"Ugh!" The sleeping Evangeline felt a foreign object in her mouth, her brows furrowed slightly. Then, feeling the fresh blood spreading in her mouth, she tentatively took a few sips. After sensing the rich magic in the blood, Evangeline gripped Yoshino's arm and began to vigorously suck the blood in her mouth, allowing her internal injuries to recover quickly.
"Ah~" A strange sensation made Yoshino let out an odd sound. This ticklish yet slightly stinging feeling made her very unaccustomed. It felt like being tickled, but also somewhat different. She had expected it to hurt a little, but she found it wasn't what she imagined. Was this what it felt like to be bitten by a Vampire? It felt... not bad at all?
'Why is she making such a strange sound? It's just sucking her finger, making it sound like she's doing something weird.' Shiina looked at Yoshino helplessly. It knew that by doing this, Yoshino would definitely establish an unclear relationship with Evangeline, but that didn't seem bad either. The Creator once said that Evangeline was his daughter, so their mission in this world might be related to her.
After Evangeline had been sucking Yoshino's blood for a while, having recovered a large amount of magic, she regained consciousness. However, the sensation in her mouth made her warily open her eyes, wanting to see who was doing something strange to her. But when she saw a cute blue-haired Little Girl putting her finger into her mouth, her brow furrowed. Yet, feeling the metallic taste of blood in her mouth, she understood that the Little Girl was letting her absorb her blood.
'Is she letting me drink her blood to save me?' Evangeline wondered, her mind filled with questions, and the magic gathered in her hand dispersed. The hostility in her heart towards the Little Girl also disappeared. Although she didn't know if the Little Girl had any ulterior motive for saving her, since she had saved her, the Little Girl was her savior. As the Dark Gospel, she had to repay her; this was her pride as the Dark Gospel.
She released Yoshino's finger. Since she had recovered enough magic, she no longer had to worry about a sudden attack from the Religious Order. As long as she wasn't ambushed like yesterday, she wouldn't be afraid no matter how many people came.
"Ah, you're awake. I thought you'd still be asleep for a while after recovering your magic. But you still need to rest well; you were so severely injured just now, you need to stand properly." She used her ability to create an exquisite ice cup, then condensed water from the air to make a cup of water and handed it to Evangeline. "Here, you drank so much blood just now, you need to drink some water."
"Hmph! How could I, with my immortal body, be inconvenienced by such injuries? You Little Girl, you underestimate me, the Dark Gospel." Evangeline said disdainfully to Yoshino, but still took the cup from Yoshino's hand and drank all the water in it. After drinking the water, she began to observe Yoshino's expression and eyes. Having been hunted for hundreds of years, she had long learned how to sense hostility in someone by observing their eyes, and this had helped her escape many pursuits and survive.
But as she looked at Yoshino's expression, she found nothing amiss on her face. In her pupils was the most genuine concern, and there was no falseness in her smile. There was none of the usual hostility, which made her wonder if she was dreaming. Otherwise, how could she see such a pure person? Such a person shouldn't exist in reality.
"Why?" Evangeline asked, staring blankly at Yoshino.
"Hm? Why what?" Yoshino looked at Evangeline, puzzled. What was she asking her?
"Why did you save me? Don't you know I am Evangeline, the Dark Gospel?" She questioned Yoshino. If she didn't know her, then her act of saving her could be explained. But her act of giving her blood just now also indicated that she knew she was a Vampire. But... Evangeline felt her mind was a bit confused; Yoshino's actions were incomprehensible to her.
"I know, I know you are the legendary Evangeline. Seeing your appearance, I can tell you were severely injured from being hunted by the Religious Order." Yoshino smiled at her. So that was the question she wanted to know.
"Then why did you save me? You could have taken me to the Religious Order while I was unconscious and received a considerable bounty, right? The rich magic in your blood tells me you are not an ordinary Little Girl. You have the strength to take me away, why? Why didn't you do that?" She didn't understand why this girl in front of her would save her. She should be the enemy of the whole world, she didn't understand why Yoshino would save a Vampire like her, who should be scorned by everyone.
"Why? Does doing this really need a reason? Killing might need a reason, but saving someone doesn't. I want to save you, that's my reason."
"!!!" Evangeline, who had been extremely emotional, froze as if struck by lightning upon hearing her words. She looked up at Yoshino's smiling face, and the emotions that had been sealed in her heart began to show cracks.
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