Meanwhile, outside a town not too far from Tamayo and the others' residence.
Lower Rank One, Ubagabi.
She had just enjoyed another modest feast.
The children she had abducted from a nearby village had now been absorbed into her body, little by little.
She licked the corner of her lips, still wanting more.
"What a shame."
"Why wouldn't that adorable child obediently accept Mommy's love...?"
A heavy aura, thick with the stench of blood, kept spreading from her body.
Even the candlelight dimmed a little.
"It really makes me want to find him."
"And eat that disobedient little darling clean, bit by bit, from head to toe."
After all, that was rare blood.
And exceptionally fine rare blood at that.
Even in her nearly fifty years of life, Ubagabi had never encountered rare blood of such high quality.
Just thinking about the taste of that white-haired child's blood.
Made her feel herself growing considerably wetter again.
If she could devour him whole.
He would be worth a hundred people... no, even more than that.
After recalling the quality of the human blood she had consumed in the past.
Ubagabi reached a conclusion.
If she really could eat that white-haired child clean.
The nourishment from that meal alone would probably equal all the humans she had eaten over the past twenty or thirty years.
Ubagabi extended her soft tongue.
And slowly licked her moist lips, red to an almost unnatural degree.
She already could not help calculating in her mind.
If she obtained that much nourishment, given her current strength as the foremost Lower Rank.
She would only need some time to adjust.
Then rise one position.
Advancing to the Upper Ranks would be a sure thing.
After all...
Even she felt that the positions among the Twelve Kizuki had been