Chapter 191: A Little Bit of a Natsuba Hanae-Style Shock
Summer Harvest Mountain Peak.
The crimson vertical pupil was already the size of the sun and moon, and as they reached the mountain peak, its power became even more immense. The vast air pressure made the sisters feel as weak and helpless as humans facing a tsunami.
And Chikari Makoto felt as if she could reach the crimson vertical pupil’s physical form with a single jump.
However, the light it emitted was still a faint shimmer, not blinding or terrifying, but filled with a warm feeling. The members of Summer Harvest Mountain could even feel the power their mother had given them become particularly active.
And under the light of the crimson moon…
The scene on the mountain peak was revealed completely.
The first thing that caught their eye was a tree with spreading branches. Its trunk was arched, and the rest of it looked no different from an ordinary tree.
However, the color of the tree was pure black, without a trace of any other color.
As for the leaves, at a rough glance, they were just ordinary leaves. But in reality, these leaves were gently leaping like flames, filled with a dense deathly stillness.
That extreme blackness seemed to blend in with the dark environment, making it impossible to see with the naked eye.
And the reason they could see it now was because of a certain reaction caused by the light from the crimson moon and the deathly tree, which made it appear.
Just by looking at that deathly tree, Chikari Makoto had the illusion that her life was draining away.
Perhaps this was not an illusion.
If they weren’t members of Summer Harvest Mountain, if other supernatural users had come, this illusion would have likely become a reality.
And under the deathly tree, there was a simple, unadorned long table and nine chairs.
One of them was clearly the main seat. This chair was constructed from the sprawling roots of the deathly tree and was also filled with a dense, terrifying deathly stillness.
And the other chairs were also perfectly suited to each person’s ability.
For example, Chikari Makoto’s was a pale gold, Hoshikawa Oto’s was a deep blue, and Natsuba Rinrei’s was a crimson and cyan…
Even more strangely, each chair had their primordial power.
Clearly, the seating for these chairs had already been assigned. The sisters couldn’t just sit anywhere.
However…
Regarding these things, Chikari Makoto just took a quick glance.
The soul of a gossip was burning in her eyes. Her pink lips curled into a crazy smile, and she watched the conversation between Natsuba Rinrei and Natsuba Hanae.
At this moment, Natsuba Rinrei had her hand on her mask, as if she were about to lay her cards on the table and shock her little sister with an outstanding performance.
Natsuba Rinrei thought she was the main star on the stage, but in reality, she was the comical final act of a circus clown.
“Hanae, open your eyes wide and see who I am?!”
With a slightly arrogant and excited tone, Natsuba Rinrei also changed her voice back to her real voice.
She pinched her mask with her right hand.
With the power of the “Red Dragon,” Rinrei easily crushed the mask she had casually made. The mask turned into fragments and continuously fell to the ground.
And Natsuba Rinrei was filled with a smile. Her ruby-like beautiful eyes were filled with an extreme anticipation, anticipating what kind of surprised expression the usually calm Natsuba Hanae would have.
After all, through her various perfect image creations before, Rinrei had constructed herself into a senior member who had been in Summer Harvest Mountain for nearly a hundred years, and her combat power was incredibly strong.
Just below the Master of Summer Harvest Mountain.
But for such a person to actually be her own older sister, the visual impact of this, Natsuba Rinrei, knowing the situation herself, found it incredibly exciting just by thinking about it.
Not to mention the completely unaware Natsuba Hanae.
When the mask completely disappeared and shattered, Natsuba Rinrei’s true face was revealed before Natsuba Hanae. Rinrei immediately burst out laughing.
“Hahahahahaha!”
“Hanae, you didn’t expect your senior to be me, right!”
“How about it? Were you scared? You must have been scared silly……… right?”
As Natsuba Rinrei spoke, her brow slowly furrowed, and her subsequent words began to be spoken with hesitation, filled with uncertainty.
Because she looked at Natsuba Hanae, but found that Hanae’s expression was as usual. On her exquisite and beautiful face, there was not a single bit of fluctuation.
Those red, glass-like beautiful eyes seemed to even show a hint of pity.
Pity for what?
Natsuba Hanae looked at Natsuba Rinrei with a calm expression. She pursed her lips. She really couldn’t understand why the Natsuba direct descendants’ ancestral scheming bloodline…
Was completely absent in Natsuba Rinrei.
Although Natsuba Taiga was sometimes reckless, and his scheming was not mature, he would still scheme when he needed to.
