Hahh... hahh... hahh...
Five or six minutes later, Akashiya Moka gently pushed Lin away, her hands resting on his chest as she panted, her face completely flushed.
She was a vampire, after all.
She could go hundreds or even thousands of years without breathing if she wanted to.
But when she kissed Lin...
...she felt a sense of suffocation.
Her heart hammered wildly in her chest, as if trying to escape.
Her body grew somewhat weak and pliant.
Without rushing to dispel his domain, the 'King's Domain,' Lin held Akashiya Moka as he sat upon the Golden Throne.
He looked down slightly with a gentle smile:
"Moka, the retainer contract has been successfully formed. From now on, you will always belong to me."
"Mm..."
Hearing this, Akashiya Moka rested her head against Lin's chest, her eyes shimmering with joy as she hummed a soft reply.
After another moment...
Lin looked down at Akashiya Moka and said softly with a smile:
"Moka, don't you want to see the power I've given you?"
"Okay, I'll take a look..."
Akashiya Moka blinked, murmured a response, and finally focused on sensing the new power within her body.
She gently closed her eyes.
It was as if she could 'see' a strange, great golden sword hanging high above.
An extra surge of energy was now inside her.
Opening her eyes, she raised her right hand.
Golden particles of light materialized on her hand, coalescing into the shape of a flame.
Specks of crimson flickered around it.
Akashiya Moka discovered that this energy could merge with her yokai power, drastically enhancing its might.
She felt her entire body overflowing with power.
"What is this power?"
She couldn't help but ask Lin curiously.
Lin smiled and explained, "Aura. You can think of it as another form of yokai power; they are essentially the same."
"After forming the contract, the power I gave you has the ability to develop the might of your yokai power to its absolute maximum."
He had given Akashiya Moka the power of fate from the Gold Kingship.
It possessed the ability to draw out a person's functions to their fullest potential.
As a yokai specializing in raw power...
...Akashiya Moka didn't have any flashy, extraneous abilities; she mainly relied on yokai power to significantly enhance her physical capabilities.
Her fists and feet were her weapons.
Now, after being developed by Lin, her combat strength should be amplified by at least double, perhaps even several times over.
Although Akashiya Moka was currently in her ordinary, sealed state...
...with the enhancement of the golden Aura, even in this form, she could probably obliterate a large truck with a single punch.
Her defensive capabilities were also incredibly strong.
The Aura she possessed as a retainer was separated from his Primal Force and was at least a hundred times stronger than the original Aura.
The authority of the Kingship was also stronger than the original.
If the authority of a single King was a Blue-grade power, then the seven authorities combined could barely reach Purple grade.
Then his sublimated ability, 'Supreme Kingship,' would be considered a high-value treasure even among Purple-grade powers.
It might even approach Gold grade.
The increase in strength was hundreds, even thousands of times greater.
"I see..." Akashiya Moka's face showed a look of sudden understanding.
No wonder she felt a sense of immense power filling her body when she used the Aura, as if she could shatter anything.
Lin smiled lightly. "Want to test out how strong it is?"
"...Okay."
Akashiya Moka hesitated for a moment before nodding with a smile.
She didn't actually like violence very much.
But since Lin suggested it, she might as well give it a try.
Lin stood up, holding her in a princess carry, and with a single step, instantly appeared on the grassy ground below.
Then, with a mere thought...
...a barrier about the size of a door materialized in front of them.
Lin set Akashiya Moka down.
He smiled at her and said, "Go on. Use the power inside you to your heart's content and get used to it as quickly as you can."
"Okay, here I go!"
With a serious expression, Akashiya Moka made a fist with her right hand in front of her, nodded, and stepped toward the barrier.
She concentrated, drawing on the Aura within her.
A golden-yellow stream of light, flecked with crimson, appeared in her hand.
Akashiya Moka threw a punch straight at the barrier before her.
She used about half her strength in that punch.
Duang!
A ripple spread across the barrier's surface.
Akashiya Moka was a little surprised.
The sensation of her fist hitting the barrier was like striking the surface of water.
So, she continued to punch.
Following Lin's instructions, she unleashed the power of the Aura within her.
About ten minutes later...
Lin dispelled the domain of his Supreme Kingship.
The core attribute of the 'Supreme Kingship' ability's authority was called Control.
It could create a King's Domain.
In other words, a dimensional space.
It allowed him to become a supreme monarch, grasping the space of his own 'domain' in the palm of his hand with kingly might.
With a thought, space could contract infinitely.
With a thought, space could extend infinitely.
He could utilize various spatial abilities like spatial displacement, spatial collapse, spatial severing, spatial lockdown, and so on.
Of course, the effects of 'Supreme Kingship' were not limited to just this.
"Let's go. Time to head home."
Lin smiled, picked up the lightly panting Akashiya Moka, who had used up most of her Aura, and took to the sky.
They flew towards Nerima Ward, Tokyo.
Unlike their trip here, their flight speed wasn't particularly fast.
Held in a princess carry, Akashiya Moka's cheeks were slightly flushed, a sweet smile gracing her lips as she wrapped her arms around Lin's neck.
She closed her eyes and rested against his chest.
......
Time rewound to twenty minutes earlier.
Just as Lin casually removed the sealing cross...
...in the northeastern Tōhoku region of Japan, Fukushima Prefecture.
...within the uninhabited Sengaki Mountain Area near Soma City, a powerful barrier enveloped an invisible spatial passage.
On the other side was a small world.
An area roughly equal to Earth's landmass.
This was the Yokai Realm, the place where Akashiya Moka had lived as a child.
The Shuzen family estate, basement.
A certain long-sealed object suddenly vibrated for a brief moment.
A man appeared in an instant.
Staring at the stone coffin before him, which appeared unchanged, the man frowned slightly, his gaze profound as he murmured:
"...The seal here actually fluctuated. Could it be that Moka's sealing cross was removed in the Human Realm?"
As his words faded, he fell into deep thought.
The man gave the stone coffin one last deep look before turning and vanishing.
At the same time, in another location.
A handsome, middle-aged man dressed in a black tuxedo, his thick black hair combed back, narrowed his eyes.
His crimson eyes shimmered faintly.
"Is this... her aura?!"
He closed his eyes, his yokai power surging within him. A few seconds later, he opened them again and turned to look toward the location of the spatial passage.
"The Human Realm..." he mused, his gaze deep and thoughtful.
......
Earth, Tokyo, Meguro Ward.
Yotsuya Miko arrived here to meet up with Yurikawa Hana, who had gotten there first.
"Miko, you're finally here! You're late."
Seeing Yotsuya Miko arrive, Yurikawa Hana pouted slightly.
She had noticed that ever since meeting Lin, Yotsuya Miko sometimes gave her a strange feeling.
"I'm sorry,"
Yotsuya Miko quickly apologized.
"Never mind, let's not talk about that."
Yurikawa Hana wasn't truly angry and changed the subject with a grin:
"Go, go, go! Let's get going. That dessert shop also serves drinks, and their fruit milkshakes have the best reviews."
With that, she started walking ahead to lead the way.
"Milkshake..."
Trailing slightly behind her, Yotsuya Miko's eyes narrowed upon hearing the word, a strange light appearing in them.
She suddenly thought of Lin's... thing.
Sticky and thick, like pure milk with the consistency of yogurt.
It tasted like slightly sweet milk.
She had thought it would taste strange, but it was surprisingly not bad.
'Wait, what am I thinking?!'
Yotsuya Miko was suddenly jolted from her thoughts, her face flushing red at the outrageous idea that had popped into her head.
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