"We left them, because they were just way too ideal for this deadly trap we are in. Let me tell few things about survival in the supernatural world."

"First, nothing is random. I still didn’t get the reason for them to help us. Like you saw, Adrine, how chill he was all the time. When he got to know about the grandparents turning into undead, then again, when the civilians were under attack by the undeads, because of those two idiots. Did he help anyone, except for mocking me?"

I stared at her as waiting for an answer, "No."

"Then what makes you think he would be helping us for? He knew those kids from the Valmont family, but did he help them in the first place? He didn’t even help Ron when fighting with that monkey. He might have some strange thought process, but he isn’t someone we will be getting any help from. So, why should we even stay with him?"

"Are you getting what I am saying?" I asked, taking a pause.

"Hm," she quickly nodded her head like a good student.

"As for Ron, he just knew way too much about this demon from Rank to Grade, without even meeting it. So, what if he is from the great clan? It’s just way too odd. And when I asked for demon cores, he handed them all to me. Everything is odd about him."

"Lastly, why would Adrine scarify his family elder to save us all for free? His actions have never been like that since we met him, except for saving you. But even so, he didn’t appear when I was getting suffocated by that wind demon; he would have rather easy time dealing with that Wind Demon."

After telling her all the bullshit that had been running in my head, I felt rather good. I took a long breath and watched her seriously contemplate my words.

After this, I took out the monster core, which I had gotten from Ron and Mink, and began observing them; usually, the monster core or another factor that improves people’s strength.

Actually, I was afraid to keep these cores with me, but the greed was over my head. I fear that demon might track with these demon cores. I’ve seen this happening in multiple novels. Everything might be alright, and I am just overthinking, but I am not gonna take the risk. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

I quickly opened the system interface and began to look through its general guide, to see if I could get the way to use these cores.

It took me almost 10 minutes to learn what I needed to. The system has a way to utilise these monster cores, but to unlock that feature, I needed the 10 forbidden points. While right now I have only seven.

[Forbidden Point: 7]

I still needed three more. I looked at the Emi, who didn’t know what to do, staring down at her shadow. I needed to get 3 forbidden points, without losing my reputation.

After all, this is just a minor event; it’s not worth sacrificing my reputation for. I wondered what else I could do to get the forbidden points. The food sharing seemed to have lost its effects.

I was thinking of the way to get more forbidden points, when it suddenly hit me. Though it won’t completely destroy my reputation, it will still leave some impact on it.

"Emi," I called her name, with all seriousness.

She looked at me in confusion.

"Go wash your hands up," I ordered, with a straight face.

"Why?"

"Do what I say?"

Seeing my serious look, she instantly complied and came back after washing both hands.

There were clear water droplets visible on her fair hands.

"Give me the right hand," It was really to maintain a serious face, while doing something perverted. Yet, I have to do that to maintain my reputation, which made me realise a famous line from a novel that every power has a price to pay.

Her face was full of questions, but she still stretched her hand.

I grabbed her wrist and stared at her white arm, which was really soft to hold. I took a deep breath and leaned my head over, placing my lips on her forearm. As I expected, the system was instantly triggered, but I didn’t listen to its notification; instead proceeded to bite her.

My teeth pressed on her soft forearm skin; her skin was way softer, making me worried about literally ripping the flesh of her hand. But I didn’t, I tried my best, as I planned to stop once I heard her scream. Surprisingly, she didn’t scream, and I continued applying more and more strength, little by little.

Suddenly, I was hit by the two reward notifications simultaneously. I quickly pulled my head up and spat out saliva because of the salty taste of her arm. She didn’t wash them properly.

As I was about to look at the rewards, I saw that my saliva spat had a few droplets of red-coloured liquid. I quickly turned to her arm and found the deep mark on her forearm, where the blood was coming from. I was shocked; it should have been just a little playful bite, but... somehow, things had escalated when I didn’t hear her scream or feel any resistance from her. I just continued on.

I was way too shocked to even try to stop the bleeding. As my head had stopped working for the moment. I lifted my head to look at her face, and I met with her teary eyes and blood red lips. She had been biting her lips to control her scream this whole time.

When did she become this tolerant? But come to think of it, she was really tolerant; she had never really caused any drama for anything. Since we have been living together, except for some minor events.

I subconsciously stretched my hand, trying to use my blood manipulation directly on her wound.