| “ | Good evening once more. I am one of the rare Archenemies who belong to Bright Cross Disaster Prevention Foundation. You can call me Karen-chan the Valkyrie☆ …I will now provide divine punishment to an insolent human and some impure monsters, so prepare yourself. | „ |
| ~ Karen to Satori, Helen, and Yukie |
Summary
Karen is a member of the Bright Cross Disaster Prevention Foundation and the announcer of their public Colosseum fights designed as a way to execute Archenemies.
Powers and Stats
Tier: 9-B, higher with spear
Name: Karen
Origin: My Vampire Older Sister and Zombie Little Sister
Gender: Female
Age: At least 1500 years
Classification: Archenemy, Valkyrie, Divine Messenger
Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, expert spear and shield user/thrower, Immortality (Type 1), Precognition via Laplace, skilled bike driver
Attack Potency: Wall level (A single spear blow is capable of sending multiple people flying through the air and can blow a human body to pieces, can throw her shield with enough strength that the impact causes a massive shockwave and a large cloud of dust as if it were a great explosion, Valkyries are considered to be one of the strongest Archenemies), higher with spear (Can blow away and dent the armor of a bulletproof and bombproof armored truck and punch holes through bulletproof cars)
Speed: Superhuman (Too fast for a regular human to react to her movements and faster than other Archenemies, can attack 10 or 20 times in the time Helen Itou uses to launch a single attack) with Subsonic reactions (Casually deflected subsonic sniper bullets)
Lifting Strength: Peak Human
Striking Strength: Wall level
Durability: Wall level (Completely unharmed by a three-story fall, Satori couldn't break her thumb while using all his strength, tanked being rammed through a wall by Meslayate)
Stamina: At least above average
Range: Extended melee range, at least ten meters with thrown spear and shield
Standard Equipment: Gold spear and shield, smart glasses
Intelligence: Average, as a Valkyrie with hundreds of years of life experience Karen is an expert warrior
Weaknesses: Cannot use the full power of her divine weapons without authorization from heaven
Feats/Statements:
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The blue bunny girl jumped down right in front of me. She did so far too easily. It was as light an action as heading out to the neighborhood convenience store. She landed as gently as a feather. But wait. This space was 3 stories tall. Those computers lining the room like gravestones just about hit the ceiling. And a flesh-and-blood human had casually jumped down from the top? Plus, the blue bunny girl was wearing sexy stilettos. A jump from only two or three steps up should have been enough to twist her ankle. |
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| ~ My Vampire Older Sister and Zombie Little Sister 02 - Karen casually jumps down from on top of a supercomputer 3-stories tall |
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The blue bunny sounded like she was enjoying herself as she gave me a look of intense scorn. And the strange phenomena were still underway. At some point, a pure gold cross-spear decorated with swan-like wings and a round one-handed shield had appeared in her beautifully manicured hands. The hips of her bunny costume now had a cloth fluttering around them like a long skirt with the front kept wide open. And the bunny ears adorning her long, radiant blue hair had been joined by large bird wings in the same position as two pens held behind someone’s ears. |
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| ~ My Vampire Older Sister and Zombie Little Sister 02 - Karen reveals herself as a Valkyrie |
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Valkyries hold an odd position at the top of the ranks even among the many Archenemies. They appear in Norse mythology as divine messengers, but their position is different from that of definite goddesses. Valkyries are courageous warrior women who wield tremendous power as part of the gods, but they also descend to the lower world as human women and marry ordinary men. The Valkyries’ role is to find the souls of excellent warriors and recruit them to the heavenly army of the Einherjar, but their marriages are not a part of that. Their half-Valkyrie children just so happen to have excellent potential as warriors, but it is love that binds the two of them together. For that reason, Valkyries will spend long periods of time in the lower world as human wives, but when the gods need them, they will instantly return to the front lines of the divine battles as warrior woman once more. So they do not hesitate to abandon their human households. They return to the heavenly world of Asgard and fulfill their jobs as divine messengers. In other words, they can freely move between the two worlds of humans and Archenemies. |
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| ~ My Vampire Older Sister and Zombie Little Sister 02 - Valkyrie lore |
