My Enemy Is My Mentor Chapter 5

When Joseph woke up again, he was awakened by the bright sunlight shining in through the floor-to-ceiling window.

The floor was a mess. The large chandelier that he had broken off last night was broken into pieces and fell beside the bed. The half-burned crystals were scattered everywhere, and the sheets were almost dragged to the ground.

Joseph squinted his eyes and moved a bit, but soon found that he couldn't move. A tie from somewhere tied his hands to the head of the bed, his feet were also tied up, and even his tail was tied into a knot. He raised his head and found that his whole body was sore.

"Grass."

Joseph lay back down again, vaguely remembering the attack of the Enchantress Vine last night. He buried his head in Daniel and pestered him for blood three or four times. Every time, he plucked the same place. Finally, Daniel couldn't stand it anymore, so he tied him up and read a book at the desk all night.

He was screaming on the bed, and Daniel came over and cut his wrist to give him some blood to drink. When he stopped screaming, he let the Enchantress Vine control him to fold his body and make him pose in strange positions on the bed.

There was still a large glass next to the desk, and the blood inside had already coagulated and turned brown. Joseph seemed to recall that he was controlled by the Enchantress Vine last night, lying on the bed with his but.t sticking up, wagging his tail and begging Daniel to give him some blood. However, Daniel just put the glass heavily on the bedside table indifferently and asked him if he wanted to drink it or continue like this.

"I just want to drink yours." He pulled at the tie that bound him and looked at people pitifully.

"I don't have that much blood to give you."

"Just a little, just a little, wuwuwu." He was affected by the enchantment vine to the point of losing his mind and lying on the bed crying loudly.

So the watches were taken off, and Daniel finally handed the wrist to him and let him suck it.

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Now Joseph is completely awake.

The expression on his face changed again and again. He refused to believe that he had done such a thing. However, the Soul-Loving Vine did not seem to have any effect on him, and everything that happened last night was recalled one after another.

He howled in pain and tried to turn over and hide under the quilt, forgetting that his hands and feet were still tied and he could not move.

The door opened with a click.

Joseph quickly lay back down and pretended to be asleep, then guiltily opened one eye and saw Daniel coming in from outside, wearing a white turtleneck sweater.

It’s no wonder that Daniel usually wears a suit and tie when he goes out, looking like a cold-blooded businessman, but I didn’t expect him to dress so casually at home.

But is it turtleneck season yet?

Humans are really afraid of the cold.

"woke up?"

... Joseph quickly closed his eyes and pretended to be dead.

Daniel walked over, his palms were a little cold for some reason, as if he had just taken a cold shower, and he roughly pulled off the tie that was binding him.

He quickly raised his eyes and glanced at the person, first looking at his wrist. Fortunately, the wound on his wrist had been bandaged.

He looked up along his arm and saw the conspicuous and even swollen bite mark on Daniel's neck, which even the turtleneck sweater could not cover.

"Depend on."

Joseph quickly looked away.

"What are you looking at?" Daniel stood up and threw his wrinkled tie aside.

"Wrong," Joseph raised his tail, wagging it like a white flag to show weakness. He didn't expect Daniel to bleed so much because of his throwing a tantrum. "...I owe you. Plus you helped me at the Appraisal Pavilion, I owe you two."

He heard Daniel sneer.

"What are you laughing at!" The rope around his ankle was also untied. Joseph climbed up and looked at the bite marks on Daniel's neck. After a few glances, he sat back down guiltily and scratched his ears. "It's already been bitten. What do you think we should do?"

Daniel turned around and picked up his suit jacket from the desk, then turned to look at him, his eyes casually sweeping across the chandelier on the floor.

"Repair costs."

"How many?"

"Leaving aside the claw marks on the walls and doors, I need to repair the ancient books, replace the chandeliers and bed sheets, and clean the cloak and suit. A total of 3873 crystals."

"Are you robbing me?" Joseph's face changed.

"Blood replenishment fee," Daniel tapped the large glass bottle on the table with his fingers, "One thousand milliliters, one thousand crystals. My blood has tripled, so the total is four thousand."

"How could I have consumed one liter of your blood? If I had consumed so much, would you still be here to settle accounts with me?" Joseph's tail was blown up. "You're asking for three times as much. Is your blood made of gold so expensive?"

"It's 7873 in total, and I haven't calculated your accommodation fee yet," Daniel looked at him and said, "Didn't I tell you not to push your luck and be too presumptuous?"

Joseph finally understood why Daniel was able to run such a big black market. He jumped off the bed and pretended to run away, but Daniel grabbed his wrist without looking back and pulled him back.

With a "bang", Joseph fell onto the bed, and saw that Daniel's eyes had become somewhat dangerous.

"I'm very curious," Daniel said. When Joseph was about to eject from the door, he stepped on his tail. "It's very rare for a low-level monster to have a companion ability like life link. Obviously, the soul-bewitching vine will start to grow the moment it is planted, but it stayed in your body for three days."

"What do you mean?" Joseph shuddered.

Daniel did not answer.

Last night he could tell at a glance that the Soul-Bewitching Vine was planted by the people from the Treasure Appraisal Pavilion a few days ago. Perhaps they wanted to use it to discipline Joseph, but they didn't expect it to be ineffective in the short term.

In fact, it was not ineffective, but was suppressed by the demonic power in Joseph's body. It was not until last night when Joseph completely exhausted his demonic power that the Soul-Bewitching Vine began to grow again.

Ever since Joseph first brought people into his black market to cause trouble, he had sensed a familiar aura from this low-level monster. However, the aura was too faint, almost non-existent, making him unsure.

So he let the arrogant monster go, watching the monster become more and more daring to be beaten without any scruples, and watching the monster's stupid and complacent look.

Sometimes he wondered if his assumption was too bold.

In the room, Daniel looked deeply at Joseph, and at this moment the cat monster was still trying hard to pull its tail out from under his feet.

If Joseph was really the monster he thought he was, his current behavior was really miserable.

"This is the loss you have incurred every time you caused trouble in the black market in the past three years," Daniel finally pulled out a booklet from the bookshelf and threw it to Joseph, "plus the 7873 from last night, a total of 517349 crystals. I have never asked you or your guild for it."

"What are you going to do?" Joseph suddenly raised his head.

"Based on your price tag of 500 a night at the Treasure Appraisal Pavilion, you will need to sell yourself 1035 times to pay off this huge debt," Daniel put his hands in his trouser pockets and looked at him, "Do 1035 things for me, and I will let you go."

"Daniel, are you crazy?" Joseph's hair suddenly blew up, his eyes wide open, "I only owe you two favors, and you asked me to do a thousand things, you black-hearted businessman!"

"1,035 items."

"You, you, you---" Joseph suddenly yelled, and rushed forward to give Daniel a few punches, "I'm going to fight you."

However, Daniel just dodged slightly and loosened his foot that was stepping on his tail. With a "bang", he crashed into the bookshelf due to inertia and fell with stars in his eyes.

Daniel looked at him sarcastically. He couldn't even come up with 500,000 crystal stones. There was no point in letting this monster hang around outside. It would be better to keep him by his side so that he could confirm his true identity.

"Ptck, ptck." Joseph tried to spit at Daniel. He learned this from the alpacas in the guild.

With a "slap", Daniel rudely slapped him on the mouth and put a talisman on him to seal his mouth.

Joseph's face suddenly became filled with pain.

"How do you think about it?"

"You wish!"

"Of course, there is another way," Daniel pinched his cheek, "Sign a master-servant contract with me, and I will let you go."