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Karindou 4 Koma Extra Story Pseudo Short Story [Ghostrick Live] 13
(That's odd? It's not very effective. Ah, maybe while he's hiding in the shadows, he's not influenced be the outside environment?)
With light steps to avoid the surprise stabs and slashes coming from below, Pink-chan was, deep down, confused. Hiding in the shadows, and then attacking from some unexpected direction, would really scare her sometimes, but from the smell of his essence, she could figure out the location, and since they were both basically knife users, it wasn't that much of a handicap. Since the surprise attacks could come at any time, it was hard for her to go on the offensive, but since they weren't agile... It would take some time, but her desired effect would occur. And when that happened, she could finish this cleanly.
(In terms of combat, he doesn't have any other abilities than his shadows, so he's not making much progress. In that case, he should make himself denser. At that point, if Cuey-chan recognizes my signal, we can beat him sooner. If that guy is to be believed, if we take too much time, it will be bad for the little mistress... All right, I guess I better show him "that"!)
She avoided a shadow blade making a big arcing path that came from behind. Ascertaining that BB was moving inside the shadows, she gave a war cry. Her clothes, which had been slashed multiple times and were now in tatters, and a glimpse of her underwear could be seen under what was once her skirt. Tearing off a piece of fabric on the upper left part of her body that was hindering her, she ripped her now useless bra off of her and exuded sexiness as she exposed herself. With a provocative smile, she put her all into sticking out her chest with a hmph, displaying her lovely breasts with a boing, as if to show that they were the perfect softness.
"It can't be helped nya... I'll have to get serious!"
"What do you mean serious, stop fucking with me!!"
BB couldn't contain himself over her haughty attitude. Flying out of the shadows on the side of the containers, he moved to slash her from behind.
To the two who were watching this fight, it looked as if all the shadows in the room were rising up.
More than 30 shadows appeared from all sides. The swarm of attacking decoys, just like when he was attacking the guests of the party during the raid on the hotel, all rushed at once to assault Pink-chan. If possible, BB didn't want to use the decoys, and wanted to enjoy himself harassing his opponent alone, but his patience was at its limit. He didn't care if she were cut up or smashed or what, he just wanted to see the smiling face of this teasing woman contorted in pain and kill her!
Without thinking, Cuey was about to shout, when Pink-chan yelled out.
"'Hide' or you'll be hit!"
Hearing that, Mifi grabbed Cuey's head and pulled her back from the hole in the wall that they were staring through. Her intuition told her that she was talking to them, and was a 'warning' she was going to do something. She wouldn't tell her opponent to specifically "hide" before attacking. Especially, if she was planning on just cutting through all of those shadows normally. Considering the situation and warning, Mifi's intuition said that if they were to continue watching, though it would be dangerous for them.
And her intuition was right.
As the shadows swarmed her, Pink-chan burst out from inside, letting out countless blades. The shadows that were coming from all directions were cut down by blades thrown in all directions, and cut down, and cut down... Sliced up like they were made of paper. From the hole in the wall that Mifi had been looking through, something came flying and hit the wall of the pathway with a metallic clang and fell to the floor. It was dozens of knives. Inside, there were still knives flying around, but Cuey, who didn't know much about knives, didn't understand, and was only scared by the knives that just kept flying out.
"What the...!?"
This caught BB's attention as well. The thrown knives were all coming from under Pink-chan's skirt as she fluttered around. At the very least, it was impossible for that amount of thrown knives to be under there, and BB was so confused that he completely forgot about countering, and used his decoys as shields as he tried to avoid this bladestorm. However, he wasn't able to completely dodge them all, and took quite a few injuries.
(Now I'll have to use the decoys as lures and retreat into the shadows... How humiliating, that one such as I would have to run from this stupid woman... How could this be, how could she have this many knives hidden there!)
The Schtlehertz guard maids that required weapons, of which Col and Pink-chan were the first, had a storage space created by magic in the lining of their skirts. This was done by Seren, an empty space-mass wizard, using her personal special ability, psuedo space creation magic, to make a prototype dimensional pocket, nicknamed DNA (D=Damn N=Near A=Anything) Pocket. While it's theoretically limited, it has a near infinite storage, and also, the storage entrance doesn't have a limit so almost anything can be placed inside, and just like the standardly equipped Otomos that were the beloved pets and defensive systems of Karindou, this was an absurd fruit of her skills. The things which Elza purchased were sent to the Schtlehertz mansion, and any weapons that the guard maids could normally think of (based on how suspicious it was and their preferences) would be added. Both Col and Pink-chan were able to obtain a large amount of guns or knives, and also abandoned weapons were collected. By the way, Elza, who saw all of this, muttered "Dora*mon?", and when she flipped up that region with all her strength, she fainted. According to her, science and magic are different, and not the same, so it was rude of her think it was the same.