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The blue bunny girl slowly pulled something from the cleavage of her ample chest. It looked like a pair of sporty glasses with blue frames. When I realized they were smart glasses that placed their screen over the actual scenery, I felt a tremendous chill run down my spine. The Valkyrie had linked with Laplace, the frightening simulator that far surpassed Maxwell. That extraordinary monster had now acquired a crystallization of humankind’s knowledge. [...] From my arms…or rather, after having her witch hat head shoved into my gut after we were sent flying, Itou Helen gasped for breath but forced out some words. “I will…deal with the monster. So you…give me instructions…just like-…” “It’s no use.” She was cut off by a whisper from the blue bunny girl wielding her gold spear and shield. Almost like she had predicted that statement. And that may have been possible. While she wiggled the round tail on her butt, she viewed us through those smart glasses…and those sporty, blue-framed glasses were a cutting-edge mobile device connected to the largescale personnel-selection simulator known as Laplace. |
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| ~ My Vampire Older Sister and Zombie Little Sister 02 - Karen's smart glasses give her access to Laplace, a supercomputer and predictive simulator with greater specs than Maxwell which can predict enemy actions |
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Time slowed to a crawl. It was like stepping out onto the road in front of my home and finding a giant dump truck’s bumper filling my vision. As my life flashed before my eyes, I gained an oddly calm certainty: this blue bunny girl monster was as certain a death as that. While time moved strangely slowly, Valkyrie Karen used exceedingly accurate movements to raise her golden feathered cross-spear while her long skirt fluttered behind her. The relative density of pure gold was more than twice that of iron. That spear was as tall as she was, so if she threw it like a baseball, well, my life was over. I wouldn’t just be bisected when it hit me; my flesh and blood would pop like a water balloon. This was a threat on the same level as a dump truck bumper filling my vision. Rolling to the right or left was only a theoretical solution. I didn’t have the extraordinary strength of an Archenemy, so my body would not keep up with the thoughts in my head. So this was the end. All I could do was watch the mass of pure gold approaching my chest. But I was not torn to pieces as if from a head-on collision with a dump truck. [...] A moment later, a deafening clash of metal sounded. Muramatsu Yukie the Dark Elf had grabbed my shoulders, but that was not going to let me escape in time. The witch in a black dress, Itou Helen, rushed forward with odd, crab-like armor covering her, but when she was hit by Valkyrie Karen’s fierce attack, which caused her long skirt to beat at the air behind her, Itou Helen was knocked back toward me like an artillery shell and I just barely managed to catch her. I spread my arms to catch her, but she felt nothing like a soft girl. It was more like a basketball had been dropped on my stomach while lying on Jupiter where the gravity was 11 times that of Earth. An unbearable impact shook not just my stomach but my entire spine. I was the one being protected here, but my breath was knocked from my lungs and I felt like my heart nearly stopped. All three of us were sent flying. Even so, the difference in power was so great that I could only feel we were fortunate none us had died. |
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| ~ My Vampire Older Sister and Zombie Little Sister 02 - Karen throws her spear |
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The blue bunny girl sensually licked her lips and then she exploded. No, that was just what it looked like. It did not matter that she wore stilettos. Her gold spear and shield turned to flowing lines of light as she approached and that divine messenger was right in front of us in no time. Oh…no. I’m going to…die!? A moment later, two weapons crossed paths. One was the Valkyrie’s pure gold spear made ultra-heavy due to the relative density. The other was the group of translucent tails that were actually deadly jellyfish tentacles erupting from the back of the caped witch’s hips. The result was plain as day. “Ah…kweah!?” The blonde girl screamed like a strangled bird and a single light touch severed all of the deadly jellyfish tentacles. It did not matter that it was 1-against-9. The difference in power was overwhelming. The gold-glittering spear actually sliced through the air after the tentacles were already moving. Her power was so much greater. In the time it took Itou Helen to move once while holding her glass wand, the blue bunny girl let her long skirt beat at the air behind her while she freely made 10 or even 20 fatal strikes from whatever angles she liked! That deadly spear spun around in the blue bunny girl’s neatly-manicured fingers. The deadly weapon danced about as casually as a cheerleader’s baton. The tip aimed for the center of my chest. In other words, my heart. That profaner of miracles even licked her lips as she directly targeted my life!? “Kh!” With a short breath, my body sank down. But it was not my own doing. In her sleeveless blouse and tight skirt, Muramatsu Yukie had swept my feet out from under me. I fell backwards and the golden spear just barely swept by above me. Having missed me, the great mass struck the dark elf with the intensity of a meteor strike. “M-Muramatsu-saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!!” The brown-skinned girl was launched backwards and all I could do was scream her name. I could not even tell