Even if I transform, I will never be captured.

"There's no other way but to unleash our ultimate move." Puck rubbed his face with his paws and looked at Emilia, saying, "Lia, it's too late to dodge now. Please put up your ice shield and protect the others."

"Okay, okay."

Emilia stepped back from the front lines, raised an ice crystal shield, and protected everyone behind her, including Felt and Rom.

This action drew the attention of Lord Rom and Felt, who cast surprised glances at Emilia.

After all, from Emilia's perspective, there was absolutely no reason for her to protect them; on the contrary, their deaths would make it easier for her to retrieve the badges.

Seemingly sensing the gaze from behind, Emilia explained rapidly, like a machine gun:

"No, don't look at me with those grateful eyes. I haven't done anything that deserves your gratitude. After all, if I protected you, I could ask you for badges in return. So I did this for my own selfish desires."

"puff!"

"What are you all laughing at! I wasn't joking!"

Rom relaxed his furrowed brows and looked at the blonde loli behind him, saying, "Felt, return the badge to this young lady. Even people in our line of work should act with conscience."

"Okay," Ferut said listlessly.

Subaru Natsuki cleverly squeezed behind Satella. He didn't dare to touch Satella, but just smelling the scent of his beloved beautiful girl from behind made him squint his eyes in ecstasy.

"So, the stage is set up, is this lady ready to accept the invitation?"

The adorable voice sounded like a death knell. Puck waved his two paw-like claws, unleashing the immense magic of the [End of the Frozen Lands], which began to reverberate throughout the space.

The temperature plummeted, and even the surrounding land, trees, and houses were covered with ice crystals.

Although it's still unknown what magic Parker will use next, this kind of spectacle is already not to be underestimated.

"Unfortunately, I'm only interested in tall men."

Knowing that she would be killed instantly if she didn't intervene, Elsa stomped heavily on the ground and floated into the air, the curved blade in her hand flashing with a deadly cold light as she stabbed towards Parker.

"We've been tricked!"

A cunning smile appeared on Parker's face. There was no grand magic; instead, the inconspicuous ice crystals on the ground stood upright at that moment, like shards of glass, and stabbed towards Elsa.

"Shh!"

Elsa, suspended in mid-air with nowhere to hide, was instantly turned into an 'ice crystal hedgehog'.

"boom!"

Elsa fell from mid-air to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust, and remained motionless.

"Did you take them down?!"

"Although I want to tell you not to make such a bold claim, you wouldn't survive an attack of this magnitude, would you?"

As if responding to Rom and Subaru's conversation, Puck flew in front of Satella and said boastfully, "So, can you still say that I'm weaker?"

“I think you should finish her off first.” Leaping over Puck, Satella looked at Elsa’s 'corpse'.

She always felt that Elsa couldn't die so easily, and she felt as if she had forgotten something.

"Leave the finishing blows to me."

The one who ran over while saying this was Felt, the blonde loli, but she didn't finish Elsa off immediately. Instead, she kicked her a few times first.

"Serves you right for double-crossing us! Serves you right for trying to kill us! And... wow! This guy's still alive!"

"Shh!"

A cold, sharp blade flashed in the twilight. Felt, who had used his [Blessing of the Wind] to dodge the attack at the crucial moment, scrambled back behind Satella and the others, looking at the blood-soaked figure slowly rising from the ground with a look of terror on his face.

"It really hurts... but it's amazing! This feeling of being alive, I almost turned into mincemeat, this is just wonderful!"

As if she couldn't feel the pain from the bloody holes in her body, Elsa licked her lips, a bewitching smile on her face, her two sharp fangs peeking out from the corners of her mouth particularly striking.

"I remember now, she has half-vampire blood and can be resurrected multiple times!" These two sharp fangs finally reminded Satella of the identity of Elsa that was spoiled in the comments when she was watching the anime.

"Don't wait until now to reveal this crucial intelligence!" ×5.

"How are you, Parker? Are you alright?"

Emilia looked at Parker with a hint of worry; it was already dusk.

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"I'm sorry, although I still want to help Leah, I've run out of magic." Puck's body emitted a faint light, appearing so blurry that it seemed about to disappear.

"...Just as I thought, it's that lazy Parker again." Satella looked disappointed.

Parker's lips twitched. "Although I don't know the exact meaning of 'slacking off,' I guess I understand what you're trying to say... Alright, this was my mistake. From now on, I'll leave Lia to you. If you really are Lia's sister, then please use the power to protect her."

"I can do it without you telling me, sir. May I borrow your knife?"

Holding the knife borrowed from Lord Rom, Satella stepped out from behind Emilia's ice shield, confronting Elsa, and spoke:

"To be honest, I don't want to be seen as winning by attrition, nor do I want to kill women, so if you can run away now, I might spare your life for now."

