Chapter 561 |
Defensive Battle of All Worlds ⑦ Each’s Defensive Battle Fourth
「Good aftermao mao~. This is your adventurer yout*ber Maoyoshi!」
A channel started broadcasting while the world was in emergency.
It was the channel of one of the returnees, a former member of Kousuke’s party, the support magician Yoshino Mao.
Mao had been getting famous as a super-multilingual youtu*er. Today too she was greeting her viewers in many countries really energetically in their native languages like she was unaffected by the danger to the world (though in reality she was totally affected).
「Oh maan, the world is becoming really dangerous for some reason isn’t it. As a yout*ber who also chase after cryptid, I have something I want to tell everyone first――and so I’m doing a guerilla broadcast riiight nooow!」
The worldwide simultaneous stampedes by unidentified creatures breaking out all over the world.
Information continuously got added in the internet and especially in social media even now. Of course, the video upload sites also weren’t an exception.
In addition, in part due to the viral video of her chasing after unidentified creatures not long ago, the subscribers in Maoyoshi channel had already climbed over one million.
Her greeting was really the same like usual that the viewers typed in the comment section questioning if by any chance she was unaware of the grave situation of the world right now. But they calmed down a little after realizing that it seemed she was making video about that situation. But, even that only lasted for a moment.
As expected the comment section immediately blew up when she touched a topic that was in everyone’s mind.
People who spread fear and agitation because of the grave situation. People who sneered because it was obviously fake news. With that a spat began between the two sides. The comment section quickly ran out of control.
Meanwhile, the audiences were also wondering 「What’s with this……?」.
The video was really blurry.
She must be using a selfie stick to video herself. The POV was from diagonally above so only Maoyoshi-chan and the ground were visible.
Her olive colored safari hat that looked really befitting for an explorer had slipped off and avoided falling on the ground thanks to the cord hanging on her neck. It was now bouncing around *pyon pyon* on the back of her head together with her short black hair.
She was wearing her familiar outfit that consisted of jacket and shorts of the same color. The healthy legs stretching out from that shorts were also hurrily stomping on the ground. The unpaved ground was blurring past quite quickly. The surrounding couldn’t be seen but it was clear that she was running.
Why is she recording while running……? The viewers thought, but right now an incident was happening in worldwide scale. Maoyoshi herself had just mentioned it, that she was an explorer of secluded region and also a pursuer of unidentified creature. She gathered the viewers’ attention wondering if perhaps she knew something.
「I’ll say this first! The unidentified creatures that you all are arguing they’re fake video they’re real right now, they are a~all real! What’s more they’re super dangerous creatures! I got contacted by my specialist acquaintance but, things are seriously bad! What’s more, there’s high chance that they’ll appear all over at places with dense population after this, so everyone, don’t think that it’s fake and just run quickly! This isn’t the time to video or observe the situation! Prioritize your own safety and your close people okay!」
The comment section accelerated even more. Agreeing comments, sneering comments, insults……as expected there was no complete agreement and only varied opinions getting thrown around……
To those who weren’t present at the places that were getting attacked right now, it was only natural for them to not believe immediately. What they were hearing was like a world in disaster movie.
Mao herself would find it hard to believe if not due to the information that came from the emergency network of her classmates, no, even now she found it hard to believe even after hearing about the situation.
Something like the world’s destruction, or simultaneous manifestations of monsters from parallel worlds in all the worlds……
Just what the hell is going on while I’m adventuring in various foreign countries to my heart’s content huh? She even reflexively tsukkomi-ed like that with a rough tone when she first heard it.
But, the information came from none other than her friends, and also from Nagumo family. They requested her cooperation.
In that case for now she would throw away her confusion and her agitation and also her fear. First she would act. If it was required, she would run to anywhere. She would do what she could.
That was why, she was streaming. So that as many people as possible could take action that would protect their own life.
That was why, she was running right now.
「And so――」
There was a deafening explosion. Next also came continuous gunfire sounds.
「Maooo! What are you doing streaming carefreely right now!? Run faster!」
「Wait Luffy-san! Haven’t I told you many times to not talk to me while I’m streaming~?」
「In front of you! That monster! Can’t you see ittt!?」
*Dadadadada-* The sound of rifle firing continuously and voices of 「Ruuunn!」「You gonna die if you fall behind!」「What the hell are these things!」「Someone bring the car hereeee!!」 where angry roar and insult and crying blended together were playing at the background.
The comments stagnated for just a moment before exploding even more. What’s going on? Is Maoyoshi okay? Comments filled with worry and confusion and curiosity were flowing like muddy stream.
「Watch it! Spoiler is forbidden! Just why do you think I’m fixing the camera on me huh~」
「You’re scolding me!? In this situation!? Shit-, why is my life keep going off rail like this!!」
「Ri~ight, everyone, sorry for my staff. Well then, it’s no good if I just keep putting on airs, so I’ll unveil now what’s the situation right now. The basis that what I said isn’t fake~. One~, two!」
The camera’s direction changed. The camera that was pointed diagonally below was turned to behind Maoyoshi above her head.
The comment section stagnated once more.
Naturally. Because, grotesque humans (?) who ought to be described as fish-faced were marching on in droves.
Of course, there were also humans with normal appearances. Though they had expressions like demon, their eyes felt like they had completely gone out of their mind, like there was this visible aura of insanity blazing out around them.
But, the number of such humans was less than half. They were mixing between the townspeople. Their abnormally distant gazes were goggling around restlessly, their backs were hunched, their skin colors were pale, their hairs were thin regardless of gender, the skins of their necks were loose, they were running like they were prancing with bow legs. They were people with appearances that really could only be described as fish-faced human thing.
They too must be townspeople. They rushed out from the ordinary houses around while she was in the middle of running, and they weren’t agitated toward the townspeople with normal appearances. They were grouping up together like it was natural to chase after her.
Their hands were holding weapons (?) from daily life like hatchet, hoe, kitchen knife, stick, and other things. Their number kept increasing as time passed.
The town’s bell was ringing. Surely it was one of the communication methods within town that told the townspeople to “catch the outsiders”.
Against such mad and grotesque looking group, Maoyoshi and her staffs mostly aimed at their legs with gun to make them stumble, used flashbang or tear gas grenade to make them falter, used attachable small explosive to bring down streetlight or wall to block the path, etc.
Luffy, aka Wilford, a handsome uncle whose manners and face were like an actor and in the past got into a competition against Shia and Hajime over a relic during their trip, was desperately doing a fighting retreat together with the mercenaries he was leading.
