chapter 29

“Now…”

“We’re both at our limits, too.”

The ground of the decaying shrine is being crowded with a huge number of corpses of the demons.

On the ground there are around 5 earth spiders and 400 weakling.

And then they come one after the another one.

In our surroundings there were 7 earth spiders, and then a Ushi-Oni could be seen which is higher in rank than earth spiders. (TN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushi-oni)

“Lela Sakaguchi? You’ve done enough…”

“Enough? I can still do more!”

“Go back! You’ve done so much… It’s enough! I beg you… don’t make any mistakes!”

“And I said I can still fight more!”

I have cuts on my whole body and the white clothes have already been dyed in crimson.

Bone fractures on my left foot and right shoulder. And then the fracture on the right shoulder probably has become complex fracture.

Lela Sakaguchi also has lots of injuries and she’s out of breath.

She was missing few fingers on her left hand, and lacerations on her right foot like something shot through it.

Her whole body was crimson, exactly like a daruma.

However, she’s a Dominion so she has received God’s divine protection.

All of her injuries will heal in 48 hours as long as it’s not instant death—- Therefore, her defence had became sloppy from devoting everything to just offense.

Though, even if she’s an dominion… Gradually, she has been reaching her limit.

“It’s fine… already. It’s okay so don’t get hurt for me. It’s enough. It’s enough…”

I was speechless.

Her explosively rising spiritual force could be felt from even here.

“There’s no way… I’ll be made fun of an island country in the far east! Spirit limit clothes release! I’m lifting the ban of usage of relics! This is what I’ve decided for myself! Just this once, I’ll rip the prohibition of the Vatican!”

Reflexively I turned back, and opened my eyes widely.

Her fake Longinus was shining in rainbow-colours—- It changed from silver to deep crimson.

This is not… the fake, but rather real one…?

“You were a… relic holder?”

「……」

Lela Sakaguchi didn’t respond to my question.

Even if she’s a dominion the elite force, in the end it’s a mass-production type.

It’s usually impossible to be given a relic… No, she’s been sent alone to the Far East, so she has her own reasons as well…?

“Spirit clothing———Overload! Slaughter every monster in this area!”

Her armor began to shine yellow golden and she dashed.

For example, like a wind.

In an instant the surrounding spiders had their bodies pierced and fell to the ground one by one.

And then, she jumped when all of the earth spiders fell on the ground.

“Oooooooooooooooo!”

At the same time she was yelling; she was heading towards the Ushi-Oni.

Just as she was about to struck the Longinus spear in its head, she got hit and blown away by the Ushi-oni.

“F*ck… By this weakling…”

She was sliding 20 meters away on the ground, and when she got up the Ushi-oni was in front of her.

Certainly she has plenty of strength needed to destroy the Ushi-Oni, however she’s plenty wounded herself.

“Ridiculous, this me who has received a relic to end here…”

And she has received a fatal attack to the chin just now from the Ushi-Oni.

Her brain was shaken and her vision was getting blurry.

Lela Sakaguchi’s knees are completely shaken and any attack from now are impossible to be avoided.

Ushi-Oni was preparing its next attack and Lela Sakaguchi who was unable to hold was crossing herself. And then—-

“Flaming Talisman: Hell Flame Technique”

I took out a dozen talismans and threw them at the Ushi-Oni.

This is the strongest firepower that I have, in other words, this is my card for beings of Ushi-Oni spiritual class… I can’t give damage more than this.

If I express it like Morishita-kun would then It’s an attack that takes half of my MP pool and from today I’m going to stop using it.

The 32 talismans were engulfing the Ushi-Oni in hell flame and then the sound of an explosion echoed.

The explosion which would have torn my eardrums disappeared—-

However, the Ushi-Oni rose up from the scorching smoke and made a smile this way.

In an instant the Ushi-Oni appeared before me and smiled.

“My strongest attack… Hell Flame… made no damage?”

And then he raised its arm to attack me.

“But, I am not the one who has the strongest attack here. Do you hear… Cow-face?”

The Ushi-Oni turned backwards at my words and screamed.

Holding Longinus in her hands, glowing brightly she was charging at a tremendous speed this way.

“Goooooooooooooo!”

Longinus pierced the Ushi-Oni’s heart and then the demon fell on the ground with a *Thud*.

Me and Lela Sakaguchi raised our hands in the air.

“You… are good at fights, aren’t you?”

“That’s my line… I was wondering whether you’ll heal from the concussion… I was getting nervous.”

*Pachin* and we did a high-five.

For now, we’ve defeated all the enemies in our vision. But, from here the demons will also continue to sprout.

However, my MP is 0 and Lela Sakaguchi is also near her limit.

“Right now, it’s truly a favourable opportunity.”

“Favourable opportunity? That’s for me to decide.”

I’m shocked… At the same time I smiled she had gotten blown away.

I think it was a flick.