if she was alive or dead. [...] This time, Itou Helen responded. Several colorful liquids passed through her glass wand; underwent heating, cooling, distillation, filtration, separation, and several other chemical changes within the swollen flask portions; and created potions with effects unexplainable by the laws of physics. Even so. Even so, it was useless against the blue Valkyrie. She simply moved her head to the side to dodge the round-bottomed flasks thrown at her like grenades or Molotov cocktails, and a golden light flew as a counterattack. Instead of the spear, it was the round, one-handed shield engraved with a wing emblem. She had mercilessly thrown it to use the edge as a weapon. Given the relative density of pure gold, its weight had to be greater than iron knuckles, a glass ashtray, or even a brick. “Ahhhhhhhh!?” Itou Helen screamed as she was torn from me and sent flying backwards. |
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| ~ My Vampire Older Sister and Zombie Little Sister 02 - Karen attacks Satori's group and easily defeats Yukie Muramatsu and Helen Itou |
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I heard multiple muffled explosive sounds. You didn’t often hear live gunshots in Japan. Ones from a silenced weapon were even rarer. There was only one possibility I could think of. …Could it be Itou Tamago? But why!? “Oh, dear.” The blue bunny girl was not even bothered. She wiggled the round tail on her butt back and forth and the tip of the golden spear pressed against my throat only shifted slightly. Her slender arm with a cuff adorning the wrist…vanished. With sounds of scraping metal, a gold wind whipped up and orange sparks burst in the air. …You’re kidding…right? She could see the bullets slicing through the air and knock them down? Even my vampire older sister and zombie little sister had been hit when caught by a surprise attack from a machinegun in the simulator. They had been hit, but they hadn’t died. That was all. I had no idea if Erika or Ayumi could perfectly intercept a bullet. And this Valkyrie was doing it almost as an afterthought while she peered into my eyes with a look of amusement!? |
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| ~ My Vampire Older Sister and Zombie Little Sister 02 - Karen easily defends herself from Itou Tamago's sniping, which uses subsonic bullets |
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With that carefree comment, something sliced through the air and produced a gust of wind. Her disk-shaped one-handed shield flew with the weight and sharpness of a guillotine. It hit and stabbed in more sharply than a bullet and more intensely than a shooting star. It really was like a great explosion. A portion of the scenery was covered by a massive shockwave and a cumulonimbus-like mountain of dust. |
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| ~ My Vampire Older Sister and Zombie Little Sister 02 - Karen throws her shield |
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While dangling from her arm, I used both hands to grab at the hand holding my collar. More accurately, I grabbed the blue bunny girl’s thumb. Then I tried to twist it like a microwave’s timer. Normally, that would have shattered the thumb bone. But even with all 10 of my fingers working hard enough to nearly tear the muscles in my arms, the Valkyrie did not even bat an eye. And she whispered to me. “This is the clear difference between a human and a divine messenger.” A moment later, I heard the low boom as if from a drum taller than me. By the time I realized her one arm had slammed my back into one of the nearby gravestones, the intense pain nearly tore my personality asunder. “Ghah!! Agragbfhbaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!?” I could not win. I could not even get in a single attack. Soft-looking girl’s skin was right in front of my eyes, but I could not even scratch it with my nails. Even if dozens of Archenemies or an army of hundreds gathered here, this divine messenger would barely glance in their direction!! |
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| ~ My Vampire Older Sister and Zombie Little Sister 02 - Satori tries and fails to break Karen's thumb |
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She did not hesitate to pull the cross-spear tip from my thigh. She held the shaft close to the tip and once more took aim with the bloody blade. Was it my heart this time? With Karen’s strength and a spear weighing more than twice one made of steel, she didn’t need to stop at a measly heart. She could easily tear my entire torso to pieces. |
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| ~ My Vampire Older Sister and Zombie Little Sister 02 - Karen is easily able to tear a human torso to piece with a spear strike |
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Her body and her outlines broke apart into light. She turned into particles or countless fireflies. Only the artificial smart glasses remained as the blue bunny girl left her temporary life behind. She returned to heaven as a divine messenger. |
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| ~ My Vampire Older Sister and Zombie Little Sister 02 - If killed Valkyries return to heaven |
