Chapter 10

**Fascination** is the 10th chapter of the Our Blood Oath manga series.

## Summary

The chapter begins with Shin waking up in the middle of the night with Ko and Saburo sleeping on the bed with him. Ko is sleep-talking and Shin fails to understand what he's actually dreaming about. Just then, Shin recalls earlier that day when Alice and the Blood Oath Brothers had met up. Alice says that she recalls hearing about **a group of vampires that despise humankind** and want to completely rid the world of humans. Alice also says that she was **invited to a vampire gathering with similar themes to this humankind despising vampire group.** She says the gathering took place in an underground channel with vampires who did not seem particularly extreme in violence and human blood lust, but the one who had arranged the gathering in the first place held anti-human sentiments. Due to that reason alone, they suspect that that gathering was an opportunity for recruitment for the vampire anti-human group. She claims that this meeting was not in Japan and she tells Shin and Ko to stay safe as she gives Shin his new gloves. Back to the present, Shin thinks to himself that though he has stellar physical capabilities, he's still only human and he doesn't have the abilities that Vampires and Vampiric Beasts have so he needs to be extra cautious. Ko mutters in his sleep that he will keep Shin safe no matter what. It is the next day and we see Ko in school at the end of the day with his classes teacher telling the students to walk home with somebody as to stay safe from the recent Vampire Incident. As Ko is exiting the school to wait out front for Shin to pick him up, he overhears people talking about the Vampire Incident around him. Ko is then stopped when a tall man named **Haiga** steps in front of him and insists that they talk somewhere else while people mutter around them wondering who Haiga is. Ko thinks that Shin would usually be waiting for him at the front of the school by now, so Ko gets straight to the point asking Haiga if he is with the vampire group who is after him, in which Haiga replies that he is correct. Ko asks if Haiga plans on threatening or kidnapping him, in which Haiga says he doesn't and that that is not why came for Ko today. haiga then spots Saburo in Ko's arms and he begins to completely fall head over heels for the cats adorableness. Saburo then jumps out of Ko's arms in fear of Haiga and runs into the road, in which Haiga makes chase. Shin then comes across this situation when Saburo is about to get hit by a large truck. Haiga gets hit instead and the truck driver peeks his head outside of the window to scold Haiga for running in the middle of the road. We then see that Haiga's neck has been twisted backwards completely but he nonchalantly repositions it back into place. The truck driver starts to scream in terror from this sight and proceeds to try and run Haiga over until Haiga picks up Saburo and reaches his arm straight in front of him, obliterating the truck to dust. The driver, still alive and scared out of his mind, stares at Haiga in terror as he approaches the driver and scolds him for having zero remorse for his life nor Saburo's. He the grabs the driver by the head and is about to kidnap him until he sees both Shin and Ko standing directly next to each other. Haiga then speaks, "Blood Oath Brothers. You fascinate me. What is a king's blood like? How strong is the Blood Oath of Darkness? If you want to ave this human, show me. I ask for a duel, Blood Oath Brothers." And the chapter closes.