"Good night"
"Good night…" Replied Eva with a disappointed look.
When they got back from their date, they ate dinner and enjoyed each other's company before heading off to bed. But when Dante reached his room he turned around to see Eva still following him. When he asked her what she was doing the only reply he got was.
"I'm your big sister, I have to make sure you don't get cold at night!"
She said this while puffing out her underdeveloped chest like it was a given. Dante quickly told her off and she moped back to her own room, but not before giving Dante the puppy dog eyes, which didn't work.
Entering his room, alone this time, Dante unhesitatingly took off his clothes and jumped into bed, right before he was about to sleep he opened his system to the capture target tab.
[Eva Von Astaril
Intimacy: 150(Familial/Romantic?) ]
Seeing her intimacy level he could only sigh.
'Haaa… Silly girl.' He thought, while a warm smile spread across his face, and he quickly fell into a gentle sleep.
***
"Hmph, I guess I'll just sleep by myself again tonight." Eva said, pouting, while getting comfortable on her bed.
Closing her eyes, Eva tried to sleep, but quickly reopened them and noticed that she wasn't in the inn any longer. She quickly came to a conclusion.
'I must be dreaming, but why does it seem so real?'
Looking at her surroundings she found herself in a room full of people all dressed up nicely. The only thing she could compare it to would be the clothing someone would only wear when they were meeting with royalty.
"Please, kneel for her majesty!" Yelled a man who was on a podium.
Without having an option Eva's body suddenly kneeled and out of the corner of her eye she could make out the figure of an extremely beautiful woman with blonde hair and red eyes.
This woman seemed flawless and gave off a regal aura that demanded obedience. Her aura was so impressive that it almost seemed to have a similar effect to Dante's supreme aura. But since she had personally felt the horror and pressure of Dante's aura first hand, she didn't have a hard time adapting to it.
'Ha! My little brother's better!'
She couldn't help thinking this when comparing the two auras, she might have been a bit biased but oh well.
"Let us begin the coronation!" Spoke the woman in a dominant manner.
Again without having control of her body, Eva used her unnaturally long fingernail, which she didn't have previously, to cut open her hand. She then proceeded to hold her hand up in the air like everyone else in the room.
When she held her hand up in the air with blood dripping from it, the regal woman held up one of her fingers and seemed to have pulled the blood out of everyone's hands. Every person's blood converged into one large red orb above the woman's finger.
Eventually the woman stopped draining everyone of their blood and the wounds on their hands closed, they then returned to the previous kneeling pose.
Under Eva's eyes the woman lifted up her finger and opened her mouth.
It was then that everything froze and a blue/white flame appeared in the middle of the room.
'Isn't that Dante's attribute?'
Looking at the flame she noticed that it gave off the same feeling as Dante when he activated his aura.
The flame looked like it was searching for something before finally settling right before Eva's face.
'W-what does it w-want…' She thought, as she felt the attribute judging her.
She knew first hand what Dante's attribute was capable of, she even saw it eat another person's attribute. But this raised a question in her mind.
'When did he channel his attribute into me?'
She remembered Dante having to touch the man in order to channel his attribute into him and she would have noticed if he was channeling it into her whether she was asleep or not.
Of course, what she didn't know was that Dante channeled his attribute when he first "stumbled" across her in hopes of stimulating her blood attribute so it could heal her quicker.
And with his attribute having the ability to empower and devour, it could rather kill her or make her stronger, what the flame was trying to decide at the moment was if this girl in front of it was a threat to its master or an ally.
Seeming to have made its decision, it entered Eva's body and pulled her soul out of it. Then approached the regal woman and replaced her soul with Eva's.
After making sure that everything was set to go, Dante's attribute then disappeared. When Eva regained 'consciousness' she found herself in the woman she had previously seen giving off that dominant aura.
At that moment everything started moving again.
