Chapter 204: Natsuba Hanae Watches Everything
High above the heavens.
A man-sized white bird, with a large head, was flapping its wings at an incredibly high speed, like a hummingbird, and hovering in place.
And on its head…
Natsuba Hanae, in a kendo uniform, was sitting there.
Her top was dyed a pure red, and under the light of the crimson vertical pupil below, it had a hint of a demonic aura in its valor.
And her lower body was a white kendo pants, which was like a long skirt, and it wrapped around her waist.
Her long, black hair, like a waterfall, fell over her shoulders.
One of her beautiful eyes was a normal, red, glass-like color, brilliant and shining.
And the other beautiful eye had transformed into a crimson vertical pupil. The eyeball was completely blood red, but the pupil was like a beast’s, a dense black.
This was a perfect manifestation of Natsuba Hanae’s two most primordial powers.
Her own divinity and the Sanctuary Flame.
The reason for this attire was because she had just finished her kendo lesson at the Natsuba conglomerate and had come here.
But when she had arrived, she had seen Chikari Makoto being beaten.
The beautiful eye of the crimson vertical pupil flickered slightly.
Now, this eye was connected to the vertical pupil that was as large as the sun and moon.
And that sun and moon-sized crimson vertical pupil allowed Natsuba Hanae to see further and wider, and to take in everything in the Kujō family.
Chikari Makoto’s almost fatal attack was naturally also in her sight.
If not for Kamishiro Hime’s arrival, Natsuba Hanae would have acted and rescued her.
It was impossible to let her die here.
But Chikari Makoto would also have completely lost this opportunity for a trial.
Even if she had been at the B-rank critical point and had been defeated by two A-ranks…
Because in Natsuba Hanae’s view, this could have been completely avoided.
Chikari Makoto had had many opportunities. After seeing Kamishiro Naraku and Kujō Sujin, she could have entangled them and then used a secret method to call her other sisters.
And they could have ganged up on Kamishiro Naraku and the Kujō family in a righteous manner.
A complete crushing in terms of strength.
Although it would have divided the chances of getting a wish, that was better than being completely eliminated and losing the right to get a wish.
And with Chikari Makoto’s strength among her many sisters, to kill either Kujō Sujin or Kamishiro Naraku, her chances of getting a wish were not small, and could even be considered large.
In Natsuba Hanae’s crimson vertical pupil, she looked at Chikari Makoto’s exhilarating fighting figure and couldn’t help but shake her head.
Her actions this time…
Were the same as before, unchanged.
She relied on her own combat power and wanted to solve everything with brute force.
This had completely become Chikari Makoto’s fixed nature.
Natsuba Hanae had hoped that she, besides her combat awareness, would have a broader way of thinking.
To approach problems from other aspects, perhaps she could solve a battle more effectively, and even have a chance to get a wish.
Unfortunately, the results were minimal.
However, Chikari Makoto was still very young. Perhaps she would change in the future.
Of course…
With Chikari Makoto’s way of doing things and her personality, to expand her way of thinking was probably as difficult as changing the flat chest of that steel plate.
Forget it. At least Chikari Makoto now understood the concept of teaming up.
And not to rush forward on her own. Although she had done so at the beginning of the battle…
But knowing that she couldn’t win, and knowing how to cooperate with her sisters was already a good improvement.
Natsuba Hanae had a little bit of expectation for this.
She hoped that a mature Chikari Makoto would have grown, and not become an enhanced version of a brute.
As for why Natsuba Hanae had chosen to act after Kamishiro Naraku had used his divinity…
It was because in her eyes, divinity was a super-spec power for her current daughters.
Of course, it had to be sanctioned.
This was within the rules she had set.
In the Kujō family, all attacks from divinity should be dealt with by her.
Kamishiro Naraku being able to wrap his attacks in divinity, although it was the most basic method of using divinity…
But it had to be said that his talent was indeed astonishing.
To actually be able to master a higher-level power at A-rank.
Of course, this might be related to the fact that Kamishiro Naraku had fused with the Old God and had come into contact with the power of divinity.
With Kamishiro Hime’s assistance, Kuchiki Mei was also released. She could re-enter the darkness. That one-hit-kill attack method could put a heavy, invisible pressure on Kamishiro Naraku and Kujō Sujin.
And with Chikari Makoto’s frontal ability…
Even if Kamishiro Naraku used his crude divine wrapping attack again, at close range, with Kamishiro Hime’s “All-Encompassing” vision, she could clearly observe the attack trajectory of the divinity.
