Chapter 45: Flandre: You Like Holding Onto Twin Tails, Right?
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After finishing dinner, Kihara sealed the remaining portions for Lala and her sisters with plastic wrap and placed them in the fridge. Immediately after, he was dragged straight up to the second-floor bedroom by Flandre.
"Big Brother, hurry up! Fran can't wait any longer!"
"What are you in such a rush to do?"
Flandre shot him a mysterious look over her shoulder. "I'll tell you when we get inside the room!"
"Alright."
The moment they stepped into the bedroom, she let go of Kihara's hand, slammed the door shut, and turned the lock. This sequence of actions left him filled with question marks.
"What's so secretive that you need to lock the door to talk about it?"
"Because it's a very important matter, and I need to prevent anyone else from coming over to disturb us."
As she spoke, Flandre gestured for Kihara to sit cross-legged on the plush rug. Kneeling nimbly in front of him, she slipped into his embrace, wrapping her delicate arms around his neck, her crimson eyes shimmering with an eager light.
It was only then that Kihara remembered she was a vampire. This posture was clearly a sign that she wanted to feed on blood. He reached out to fondle her head fondly. "You ate so much for dinner, and now you want to drink blood too? Aren't you worried about stuffing your stomach until it bursts?"
"Hmm?"
Flandre blinked in surprise. She had originally planned to lean into Kihara's ear and whisper the truth about swapping consciousnesses with Shinobu. However, he seemed to have misunderstood something, unbuttoning his shirt to reveal his shoulder, preparing to let her feed.
'Luckily, I am the one controlling the body right now. If it were those three silly personalities, they might have foolishly blurted out the truth and missed out on a chance to drink blood for nothing.'
Giving herself a smug pat on the back in her mind, the dark-hearted Flandre recalled the phrase Kihara often kept on the tip of his tongue. She decided that, "As a mature adult, she would claim both blood and milk!"
At the same time, she wondered whether she should head back and brag to her big sister, Remilia, about this, proving that she was far more mature and adult-like than her sister.
"What's wrong, Fran? You suddenly fell silent."
"N-Nothing! I'm digging in!"
Parting her soft, cherry-pink lips to reveal her tongue, Flandre opened her small mouth, exposing the sharp fangs unique to vampires. As she drew closer to Kihara, the sweet, intoxicating scent of his unique blood grew increasingly potent.
Perhaps because she had exhausted a vast amount of energy studying for the exams back at Eientei, she discovered that she craved blood far more than she had imagined. Before her sharp fangs had even pierced his skin to sip his blood, merely smelling Kihara's radiating aura caused her heart—which normally did not beat—to burst into "life."
Her stomach, which was already full of food, felt as though it had emptied in an instant, continuously sending hunger signals to her brain, urging her to devour that crimson, delicious blood.
The impulse to feed completely overwhelmed Flandre's rationality. Her slender fangs pierced Kihara's shoulder as effortlessly as sharp needles going through paper. As her snow-white, delicate throat gulped, Kihara's scalding blood surged through her body like a scorching wave.
The muscles in her young legs—clad in white ankle socks—tensed up tightly, her toes digging hard into the rug and causing it to crumple underneath. Her arms held him with such immense strength that it felt as if she wanted to melt herself directly into Kihara's body.
A long while later, feeling her body completely filled with Kihara's blood and a soothing warmth blooming deep in her heart that made her want to close her eyes and sleep, Flandre finally released her grip.
Seeing two noticeable, tiny round puncture marks on his shoulder still leaking faint droplets of blood, she extended her pink tongue like a tiny kitten to lick the wound clean, swirling the stray drops of blood into her mouth. The golden tips of her hair brushed against his neck, tickling him.
Kihara let out a long breath, exhaling the scalding heat from his lungs as he reached out to pat Flandre's back gently. "Are you full?"
"Mmhmm! Big Brother fed me until I'm super full! Fran is very happy!"
"That's good."
The remaining blood-feeding debt he owed Flandre back in the One-Punch Man world was finally settled in full today, leaving him feeling as light as a feather without any debts weighing on his mind.
Rubbing her tummy, Flandre's nose twitched slightly as she caught a scent even more enticing than blood wafting through the air. Gulping down her saliva, she brought her small, cherry mouth up to Kihara's ear.
"Big Brother, to tell you the truth... that day in the kitchen, the consciousness inside the True Ancestor's body was actually me."
"Y-You... what did you say!?" Kihara's voice was three parts shock and seven parts delight. Immediately after, he questioned Shinobu in his mind.
[Shinobu, why didn't you ever tell me about this?]
[Thou didst not ask, my master. So many of thy girlfriends guessed it, yet thou, my soulmate, showed not an ounce of concern. Sniff, sniff, I am so heartbroken~]
[My apologies, that was indeed my oversight. But for keeping me in the dark, you're getting five hundred spankings tonight!]
[Thou hadst better pass Fran's trial before boasting.]
The internal dialogue took only a fraction of a second. Seeing Kihara standing there dazed, Flandre assumed he agreed to what was to follow, happily swallowing her saliva.
Scanning her surroundings, she found the object she was looking for on the study desk. Patter-patter went her small feet as she ran over and back, using the hairband she grabbed to tie the right side of her hair into a ponytail along the way.
Flandre gave the twin tails on both sides a gentle bounce, a wicked smirk spreading across her pretty face. "Big Brother, you really love holding onto twin tails like this, right? Too bad Fran's hair isn't as long as that True Ancestor's."
"Gasp~ Don't tell me you used Forbidden Fruit: Four of a Kind to alter your personality?"
"Heehee, got it right!"
Flandre clumsily unsealed the straw and bit down on it, proactively shaking her small head to toss her silky, golden twin tails right into Kihara's palm, her eyes shimmering with intense anticipation.
He took a deep breath, neatly re-tying the slightly messy right ponytail for her before gently holding onto them.
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Click.
Closing the bedroom door, Kihara—feeling several pounds lighter—took barely a couple of steps toward the staircase when he saw Sanae leaning against the stair railing, her eyes filled with playful mockery.
"How was the taste of the Second Daughter of the Scarlet Devil Mansion? Mr. Kihara, you big playboy."
His expression turned instantly solemn, looking as serious as a paladin embarking on a holy quest. "I have no idea what you're talking about, wife Sanae. The relationship between Fran and me is as pure and white as fresh milk."
"And is this milk of yours truly that white?" She offered a casual retort before stepping forward to grab Kihara's wrist. "Come on, to my room."
"What's the rush? Let me get a drink of water first."
She turned her head, raising her eyebrows with a provocative smirk. "What, can't handle it anymore?"
The absolute ultimate provocation for any man was those exact words: "Can't handle it." The tiny shred of reason Kihara had left was instantly swept away. Letting out a roar, he reversed their roles and dragged her toward her bedroom. "Who says I can't? I can go all day!"
As Sanae's bedroom door slammed heavily shut, Ibuki Suika ambled up the stairs with her liquor gourd, pressing her ear against the wooden door to listen for a moment before nodding in satisfaction as she strolled away.
"Yasaka Kanako's worries were purely redundant. Even without my help, hasn't Sanae ended up together with Kihara-bro anyway?"
Late into the night, Kihara tucked the exhausted Sanae under the covers before stepping out of her room. After walking barely two paces, he found Ibuki Suika standing right in front of him with a beaming smile.
"Yo~ Kihara-bro, shall we go do some things that only adults can do?"
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