「Ahaha, it was a real fright! Seee, when we were eating breakfast in this town’s inn, the inn staffs and the surrounding guests suddenly all started to stare hard at us. Just when we started wondering what’s the deal with that, they suddenly made strange voices and attacked.」
As a matter of fact, it was by coincidence that Mao and co were staying in this town since around the day before yesterday.
Yes, they weren’t dispatched here through Laila’s “gate” of darkness after the situation broke out. They were here from the start.
The reason was of course, for video material. They were at USA’s Massachusetts state not long ago, but there they got a chance to hear about a certain legend and story of an unidentified creature, and after investigating some, they arrived at this town.
Then, they asked around and investigated the surrounding while. This morning too they were having breakfast in the dilapidated inn of the town when she got suddenly contacted.
At first it was an email. It was filled with brief summary of the situation. Mao then shared it with Luffy and his men, then right after that her phone rang.
It was from Remia. She spoke to her with a bit of anxiety in her tone, that Laila detected countless reactions from the place that they were at right now.
The number was so high that it wasn’t possible to deal with it with just Mao and her group, so a reinforcement would be dispatched there. Remia asked her to secure safety until reinforcement arrived, and after that she asked her to deal with the place together.
It was at that moment. Luffy got drenched in cold sweat while slapping Mao’s shoulder. His gaze was fixed at their surrounding.
Around them, the townspeople were staring fixedly at them expressionlessly as though time had stopped.
Not only that, before they knew it the windows also had a lot of people peering in……
Wilford quickly tossed a flashbang without any hesitation. At the same time he kicked the table at the guests jumping at them. Meanwhile Mao also applied her support magic to Wilford and his men, then they escaped the inn a bit forcefully.
「This town isn’t that big, even so as expected the number is insane if all the residents are attacking isn’t it~. They’re also screaming things, like, the time has come! Or, bring the sacrifices!……」
Apparently only a part of the townspeople would be left to attack Mao and others who were outsiders, while the rest went to attack the nearby village and town. After learning such thing,
「As expected, it’s a bit hard to just run knowing that.」
At the very least, she wanted to disrupt things all over the town, and attracted their force to focus in dealing with them until reinforcement arrived.
「And that’s why, Maoyoshi and her happy-go-lucky friends are going to try to do something about this!」
Maoyoshi declared with a sharp expression while making a horizontal peace sign. The number of viewers exploded even more. Perhaps this streaming was also shared in social media.
At the same time the viewers all over the world also saw. Of Wilford crying 「You’re joking right!? Tell me that you’re joking, Mao!」 with unwillingness toward his employer who set up a plan of action that was going off the rail.
The supporting comments flooded in.
Actually Wilford too was a popular person and a favorite of the viewers in Maoyoshi Channel as the “pitiful handsome uncle Luffy-san”.
「I demand improvement in working condition!! Bossssss!!」
The yelling Luffy didn’t know. That the boss was currently not even in this world.
He could line up his pockets if he obeyed Hajime. He could be in the winning team! That was his thought when he accepted being Mao’s bodyguard, but not even in his wildest dream he ever imagined that in this job there were many times when he felt that his life was in danger, even more then when he was contending against agents from various countries and private soldiers of corporations.
But, he couldn’t do anything like running away. Because of chivalrous spirit? Well, there was a bit of that. Regardless of all his complaints, he thought that the adventure in Maoyoshi Channel and Mao herself weren’t that bad. Yes, it was just a small thought, rea~ally small thought, but it was there.
But as expected, the biggest reason was,
「Captainnn! As I thought let’s just quit! This kind of workplace!」
「You stupid idiot! We’re streaming right now! What’re you going to do if boss hear that! If he learn that we abandon Mao and run……Tenchiu! Tenchiu!」
「Ahaha, we’re just joking around just now boss, just a joke……spare us」
He wasn’t talking about Tenchuu which was heaven’s wrath. He said Tenchiu. An abbreviation of *chiu* from heaven (Ten) that would cause a big boom. The trauma that was burned into them by the sunlight convergence laser, and also the boss’s wide grin was still not healed at all even now!
Seeing a bald man with muscular body like a pro wrestler begging toward the sky with tearful eyes was a terribly surreal sight.
The comment section went slightly abuzz in a different direction.
Black? Is Maoyoshi Channel a black company? Come to think of it, feels like I heard before that she has a sponsor……is it a dangerous org? Feels like, Luffy and co are threatened? No, they’re begging forgiveness at the sky……are they in some kind of strange religion or something?
The pitifulness of the pitiful uncle and his men was increasing! At the same time their popularity was also growing!
But, they weren’t simply pitiful uncles. From the start they who were veteran mercenaries were strong. They were relic hunters and also combat pros at the same time.
And, Mao’s specialty was “support magic(buff)”. The power of other world magic had been used since before the camera was on. There was no way Luffy and his men hadn’t been strengthened.
On top of that, it wasn’t like debuff was outside of her capability, so in reality the fish-faced townspeople had their physical and mental capabilities lowered by a lot.
In short, Wilford and his men were crying and complaining, but conversely speaking it also meant that they had the leeway to complain.
Insane, comments of praise and admiration were scrolling down.
The number of fish-faces chasing them right now were at the hundreds. They were making eerie cries and radiating killing intent.
But, there was no sluggishness in Luffy and his men’s movements. Everything was precise. Even though they were fighting while retreating, they caught multiple targets with minimal attack, showed no opening by covering each other whiler reloading, and preventing the enemies from catching up.
They also had no problem with close quarter.
Even when the enemies launched surprise attack from inside house or behind car, they stomped on the ambusher’s toes to make them falter while slamming their rifle’s butt to their jaw, or using only their shoulder to do shoulder throw before kicking the enemy while they were down.
Depending on the situation they would let go of their rifle and fought with knife. They would cut only the arm or leg’s tendon to neutralize the enemy, or even shifting away blade with bare hand before slamming their fist on a vital spot as counter to render the enemy unconscious.
They jumped and hooked their legs on the fish face’s neck, then twisted their body to slam the enemy on the ground. Then without any pause they shot at a different enemy with a smooth movement like flowing water.
They could even kick up the gravels under their foot to blind the enemy, kicked the enemy’s crotch from below, sent the enemy flying with tackle, grabbing the enemy’s head and slamming them on the wall.
Rational and smart army hand-to-hand martial art, combination technique of lethal grappling that was polished in real battle, in addition teamwork that could only be done thanks to deep mutual trust between comrades.
Their movements, physical abilities were looking superhuman enough in the eyes of ordinary people.
There was also how the leader Luffy was a handsome uncle who looked like an actor. It made the fight looked exactly like a scene from action movie.
