"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!" The scream caught her by surprise.
She had been using most of the offensive aspects of her [Skill] against Nyctophagia while trying to protect the magical girl who had stood against the A-Tier Villain. The man seemed to want to use the girl for something and she didn't like that idea, and while he was bound to [Echidna] and [The Hydra's Fang], he still was a true honest to god [Villain].
She heard enough stories about how he liked to [Eat young heroines] and [Magical Girls], most of those ended up traumatized for life and stopped working in this type of jobs. And something in the [Magical Girl] behind called to her.
So when the girl started screaming and trhashing behind her, she invoked the most powerful defensive aspect her skill allowed. She quickly used one of her more expensive defensive skills "[RHO AIAS!]" This was her Ace defensive [Skill], it condensed a localized magnetic field and brought forth a huge amount of metallic sand that was then molded into a seven-layered barrier.
In this case, the barrier was fueled both by her [Skill] allowing it to [Purify] the [Shadows] and keeping her free of the [Taint] while also stopping most attacks.
Nyctophagia would be able to pierce that if he wanted, of course, she wasn't under the impression that she had won their little fight.
But he would risk hurting her, and they both knew that even if her Mother had disowned her and thrown her away...She would not stand for it.
Even if she no longer could use the Windsor name and instead was using the [Ashcroft] of her mother's first crush (Who even allows the daughter of another man to use his last name?!?), she still had her blood running through her veins.
And while Nyctophagia held no respect for her, he feared the blood running in her veins, for while it wasn't one that held [The Shadow] attribute, it was one that held [The Mother of Monsters] heritage.
But that was enough self-insight for now, she needed to check on the magical girl behind her, "are you okay?" asked Chloe.
The girl in question had blonde hair with blue eyes shining a constellation of stars, she got an inkling that the girl looked like a petite version of Elizabeth. The powered girl that she had caused so much trouble...And the same girl that seemed to be a [Tainted].
The girl intrigued her, she felt a [Calling] that made her orbit around in the periphery of that girl, as if she had [Something] that made her want to be like her...To be [With her].
And by the look she gave her, she seemed to think the same, they had chatted here and there after the midterms started, and while they didn't get to be close friends...She liked the girl enough to consider her a friend of sorts. It helped that people thinking she was her or related to with her internship in [The Tribunal]...
"Ughh......GAAAAH!" Was the response she got from the blonde girl trhashing , her body started being covered in shadowy veins and her eyes had turned crimson red.
This...This shouldn't be possible!
She was going berserk...Her mana was going berserk!
But she wasn't a [Tainted]!
She couldn't feel any [Taint] in her even after Nyctophagia threw that knife into the girl!
"FINALLY MOTHER WILL DESCEND!" Said Nyctophagia while raving on about [Mother].
That was bad...She would need to snitch with her brother about that...How had one of the closest members of her Mother be a cultist all this time?!?...Who was she kidding, that woman probably was aware of it and wanted to use it as a way to get information to help [Her Childs].
