Chapter 60: The Old God’s Otherside Has Taken My Shape
Inside the Otherside.
When Summer Harvest Mountain arrived, and the crimson vertical pupil hung high in the sky…
It signified the arrival of Natsuba Hanae’s full power.
The law of victory had been decided!
There was no other choice but to win.
Under Natsuba Hanae’s cold, dazzling gaze, the Old God was bound in place by several red chains that seemed to drip with blood.
“Roar————!!”
The Old God struggled desperately, but unfortunately, the red chains were on a completely different level from the black and white ones.
They were the pure power of the Heavenly Emperor Girl.
Even the combined Old God couldn’t shake the red chains, not even a little.
“You’re a bit noisy.”
Natsuba Hanae casually waved her right hand, and another red chain shot out from the crimson vertical pupil, piercing through the Old God’s chest and pinning it to the ground.
“Roar————!!”
Nightmare-level supernatural beings, especially the Old God type, had incredibly terrifying regeneration abilities.
Even after Natsuba Hanae’s barrage of attacks, it could instantly regenerate.
Of course, because of this, the Old God was now completely bound by the red chains, like a leashed dog, powerless to do anything.
Natsuba Hanae’s expression was calm as she waved her right hand again and again.
Countless red chains, at her command, pierced through the Old God repeatedly.
If the Old God still possessed most of its intelligence, it would be furious. It never would have imagined that its ultimate move, which was a surefire kill against supernatural users, would be completely ineffective against Natsuba Hanae.
Although the “no supernatural abilities allowed” Rule wasn’t a lethal one, and there was no backlash for violating it…
Because the moment the Rule was activated, it fundamentally erased a supernatural user’s ability to use their powers. And during that time, the user would be disoriented, with no means of escape.
Then, the Old God would hunt them down, giving them no chance to react.
It had used this tactic from Calamity level to Nightmare level, and its threat level had even earned it the designation of the Fourth Supernatural Forbidden Zone among humans.
But now, it had met its Waterloo.
And the Old God instinctively tried to use the power of its Otherside to resist, but it didn’t know that its Otherside had been NTR’d by Natsuba Hanae and had completely taken her shape.
As time passed, the Old God’s resistance grew weaker.
Countless red birds, large and small, flew out of the crimson vertical pupil, landing on the Old God and the red chains.
With a thought from Natsuba Hanae…
They burrowed into the Old God’s body. As more and more red birds entered, the Old God’s color also turned crimson.
Then, the red chains wrapped around the Old God.
Soon, the Old God was enveloped in a giant red cocoon.
Natsuba Hanae’s goal was to devour the Old God, to transform it into a vessel for her Heavenly Emperor Girl.
However…
As a wisp of divinity began to condense within her, she didn’t feel happy.
The wisp of divinity was just a byproduct of this operation. What she really needed was the complete form of the Heavenly Emperor Girl.
And to complete the half-formed Rule she had mastered.
According to her calculations, devouring the two Old Gods should have been enough to nearly complete her Heavenly Emperor Girl transformation.
But the intelligent Old God had devoured the power-type Old God, and in the process, some of its energy had been lost. So even after devouring the combined Old God, Natsuba Hanae couldn’t fully transform into the Heavenly Emperor Girl.
Until now, she was just a crimson vertical pupil.
Of course, Natsuba Hanae had gained something unexpected. The fused shell of the two Old Gods was undoubtedly the perfect vessel for the Heavenly Emperor Girl.
Its physical strength, in some aspects, even reached the level of a Hell-level supernatural being.
If she hadn’t completely transformed the Old God’s Children’s Hospital into her own Summer Harvest Mountain, she would have had to expend a great deal of effort to take down the Old God.
Not only that, but the Old God, in order to increase its Rule’s range, had exhausted a large amount of its energy and potential. A series of mistakes had led to such a powerful being ending up in this state.
But she couldn’t blame the Old God.
After all, who would have thought Natsuba Hanae had a cheat, that she wasn’t a supernatural user? Any supernatural user would have died under its indiscriminate Rule that covered the entire Otherside.
As for the Old God’s Rule, Natsuba Hanae had already tried.
She couldn’t directly devour the Rule. It was completely bound to the Old God. If one died, the other would vanish as well.
All Natsuba Hanae could do was crush the Rule within the Old God’s body and infuse it into the half-formed Rule in her Umbrella Sword, completing it.
According to her calculations…
This would take some time, but with the doubled amount of Rule from two Nightmare-level beings, it would be enough to complete her own.
This was a welcome, expected piece of good news.
Natsuba Hanae frowned slightly, her mind racing.
“The progress of the Heavenly Emperor Girl transformation still needs the sacrifice of one more Nightmare-level supernatural being to be fully completed.”
“But where can I find one?”
There were no more Nightmare-level beings in the surrounding cities.
As for going to other cities, she still had things to do in the Natsuba conglomerate, and she needed to investigate the S-rank secrets that the top conglomerates were desperately hiding. She had no plans to go to other cities.
Unfortunately, although the Ubume template had cute pets like Inpi and Kōsei, it didn’t have any that could act independently.
Natsuba Hanae thought again.
Suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck her. Tamamo-no-Mae.
Tamamo-no-Mae’s template possessed a series of “Fox Miko” abilities, and “Prayer” had countless incredible uses.
However, both “Fox Miko” and “Prayer” required a tangible deity to worship.
Originally, Natsuba Hanae had planned to achieve the Nine-Headed Bird form first, then use Tamamo-no-Mae to provide her with power.
But now, she had a wisp of the Heavenly Emperor Girl’s divinity. Perhaps she could spare a bit to achieve her goals.
Thinking of this, Natsuba Hanae controlled the crimson vertical pupil.
She used the wisp of divinity to sense the statue linked to her in Tamamo-no-Mae’s shrine and shot a bit of divinity towards it.
Tamamo-no-Mae was very smart, not a battle-crazed simpleton like Chikari Makoto. She would surely understand.
And next up was…
Natsuba Hanae’s eyes held a mix of complexity, delight, and cunning as she looked at Natsuba Rinrei.
The matter between…
A younger sister and an older sister, a mother and a daughter.
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