Adopted The Main Villains

Chapter 5 – Seras (3)

‘Luminous Caesar!!!!!’

This is strange.

I clearly suppressed the rampage by offering my own blood, but did it still happen?

I don’t understand.

‘Seras, what are you doing!’

‘Don’t interfere and get lost!!!’

She must not have completely gone berserk yet, as she can’t absorb the blood of people around her.

That means the longer this goes on, the more disadvantaged I become.

As time passes, her craving for blood will grow stronger, allowing her to absorb the blood of those nearby.

‘I need to end this quickly.’

But all I know is spatial magic with 100 convenience and 0 threat level.

If I could utilize it a bit better, I might be able to open something like a portal to restrain her, but I’m still at the most basic level.

Forget portals – I can only use it about five times a day at most.

And in the current situation, there’s no opportunity to use it effectively.

‘This is pretty hopeless.’

I can’t let things flow according to the original scenario.

If things go as in the original work, the Four Great Calamities will ravage the world.

Perhaps because of that thought, I adjusted my posture and gripped my dagger more firmly.

At that moment, Seras swung her sharp claws, aiming precisely for my heart.

If I hadn’t reacted, I would have been headed straight to the afterlife.

‘Die!!!’

‘Betraying family is wrong!!!’

I came all this way because I didn’t want to die.

And now she’s trying to kill me like this.

The first button has already been fastened wrong from the beginning.

So I need to punish Seras for creating this situation.

‘Seras.’

You don’t give too harsh a punishment to a child.

Instead, a punishment that would scare a child of that age somewhat.

Yes.

That’s what I’ll do.

‘When you come to your senses, be prepared to get a good knock on the head.’

But I need to stop Seras’s rampage quickly.

It might be difficult, but the novel had already provided the solution.

‘I need to let her bite my arm.’

Feed her a large amount of blood.

I can’t predict how much blood will be needed, but this is the best option for now.

However.

‘I’ll have to try it to know for sure.’

Whether it turns into porridge or rice, there’s only one way to go about it.

So I have no choice but to try it first.

‘Hey, do you want blood that badly?’

In that state, consuming blood becomes the priority.

If that’s the case.

‘How about this.’

I made a long cut with my dagger.

Then a large amount of blood began to flow from my arm.

It feels like I’m going to die from the pain, but in that state where blood is the priority, this is the best way to save the kids.

‘Blood….. BLOOD!!!!!’

‘That’s right, good listener.’

I ran as far away from the kids as possible.

‘Caesar!!!!’

‘That’s not how you address an adult.’

When I thought I had reached a place where no one would be, I stopped running and turned around.

Not expecting me to turn around, Seras stopped.

‘You’re being disrespectful!!!’

Not missing the opportunity, I gave Seras a knock on the head.

‘Ugh!’

The knock must have hurt quite a bit as she was holding her head.

I didn’t miss that moment and grabbed Seras by the neck.

Realizing she was being restrained, she let go of her head and began to resist.

But it was already too late.

The submission hold was perfectly applied.

‘You absolutely cannot escape.’

‘Kuk….. KUAAACK!!!!!’

‘Damn it…..’

Now, as if saying there’s really no time left, she broke free from my restraint with insane strength.

Thanks to that, the wound I made with the dagger opened wider than before.

At this rate, I really don’t have much time.

The bleeding won’t stop.

And Seras won’t stop either.

So it’s one of two options.

Either get torn to pieces by Seras and die.

Or collapse and die from excessive blood loss.

But I came here to prevent that from happening.

I must absolutely stop Seras.

‘KUAAACK!!!!’

‘You’ve got quite a powerful voice.’

Seras charged at me once again.

Perhaps soon, Seras will be able to obtain blood without having to feed directly.

Then I must end this in one round.

‘KRAAAGH!!!’

As Seras lunged at me, I bent my waist to avoid her claws.

In that position, I immediately delivered a counter to Seras’s face, but now she showed no reaction as if it merely tickled.

However, perhaps because she was hit in the jaw, her movements were slightly sluggish.

I aimed for that.

Once again, I wrapped my arm around her neck.

Though it was now difficult to withstand her monstrous strength, I had won this fight.

‘Open your fangs, blood pack going in.’

I let Seras’s fangs bite into my arm.

At that moment, I felt pain on a completely different level than when my arm was cut with a dagger.

I could feel my blood disappearing in real time.

My head started to spin.

I was even about to retch.

But I had to endure, endure.

I couldn’t lose consciousness.

I had to hold on until Seras came to her senses.

So endure.

Hold on.

I kept repeating the same words in my head.

Though it felt like my consciousness would fly away at any moment, I held on.

But Seras showed no signs of stopping and continued to suck my blood.

And soon, I had no choice but to lose consciousness.

***

How long had I been unconscious?

When I opened my eyes, I was in a space where nothing was visible.

It was a space where I couldn’t tell if my eyes were open or closed.

Then, a light began to brighten.

At the source of that light was a cage.

And inside that cage was someone familiar.

[Seras]

It seems Seras couldn’t hear my voice.

Nevertheless, I approached Seras.

I could approach Seras even though I was invisible to her.

When I approached Seras in the cage.

‘Don’t do this…. Please…. Someone stop me…. I don’t want to kill anyone….’

She was crying.

