"This taste... why is it a little strange..."
After draining the rare blood in her hand, Chinatsu tilted her head back slightly and smacked her lips, trying hard to judge the taste of Shinazugawa's rare blood.
But Chinatsu was no gourmet, and she struggled to describe its flavor in professional terms. Just as she began to wonder whether she had gotten excited over nothing, the delayed kick hit her.
Chinatsu's body shuddered. She had been sitting cross-legged on the bed, but that tremor sent her falling to the floor with a thud! One hand clutched her chest, her face flushed scarlet as she gasped for breath.
What was this feeling?!
Still panting, Chinatsu struggled to climb back onto the bed. That strange sensation was trying to engulf her entire body, even her mind.
Her reddish-brown eyes turned scarlet. To her heightened sense of smell, the scent of the other portion of rare blood she had carefully stored broke straight through the test tube and its stopper, reaching her nose.
Bloodlust!
This was the first time anything like this had happened since she had crossed into this world. Chinatsu knew that the thing she feared most had finally happened.
Murphy's Law... Murphy's Law!
Chinatsu fought to suppress the fierce bloodlust inside her. Gritting her teeth, she climbed out of bed and made her way to the door.
Was she going to leave the room?
No, Chinatsu wanted to lock the door.
Even after locking it, Chinatsu felt that a locked door alone would not do much good. She turned and returned to her bedside, then lifted the entire large bed with both hands and used it to barricade the door.
Chinatsu gasped for breath, not because moving a bed had exhausted her, but because forcibly suppressing her bloodlust was agonizing.
After