“Yeah! We’re not going to take your crap————————!!!”
They continued to release their human transformations one after the other. Starting with the werewolves and fox spirit like goblins, demons released hot air from their entire bodies and the winged dragons all rose up from their chairs. Broadly grinning, Pest jumped out through the palace’s third right wing’s window to the aforementioned practice area. The angered participants followed after her. Unless they fought this out, they wouldn’t be able to concentrate. Sandra was speechless, but soon came back to her senses and glared at Jin.
“————————Jin.”
“Y,Yes.”
“I’m going to the practice area. I’m going to stop them, so come with me.”
Jin took her voice that wouldn’t let him respond head on, and hurriedly left the palace’s third right wing behind.
Part 2[แก้ไข]
————————Kouen City Palace Headquarters – The practice area in front of the barracks.
Despite it being late at night, the practice area was alive with cheers————————rather, it was bustling with roars. The practice area was only for the fire dragon clan, and was ten times larger than a regular practice area. Right now, the thoroughly prepared practice area was ablaze with a haze of fire.
“Grr, you shouldn’t be having this much trouble against a little girl!”
“Rebuild the formation!”
“Make use of our greater numbers! They’re not opponents we can’t win against!”
Seven fire dragons roared as they dashed. In the center of the practice area, Kasukabe Yō was taking on all seven fire dragons. The large winged fire dragons soared at exceptional speeds. They were just barely able to keep up with Yō, who was aloft on a sparkling whirlwind.
“Damn you………!!”
Yō rose further on her sparkling whirlwind and dashed through the sky. However, her legs did not have Pegasus’ armor attached to them. Right now, she was releasing a whirlwind with her own abilities.
“………You’re incredible, Kasukabe-san.”
Kudou Asuka was at the edge of the practice area, breathing hard. Sitting next to her was a young, enchanting girl———————Willa the Ignis Fatuus, who naturally nodded as she twirled her dazzling wings with her finger.
“Pegasus’ wings………It’s one of the gifts that Koumei left for Yō. Upon contact with a living thing, the genome tree interprets its phylogenetic tree and evolves its bearer.”
Willa shook her chest proudly as she explained. Sitting next to them, Izayoi also nodded in admiration.
“Hum. So right now, by using the gryphon’s and pegasus’ powers at the same time, her flight speed and physical abilities have rapidly increased.”
“That’s right. ———————But that’s not the important part.”
Willa pointed at Yō, who was fighting. After a moment, she released a surge of intense lightning. In her hand that released that dazzling lightning was———————three hundred and sixty kinds of beast kings. She was gripping a pike that looked like a Kirin.
“With this………!”
In a flash, she launched the pike in a straight line. Resounding with thunder, the lightning that shot out in a fan pierced all seven fire dragons.
“Impossible………!?”
The hardened scales of the fire dragons, said to be forged in an active volcano, was no match for the lightning of a divine beast. Unable to move, the fire dragons fell while convulsing and crashed into the ground. Izayoi, having watched the battle, rubbed his chin and chuckled.
“Obtaining mobility with the gryphon and pegasus while imitating the phantom beasts’ destructive powers through the genome tree. I see, this is powerful stuff.”
He nodded in admiration. But it was not as optimistic a battle as he said it was. Yō came down from the sky with shiny beads of sweat flowing down from her forehead and gasping for breath. Gently wiping off the sweat with her right hand, Yō took a deep breath, steadying her breathing, and did her victory pose.
“Victory. It’s thanks to Willa that I won.”
“Victory. But that’s Yō’s true power. And it’s thanks to Koumei.”
She responded with a victory sign. Yō, suddenly remembering, raised a question.
“………Willa, how did you come to know my dad?”
Truthfully, it was something she wanted to ask about sooner. But because of the commotion from noon, there wasn’t much time for an opportunity to ask about it. Willa pondered with a blank face, and murmured.
“Koumei………saved us from a vicious stalker.”
“S………Stalker?”
