Isekai Shoukan chapter 50: Blood intoxication
The flames don't reach through the door and the inside was like another isolated space. Surely "You did well coming here, Heroes, I am the devil king" is the prologue, but I thought that would shake off such an evil thought and momentarily have my glance moved from the devil king with hollow eyes to Kaede who has a tightened expression.
"Kaede, that's certainly dangerous. My experienced danger perception sensor is ringing......!!?"
When I urge her to run away carefreely, the devil king who sat on the throne a little while ago was approaching the two of us at the time we averted our eyes, and the devil king instantly appeared before us where he tried to swing his large sword which he got from somewhere with his right hand.
I rushed in, pulled out Yatagarasu, an utterly dark blade which was hanging on my waist with a reverse grip and received the attack. Two swords clash against each other and metal sound affects the room.
Compared to Kaede who was astonished by the sudden action in front of her, I'm starting to regret not checking her status beforehand now.
Since I said that it was excessively impossible to use appraisal because only Tifal and I were in the remote continent, I cut down the use of my appraisal to the utmost since I returned and only used it on enemies I encountered.
With our swords clashing against each other creating an arc. The devil king moves behind without a sound, trying to mow me down with his large sword, therefore I try to swing through.
I try to turn my body to the devil king who went behind me again, but I'm stopped again, I can't move freely because of the handcuff on my right hand making me abandon this idea and chant a short magic in a moment.
"『Appear《Shut in ice, Ice Coffin》!!』"
A largely sized coffin was formed after I finish my intonation. The coffin also encloses me and Kaede in a moment. However, the moment my short chanting ended and the ice coffin swallowed us, the devil king attacks non-stop with his large sword.
It didn't make much sense, using the coffin as a wall but the ice coffin that was formed momentarily was enough to protect us for several seconds. Although I'm showing some hesitation at the next moment, I steeled myself and looked desperately at my middle finger before I summoned a test tube with red liquid out of my ring and poured it into my throat.
The contents of that potion wasn't a recovery medicine but Tifal´s blood instead. There are no recorded cases that I'll die If I drink a potion or of such a thought, in cases of a vampire, something equal such as potions are hardly needed. And instead of potions, they carry blood with them.
However, it would be insignificant if it's my own blood. Therefore, vampires basically carried human blood around were the majority.
A married vampire couple carries the blood of their mutual partner around. Unlike vampire blood, human blood is highly effective for using large scale magic. And when blood is taken, the physical strength and the recuperative power will rise rapidly. You can say that it's doping.
However, there are not only positive effects on drinking human, but one will also receive negative effects from the blood.
――The disadvantage is blood intoxication. Vampires get drunk from blood as if it's the case with alcohol.
Of course, there are also vampires who don't get drunk. And there were various types of vampires who had blood intoxication as there were maudlin drinkers too.
And there are also some vampires whose murderous intent grows without stopping after targeting someone. The things which entered its sight and the things it's heard are related to the impulse to kill everything.
Although I had drunk Tifal´s blood once before transferring to the remote continent, at that time, the characteristics of a vampire and the abilities have hardly functioned properly yet which is different now though I didn't get blood intoxication.
Even though I say blood intoxication, when I suck fresh blood from the neck like the time at the royal palace I only get drunk a little, but something like this test tube gets you really drunk.
"......Kukuu"
Spilling smile. The expression I have a little while ago vanishes in a hurry, the lips draw a curve of joy and my strangely sharp fangs looks out. My cat-like eyes were dyed in blood red.
My appearance and voice aren't different but you can't think that I´m still myself and instead another person. Something like a chain that restricted me disappeared and all feeling of regret, fretfulness and hesitation is burned filling it with malice.
"Aaaa......this sense......after a long time. ......Aa......it began to ring as usual......it sounds in my head......the sound of murderous intent."
I was soaked in deep emotions by the beginning intoxication after a long time. However, while he is not a threat, he is approaching us at an alarming rate. So first of all, to respond to the devil king who is drawing near, I completely changed from my present self and hold my Yatagarasu in the usual reversed way. I begin my counterattack like the surprise attack of the devil king and without raising a cry, I tried to avoid cutting Kaede´s wrist――so instead, I chopped off my right wrist, while Kaede left only a blank surprised by the ice coffin formation that formed, she said "......Eh?".
I'm not drunk, so it isn't necessary to worry, but I'm tied up to the impulse to kill everything in which I desire, therefore I felt a little sorry but that wrist is restored instantly, just after ignoring that the wrist which fell might be attached again.
A part of the ice coffin that substitutes as a wall explodes forcibly and at the same time, I was liberated from the handcuff and I shake my head to avoid the approaching large sword.
But I hammered yatagarasu which I still had in my left hand against the large sword drawing near with full force while laughing dauntlessly.
It echoes. A *pakin* sound was made and the large sword breaks. The blade of sword flew to the floor without any resistance.
I swung my silver sword, Chidori sakura which hung on my right waist side down and easily cut the devil king´s right arm off.
Immediately, after I jump back to get some distance from the devil king, but he prevents me from running away, I kicked the ground which makes my gray hair flutter and I happen to jump towards the devil king while crying to the fullest.
"I intentionally drank blood......so please amuse me, devil kiinnnggg!!!"
Though the influence was low, the feeling to evade the usual killing comes around my head. I completely sink into my instincts that spring up by the influence of the intoxication.
Next, I move to the vicinity of the bosom of the devil king who tried to take some distance from me by jumping back in less than no time. The jumping power which shortens the distance extraordinarily from several meters to zero in a moment.
I aim for the devil king´s neck from the slanting sky but the Chidori sakura I had in my right hand shakes and is lowered.
Gakin!!
Dull sound rings and I'm obstructed by some kind of invisible wall.
"......AaaAaa!?"
I had the mind to cut off the devil king´s head raised an asking cry from this unexpected affair in front of me. Immediately after that, a crack appeared next to the devil king who was near the throne and seemed to have summoned his summoning beast.
However, this crack was totally different from the one others used by summoning beasts. I, who judged that the reason that the devil king hasn't received my blade was because of the crack and I pierced him with insane eyes.
While the crack formed it only took several seconds before it appeared and an irritating voice was murmured.
It was a young man with a slim figure. The pattern of his shirt and hat are red and he is wearing a pure-white worn out coat with a white check design. He had a shady atmosphere which showed signs of a magician somehow, but even though it stopped from his whole body, something like an unlucky blood thirst is given off to his cry.
"......Will the war game to which I apply great effort to plan Although nothing has started yet, but the nerve to try to kill an important trigger role such as the devil king while I took my eyes off? ...............Die"
As soon as he said so with his mouth that warped angrily an unknown arrow with a red and white design, a black aura that is gushing out is pulled out from his right sleeve and comes straight flying at me.