Chapter 1922 - I Might Not Be Able To Help Her Before, But Now, It Is Different (1/2)

When Haru and Astarte disappeared, Himeragi knew that he was using his teleportation ability, but because of that, she was quite panicked since she didn't know where he was. However, she knew that he had gone to help Astarte, which was why she regretted that she couldn't do anything in this situation, which somehow made her depressed.

When Himeragi didn't know what to do, she heard a familiar voice.

'Just come inside the house and I'll take care of Astarte for a bit.'

Himeragi heard a voice on her head, which made her dumbfounded, and she quickly asked, ”Senpai, where are you?” She asked that question, but he didn't answer her, which somehow made her depressed and sad. However, she followed her words and entered the house, waiting for him since she knew that it was the only thing that she could do now.

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Shishio teleported to the guest room inside his house then put Astarte on the bed.

”Cough!”

Astarte coughed up other blood, but her complexion was quite better now since Haru had been using his light magic to heal her. ”Kasugano-sama...” She looked at him, who had helped her, and felt very grateful toward him, even though their meeting was very short. If possible, she wanted to serve him more, but she knew that she couldn't live too long, considering the familiar inside her body kept eating her life force.

Haru gently caressed Astarte's head and said, ”Don't worry, you'll be alright.”

”Umm...” Astarte nodded and closed her eyes. Her entire body was quite painful before, but slowly it became better being treated by Haru.

Haru used his ”Elemental Sight” again and wondered what he should do with Astarte. He knew that Astarte was a homunculus, and somehow she reminded him of Sieg, who he met in the world of Fate/Apocrypha.

Similar to humans, homunculus had a limited age, but their age was shorter than humans.

If Haru wasn't wrong, he remembered that Sieg could only live for three years, but because the life force on his body was absorbed and was used to supply the magic for the servants of the Black Faction, Sieg's age was even shorter.

The reason Sieg could live so long was that Siegfried had his heart to Sieg and let Sieg live for a long time.

There was no way Haru could get the heart of someone for Astarte, and there was also no way for him to summon a servant so they would become sacrifices for Astarte even though he had a Holy Grail inside his body.

Haru knew the reason why Astarte couldn't live so long was because of the familiar inside her body.

The reason why the familiar decided to follow a vampire was that a vampire had an unlimited life force and that life force was the feed of the familiar.

However, the homunculus was different, and there was no way that they could feed an insatiable beast inside their bodies.

If it was before, Haru might have had trouble helping Astarte. Even though he was powerful, there was no way for him to extend someone else's lifespan. If it was energy, then it was possible, but energy and lifespan were two different things.

However, it was different now since he had developed his ”Snatch” ability very well, and it was also the reason why his women readily agreed to lend him their powers. The reason for that was because of one of the techniques of his ”Snatch” ability, which was ”Gift.”

”Gift” was an ability that Haru had developed to counter his ”Snatch.” If his ”Snatch” was to give, then ”Gift” was to give. In the story of Nanatsu no Taizai, Ban was able to develop ”Snatch,” but as usual, the way he used it was very crude since he could only use it to transfer his own life force and strength to another being. However, in Haru's hand, this ability was blooming to the fullest since he could give various abilities or talents or even something conceptual such as luck to someone.

It was simply an amazing power, and combined with his ”Snatch,” Haru was simply an existence of a bug in this world. However, he knew this ability was powerful. It wasn't omnipotent since the speed of his ”Snatch” couldn't be done in an instant, and if someone could defeat him at a very fast speed, then he was as good as done for.

Haru knew that he was very powerful, but it didn't mean he was the strongest.

His energy might be huge, but it didn't mean he had immortality. He was human, after all. However, he might live a very long life since he was very strong.