Chapter 100: You Get Bigger, I Get Bigger!
The Old God’s foot slammed down with crushing force.
Kamishiro Naraku, connected to the Old God’s nervous system, could clearly feel it.
“Hahahahaha, even if you’re an A-rank, in the face of this kind of weight and power, you’re as weak as an ant!”
But even so…
It only slightly alleviated the anger in Kamishiro Naraku’s heart.
Her interference had caused his plan to fail, and he had completely lost his human form!
His ultimate ambition was to become the heir to the imperial family, the ruler of this country.
So, even though his body was full of supernatural beings, he had desperately maintained his human appearance, all for this purpose.
Not only that, but in the current state of fusion, the true main body was not him, but the Old God.
His plan was in complete disarray.
With this monstrous appearance, how could he possibly become the ruler of a country?
Kamishiro Naraku’s anger clouded his rational mind, and he began to vent his rage.
“I will completely destroy Kyoto!”
At the same time, an incredibly absurd thought crossed his mind.
“Since I can’t be the ruler of humans, I’ll turn this country into a country of supernatural beings, and I will be their king!”
Then, he looked at the motionless Master of Summer Harvest Mountain under his hoof.
A sneer appeared in his pure black eyes.
“So much for the Master of Summer Harvest Mountain.”
However, in the next second…
The massive body of the Old God suddenly took a step back. In an instant, as if a mountain had collapsed, or the earth dragon had turned over, the entire ground shook violently.
Kamishiro Naraku looked down at the area he had just stomped, and saw the Master of Summer Harvest Mountain, in her crimson dress, standing there with a half-smile on her lips.
“How is that possible?!”
His pupils constricted sharply.
Then, that shock quickly turned into boundless rage, and a violent look appeared in his eyes.
“Since you’re not dead, I’ll show you what true despair is!”
Since most of the sovereignty was with the Old God…
Kamishiro Naraku controlled the tentacles he had at his disposal, and they swarmed towards the Master of Summer Harvest Mountain like a whirlwind. And under his control…
His ability was fused with the tentacles. From every direction, countless bone spikes emerged, infused with supernatural poison, and dyed black.
As long as he could injure the Master of Summer Harvest Mountain, even just a scratch…
This supernatural poison, which could kill a B-rank on contact, would be enough to seriously injure her.
To destroy her flesh.
The tentacles attacked Natsuba Hanae with an overwhelming force.
Seeing this, Natsuba Hanae lightly tapped her foot, and like a dancing butterfly, or a graceful swan, she calmly dodged every incoming tentacle.
Each time, she seemed to dodged by a hair’s breadth.
And each time, they couldn’t hit her.
Seeing this, Kamishiro Naraku didn’t get angry. After the initial rage, he forced himself to calm down.
That stomp hadn’t killed her.
This meant that her power level was not simple.
He needed to calm down and make a meticulous plan, a plan to completely cut off all her chances of survival. So he thought of the supernatural poison.
After being fused with the Old God, the essence of the poison had been greatly enhanced. With a sufficient dose, even the Master of Summer Harvest Mountain would die here.
Until, under Kamishiro Naraku’s conscious planning and luring, the bone-spiked tentacles gradually surrounded the Master of Summer Harvest Mountain.
An excited smile appeared on his lips.
“It’s over!”
The bone-spiked tentacles closed in on the Master of Summer Harvest Mountain, like layers of shadows, with nowhere to escape.
And at that moment…
Natsuba Hanae showed no signs of panic. Instead, a playful smile appeared on her lips.
On her smooth, delicate back, the wing-like markings on it suddenly came to life, and a brilliant, dazzling crimson light appeared and condensed.
Forming a pair of wings.
From within the layers of encirclement, she looked at the only exit above, and flapped her wings.
A fierce wind howled, and she transformed into a dazzling, fiery firework, shooting straight up.
And the tentacles frantically followed her, trying to catch her, but they were always a step behind. Until Natsuba Hanae completely shook them off.
And floated in mid-air.
Natsuba Hanae pursed her lips. She looked at her right arm, where a large chunk of flesh was missing.
And the divinity was constantly repairing it, and it was about to be fully restored.
