Breakthrough with the Forbidden Master

“Hey, are you sure about this? This guy…… uh, isn’t that Norja of the Six Supremacy?”

“Yeah. I don’t believe it, but… anyway, according to the boss, there’s no problem…… though I don’t really know why……”

“But if this monster gets out of control, then it might get us too…”

“That’s why according to the boss, we should sic’ this monster on Koujiro, and then immediately back off and just surround the forest to keep anyone from escaping. And even if this demon get beat, Koujiro won’t get off scot-free either… we just gotta take care of the wounded Koujiro….”

“But why is this monster so docile, and why does it listen to us?”

“Come on…… the route is top secret…… this monster was acting with the Empire until recently, I don’t know why it ended up like this. The answer must be some dangerous stuff. We might be in danger for nothing if we find out.”

“Yeah. We just need to do as the boss says, just make sure that no one escapes from this forest, right? It looks like this monster is listening to the boss’s orders.”

“Hmm? From the forest? But aren’t the Ninja Warriors of Japone chasing after Outei and Koujiro in there? If they come out carelessly, won’t they be killed by this thing……?”

“That means they don’t care if there’s some collateral damage, right? Scary, so scary.”

“But, Koujiro aside…… if we can get Otei’s head, it’s a hell of a reward…… and to think that we would crush the troublesome Koujiro with this monster, that’s neat……”

“Hmm? Hey, wait a minute…… just now…… did anyone see this monster react with a jerk or something?”

According to Espie, there was a little girl among the large group of people who looked like Hunters.

Just hearing the words “little girl”… I imagined something cute like Espie of the past or Amae.

But, when you add the words “nine tails” to that, it instantly becomes a monster.

“Wh, why her?”

“I don’t know…… but…… I think that was the reason Koujiro backed off…”

I’d rather avoid fighting her than a thousand Hunters.

That was Norja, who was also one of the legendary Six Supremacy.

But……

“But why though? Technically, Norja is on the Union side, isn’t she? She was working with Uncle Ben on that ruins investigation or something…… so what’s going on here?”

“I don’t know…… just…… what bothers me is that even from a distance, I could tell that Norja… she was acting kind of weird.”

“Huh? She’s always been weird, right? I mean, she’s a total perv, right?”

“No, it’s not that! It’s…… something… un, she seems different from the Norja we’ve known…… even putting aside what happened with Big brother, there was something… weird about her this time…….”

From my point of view, Norja has always been a weird one, but if Espie, who occasionally met Norja even after the war ended, says that, it must be true.

But if so, what happened?

“Huh~…… Norja …… of the Six Supremacy…… such a monstrous foe stands in their path…….”

“But why? With the Hunters, you say? Are there other demons?”

Yes, I have no idea what’s going on. Well, actually, I don’t even understand the situation with Kagerou and Koujiro and the others either.

Besides, I don’t even know where Koujiro and his people went after they turned back……

“As we have yet to confirm it, we cannot be certain of anything…… saying something about her is weird, tis much too vague……

Tre’ainar also seemed to be unable to make any judgments based on what Espie was saying now.

That’s a problem.

I won’t know until I see it for myself, but even so, I don’t want to get any closer……

“Anyway, I think it would be best to meet up with Koujiro-han at once……”

“Right…… Big brother, the radar――――”

That’s right. There’s no point in worrying about it right now.

First of all, with Koujiro and the others―――――

“GugagogagagyaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!!!!!”

“”””Eeeehh!!???””””

Just now, a sudden strong gust of wind and crazy-like scream nearly sent us flying.

“Wh…… What?”

“That was….”

“I tremble…….”

“…What was that… just now….”

The shockwave and scream made my ears tingle.

But, even if we didn’t know what had happened, we knew who that crazy scream just now came from.

And then……

『The atmosphere has changed…… a spearhead points… this way! Ridiculous …… from such a great distance…… to catch a scent from what little she knows of her target…… has she improved in the last decade or so? In any case…… Huh!?』

“…… Huh?”

