Whitebeard's Daughter! (Bonus Chapter for Spring Autumn Cicada Sequence Alliance Leader)

"Who are you?"

"Oh, my apologies. In the presence of a lady, I should introduce myself first."

"My name is Tobarukain Alhambra, though those who know me call me 'Handsome.'"

Alhambra paid no heed to the corpses, bloodstains, and wrecked tanks around him.

He bowed like a true gentleman to the mysterious girl approaching him.

As soon as he finished speaking,

the girl opposite him, dressed in a red-and-black Gothic dress and carrying a giant scythe in one hand, responded with a smile.

"Hehehehe, my name is Loli Mercury. As for my identity, I suppose I'm currently a member of the Greedy Wolf Star unit. I'm here to take down you not-so-handsome Vampire~"

Loli covered her mouth and giggled, looking lively and cheerful.

But her words made Alhambra find her considerably less cute.

What kind of joke was that? How could he possibly not be handsome?!

"Looks like your standards of beauty are rather abnormal."

"Not really. I've read your intelligence reports. Isn't there a werewolf named Pell Bruff?"

"I think he's incredibly handsome. Too bad I wasn't assigned to deal with him, sigh—"

Loli Mercury deliberately let out a disappointed sigh.

"C-Captain..."

Alhambra did not quite dare to argue. Then his expression suddenly turned cold. "That's enough nonsense!" As he spoke, he spread his hands before him, and a row of playing cards rapidly formed in front of his chest.

Seeing this, Loli Mercury raised the Halberd Scythe resting on her shoulder.

"Necromancy: Spirit Gathering Technique!"

As a ghostly purple magical glow rose from the scythe,

the Vampire soldiers' corpses that she had cut in half at the waist and left lying in pools of blood began to emit a faint purple light as well.

[Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—]

At that moment, Alhambra's playing cards turned into countless afterimages,