Oni and White Lion and Winter Elf... and Human?

This all happened while Kuro was asleep.

Laying Kuro right next to her, she sat in the ground, while waiting until he wake up. Frommher looks, she seems like she was going to wait him until he wake up and not move on the spot.

For safety first, she laid an mana barrier on Kuro so that he'll be safe—from what she remembers yesterday, for some reasons, Kuro's life or her life was targeted and for another some reason, Kuro has been able to survive the attacks.

He seemed that he doesn't know of it, so she think that he got the help of someone who he is more or less, aware of. and during the days she was not before him, he only mentioned 1 person. That's the mysterious librarian with independent library dimension?

Definitely him.

but, just yesterday, the attack successfully came, which means, that person may not protect Kuro anymore.

While dozing off, the bushes sounded as her attention garnered there.

How did such a creature got so close to their sides without her noticing!

Even the Oni may not seems, she was a creature who have lived 1,500 years, and one of the creatur who have unlocked the arts of Hyperbolic 1st Sense, which among them, she unlocked 'hearing' senses.

With that help, even if the physical objects does travel faster than the sound, or a certain necromancers does an eardrum shattering screams, she'll be able to hear it easily, as well, the times it takes for the 'sense' to transmit to brain will be accelerated and it's speed limit will be removed.

Mage had the mana to fight numerous numbers of creatures.

While Fighters had nothing. Although they also can use mana, mana was truly an hateful creature because 1. It takes some stamina to control. 2. The more you uses it, the more you get dizzy, and you'll eventually fall. 3 and most importantly, mana won't stick.

You have to move mana manually because it won't stick. Therefore, mana coating was only available for mage, who's slow and weak. As for fighters, their control over mana won't be able to chase their fast body.

Mana coating was close to impossible, not to mention, physical enchantment, is impossible, and at bad case, it can ruin one's own body.

So, the fighters had to fight without complicated usage of mana or sorts. Thus, an arts was made such as: Hyperbolic 1st Senses which only the few can awaken.

"Who, is it?"

She deemed the current situation. Not because of her opponent number being 2, but because one of the person was really strong.

as they got out from the bushes, their silhouette appeared until their figures became clear.

Winter Elf and an White Lions.

Although she don't know the winter elf in front of her, she knew this white lion, an mythical beings. This existences basically told sure-lose to her.

"Shishiron, is that, the boy you're interested in?"

"*giggle* no, no. That's a girl. It's that boy there... fainted?"

The lion suddenly disappeared in the spot casually moving at the speed of super boom. How's her body is undamaged is unknown to anyone.

"Asura!"

From the unknown space, red katana appeared in the reality, and as she had no time to take it off from sheath, she blocked the blow coming from Kuro's sides.

It was as if, the lion was deliberately separating her from Kuro.

At the moment, the claw hit her, she shifted her katana in upward, as to slide the forces to little upward, but nevertheless, it was too strong that she flew, crushing 10 more trees before actually stopping.

Despite meeting the existences of 'impossible' in front of her.

Despite being scared against the fear of death in front of her.

She was excited.

"Rasetsu!"

Taking the cursed katana from another spaces, she rushed toward the white lion at the fastest speed she can, worrying about what will the lion do to Kuro.

With her back tatto glimmering in red brightly, her speed has raised and was almost at the same level from the white lion from before.

"Yaksha's Crimson Dance"

With Asura reverse gripped, she appeared in front of the white lion and slashed upward, with the intention to slice off the neck.

"Yotto"

but just after Asura almost touched the neck, the lion swung his hand to deflect the swords's trajectory upward, while tilting her heads a little bit so that it won't cut her hairs.

Then, from the places the Asura's blade slashed, an crimson arc of light launched, slicing a few of trees before finally disappearing. If the Oni aimed for the Lion's body instead, the crimson arc would have hit Kuro's fainted body.

as Ayame's body began to darken and the disguise magic already done, the lion opened her mouth.

"Waddya want to Kuro? I won't let anyone kidnap him until he makes a game for me."

"Hn? You weren't trying to harm us? White Lion-san?"

"What're you saying! I am in my human form, aren't I? and if I destroyed a few cities that I hate, Kuro may hate me and won't make a game."

"Game...? 'since when did kuro promised something like that...'"

Ayame muttered but it was futile as the white lion could still hear her.

"Look! He even named me! My name is Shishiro Botan. Nice to meet ya... This one here is Yukihana Lamy. It's a bit complicated but, I picked up' her at the winter elves territory."

"The princess of Winter Elves!?"

Wait, she was kind of the princess herself. While Ayame began to think, Botan lost her tense from battle and she regained her usual laziness, and the winter elf began to introduce herself.

"Nice to meet you, I am Yukihana Lamy."

Lamy's gaze wasn't directed toward the Oni, but the child who was sleeping, her possible rival—He seemed to have a good dream—

Shishiron began to explains the promise Kuro made to her and even if Lamy called her out, Shishiron told Lamy to wait a little bit so she took out the booze in her storage spaces and drank it.

Meanwhile, Ayame locked to Botan, maybe she's doing it unconsciously, she seems to not noticed her stare, but Botan still explained uncaring so there's no way to notices it without anyone to point it.

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"Botan-Onee-chan?"

The main character of the scene has woke up.