From the appearance of an ultra dense spiritual being I had goosebumps on my whole body, and I desperately tried to endure from vomiting… I wasn’t able to see what truly happened.

“Ha…aa? Just one attack… when I’m in overdrive…”

At any rate, Lela Sakaguchi was blown away around 30 meters away by the enemy’s flick and she made a crater of radius several meters on a tree which was over 1000 years old.

And then she passed out silently.

“Oh dear, aren’t you great. Splendid for a human.”

A good looking man with a silver hair and looked like he was in his mid-twenties.

He is wearing white and crimson shinto clothes, and he has 9 fox tails.

A clear beautiful figure like a japanese sword the man smiled.

“You managed to defeat the earth spiders and even the Ushi-Oni. You did well for a humans of this era. I’m giving you compliments. You showed a great spectacle. Even this one’s palms were sweating.”

My knees won’t stop shaking since earlier.

It’s from understanding my place in this battlefield. No, the difference is too big.

It’s like an insect mantis is confronting a wild tiger, and in how to go up against it.

This is a divine beast. No, is it a God?

I suppress my trembling knees and with all that I have I tried to act brave.

“Are you the Nine-Tails? You gave yourself away by taking away the weak demons…”

Nine-tails just chuckled at my words.

“Your knees are shaking, human.”

It saw through it—- I bit my lips.

“However, your fight has taken my breath away. Normally, I would summon goblins and you’ll be violated by them for 3 days 3 nights however I’ve changed my mind.”

“Changed your mind?”

“People like you won’t submit to disgrace. Therefore, I’ll make you a tribute of pain for the earlier display.”

“Pain?”

“I’ll eat you little by little and slowly. I’ll politely peel your skin off and carefully remove the internal organs so as to not kill you. That’s… it’s going to be fun cutting you one millimeter at a time.”

I understand that I’ve gone pale.

I was desperate to not fall on the spot.

「……」

“Fufu, that’s right, it’s fine to be scared. If you scream splendidly… I’ll give you some leniency…”

At that time, tears came on my cheeks.

Hatred towards my Onee-sama.

Hatred towards Father.

And then, hatred towards my own powerlessness.

All kinds of emotions were surging… I don’t understand which is what, anymore.

“Hou. This is a kill-joy, crying just from mere threats.”

Nine-Tails shrugged and walked towards me.

“As I thought, I should summon the goblins and begin the disgrace. By the way, are you a virgin?”

“That’s right.”

“The goblins *that* is also small. It’s all right, the first pain is small.”

My body is also shaking and tears from bitterness, anger and fear didn’t stop falling.

Lela Sakaguchi who risked her life for me now is also like me a bird trapped in a cage.

Probably the same fate will come for her, too.

Why… Why am I so powerless.

At the time my vision was full of tears and blurry—— A gust of wind blew away like a cyclone.

“Pigyaa!? Pi…..Shaaaaaa!?”

The Nine-Tails was blown while letting out an joke-like voice.

And then, the Nine-tails sank into a sacred tree over 2000 years old which was next to the one over 1000 years old where Lela Sakaguchi sank into, and then the Nine-Tails pierced through the trunk of the sacred tree and he still wasn’t losing traction.

*Crack* *Crick* *Crack*

And then Nine-Tails finally stopped several meters after mowing down trees like bowling pins.

“… Morishita-kun?”

There was a male student with jeans, hooded sweatshirt and a metal bat in one of his hands.

“It seems like it’s a homerun. As expected of the holy sword Excalibur. Even if I mimicry it in modern times it still does its job as it needs to.”

“Morishita-kun? Why… did you come here!?”

“Why, you ask… Do I even need a reason to help Abeno-senpai?”

“But, you…”

“Hey, Abeno-senpai? I heard the details from Sakaguchi-san. I’m angered, I’ll have you know.”

“…What?”

“Aren’t you tattered by wounds and bloodied on your whole body? And are you not shaking? Are you not crying, now?”

「……」

“Why didn’t you say even one word about this? Why? Just stop being careless and leave it to me.”

“I’m just an email friend…”

“Hey, senpai?”

“What?”

“Certainly, I might have a fault in it, too. I might’ve said it jokingly that we’re just email friends. But, senpai?”

「……」

“Are we not more than strangers? No matter how it looks— Aren’t we already friends? No, at least that’s what I think. Because, I wasn’t raised by my parents to need a reason to help friends…”

“Morishita…kun?”

“It’s okay you don’t have to be afraid. It’s okay, you don’t have to shake. It’s okay, you don’t have to cry.”

He said that and glared at the Nine-Tails standing several meters away.

“Is it you? Is it you who made Abeno-senpai who’s stubborn and never shows weakness to anybody cry like a 17 year old girl you would find anywhere? Is it you!?”

And then, Morishita-kun yelled in the evening’s sky.

“Oi! Shitty Fox! You’ve done as you pleased! This person… belongs to me! Morishita Daiki won’t let you lay even one finger on her body!”