“Tonight is the full moon! The night of the full moon grants vampires the most additional strength! As I am now, I would rival even the Demon Lord! Don’t you dare think I’m weak just because I’m a schemer!”
Blood-scarlet mana swirled, erupting from Carmilla’s shadow.
“Mgh!! This is bad! That amount of mana… It’s even more than I have!”
What? Wait, she’s so strong even you’re scared, Len? Well, damn. Didn’t expect that.
“I’ll take care of you small fry afterward! You, however, King of the Fen Wolves—you I vow to kill!”
Wait, what?! She’s singling me out?! I’m the biggest pacifist here!
Why do you want to attack an innocent white puppy? That’s animal abuse!
Without thinking, I jump back as before my eyes, Carmilla swiftly takes flight.
“Now I know for sure that ridiculous attitude of yours was all just an act to deceive me! I will not underestimate you any further!”
“A-arwf… (Um, no, this isn’t an act. It’s how I always am…) ”
“You won’t lull me into a false sense of security this time! I’ll use everything I have to kill you!!”
The ten nails sprouting from Carmilla’s hands sweep vertically, horizontally, in every direction, to slash me apart.
“Haaahhhh!!”
And then she kicks, planting her heel right in my stomach.
I crash through the crystal palace, blasted away from the lake entirely.
“Forbidden Magic: Blackblood Funeral Armaments!!”
Jumping out of the palace to follow me, Carmilla deploys a magic circle in midair.
From several layers of complex circle patterns, giant blades come forth. Distorted spears, made from something that looks like black blood. Several of them appear at the same time, firing toward me as I continue to hurtle through the air.
All of them stab into me, shoving me along the ground like a meteorite crashing down.
“I’m not finished yet!!”
Even more weapons are summoned from the deployed magic circle. Buried in the ground now, I’m helplessly exposed to the rain of attacks.
A horrifying number of giant weapons made of black blood pierce me, sticking out of me like I’m a pincushion.
“And this is the end!! Maximum Forbidden Magic: Darkness Heavycrash Prisonhammer!!”
A huge black sphere appears above Carmilla’s raised hands. Every last drop of her mana seems to be packed in that massive black lump of bloody mana as Carmilla bends over backward, turning.
“Diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiie!!”
The humongous black sphere moves slowly, but I’m pinned in place and unable to move; it presses down on me, crushing me, trying to swallow me whole. The immense mass of black blood flattens, creating enough destructive potential to change the lake’s very landscape.
“Haah… Haah…! …How was that? That was everything I had. On moonlit nights, I am the strongest of all in the Demon Lord’s army. Not even a hair is left of you now. You’ll have plenty of time to regret opposing me in hell.”
Carmilla, breathing raggedly, is confident of her victory.
Hmm. What should I do? I’d feel bad being the wet blanket with her so happy about this.
I really am worried as I look out of the crater and up to Carmilla, laughing at me from on high.
Uncaring of my hesitation, though, winds blow around the lake, and the dusty smoke covering our surroundings clears.
“Wha… I…?! How…?!”
Carmilla is so shocked it’s like her jaw is going to pop off and hit the ground.
“Arwf? (Umm, I’m, well, I’m sorry?) ”
I’m utterly unharmed. I took the brunt of some insane attacks there, but none of them even hurt. In fact, Len biting me would hurt more than that.
I shake myself off, getting rid of the dirt clinging to me.
“Grwl, grwl. (Heh. Carmilla forgot one very important thing. The same thing that allowed me to survive…) ”
Wow! A convenient explanation, delivered at a convenient time.
“What… What do you say I’ve forgotten…?!” Carmilla comes back sharply.
“Grwl, grwl. (You still don’t understand? The Fen Wolves are progeny of the moon. We receive even more of its protection than you vampires do. And for the one who stands higher than us all, our king, Routa, his powers are amplified dozens of times! You never stood a chance from the beginning!) ”
“Wh… What?!”
“A-arwf?! (Wait, what?!) ”
“Why are you surprised, beloved? This concerns your own body.”
Well, I was just thinking I felt in top physical shape today. My fur is all glowy now, too.
“That… That can’t be… That was everything I had, and it was ineffective…?!”
So she knew she’d gotten twice as strong as normal, but then her enemy ends up ten times stronger than that? That’s incredibly unfair. Even though she’s an enemy, I feel bad for her.
“Arwf. (Well, you were the one who said she wanted to go all out. Seems like you’re out of tricks now, so it’s our turn this time.) ”
Carmilla starts to panic upon sensing my heightened mana. “W-wait, just a moment! If…if you lay a hand on me, I will order all the elves in that village to commit suicide!”
“Oh, but I’ve already knocked all those elves unconscious.”
“Wh-what?!”
“Mew. (Not only the elves, too. Lady Len beat up everyone you turned. I can’t believe her total lack of subtlety would come in handy at a time like this. I guess you never know!) ”
“A… A plan, I need a plan—”
“The crafty schemer drowns in her own scheme, as they say.”
Actually, if you ask me, I’d say it was just bad luck. All we did was physically destroy her plans through brute force.
“I refuse to believe that I, the vampire princess Carmilla, would ever lose to these lowly beasts…! It’s not right…!”
Carmilla pulls at her hair, then charges in one last-ditch effort.
“Arwf. (Well, I told you to surrender a bunch of times already. Any more than this and you wouldn’t be able to plead extenuating circumstances, so—) ”
I take a deep breath, then eject all my pent-up frustration at once.
“Garrrrrwwwwllll!! (I don’t care how many of you there are! I will not forgive anyone stealing a master from her pet!!) ”
“N-nooooooooooooooooooo!!”
My full-strength barf beam envelops the charging Carmilla and wipes her, and the entire crystal palace behind her, off the face of the lake.