The Old God’s stomp just now had not been without effect.
The sheer size and weight of it, combined with the force of its attack, was terrifying. If it had been an A-rank like the Kujō head…
If he hadn’t used his ability to dodge, but had taken it head-on, he would have likely died on the spot.
And the reason Natsuba Hanae was so bold was because this body was just a construct of divinity, not her real body.
Although, with the strange chemical reaction between the Old God’s body and the Heavenly Emperor Girl, the true power of this body was likely comparable to, or even slightly superior to, her main body.
But perhaps because she was not familiar with it, and because she was controlling it from a great distance…
There was always a strange feeling.
But it was no big deal.
Natsuba Hanae flapped her blood-red wings, continuing to fly in mid-air, until she was at the same height as Kamishiro Naraku’s head. The clouds were now below her feet.
Her red, glass-like gaze was fixed on him.
“You’re still alive, I see.”
She hadn’t been wrong about the two consciousnesses she had sensed earlier. But now, Kamishiro Naraku seemed to have become an appendage of the Old God.
Because the Old God’s main body was constructed based on Kamishiro Naraku as a blueprint…
The Old God seemed to be curious about Kamishiro Naraku and was preparing to learn his fighting and thinking styles. So it had intentionally or unintentionally given him some control over its body.
But facing the enemy who had turned him into this, Kamishiro Naraku was in no mood to talk to the Master of Summer Harvest Mountain.
Feeling that he could control more tentacles…
He went mad and continued to command them to attack the Master of Summer Harvest Mountain even more fiercely.
The attack was like a storm, countless tentacles chasing, blocking, and lashing out at Natsuba Hanae.
But in the air, with her wings, Natsuba Hanae became even more agile and unpredictable. The tentacles tied themselves in knots, and collided with each other.
This made Kamishiro Naraku, who had just calmed down, feel a spark of anger ignite within him again.
No matter how many tricks he used with the tentacles, Natsuba Hanae was as agile as a fish, impossible to catch.
As time passed, there was no progress.
The Old God’s massive size came with a sharp decrease in agility.
And even with the tentacles to compensate, against Natsuba Hanae’s level of speed, it was just a drop in the bucket.
He said angrily,
“What kind of ability is it to just keep dodging?”
“If you have the guts, fight me head-on!”
Hearing this, Natsuba Hanae was a bit speechless.
Anyone could have said that, but coming from Kamishiro Naraku, the contradiction was so strong.
And Natsuba Hanae’s use of speed earlier wasn’t just to play with him.
She was trying to probe for more of his attack patterns.
But Kamishiro Naraku, angry as he was, was as clear as a mirror in his heart. He hadn’t revealed all of the Old God’s abilities, only using its body and tentacles.
After all, with just speed, she couldn’t pose much of a threat to the Old God.
Not only that, but with her current form, against the Old God’s massive, mountain-like body, she probably couldn’t inflict any effective damage.
Natsuba Hanae, seeing Kamishiro Naraku still shouting…
A glint appeared in her eyes, hidden behind the mask. She pursed her lips, her voice ethereal and melodious.
“As you wish.”
“Since you want to fight, then…”
“I’ll give you a fight.”
With that…
An invisible wave of power instantly spread outwards.
In the sky, blood-red feathers began to fall from the heavens.
As they landed on the ground, they dissolved into red particles of light, increasing the aura of the Heavenly Emperor Girl in this place.
A rich, sweet, intoxicating fragrance.
And after the blood-red feathers had fallen for a few minutes…
High above, the crimson vertical pupil, which had been a mere decoration, a deterrent to all living things, like a god…
Suddenly blinked.
The indifferent, condescending gaze suddenly became lively. But then, the crimson vertical pupil was instantly corrupted by the emotions of the Old God’s body, and the lively vertical pupil became extremely violent!
At the same time, a deep crimson light appeared in Natsuba Hanae’s eyes.
Then it quickly filled her entire eye, and the shape of her eye instantly became a vertical pupil. In an instant, the crimson seemed to overflow from her eye sockets, shining particularly brightly in the darkness under the dark clouds.
And it shone in harmony with the massive crimson vertical pupil.