And Natsuba Rinrei, in battle, due to her fight with Natsuba Genryū, had also mastered the technique of scheming in battle. Not just a straightforward fight, but also a corresponding tactic.
But she had not applied this understanding to reality at all.
Leaving aside other things, just the fact that the other members of Summer Harvest Mountain had not said a word since just now, but Natsuba Rinrei had not felt a single bit of abnormality…
Natsuba Hanae silently estimated the time.
She looked at Natsuba Rinrei, who was smiling stiffly, waiting for a reaction. Hanae didn’t pay any attention to her.
Instead, Natsuba Hanae pursed her lips and said,
“Take a seat.”
“The meeting begins.”
Natsuba Hanae moved with light steps and stepped onto the ground without making a sound.
She walked towards the main seat.
And with her command, the other members of Summer Harvest Mountain all began to move and walk towards their respective positions.
Except for the dazed Natsuba Rinrei.
Natsuba Rinrei: “??????”
Had she gotten the wrong script? Why didn’t Hanae react at all?
Or was it that she hadn’t taken off her mask, or that she was now in a dragon form, and Hanae couldn’t recognize her?
Natsuba Rinrei’s right hand touched her cheek.
What she touched was delicate skin. This showed that what was revealed was indeed her own face.
And her mother clearly hadn’t arrived yet.
Even if Natsuba Hanae was Summer Harvest Mountain’s person in charge of wisdom, she couldn’t start the meeting before their mother arrived.
And Natsuba Rinrei looked at the position Natsuba Hanae was walking towards.
And found that Hanae was actually going to the main seat.
Rinrei’s expression became more and more wrong.
Even if her mother was warm and kind, if a daughter were to overstep her bounds, as a superior, she would definitely be punished to a certain extent.
Natsuba Rinrei could not sit by and do nothing.
At an extremely fast speed, she rushed towards Natsuba Hanae, who was about to sit on the main seat.
Thanks to the extremely high physical strength of the “Red Dragon,” although her speed was inferior to Chikari Makoto’s, it was still quite fast.
Before Natsuba Hanae sat down, Rinrei rushed to her vicinity and immediately blurted out,
“Hanae, this is the main seat. It’s where Mother sits.”
“You can’t sit here.”
“And why aren’t you surprised at all that I’ve joined Summer Harvest Mountain? You shouldn’t have any other channels to learn my identity.”
At this, Natsuba Rinrei quickly thought of a possibility.
Could it be that she had been bragging too much just now, and had made Natsuba Hanae mistakenly believe it, thinking that Rinrei was that so-called senior?
And that the senior’s ability could transform into another’s appearance.
And now that senior had transformed into Natsuba Rinrei’s appearance to tease Hanae, so that was why Hanae had ignored the reveal of her true face?
But how could this be explained?
Rinrei could only use their shared memories to defend herself.
“Hanae, I’m really Rinrei, your older sister. I’m not someone else in disguise.”
“When we were young, we ran out of the main residence together, and then………”
Natsuba Rinrei seemed to be afraid that Natsuba Hanae wouldn’t acknowledge her, and specifically told a very secret matter. She had prepared many shared memories.
She was prepared to tell Natsuba Hanae everything, until Hanae completely believed that she was Natsuba Rinrei.
And Natsuba Hanae only heard the first thing and nodded slightly.
“You don’t have to continue.”
“I know you’re Rinrei, not someone else in disguise.”
“Because here, no one would dare to disguise themselves as you. And here, I won’t allow this kind of thing to happen.”
“The members of Summer Harvest Mountain should be bound by sisterhood and irrigated with true feelings.”
“There should be no mutual disguise, and there should be no…”
“———Infighting.”
With that, a brilliant light shone in Natsuba Hanae’s red, glass-like beautiful eyes.
She gave Natsuba Rinrei a deep look.
Suddenly, Natsuba Rinrei immediately felt an incredibly dangerous aura rush towards her. A bone-chilling cold shot up her spine.
Her body, in a moment of extreme threat from instinct, uncontrollably began to dragon-ize.
But this dangerous aura came quickly and went quickly.
In just an instant, it disappeared without a trace.
Natsuba Rinrei’s vaguely dragon-like eyes were filled with astonishment, and she looked at Natsuba Hanae.
Although Rinrei knew it was very impossible, her intuition told her that the source of that dangerous aura just now was Natsuba Hanae.
This made a very bold idea arise in her mind.
Could it be…
—————Mother had also given Natsuba Hanae power?
