Chapter 24 [Berserker-like]

Inside one of the conference rooms all the members are now in the middle of a meeting with Hideo with some useful information regarding the location of the twins along with the leader of team two- Miku who is now feeling a bit relieved after finding out that Kuro finally found their location.

"Out of all the places... Are you sure that their in the Kansai region?"

Still suspicious of Kuro's findings, Hideo confirmed now thinking of a plan once they locate where in that region they are.

"Yes"

Yeah, I have a lead now but... how are we supposed to figure out which area of that region they're in...

Kuro tried to think about how Hideo would plan this whole thing out from start to finish putting a hand under her chin...

But this didn't really give her any idea when it came to the topic.

"Ok, Good work."

Good work? Is that all you're gonna say, human?

Kuro annoyed at how he didn't say that he'll start a search party or anything else regarding what his gonna be doing about it just stands infront of his desk as if she was awaiting further orders from him.

"Since you found her before I contacted the other branches of the E.I.M.D to do a search of their regions..."

What? What he he gonna make us do now?

He paused for a moment before cotinuing after he thought about wether this sentence that he'll say would be a good idea: "I'll have both You and Yui lead the search with the Kansai region's team 1 of the Earth's Immortal Management Division."

Huh...? That's his order? Is he serious...?

With a dumb founded expression on her face, Kuro was confused at how his order turned out to be.

"What do you mean we have to join the search party?!"

As Kuro was trying to argue about the plan to finally get Rika and Aoi back, Ten had already arrived in-front of the E.I.M.D building with a familiar on her shoulder about to cause some trouble for the group.

Now that I think about it... Why don't I start the attacking now?

This will atleast reduce the people that could hinder my plans once I begin...

She started ordering her familiar which is something you could roughly translate to "Monster Cat" from it's original japanese name in japanese mythology which is "Bakeneko".

But the look outs that were positioned around the building's premises had already noticed her presence and had already informed Yui and company that someone suspicious had approached the building, after that was done they erected a barrier around the building along with some familiars that were made of talismans to be activated and released outside of the barrier where Ten had been standing this whole time as a diversion to distract her as the girls were making their way out of the building to defend it.

A barrier, huh? Is that all?

Ten with a single spell cast destroyed the barrier which was supposed to keep her away from the building.

"This is G3, The target has just destroyed the barrier. Where's the members of team one?"

"This is G1, They're one their way out now."

This caused a lot of trouble for the lookouts and the people who were about to charge at Ten who was now laughing at how weak the barrier was.

"Is that all You've got? How cute..."

Her previous order that she issued her familiar to do was now underway as it pounced at one of the guards who was only staring at the black-haired woman with intense fear.

"Oh? What do we have here? If it isn't the kidnapper..."

Team one has now gotten to where Ten was before she could get more of the guards hurt with her abilities or her familiar with magic weapons in hand instead of mere talismans.

"Kidnapper?? How did you guess~? How boring... And here I was trying to get rid of you lot while you were distracted looking for those two..."

This shocked the rest of the first team as Yui stated who the kidnapper was without hesitation.

"A-Are you serious...? She already figured out the culprit... Mentor, How did You figure it out so quickly...?"

Miku who was right behind them holding her newly cleaned naginata ready to fight at any second.

"Since I could here Kuro and Shumizu from my room talking about already having a lead; Quickly asked Hideo about any potential culprits within the whole Kyoto area where the twins currently are and I happen be told about a Nekomata who has been attacking a lot of humans lately... And it's her."

Yui points at Ten who now has eyes full of anger.

"So, You're meaning to tell me that it was obvious this whole time?"

This time Kuro decided to speak up after Yui finished her explaination of how she figured the whole thing out with just one question that she asked Hideo while the two sisters including Akagi were talking by the dorms' entrance.

"It's checkmate."

Yui let out a cocky smile making Ten get more mad.

Ten didn't say anything more and just started attacking the party with a double-bladed scyth that she was concealing using magic with lighting-like speed.

"Not so fast! I'm not done talking yet!"

Yui's split personality once again came out making her eyes turn red, with the same speed she managed to block every single one of Ten's attacks making Ten fall back by jumping back.

She's fast... So this is the immense power of a decendant of Tamamo-no-Mae.... But she can't beat that easily...

Ten tried to land a hit once more striking from above this time...

"Didn't you hear me...? I said I wasn't done yet!"

With a berserk-like strike Yui quickly countered launching Ten a few feet away from her making a wall that her body hit form a huge crack.

"Now where was I...? The chance of her being the culprit is at ninety nine percent."

"Is this all you've got...? Don't make me laugh..."

The black-haired woman wasn't ready to call it a day just yet... With a long but quick chant she made red marks appear on her body, along with both of hair and her left eye changed colors.

Now with a left eye now turned yellow and her hair turn red, a immense aura was felt around the party's surroundings as if a powerful demon was before them and not a nekomata.

[To be continued...]