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It came from the depths of the darkness. The humming seemed far too out of place, but the Echidna, with her sweet milk tea hair plastered to her white cheek, understood what it meant to give away your location on a deadly battlefield. Yes. It meant you intended to execute your opponent with an overwhelming difference in power. [...] The Echidna had her hands full simply getting her ruinous egg back to the organization, so she was not armed with submachineguns or anything else. But even if she had brought out her lab components and prepared everything she needed, could she have defeated this figure in blue armor? After all, this being had descended to the dry surface as if in response to an age of disaster. “Valkyrie Karen is back!! I’m a specialist the gods use to eliminate people like you, so let’s get that over with, shall we?☆” |
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| ~ My Vampire Older Sister and Zombie Little Sister 06 - Karen returns to Earth and kills Charlotte Fregula/Echidna |
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I heard an odd cracking sound, but I wasn’t sure what it was. At any rate, my vision collapsed to the side and I found I couldn’t get back up. My limbs…no, everything below my neck was too weak to move? It felt like I was a clockwork doll with a crucial gear removed. My favorite smartphone was flashing near my face. “User!” “I just shifted his neck bones out of place a bit, so don’t worry about it. I’ll put it back good as new once I’m done. And with no lasting effects of course☆” I felt no pain. But in this case, it may have been better to say I wasn’t even allowed to feel pain. |
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| ~ My Vampire Older Sister and Zombie Little Sister 07 - Karen temporarily paralyzes Satori |
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“The back of those trucks are fully sealed and the thickness of the doors and windows suggests they’re bulletproof. The squishing of the tires ignores the heavy load, so they must be filled with sponge instead of air. Are they expecting to run across landmines in this urban area? Well, assuming this isn’t a twisted decoy, those must be Evil Spirit. It’s especially cheap that they’re leaving along with the civilians to use them as shields.” [...] When I checked the aerial drone footage…let’s just say it was bad. Karen drove her motorcycle after the fleeing heavyweight trucks. That miniskirt armor woman was swinging around an anachronistic spear, but the extraordinary relative density of 24-karat gold must have been the source of her destructive power. The trucks were supposedly bulletproof, but they were powerless against that pure gold spear that lost its shape in midair and rushed at them. Even a single gram could stretch to 3000 meters, so it would provide a much greater shock than normal lead. It may have been better to think of it as a torrent of gold. The high-density liquid shot out like water from a firetruck. Each shot caused a racing mass of metal to dent in like a stepped-on candy box. After three such hits, the bulletproof trucks would veer off course and crash into a streetlight or building wall. Those trucks made of such solid steel were like pieces of clothing being stripped away from a maiden one by one. Karen was doing more than just throwing the gold. When she swung her right hand, the gold gathered back together and took the original spear shape once more. She had such overwhelming firepower with no ammunition limit. [...] The gold spear shot right by me like a high-pressure torrent and the bulletproof and bombproof truck was blown away like an eraser flicked by a finger. That left me hanging in the air and my hips slammed into the top of a different truck’s cab. [...] “And if you can tackle these things so easily, just how much were you holding back when we fought over Laplace?” “Ah ha ha. Do you really think I had any reason to hold back? But the weapons of the gods are such a pain to use. If you use them for anything other than their intended use, heaven’s authority locks them down. Valkyries are only messengers borrowing the power of the gods, after all.” [...] Meanwhile, the ultra-heavy spear released by the Valkyrie lost its form in midair, transformed into a liquid weapon, and collided with the side of the final armored truck. More than slide to the side, the tires rose from the asphalt and the entire truck flipped over like an overturned tea table. It rolled and rolled and rolled, taking out guardrails and trees along the way, until it was finally slowed by scraping along building walls. [...] But as soon as I stepped out from the back of the truck, a powerful tremor and explosion rang out. A black bulletproof car was blown away by a pressurized torrent created from a golden spear. This was of course courtesy of Valkyrie Karen. The car probably belonged to Evil Spirit reinforcements, but she was merciless! The bulletproof car was parked sideways like a barricade, but a hole was punched through its side, the heavy car rolled over, and it crushed the thugs using it as a shield. It didn’t even matter that they were armed with automatic handguns and shotguns. The fearsome gold rush turned more and more bulletproof cars into scrap metal before they could even aim their guns. |
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| ~ My Vampire Older Sister and Zombie Little Sister 07 - Karen uses her spear to destroy armored trucks. She can only use its true power when actin on Heaven's orders |