Eva, still not having control of her own body, picked up where the woman had left off and placed the red orb in her mouth and swallowed it. The surrounding then spoke once more.
"All hail, her majesty!"
This was the last thing she heard before she suddenly woke up.
***
"Huff…Huff…Huff… What was that? Agh!"
Trying to figure out what that dream was all about, a sudden pain filled her body seemingly coming from her core before it died down.
'I'll go to Dante. I don't know what's going on but maybe he can do something with his attribute.'
Remembering that she saw his attribute in her dream, she thought that maybe he could help her. Following her thoughts she walked next door to Dante's room and knocked on his door.
A minute or two later a sleepy Dante answered the door.
"...What's wrong, Eva?"
At first when he saw Eva he thought that she wanted to try her chances at sleeping with him again but instead when he answered the door he saw her with a scared expression.
Eva, on the other hand, fell into a daze when he answered the door. Seeing him made her blood boil and a strange desire of which she had never felt before took over her thoughts. Unable to control this desire any longer she pounced on Dante and bit his neck. Feeling his blood flow from his neck, Eva licked the wound before starting to drink it like it was the most delicious wine.
Unprepared for her 'attack' Dante had no choice but to try to push her off, but when he tried he noticed that he couldn't even move, he could only let her do what she wanted. After a little of her sucking his blood he felt his consciousness starting to fade and soon passed out.
As soon as he passed out Eva woke up from her trance.
"What did I do!"
Her body had just acted on instinct like an animal and it caused her to 'hurt' 'her' Dante.
After her brief panic, she calmed down and noticed something. Her core was no longer sealed and her bloodline awakened! Realizing this she quickly tried to channel her attribute into Dante, but it didn't do anything as his attribute just ate her energy.
'You damn gluttonous attribute!' she cursed in her mind.
Thinking for a little on what to do, Eva took off her disguising artifact, picked up Dante and ran to the local lord's mansion.
Her plan was to quickly head home and find her mother. Her mother was the highest level cultivator she knew at the '(High) Gold Core' realm and thought that if anybody would know what was going on it would be her.
Finally reaching the local lord's mansion in the midst of the night, she approached the gate.
"Halt! This is the lord's mansion, please state your reason for being!"
Pulling out her crest which showed the crest of the Astaril family, she ordered the guards to inform the lord of her arrival.
Only 10 minutes later a sleepy fat man that looked to be in his 40s and a slim boy about the same age as Eva approached her. After getting a good look at her face they spoke.
"Who are you and what do you want!" The fat man yelled. The boy only stood there looking at Eva in a trance with a blush coating his cheeks.
Hearing their lord's response, the surrounding guards surrounded Eva and the unconscious Dante in her arms.
"Pardon? Who am I? I am Eva Von Astaril, daughter of Alice Von Astaril and the successor to this Dukedom. Who do you think you are pointing your weapons towards!"
Eva was not in the mood to deal with this bullshit right now and released her aura while she spoke. What she didn't notice was that her aura now held a bit of Dante's attribute and with her newly awakened bloodline which already gave her an aura demanding obedience made the surrounding people feel a suffocating pressure.
Recognizing the aura, although more powerful than before, the lord quickly apologized and invited her in.
"I apologize, lady Astaril, please come in."
Accepting his invitation and going into the mansion, Eva sat down and explained…no…she ordered that she needed an escort to the capital of the Dukedom and wouldn't take no for an answer.
Having no choice the lord quickly organized the knights to escort her, even though it was in the middle of the night.
"Should we prepare another carriage for the young man?" Asked the leader of the knights who were in charge of the escort.
"No, he will ride with me." She immediately answered, shocking the knight.
She knew it was wrong for someone of her standing to ride in the same carriage as a random man, the only reason she could do it before was because she was under disguise and no one knew who she was. But how could she possibly let someone else take care of her 'little brother'!
Disregarding the knight's shock she entered the carriage and laid Dante on the couch with his head in her lap.