Chapter 6: System Activation
Priscilla Heartbreak wasn't just a vampire; she was a force of nature, quite literally and metaphorically. In the popular game that aired in the early 2000s, Crimson Throne, a visual novel infamous for its morally gray choices and corpse-pile endings, she reigned as the apex predator in that game.
She is what one would call a Shinso, a vampire so ancient and powerful that her very existence warped ecosystems.
Mortals revered her as a living goddess, a divine figure of beauty and destruction, while lesser vampires quaked before her as though they were mere insects facing an unstoppable force of nature in every sense of the word.
Currently speaking, Priscilla was actually a sexy, mature woman; this childlike form of hers was basically her way of expressing her immense power.
But here, now, she had willingly compressed herself into this petite, doll-like frame of a human girl... a self-imaged prison to keep her power from vaporizing continents by accident.
Dane's infant mind raced, memories of Crimson Throne flooding back.
'Of all the goddamn characters to run into first, why her... this woman is crazy, but what's dangerous is her intuition and her obsession with things she finds interesting.'
Because of this personality trait of hers, she often got the main character into trouble.
But the problem was she was a troublemaker.
In the game, Priscilla was pride incarnate, you could say, despite her personality. She was the type that would rather drown the world in blood than admit she needed help. But she was also his favorite character from Crimson Throne.
Her route required navigating a minefield of backhanded compliments and apocalyptic tantrums, but the payoff? A loyalty so fierce that she would raze entire kingdoms from the ground up for a single kiss. Now, seeing her here in this twisted fusion universe, Dane felt equal parts dread and... nostalgia.