Ray Flores's Reviews > Claymore, Vol. 5: The Slashers

[ Re-read in 2023. ]

Four Claymores are chasing Teresa, but since she’s #1, she doesn’t even need to call for her yoma power, that is until Priscilla, the young and unexperienced #2, decides to go after her head by using more yoma power than she can handle.

In this volume we learn that the more yoma power they use, they’re more likely to become a monster, and so, they can never change back to being half-breeds. Despite knowing this, Priscilla decides to strike Teresa, and not even then, she can make her sweat.

Unfortunately, she deceives her and gets close to her, so with a swift move, she chops both of Teresa’s arms off, and then beheads her. The mix of emotions Priscilla’s feeling turn her into a whole new creature that is powerful enough to beat the remaining claymores down.

After Teresa’s death, Clare searches for the man in black robes that collects the money from missions, and she willingly joins the organization.

Now, back in the present, she gets called into a new mission: the organization sends a group of claymores to finish what they call a “voracious eater”. People commonly mistake them for older, wiser yoma, but the truth is that these creatures, these monsters are the result of failed Claymores that couldn’t shift back, just like Priscilla.

We also learn that Clare has the lowest rank, being the #47, but I have a theory that the reason of this is because she only had Teresa’s remaining parts inside her, instead of a full yoma, like the others.

Either way, the group faces a new challenge, because the voracious eater is not a female claymore, but a male one. His abilities are on a complete different level and he practically beats them all down as if they were flies.

How will they defeat him? I can’t wait to read the next volume to find out!

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