56 Night Parade of One Hundred Oni Every Four Days Part 6
AN: Its 3k words again.
-Evening, Random clearing of the Forest-
-My POV-
Despite my tired feeling, I start searching for certain someone that throws the knife, and I found her.
She's leaning her back behind the tree while closing her eyes and crossing her arms. That someone is Sakuya.
"Isn't it quite rude to greet someone by throwing a knife at them?" I asked as I throw the knife back at her, and yes, the knife that she thrown is a real knife, not the Danmaku one.
She smoothly catches the knife back and make it disappeared by flipping it on her hand.
"Show off." I said.
My remark got me a small smile from Sakuya. "Back to business." she opened her eyes and her face goes back to serious again. "By the order of my Mistress, I'm investigating the incident that has been occurred right now, the strange feast incident."
"Hou~" They already named the incident.
"For some reason, every four days people will gather at certain area to start a feast, it doesn't matter if you like it or not because you'll think that you need to go to the feast no matter what. From the list of suspects that I have, you are one of the most suspicious individual."
I raised one of my eyebrows.
"When an unexplainable happened, you must look at the biggest possible culprit in the scene but then I spotted you with them, you were sitting with the Gap Youkai in the recent feast."
"..." I stay silent.
When I arrived at the feast location yesterday, a Gap that's leading to Yukari's spot was opened up in front of us. I guess they saw what happened.
'…Is this planned by Yukari? Is Yukari preparing me further for my confrontation with Suika? Or was it all just coincidence? Its Yukari after all, anything could happen, everything could be her fault if you trace everything to where it comes from. …Wait, if that's really a sample of Yukari's calculative thinking, then was Yuyuko also make a plan to confirmed her suspicion while also obtaining large amount of food?! …Dude, I don't know if I'm over thinking or not with high IQ people.' I thought.
"Then I'll ask you now, are you behind this incident?"
"No." I immediately answer.
"I see, so you really are the one behind it."
"…Wait, what?"
"I don't need any more explanation about the incident, it probably will stop once I kill you." she summons her Danmaku knife between all of her fingers.
"W-wait, wait a moment, 'kill' me?!" I hurriedly take out my Light Jewel.
"Prepare yourself!" She throws her knifes.
"O-OI!" I deflect them all with my Light Saber.
Sakuya's figure disappeared and then a lot of knifes suddenly appear and coming from all direction.
"Tch." I surround myself momentarily with a barrier to block all the knives. I know I could just use my Vector Change, but that's cheating. I feel that I'm insulting their technique, their effort that they put out to c create their very own technique.
Sakuya appeared in front of me and then she throws another set of knifes.
I deflect the one in front of me again. "This is because of 'that', right?! Your embarrassing story!" I place the Light Saber behind my head to block the knife that I sense coming from behind me.
Silver Sign "Silver Bound"
A handful of Danmaku knifes appeared in Sakuya's hands, and they all are emitting a blue light around each of them.
Sakuya throw them all. Not at me, but to my surrounding. Of course, since its Sakuya, she didn't throw her knife without any meaning, so when the knives hit something, they immediately bounced to my position. All of the bounced knifes are coming from weird angle, but thankfully they come to me in orderly fashion.
Thought Acceleration
'That's the 1st knife that'll reach me, that's the 2nd knife, 3rd knife, both of those are 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th,8th,…'
By calculating the knife speed and distance, and use of Thought Acceleration, I easily repelled and dodge every one of them.
"Just because I knew about your embarrassing past, it doesn't mean you have to kill me! " I said to Sakuya.
But she ignored me and continuing what she's doing, which is killing me.
Speed Sign "Luminous Ricochet"
Instead of multiple knifes that appeared, now only a single knife that come out and starts shining, and I've a feeling that one knife is gonna be more deadly than the other.
"?!"
Soundlessly many knifes suddenly appear around me again, they're not flying toward me, but instead they all just staying still in the air, surrounding me from all direction and all possible angle.
'…Hmm, I feel like I've seen this before, isn't this her finishing move in 'DIO VS Sakuya' video…shit.'
"Be gone!" Sakuya shouted as she throws the glowing knife.
"You really want me dead aren't you?!"
Thought Acceleration
Since I don't think I could deflect the knife, I opted to go full dodge mode.