Her own ability, and the feather she had given her, could effectively deal with Kamishiro Naraku’s half-baked divine attack.
This side, she no longer had to worry.
But in the core area, Natsuba Rinrei’s side was the one worth paying attention to.
The crimson vertical pupil’s gaze swirled.
And she could see Natsuba Rinrei charging through the core area alone.
But in reality, Natsuba Rinrei was just a brute on the surface.
After being beaten by Natsuba Genryū, she had already come to appreciate the importance of strategy in battle.
And she had very shrewdly applied the strategy of battle to outside the battle.
That Natsuba family’s ancestral Yin(Ghost) brain was being activated by Natsuba Rinrei and was operating at high speed.
As Natsuba Hanae had said…
In the past, Natsuba Rinrei had only thought that battle could solve everything, that strength was everything, and that no strategy was needed.
But after Natsuba Rinrei had understood, although her use of strategy was a bit rough, it was very effective.
When attacking the Kujō family…
She had become a teammate with Hoshikawa Oto.
Among the sisters, she, who had extremely strong individual strength, didn’t need a teammate like Chikari Makoto, who had almost the same attributes but was a step weaker.
And Kuchiki Mei’s assassination, she of course also needed, but after considering her relationship with Chikari Makoto, Natsuba Rinrei had chosen to give up.
Not to mention that pair of Tamamo-no-Mae and Kamishiro Hime.
So, Natsuba Rinrei’s choices were very limited.
And that was Hoshikawa Oto.
Fortunately, Hoshikawa Oto also suited her needs quite well.
Not only that, but Hoshikawa Oto’s own ability was more inclined to support, and she also needed a supernatural user like Natsuba Rinrei to charge forward.
The two hit it off and formed a team.
It had to be said that in battle, the two of them worked together quite well.
Hoshikawa Oto’s soul-ization ability meant that besides a very few supernatural abilities that could see her, but those who could see her didn’t necessarily have the means to attack her.
And those who could attack her didn’t necessarily be able to see her.
And with her ability to control and interfere with others’ souls, she was very effective even against peak B-rank existences.
Not to mention the Kujō family’s direct descendants’ blood ability.
Those peak B-rank higher-ups, whose bodies had been replaced more than once, although after the blood transfusion, their bodies had completely become their own shape…
But the strength of their souls, after struggling with the original soul, had been more or less worn down.
So a peak B-rank’s soul, in Hoshikawa Oto’s eyes, was almost like a mid-B-rank.
Even if the Kujō family’s peak B-rank numbers were slightly more, the interference was quite wide and effective.
Not only that, but Hoshikawa Oto could also make some attacks against Natsuba Rinrei’s soul and spirit ineffective.
In fact, she could even strengthen Natsuba Rinrei’s soul and spirit.
And make her control over her ability even stronger.
At this moment, Natsuba Rinrei, facing the siege of a large number of Kujō family members, had a feeling of Natsuba Hanae fighting the Natsuba family alone back then.
As if she were in an uninhabited land.
Her figure, covered in crimson scales, on the ground, was like a fiery red line. Her body twisted and turned, and she swung her fists, venting a vast flame power.
The sorcerers were arranged in an orderly manner, using talismans, and the hired supernatural users were at the front. And the Kujō family’s direct descendants were at the back.
However, in the face of Natsuba Rinrei’s incredible speed…
Most of the attacks simply couldn’t hit.
And the few attacks that did hit…
In the face of Natsuba Rinrei’s terrifying dragon scale defense, it was ridiculously laughable.
Those so-called B-rank supernatural users, in Natsuba Rinrei’s hands, couldn’t even withstand a single punch of pure violence, with the soft and cunning of Aosagi no Hi.
With a single punch, their bodies were completely shattered.
And the hired peak B-rank supernatural users usually couldn’t withstand two punches.
However, the Kujō family’s direct descendants, with their blood ability, made Natsuba Rinrei a little tricky, because their life-saving ability was really strong.
After being shattered, they could also completely regenerate.
In fact, her crimson dragon flame attack was also regenerated by the other abandoning a part of their flesh and consuming a large amount of supernatural power.
Fortunately, with Hoshikawa Oto’s assistance…
Her trance interfered with the minds of those blood ability users, and Natsuba Rinrei grabbed them with one hand and directly used a scorching, lava-like high-temperature flame.
