Sparse moonlight pierced the dark clouds, shining brightly over the silent street.
The Serpent of Akasha, pinned in midair, turned to black ash and vanished without a trace in the rising night breeze.
As though he still felt that was not thorough enough, Roland snapped his fingers.
Then the blood that had splashed from the vampire's body, moving as though alive, dried up as well, erasing the last traces left by this wretch who had struggled for eight hundred years.
Although he had been strengthened in the reset World Line, faced with this irreconcilable contradiction, he could only meet the annihilation that should have come long ago.
"Now that's what I call perfection."
Roland descended from the air and clapped his hands in satisfaction.
But before he could say anything fitting to celebrate his victory, the blonde Vampire Princess cheered and threw herself at him.
Arcueid displayed neither relief nor any complicated feelings of unresolved attachment over Roa's death.
The only thing he could sense from the girl was heartfelt joy.
Though, thinking about it carefully... that did seem perfectly normal.
For all Roa's endless trash talk, he was the only one who considered Arcueid his nemesis.
Rather than the theft of her power, what truly concerned the White Princess was the series of consequences his deception had triggered.
Besides, Arcueid claimed that she had only begun having proper conversations after being killed by Shiki Ryougi's Mystic Eyes of Death Perception. During her past hunts, she had probably killed Roa effortlessly before he even had a chance to speak.
After all, in the original story, even after suffering Seventeen-Part Division, Arcueid could still successfully turn the tables and kill Roa as long as her injuries were not aggravated a second time.
The only thing that left her helpless was the