Seeing that Mika had quieted down, Krul turned her gaze back to Shinoa Hiragi.
"Speak."
Shinoa snapped back to attention. She quickly ran through the small details from the last time she saw Luke and Krul, combined it with Krul's current expression and question, and said with a smile.
"Oh my, are you Luke's girlfriend?"
Krul nodded generously. This was already a fact. Since Luke wasn't present, she didn't feel shy.
Emotions and grievances were for showing to your own people; towards outsiders, one should be strong.
"Now, answer my question. How did you meet Luke?"
Shinoa felt this was a good opportunity to stall for time and began to recount everything she could remember about Luke in as much detail as possible, adding a bit of embellishment. However, as there weren't many interesting things during her interactions with Luke, it only took about five minutes.
"...Then one day he asked me to hire... huh? That's strange, hire who exactly? I forgot. Anyway, it was to hire someone to work as a servant in our house. After that, I rarely saw him until the virus outbreak."
Krul nodded with satisfaction. She had learned some of Luke's cringey dark history.
"Um..."
Shinoa wanted to say something more.
Krul looked at Shinoa. Shinoa asked with an awkward smile.
"Haha, although I know it's unlikely, could you let us go?"
Krul tilted her head, looking at Shinoa.
Shinoa didn't dare meet Krul's gaze.
"Alright, it seems you can't..."
With her questions finished, Krul casually knocked Shinoa unconscious. This girl didn't seem like the quiet type.
Over on Luke's side, things were also nearing their end, but Luke was somewhat troubled. Yuichiro had now completely lost his rationality, only slashing wildly. It didn't seem like he was being controlled by a demon, but rather his mind was simply being eroded.
"Trying to make Yuichiro lose his ability to think so you can manipulate him freely? Well, I can't let you have your way. But will that method still work if he has no rationality?"
"Right, it's time for asuramaru to fulfill the second promise!"
Luke finally moved. Dodging an attack from Yuichiro, he slung asuramaru back onto his back. The demon markings had just spread to his neck.
Luke circled around Yuichiro and charged towards where Shinoa was.
"Crowley, Krul, Feng, Mother Ferid, lend me a hand!"
Ferid looked at Luke with some curiosity. What could he possibly help Luke with?
Luke continued.
"I'll treat you all to some blood. Interested? Absolutely delicious!"
As soon as Krul heard about drinking blood, she eagerly raised her hand like a child, afraid Luke wouldn't see her. She even jumped onto Feng's back.
"Interested! Me! Let me do it!"
Having lost his target and unable to keep up with Luke's speed, Yuichiro turned his attacks towards the Imperial Demon Army and the Vampires.
"Everyone, fall back for now! He's been corrupted by a demon!"
The ten minutes had allowed Guren to recover quite a bit. After taking the cursed gear booster drug, he stood up unsteadily and shouted to the Imperial Demon Army.
The Imperial Demon Army immediately fell back. The Vampires, however, didn't take Yuichiro seriously and directly confronted him. Subsequently, five Vampires were instantly reduced to ashes.
Yuichiro continued to charge towards other Vampires. At that moment, Lacus and René joined forces to restrain the rampaging Yuichiro. It wasn't an easy task.
"Ah, is this guy really human? Such terrifying strength and speed. Probably only a few of the Progenitors could handle him easily."
While things reached a stalemate there, Luke leisurely began giving instructions to Crowley and the others.
Krul pulled a long face and complained.
"Why are there so many rules about drinking blood?"
Luke didn't indulge her and said directly.
"Then Krul doesn't have to. Crowley..."
"No, Luke, I'll listen!"
Luke nodded with satisfaction and said.
"Good. Everyone, listen to my command."
Krul kicked Luke in the butt from behind.
"What are you trying to do?"
Luke gave a mysterious smile.
"You'll know soon enough."
After arranging things on this side, Luke threw himself back into the battlefield, arriving beside Yuichiro.
"Ah, Luke, hurry up and help. This is a real monster~"
"It's fine, I'm here now, aren't I?"
Yuichiro slashed at Luke. Instead of retreating, Luke advanced, grabbed Yuichiro's hand, and gave it a slight twist.
Yuichiro reflexively let go. onikiri fell to the ground, but then something bizarre happened. A dense mass of Demonic Aura emerged from the blade of onikiri, wrapped around Yuichiro's hand, and pulled the sword back.
"You're something else."
Luke restrained Yuichiro's limbs and walked over to the Shinoa Squad. Before Mika could speak, Luke anticipated and interrupted him.
"Mika, don't speak yet. Let me show you what the Imperial Demon Army did to your little Yu. Don't worry, it won't harm him."
This time, Luke directly snatched onikiri away and tossed it aside. Then he shoved asuramaru into Yuichiro's hand.
"Give it back to me later~"
Krul couldn't hold back any longer and asked with a frown.
"Luke, what do you mean by this?"
Luke reassured her.
"Trust me, Krul. I'm just lending it to him. There are some things only Ashera can accomplish."
Krul remained silent, turning her head away from Luke. She was angry, but this was also her silent consent.
The other Progenitors looked at each other, unsure what was happening. Only Ferid, who seemed to be thinking something unknown, had a wonderfully expressive face.
As asuramaru came into his hand, Yuichiro's consciousness finally slowly awakened.
"Where is this... Shinoa! Everyone! Let me go!"
Luke winked at Crowley and the others, while simultaneously thinking to Miku: Play unravel!
Only then did Crowley and the others cooperate and begin drinking blood. Ferid was half a beat slower.
Guren watched this scene from afar. Luke's look of having everything under control made him feel uneasy.
At that moment, he suddenly noticed a Vampire lying not far from where the Vampire Progenitors were gathered.
"Shinya! How did he..."
His other companions, hearing Guren's exclamation, looked in the direction of his gaze and were equally shocked.
"Shinya's ears... he's become a Vampire!"
"We need to find a chance to rescue Shinya. He'll always be our comrade!"
Goshi Norito's tone was somewhat unnatural.
"It might not be the best time to say this, but look over there. Isn't that a sword flying over? And there are a lot of Vampires behind it?"
Guren looked in the direction Goshi indicated. It was true!
"Those are the Vampires held captive in the Shinjuku experimental facility for experiments!"
"Woooo~~"
On the battlefield, accompanied by the sudden, drawn-out sound of a horn, the sky, which had just cleared up, became overcast with dark clouds once more!
Luke released the howling Yuichiro, his face unable to hide his excitement.
"He really came out!"
The demonic sword flew over from the distance and landed in Luke's hand. Luke casually absorbed the curse power from within Mika and then dispelled the demon markings on his own body.
Mika looked at the Yuichiro before him, who now had a pair of black wings sprouting from his back, unable to believe it.
"Mika, get out of the way! He's gone berserk, although I'm the one who caused it."
Yuichiro, holding asuramaru, raised his head, revealing eyes that had turned completely black. His tone was cold, like an angel from the high heavens judging the world.
"Sinners, all must be killed!"
At that very moment, the lyrics of that song happened to ring in Luke's ears:
"'In this distorted world, I gradually become transparent, fading from sight...'"
Luke couldn't help but say.
"The sound comes out, it hurts so much!"
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