55 Night Parade of One Hundred Oni Every Four Days Part 5

-Evening, Random clearing of the Forest-

-My POV-

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"Yuyuko-sama! What happened?! I've been searching everywhere for you!" Youmu come closer to us.

"Youmu~, listen~ listen~" Yuyuko got up and then floated away to Youmu's side "That boy do something cruel to me!" ordered Yuyuko as she point her folded hand fan to me.

"Hm? Did something happen between the two of you??" asked Youmu.

Now it's my turn to get up.

"Yes, he bullied me!" told Yuyuko.

"…Ha?" Youmu let out a dumbfound voice, seems like she doesn't believed what she just heard.

"Like I said, he bullied me! Youmu, teach him a lesson!" urged Yuyuko.

"W-wha…I…whaaaaa…" Youmu still doesn't know what to say with the situation she's presented with.

And here I'm, quietly standing at the side, waiting for the inevitable. I start searching the pills inside my Pouch.

"…I understand, Yuyuko-sama!!" obeyed Youmu.

'…Called it. I'm not really that tired or exhausted, but just in case.' I though while I ate both of my Vitality and Mentality Booster.

Youmu comes forward.

"I don't know what actually happen, and I truthfully want to know what happen, but since it's an order from Yuyuko-sama, it can't be helped. Arah-dono, let's have a rematch!" said Youmu as she unsheathed her Roukanken (long katana).

"I see, then it really can't be helped. For specific reason, I can't use my previous Katana, so I hope that you're satisfied with my Light Saber." I said before I form the Light Saber with my Light Jewel.

"Yes, don't worry about it, Arah-dono! But this fight will be different from last time because I'll go all out from the start!"

Strange Half Body "Mirrored Self"

Youmu's Half-Phantom puffing up, it spins for a full second before suddenly changed into another Youmu. Now there are two Youmu, although, the new one has an aura around her, making it separatable to the other Youmu.

"I'm counting on you, Myon." said Youmu.

Myon, the name of Youmu's Half-Phantom, silently nod before she pulls out Hakurouken (short katana) from Youmu's waist.

"Okay, note to self, dodge everything." I said to myself. 'I don't want to test my well being to hesitant-cutting katana.' I thought.

And our battle starts.

Myon is the first one to attack.

Since I don't want to get touched by the sword, I decided to be on the defensive and do counter attack when an opening appears.

Predicting her arm movement, slash trajectory, and predicting her target from the direction of her eyes. It's easy enough to do so with my skill set and when an opening appeared, I sneakily made the Light Saber longer to hit her.

It passes thought Myon's arm, it make her grimace and this also made Youmu grunted.

'Share pain reception because they're fundamentally one same person.' I noted. 'And speaking of Youmu, what is she doing all this time?' I curiously thought.

I glance at Youmu while fighting Myon.

She's taking a stance. Both of her hands are holding the unsheathed long sword that's stationed behind her horizontally. It's like she's waiting for something.

Myon suddenly backing off and Youmu lowered her stance posture.

My eyes go wide and I immediately jump.

Despite her personality that's easy to be manipulated, she's actually a pretty dangerous sword woman. Her techniques are resolved around instantaneous force and concentration power, which make her dangerous if left unchecked.

Human Sign "Slash of Present World"

Youmu dashes in a straight line with extreme speed, anything that she passes through got sliced.

After I landed back on the ground, I feel a sting on my leg, I check what caused it, and I saw blood dripping from the side of my leg. 'Tch, I still got hit.' but thankfully the injury is not serious enough to keep me from standing.

I look at Youmu again, she already in her next stance, now she positioned her sword vertically, it's like she's preparing a launcher attack.

I plan to interrupt her but Myon start blocking my way to her.

'Myon will buy time while Youmu charged her special attack? Good strategy, but it also has a weakness.' I thought.

Youmu feels what Myon feels.

I switch my strategy to do full offensive, keep attacking without giving any chance of retaliation to Myon.

Cut upon cut inflicted to Myon but she's adamant with not letting me passed her, until finally I impaled Myon through the tree by growing my Light Saber length endlessly.

Myon opened her mouth as if she's screaming from pain but no sound coming out from her mouth.

I turn toward Youmu.

She already lowered her stance while gritting her teeth.

Human Oni "Slash of the Eternal Future"

I crossed my hands, protecting my head and heart.

She done another extreme speed slash to hit, but this time her slash make me go flying in the air, when she stopped at the other side, she comes back to dash slash me again in the air, and then she kick the air to slash me again, she keep doing it three more time before I finally sense that I'm falling.

"GAHAAK!!" I crashed to the ground on my back.

It was painful experience to be juggled in real life, but I need to stand up. There are many cuts all around my body, but I endure the pain, and with great effort, I finally stand on my two feet.

I search for my opponent and I saw Youmu on the ground out of breath, Myon also besides her holding Youmu shoulder with exhausted expression.

"…Is-is that all you got?" I ask stutter.

They look surprised seeing me able to stand after what happened.

"…A-amazing, you can still stand after taking that, Arah-dono." said Youmu with small smile.