The comment section was going wild. Support, admiration, excitement decorated the comments. The viewers were fired up.
But, as expected quantity beat quality.
It was also because Luffy and his men were fixated with only neutralizing the enemies no matter what. Because they couldn’t eliminate the possibility that the townspeople were just brainwashed, and that perhaps even the fish faced people were only like that because of something that was forcefully done to them.
Mao started streaming, was perhaps……
Not only to spread information about the danger of what was happening right now as much as possible, but because it might made Wilford and his men to hesitate ignoring Mao’s instruction and kill the enemies when push came to shove……that might be what she was thinking.
In any case, Mao and co were cornered.
Although it was a declining town near the coast and surrounded by mountains, it had modern convenience like normal. There were also a lot of cars although they were old-fashioned. It was a coastal town that made a living through fishery, so there were also tractors and trucks.
It was a terribly surreal and eerie sight seeing the fish-faced townspeople driving those, but it didn’t change the fact that the road was blocked. In addition, the trucks’ backs were carrying a lot of fish faces.
「Mao, this is real bad!」
「Oh my. They’re unexpectedly shrewd despite being fish faced, or rather their teamwork is surprisingly good isn’t it.」
Wilford and his men formed a circle around Mao.
Mao was cracking jokes, but as expected a trickle of cold sweat still came out when getting surrounded by insane townspeople like this. It’s not really my specialty though……she muttered inside her heart while preparing to form a barrier.
The insane townspeople gradually tightened the encirclement net. Combined with the fish faces, it got conveyed even through the streaming. Whether this situation, and the emotions Mao and co were showing were real or fake.
The comment section’s atmosphere also drastically turned tense.
This is, bad ain’t it……, they gotta escape right away! Can’t someone go help them!?
Maoyoshi, and Luffy and his men were going to be overran. A gruesome sight would play out in the screen……
Everyone got such premonition. Eerie cries were playing out and the fish faces took the lead and stepped forward. Mao activated her barrier――before she could do that,
「――”Wind Blast”!!」
「――”Fireball”!!」
「――”Stream Strike”!!」
「――”Freezing Casket”!!」
「――”Lightning Snake”!!」
「――”Stone Bullet”!!」
Language and phenomenon that the viewers couldn’t comprehend came into being.
Compressed wind became localized shockwave and blew away a part of the surrounding. Fireball made the trucks and cars went up in flame. Water hosing that was more powerful than police’s water cannon mowed down the people’s legs, and right after that the stumbling people got frozen together with the ground. Lightning that was meandering like snake shocked anyone it reached. Stone that flew out from the ground became a powerful body blow to its target.
The encirclement crumbled in an instant. The townspeople all moaned in agony. They screamed in shock and the place was transformed into a crucible of chaos instantly.
Even within such chaos the fish faces were still prioritizing their objective. They stepped on the townspeople and leaped but……
「Doryaaaaah」
「Haaaah!!」
Silhouettes leaped out with piercing cries. They cut in between Mao’s group and the fish faces. They were an old man wearing armor and white hair that was like lion’s mane, and a young man wearing light armor.
The old man carried a battle axe, while the young man carried a western sword. They struck the fish faces with the flat of their blades and sent them flying.
W-who……? It wasn’t just the viewers who wondered that. Luffy and his men too.
「Eh, ah, mister are you perhaps……」
You know them Maoyoshi!? The listeners and also Luffy’s group looked at her.
「The royal capital’s guild master!?」
No really who!? Royal capital where!? Guild master what!? The viewers and also Luffy and his men were all in bewilderment!
「Oo, miss if I’m not mistaken you are……that’s right. You’re the support magician missy aren’t you? It was at the final battle, no, rather it was since the capital’s rebuilding wasn’t it. My adventurers are in your debt.」
The old man who looked back over his shoulder with a fearless smile that made him looked like a fierce animal was exactly the one Mao thought who he was. A macho grandpa with really thick beard, narrow eyes, and muscles that really belied his age.
He was Heiligh Kingdom’s adventurer guild’s guild master――Balse Laputa.
She wasn’t close with him. During the rebuilding, Mao was buffing adventurers all over to increase work efficiency, so she had talked with him several times, but that was all.
She heard that reinforcement was coming, but to think it was this person.
Mao’s gaze naturally turned toward the old man’s side.
「If I’m not mistaken, you are Hajime-dono’s comrade, Mao Yoshino-dono isn’t it. I’m the third son of Count Cudeta, Will Cudeta. In this chance to repay our debt, I’ve come here to participate as one of the kingdom’s nobles. I’ve also registered as adventurer more or less. Please take care of me.」
The brightly smiling young man was also someone she knew. When he visited the northern mountain belt region as adventurer, he unfortunately ran into a brainwashed black dragon(Tio) and got rescued by Hajime, this young noble of Heiligh Kingdom.
Outside the encirclement net, she also saw some more familiar faces who she got acquainted with during the legendary final battle and the time after that before she returned to earth. Everyone who saw this,
「What, is this fantasy group……this is just too off the railll」
It was exactly just as he said. Luffy’s muttering was surely representing the thought of all the viewers. Or rather, the comment section was also flooded with similar comments.
In fact, it was fantasy. People armed with various types of sword and spear wearing light armor or leather armor, people wearing pointy hat and robe and carrying staff, people carrying large shield……
Most people would imagine fantasy fiction from seeing this group. People who looked like adventurer in their imagination, around a hundred of them, were right there.
「Don’t tell me, the reinforcement is adventurers from Tortus!?」
It was exactly that.
The call that came through Liliana was immediately answered by the adventurer guild. For the beginning only high ranked adventurers who could sally out immediately became the spearhead led by the guild master personally.
As long as Yue’s teleportation was available a relatively well-organized combat force could be gathered in short time, so even now adventurers from all over Tortus were gathering to become the second and third waves.
「Something like that! For now I gathered only the elites! There’re still more coming later but, it’ll be only us for now!」
A battle axe’s strike that was unthinkable coming from an old man who had retired a long ago cut through the air. The rotated axe created powerful wind that blew away all the townspeople who were madly charging at them while letting out strange cries.
「Oi, guildmas! As expected there’s too many! We should move right away!」
A male adventurer who looked really experienced yelled while looking around from a rooftop.
Mao wouldn’t know him but, his name was Gartima. He was a senior adventurer who also participated in Hajime and Yue, and also Shia’s first quest of guarding a merchant caravan.
He was the only man in Tortus who was calling Hajime who was considered as a demon god right now “white head”. Perhaps that was why, He’s allowed to call him like that! he was also a man who was strangely held in awe for that.
