More Riful vs. Alicia, and Priscilla in action!!!With hair like that, who needs limbs?Summary:In the forest, Alicia has returned to her human form and is battling against Riful. Riful has used up too much strength to maintain her awakened form or regenerate, and soon she is only left with one leg. Alicia prepares to finish Riful, but suddenly Alicia's youki surges and the Claymore struggle to keep her powers under control, and Riful guesses that Beth must be fighting somewhere else and cannot control Alicia's powers.Hmm... could use a bit of salt and pepper.Not far away in the rocky area, the Beth-feline monster hybrid is fighting against the human form Priscilla. Beth attacks with her body blades but Priscilla easily counters them. Priscilla then climbs onto Beth's back and rips off Beth's old torso. Priscilla takes a bite out of the monster, but she doesn't like the taste and so she jumps off. Priscilla states that she is following the faint scent of "that man" and has no interest in Beth, but Beth is unwilling to let Priscilla leave and arms herself with more blades. Priscilla then comments that Beth is really stupid.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~After all these years, we finally see Priscilla in action, and it's against the infected Beth. It was kind of abrupt how Priscilla suddenly appeared out of the blue and started fighting Beth. I thought Uma and Cynthia are nearby, but Priscilla and Beth are probably not too concerned about them at the moment. Priscilla seems to have gotten back to her normal size, which means she probably ate something between now and chapter 94 (probably the residents of the village she and Raki were in). She's still hungry though, although she's not interested in eating Beth. From this chapter, it looks like Priscilla has Beth outclassed, so Beth is probably going to get killed soon. The more important questions now are what is Priscilla up to, why'd she ditch Raki at the village, and who is the "that man" whose smell Priscilla is following? Lots of big questions needing answers, but what I'm really hoping for now is a three way showdown between Priscilla, Clare, and Luciela/Rafaela. That would be insanely epic.Regarding the other half of the chapter, Riful is not faring too well against Alicia as expected. I thought Alicia would have lost control after Beth was infected, but the No. 1 manage to suppress her powers for almost long enough to kill Riful. Alicia's behaviour is still pretty strange though, since after Luciela/Rafaela's first barrage Alicia flew away, but suddenly she came back to Riful and killed Abyss Feeders. With Alicia struggling to control her powers, this may be the only opportunity Riful has to kill the No. 1 and escape. Between Alicia and Riful, I'd rather see Riful live.Last note: I thought this chapter didn't transition very well from the last few chapters (with Alicia suddenly back in human form and Priscilla appearing out of nowhere to fight Beth), but given there is so many things going on in the story right now, it might be inevitable that there would be some slight continuation issues.
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