"Of course, I don't want to lose after all." I said as I reform my Light Saber in my hand.

"Go You-Mu! Go You-Mu! Yo-U-Mu!!" cheered Yuyuko at the side.

I look at Yuyuko for a second before going back to Youmu.

"Still want to continue?" I asked.

"Of course!" Youmu make a full blown smile while Myon do a tight lipped smile.

Youmu and Myon join their hand to hold Roukanken upward.

Hesitation-Cutting Sword "Slash of Departure from Hesitation"

The sword glows blue, and then a stream of energy pouring out from the sword.

'…Ah, that's a mistake.' I thought.

"This is my final move!" shouted Youmu.

"…Yes, your final move." I said unworriedly.

Both of them have a look of confident, confident that they'll win.

"Take it all, Arah-dono!" shouted Youmu again and they finally swung their sword.

"Sorry, I refuse." I said before I teleported behind them.

"?!"

The dice has been casted, they already swung their sword, the energy has been spent and the empty clearing in front of them that has no one in it got obliterated by their attack.

"In a swordfight, the one that land their attack the fastest is the winner, not the showy one." I said to them before I cut them both.

"Kyah!" Youmu make a girly cry.

*poof* Myon changed back to her Phantom form.

Both of them turned unconscious after getting slashed by my attack.

"…*sigh* finally, it's over." I sigh in relief.

I see Yuyuko coming closer, and she look…happy?

"Thank you for your lesson, boy. I'm sure Youmu appreciate it."

I raised my eyebrows. A thought suddenly appeared in my mind after she said that word.

"…D-did you just use me to train Youmu?' I asked.

Four random Phantoms suddenly come in and carried both of Youmu and each of her swords.

"Well, it was nice meeting you, see you next time~" Yuyuko said her good bye while ignoring my question.

All of them fly into the twilight sky, straight to the direction of Border of Life and Death.

"…At least everything is over, with this I could re-Hm??" Something fell down on my head. "What's this?" I grab it, and it turn out to be a piece of paper, there's something written in it.

'She's still mad. Go give her foods when the next feast arrived.'

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"Yes, Yukari-san." I obediently nod.

-Days later-

-Evening, Hakurei Shrine's Garden-

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And that's what I do when the 2nd feast started.

I laid down many many foods in front of Yuyuko.

"With this, I hope you will forgive me." I deeply bowed to Yuyuko.

"Please forgive my Master." Bara also deeply bowed next to me.

"Apology accepted~" and the black hole appeared again.

My anxiousness disappeared after she said those words.

I got up and turn toward Yukari. She nodded with satisfied expression.

We back away from the two of them.

I stay put in case something happened, while Bara turned toward Youmu.

"Nice to meet you, Youmu-senpai." Bara greeted Youmu.

"S-senpai?! Me?!" Youmu pointed to herself.

"Yes, it's because you're more experience on taking this line of duty." said Bara.

"…Senpai…" Youmu start day dreaming, I guess this is the first time she's referred as Senpai, and she felt good hearing it.

"Um, Youmu-senpai?" Bara look worried.

"…Senpai…" she's still day dreaming.

Bara turned toward me.

"Just wait for her." I said.

Bara obeyed.

I look at the people that sit in our opposite position.

It's Ran and Chen.

The Kitsune and the Bakeneko.

The Shikigami and the Shikigami's Shikigami.

[Lv. 29 Black Cat of Bad Omens, Chen]

This is the first time I saw Chen, and she's a cute cat like I thought.

She has dark brown eyes, brown hair and wears a green mob cap. She has black cat ears, with a gold earring in the left one, and two tails. Her dress is red with a white bow on the collar, with gold trimming and light pink frills at the bottom. The dress has light pink sleeves. She wears socks and has long hot pink fingernails.

Chen pouring Sake to Ran, they look happy talking with each other…welp, Ran just gave me a murderous glance for a moment before going back talking with Chen.

Guess it's time to look at the other group.

I look around, and thank fully I could saw everyone group in this spot …is this why Yukari choose this as her spot? To observe everyone in the feast?

The Vampire side start getting restless, I guess they'll be the first one to move to investigate the incident.

The Magicians and The Miko are still happily partying on the side.

I catch a glimpse of a flash inside one of the tree, if my guess is correct. That's Aya, taking photo about this incident. …Oh wow, this spot really make it easy to spot everyone.

"More!" demand Yuyuko.

"Yes, certainly Yuyuko-san!" then proceed to place more food in front of her.

-In the next few days-​

I sense something thrown at me just after I step out of my house.

I catch it.

It's a knife.

"…Ho boy." I already tired before it's even started.

Author note:

…To tell you guys the truth, I just created this chapter this morning, and I just finish it right now. I push it around for a week not because of work, but because I keep procrastinating. I guess my biggest enemy is actually myself. EX DEDEDEDEDEDEDEDEDEDE.

Still, weekly update might be almost impossible now. I know I keep saying this kind of shit and then I keep making weekly update anyway. But this feeling, I keep feeling lazy with creating new chapter, fucking hell. I just want to wrap this arc up so that I could continue writing my ECO SI.