This omnidirectional knife throwing was, according to her, her secret move, "Ripper's Mine". It had its origins as a skill using nails or needles, which was inexpensive in terms of gear and also easy to carry around, and she would just loot knives off of dead bodies to use with it. However, when she put all those knives that she gathered in the DNA pocket, that's when the skill really took form. Although, even back then, she wanted it to be more powerful, but the danger of putting a homing bomb in there was too dangerous and noticeable, considering the distances between enemies and allies. And to make it difficult to dodge, the number of thrown items would have to be be in the thousands, so it got the nickname of "1000 needles". Even though it had a proper name, the fact that it was named in such a Japanese way made her smile wryly.
(His mistake was not realizing that although I was messing around and let him cut up my clothes, I left only my skirt mostly in tact!)
Like a geyser, the waves of flashing blades only lasted several seconds. By design, it was a skill that would keep on throwing until everything was thrown, but watching BB as he took evasive action, she judged that there were no counter attacking blades, so she had created enough of an opening, and let the final knives just fall to the floor.
During the time before the thrown knives stopped, Pink-chan moved to an area that was far away from the relatively shadowy areas, and put some distance between herself and BB, who was using his decoys as a shield and thus were blocking his sight. She already knew the converted time lag due to the distance between entering the shadows and emerging from the shadows, and the timing of an attack coming from the shadows. From the position of the shadow that BB went into and her own location, even if there was some error in her calculations, she had enough time to finish her preparations before the next attack came.
The moment BB started to go into the shadows, he saw Pink-chan as she blew a kiss upward.
Why was she blowing a kiss, BB thought. It reminded him of a henshin hero.
With her left arm at her hip, she raised her right hand and made a fist, and put it to her left shoulder. With both arms, she made a big arc and hugged herself in a way to emphasize her breasts, and bent at the waist. With a wink, she opened both hands wide and yelled out.
"HENSHIN A GO-GO BABY!"
A light pink light poured out of Pink-chan.
"Ah?"
It was such an incomprehensible scene that BB, who still had half of his body in the shadows, suddenly stopped moving. He didn't know that this would be fatal.
Her eyes, which showed her demon nature, were even more distinctly heart-shaped than usual. Her ring-shaped hair ties that kept her hair in pigtails, and her tattered maid outfit and underwear disappeared into particles of light, and the sign of her demon nature, horns, appeared from a red oval on her head. Next, designs appeared on her naked body, enveloping her body in a red mist that looked like flames. However, it only enveloped her arms and legs, with only the bare minimum needed to cover her naughty bits. The majority of the red mist covered her spread wings. Just like her horns, it turned red and the mist turned into a covering for it, and her black wings were reformed into a white carapace with just a hint of red. The parts that looked like bumps opened up to reveal a fresh eye, which creepily squirmed. A dangerous line that was only made up of mist connected to her nice ass, and turned into a thick, sharp, wicked exoskeleton tail attached at her tailbone.
Aside from the demonic looking parts, no matter where you looked at her, she was pretty much completely naked. As she finished her transformation (or more precisely, her stripping), her final move was to lean forward and let out her lovely tongue with a lick, and struck a pose.
"Not justice, yes erotica! Melting both your heart and body, the lovely and lusty Pretty Slutty Soldier Succubustar! Is☆here!"
"...Uh?"
"Like I said, Pretty Slutty Soldier Succubustar! What do you think! Teehee♪"
"A...Ah?"
Pink-chan was flaunting her sexuality with her man-snaring gestures. BB was unable to talk.
His mouth was agape, and BB was actually making an expression. How could he describe this feeling? Anger and surprise and lust, losing motivation due to a sense of exhaustion from lust, and also lust. With so many things combined, he couldn't put it into words.
(Umm... We were fighting just now... right? What's going on?)
First, he should think. He scratched his head and tried to think, but he was so confused that not a single word came out.
"Yeah... It wouldn't make sense if it wasn't in Japanese?"
Those were the words that he finally managed to say.
"Oh, that's an unexpected turn, mister. Yes, in Japanese, 'justice' and 'sexual game' are pronounced the same, so 'not justice, yes erotica'. And I'm a succubus, so it's not 'pretty', but 'pretty slutty'. There are so many ways to express yourself in Japanese~"
"Sorry, but I don't actually get it... I mean, what's with your look..."
"Ah, this? Didn't I say it earlier, that I'm getting serious. This is my serious form. To put it simply, this is something like my succubus outfit? But, although my succubus powers have been strengthened, my fighting powers haven't changed at all~ Aha☆"
With both fists at her chin, Pink-chan coquettishly giggled. In contrast, BB was slowly overflowing with rage. It was proof that his anger finally overcame his surprise.
