Even whilst he was fully focused on his opponent turned prey, he still saw her without having to divert any of his attention. It was truly a magical thing, this spiritual consciousness, and it was something which he had found very useful during his time in this new continent.
Discovering that he was being watched did nothing to change his actions however.
"AARGH!"
The Blue Ape let out an inhuman-sounding scream that nearly shattered Gaston's eardrums.
Blood that sprayed out from his newly inflicted wound on the Blue Ape completely covered his left arm, but Gaston only found his grin growing a little wider at the bloody sight.
After cutting the Blue Ape open from it's chest all the way down to it's pelvis, he gripped the magic knife even harder and stabbed it upwards of it's pelvis, reaching deep inside it's stomach and cutting some organs in the process.
Delivering the fatal blows to his prey, he raised his head to look it in it's eyes as he began repeatedly stabbing deep into the open wound he had created. He watched the life drain away from it's eyes, but before it could completely fade away, the Blue Ape made eye contact with him.
That was when, in it's fading eyes, Gaston discovered a faint look of shock.
The sudden rush of energy was not good for it's health however, as it only further sped up the time of it's death. With it's eyes now wide open due to the shock however, it actually sent Gaston a mental transmission before he witnessed the life completely fade away from it's eyes.
"Traitor..."
Receiving this final message, delivered with it's dying breath, only brought Gaston great confusion.
His faintly intoxicated expression that gradually appeared as more and more blood left the Blue Ape's body all but disappeared upon hearing that, replaced by a slightly confused expression.
'Traitor? Has it hallucinated me as it's kin in it's final moments, leading it to believe that it had been betrayed?'
Gaston allowed himself a moment to ponder the dying words of his prey, but aside from it hallucinating, he couldn't make much sense of it's words. Still, the words stuck with him for whatever reason, but since he couldn't make sense of them, he dismissed them for now.
His sense of smell latched onto the delicious smell of blood, which unconsciously nearly made Gaston salivate. It was as if he was a starving man presented with a full-course meal in a five-star restaurant.
Detecting that he had been affected by something once again, Gaston was now able to focus on this sensation, giving it his undivided attention, and he quickly discovered the cause!
The blood!
And not just the Blue Ape blood, what Gaston found to be even more disturbing, was that the smell of human blood, which was far more potent due to the larger amount of human corpses in the area, was the thing that really affected him.
Even if mentally he wanted to reject the notion, his body's reaction was honest, and it wasn't something he could get away from.
When he raised his left arm, covered in the Blue Ape's blood, Gaston found his eyes hard to divert from the sight, but his body's natural reaction didn't stop there.
As he unwittingly pulled his arm closer to his nose, he felt something change within his mouth, as his two canine teeth suddenly grew longer, extending downwards to form two sharp fangs!
Gaston was completely flabbergasted by the situation, as nothing in his recovered memories could serve to explain what was happening to him. There was only one thing that reminded him of his current condition, but that made no sense to him.
The sudden, out-of-the-blue attraction to blood, especially human blood, which his body found more desirable, and the change in his teeth, which now resembled fangs...
All of these things reminded him of the Vampires that he had only read about in works of fiction back on Earth. But he had never encountered a Vampire in his life, nor had he even heard of their existence.
'My memories of everything that happened after boarding the Ancient Ship are clear, and although what happened before that is blurry, I am certain that there was no mention of Vampires.
'That only leaves the most recent memories that are still missing.'
Previously, he had been forced to split up from his crew members, as their ambush of the Blue Ape hunting party had gone on for longer than it should've and their reinforcements had arrived far faster than ever before.
What had happened afterwards was still completely unknown to Gaston.
He was only aware that he found himself falling from a tree and impacting the water below him on his way down.
After seeing the smoke, he assumed it came from the human village that they had been going towards, but if that was true, he knew it meant that there was still a lot he still hadn't remembered.
He knew that escaping from the Blue Ape reinforcements was very difficult, and dealing with their hunting parties afterwards by himself even more so, which was why he was just happy to find himself still alive after waking up.
But this?
Suddenly finding himself to no longer be human?
This was far beyond his wildest expectations when it came to what had transpired during the time he was not remembering. Truthfully, he had never found himself so shocked by something before ever in his life.
Standing there in a daze, he wondered what this would mean for his future life in the human civilization he was soon to enter. Now that he was a Vampire however, should he even enter it?
And why was he alone at this moment in time? If the fiction stories from Earth were to be believed, which, as stupid as it might sound, was still really the only source of information he had to go off of, then to become a Vampire meant that he had gotten bitten by one.
In that case, where was his creator? Or was that not how it worked in this world?