With Natsuba Hanae’s now-influenced, violent will…
Without waiting for the aura to be sufficient, a series of muffled thuds echoed through the vast heavens and earth, like thunder.
“Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!”
A muffled sound, like a large drum being beaten.
Then…
“Crack————Crack————!”
The sky cracked.
To be precise, the sky around the crimson vertical pupil showed irregular, mottled cracks.
Pieces of the sky, like glass, fell to the ground.
Revealing patches of pitch-black space. A single glance inside felt as if one’s soul was being sucked out, bringing endless fear.
The crimson vertical pupil disappeared.
And what was revealed was a massive figure moving within.
Its brilliant crimson feathers, hard as scales, covered its entire body, radiating a sinister, violent aura. An unparalleled suffocating pressure filled every corner of this place.
All the people and supernatural beings present were as if stuck in mud, unable to move an inch. The noisy, chaotic battlefield was instantly reduced to silence.
Then, a vast divine light emerged from the empty blackness.
With a final, violent tremor…
“Boom————!!!”
The large fragments of the reflected sky all shattered at once.
A massive bird, completely crimson, but with its back and crown burning with a crimson-red flame, shot out.
What was strange and terrifying was…
This giant bird’s wings had no feathers.
They were pure, thick bone frames, covered in a thin layer of pulsing flesh, with a metallic texture, their sharpness almost piercing through the dark clouds.
And where its heart should have been, there was a bloody hole, with no heart inside.
The giant bird plummeted from the sky, its target Natsuba Hanae. It leaped towards the ground.
“Boom——————!!!”
A large amount of dirt and rocks flew, and the ground for a hundred miles around sank, a perfect earth-shattering landing.
Its massive, bent body slowly straightened, its ferocious, terrifying bird head raised high, staring at the stunned Kamishiro Naraku in the center of the Old God.
It was even half a head taller than the Old God.
The giant bird stood directly behind Natsuba Hanae.
The gale from its landing made Natsuba Hanae’s silver hair and dress flutter.
But she… wore a smile of extreme, sadistic pleasure.
“As you wish.”
“The killing game begins!”
Natsuba Hanae turned, and her entire body transformed into a stream of light, shooting into the giant bird’s chest, where its heart should have been.
On its chest, a protruding crimson vertical pupil quickly appeared, covering the original hole, shining like a brilliant gem.
Only now was it truly complete.
Natsuba Hanae herself was the true core of the Heavenly Emperor Girl transformation.
A single heartbeat echoed through the area, strong and powerful, like thunder, having an effect.
“Thump! Thump—! Thump—!!”
“Thump—!!!”
The crimson-red flames began to churn violently.
The flames were surging, the flames were burning, the flames were leaping!
The deathly aura-filled flames radiated a powerful, oppressive force within its body.
A large amount of Sanctuary Flame erupted from all over the bird’s head. The entire sky seemed to be on fire, dyed a crimson color. But in an instant, all the flames were absorbed back into the giant bird’s body.
Its muscles began to expand continuously, its powerful muscles clearly visible, and veins like mad pythons writhed within, bulging.
Its form had grown even larger than before.
“Squelch—!”
From the giant bird’s side, two ferocious, sharp claws suddenly pierced through its flesh.
Suddenly, the giant bird raised its vertical pupils, which burned with an extreme, violent rage, and stared at the Old God before it.
Natsuba Hanae had complete control over the giant bird’s every move.
Now, she was the giant bird’s sole will, unlike the Old God and Kamishiro Naraku.
Its deathly aura was contained within, almost about to explode, to roar, to pour out!
Without a word, Natsuba Hanae controlled the giant bird to land on all fours and shoot forward, letting out a muffled boom.
In the next moment, the earth shook!
It stomped on the ground, and a large amount of dust and blood was thrown up like a sandstorm, flying towards the inner city, staining the high wall with blood.
Without any extra movements, the giant bird pushed off with all four limbs, and a large area of the ground instantly collapsed. Large swathes of dirt and buildings rolled up like a sea wave, surging in all directions, like a ground-level tsunami!
In a single instant, it leaped on top of the Old God.
A giant bird, on its face!
The feast of slaughter began here.