I move my waist to dodge the knife, the knife got reflected back by the frozen knife in the air, I did a spin to dodge it, it comes back again, I did a small hop to the side, it comes back again, with Vector Change I forcefully change the direction of my body going, it comes back again, I did a somersault on the spot, it comes back again...
…
You knew that old meme, the "geddan move" or "get down move" meme, yeah, you can just imagine what I'm doing can be considered to be the live action of that meme.
"Argh! I don't know if I got hit with something or I pulled something just now!" I complain while still dodging the glowing knife.
"…Disgusting." said Sakuya coldly.
"Oi! At least praise me while I dodge the impossible!"
"…Your movement is like a dying cockroach."
"She actually did the opposite!"
After I "dance" for a full minute, all the knives are dropped on to the ground, and I also dropped on the ground. I did an "orz" pose.
"…I think I just trade all of my dignity to dodge that one." I gloomily said.
"Really? I don't think you have one in the first place." Sakuya quipped.
I look at her with tired expression.
'I don't even have the willpower to banter with her anymore.' I thought.
I start standing up from the ground.
"I really I'm not the one behind this incident you know." I said to Sakuya as she prepared another handful of Danmaku knife. "In the first place, why do I want to gather everyone to have a feast? Please think about it, what benefit do I get by creating this incident?"
She didn't answer, she just readying her weapon, not attacking with it yet, I guess she's thinking.
"I got nothing. The reason as to why I'm there yesterday was to apologized to one of them. Please believe me." I continue.
"…I understand." She said calmly.
"Thank goodness, but, why…" I'm curious as to why even thought she said that word, she still didn't put her knives down.
"I did understand what you were saying, and it did make sense, but just to be safe, I'll have to put you down." she said without change of expression.
"So talking was useless after all!!" I start readying myself again to anticipate the upcoming knives.
Just as we're about to restart our fight, something suddenly comes down from the sky between the two of us.
It has wings, it has red eyes, it has blue hair, and it has a smug expression plastered all over its face.
It's Remilia.
Sakuya make the knives in her hands disappeared before teleporting to Remilia side. She done all that action smoothly in a hearth beat.
"I'm the strongest!" shouted Remilia out of nowhere.
"Yes, you are indeed the strongest, my Mistress." followed Sakuya as she act like a perfect maid beside Remilia.
I blink.
My brain needs a second to process what just happened. I also start rubbing my eyes and reconfirm that the one who said that line is indeed Remilia and not Cirno in disguise.
"You're just gonna rolled with it?! You're not even gonna ask why she unexpectedly appeared and said that kind of line?!" I asked Sakuya.
"Of course, I'll absolutely trust and support every decision that my Mistress makes." said Sakuya confidently.
"I'm the Strongest!" shouted Remilia again.
…Let's just deal with the abnormal one first.
"If I may ask, why are you suddenly proclaim yourself to being the strongest?" I ask Remilia.
"Fufu, it's because I'm taking interest in solving this incident myself. I heard that only the strongest individual have the qualification to solve an incident! So I'm here declaring to everyone that I'm the strongest one of you all!" said Remilia proudly.
"Ah, I see." I nod understandingly. "So, where did you hear that kind of information?" I asked.
"The Gap Youkai told me about it." said Remilia nonchalantly.
…
'…Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy??? Question mark everywhereeeeeeeeeee. Is this bullying? I know that Remilia will eventually move just like in the original timeline, but still, is Yukari actively bullying me right now?' I thought.
"Of course, I knew that only declaring oneself to be the strongest is useless, so I decided to beat them all up too."
"And you believe to what Yukari-san said?"
"Honestly, I don't care. I merely thinking that this is an opportunity to show everyone that I'm stronger than them, and since I also want the incident to stop, I might as well took the opportunity to do it all in one swoop."
"I see, but what about your last fight with Reimu? Aren't you lost to her back then?"
"She won because I let her, soon we will have a rematch and the result will be different."
"…I see. Good luck then. So what are you gonna do now? "
"Of course, it's beating all the people and proof that I'm the strongest, including you. Sakuya!"
"Affirmative, my Mistress." said Sakuya as she prepare to fight again.
I look between the Maid and the Vampire.
"…You want to fight me? Sure, I already predict it based on what you were saying, but 2 VS 1?" I said with irritated expression.