Balse nodded at Gartima. Then he bellowed out his order so loudly it felt like everyone’s eardrums were going to be torn even though he wasn’t even using wind element magic “Voice Amplification”. His voice was also filled with commanding aura.
「Yoosh!! Adventurers! Follow me!! Don’t let even a single scratch on the support magician missy and her bodyguards got it!!」
「「「「「Ouu!!!!!」」」」」
「「「「「Rogeeeer!!!」」」」」
Answers filled with spirits resounded from the adventurers. They scattered the surrounding physically and using magic to forcefully open a path, while moving around to prevent the enemies from encircling again.
Colorful magic, phenomenon that could only be thought as that burst out all around. The viewers and Wilford and co could only watch dumbfounded.
「Give us your support magic missy! We have a plan, so come along!」
「Okaaay! Come on, Luffy-san, everyoneee! Stop looking stupid and come! Dear viewers, it’s fine already here! Don’t worry! These people are Maoyoshi’s adventurer friends!」
「……Missy, have you changed? It feels like you were more candid before……or rather, who are you talking to?」
Maoyoshi-chan blushed a little from an acquaintance commenting about her “streamer face” with a straight face.
In any case, Mao and co got out of danger with the reinforcement from the adventurers. The townspeople and fish faces who got on their way were blown away as though they got hit by dump truck. Mao followed after the elite adventurers led by Balse.
「! Tsk, my life is really going off the――no, let’s stop. Who knows how many more times I’m going to be made to say that.」
Wilford was exasperated, but he was apparently able to grasp the situation around him properly. He cancelled his catchphrase while shooting down the leg of a fish face that jumped at them from the rooftop.
「……Hee, you ain’t bad.」
Gartima who was about to clash with that fish face grinned and fired flame bullet that almost grazed Wilford’s head.
Wilford reflexively ducked and pointed his gun at Gartima, but a short scream reached his ear and he looked back over his shoulder.
On the rooftop of the house at the opposite side, a woman carrying a double-barreled shotgun was enveloped in flame and slipped off.
「……You too. Good grief, things off the rail keeps happening since I’m getting involved with the boss-」
Wilford and his men were working as support staffs for Mao, a super multilingual yout*ber, so naturally they were supplied with “Language Comprehension” artifact. And so, they could understand Tortus language properly too.
Even his curse was also translated as expected, so Gartima looked at him dubiously.
「Boss?」
「I mean Nagumo Hajime. You’re acquainted with him right?」
「A-aa, that’s what you mean. Haha, it feels like I’ll be able to enjoy delicious alcohol with you. Our complains for that guys who’s like a jack-in-the-box will be the snack.」
「Sounds good. If you can get us out from this situation with all our limbs still attached, I’ll treat you to one glass.」
「Oh, nice. That’s a promise yeah?」
Somehow it felt like a friendship that crossed over worlds was budding between the two uncles.
But putting that aside.
They got out of the town and the beach and the sea entered their sights.
Mao and Luffy and his men unconsciously held their breath seeing that.
Countless silhouettes were rising from the sea. It was like a landing operation during war, the number was great. It was easily at four digits. In the scale of several thousands.
「Ahaha……they’re completely fishmen.」
As expected a dry voice slipped out from Mao. Just as she said, coming up on land from the sea one after another wasn’t something at the level of fish faced. Fish with arms and legs walking on two feet. They looked exactly like the image of fishmen from fiction.
There were specimens with the same size like human to those that were nearly three meters. Further there were also specimens that were wearing armor and armed with something like spear. Even though they were fish faced their teeth were sharp like piranha. Their claws were also sharps like animal.
Even from afar, and even from across the screen, the inhuman insanity and killing intent could be felt overflowing from their atmosphere.
「No problem, follow me!」
Balse raised his voice valiantly. He charged toward the beach as though to clash against the large swarm.
There.
「Oo~ii! Over here!」
「Maoo~~!! Do your best~~!!」
Such extremely familiar voices rang out.
Her gaze was stolen by the large swarm of fishmen, but actually there were people at the center of the beach in front of them.
Seeing those people, a honest joyful look that wasn’t just playing a character broke out on Mao’s face.
「Ayako!! Nomura-kun!!」
Yes, the two were her former party members. Nomura Kentarou and Tsuji Ayako.
Mao understood just from seeing the two. What would happen from here on. What was the aim of Balse and the adventurers.
She realized that she was grinning. You need this right? As though to say that, she applied her full-powered buffs on Kentarou even though there was still some distance. Kentarou smiled back at her as though to say 「So you get it」.
The fishmen rushed to the beach. The townspeople and the fish faces were also coming from behind.
The viewers whose thought got paralyzed by the parade of supernatural phenomenon returned to their senses by the pincer attack. The comment section was scrolling down so fast it was impossible to read anything.
「You two, long time no see~!」
「We’re always watching your streaming you kno~!」
Mao and Ayako crashed into a hug. The adventurers gathered around and formed a circle.
Kentarou glanced at the two warmly while lifting up his staff artifact. Balse lifted a hand to make him pause. He looked around in evaluation.
The large swarm must not be planning to encircle like before anymore. The enemies were approaching from both sides to immediately swallow them――
「Now!」
「――”Maximum – Collapse Prison”」
What manifested was a light tremor. And then, a collapse of the beach. It sounded like an exaggeration saying it like that, but in short it was a giant pitfall.
The adventurers at the center dodged cleanly, while the surrounding beach including the shoal sunk down like quicksand.
The townspeople and the fish faces were sucked in helplessly like getting trapped in antlion pit. Furthermore, Ayako laid out an oblong shaped barrier to prevent the seawater from flowing in. Some adventurers with earth element aptitude made a part of the shoal rose to act as breakwater at the opening.
Like that a large hole with the width of 800 meters, height of 300 meters, and depth of 8 meters was formed. Mao and others were standing on a cylindrical sand pillar (natural, it was hardened) towering high at the center of that.
It was truly a wholesale capture. No matter how much the enemies clawed on the sandy wall it only crumbled and impossible to climb. The ground was from all the earth and sand worth of the great hole compressed at the bottom of the hole so it boasted a solidity from tremendous density.
In addition the adventurers were casting magic like heavy rain from above, so the townspeople and the fishmen were getting neutralized one after another.
Mao sighed in relieve by that even while feeling a bit creeped when she looked at Kentarou. The streaming was on this whole time so the comment section was becoming absurd, but she asked her question with her base character, unable to even care about her streaming character.
