Here comes the big bad
Summary:
Priscilla has tore Beth into pieces and prepares to leave. In a last ditch effort Beth shoots two spikes into Priscilla's back to infect her, but Priscilla easily expels the spikes. Not far away, Riful tells Dauf to run, but it's too late as Priscilla is already upon them. Priscilla remembers Riful's scent but doesn't that they've met before. Dauf tells Priscilla to get away from Riful, and for that he gets his remaining limbs sliced off and his gut ripped open. Priscilla then plunges her arm through Riful's torso and states that she's been waiting for this as the villagers before didn't quite satisfy her hunger.
Some distance away, Clare is entranced by a yoki presence that she picked up as it seems vaguely familiar, but Deneve snaps Clare out of her trance as Luciela/Rafaela is about to fire another salvo of spikes. Clare concentrates and uses her yoki-sensing abilities to help herself and her companions avoid being impaled by the spikes. While concentrating, Clare thinks back to the presence that she picked up earlier and figures out the answer. The revelation causes Clare to lose some control over her yoki which makes Deneve and Helen look back towards her. Deneve and Helen then spots someone walking up from behind them through the shower of spikes, and Clare knows that the person approaching them is Priscilla.
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I didn't expect Claymore would come out so early (it actually came out yesterday on December 27th). It's a bit of a short chapter this time, but there are quite a few developments. Priscilla continues on her tear through the battlefield, shredding Alicia and Beth, ingesting Riful and dismembering Dauf, and now she is on to Clare's group. I didn't expect that Priscilla would eat Riful, especially given how Riful miraculously survived from being killed by Alicia. I was hoping that Riful would survive since she was one of the more interesting characters in the series, but I suppose she was on the decline already. Farewell, Riful the evil loli Abyssal One. With Riful's death, all three of the original Abyssal Ones have bitten the dust.
Other than Priscilla owning people left and right, this chapter revealed some hints as to why Priscilla was traveling with Raki. Apparently something happened in the past and Priscilla lost part of her memories, but she remembered Raki's scent and traveled with him. However, the hints in this chapter only compound the mystery. The three main questions about Priscilla now are 1) how did she lose her memories? 2) why did she suddenly ditch Raki and go back to her flesh-eating ways back in the village? and 3) what is she up to right now? Hopefully we'll find out the answers soon.
So at the end of the chapter, it looks like we are going to get the epic Clare vs. Priscilla confrontation sooner than we expected. Priscilla is probably even more powerful now after eating Riful, and I fail to see how Clare and company are going to stand a chance. My guess is that Priscilla is not interested in killing Clare, or else Clare is pretty much dead meat. Clare will probably launch an all out attack at Priscilla since killing Priscilla is Clare's no. 1 goal in life, and while Clare won't be able to beat Priscilla, I still want to see if Clare picked up any new moves from Rafaela.
The next chapter is shaping up to be a dandy. I don't want to set my expectations too high because I don't want to be disappointed, but it's pretty hard to do when it comes to Claymore.
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