Saying things like asking someone to stop her…

Saying she didn’t want to kill anyone.

She was crying as she said those words.

I reached out my hand to Seras.

The cage let me pass through as if it wasn’t there.

I stroked Seras’s head.

Even if she might not know I was stroking her, this was the best comfort I could offer right now.

At that moment.

‘Caesar?’

[Can you see me?]

‘Yes, it’s you, Caesar. You’re here.’

[I’m here]

‘If you’re here, tell me… that you can stop me.’

Seras was hitting the cage hard as if in agony.

But hitting the cage only made blood flow from both of Seras’s hands.

‘Please stop me…’

[Okay]

‘Kill… me…’

[I’ll save you]

As soon as the words ended, I returned to reality with a floating sensation.

‘Aaaaargh!!!! Uaaaaa!!!!’

‘Does it hurt? I’ll help you quickly.’

I had no intention of killing Seras.

If I had wanted to kill her, I would have done so when I visited the orphanage.

‘Now that you’ve tasted blood, don’t you want more?’

I waved my arm where blood was flowing.

Seeing that, the berserk Seras rushed toward my arm.

The attack from Seras, who had lost her reason, was straightforward.

But being straightforward made it fast. Not that it was impossible to dodge.

That’s why I could end this.

‘Kieeeeek!!!!’

I blocked Seras, who lunged at me again, with Layert.

Seras, blocked by my arm, tried to escape from my embrace, but now it was time for this tiresome game of tag to end.

Sorry to Seras, but I grabbed her head and made her sink her teeth into my shoulder like before.

This would truly be the last time.

‘Eat as much as you want!!!! I’ll give you as much as you need!!!!’

I began burning the mana in my body.

I never thought I would use this.

‘I’ll teach you magic that converts mana into blood.’

‘Why are you teaching me this?’

‘Because you might get stranded, or you might experience excessive bleeding.’

‘Me, who handles spatial magic? You think I’ll get stranded?’

‘Yes, because I think my master would really get stranded. Or if there’s a situation where you need blood immediately due to excessive bleeding.’

‘I see.’

‘Thaaank youuuu!!!! Siren!!!!’

It hurt like hell, but I wasn’t in that hazy mental state like before.

Rather, my mind became even clearer.

‘And let’s go home!!!! Seras!!!!’

***

She sucked my blood like crazy.

The good thing was that Seras’s rampage stopped.

Having used up all my mana, it was obvious I would soon lose consciousness.

Especially because of the wound I had cut on my arm earlier, my mind would certainly drift away.

‘Fortunately, I saved her…..’

I stroked Seras’s head before my consciousness faded.

Her hair was surprisingly soft for someone raised in an orphanage.

‘Ah, I’m really dying here.’

To be honest, it felt like my entire body was shattered.

Some parts were actually broken. For example, my right arm that I had used to put Seras in a lariat hold, or the ribs that broke when I embraced Seras.

Other places hurt too, but the pain of a broken right arm and ribs was beyond what a human could endure.

‘Ah, they’re coming…..’

The children started bringing the director.

I didn’t expect them to come.

Still, it’s fortunate they came after the rampage stopped.

‘Then I guess I’ll take a nap with Seras.’

With that, my vision went dark.

***

‘Ah…. un….’

‘Sin….. of…. wis….’

It’s noisy.

It’s so rude to be this loud when someone is sleeping.

Until just now, my body was completely wrecked, so I needed to sleep for a long time or I’d have to continue with this exhausted body for a while.

But.

‘Blo….. Ca…..r….’

‘Ah! It’s really noisy!’

Because of the surrounding noise, I had no choice but to wake up.

When I got up, a headache hit me, but the fatigue I felt now was greater.

‘Huh?’

‘He, he’s awake?’

The place I woke up was a bed in the orphanage.

And what stood out the most was.

‘You, you’re awake? Caesar!’

It was Seras who ran to me and hugged me.

‘You’re awake!!! I thought you were really gone!!!!’

I don’t understand what’s going on.

I clearly remember stopping Seras’s rampage and then passing out.

And surely my arms, ribs, and other parts would have been broken.

‘It is broken.’

Everything else was fine, but my right arm was broken.

Okay, I’ve checked my physical condition.

Yes, yes.

But.

‘Seras, why are you acting like this?’

‘Thank you, for saving me… really…..’

‘Director?’

‘Thank you for saving Seras.’

I understand being thankful for saving Seras.

But there’s something I’m more curious about.

‘How long have I been asleep?’

‘You’ve been asleep for about a month.’

A month.

Yes, a month, he says.

‘……What?’

‘You’ve been asleep for a month.’

‘During that time, Seras never left and continued to nurse you.’

‘Director, that’s!’

‘Hohoho.’

Seras blushed and expressed annoyance at the director, but the director seemed to understand and left the room with the other orphanage children.

But regardless of that, my mind wasn’t working quickly.

The fact that a month had already passed meant that Siren had been living alone at home for a month.

‘Ugh….’

‘Where does it hurt, Caesar? Should I get you some water?’

‘I’m fine.’

I need to go home today.

I don’t even want to imagine what Siren might do if I’m any later.

But before that, there’s something I need to do.

‘Seras.’

‘Hmm?’

‘From today on, be my daughter.’

‘What?’

I asked Seras to become my daughter.