Chapter 545 – Episode 59. Because He’s a Teacher.
The shikigami called Tetsuki, summoned by Ginji Naruse, had metallic skin befitting the name Tetsuki (鐵鬼: iron demon). He had silver skin that sparkled like chrome, had four arms with sharp nails like swords, and his head was wearing something like a Japanese samurai helmet that also shined with metallic light.
“You wear a samurai helmet, and you use your fingernails like a girl? “Not good for a shikigami used by the next head of the Naruse family!”
Rather than provoking Tetsuki in front of me, the remark was intended to provoke Ginji Naruse, the owner of the shikigami. As expected, he was a little annoyed by my remarks, and the soft smile he had been smiling from the beginning until now stiffened slightly.
Whoo!
Of course, in the meantime, Tetsuki was attacking me, swinging his blade-like claws to tear me apart. He was so fast that he was capable of crushing infantrymen armed only with body armor.
However, he lacked the sense to deal with martial artists who were experts in movement. The attack speed was very fast, but the movement was very large, so martial artists who had reached a certain level would be able to avoid it. Of course, whether I could destroy that metallic body just by dodging is another story, but I felt like I could do it.
First, without using any herbivore, I swung his arm with a fist full of abyss and struck his wide open side.
Yes!
Because it was made of metal, it was definitely sturdy. If it were an ordinary person, it would have been a blow that would have exploded the insides like a water balloon thrown hard, but it ended with the side being crushed.
“Cooooo!!”
Belatedly, Tetsuki screamed and swung his claws at me, but Tetsuki’s claws had already escaped from where they had passed.
Tetsuki, enraged by his attack on himself, swung his claws indiscriminately, and I too now began to crush Tetsuki by swinging his fists and legs in earnest. On the contrary, it was so hard that it felt like hitting it. My fist marks kept appearing on his metallic body, and as he got hit by me, his stamina decreased and Tetsuki’s movements became slower and slower. I looked at Tetsuki’s body, which was cracked by my punch, then stretched out one of his fingers and stuck my finger into the crack.
Shinkaiyatsude Isshitenkan
Isshitenkan was a penetrative technique that shocked the inside of the body by pricking a finger. The wave of the abyss that started where the finger was pierced grew bigger and bigger, destroying Tetsuki’s insides, and the cracks outside his body his also began to grow bigger. Tetsuki could not hold out for long and exploded with a metallic explosion.
Ginji Naruse’s face turned white as her own shikigami was destroyed at some point. She must have been very surprised because she just pricked it with her finger, and it suddenly exploded.
“Now give me the ninja.”
In the first place, this match was a match to win Rena Sakagami. I left the smashed Tetsuki behind and approached Ginji Naruse. It didn’t matter if Ginji Naruse didn’t give up Rena Sakagami. If you threaten the next head of the family, Ginji Naruse, with his life, he will give it to you in no time.
“Well, that can’t be… !”
As expected, he doesn’t listen right away. Ginji Naruse did not take any action even as I approached, perhaps because her shikigami had been destroyed. Since I had already given myself the distance, I quickly closed the distance and caught Ginji Naruse’s face.
“Did you see that piece of iron breaking? “Would you like me to shrink your face in the same way?”
“Oh, no! Don’t do it… ! I’ll release you! I’ll release you… !”
“Tell that guard to bring him here.”
The guard who brought me here had already completely lost his will to fight after I dealt with Tetsuki. No matter how much you lose your fighting spirit, if the next head of the family is caught, shouldn’t you at least point a gun at him?
“That… Bring the ninjas!”
“Oh, I understand!”
Even after Ginji Naruse shouted, and the guard disappeared somewhere, I was still holding Ginji Naruse’s face. It was worth letting go, but since I had annoyed him earlier, I kept putting pressure on his hand, causing constant pain.
“I brought you here.”
After waiting a little while listening to Ginji Naruse’s moans, the security guard returned, and the person who came with the security guard was the man holding Rena Sakagami. I knew that man’s face. It was Koyou Naruse, the father of Shiyo Naruse, who was recently listed in the Taira group information.
“Please let go of my brother.”
Seeing that Naruse Kinji was called older brother, I thought it was Naruse Koyou.
“If you let that one go first, I’ll let you go too.”
“I understand.”
Koyo Naruse immediately let go of Rena Sakagami at my words. Rena Sakagami quickly ran to me.
“Master… !”
“Are you okay? “Are you hurt anywhere?”
“Yes… “I ran away as much as I could and then got caught, so they didn’t have much time to harass me.”
“That’s a good thing.”
Even after being caught, it seemed like he ran away for a long time to save as much time as possible. Still, I’m glad there were no injuries.
“I got what I wanted, so let’s go.”
I picked up Ginji Naruse’s face and threw it to the security guard. The security guard said, “Oh my gosh,” And received Ginji Naruse. However, the weight of an adult man was not easy and he fell over. Ginji Naruse seemed to have fainted from the pain, and the security guard was sweating profusely as if he was quite shocked.