And burned them completely. Not to mention their blood, even their entire bodies were burned to a pile of ashes.
They were as dead as they could be.
And the sorcerers, like mosquitoes, although they couldn’t cause her any certain injury, they were extremely annoying.
She channeled the flames, forming waves and rings of fire, and often, with a single death, several people would die.
Under Natsuba Rinrei’s attack, the supernatural users of the Kujō main residence suffered a large number of casualties.
Natsuba Rinrei’s path was completely filled with human lives.
But the Kujō main residence had a lot of supernatural materials, a lot of wealth, a lot of everything. And the hired supernatural users were as endless as a tide.
And whenever there was a retreating, panicked person, they were killed by a blood ability user.
“How annoying.”
“They’re just like insects.”
In Natsuba Rinrei’s crimson dragon pupils, a hint of violence appeared. Facing these enemies, she showed no mercy.
On the contrary, at the Hero Association, if not for Hanae’s help…
Even if she had broken through to A-rank, under the combined forces of Natsuba Taiga and Kujō Sujin, her situation would have been by no means optimistic.
It could be said that Kujō Sujin was her enemy.
And the Kujō family naturally was as well.
Facing everything before her, Natsuba Rinrei only felt it was filthy and disgusting.
And a surge of anger rose in her heart, and she had to vent it.
“Phew—!”
Natsuba Rinrei’s ruby-like dragon pupils shifted slightly, brilliant and dazzling. She opened her mouth slightly, and because of her dragon form, her teeth became slightly sharp.
And with a single breath…
A small wisp of scorching flame spewed out.
In the air, the heat rose rapidly, as if being baked in an oven.
The originally overflowing sea of flames, under the influence, converged like a rainbow, and gathered around her. In the small crevices of her crimson scales, a dark red light shone, flickering on and off.
An unparalleled dragon’s might instantly filled this area.
Natsuba Rinrei murmured softly,
“Just in time, I’m about to advance to mid-A-rank. My spirit has grown.”
“And with Hoshikawa Oto’s mental enhancement for me…”
“This level of control, perhaps…”
Her gaze narrowed slightly, and she extended her right palm.
In the next moment, like a vortex in the sea, the flames and fire waves all converged into her right palm. The originally rising high temperature and heat also rapidly receded.
In fact, the temperature was even lower than before.
And in Natsuba Rinrei’s body, the previously swelling, scorching supernatural power also surged towards her palm.
In an instant, the powerful supernatural power in her body was drained by more than half.
And in her palm, an orange-red lotus was slowly rotating, as if carved from a jewel, crystal clear.
And Natsuba Rinrei, whose face had turned slightly pale due to the absorption of her power, a smile of surprise appeared on her lips.
“It’s done.”
A daughter grows up watching her mother’s back.
She would chase after her mother’s back until she was shoulder to shoulder!
No… not her mother, but Hanae!
And the supernatural users who were besieging Natsuba Rinrei were at a loss. Seeing her face pale, they thought that after a long battle, she was finally exhausted.
And they frantically rushed towards her.
Even a few direct descendants of the blood ability couldn’t hold back and approached her from behind.
After all, the Kujō family had promised that if they killed Natsuba Rinrei, the supernatural materials they would get would be a Nightmare-level supernatural material!
And Natsuba Rinrei, looking at the rushing enemies, said softly,
“You should be grateful.”
“To be able to die by this move.”
With that, she gently threw the orange-red lotus in her hand.
The originally orange-red, art-like lotus, as if blooming, slightly opened.
And from within, a dazzling, scorching light shone, and a wisp of an unparalleled, dangerous aura suddenly descended.
It radiated an extreme light and heat.
Then…
“Boom——————————————!!!!”
A massive mushroom cloud rose from the core area of the Kujō main residence.
The sound was so loud that it shook the clouds and lingered for a long time. The ground also shook violently, as if the earth dragon had turned over.
The countless, expensive barriers that had been covering the core area, without even needing to destroy the barrier’s eye, all shattered and disappeared completely.
The divinity of Ebisu, which had been blocking Natsuba Hanae from attacking Natsuba Rinrei, sensed the death of a large number of direct descendants and instantly boiled.
In the distance, Kujō Sujin’s eyes widened, and he stood there in a daze.
Then he roared,
“Kamishiro Naraku, give me back my body!”
“I have to get back to the core area!!!”