『She has found you, child! Your presence is known! You must leave this place, quickly――――』

At that moment, Tre’ainar yelled something in a panic, and in the next moment, a huge cloud of dust rose up, as if an explosion had occurred in the distance, and then something shot forward in a straight line, knocking down the trees in the forest and heading toward us like a cannonball……

“Oh n―――― “

“Ah! 【Fluffy Escape】!!”

Then, before I could finish saying “Oh no”, the trees in front of us, where we had been hiding, were knocked down, and a nine-tailed beast appeared, with bloodshot eyes, fangs baring from its tiny mouth, and its hands glistening with the sharp claws of a beast.

“Wh, whwhwhwh!?”

“What the!?”

Before we could even think about being torn apart, eaten alive, or killed, Espie used her ability to pull us away from the spot, allowing us to evade the crazed beast…… but……

“Norja! What are you doing? 【Fluffy Pani—”

“GugyagaraaAAAAAHH!!”

“Huh!?”

Espie dodged and tried to counterattack. But before she could, Norja’s tail slammed into Espie’s belly like a whip, knocking her through the trees and sending her flying far into the distance.

“Ugh… one, hit, tatata… that Norja’s…… dangerous, Big brother! Chieftain! Get away!”

Oh no.

“Espie!?”

Espie was blown away, but no, she’s okay.

Wait, Norja is right in front of me!

“Th, this…… 【Breakthrough】!”

“GugaaaAAAAAAAHH!”

“Whoa!?”

I instantly activated my breakthrough, and Norja tried to stab me with a clawed hand.

I dodged it with a step… but… if I had been even a split second slower, it would have undoubtedly pierced my heart.

『Norja’s eyes…… certainly her sanity is lost…… she has been brainwashed!? Preposterous, against Norja? No one could do such a thing…… could it be, some ancient tool was used!? But by whom!?』

Brainwashing? This? Norja?

“Mr. Chieftain, run! Quickly, get to Espie!”

“Eh, ah, but…….”

No, this is no time to think. If we don’t do something, we’ll be killed.

“【Great Demon Sonic Flicker】!”

“Gugaaaaaaaahh!!”

“Gee~…… guh!?”

I fired a barrage of shockwaves from my flicker…… but Norja roared as she used her tail to defend herself, deflecting them all. At the same time, Norja grabbed my head with her small, clawed hand and held on…… shit, I was slammed, into a tree……

“Gaha!?”

The back of my head?! A tree!? I was slammed. The tree broke, not good!

“It’s…… 【Great Magic Spiral】!”

“Gagaeh!?”

Anyway, I just threw it out in a frenzy.

A huge vortex rose to the sky as if to blow away the trees of the surrounding forest.

But, before she could be swallowed by the vortex, Norja took her hand away and escaped out of the vortex in an instant.

“Uu~~~~!”

I stopped the spiral and braced myself as I regained my stance, while Norja, who was still in a state of insanity, was on all fours like a beast, glaring at me with drool dripping from her mouth.

“Geez…… to not give us even the slightest trace of an emotional reunion… but… this is…….”

Norja and I face off.

A reunion for the first time in over a decade.

In the past, she took the form of a giant fox, but her humanoid appearance has not changed at all since I saw it in textbooks or on wanted posters in the past.

Also, this isn’t my first time fighting Norja, and I’ve experienced her Fūrinkazan.

But……

『Child, focus on getting through this for now. I doubt things will go as they have in the past…… Norja’s own level is also much higher than when I knew her…… and…… above all…….』

“Yeah…… I know.”

Tre’ainar was right, things are different from the past. It’s not just her strength.

It’s her murderous intent.

『At that time, when you confronted her as Ragaan-Man, Norja was interested in you, she took the opportunity to observe, to test, to play with you… then she left an opening. However, the current Norja…….』

Yes, in a way, this was new to me.

Fighting against “Norja” who has lost her mind, full of murderous intent and no restraint.

It’s just…..

This wasn’t my first time fighting a merciless and murderous “Six Supremacy”.

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