Silence reigned.
Even the red moon that seemed to make the entire sky tremble began to flicker, like a chandelier that might come crashing down at any moment.
Beneath the moonlight, Crimson Moon's shadow gradually stretched and warped, lending an eerie air to her dreamlike, divine appearance.
Under that calamitous moonlight, the True Ancestor sisters stood rigid, as though petrified.
"I came to join you-"
There was an utterly earnest expression on the King of the Moon's exquisitely beautiful face.
Her luscious lips, gently pressed together before blossoming into a smile, made her sincerity apparent from the bottom of their hearts.
The more terrifying her earlier presence had been, like an ant gazing up at the heavens, the more shocking this confession was.
Even Arcueid, whose carefree nature often left her out of the loop, gaped in surprise, let alone Altrouge Brunestud.
The girl bit her lower lip tightly.
Her mother was actually proposing to someone?
Not only that, she had accepted all his existing relationships and was even willing to lower herself to share him with her daughters...
That King of the Moon?
That Crimson Moon?
Though a thousand words had already brewed in her heart, Altrouge Brunestud felt as though something deep inside her brain was spasming, leaving her unable to say anything.
Calm down... Perhaps I've simply misunderstood.
"Let me clarify something first. You do understand the relationship between a husband and wife, don't you? Let me warn you, this man isn't some saint who has discarded so-called base desires. The responsibilities and obligations you'd have to shoulder as his partner aren't something that can be explained in a sentence or two."
Her mother was domineering and self-centered. Though she did not reject concepts from the human world and was willing to accept them, it was more