that they reproduce much more difficultly than humans.

If she really is, then Shota can even abandon the promise of "getting you pregnant with my child," because he guarantees that she will be even more proactive than him in finding him a wife.

This is the bond between monsters.

"Don't rush."

Kiss-Show pointed upwards and said, "My heart has arrived. I will tell you once I have it back."

Yes, Oshino Meme has arrived. Her opponent in the fourth battle is not Shota, but Kiss-Shot in her incomplete form.

"Bam—"

She burst through the wall once again—this time Shota noticed that she wasn't breaking through the wall with her own body, but rather destroying the ceiling simply by looking at it.

"You came so decisively. I thought Lord Blade Heart would be a little worried about the geographical situation."

Meme Oshino seemed to be drawing something on the floor, but seeing that Kiss-Shot had already come out, she said, "Then I don't need to do my preparations. I originally wanted to make sure you appeared right after sunset, but with the sun present now, we can barely maintain the balance."

"Let's make this clear first, I'm not good at fighting, so don't go overboard. We're just sparring, nothing more."

Kiss-Shot was now like a human torch, her entire body burning from the direct sunlight—in fact, covering herself with some thick clothing would have alleviated the burning somewhat, but unfortunately, the thin dress she was wearing was not a physical object but a figment of her imagination.

However, she didn't care about any of that, because her recovery speed had already surpassed the damage that sunlight had done to her body.

This is the real vampire queen, one that even the sun cannot frighten.

"They're all the same anyway."

Kiss-Shot bounced around a couple of times and said, "Kid, get ready!"

Perhaps, before the sound clearly reached Oshino's ears, Kiss-Shot's figure had already cut through her own voice and arrived in front of Oshino.

"Ah-"

Oshino blocked Kiss-Shot's single-handed attack with his hands clasped together, as if something was about to burst out of his body. Kiss-Shot, however, strangely did not use her strength to bully the human, but instead chose to take a few steps back.

Then he looked warily at the strange, non-silver cross on Oshino's chest.

"As expected of a top-tier vampire with extensive combat experience. Compared to actual combat experience, I am still lacking."

Oshino Meme suddenly shrugged, took a heart out of her pocket and tossed it over, saying, "I concede. If the sneak attack can't succeed, I have no chance of winning."

"If you specialize in vampire extermination, perhaps you can excite and terrify me."

Kiss-Shot accepted her heart.

"But I'm a peace-loving person. I'm really bad at fighting." Shinobu Meme pulled a heart out of another pocket, but to his surprise, the heart had completely stopped beating, just like dead flesh.

So he turned his gaze to Shota, who was yawning over there.

"So that's how it is. I was tricked by you, young man. As expected of the only kind of monster, I'm still not very good at this kind of thing."

Oshino Meme seemed to understand something, but still threw her heart over—while Shota didn't even glance at it. He had never been interested in eating anything that had been taken out of his body. Out with the old, in with the new; if he was going to eat, he would eat something fresh.

Furthermore, if you observe carefully, you'll find that a small heart has already grown inside Shota's body.

“Since that’s the case…” Shinobu Meme spread her hands nonchalantly and said, “Well, I’ll stay in this city for a while. Oh right, bro, if you’re moving, how about I take over your cram school? It’s a pretty good place to rest.”

"If you're not afraid I'll come after you."

"Please do as you please. There's a cause and an effect. However, I don't think you're the kind of person who cares about these things."

"Awoo."

Like eating an apple, Kiss-Shot swallowed her heart in one gulp, and at the same time, Shota saw her aura growing at an almost visible speed.

"what!"

Overjoyed, Kiss-Shot let out a roar to the sky.

At that moment, all the monsters and exorcists in the city felt an uneasy atmosphere.

"Hey, stop standing in the sun, go home first, meow."

Although she herself didn't feel pain, Shota felt pain just looking at the flames.

"That's true."

Kiss-Shot brought Shota back downstairs, a childlike smile on her face. Soon after, the other girls came over to take a look, and after Shota explained the situation, they prepared to leave.

Everyone goes back to their homes.

But before that...

"Have a chat with me, it's still early anyway."

Kiss-Shot took Shota hostage—although this caused dissatisfaction among some people, thankfully it did not lead to any conflict.

"Yes, yes, first of all, congratulations on your full recovery, meow. And then..."

"I know what you want to ask."

Kiss-Shot stopped Shota from continuing, saying directly, "It's fine to tell you directly."

"That vampire girl inherited her vampire power from me."

No way...

“And within your body, hmm,” Kiss-Shot paused, then said, “flows my blood.”

Could it really be...?

"Are you my mother?!"

"Hahaha."

Kiss-Shot did not deny it; instead, she laughed loudly and happily.

"..."

Shota's mind went completely blank.

“If you insist on calling me your mother, that’s not entirely accurate. Because you didn’t come from my body, and I haven’t taken care of you,” Kiss-Shot said after thinking for a moment. “However, in terms of gender, I am indeed a woman.”

Ignoring Shota's lapse in concentration, Kiss-Shot began to recount a story from over thirty years ago.

Chapter 106. Past Events

That was a legendary story that happened more than 30 years ago.

On that day, on the continent of Europe, two beings feared by all met for the first time.

"Hey, PRETY, LADY!"

The speaker was a man in a suit with long black hair, whose appearance made it impossible to tell whether he was male or female; he possessed a very androgynous charm.

He put his hands in his pockets, gave a slightly flippant whistle, and said to the blonde woman in an elegant dress whom he had unexpectedly encountered in the woods, "Yaranaika?"

"..."

Seemingly not understanding the meaning behind the other's words, the blonde woman, Kiss-Shot, frowned. The aura of power emanating from the other, as if deliberately courting, made her very uncomfortable. But on this continent, there was probably only one monster that could make her feel uncomfortable.

"The Gluttonous King".