The Night parade of One Hundred Demons (6)

Alas, Hayashi's katana pierced through the spider while her poisonous liquid didn't even leave a corroding scar. As the horse zodiac's guardian, Hayashi could never be poisoned. Taking advantage of his skill, he continuously stabbed the spider, reaching its core. 

As he crushed the core, the spider's body started to drift away like sand. 

"Sister! Sister! NO MY SISTER! WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY SISTER? YOU'LL PAY FOR IT YOU INSOLENTS. YOU'LL PAY WITH YOUR BLOOD!" 

All of a sudden the left-out, so-called strawberry-haired Yastukahagi got on her feet. Her darkened eyes stare fiercely at the three men, especially at Hayashi. Vengeance evident in her eyes, she suddenly drew all the strings to her ten fingers. 

Thousands of invisible threats were joined slightly glistening at the sheer moonlight. Among those threats were the baby spiders and the puppet spiders. The spiders started to crawl on each threat, on each part surrounding them from all sides. 

The baby spiders each grew little by little, and in less than minutes, the entire ground was filled with spiders. On each place, a spider hung, and as if they were having an infinity war, the more they cut off the spiders, the more they appeared. 

"Hya!" Hayashi, using the supreme horsepower, continuously made sure that the two-meter radius around him was spider-free. The veins around his neck popped up, and his rough hands gripped on the katana firmly. 

Using his extremely long, grown nails, Tsukasa used his nails to tear off the strings and the spiders along with them. The spiders had started to climb on his knees; some were on his feet's soul, secreting the poisonous liquid that burned his skin. Yet he stood still, neglecting the pain; he had his eyes narrowed at the rising dragon, Asahi. 

Unlike Hayashi, Asahi had lethal poison on his wakizashi, so the spiders created a distance with him while still launching attacks on him. Unlike other strings, the spiders around Asahi created a string that was as hard as steel, making it almost impossible to break and mould. 

"Shh!" with a swift movement of his sword, the nearby spiders that created the string were killed. As soon as he killed, the next batch appeared. Distinctive from other spiders, the ones around him didn't have a single space among them. They had larger limbs and large and furry bodies and started to trap him in their cage webbed with spiders. 

The spiders tried to get inside Asahi's body using his ears, but he was quick to kill them off, it would be impossible to forever fight as such unless he killed that woman. But to reach towards her, he would need someone who could back him. 

'Maybe if someone covers for me, my poison might work on it,' the thought flickered in his mind.

Like a madman, he closed his eyes, and just by his senses, he started to cut off the chains of spiders. Though the spiders replenished each time. As they prepared to make the poisonous liquid and enter the human body, he immediately cut them off. 

As the time passed on, at a point, the spiders started to get less. Just then he launched a vertical attack, which cleared the spiders of a single string. Since he had only a split second, he got through the thin pass, and though a few spiders were stuck on him, he killed each of them and started to head towards Hayashi, who was bound by spiders as well. 

"Hayashi" Asahi jumped in the air and tried to cut off the string but still failed. Landing on his feet, he stepped on a few yastukahagi. His feet were a bloody mess, but he continued to use his sword. Just a single mistake and the spiders would enter his body to give him the worst death. 

He was right beside the old man now. Their backs pressed opposite each other. 

"Why...are you here?" The man panted while killing each one that came near him. 

"Back me up as I kill that yastukahagi," Asahi informed while having his sword pierce a dozen of the creatures. 

"Okay," The man did not hesitate, knowing that he had no other choice but to believe. 

Using their powers, they started to move towards the woman who was standing right before the young master. Her lower half was transformed into a spider, while above her spine were her face and hair. 

"Oh, young master, you poor creature. Such intellable scars. Did my babies hurt your pretty skin? Tsk, tsk, oh to have such incompetent slaves." She had a look of pity and mockingness. Her sharp finger reached towards Kobayashi's chin, but he dodged her nail and glared at her. 

"Now now, why are you avoiding me?" 

She asked softly, cutely, but her doe eyes fooled no one. 

"Because you are a nuance." 

Tsukasa has the same smile as before. His droopy eyes glistened, making the girl feel her words were not being taken seriously. His words infuriated her, yet his celestial-like presence made her slightly hinge. 

"Am I now? It seems like I would need to tear off those lips off your face. Such words don't suit your pretty face, you know that." 

The woman licked her tongue around her teeth. Just then, Asahi and Hayashi had reached right in front of the young master, whose body was covered in spiders. 

"MASTER!" Hayashi fretted and started to pierce off the spiders that latched onto Tukasa's body. 

"Too late for him." Mused at the scene, the girl started to raise her fingers to perhaps bring more spiders; just then Asahi threw his sword towards the spider's limbs. As one of the limbs got cut off, her finger placement got rigged, and about half the spiders were all sent away that instant. 

The blood splattered all over the ground. Her hind limb was on the other side of the mud along with the word mean, while the spiders around Kobayashi Tuskasa too disappeared. 

"YOU! YOU! CRAZY FOOL!" 

The women went berserk in pain. Since the sword was saturated in poison, she could feel the burning sting of thousands of scorpions and the throbbing of the thousand needles. 

She stood amidst her pain and recklessly started to head towards Asahi. 

"YOU! SHALL DIE!"