"Ah, so, that's that right. You're making fun of me aren't you!?"
"Yep!"
An immediate reply.
Like a flower blooming, with a cheerful smile, she gave a refreshing, immediate reply.
"Don't be so full of yourself, you fucking woman---!!!!!"
"Oops, I made him mad."
Enraged, BB slipped into shadows. At that moment, in response to his murderous rage, Pink-chan quickly picked up the knife that had fallen at her feet, and using her wings, flew into the air first. Just moments later, the surrounding shadows and Pink-chan's own shadow turned into sharp, black needles, and flew up to stab her. Once after another, the small shadows from the sides of the containers turned into needles and flew off, aiming for Pink-chan in the air. She blocked them with her wings, but then needles started raining from the ceiling. Still smiling, she aggressively and loudly used her butterfly knife and dodged them, as she left a trail of red mist in her wake, weaving and bobbing in the air, dodging and blocking needles. From the shadows, BB concentrated on targeting Pink-chan.
(For me, I can't pull off a trick like you did earlier... But, though it looks similar, there's one thing different about mine.)
As she repelled the thorns with her wings spread wide, behind Pink-chan, BB slid onto a needle and flew upward.
(Unlike you, who had all the knives come from a single point, I can concentrate mine onto a single point, and still have the freedom to move!)
Pink-chan dodged backwards from the needles falling from above her. BB, aiming at her defenseless back, thrust out a shadow blade. He was sure he was going to pierce her heart from behind, but then he realized that all the eyes on the wings were looking at him, and a shiver ran up his spine.
"I can see right through you...!"
Blocking the needles and blades with her wings, she spun around with a knife.
"Shit, you saw it!"
Twisting his body, the tip of the knife grazed right by his throat, and he felt a dull, numbed pain. Defending against the continued knife stabs, his kick was blocked by the wings. Dodging those wings by kicking it, BB jumped towards a nearby shadow.
(Yes... I see. I forgot, on a wall or ceiling, I can move pretty much as I wish through the shadows. But in the air, I can't move freely. I'm at a disadvantage against a flying opponent who stays at range. In that case, next time I won't respond and try to force her into range. Just watch... If you try to come just a little closer to the floor, walls or ceiling, and then we'll see if you notice when I stab you through the heart!)
Using the black needles as a diversion, BB stopped Pink-chan's pursuit. But just as he was almost at the shadows on the side of the containers, something unexpected happened.
"Cuey, fire!!"
At the same time as that voice, a flash of light came from a completely different direction. Once Ripper's Mine had stopped, Mifi once again started gazing into the room. With the needles targeting Pink-chan as she flew through the air, she heard a different meaning in Pink-chan's words of 'I can see right through you', and was certain it was for BB, and she grabbed Cuey's head, seeing the chance to fire her eye beam.
BB had a flashback to the previous night, during the assault on the hotel, just as they were withdrawing. The eyebeam was blasted the wrong place. The timing was the most important thing, and without time to aim precisely, she just grabbed Cuey's head and pointed her in the direction she wanted her to fire with all her strength, and Cuey, on cue, just fired her eyebeam in the direction she was looking. If they had been a little more in tune with each other, or if they had been a little more accustomed to fighting, BB would have definitely been burned again.
However, this was enough. For Pink-chan at least, the most effective part wasn't the direct damage done to BB, but the support that she wanted.
(That huge woman was here!? Hmm, I'll praise you for being able to come in here without me realizing it... But there's no point if you don't hit me, fool! Just wait there, I'll kill you soon enough...?, !?)
Disappointed, BB's shoulder touched the container as he tried to slip into the shadows. Though he thought his body would melt into the shadows, he felt the side of the cold container push against him, as gasped.
The powerful flash of light that the eyebeam let out was nothing like a lamp, and the light made all the shadows vanish from the containers.
BB's whole body was awash with feelings of anxiety, fear, and confusion. Kicking the container, he tried to fly into the next container, and in the gaps between containers. No matter how bright it was, if he could combine the shadows of multiple containers, or find a narrow gap, there should be plenty of shadows he could hide in.
Behind him, grinning like the Cheshire Cat, Pink-chan swooped down. He realized this after feeling a slight pain in the his side. The light that brightened the containers only prevented him from entering the shadows for a moment, but it allowed Pink-chan to get close.
Thinking he was stabbed, he immediately tried to counter, but his limbs wouldn't respond. He was powerlessly thrown to the floor, as the eyebeam light ended. As the dim light of the lamps succeeded the flash of light, there was a human man in a wet suit, lying on his back on the floor, groaning in pain.
"Eh, Mifi-san, a h, human!?"
"That's his real form, no, his real identity!? He wasn't a monster...!"