「E-err? Nomura-kun, have you gotten stronger?」
「Zee zee, no such thing. I’m in university together with Ayako and also really busy with work at my grandfather’s house, so to be honest, haa~ haa-, I haven’t used magic even once ever since I got into university.」
「This is thanks to Mao buying time.」
Kentarou went down on his knees looking weary. Ayako was gently rubbing his back while making him drink magic power recovery medicine. She spoke with a merry smile.
Eh? Isn’t their distance super close compared to before? This, could it be that? I haven’t gotten any news from Ayako but……finally!? Mao suspected the two’s relationship even while nodding.
「Aa, I see. You only collapsed the “lid” just now huh. You took your time to create a pitfall.」
「Seeing the fishmen kept coming up really gave us a chill though.」
「Oi, Mao! This isn’t the time to rekindle friendship!」
「Young lads, can we go already? Rather the do or die will be from here y’know?」
Wilford and Balse called at them.
It was just as they said. The battle still wasn’t over. Fishmen were still rising up even now from the sea. The same trap wouldn’t work again. They were clearly starting to circle around the large hole with wariness.
Furthermore.
「Is that……their leader?」
The sea surface was rising several hundred meters from the shore.
Its appearance was close to the fishmen. But the size was at different level. It was armed with something like a trident. It also looked like it was wearing something like a distorted crown. As expected it had a presence and body that were unthinkable for human.
It felt like its throat was vibrating. Immediately a crying voice reverberated. It sounded like a beautiful singing voice in contrast to its appearance, but that exactly why it felt disgusting.
Right after that, countless spears shot out from the surrounding sea surface.
「Kh, ――”Light Severance”!!」
Ayako immediately deployed a barrier. Spears――no, water torrents crashed on it in succession like lasers. It seemed that specimen could use some kind of magic.
「Kuh」
「Ayako!」
「Barrier! Pile them up!」
Mao applied support magic, while Balse’s order was obeyed with the adventurers starting to chant to deploy barrier magic.
Ayako’s barrier was cracking. Right now the adventurers couldn’t dodge because they were surrounded by a large hole. Kentarou was hurriedly building a bridge of rock and soil that was growing from the direction of the town but……
Would he made it in time at the end?
Based on the result,
「How should we deal with something like――what’s that?」
They were on time. In different sense.
Wilford and his men muttered with expressions that were half-resigned, but their tones changed right away. Because they noticed the being approaching from behind the monstrous fishman.
Mao too immediately zoomed up her camera. It was her streamer instinct at work!
With that the viewers also saw it. The world was watching! They couldn’t help but mutter exactly the same words like Wilford and co with the same state of mind.
What’s, that……
Fishman?
No, wrong. Certainly it’s swimming with inhumanly tremendous speed but it’s not a fishman.
Look, at that beautiful form! At the throbbing muscles! What an unbelievably dynamic and elegant butterfly stroke!!
It’s a person. Are they wearing water jet propeller or something! The water splash and speed of the approach made them wanted to tsukkomi like that, but closing the distance with overly beautiful butterfly stroke like a flying fish was without a doubt a human!
「No, that’s……that’s-!!」
Mao returned to be Maoyoshi! Her streamer soul that always kept hope and stimulation and excitement in mind yelled from deep inside!!
「That’s――a manly womaaaaann!!」
「Bruaaaaaaaaaah!!」
There was a war cry! A giant flew out like missile from the sea surface.
Muscles. That was the embodiment of muscles!
The figure spreading their hands bathing under the celestial light was like a bird soaring freely at the sky. The figure taking pride in their physical beauty was just like a sculpture modeled after a war god somewhere!
And the bulging speedo too!
The boss specimen turned around with a startled loo *Gyoh!?*.
But too slow. The giant was already taking hold of the boss specimen from behind.
「Buruaaaaaaaaah!!」
「GYOOOOOOOH!?」
Bulging muscles. Seawater and sweat and the mucus covering the fishman’s body scattered.
The giant’s roar and muscles throbbed, constricting the boss specimen’s neck.
The boss specimen resisted desperately while shrieking.
In a sense, it was a very shocking sight. The fishmen around were also freezing with startled looks.
A beat passed.
A boutique manager and the peak of all manly women who was regarded as one of the strongest even among the gold rank adventurers――shop manager Chrystabel. Her battle with the boss specimen was,
「Nuuuuuhn!!」
*Gokyu-* Came to an end together with the sound of cervical vertebrae breaking.
*Gyo!?* The boss specimen’s eyes rolled back and he returned to the sea.
Manager Chrystabel kicked on its head and pointlessly twirled in the air before landing on the shoal in front of the large hole. She caused a great splash and gave a glance at the fishmen around her who fell on their butts with looks as though to say 「N-nooo, what the hell is this muscle!! Don’t come here!」 and,
「I come to help dearie♪」
Performing the greatest double biceps ever seen.
Of course, Maoyoshi said.
「We won. I’ll go take a bath.」
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At the same time, in the center of Russia’s capital.
The place was put under the rule of dread and conflict that were destroying people’s common sense and sanity by the roots.
There was no sunlight even though it was still noon. The ground that was covered by dark cloud was abnormally dark. Lightning and thunder rumbled without pause. Shockwaves and sounds of destruction were also resounding intermittently.
A part of a high-rise building that suddenly broke rained down. Unpredictable shockwaves were tossing about the people and cars on the ground like downburst.
Nobody knew what was that. Perhaps the blackened sky became camouflage that was making it considerably hard to see.
But, there was something.
Multiple repulsively mighty beings were killing each other far above this metropolis in the sky. That was the only thing that was certain.
It was like madness turning into rain that was pouring down.
Terror and repulsiveness that couldn’t be seen with eyes were freezing the hearts of the people in this metropolis that numbered more than ten million. Panic broke out here and there and due to that many accidents also occurred.
The polices were fully mobilized and doing their best to calm down the situation and guiding people to evacuate but……
「What the hell……what the hell is going on-」
They were the same. The polices too were in the height of confusion. They couldn’t see, they didn’t know who was the enemy, and what was the cause. How could they possibly know what to do in such situation.
Their legs stopped. They stood stock still in despair at the middle of screams, yells, and chaos.
Was the same thing like here also happening in other metropolises, and not only that were unidentified creatures manifesting all at once all over the world, were these biological weapons of other country, was the army mobilizing, the average firearm had no effect against monsters so should they run, anyway should they escape from the capital……
Information that couldn’t be confirmed was making things complicated. There was also no proper command from above.
In any case, there was something at the center of the capital and they must evacuate the people from there even just by one more. They could do anything else but, even doing that was next to impossible in the middle of this great chaos.
