I've Turned Into A Fox Girl?

Chapter 351: Anomaly

While Alice was getting summoned, Luna was rushing over to Clara, who was knocked out cold. Her body was embedded in the wall, blood dripping down her face.

"Oh great god of nature, bestow me the power to heal." Luna raised her staff into the air and the gem at its end glowed a bright green. Although no god was bestowing her power, it was an incantation that helped Luna differentiate her spells considering she didn't have a system like the others.

A green light then enveloped Clara, slowly healing her wounds. It wasn't long until she regained consciousness.

"Are you alright, Clara? Shaman and Elysia are here now so you don't have to keep fighting." Luna had a surprisingly gentle tone, which for a moment left Clara wondering who was this stranger healing her.

"W-what? Oh, Luna. Yeah, I think I'm fine." Clara peeled herself off the wall while checking her body, which by now reverted to her normal form. Every part of her body ached and her mana was near rock bottom.

By the end of the Kiruya fight, she had reached the utmost limit of her transformation.

"The girls seem to be holding up fine, so just stay with me for now." Himeko kept her eye on Freja the entire time, making sure no stray attacks came their way.

Clara wanted to get back up and fight, but her body refused to cooperate. A part of her felt frustrated, but she knew Shaman would just smack the back of her head if she kept fighting in her current condition.

"All your wounds are healed, but as you may have already felt, I can't heal the after-effects of your transformation." Luna cast a few different spells to help Clara move around, since it was obvious that she was still not in the best condition even after getting healed.

"Thanks, but please focus on Shaman and Elysia, they need it more than me." Clara didn't feel her life was in danger, so she preferred if Luna's efforts were focused on the ones fighting.

"You see, I have already done all I can for them, but Elysia is already doing my job for me with her strange flames." Luna awkwardly giggled as she could only provide so many buffs.

"Wait, when did Elysia get here?" It just clicked in Clara's head that Elysia was here now.

"No idea. She came into the mansion with Shaman around the same time Freja knocked you out." Hearing Himeko's explanation, Clara figured it must have been the lovers' call.

"I see." Clara looked out to the battlefield and saw Elysia doing something rather strange.

'She is summoning something?' It was a first and not something Clara would have thought Elysia was capable of.

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<Alice POV>

Spinning one of my blades with the chain, I looked smugly at this Freja, who for some reason knew me. I had no idea what my older self had to do with her, but it sure did make things interesting.

Freja moved in an instant, arriving right below my feet as she coated her hands with blood, turning them into deadly blades.

'Now I see, she must have learned blood manipulation, but I thought it was a vampire-only thing. Hmmm, my older self was quite strange so maybe she figured out a way.' I wasn't too concerned about the attack and was more interested in figuring out how Freja managed to learn my technique.

As the attack was about to pierce right through my chest, Freja's movements stopped. Sweat dripped down her face as she realised she couldn't move her body.

"Using my technique against me? Sorry girl, but I can't have that." I had taken control over the blood that she had used, which was still directly connected to her bloodstream, so right now I had her entire body on lockdown.

She was quick to realise this and encase herself in flames. She burned away the blood, which must have been very painful, but I did feel my control disappear. She then jumped back, now knowing the danger I represented.

"Quite the psychopath we got." I couldn't believe the method Freja used since even I'm not that crazy.

"Shut up!" I was clearly getting on this girl's nerves, which just made me want to poke even more. However, before I could, Shaman and Elysia came rushing in.

Elysia tried to sweep at Freja with her spear, while Shaman came from behind, aiming to slice off her arm. Seeing them go in made me eager to use my new weapons. I had not had the chance to fight an actual opponent yet since Elysia refused to spar with me.

Freja successfully grabbed their weapons and was about to knock them into each other, but I came flying in, throwing one of my blades directly at her. With not much of a choice, she used her feet to parry the blade.

However, that just worked better for me. I yanked on the chain, causing it to go right back to Freja, who wasn't ready for it. Shaman and Elysia also exploded flames from their weapons, leaving even less room.