But if Natsuba Hanae had started to cultivate her power, Rinrei had been in contact with her frequently during this period. The newly cultivated power should not have been able to be hidden from her, an A-rank.
And the newly cultivated power could actually threaten her. What kind of power was this?
Could it be that her mother had given Natsuba Hanae a big boost?
However, even if her mother had given Hanae a big boost, Natsuba Rinrei was also happy for her little sister.
All along, Rinrei had felt it was a great pity that Hanae was an ordinary person. To become a supernatural user would definitely be a great thing.
After all, unlike Rinrei, who had pure force, if Hanae had a combination of strategy and force, the two combined would completely create a one-plus-one-is-greater-than-two event.
However, Rinrei didn’t know when her mother would arrive.
She had to get Hanae away from the main seat first.
Otherwise, if their mother got angry, it would be very bad.
The time for the meeting to start had already arrived.
Although Rinrei didn’t know why her mother hadn’t arrived yet, it was already very urgent.
Moreover, to let the other members see that Hanae actually had the intention of usurping the seat, their impression of Hanae would probably not be very good.
Natsuba Rinrei scanned the area and looked at Chikari Makoto and the others.
But she found that most of them were lowering their heads and pretending not to see, as if they were counting ants.
But Summer Harvest Mountain, not to mention ants, probably didn’t have any living things.
Those bird-like existences were just a derivative of her mother’s power.
Rinrei didn’t know what they were doing.
And Chikari Makoto even looked up for a moment, then quickly lowered her head. She slowly covered her mouth with her hands, holding back from making a sound.
Natsuba Rinrei mentally criticized Chikari Makoto.
That appearance was simply silly. And as the only person in the main residence who was on good terms with Natsuba Hanae, like a friend, Chikari Makoto actually didn’t come to help her.
Sigh, the more Rinrei thought about it, the more she felt that Natsuba Hanae was like an outcast here.
After all, unlike the others, before being given power by her mother, Natsuba Hanae was just an ordinary person. Perhaps it was this that made the others have a slight contempt for Hanae.
After all, in this world, even the righteous supernatural users didn’t care much for ordinary people. And the villainous supernatural users even used ordinary people as resources to produce supernatural users.
And this impression was clearly also ingrained in the members of Summer Harvest Mountain.
Fortunately, Rinrei was here.
With her here, she would absolutely not let Natsuba Hanae suffer any grievance here.
Just like now, no one had reminded Hanae to leave the main seat. They were probably afraid that when their mother arrived, they would also be implicated in the punishment for persuading her.
As for the slightly presumptuous words Natsuba Hanae had said before, Natsuba Rinrei didn’t take them to heart.
She just assumed that Natsuba Hanae had suddenly obtained a great power, and her mentality hadn’t caught up. This was also a common occurrence among supernatural users.
With time being urgent, persuasion was already useless. It was better to just forcibly pull Hanae away from the main seat.
Thinking of this, Natsuba Rinrei did as she thought.
“Little sister, forgive me. This is also for your own good.”
Although using her “Red Dragon’s” power might cause some strain on Natsuba Hanae…
But she had no choice. Rinrei’s expression became slightly grave, and her beautiful eyes transformed into dragon pupils. One scale after another appeared on her hand.
And she grabbed Natsuba Hanae’s hand.
And with Natsuba Hanae, she shot straight like an arrow…
———Didn’t shoot.
Natsuba Rinrei froze in place. She couldn’t help but look back.
She saw Natsuba Hanae’s hand casually resting on the table. But Rinrei had clearly used most of her “Red Dragon’s” power, but she hadn’t moved that seemingly slender arm at all.
It was utterly unbelievable.
And at this moment, Natsuba Hanae pursed her lips slightly.
Her red, glass-like beautiful eyes were like the rising sun, filled with a terrifying power. She looked at Natsuba Rinrei and tilted her head slightly.
And said,
“Little sister?”
“Rinrei, my dear daughter.”
“To call your mother by her name in Summer Harvest Mountain is already an overstepping of bounds. And to call your mother your little sister is a great disrespect.”
In Natsuba Rinrei’s horrified gaze, her eyes widened like copper bells.
She saw Natsuba Hanae’s right hand slowly wipe across her exquisite face.
A powerful and terrifying Sanctuary Flame enveloped her entire face, and an elegant, black bird mask covered Natsuba Hanae’s cheek.
“Tell me.”
“What should I punish you with?”
A cunning and playful smile appeared on Natsuba Hanae’s lips.
And she gently sat down in the main seat.
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