With those words, the flesh prison around Astaroth groaned and snarled with a greater ferocity than ever before, the acids and enzymes bubbling and boiling around her. They had already eaten through the Queen's clothes, barring her ear piercings and choker which she had kept above the surface, and now they started to properly melt her flesh, faster than even Astaroth could regenerate. In another time, she might have accepted being beaten fair and square, but this wasn't really fair and square, as far as she was concerned! She hadn't had a chance to really show off her full strength - well, she did have the chance, but she squandered it.

The last words of the Queen, if she spoke any at all, were drowned out by the roaring belch that came from Asuka, coinciding with a dramatic squeezing, crushing with her belly, enough to take those spare accessories with the current of air that blasted from Asuka's gullet, covered with spittle and heated by a plume of flame that bellowed forth. The final Inferno of the Queen was, ultimately, little more than a lightshow, an exclamation point on her once immortal life. "Much better..." Asuka sighed, giving her hanging gut a push with her metallic palm. "Thank you for your contribution to my research, O generous donor." The lightest hint of a smile played across her lips. A chuckle escaped her for what felt like the first time in years. "I'll be sure to repay the favor once I've gotten back home..."

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This is a same-day commission I got from  RenHanasWife! It's no secret at this point that I love Asuka Koukawa, and it's only slightly less a secret that I also love Astaroth. So, I figured I'd combine the two! I went with the Hag!Asuka for this comm, since she is a total cutie even there, and frankly, the gacha should have kept with the tired glasses scientist form that has only been seen in Aoi Nagisa's side projects instead of the weird de-aged-but-technically-older version we got.

She might be called Hag Asuka, but she's actually only around her late 20s in those pictures...Just goes to show how stressed she is by the Brain Flayer apocalypse she went through, huh? And the fact that she's carrying literal cross-dimensional/time-travel research all on her back. My girl's a smarty pants, and a cutie, and I will not pretend she isn't.

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