"Shit, get away!"
Brandishing her staff, Vylara swung it one more time, before another blood vine emerged from the ground, lifting Natsuki and her high into the air. "Goddess damn it, why on Aeronia isn't that shit dead!? I bloody cut it in half!?"
She had no more chance to cuss out, for within a few seconds, seeing that its prey had risen high into the air, it extended 5-inch claws made from the darkest of shadows, and used them as hooks to climb the vines. Seeing how fast it was climbing, Vylara's heart sank. Sure, even if she could not defeat it, she at least had the capability to escape back to town and inform what she had seen here...
But now she had a dead weight beside her
Buying her lips, she made a decision she knew she was gonna regret:
With a swift slap, she knocked Natsuki unconscious, before baring her two canines, now longer than ever
"Tch, I wish I never had tongue this power again, but fuck it...
Blood Whip!"
Blood spurted from her arms, before coagulating into a long, thin whip, which she then used to swing across the beast. Yelping in pain, the shadow beast began slowly dissolving, until all that remained were a few clouds of shadow here and there...
Pant, pant, pant...
Panting with fatigue, Vylara's two front canines slowly retracted, leaving her the image of a punkish Elf. She knew that if she showed this form to Natsuki, he'd most likely reel back in disgust.
Though knowing how those Japanese Light Novels portray vampires, he'd most likely ask me out–
Slap!
No, snap out of it Vy! He'll most likely hate me like all the others!
Despite this train of thought, for the first time in forever, Vylana wished, from the very bottom of her heart, that maybe, maybe, Natsuki won't be like the others, and hopefully use her full form for his l, ahem, 'nightly' activities. Blushing madly, she turned her head back to where she had killed the monster, hoping to distract herself from these perverted thoughts...
And she was glad she did
The shadowy clouds were seen slowly clumping back together again, slowly reforming into the shadow monster. Seeing that she cannot kill it, she quickly grabbed the conked-out Natsuki, heading deeper into the woods...
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Uurrgghhh...
Head throbbing in pain, Natsuki awoke. Feeling woozy, he slowly opened his eyes, only to see himself inside, in what appeared to be, a small stone cave. "Hey, sorry for knocking you out. Had to do it to unleash my full powers..."
"Oh, so something bad would've happened to me if I saw you using it?"
"...Yeah, something like that."
Unable to bear the silence any longer, Natsuki felt that he had to say it now. "Iamsorryforsayingthatweshouldactlike Gods!"
Take aback at the newest member for apologising, Vylara couldn't help but laugh at the scene:
It was as if he had been caught cheating, and his wife was about to give him a beating of a lifetime
"Nah, I should be the one saying sorry. To be honest, I should've told you why this is outlawed:
Long ago, there was a time when we could do this, to facilitate our mission to go faster. Sure, it worked for a time, and everything was perfect...
Until greed took over
This led to one of the Bureau's greatest catastrophes, leading to the loss of one of the major dimensions in our hand. It got so bad that we had to issue an Exterminatus on the whole Genre, causing it to disappear entirely. To this day, it is regarded as heresy if anyone attempts to do it again, forcing us to go in a roundabout manner when collecting souls..."
Realising that he had broached upon a sensitive topic, Natsuki attempted to steer the conversation away from their dreary topic. "S-so how will we collect the souls from here then?"
Perking up her long ears, Vylana turned her attention to the inquisitive young man. Seeing that he was genuinely interested, she smiled, before opening her mouth. "Well, our common method, our modus operandi (Latin is very popular amongst the 'Western' folks– don't ask why), is to use a moving vehicle as a form of execution method to harvest our–"
AWWOOO!
AWWOOO!
GRUFFF...
"Oh fuck..."