Before Tiara knew what had happened, she crashed into a stone pillar with the force of a semi-truck. She felt the air leave her lungs at the impact, knocking her out for a split second. ULTIMATE VIOLENCE was lodged in the pillar, barely missing Tiara''s head. Tiara wanted to cry, she wanted to scream and run to her father for comfort, but she also wanted this spider fucker punished for hurting a princess.


    She spat out the blood in her mouth and gritted her teeth as she pulled ULTIMATE VIOLENCE out of the pillar. Her pretty blonde princess curls lay limply over her bloodied face as she staggered towards the beast, dragging her mascot behind her.


    The spider slowly approached, its many limbs clacking loudly against the polished stone floor. It let out a mocking growl as it observed the small human in front of it. Spiders enjoyed toying with their meals, and this one was no different. The spider slowly opened its sharp fangs above Tiara, making its putrid saliva drip down on her forehead.


    Tiara rushed under the spider and swung at one of its many legs. In a blur of motion, ULTIMATE VIOLENCE made contact and smashed through the tough exoskeleton like it was the shell of an egg. The spider screeched as black blood sprayed out from where its leg used to be. It seemed to realize that Tiara was in its blind spot, so it slammed itself at the ground to crush her underneath its weight.


    Tiara rolled out between the spider''s legs just in time to avoid being crushed. She firmly gripped the handle of ULTIMATE VIOLENCE while keeping the head of the morning star underneath the side of the spider’s abdomen. The spider slammed down hard, impaling itself in the process. With a grunt of exertion, Tiara pulled her mascot out from beneath the beast, taking a sizable chunk of flesh with it in the process.


    “You''ve got this, Tiara! Let''s show this fucker who he messed with!” ULTIMATE VIOLENCE encouraged the girl while savoring the feeling of blood and guts between his spikes. It tasted absolutely delicious but nowhere near as good as the red blood of mammals.


    Tiara was too in the zone to respond or even comprehend what her companion was saying. Her status as a tower monarch greatly enhanced her abilities whenever her floor was in danger, and Tiara needed to use all her concentration to keep the power from overflowing. Her mind was filled with maneuvers and weak spots that would usually be impossible for a little girl to understand, but the tower did most of the translating for her.


    The spider staggered as it tried to keep its balance, but Tiara didn''t give it the time to stabilize itself. She brought the morning star down on another one of the beast''s legs, crushing it just as easily. The spider leaned noticeably to the side as yet another one of its legs broke. The dark blood from the wound sprayed all over Tiara and ULTIMATE VIOLENCE, making them look like shadows as they weaved between the spider''s appendages.


    The beast managed to pin down Tiara''s skirt beneath one of its legs, stopping her in her tracks. The spider seemed pleased that it caught its prey in such a simple way, and that pissed Tiara off to an unimaginable degree. With her newfound strength, she ripped her long skirt with her bare hands, freeing herself and ruining her favorite dress. In the next instant, the spider''s leg was gone, severed by a very angry princess.


    Not only was she covered in disgusting bug blood, this beast even made her rip her pretty princess dress. If that didn''t deserve death, then what did? Her hands shook with rage as she gripped her weapon with both hands and sprinted as fast as she could to the screeching monster. She screamed in primal fury as she crushed the beast''s head in a single swing. A shower of black blood rained down on the throne room, making the surroundings look like something straight out of a horror movie.


    Tiara didn''t stop there, however. She kept bludgeoning the beast as if she was in a rage-fueled trance. It was like the tower itself fed her its anger at being invaded, counting on its monarch to enact vengeance on its behalf. The sounds of carnage filled the room for a long time; it sounded like a rhythmic chant of pain.


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    SLAM, Crack, Squelch. SLAM, Crack, Squelch. SLAM, Crack, Squelch.


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    By the time Tiara came to her senses, the spider''s head was little more than mush beneath her mary janes. All her strength as a monarch left her body as soon as she deemed the threat neutralized. Her knees buckled, and she slumped down on the blood-stained carpet. It hurt. Tiara couldn’t feel it before, but her entire body hurt now that the adrenaline was gone. She did what all little girls do when they’re in pain—she started wailing.


    [QUEST COMPLETE! CONGRATULATIONS!]


    [REWARD - RESIDENT SUMMON]


    Tiara couldn’t care less about the damn quest right now. Her body hurt, her dress was ruined, and she was covered in putrid spider blood. She wanted to go home. She wanted a bath, a warm cup of tea, and a bedtime story from her father. She was only in second grade; why did she have to fight this stupid fucking spider in some tower? It was unfair. Unfair things were only fun when she was the one who benefited. This was the kind of unfairness that SUCKED.


    “Cheer up, Tiara. You’re a princess, aren’t you? Princesses stuck in castles always get their happy ending, don’t they?” ULTIMATE VIOLENCE encouraged her gently. He was a weapon made to inflict as much pain as possible, but he was still a mascot, and as a mascot, he wanted the absolute best for his magical girl.


    Tiara nodded weakly as she wiped her tears with her arm, smearing more spider blood on her face in the process. She told herself that if Rapunzel was saved from her tower by a handsome prince, then she would be saved from hers by her father. “I’ll be brave like Rapunzel. I promise.” She sniffled with as much conviction as she could muster, which wasn’t very much at all.


    “That’s my magical girl! You’re much braver than you think you are, Tiara. Would the you of yesterday believe that you could pulverize a crimson spider this beautifully?” ULTIMATE VIOLENCE assured her in the only way a weapon could—by complimenting her on her killing prowess.


    “Did I really do a good job?” Tiara asked with surprising humility. She didn’t know why, but she wanted the weapon’s approval almost as much as she wanted her father’s approval. She wondered if this was why magical girls fought for justice—to make their mascots proud.


    “You did a fantastic job. You even got a reward, didn’t you? Maybe redeeming it would cheer you up?” ULTIMATE VIOLENCE would have offered her an encouraging smile if he could, but he was a cursed demonic weapon, so his words would have to do.


    Tiara looked at her quest reward with newfound interest. She didn’t know what a resident was in the tower, but it was probably important if it was a reward. She pressed the reward box in front of her face, making another window pop up in front of her vision.


    [RESIDENT SUMMON]


    [Summon a lost soul from the void to take up residence on your floor! Souls that agree with your ideology and cause will answer your call and be given a new body as they offer their absolute loyalty to you! Yay!]


    Absolute loyalty was one of the qualities Tiara valued the most in a person. Summoning a random dead person seemed really scary, but if they did what she told them to, it wouldn’t be so bad. Even if they were useless, she would still have a new person to sing 99 bottles of beer on the wall with while she waited for something to happen.


    “It says I can summon a soul from somewhere… I summoned you, too, so are you also a dead guy?” Tiara asked her mascot. If ULTIMATE VIOLENCE was a person before he became a weapon, wouldn’t that make him very pitiful?


    “I think so. I don’t remember a thing about my past life, though. My consciousness began when you summoned me for the first time.” ULTIMATE VIOLENCE confirmed her suspicions, even if he didn’t like the girl’s look of pity.


    “Well, let’s get you a fellow dead friend, then.” Tiara teased as she pressed the button to summon her new resident.


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    [ACHIEVEMENT “FIRST BLOOD” OBTAINED]