“Yes. But it wasn’t just any stalker. He had a peculiar infatuation and imagination, and repeated a disgusting manner of speech. I didn’t like him, so I ran from place to place with Jack, but………that guy, he followed us everywhere with teleportation.”
“That’s………”
Asuka and Yō expressed bitterness at the same time. Izayoi put their expressions into words and spoke up.
“Stalker + Teleportation, huh. That’s like a demon with a holy sword.”
“T,That’s right.”
“Scary. That’s scary.”
“Yes. It’s really scary. That’s why I asked Queen Halloween to let me into the Little Garden. ………But that was a mistake. He spent hundreds of years in the outside world piling up training and merits, and opened a gate to the Little Garden on his own.”
“And so Kasukabe’s father saved you from that.”
Willa nodded in affirmation. Listening to the story, Asuka sighed in pity and gently rested her hand on Willa’s shoulder.
“Willa’s gone through a lot too………being targeted by that stalker.”
“No, that might not be the case, you know? It could’ve been a decently good love story from a different perspective. What if you thought of his infatuation like this instead? ‘Devoting myself to studying my power for many months and years, passing the boundary of the outside world! Willa, I’ve come to take you home!!!’ ———————Like that?”
“Ew, that’s disgusting!”
Willa shuddered as goosebumps appeared all over her body. Pushing her to say something that bad took outstanding talent.
“That stalker that drove Willa and Jack that far up the wall, he must’ve been that———————”
“Grr, what are those guys at Salamandra doing!!!”
They jumped in surprise and faced the direction of the voice. From the palace’s third right wing came the old goblins after Pest, one after the other as they ran into the practice area. It seems they were enraged from seeing the defeated fire dragons. Meeting up with Izayoi and the others, Pest suppressed her smile and laughed cynically.
“I’ve brought them just like you asked.”
“Well done. Looks you got them raring to go.”
“Of course. It’s all in a maid’s work. ———————So weirdo, what are you going to do?”
Pest chuckled in provocation as she looked at Izayoi. But before he could answer, the group that followed Pest roared while in a state of rage.
“You bastards………you’ve all ran wild for quite a while.”
“But your brutality ends here.”
“You’re going to pay for your big talk right here………!!!”
Undoing their human transformations, the old timers’ spiritual statuses all ballooned up at once. The three people’s spiritual statuses, suitably above all others in fighting prowess, gave off an intimidating presence that overwhelmed the average winged dragons.
Created from a pale spiritual body and able to grow a hundred strong arms, the titan clan———————the descendants of Hekatonkheire[1]. With the head of a goat, letting loose a sinister presence, the devils———————Baphomet’s[2] kin. Boasting two horns, the chief of demons———————Shuten Douji’s[3] faction.
In the middle of the practice area, while holding onto one arm, he bared his teeth.
“We man-eating fiends who have infested the northern side have passed many trials within.”
“Although we were struck down by the Dragon Lord of the Stars and Seas, we are still of demon lord bloodlines. Don’t lump us together with that halfwit.”
“Kuku……my blood hasn’t boiled like this in a while, human. Let the blood erupt and splatter like mist!!!”
“Hah!”
“”"GUAAAAAAAAAAAAA I’m dooooooown!!!”"”
Izayoi brandished his fists. Three of the goblins were blown away, crashing headfirst into the clock-tower in Salamandra’s headquarters. ———————There wasn’t anymore need to say it. It was a flat out degree of nonsense. Mandra, who was watching the events in the practice area from start to finish, was shocked as the edge of his mouth quivered.
“………. Is that really a human?”
“Who knows.”
Asuka, who was left behind, answered back. Izayoi, as if dusting off his fists, brushed his hands while looking at the old timers who had come from the palace’s third right wing and smiled fearlessly.
“Well, that’s just about it. What’ll you do, oh great old seniors?”
“Nu………!”
Their exuberance from before was nowhere to be seen, and their words faltered. They weren’t stupid. It didn’t take long for them to realize the difference in their strength. Izayoi looked at them, who were having second thoughts, and his frivolous smile vanished as his eyes became serious.