Chapter 398: Revenge and Rejection

【Obedience has broken through to 93, unlocking a shared skill with Tally】

【Beginning random draw.】

【Chou Qu Cheng Gong】

【Shared Skill: Yulia's Blood Detonation】

【Details: A spiritual art hidden within the bloodline. Lilith, the Progenitor of Succubi, once spent a spring night with Yulia, the Vampire Queen. During that night of pleasure, Lilith successfully stole part of the Vampire Queen's power to control blood, and used it to grievously wound her.

From the moment of contact with the target's blood, every attack will accumulate potential energy for this skill. Upon release, it will detonate the blood within the target's body.】

【Warning!】

【This skill has killed 281 dragons! Acquiring it will incur 'Dragon's Resentment' — friendliness with the Chromatic Dragons -50! Friendliness with all other dragon races -10!】

【This skill will draw the attention of 'Vampire Queen Yulia'!】

Rod furrowed his brow.

Another hidden skill.

Just like Vivian's 【Daphne's Spirit Seed】 — it never showed up when allocating spirit growth points, and only popped out now that obedience was high enough.

This one was even more outrageous.

It even came with an FBI warning.

"Yulia and Lilith? Aren't they both girls? What do you mean, 'spent a spring night'?"

He hadn't expected Tally's succubus gossip to actually be true.

"Dragon's Resentment… I wonder if it'll affect Naolin."

With obedience on his side, it should be fine.

Rod shook his head, no longer wavering between hope and fear.

The die was cast.

It was still a skill capable of killing dragons — nothing to fuss over.

As for drawing Yulia's attention…

It seemed that because of the scorpion-woman Hera, he was already within her field of vision anyway.

Rod briefly soothed Tally, who had squeezed into his arms, then pushed her away.

She was fighting the patient Rosalia for position.

"Master doesn't love me anymore?"

"Stop acting cute. You were just wailing dryly afterward — not a single tear actually fell."

"Ehehe~~"

The succubus knew her place in her master's heart, and the crisis of his anger had been resolved.

In excellent spirits, she chuckled as she left Rod's embrace and shapeshifted back into a tomboy.

"I'll listen to Master from now on~~ Tally is a good girl now, eh? You're awake?"

She suddenly looked at the person in Rod's arms, her smile freezing, slightly awkward.

Rod looked down.

He saw the gorgeous, mature tooth-fairy already had her eyes open, gazing up in a daze.

At this moment she was nestled in Rod's arms, her knees pressed against his broad chest, her fair, delicate skin flushed and deformed.

"Rosalia, you—"

Rod was also a little awkward, about to explain.

Suddenly, two syllables fell from the girl in his arms, nearly knocking him senseless:

"Daddy."

It wasn't her usual mature, gentle big-sister voice, but the kind made by pinching the throat and squeezing the windpipe — a much younger girl's voice.

Commonly known as a "little girl voice."

"I see — so this is how you act after ingesting 【Charm Fluid】…"

Rod had a sudden revelation.

No wonder I went all-out attacking before and got nothing — turns out you have a father complex.

His appearance was rugged and sunny, nothing like an uncle.

"Call me again. What do you call me?"

"Daddy—"

She beamed.

Unlike her usual professional fake smile, this one was full of childlike innocence and joy.

"Keep going."

"Daddy!"

"Come on, give Daddy a kiss."

Rosalia's eyes glazed over, she raised her head, and smooched him on the cheek.

Rod burst out laughing.

He truly treated her like a baby, patting her bottom to heal her wounds while gently rocking her.

Trying every way to get her to call him daddy.

After a while.

The tooth-fairy in his arms trembled all over.

Rod's heart skipped a beat, and he looked down again.

He saw that her eyes were already clear, and the joyful expression from moments ago quickly faded to calm.

Taking advantage of his pause in swaying, Rosalia calmly and lightly leapt out of his embrace, gracefully smoothing her hair as she went.

Looking left and right, she found her spell pouch.

Paying no heed to Rod standing there staring blankly, she walked over lightly, as though she didn't mind at all that her body—perfectly combining insectoid and human features—was on display.

She took out small shorts, undergarments, and a plain wrap dress in alternating white and brown, dressing herself with unusual quietness and speed.

Only then did she look back at Rod.

She bowed with her usual elegance.

"Thank you and your subordinate for saving my life, Mr. Rod, Young Lady Tally. I will certainly find a way to repay you."

"It was nothing."

Rod waved a hand.

"Also, please don't tell anyone about this matter."

Tally grinned wickedly: "When you say 'this matter,' do you mean the part about you getting hurt, or the part about you calling my master 'Daddy'?"

"Tally, shut up."

"Okay~~"

Rosalia drew in a deep breath, her shoulders trembling slightly.

Then slowly exhaled.

She looked straight at Rod:

"As you can see, Mr. Rod, a tooth fairy of my body type is quite rare. In my hometown, the vast majority look like little fairies, just like Xiao Xiao Feisuo."

The tooth fairy Xiao Xiao Feisuo, interrogation officer of the Shi Ying Town underground prison.

I had met her once before, when I went to see the mushroom-man Toru—a bloodthirsty fairy with a cute appearance.

"My father and mother were the same, so by the time I was five and already as big as a human child, they could no longer carry me. The warmth of my father's embrace back then was the happiest, most secure feeling I have ever known in my life. It's a pity that until they passed away together, I never got to feel it again. Perhaps in Mr. Rod's embrace I felt the same thing."

"I should have been an utterly ordinary fellow, spending my whole life searching for a spell to change into a normal tooth fairy body type, so that I could throw myself back into my father's embrace. But fifty years ago, in the little fairy hunting massacre, all of that changed."

She showed a faint bitter smile, which slowly transformed into a thirst for revenge and fury.

"You are a good man, Mr. Rod, and a responsible one—charming, powerful. Not a single girl would fail to be moved by you. But I cannot, I am not suited for you. Everyone who has become too entangled with me will be drawn into this vortex of revenge. I admit I once had the thought of using you, but it's different now. You absolutely must not. I absolutely must not repay kindness with betrayal!"

Having said that.

She didn't wait for Rod's response.

She turned and strode toward the mine exit, the hem of her puffy long dress fluttering in the wind, and vanished from Rod's sight without looking back.

Tally laughed: "Master, you've been rejected~~"

"I can tell—she's telling me not to get any ideas about her from now on. This is the first time I've been handed the 'good guy card' so bluntly by a girl."

Rod wasn't all that heartbroken.

Since she'd made it so clear, it really wouldn't be appropriate to keep pestering her.

Just a bit of a pity, that's all.

At that moment, a body soft as boneless flesh squeezed into his embrace.

Tally cupped both his cheeks with her warm little hands, pecked him like a woodpecker a good dozen or so times, then gazed at him with deep affection.

"Don't be afraid, Master. Even if everyone else rejects you, Tally will stay by your side forever and ever, and become Master's exclusive toilet."

(End of chapter)