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𝙁𝙡𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙤𝙛 @PH0ENlXD0WN

[࿈༆ @ScarredEmbers]

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𝒊'𝒎 𝗕𝗔𝗖𝗞

[#MVRP]

[࿈༆ @ScarredEmbers]

Thinking...

"Oh! So if I say I'm your dog, then you'll let me live here?"

[ᅠᅠᅠᅠ𝐄𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐌𝐀𝐒ᅠᅠ／ᅠᅠ𝘀𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗻 @PH0ENlXD0WN]

❛ Dragalia, I'm going to ask you this nicely.

What sort of being finds the person who's above them by scent alone? ❜

[࿈༆ @ScarredEmbers]

"My my. Such underestimation...

It's not about dogs and masters, it's about being great mates, as a human would put it, no?"

[ᅠᅠᅠᅠ𝐄𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐌𝐀𝐒ᅠᅠ／ᅠᅠ𝘀𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿��𝗶𝗴𝗻 @PH0ENlXD0WN]

❛ OYE — You're not a dog and I'm not your master!

How'd you even manage to tear through literal dimensions on your own anyway?! ❜

[ᅠᅠᅠᅠ𝐄𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐌𝐀𝐒ᅠᅠ／ᅠᅠ𝘀𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗻 @PH0ENlXD0WN]

❛ OYE — You're not a dog and I'm not your master!

How'd you even manage to tear through literal dimensions on your own anyway?! ❜

[࿈༆ @ScarredEmbers]

"Eh? I followed your scent, obviously."

[ᅠᅠᅠᅠ𝐄𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐌𝐀𝐒ᅠᅠ／ᅠᅠ𝘀𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗻 @PH0ENlXD0WN]

❛ One chance. ❜

So she says, before using the air as stairs to reach Dragalia's height.

❛ How did you get in here? ❜

[࿈༆ @ScarredEmbers]

Almost dropping all of her ransacked snacks.

"What?"

[ᅠᅠᅠᅠ𝐄𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐌𝐀𝐒ᅠᅠ／ᅠᅠ𝘀𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗻 @PH0ENlXD0WN]

Grabbing her scruff and glaring.

[࿈༆ @ScarredEmbers]

Raiding @PH0ENlXD0WN 's refrigerator.

[࿈༆ @ScarredEmbers]

Do not look at me like I'm sort of troglodyte! I *know* what I'm talking about!

[ᅠᅠᅠᅠ𝐄𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐌𝐀𝐒ᅠᅠ／ᅠᅠ𝘀𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗻 @PH0ENlXD0WN]

...

(genuinely speechless.)

[࿈༆ @ScarredEmbers]

...But...

That's still using mathematics.

[Dumb dragon brains gears spinning.]

[ᅠᅠᅠᅠ𝐄𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐌𝐀𝐒ᅠᅠ／ᅠᅠ𝘀𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗻 @PH0ENlXD0WN]

... Not in the slightest.

Say, just in theory, you can destroy two muffins at the height of your power. Then I divide your power in half, so you can only destroy one now. I divide it again and you can only destroy half.

That's what I mean.

[࿈༆ @ScarredEmbers]

Same thing, no?

[ᅠᅠᅠᅠ𝐄𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐌𝐀𝐒ᅠᅠ／ᅠᅠ𝘀𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗻 @PH0ENlXD0WN]

Not like that — actually dividing their opponents power in half.

Hell, I'm dividing space as I speak.

[࿈༆ @ScarredEmbers]

Factual information. Only weaklings utilize mathematics in combat.

[ᅠ��ᅠᅠ𝐄𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐌𝐀𝐒ᅠᅠ／ᅠᅠ𝘀𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗻 @PH0ENlXD0WN]

Just realized something...

If you've to divide the power of whoever you're fighting, you must be pretty weak to begin with.

[Kiss-Shot Acerola-Orion Heart-Under-Blade @Kizushot]

⠀⠀

" If thee can't be 𝒎𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒏𝒆 , then be 𝒑𝒐𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒏.

Otherwise you are naught but water. "

⠀⠀

[࿈༆ @ScarredEmbers]

"No no no, I derive no pleasure from people looking at me naked.

I simply do not care."

[ᅠᅠᅠᅠ𝐄𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐌𝐀𝐒ᅠᅠ／ᅠᅠ𝘀𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗻 @PH0ENlXD0WN]

❛ So I've an exhibitionists heart in my chest—. ❜

[࿈༆ @ScarredEmbers]

"Ugh...

More like I didn't want to imagine any when I was manifesting my new form.

I'll find some soon enough, don't you worry."

[ᅠᅠᅠᅠ𝐄𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐌𝐀𝐒ᅠᅠ／ᅠᅠ𝘀𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗻 @PH0ENlXD0WN]

@ScarredEmbers

❛ I was wondering where your clothes went — did they burn up when you entered the atmosphere? ❜

[࿈༆ @ScarredEmbers]

"Hmm." She smirked.

"You look easy to toss."

Quickly spinning backwards, she aimed to throw the transformed slayer over her shoulder, directly towards the center of the fiery pit.

[࿈༆ @ScarredEmbers]

She didn't even see her change.

Before she knew it, Dragalia was staring at some thin, tube-like monstrosity, moving her gaze up as she followed its slender neck, her eyes finally landing upon the ugly visage of the fiend that now stood towering before her.

[ᅠᅠᅠᅠ𝐄𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐌𝐀𝐒ᅠᅠ／ᅠᅠ𝘀𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗻 @PH0ENlXD0WN]

❛ An army — me? Did those millions of years alive make you lose your mind?
ᅠ None of us work the same way, anyway. ❜

It's too much responsibility, as well as the need to recruit people being too annoying. Really, it's easier working with less than ten other women.
𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐓 ➣

[࿈༆ @ScarredEmbers]

"...Hooooohhh...Cute."

She then noticed the many little tendrils wrapped around her flaming hand. Didn't look like she was being hurt, or vice-versa.

[ᅠᅠᅠᅠ𝐄𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐌𝐀𝐒ᅠᅠ／ᅠᅠ𝘀𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗻 @PH0ENlXD0WN]

❛ An army — me? Did those millions of years alive make you lose your mind?
ᅠ None of us work the same way, anyway. ❜

It's too much responsibility, as well as the need to recruit people being too annoying. Really, it's easier working with less than ten other women.
𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐓 ➣

[࿈༆ @ScarredEmbers]

Finally acknowledging her new attire, she sizes her slayer up and down. Tremendous power, of course. But...

"Let us see if you've been training appropriately."

Her left hand catches on fire, slowly reaching out to Aster.

A test.

[࿈༆ @ScarredEmbers]

"Duty? You've become some measly rank and file? I would have expected you to have raised your own army by now."

She replies with a smile, although she does truthfully find it weird that Aster would simply choose to serve given her power. Not a good start.

[ᅠᅠᅠᅠ𝐄𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐌𝐀𝐒ᅠᅠ／ᅠᅠ𝘀𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗻 @PH0ENlXD0WN]

Her hand leaving the axe, it joins with the other to clap once, the weapon turning head-down behind Aster's back.

❛ And you... Have been re-forming, by the looks of things. By even human standards, that's an awful lot of power in such a short time — a year, hasn't it been? ❜

[࿈༆ @ScarredEmbers]

"So I decided to visit! I wrecked a few solar systems on the way here, but there shouldn't be too much rubble heading this way. Not that I care. I just don't want to cause you any unnecessary trouble, Soldier Girl."