Someone……
Oh god……
They wanted to get away from the unknown terrifying presence. As expected human wanted to cling to a great existence during such time.
It was then, light shined.
A shining sphere formed at the sky above the city center. The people who were drowning inside the crucible of chaos reflexively looked to the sky.
And then, they saw. They witnessed it.
The silhouette inside the light. The figure of a beautiful youth with wings and wearing armor, holding a sword in one hand……
Eyes opened wide. The people’s cornered minds, their hearts that felt like would fall into madness if they didn’t cling on something thought that existence was “angel”.
The youth who looked like angel lifted up his sword. Immediately multiple lights formed around him. Winged people who were similarly good looking but heavily armed appeared.
A beat passed and the angels all flew up. That looked like a group of angels were going to face the unknown monsters attacking the people, like their prayers had been answered by god.
The repulsiveness that was freezing their souls was still there. The instinctual feeling of wanting to run away, and the doubt niggling them that perhaps it would feel better to just fall into panic were also still there.
But, it felt like there was light burning just a little inside their hearts.
A police who was on the verge of going mad also took a deep breath. He firmly pulled down his hat and turned his eyes toward the citizens around him who were still looking up at the sky in a daze.
His legs, were working properly.
There was a suspicious man confirming such sight at the ground from a building’s rooftop.
He was a man wearing a black robe that had magic circle sewed on it with golden thread. A hood was covering his head making his expression couldn’t be seen. He was holding a metallic book that was enveloped in faint light on one hand.
「C-chancellor……」
A trembling voice called out from behind. It was a group wearing the same black robes. Their robes weren’t embroidered with magic circle made from golden thread, but they were dressed the same and there were twelve of them.
The black robed man with golden embroidery and got called as chancellor closed his book with a snap.
「The time has come.」
There were some sounds of gulping.
「Why have you awakened? What is your strength for? The answers, are to be shown today, right now.」
The chancellor slowly turned around.
「Oh the chosen people. The heaven-sent children of mystery. Now is the time for us to show the meaning of our birth!!」
The atmosphere of the black robed group who were completely terrified by the battle going on at the sky changed.
「That is the one and only meaning of existence for us――the Magician Heroes!!」
The hood was removed with wide sweep of hand. The face that came into view was of an Asian youth wearing glasses.
The chancellor――also known as Nimura Akito, one of the returnees who dashed out to the world with the simple thought of “Can’t I become number one in the world using magic trick if I can use actual magic?” had become a supernova of the magician community after increasing his popularity with reckless abandon somehow or other similar to Mao. He huffed with a smirk. & pushing up his glasses.
It was like, that person who was currently at the sky.
「C-chancellor! Aren’t we a secret organization!? Is it alright for us to reveal our true identity!?」
Magician Heroes. That was the name of the organization that Akito built.
On the surface it was a magician group centered around the supernova of magician community Akito that went to various countries performing magic show. Behind the scene it was a secret hero organization that put the “awakened” under their protection as well as using that power to crush evil and save people.
So far, Hajime was also helping out, and “teaching a lesson” to those who ran to crime or almost do so using their awakened ability and then rehabilitating them was also a convenient setup. There was no denying that was a part of the reason but……
Seeing his speech and conduct that would make a certain abyss person grinned if he saw this, perhaps, a big part of that was because of hobby. It was to a degree that it made his friends said 「Isn’t that guy getting carried away recently?」. Certainly, it felt like Akito was taking enjoyment in various senses in what he was doing.
Although, he was still doing what he had to do even now.
「There is no point in hiding it anymore. This is also not the time to spend effort in hiding.」
He understood the gist of the situation thanks to the urgent contact from his friends. No, he got dispatched here in emergency without much explanation while he was doing a magic show in other country so in reality he didn’t know much but……
At the very least, he was making multiple monsters to take down each other using illusion in a battle that was separate from the battle at the sky. Further he was also making “projected illusion” whenever necessary from afar in order to lead the people out from the battlefield.
The angel group just now was also for calming down the people a little. After that, he was also creating illusionary police officers to guide the evacuation.
His theatrical speech and gesture were also more or less for encouraging the “awakened” who were freezing in fear.
It was more or less for that but……
As expected, it was a fact that he was getting carried away.
Akito-kun took off his glasses and brushed his hair back into a swept back hairstyle. And then, he said the supreme line that he always wanted to say one day――
「In that case, I too shall reveal my true identity to the masses! And then, I shall ascend to the zenith of magician. I will stand in heave――hogebaah!?」
He was blown away just before he could finish.
He smashed through the window of the neighboring building like a cannon shell. And then his figure vanished deeper inside.
Naturally the eyes of all the “awakened” shrunk into dots. 「Eh?」 They also let out such voices.
A new grotesque thing was at the spot where the chancellor had been standing until before.
A huge body that was around three or four meter tall with oily black body hair covering it. One more arm was growing from the elbows of both its arms, and each had terrifying sharp claws extending out. But, the oddest thing from it was its head.
It was vertically split. The chasm was chock full with fangs. It was the head that was none other than the monster’s mouth.
「……A, ah」
The “awakened” were backing away while unable to say anything.
Their throats spasmed by the hideous presence that was far denser than the monsters Akito made to take down each other before. Cold sweat gushed out and their bodies trembled.
They all were people who had awakened to ability, however, it was really nothing more than ability at “magic trick level”. They had also never gotten into actual battle to the death. They were civilian who had gotten into quarrel with some thug at best.
They could at least help with evacuation. They would have no problem with panicked people or something like quelling people who turned mad and rampaged. Perhaps they could even buy time if they were facing a class 5.
But, if they were facing a class 4, and one that was at the higher end……
What’s more.
At a corner of the rooftop, and then on the rooftops of the surrounding buildings, and even at the empty spaces between buildings, multiple dark red vortexes formed and from there similar monsters were falling out one after another. If they saw such sight……
The mouth head monster jumped. There was no roar, only the sickening colored eyes that looked like bulging pink and the four raised arms along with the claws conveyed its killing intent more eloquently than any roar could.
Ah, we’re dead. It was at the moment when everyone thought that.
「――”Cannon Imperial”」
Blood sprayed to the air. From the torso of the monster that had been slashed diagonally.
The monster who was also got hit with an impact like cannonball together with getting slashed flew over the heads of the “awakened” and tumbled until the opposite side of the rooftop.
It was right at that time another monster jumped over its friend that fell behind and rushed to their way.
