Queen's Blade Short Stories: Bride with the Hair of Cherry - Ch 5b + Epilogue + Afterword (10/10)

And we end our little couple's story!

Hope you liked it! For a story trying to fill in the gaps between the defeated queen Aldra and the amnesiac housewife Al, I thought it was quite charming and nice!

Enjoy!

Queen's Blade Short Stories: Bride with the Hair of Cherry - Ch 5a (9/10)

After the crisis, what became of our couple...?

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Queen's Blade Short Stories: Bride with the Hair of Cherry - Ch 4b (8/10)

Things have taken a turn for the worse! What can our couple do...?

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Queen's Blade Short Stories: Bride with the Hair of Cherry - Ch 4a (7/10)

Time to face the bandits! What can our MC and her do...?

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Queen's Blade Short Stories: Bride with the Hair of Cherry - Ch 3b (6/10)

A spicy book leads to a risky situation...?

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Queen's Blade Short Stories: Bride with the Hair of Cherry - Ch 3a (5/10)

Trouble looms on the horizon when they reach a new village...?

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Queen's Blade Short Stories: Bride with the Hair of Cherry - Ch 2b (4/10)

Time to share a bed with her?

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Queen's Blade Short Stories: Bride with the Hair of Cherry - Ch 2a (3/10)

Time for daily life with our mystery girl...?

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Queen's Blade Short Stories: Bride with the Hair of Cherry - Ch 1b (2/10)

What happens when the mystery woman wakes up...?

There's indeed a pun towards the end that mentions "arubaito" (ie "temporal work"), which I had to turn into "ally"... oh well, I tried.

Enjoy!

Queen's Blade Short Stories: Bride with the Hair of Cherry - Ch 1a (1/10)

On the subject of collabs, Limit Break x HOTD was confirmed by the jp account... but not by global, weirdly enough:

So here's the second story that I liked from the contest, posted here and penned by a Inouchi Kaiji. It took the 3rd place in the contest... though if you ask me, it easily deserved the 1st place too, I don't see how the 2nd place (a normal story about Ymir selling stuff helped by the Swamp Trio) compares.

I'm quite fond of this story, not only because of how poetic the title sounds (doesn't it? Can you guess which character it is about?), but also because, canon to the character in question, it's a story uniquely told from the point of view of "us" -- something only possible in writing.

This story is also way longer than Branwen's, I'm assuming it should probably take around 10 posts?

Enjoy!

Queen's Blade Short Stories: Branwen's Last Choice (3/3)

And here's the last part of Branwen's little tale, as she meets Usher...?

Hope you liked this literal winner of a story!

I guess we'll need to start the 2nd story next week, then?

Enjoy!

Queen's Blade Short Stories: Branwen's Last Choice (2/3)

I guess I didn't say but it was more or less clear, this story is supposed to take place after her canon ending: https://queensbladebattle.blogspot.com/2012/11/qb-exiled-warrior-7-queens-blade.html

We continue with Branwen's tale...?

Enjoy!

Queen's Blade Short Stories: Branwen's Last Choice (1/3)

So the other day I remembered the QB short story contest HJ held a few years ago, whose prize was a new picture (I thought I might have mentioned it in a post back then, but maybe I didn't?). When I went to check the stories there, there were two I specially liked, so let's share them.

The first of the stories is the winner itself, written here by "Sweaty Ocean", that you might recall won this pic by Homare (ie Zara's artist).

Enjoy!