If things went as planned this would mean the end for Freja as my blade was mere inches away from her throat, but suddenly everything stopped.

'Just like Elysia said, time stops…. Hang on, why am I not affected?' What was strange was that everything stopped except my blade. Even Freja was left shocked as she used her teeth to catch it.

"Ew get your teeth off my perfectly clean blade." With the blade in Freja's mouth, I pulled on the chain once again, pulling myself closer and thrusting with my other blade for Freja's chest.

"HOW THE FUCK CAN YOU MOVE?!?!?!" Freja's face was full of genuine fear as she slipped out of the position, letting go of my first blad to dodge the other.

"No idea, but it just means your ability is useless hehe~." Knowing her gimmick was ineffective, I chased her down, this time using my blood manipulation to create spikes and walls to trap or kill Freja.

She used her black flame to punch away the walls and nimbly dodge my spikes, but I noticed her movements were getting sloppy. The side-effects of her time magic must be taking its toll by now, as surely there had to be a major cost of using it.

Suddenly time resumed, leaving the others in momentary confusion. There wasn't any time to explain, but Shaman and Elysia were quick to catch on, grinning at the new turn of events.

"Hey Alice, try to capture her if you can!" Shaman yelled out the plan, though it was easier said than done.

"I'll try, but no promises~!" I threw my blade again at Freja, which was tainted with blood this time around. It landed on the ground right below Freja as she jumped over it, but as she did, blood shot out. As my blood wrapped itself around her legs, she used her flames again, but this time the follow up came from an unexpected source, that Elf and, I think Silver was his name, Elysia's son.

A bunch of tree roots tried to restrain Freja as shadow blades came out of the shadows aiming to impale Freja from multiple sides.

Shaman also contributed, using her galaxy-looking ice to reinforce the roots, which was surprisingly effective against Freja's fire.

Elysia ran up from behind, handling her spear like a bat and was about to knock Freja the fuck out, but time stopped once again.

"Oh no, you don't~." Freja was already trying to use brute strength to get out of the hold, but I quickly flew around Freja and wrapped my chains around her neck.

"Y-You B-BITCH!" Freja could barely move her body at this point, making her struggles pointless.

"It's a 5 vs 1, what else did you expect, poor little wolf." I could feel Freja's rage through her desperate struggles, but there was no longer anything she could do. Her trump move was beaten and was now about to be sent to sleep with a well aimed hit to the back of the head.

"I-I SWEAR I WILL KILL YOU ALL! YOU SHOULD KILL ME NOW!!!!" Right as Freja got the last of her breath out, time resumed and Elysia got Freja smack bang in the back of the head. Freja lost consciousness there and then, signalling that the fight is over.

<General POV>

"Is it over?" It was a little hard to believe since Shaman completely expected this to drag on a lot longer. Freja hadn't shown many ultimate moves, which was unexpected, but then again Freja was overly confident.

"I guess it is." Elysia looked surprised that she managed to hit Freja with such a nice swing.

"Let's not get too comfortable. We need to restrain Freja as quickly as we can." Himeko had not dropped her guard since there was still much more to do. There was no telling when she would wake up, and if she did, the fight would no doubt resume.

"You're right, we need to find some mana-restricting cuffs." Shaman knew that would be the only thing that would work, but where to find them was another question.

"I'd say we just kill her." Alice came up with the most ruthless solution, but Shaman still wanted some answers out of Freja before they decided that.

"Not now." Silver quickly refuted while glaring at Alice, still cautious of her presence. Alice pouted and gave Silver a side-eye causing some tension to already build between the two.

"I think I know where some might be." Elysia let out a sigh as there was a high chance that Freja probably just had some in her room. Especially since she was the kind of person to go to rather… extreme lengths for pleasure.

"Oh… yeah, that makes sense. We should be quick." Shaman caught on and it's probably best they don't stall for too long.