At this moment, on the hillside.
After assuring Touko Aozaki that he was safe, Samael turned and returned to the house. He cast a gloomy glance at Arachne, sprawled on the floor, smiled, then immediately turned cold. With a backhanded motion, he tossed the temporarily useless Blood Progenitor into the basement, leaving Fou in charge of guarding her.
To be safe, the ancient serpent also rather sinisterly hinted to Fou that every so often, he should give Arachne a few hard slaps across the face. She had to remain in a severely injured standby state, lying obediently in her nest and healing herself.
Having dealt with the immediate trouble, Samael summoned the newly arrived Altrouge and asked this Vampire Princess, who had inherited the name Brunestud before anyone else, to see whether she could undo the restriction the demonic sword had placed on him.
However, after half an hour of fussing around, the seal within Samael still showed no reaction.
Left with no choice, the ancient serpent signaled Arcueid to temporarily release the sealed Crimson Moon, intending to ask her face-to-face for an answer.
As the Princess closed and reopened her eyes, her scarlet pupils took on a faint golden hue.
Clearly, Crimson Moon's consciousness had surfaced.
Yet under the suppression of the holy lance's seal and the Princess's own consciousness, the former Moon King had become a prisoner within this body. Without Arcueid's authorization, she could not interfere with the vessel they shared in any way.
She could not even move an inch, only sit stiffly in the chair.
Even so, the proud Crimson Moon gave a mocking sneer upon hearing her old rival Samael's question, showing not the slightest awareness that she was a prisoner.
"Want to undo the seal? Dream on! Unless you unseal me first!"
"Princess,