"Although she's a young lady, she's surprisingly chivalrous." Elsa chuckled. "But no matter what, I'm just an employee. I'm not going to risk my life for her. If things turn out badly, I'll run away immediately."

"But once I make a move, you won't be able to escape."

With negotiations proving fruitless, Satella gently closed her eyes, then suddenly opened them again.

The sword rang out.

A crescent-shaped silver light traced a beautiful arc as Satella's right arm flew through the air, blood staining her face and dress, giving her an indescribable sense of tragic beauty.

Then, something surged out of her right arm.

That is……

Rom's pupils dilated suddenly, and he roared in a trembling voice, "A dragon, it's a dragon—!!!"

"Awoooooo!!!"

A deep, resounding dragon roar echoed throughout the Kingdom of Lugnica. At the sound of this roar, everyone couldn't help but step out of their homes. When they saw the seventeen dragons stirring up the wind and clouds in the sky, their pupils dilated suddenly.

Surprise, cheers, disbelief… countless expressions flashed across their faces, and then—

"thump!"

"thump!"

From royalty and nobility to the poorest people, everyone in the kingdom knelt down before the seventeen dragons in the sky at that moment!

The Kingdom of Lugnica is also known as the Kingdom of the Dragon. Dragons are their guardian deities, their totem, and even their masters, beings that are more supreme than the king!

"Hey, is this real? This is really... a dragon?!"

Still in disbelief, Natsuki Subaru was pulled hard from behind by Rom, and he uncontrollably knelt down.

The rough-around-the-edges Rom and the arrogant Felt both trembled at this moment, unable to utter a single word.

Natsuki Subaru, kneeling on the ground, cast a bitter gaze at the figure not far away. Although they were only a few dozen meters apart, he felt as if there was an insurmountable chasm between them.

"...I guess I'm weaker after all." Parker murmured softly, then turned into mist and disappeared into a crystal with a relieved expression.

Emilia also knelt on the ground, her bright blue-violet eyes fixed on Satella's back—that was my sister, the one who commanded dragons!

Elsa, locked in by the dragon's might, stood frozen in place. The infamous killer, the Bowel Hunter, seemed to have nails driven into her feet, unable to move an inch.

vampire?

Before a dragon, it is nothing more than a small bat.

"I told you, I let you run away."

Satella shook her head, her face pale. To be honest, she didn't want to suffer the pain of losing an arm, but if she didn't intervene, Emilia and the other three would surely die.

However, Elsa smiled when she heard Satella say that.

A sickly smile.

"awesome!"

The Bowel Hunter exclaimed from the bottom of his heart, "So this is a dragon! It's absolutely amazing!"

"Hey, are you crazy?"

"Yes, I'm so happy I'm going crazy!" Elsa spread her arms wide, her alluring face contorted with rage. "Murderers will always die. Wouldn't it be wonderful if a dragon could hold my funeral?"

“…” Satella, who didn’t know how to answer, sighed: “Then I will grant your wish.”

Seventeen dragons rushed towards Elsa and devoured her. The last thing Satella saw was Elsa bowing to her, her red lips parting and closing: "Thank you, Dragon Envoy."

Immediately afterwards, seventeen dragons swept past her.

The renowned gut hunter, whose fame spread throughout the continent, finally met his end at this moment.

Satella sighed softly.

To be honest, when watching the anime, she quite liked the glamorous older sister character, the Bowel Hunter.

It really leaves a bad taste in my mouth to kill off one of my favorite characters like this.

However, unlike before when I was indifferent, now I'm truly in the world of anime!

Therefore, we can no longer be as willful as before.

Satella quickly adjusted her mindset, reminding herself to adapt to her new identity as soon as possible.

“That… Miss benefactor…”

Suddenly, a sound like someone about to cry came from behind. It was Natsuki Subaru, the only one who lacked reverence for dragons.

With a trembling voice that was almost on the verge of tears, Natsuki Subaru stammered, "Those dragons...it looks like they're going to eat us!"

"Uh……"

Satella then realized that the [Rei Imagine Breaker] that had emerged from her right arm had not disappeared. It was still roaring maliciously in the sky and fixing its gaze on Emilia and the others kneeling on the ground.

Satella then remembered that Touma Kamijou's Reigen had its own consciousness and was not very controllable; in short, it was like the Nine-Tails inside Naruto's body.

Well, she had to clean up the mess she made herself. But Satella never expected that the final boss she would face this time would be the seventeen dragons she had summoned.

"Hey!"

Satella shouted at the dragons in the air, "I know you can understand me, and you do look like Eastern dragons, so I don't want to fight you. How about you come back on your own?"

"..." The seventeen dragons ignored her completely.