As the two of them were thrown into confusion from BB's surprise form, Pink-chan game them a thumbs up and slowly approached BB.
Her expression... was an entrancing smile.
"I thought so. I thought you were strange for a Shadow Stalker, because the smell of your essence didn't seem like a false life like a Shadow Stalker. And just as I thought, you're a human with a special power, a shadow user... You wrapped yourself in shadows to look like a Shadow Stalker, and eve if you act differently from what a real Shadow Stalker would, anyone who knows an actual Shadow Stalker would be fooled. But you chose the wrong opponent, any monster that consumes human essence, not just a succubus, would figure it out right away."
BB struggled to get away as Pink-chan approached him and mounted him to stop him from moving.
"Ah gah, guh..."
"Oho~ho, you can't even speak now. You can't move as you want? You can't even use your abilities? If you were a real Shadow Stalker, this wouldn't have had any effect on you. Too bad for you, human."
She showed him the knife in her left hand. The blade reminded him of a fang from a mid-sized demonic monster, with BB's blood dripping from it.
"Demonic sword Tarantela. A knife which is covered in a fearsome neurotoxin that, once stabbed, would instantly render even an elephant paralyzed, paralyzing both body and abilities. According to the mistress, it seems like it's really made from the fang of a phantasmal beast? Now that I'm a maid, it cost me several years worth of my salary, but it was worth all of it."
As she said that, she carefully cut up BB's wet suit with the butterfly knife.
"But now, the really scary part starts. Maybe because, in the past, it was all feast or famine, but when I can eat, I have the habit of eating as much as I can, so when I make love to a man, I can't get serious. If I do, I'll drain him until he dies. If my partner is a girl, it's more like sharing than draining, so I can't go that far."
Her thin and soft finger traced along his thigh, and she licked his cheek. Fear, and something else, ran up BB's spine.
"So... I only make love to bad guys who I absolutely can't forgive. That way, there's no problem, even if I 'love them until I'm full', right?"
"Uggg, ga, guh"
Kissing the nape of his neck, and purposefully playing with his finger, his paralyzed body unconsciously began to react. As it finally began to rise, she used her hand, and with each upward stroke, more blood rushed to it, and when it touched her supple butt, it became harder and hotter.
"Isn't it strange how you're paralyzed, but you've become like this? The sweat, saliva and even pheromones of a succubus have an aphrodisiac effect. Even though you're afflicted by the Tarantela neurotoxin, that part of you is strong. Ever since we started fighting, I've been giving off pheromones, but when you're inside the shadows, it's not very effective. In this form, my skin is more exposed, so the concentration of pheremones is higher. It's a teasing transformation, and I don't tease without a reason."
"G, Gaaggh...!"
"But still, I really like people like you. You like fighting, don't you? You're the type who kills, kills and kills, and you'll only die after you've finished your greatest kill, right? You really are lovely, worthless scum... That's why, I won't grant your wish. For you, it will be the most terrible, the most shameful death."
The red mist surrounding Pink-chan's body disappeared, and completely exposed her nipples, and her pink buds, unable to wait any longer, became harder and bigger. Shifting her waist, BB's thing became entangled in her hot and slightly moist flesh.
Aligning herself... She slowly wrapping it in warmth. As the tip slightly poked inside, BB soon reached that point. The pleasure was unlike anything he experienced before, and it ripped apart his brain, and he shivered uncontrollably as he felt like all his nerves were pleasure zones. He felt like his consciousness was getting hazy and distant, and even has this essence finished spewing out, it retained its stiffness, and he felt an indescribable fear and pleasure seep through his entire body. Even though he tried to escape, the powerful neurotoxin in his body made him unable to move.
Moving her hips, slamming into it, rocking forward and back. Wanting essence, not resisting the coaxing of the throbbing flesh, once again. Not getting limp, it didn't move away from Pink-chan's loving embrace.
"Ah, mmm... Aha, good, so thick, so hot, so very delicious. I'm liking you even more... That's why..."
Pressing on the soft nipples on BB's chest, she whispered in his ear.
"...I'll love you to death..."
In the dim light, the sound of fluids and flesh colliding dominated. With voiceless cries, Pink-chan was filled to her satisfaction. It didn't stop. She wouldn't let him stop. Until he had expelled his essence, his life, and everything, she continued to love and kill him.
Meanwhile, after firing off the eyebeam, and on guard against Pink-chan's pheromones, Mifi dashed back to the hallway to a distance where there would be no effect. With her was Cuey, who had felt a little of the effect and had tears in her eye.
(She'll go back to normal after some time passes? If she doesn't go back... Ah, now I feel like I understand how the mistress feels, when she won't lay a hand on me...!)
It seems like she has some problems of her own.