But, that too,
「――”Crimson Spear”」
From the neighboring building. A spear of flame flew from there and hit the monster’s torso. But, seeing that it didn’t have much effect the words 「――Snail Blaze」 were added and fired. Right after that, that flame spear became like a tornado of flame that brutally swallowed the monster.
As expected there was no voice from the monster but there must be damage. The mouth head monster’s silhouette writhing could be seen inside the flame.
It was incomprehensible. What was going on? The group of “awakened” were confused.
But putting aside that confusion.
「W-what……」
One of the “awakened” murmured. His sight caught darkness of empty sky that looked similar to the dark red vortex, but it didn’t give him any feeling of repulsiveness.
Big. The diameter must be around a hundred meter. Newcomers came from there.
Unlike the monsters, what came out were beings that didn’t make them feel want to run away instinctually, but they were unrealistic beings just like the monsters.
『Scatter to the designated areas! Maintain frequent contact!!』
「Crush the enemies one by one! Leave the reinforcing to the dragons! Protect your post to the death!」
Dragons. Majestic dragons flew out one after another with a indigo dragon at the forefront.
What’s more, multiple people were riding on their backs. Dark skin wearing armor with peculiar ears that were pointed at the ends.
They were spreading out through the metropolis. They were heading toward the monsters that were brought down all over.
A swarm of dragons weaving their way between high-rise buildings.
What were the people who were still inside buildings and the people on the ground thought when they saw that sight?
The sight of mouth head monster coming down suddenly getting blown away.
Fantasy warriors jumping down from the dragons’ backs at places where people clustered together, using magic-like power to protect them and face the monsters.
It was unavoidable for them to be flabbergasted just like the “awakened”.
There,
「Ou ou, Akito-saaan. What did you just say about heaven? Where are you going to stand again?」
「Yoo, as expected from Akito-san! Please dooo it! C’mon, you’re going to crush your glasses right!? Do it dew iit!」
They heard voices that were cheerfully out of place.
A duo of Asian leaped from the neighboring building like they were riding on gust of wind. The chancellor was borrowing the two’s shoulders while making a bitter expression.
「Are you saying those words to your friend who would be in a seriously bad state if the emergency barrier artifact didn’t activate?」
「You’re fine if you can still complain like that.」
「You were blown away right when we came out of the “gate”. Aren’t you too careless?」
「I’m a backliner you know! What’s more I was using illusion remotely at multiple places the whole time! It couldn’t be helped!」
「「Even though you’re the one standing in heaven~~~??」」
「T-these guys-」
The duo――Nakano Shinji and Saitou Yoshiki let him go like tossing away trash. Provocative look really suited these duo. Akito got a vein throbbing on his forehead even while putting back his glasses carefully.
It was unclear whether these three got along well or not, but it could be felt somehow that they had affable relationship. And most of all it was a relief that the chancellor was alive. Many of the “awakened” weakly fell down.
「Seriously……that was mid rank. What’s more I casted it quite seriously.」
「So this is class 4 huh……」
The two monsters that were also on the rooftop stood up and looked their way. It looked like they were still able to move even while enveloped in blazing flame or cut almost in two.
「Match me okay, Shinji.」
「Okay~」
Combination magic of wind and flame were fired out in the same beat.
Intense fire pillar that couldn’t be compared from before burst up as though to pierce the sky. The pillar that swallowed the two monsters together heated up without limit from the synergy of wind and flame.
「How dare you interrupt my closing line.」
Akito also applied his illusion to make it difficult to get out from the blazing whirlwind.
「So, are you guys the reinforcement?」
「We’re also with some dragons and a unit of demon race. They’re also deployed to other cities.」
「Especially because all the dragons are worth a thousand warriors each. They’re spread out all over the world.」
Yoshiki said that and showed his smartphone.
『What a sight this is! Dragons from legend are in the sky! And, jumping down from their backs are――an army of manly women!! Crazy sight isn’t it!』
It was the channel of Maoyoshi, a friend and recently someone who he had a growing rivalry with.
Maoyoshi’s tone was like a reporter reporting a disaster scene right from the spot, but she wasn’t necessarily mistaken.
Because, in a sense, her location was becoming like a real disaster spot.
Countless fishmen, and multiple specimens that seemed to be their superior type were bringing out their heads out above the sea and attempting to get on land, but the sea behind them was freezing.
Above the sea was most likely the ice dragon Ristas-san. The familiar looking dragon used his breath attack to freeze the sea in wide range and create foothold. The muscle lumps jumped down from the backs of other dragons on there. Such sight was playing out in the phone.
The fall of dozens of meters was no big deal.
They all were naked and on one knee like the Termina*or right after he teleported. It was unknown why they all only wore a single speedo!
The embodiments of muscles stood up and certainly, they were an army of manly women. The video was from far away but there were familiar faces.
If his memory was right, it was Mariabel who confessed to Yue at Brook Town and got a smash as the reply, the former black ranked adventurer Redbel who got the table turned on him with a smash at the guild of Fuhren, Dibel who was a former prison guard in the empire who received smash interrogation……
Yes, the reinforcement wasn’t just Manager Crystabel. Naturally she also brought the manly women army with her.
The manly women were standing side-by-side on the sea with fixed intervals between them. Then they started walking slowly. It seemed that their bodies were already warmed up. When it came to intensity of sweat’s vapor gushing out from the whole body and muscles pumping up……
「The world is becoming insane……」
Akito-kun muttered in a daze. Something like this, something like this is completely the “Rumbling” ain’t it. This is the Attack on Manly Woman ain’t it. It’s over for earth ain’t it……he thought.
Yoshiki showed the video because he wanted to show to him the dragons getting dispatched at faraway place, but the video was too shocking in various senses. He quietly turned off the screen.
There an indigo dragon came flying. This too, no, she was a dragon who he was the most familiar with.
「Venri-san!」
She was one of the oldest dragons who also ought to be called as Tio’s second mother. She was the dragon who was staying the closest to the returnees after the final battle and until they returned home, so Akito and co naturally also knew her well.
Venri dispelled her dragon transformation with a faint light enveloping her.
A woman in kimono was standing at the edge of the rooftop. Seeing her appearance made Akito and co reflexively spoke.
「「「Are you looking younger somehow!?」」」
「Oh dear, you won’t get anything even if you flatter an old woman like me you know?」
Certainly her looks made them felt her considerable age just like before. It was a change at the level that they could be convinced if she told them that they were just imagining it.
But, it felt like the luster of her skin was clearly better. Her wrinkles were also fewer? And most of all, the vitality they felt from her felt different if they could say……
「More importantly, there’s a call from Yue-sama.」
Venri quietly altered her expression. She looked like she had gotten rejuvenated appearance-wise, but now she made them felt her stern atmosphere all at once. The three thought that it was really just their imagination as expected.