"Sakuya is one of my weapons. I see nothing wrong using my weapon in a battle." Remilia said with a smug smile.
'…This Loli Vampire…'
I take out my Steel Katana.
With my Light Saber in my right hand and Steel Katana on my left, and I lift the ban of using my other abilities in this fight, I'm ready to take the two of them at the same time.
"If you think the two of you could defeat me, you people are mistaken." I said a little bit arrogantly.
"Hmph, seems like the little human boy suddenly goes over his head, looks like you need to be shown where you belong." said Remilia with a little anger mixed in her voice.
"Yeah, it's the same for you too." I quipped.
Remilia twitched.
Chain Gang
Remilia suddenly fired 2 red, chain-shaped aura to me, it looks like it will chained me down if it's hit me, so I decided to just Teleport behind Remilia.
I stab Remilia using my Light Saber from behind her, but before my Light Saber made any contact with her, she suddenly turned into a bat. My Light Saber stabbing an empty air and Remilia took
some distance away from me before turning back into a girl.
I sense Sakuya appearing behind me. I activate Counter Armor, Sakuya knife meet with my skin, it didn't do any damage to me and I hold Sakuya in place using my ability.
I change my Light Saber into a Double Sided Light Saber and I proceed to thrust it behind me, but before it hit Sakuya, she disappeared and reappeared beside Remilia. Making my attack hit air once again.
"Can you two stop dodging so I could end this quickly?" I 'asked' them.
Look like my word hit them in their pride, both of them looks angry at me.
Certain Kill "Heart Break"
A spear shape aura bullet instantly appeared in Remilia hand, I reactively reinforce my Counter Armor, Remilia immediately throws the aura spear just after it appeared in her hand, the spear flying in extreme speed and in a blink of an eye, it immediately hit me, but because I'm prepared, the spear that hit me immediately fly back to Remilia because of Counter Armor, Remilia, probably not imagine that her attack comes back to her, got saved by Sakuya. Sakuya grab Remilia and dodge to the side, but Sakuya didn't come out unscathed, her Maid Uniform got shredded at the back side, revealing a white skin underneath the clothes.
All of those action happened in a single second, it shows that a fight could end in a single second if things got serious, and I guess things got serious right now.
"You! You dare!" said Remilia angrily, she stands up, ignoring Sakuya's condition, which's not really that bad …I think …no, don't give any sympathy yet, you're gonna disrespected them by doing so.
Remilia nails grow longer.
Night Lord "Dracula Cradle"
Remilia glows in red and then she's surrounded in red aura, now she looks like a big red Danmaku ball, after her transformation, she moves fast toward me.
'I feel like I can't fight the attack head on, I must kite her until she lost that aura of her, but before that, I must decrease the number of enemy.' I thought.
I bypass the flying red ball by Teleporting behind it, next to Sakuya that's about to stand up.
"Sorry." I said before I impale Sakuya with my Light Saber to the ground.
"GAAAAHHHH!!" cried Sakuya as she turned unconscious.
One down.
The red ball changed it course to come to my position.
I changed my Light Jewel from Melee Mode to Range Mode (which is just hold all the light back to shot it later rather than continuously pouring it out) to shoot at the flying red ball and then proceed to fly away from it to actively gain more distance from it, just like Yuyuko kiting me at that time.
The result? The plan actually not that bad, every time my shoot hit Remilia, the ball size slightly reduced and the ball's light becoming dimmer, everything is under control, until Remilia decided to do her final push.
The ball suddenly came back to its original size and its light becoming brighter again, sensing her final push, I clad my Steel Katana with Mana and create a Light Saber. I swung at the Red Ball with both of my swords.
*KAKINK*
The Red Ball got deflected and it soared above me, in mid air the Red Ball changed back to become Remilia. She does a flip and landed vertically on the tree with both of her feet. The tree creaked from her vertical landing.
Night Sign "Bad Lady Scramble"
Her body glows in red and then she body slam me in extreme speed.
Her attack completely caught me off guard, I mean, who would have thought after she landed in that position, she'll immediately body slams me.
Her attack hit my chest directly, it hurt, it feels like a truck run over me, but I endure it. I hug Remilia body as I got dragged by her attack. Not letting her get away after he attack is finished.
After several meter and finally slammed into a tree, it finally stop.