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The greeting was as carefree as someone wandering around the city searching for monsters with their smartphone. It was Valkyrie Karen. That blue warrior woman was an embodiment of divine punishment. A deep sound of running water continued. Metal pipes stood vertically at even intervals. Those were the kind of sprinklers found on golf courses, but a few of them were broken. And beyond that, it looked like an airplane had crashed: several pillars had broken, there was a straight line torn in the soil, and something lay at the end point. The person that was collapsed on the ground and curled up to protect its face and gut…was something similar to a human. Based on appearances alone, it looked like a girl with short reddish-blonde hair. I didn’t know what she had originally been, but if she was part of the 13 Eastern European Families just like Erika and Fly, then she would have a legend of her own as well as her pride and dignity. |
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| ~ My Vampire Older Sister and Zombie Little Sister 07 - Karen easily defeated one of the vampires in Erika's 13 Eastern European Families |
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Karen’s right hand flashed. “!?” Fly Villiers’s small hand shoved me and I slammed back-first into the hallway wall. Immediately afterwards, the heavy gold spear melted into liquid and swallowed up the girl in a baggy black uniform. My shovel was useless. That was a legit heavenly spear that could flip over an armored truck. The girl’s shape had shattered. If she had been unable to break apart into a swarm of silver flies, she really would have been pulverized. |
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| ~ My Vampire Older Sister and Zombie Little Sister 07 - Karen's spear power |
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“Karen loses control of her weapons if they cease to be pure gold, correct? In that case, we might have a chance. Yes, because you can find it anywhere.” “Erika?” “Satori-kun, it is true pure gold is so highly valued because of its resistance to oxidation and its rarity. That is obvious from its occasional use in coins and crowns.” She continued crushing something with her superhuman strength. “But very few treasures and coins use 100% pure gold. Most of them mix in some silver or copper…or in the worst cases, lead or tin. You remember the task Archimedes was given by the king, don’t you? Find a way to tell how many impurities there were in his gold crown.” [...] She gathered the iron, steel, stainless steel, and even plastic. She filled the liquefied gold with all sorts of materials to rob Karen’s shield of its purity. Just like a coin given impurities to hide a recession, the gold was reduced to an inferior alloy that could no longer be called gold. “!?” Karen must have lost control of it and also found herself unable to avoid its heat. She sucked in a sharp gasp and dropped the scorching mass where it ignited the empty classroom’s wooden flooring. |
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| ~ My Vampire Older Sister and Zombie Little Sister 07 - Karen can only control her gold weapons when they are pure gold |
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Valkyrie Karen
- Valkyrie: Karen is a Valkyrie, one of the divine messengers of Norse Mythology and courageous warrior women who wield tremendous power as part of the gods, but also descend to the lower world as human women and marry ordinary men. The Valkyries’ role is to find the souls of excellent warriors and recruit them to the heavenly army of the Einherjar, but their marriages are not part of that. Their love to their husbands is real and half-Valkyrie children just so happen to have excellent potential as warriors. Valkyries hold an odd position at the top of the ranks even among the many Archenemies due to their ability to freely move between the worlds of humans and Archenemies. Valkyries seem to be ageless, as Karen implies she's older than the Bright Cross Foundation, which is more than 1500 years old, despite looking like a young woman. Upon dying on Earth, Valkyries break apart into particles of light, returning to heaven.
- Transformation: Through unknown means, Karen can transform into her combat state, where a gold spear and shield mysteriously appear on her hands, a white cloth is incorporated to her clothes like a long skirt with the front kept wide open and two large bird wings appear behind her ears. Upon returning to her official duties as a divine messenger she also included a set of blue armor
- Gold Spear: Karen's pure gold spear can be turned back into liquid gold to form a high-density, high-pressure liquid cannon. This torrent of gold is capable of blowing away and denting the armor of a bulletproof and bombproof armored truck and punch holes through bulletproof cars. However, she can only use this power when she receives authorization from heaven, and if the spear stops being made out of pure gold
- Smart Glasses: A pair of blue smart glasses of the type that place their screen over the actual scenery. These glasses link the user with Laplace, the Bright Cross Foundation's powerful disaster prevention simulator AI capable of predicting the actions of their opponents and analyzing their combat style.
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