Akito and co naturally straightened their clothes and posture.
「It looks like there’s variation in the way the “void gods” manifested.」
「Variation?」
Shinji tilted his head.
「Among the “void gods” there are those who come out from “dark red gate that open just for an instant before closing right away”. The locations of the “void gods” that came out from there seems to be overly on pinpoint.」
「You mean that they’re being strategical?」
「Yes. Possibly the dark red gate might be the work of the “god of gate”. And, perhaps the “god of gate” isn’t just a singular “void god” but a being that employs many “void gods”. It seems that conjecture is formed based on the information of their appearance all over the world that is still increasing even as we speak.」
「In short, other than the individual “void gods” lurking all over earth, you’re saying that there’s a group that is sending their members to the whole world from the territory or something of that “god of gate”?」
Venri nodded to Akito’s question.
「That’s why, Yue-sama ask that you confirm it if possible and then contact her.」
「Aa~, you mean if there’s some who try to go back through the dark red gate or if there’s a dark red gate that’s kept open.」
Yoshiki’s expression was grave. Shinji and Akito too.
They glanced at the sky. They couldn’t see their comrade in arms perhaps because he was fighting above the cloud. But, even just from the after-effect that they could feel from here, it was enough to tell them that they would only become a hindrance there.
Even class 4 monster was an opponent that they couldn’t underestimate.
They could feel their already tense feeling sharpening to be even more razor sharp. It was like they were returning back to the legendary final battle.
「Guess we can only do anything we can.」
Yoshiki and Akito nodded at Shinji’s words.
Venri too returned back to her dragon mode. Her body was enveloped in indigo colored radiance.
「May fortune be with you. However, take care of yourself too. Because we cannot let this world overflow with sadness for when maste――cough. For when Hajime-sama return here.」
「Eh, just now, what did you say?」
「Wai-, Venri-saan!?」
Just now, did she almost say master when referring to Nagumo? No, well, he’s Tio-san’s husband, in other words he can also be considered as master from where Venri-san stand, so it wasn’t that impossible for her to call him like that in the sense of him being the household’s master……
Venri-san spread out her wings in a snap and quickly returned to battlefield. The three stared at her retreating back.
They wondered. Was it just their imagination that they felt there was something strange with her tone when she spoke the word master? Were they just being hyperconscious?
How she looked strangely younger, the energetic feeling they felt from her like she was someone who at the very least had found a new reason for living, those things felt like they were giving them a push toward the truth of that sensation, or perhaps not……
「D-don’t tell me that bastard Nagumo……such thing……no way right?」
「Ha, haha, as expected that’s……just too demon godly.」
「R-right you are!」
The three looked at each other and laughed drily.
There,
「U-umm chancellor. We……」
They gasped and turned around. There the group of “awakened” were standing idly.
The three looked at each other again and coughed together.
「Of course, we shall protect the populace from the monsters till the end. With the name of Magician Heroes on the line!」
「Ah, hello, we’re allies.」
「We’re his friends. Nice to meet you. By the way, the miss over there, do you have boyfriend?」
They put aside their strange suspicion for now.
The three led the “awakened” and rushed toward the metropolis where turmoil and chaos were spreading.
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Meanwhile around that time, at the foot of Japan’s Mount Fuji, at the depth of the sea of trees.
「My name is Ranainferna!! The first wife of the abyss lord, and the beheading phantom of the dark forest!! I shall take your lives into my custody!! Although the world is different, this is still our territory! Feel free to prove to your heart’s content that we, warriors of the beast race are the strongest!!」
「「「「「UOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!!!」」」」」
The beastman warriors of Fea Belgen were forming a well-organized formation in front of the cave that was leading to the shrine.
Standing at the forefront was a rabbitman commander which would be impossible if it was in the past.
This place wasn’t a population center, but this location was even more important in a sense.
At the very least if the “dragon” was revived the world wouldn’t be just in chaos but pushed to the verge of destruction. There would be no leeway to face the “void gods” in such situation. Even just a sign of revival would be bad. Just from that the dragon folklores everywhere would might materialize and rampage. If that happened it would become an advantageous situation for “void gods”.
That was why,
「Fuh, be at ease, o little princess who inherited the mystery of thousand years. We shall swallow all the fools who dare to step into this sea of trees and return them to the forest. Princess can simply focus to fulfill your duty inside the veil of night.」
『I’m sorry Rana-san. What did you say just now? I’m concentrating right now――』
「Fuh」
She turned. She also pushed up the sunglasses that she was wearing even though it was night.
Facing the swarm that was radiating aura that caused goosebumps on their skins and approaching from the surrounding area, Ra, no, Ranainferna performed an edgy pose just like her husband.
And then, inside the cave that functioned as shrine.
There clad in Onmyouji’s kariginu (informal clothes worn by nobility from Heian period), a young lady was forming hand sign in front of the newly created torii. She was closing her eyes while reciting a chant with undivided attention in some kind of ritual. She didn’t even pay any mind to the noises that started to be audible from outside and continued to focus. And then,
「――The preparation, is finished.」
The being who was recognized by the strongest magician as the only one who possessed the talent to rival her in the field of magic, had finally finished her battle preparation in full. Her eyes quietly opened.
「Fujiwara Hinata, departing.」
The strongest onmyouji, was now sallying out.
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AN: Thank you very much for reading this every time.
Thank you very much too for the thoughts, opinions, and reports about misspelling and omitted words.
We finally reached Rana and co. Felt like I would be able to finish at fifth part, barely……
※Meme introduction
– Do you know them, Maoyoshi
From Raiden of [Sakigake!! Otokojuku]
– Doing streaming out of nowhere
Apparently the meme originally came the Youtuber Hikaru-san. I thought it was a meme of horror manga or something.
– Rumbling
From the “Rumbling” of [Attack on Titan]. There was no quake like the huge giants but, in their passing nothing would remain or manly woman would be mass produced, maybe.
– We won I’ll take a bath
Rather than a meme it’s an internet slang. It’s a flag for the table getting turned, but this chapter it’s just making doubly sure instead.
– I’ll stand in heaven.
From Aizen Sousuke of [Bleach]. By the way, Akito-kun had no courage to crush his glasses. Because it’s simply expensive. He only planned to use his illusion to show the glasses crushed.
– Monster image
Fishman: Cthulhu’s Innsmouth, the Deep Ones. The mouth head monster: Cthulhu’s Gug. They’re just for image models in the end.
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