“I will see you off on your way out.”
When the two were neutralized, Koyou Naruse began to guide us, saying he would see us off.
“I’m glad you came while your father was away, sir.
“Did you notice?”
I felt like he recognized my voice because I spoke on the phone today. Koyou Naruse silently nods his head to my question. Anyway, I’m glad my father isn’t there. Does that mean Hirohide Naruse is that strong?
“Is the head of the Naruse clan that strong?”
“Teacher, the brother you won is not even close to his father’s toes. It’s all because of the characteristics of the Onmyoji family.”
Koyou Naruse told me about the Onmyoji clan, and he said that powerful shikigami are difficult to obtain and rarely new ones appear, so they are usually inherited by the elders of the family before they die.
So, as time goes by, the head of the family, who is the highest peak of the family, naturally becomes a monster possessing dozens or hundreds of shikigami, but instead, the members of the family use newly caught low-level monsters or paper shikigami that they have given magical powers to, so the combat power of the head of the family and the rest of the members is very different. It was said that it was born.
Also, unless they are about to die, they try not to pass on their food spirits, but if they pass on their food spirits, their combat power goes down and someone else’s battle power goes up, so from the head of the family’s position, the power structure could be shaken, so the ceremony of passing on food spirits does not usually often happen.
“That youkai called Tetsuki is low-class?”
I asked in surprise, but Naruse Koyou smiled and shook his head.
“Tetsuki is considered a high-level youkai. Still, since my brother is the next head of the family, he has his own powerful monster. However, my father has over ten youkai the size of Tetsuki. “There are many monsters stronger than him.”
Ah, there is definitely a difference. In fact, even though I won easily, I could say that I was quite capable as I had more than ten youkai like Tetsuki who could destroy one or two ordinary infantry fighting units, and there were several stronger youkai. That’s why Naruse Koyou said he was glad that Naruse Hirohide wasn’t there.
However, even after listening to Naruse Koyou’s explanation, I wasn’t that scared. I was the man who even handled the avatars of foreign media. I didn’t get scared easily, just listening to the explanation. Is it worth a try? I just thought.
“But what happened to Miss Naruse?”
“If you’re here like this, I think you’ve guessed it… Shiyo is both a seal and a sacrifice.”
When I was talking with Konoka Urabe earlier, I thought it was either a seal or a sacrifice, but both seemed correct.
“What on earth is your body so weak for sealing?”
“It was a powerful family with many monsters collected from the past, but due to the nature of the Onmyoji family where only the head of the family was strong, the Naruse family could not freely use its power, so the Naruse family was slowly declining. When trade with the West inevitably began, our family also got involved. And while trading with the West, a monster was discovered somewhere.”
Ah, looking at the flow of the story, it seemed that the youkai discovered in the West was the one sealed within Shiyo Naruse’s body. Naruse Koyou’s explanation continued, and he said that since he was first introduced to Western sailors as a wizard, the Naruse family became a kind of problem solver who solved problems while doing trade at that time.
Because the request money was quite helpful to the family’s finances, the family members did not reject the request, and one day, it is said that they received the request along with a huge amount of money. The request was to deal with a monster living on a rocky mountain.
The Onmyoji of the Naruse family, who thought that even if it was a monster, it would be worse than the monsters owned by the family, they headed to the rocky mountain and saw the monster.
“That monster… It was a dragon. No, we should say dragon in Western style. Even though there was a head of the family at the time who went with us for a large sum of money, all we could do was seal the dragon and not deal with it.”
However, sealing it there was the Naruse family’s greatest luck. This is because the dragon originally had a fanatical obsession with gold, so the owner of the seal had good luck with gold.
It is said that over the next few years, the Naruse family, who had acquired wealth they could not have dreamed of before, decided to use the young girl as a seal and sacrifice as the dragon’s energy gradually weakened.
The girls who were sealed as humans had to be girls with the blood of the Naruse family, so that the family’s golden luck would be passed on to the Naruse family.
And since it was impossible to place a dangerous seal in the Naruse family, he built a mansion in Miya City, where St. Francis Girls’ Academy was located, and had him stay there in order to receive help from the spirit veins of Mt. Fuji, Japan’s sacred mountain. It was said that there was a St. Francis Girls’ Academy, so if the ladies who sealed the dragon were sent there, no one would suspect anything.
This conversation resolved several questions I had. My curiosity was why they bothered to seal and sacrifice a girl from their own family, and why they let her attend St. Francis Girls’ Academy when they could have just kept her quietly locked away, and it seems like there was a reason.
“But why a girl? There will be a boy too.”
“That… St. Francis Girls’ Academy is close to the seal site, and it’s the sealed dragon’s taste. “I once sealed it in the body of a boy, but unlike the girl, it was said that the seal was in danger of being released in half a year.”
Oh, I see. If it’s the dragon’s taste, there’s nothing we can do.
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Naruse Shiyo practiced with a different model.