"…You…Release m!." said Remilia as I hug her.
"Don't want to, and also, I want to do something to you ever since I first met you." I said amid the pain.
I removed her mob cap from her head, and I start patting her.
"How do you feel?" I asked/taunt her.
"…Don't…DON'T UNDERESTIMATE ME!!" Remilia roared in fury.
Scarlet Devil "Scarlet Devil"
Remilia body starts crackling with red lightning.
I clad my body with as many defense as I possibly could in a short amount of time.
*KRAKOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM*
Red Thunder coming out from Remilia, and it engulfed everything around us.
The result? It still hurt like hell.
Everything near us got charred to black, my body feels really hot, my clothes got torned to bits, and this is the first time that I experience "smoke coming out from my mouth".
I look at Remilia.
She's unconscious. Her clothes have torned here and there, revealing her underwear, which is just a bloomer.
'Seems like I need to accept that Gensokyo inhabitant wears no panties.' I sadly thought.
I carry Remilia to where Sakuya is.
After I arrived, I'm welcomed with a sad scene.
"…Must…Assist…Remilia-sama." said Sakuya as she struggle to get up.
'…I feel really bad …but I'm the winner so I don't care!' I thought.
I approach her.
"Yo."
"Remilia-sama!"
"Yeah, yeah, here's your Mistress." I present her with Remilia body.
Sakuya glared me with hate.
"Relax! She's just unconscious!" I said to calm Sakuya down, which thankfully work.
I grab Remilia clothes and start applying all of the recovery enchantment.
"…What are you doing?" Sakuya asked coldly.
"Fixing her." I replied as her clothes start repairing itself. "When she's wakes up, just said that you're the one who fix her, I figured that she'll be mad when she realized that I'm the one who healed her." I reasoned.
I stretched my hand to Sakuya, but before I utter any word, she already gave me her sleeves to be grabbed. I blinked for a second before I start enchanting her clothes too.
"Yes, she will. Her pride won't accept that she's healed by her opponent."
"And you're okay with that?"
"As long as Remilia-sama okay, I'll do anything."
"Ah, I see."
And that's the end of our conversation, it got quiet for a while but after Sakuya confident that she's healed enough, she goes back carrying Remilia back.
I sigh. "What a day." I said before I walk back to my House direction.
-???, Gensokyo(?)-
-3rd POV-
In an unknown location, three individual fought, two of them want the incident to end while the other one want the incident to continue.
At the start two of them met with each other on the road, and then they decided to combine their strength to stop the incident, for their health and their peaceful time.
After combining pieces together, they finally arrived to this place, no, someone let them arrived to this place, and then they finally met with the culprit behind the incident.
But even with combining their strength, they still can't beat the culprit.
The puppeteer and her puppets are no match with an absolute strength.
The witch and her six elements can't scratch its impenetrable skin.
"Gyahahahaha! Weak! Weak! Weak! Is this the extend of power from the incident resolver?!"
"Guh, what a monster."
"Nothing works against that thing."
They lost the fight, so they immediately kick out from that area by the one that let them in.
The culprit sits down and proceeded to drink Sake from her gourd.
"Fuuuuh~, they finally sniff me out, it's a shame that the feast only occurred for a few days, even thought I think they should still doing it for a few more years, it's a shame indeed." She took another shot from her gourd. "Fufufufu, but now, I'm looking forward to fight another challenger. Come! Let me see what the present inhabitant have to offer! Gyahahahahaha!!"
Author note:
Heyo, author here. Finally! Next chapter will be the end of this arc! Finally! Uoooooooooh!!
Let me know what you think about this chapter, after all I can't really do good fighting scene, so in a sense, this chapter is an experiment for the next chapter.
Oh also, I deleted some of the scene because it doesn't fit in the chapter, here are some lines if you guys interested:
"Sakuya, show him your undergarment!"
"…What?"
"Affirmative, my Mistress!"
"What?!"
Of course, it's a bloomer, or is it? I'm debating if I should put them inside the chapter, and I decided to not put them because it's just gonna be a bloomer …or is it? I'm an Author! I
could just put that Sakuya wears panties or lingerie under neat her skirt! But then, "Why would Sakuya wear Lingeria at that time?!", so yeah, my brain can't think of any plausible story to continue from there.
