Chapter 637 Anger of Asuka
Edited by: Kanaa-senpai
(Müller’s POV)
”If you value these women’s lives, stop the attack!”
Just as my sword was about to strike the throat of the Demon King Four Dark Heavens, Three-Face, a high-pitched voice echoed around me.
I quickly stopped my sword and jumped back.
Three-Face, who had taken a protective stance against my attack, was about to counterattack.
”Well done, Goliath. ──’Bind’!”
From the outstretched right hand of Three-Face, black mist-like threads were released.
I turned my gaze to follow it and saw ahead──
”You!”
My wife, bound by the black threads released by Three-Face, and my daughter, who was also bound in the same way and had her mouth covered by the black threads.
”You! So Three-Face is the kind of jerk who uses such mean tactics in a one-on-one fight!”
Asuka, who had been watching our battle from a distance, drew her odachi from her back.
”Calm down, Asuka. …It’s my lack of skill that caused my wife and daughter to be captured.”
”B…But…”
I restrained Asuka, who was about to jump at Three-Face, pointing the tip of her odachi at him.
──That’s right.
The responsibility for this situation lies with me for not prioritizing the protection of my family.
”Three-Face. I ask you, the glorious Demon King Four Dark Heavens… If I put down my sword, will you release them?”
”──Kazumi is off-limits. Someone who needs her is wanting her.”
”You… is that your goal…”
Asuka, who had been listening to my exchange with Three-Face while grinding her teeth, readied her odachi once more and shot forward like an arrow.
”Asuka!”
Her speed was far beyond what I had imagined, making it clear that the title ‘Maiden of the Gale’ wasn’t just for show.
”Muu!?”
Only those who step into the S-rank realm can reach that speed.
It seemed that Three-Face was caught off guard by her charge, unable even to brace himself against Asuka.
”Take this! You coward!”
Asuka’s ‘deadly thrust’ caught the side of Three-Face’s left shoulder, just as he barely twisted his body.
—Shlunk… shlrrrrk…!
With an unpleasant sound of the odachi sinking into flesh, the mask of Three-Face, said to not change expression, twisted in pain.
”You little girl…!”
”I miss your vital spot… but…!”
The thrust delivered with just his right hand.
Asuka placed her left hand on the back of the blade that had sunk halfway in and began to slash downwards.
”Let them go! Or I’ll keep slicing with this blade──!?”
Asuka’s rage froze into shock.
──Three-Face grabbed the blade of the odachi and forcefully pulled it out from his shoulder.
──Three-Face gripped the odachi’s blade and yanked it from his shoulder.
”Don’t underestimate me, little girl…”
His voice trembled—not cold or blank anymore, but filled with rage.
It was clearly different from the emotionless tone he had earlier.
”Ah…!”
Right then, Three-Face threw Asuka across the ground along with the odachi.
Asuka slammed into the ground but seemed to have managed to brace herself, quickly kneeling down and readying the odachi again.
”I really like ‘strong women.’ It’s such a shame, but I’ll turn you to ashes.”
The man standing between Kazumi and his wife, bound by Three-Face’s black thread… began to change his form rapidly── revealing a giant black dragon.
──Groarr!
From its wide-open mouth, a massive fireball was shot towards Asuka.
”Asuka!”
I instinctively ran to try and do something about the fireball flying toward her,
(Is it too late…!?)
I can’t reach it.
The distance between Asuka and me is too far.
I imagined the scene of her getting hit by the fireball, engulfed in flames, and I instinctively closed my eyes.
* * *
(W-What happened…?)
From far away, I heard the sound of the fireball exploding.
Moreover, from 2 places.
But── I didn’t hear Asuka’s scream.
”What the hell, stupid dragon… is this all you can spit out now, such weak flames?”
”H-Hiroya!?”
I heard a cheeky voice provoking the black dragon and Asuka’s relieved voice, so… I slowly opened my eyes in fear.
There stood a young man, holding a tachi, standing in front of the giant black dragon with Asuka behind him.
”Is that… you, Hiroya?”
”Is this the first time I’ve shown this form to my master?”
With a smirk and a fearless smile, his expression──sure enough, it had the resemblance of that Hiroya.
(By the way… I heard he could grow into this form…)
This tall young man in front of me was the previous life form of Hiroya.
”Master, I’m leaving that crazy Three-Face over there to you. I am──”
Saying that, he helped Asuka to her feet and stepped in front of her, shielding her from the black dragon with a sharp glare.
”I’ll be the one to send that stubborn thing off…”
His voice burned with anger as he slid the tachi into its sheath.
It wasn’t the Ōwakizashi I had given him—both the hilt and scabbard gleamed in a pure, almost glowing white.
(Could that be… Kamikirimaru?)
’d heard he retrieved that tachi—an ancient offering left deep within the Great Labyrinth Raetia.
Even while sheathed, it radiated a divine presence.
”Sh… Shinji and Megumi’s kid, Hiroya… a one-man hero party!?”
The massive black dragon muttered, visibly shaken.
Its enormous frame trembled, and even from where I stood, I felt faint vibrations through the ground.
”What do you mean by ‘one-man hero party’?”
Hiroya crouched down and took the stance of Iaido.
In an instant, an overwhelming sword energy filled the area.
”Well, that’s fine. ──So Goliath, which one do you prefer? Yamikirimaru or Kamikirimaru… I’ll carve you up with whichever you like.”
”What are you saying? We have Müller’s wife and Kazumi here…”
The black dragon said, backing away slightly.
”Dispel! Extra Protection!”
I could hear a voice using magic from somewhere.
At the same time, the restraints on the black dragon’s wife and Kazumi were released, and the two of them were enveloped in a light blue spherical Protection magic.
”Alright, Rena! Nice job!”
”Rena… Rena Rosen!?”
Pressing on the wound on his shoulder and looking up at the sky, Three-Face followed the gaze and saw Rena floating in the air.
”Give up, Three-Face. You definitely can’t beat Kazumi’s papa and Hiroya, not to mention Goliath.”
──Grit…!
Hearing Rena’s words, I could hear Three-Face gritting his teeth in frustration.
”Go back to your base and tell Azradelius, and the one behind him: ‘Stay quietly until we come.’”
That commanding tone left no room for argument; it was unlike the usual Rena──no, it was something that didn’t feel fitting for a girl.
”I… I’m going home! I can’t fight this monster when I’m still not fully recovered!”
The black dragon said this and flew off high into the sky.
”If I’m the monster, then what the hell are you!?”
A voice that seemed to belong to Hiroya shouted towards the sky, and Three-Face knelt down on the spot.
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Edited by Kanaa-senpai.
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