"Chī----!"
Just as the sound of laughter rang out, a flash of silver light suddenly appeared.
"Pū Chī----!"
The wild beast that was viciously biting into Tohno Shiki's arm was hit by a sudden, extremely fast bolt of lightning that sliced through its neck and completely severed its head.
As a result, the wild beast's body fell to the ground and gradually turned into a pool of black mud, disappearing into the darkness.
All that remained was the wild beast's head, with its eyes wide open in anger, still holding the posture of biting Tohno Shiki's arm, hanging there.
"Bang..."
With a muffled sound, the head of the wild beast that seemed unwilling to die was crushed by a heavy squeeze from a hand.
Of course, the owner of that hand was Tohno Shiki.
Tohno Shiki held the sharp knife in an inverted grip, and the expression on his face had completely changed.
He seemed dazed.
"Ha... ha..."
It was hard to tell if the sound was laughter or heavy breathing.
But one thing was for sure.
Tohno Shiki was behaving strangely.
"So this is 'Death'?"
With a dazed expression, Tohno Shiki stood where he was and mumbled as if in a dream.
His eyes had completely turned an icy blue color.
Fang Li, who was standing to the side, had been watching coldly the whole time.
Thus, Fang Li was the only one who witnessed Tohno Shiki's abnormality.
He watched as Tohno Shiki suddenly acted out of character and skillfully killed the wild beast.
"Has the blood of the Nanaya been awakened again?"
There was no doubt about it.
Otherwise, Tohno Shiki wouldn't have acted so strangely.
At that moment, Arcueid, who was being attacked by the dead and the wild beasts, turned her head and saw Tohno Shiki's abnormality.
She looked at Tohno Shiki, who was standing there dazed, holding a sharp knife, with a pair of icy blue Mystic Eyes, his aura becoming chaotic, and instinctively understood something.
"So that's how it is..."
The way Arcueid looked at Tohno Shiki changed as well.
It was no longer the look of someone looking at "Tohno Shiki", but the look of someone looking at a "Murderer".
Her eyes were filled with hostility.
"Are you the one who killed me?"
It was unclear whether Arcueid's words caught Tohno Shiki's attention.
When Tohno Shiki cast his icy blue Mystic Eyes on Arcueid, he smiled again.
His blood was boiling.
And it was boiling even more intensely than before.
"Aah..."
At that moment, Tohno Shiki understood instinctively and he sensed it through the Nanaya blood.
The Nanaya blood naturally has the ability to sense non-humans.
Under these circumstances, Tohno Shiki realized and understood.
The wild beasts like the ones before weren't worth killing.
Only that woman.
Only that woman was the ultimate prize.
This feeling reminded Tohno Shiki of that day.
He remembered that day when he unexpectedly met Arcueid on the road and all his blood began to rush.
That feeling was exactly the same as now.
In that case, what should he do next, could it be that he still had to think about it?
"Kill..."
Yes.
"Kill her…"
Yes.
"As long as I kill her..."
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At that moment, Tohno Shiki thought that he could experience the most intense pleasure in the world.
Tohno Shiki certainly didn't know it, but right now, his smile was identical to that of another existence.
An existence that shares the same root, but has a different branch from Tohno Shiki, and lives a completely different life.
This existence is called Nanaya Shiki.
With that, the **Killing Demon** awakened.
"Come, let's fight..."
"Monster..."
With a low whisper, Nanaya's **Murdering Demon** suddenly stepped forward, and his entire body shot out like an arrow. With astonishing speed, it flashed through the night sky and shot at the figure in front of it.
The ice-blue Mystic Eyes shone brightly in the darkness.
At that moment, Tohno Shiki clearly saw the death lines on Arcueid's body.
"No Point of Death?"
That's right.
There was no Point of Death.
In Tohno Shiki's magical vision, Arcueid's body had only a few faint death lines, but there was no point of death at all.
What does that mean?
It means that Tohno Shiki had no way of killing her in the existential sense, of completely obliterating Arcueid.
This was a truly amazing thing.
After all, Tohno Shiki was sure that the last time he looked at Arcueid with those eyes, she had a point of death.
But now, Arcueid not only had no Point of Death, but even her Death Lines were considerably weaker.
"What's going on?"
This was something Tohno Shiki couldn't quite understand, right?
Tohno Shiki didn't know that the reason for this was that Arcueid lacked the concept of "Death" during the night.
As the crystallization of nature, a natural-born vampire active in the darkness, the True Ancestor is an existence known as the **People of the Moon.**.
Night is the time of vampires.
The Dead Apostles are active at night.
As for the True Ancestor, although they can act during the day, their power also increases at night.
It is during this time that the True Ancestor becomes a truly ageless, perfect being.
In light of this, Arcueid lacks the concept of "Death" at night.
The **Mystic Eyes of Death Perception** can only kill things that are alive.
An existence without the concept of death cannot comprehend its death or read its death date, and of course it cannot see death.
If it weren't for the fact that Arcueid was once killed by Tohno Shiki during the day, which greatly weakened her power and allowed for the presence of a death date even at night, Tohno Shiki wouldn't even be able to see the death lines.
Unaware of this fact, Tohno Shiki quickly dismissed the thought as the accelerated blood flow in his body made him forget it.
"Whatever, just killing her is enough."
This was the only thought that remained in Tohno Shiki's mind.
Driven by this thought, Tohno Shiki even ignored the sudden pain that coursed through his brain.
Despite the wailing in his mind, he opened his eyes to stare death in the face with his Mystic Eyes, moving with the speed and agility of a ferocious beast and charging at Arcueid.
In response, Arcueid fought back without the slightest hesitation.
"This time, I can finally get my revenge."
It was as if all the hatred from before had been revived as Arcueid charged forward as well.
Like two bullets, they closed the distance between them to zero in less than half a second.
Then, accompanied by the piercing sound of the wind, the sharp knife and the razor-sharp claws simultaneously sliced through the space between them, mercilessly targeting each other's bodies.
Until a bored voice suddenly sounded in the area.
"Have you guys played enough?"
The moment the words fell, a figure suddenly appeared between Tohno Shiki and Arcueid.
Without a sound.
"Pā!"
With a crisp sound, both Tohno Shiki's and Arcueid's hands were grabbed firmly.
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