Reincarnated without a job, the vampire lady must show her true abilities.

Chapter 96: Blood Core

"Pat...pat..."

"Pat...pat..."

"Pat...pat...pat..."

"Teacher~" Luo Qixi looked up helplessly at the door.

"Teacher, what are you doing?" she sighed. "It's been ringing for a long time... Is there a leak somewhere?"

The inexplicable ticking sound made Luo Qixi uncomfortable even when signing the documents... What is the teacher doing now... making such a strange noise outside all of a sudden.

"It's nothing." The teacher's indifferent voice came, causing Luo Qixi to shake her head.

But just a few minutes after I sat down, that strange clicking sound started again.

"Teacher!" Unable to contain herself any longer, Luo Qixi got up, pushed open the door, and quickly walked to the living room of the Astronomical Tower.

Sidlin sat there, thoughtfully fiddling with the things in front of her. A few drops of blood dripped from her fingertips onto the ground, then she controlled them to slowly float up and stick to a red crystal.

She herself sat on the coffin lid, wearing only a thin shirt.

"What...what is this?" Luo Qixi was stunned for a moment, then blushed slightly as she looked at the teacher who seemed to be conducting some kind of mysterious experiment. "Teacher, why aren't you wearing...why aren't you wearing pants?!"

"Huh?" Cinderella was slightly taken aback, then turned to look at Loki: "You're still not resting?"

Teacher, don't you know why I didn't rest?

"I just woke up not long ago, and I'm too lazy to get dressed since I'm not going out," Catherine said, shrugging. "Besides, hardly anyone comes here usually."

"Am I not human, teacher?" Luo Qixi's lips twitched.

"Let's not talk about this now," Cidelina said, stretching. "Let's..."

"Why don't we bring this up now?"

"And teacher, please, could you please put your clothes on properly first?" Luo Qixi said, covering her eyes. "Yours..."

"Ah... I bought this from the Lanleta Trading Company. She's your friend, right?"

I beg you, teacher, please don't say things like that while showing your panties!

Finally, at Loki's insistence, Cinderella put on her dress.

"It's all so complicated even though we're at home..." Cidel shook her head helplessly.

Luo Qixi realized that there really wasn't much difference between a teacher and a child... lazy, concerned about face, fond of arguing with others, sensitive... averse to trouble... and occasionally fond of playing pranks.

I'm here to be a teacher's student, not a teacher's mother!

Seeing that the teacher had finally finished dressing, Luo Qixi turned her attention to the strange blood crystal.

"So what is this, teacher?"

"This is a blood core," Catherine coughed and said slowly, "I specially made it from my own blood through concentration and refinement."

"Then what's it for?" Loki reached out to touch the blood core, but Cinderella immediately moved it to the other side.

"It's a very important thing," Catherine said seriously, looking at Loki. "It's not a toy or anything."

I don't want toys like that... oh no... I don't like playing with toys either.

Under Loki's gaze, Cinderella continued to explain, "A blood core is a product that combines a portion of the essence of a vampire's body... It takes a very long time to make just one."

"In some ways, you can even think of it as part of my body," Catherine said, tossing it from her left hand to her right and then back again.

Didn't you say this wasn't a toy?

"It's not finished yet." Cinderella's words made Loki pause. After a few seconds of silence, she asked, "Then if it's finished... what's the use?"

"It will be more rounded, making it easier to throw."

"Is this really not a toy?"

"Of course not!" Cinderella frowned. "Didn't I just say it was important?"

"You were not focused at all when you were studying today."

"Well, there's nothing really useful that you'd describe as round and easy to throw, right?" Luo Qixi said, pursing her lips.

"You've known me for so long, and now you're talking back!" Cinderella said, looking at Loki with displeasure.

Upon hearing this, Luo Qixi turned her face slightly away without speaking. Indeed... ever since she started living with her teacher, Luo Qixi felt that the last bit of respect she had left was almost gone.

Come to think of it... Every day I see my teacher running around the room without even wearing clothes, too lazy to wash her clothes, unwilling to sign documents, and even puffing out her cheeks in impatience...

When it's time to drink blood, it will happily twitch its ears.

Luo Qixi felt that her feelings for her teacher were becoming more and more complicated... What exactly were her feelings for her teacher now?

Is it... treating teachers like children? Or... something else... um?

Suddenly, Cinderella pinched her cheek, and Loki blushed immediately: "T-Teacher?!"

"I've heard that human elders use this method to comfort their young."

I'm not a cub... but that cool, tingling sensation isn't so bad...

"Anyway... what is a teacher for?" Luo Qixi coughed to bring her thoughts back.

"Ah... I almost forgot." Catherine slowly said, toying with the blood core, "Do you remember what I said before?"

"Which matter?"

"It's about me needing to sleep."

Is it about teachers having to grow up?

Luo Qixi vaguely remembered... The teacher seemed to have said that she was about to enter adolescence and then fall into a period of slumber?

What does this have to do with blood cores?

"That's how it is," Catherine said calmly, "Vampires go into a deep sleep during their growth process."

"The duration of sleep can be short or long," she said, looking into Loki's eyes. "And this time, I estimate I'll be asleep for several years."

"How many years?" Upon hearing this answer, Luo Qixi couldn't help but purse her lips.

The teacher has been saying it for several years... it must really have been a long time, right?

It won't take seventy or eighty years, will it?

"About... five or six years?" Catherine's answer made Loki breathe a slight sigh of relief...

Fortunately, it took much less time than I had imagined.

"So during my slumber, no one will protect you," Sidrin said, holding up the blood core. "It can temporarily protect you in my place."

"Protect...me?" So, is the teacher doing this for me? Luo Qixi bit her lip slightly, feeling a little touched.

"This blood core will release an avatar of mine after it shatters, which can last for ten minutes... Although it's not as strong as me, it still has Emperor-level strength." Sidlin raised an eyebrow as she spoke: "As long as the enemy isn't at the level of the Seven Great Powers... there shouldn't be too much of a problem... You can use it when you encounter a powerful opponent... Hmm?"

Before she could finish speaking, Cinderella was pulled into a hug by Loki. Feeling the faint lavender scent emanating from Loki, Cinderella paused.

"Thank you, teacher."

Hearing her words, Cinderella gently shook her head. Had this girl actually learned such a trick? Oh well, she's still just a child…

"And what about you, teacher?" Loki whispered in Cinderella's ear, "What about your safety...?"

"..."

Cinderella's body trembled slightly, a rare occurrence, and her pointed ears also twitched slightly.

"You don't need to worry about that, silly student."