What's happening to the dead bird?

　Blown away by an unexpected shockwave and blast, the wounded Hyakugan is astonished when he turns his attention to the two Sendo users who could be considered the source of the shockwave and blast.
　There was a dead bird and Yuto, who were clashing with each other with unseen movements. And when the boy swings his sword, a whirlwind is generated, and when the dead bird swings his club, a fierce wind is scattered.

'What is this!　You're not supposed to hear this!　Who in the world are you fighting, dead bird!

　Hyakugan remembered the bargain he had made last night with Stopwater before this mission.



'I'll leave the mission to you. I'll ... take the strongest one.

　Stopwater stands by the window of one of the hotel's upper floors and quietly replies to Hyakugan, who has come to tell him the plan.

''Huh, dead bird. Even if you say you are the strongest, you're still dealing with a baby bird against you. If you're going to be serious, there's not much for us to do. It will be just a matter of taking one of the blonde lasses to the Count.

Well I hope so.

''The dead birds are very cautious........ I've looked into it here, but the troublesome ones over there are the two rank A girls - Shitenji's daughter and the target's daughter herself. The only trouble is that Shitenji's daughter has contacted the Japanese branch of the agency. The other thing is the Shitenji family itself. The little boy who was there at the time of the last attack is said to be a rank D. I was surprised at that time, but upon investigation, I found out that he has a bias towards close combat abilities. If we knew that, it wouldn't be much of an obstacle.

....

''I'm glad you're more motivated than I thought you would be, but if we can get things done before the agency gets to us, before we get the Shitennji family serious, there will be no problem.

...you're out of alignment.

What?

No, it's nothing. We'll do what we need to do. I don't mind as long as you guys do what we ask.

I understand. Getting your children registered and emigrating to Japan, I know. I've already made arrangements for that. They have a property not far from the Chinese Embassy. But still........moving to another country.

You're going to have to move him. And the money.

''Huh, you can't trust the Dark Night Leopard so much?　Or is your home country...?

　Stopwater stared at Hyakugan silently.
　Hyakugan met that sharp gaze of Stopwater and showed him a deliberate scare.

''It's fine. As long as you are faithful to our request, your request will be granted. The children will be in Japan tomorrow. And I wish you would have more faith in us, as we are paying so far in advance for a request that has yet to be fulfilled.

　Tsumizu takes his gaze off of Hyakugan and looks out of the window of his hotel room at the night view outside. He smiles bitterly at Stopwater, who doesn't say a word more than that.

(Well, I understand the feeling........) But this man who was called the "dead bird" is pretty sweet too. Even if we emigrate the kids to Japan, they're still under our control. Even if they succeed in escaping, they won't escape Lorenza's curse. Now that you've shown your weakness, you're done. You're already cursed, Yan Cessation. A curse that can never be broken. (Kukku, let's have you working to the bone, for the Count's sake...)

　Hyakugan stared at the back of the cessation, and this time he didn't hide his evil smile. Then, Hundred Eyes shuddered as he imagined the praise he would receive from the Count after the success of the Ming Dynasty's mission.



　Hundred Eyes could not help but stare in amazement at the sight of Yan Zhishui, who was called the dead bird, hanging on to one little boy.
　　Hyakugan even thought about it.
　But there is a history of agreeing to it, thinking the result would be the same thing.
　It was because the first thing the boy, who had been investigated as being good at close combat, would first set up against us was the first opponent's formation he had imagined. An exorcist who exerts his power on the defensive, except for dealing with spirit users and demons who want to position themselves from mid-range to long range. Normally, the first contact was with a rank D little boy who would only be able to use it at close range.
　Since Hyakugan and the others were also planning to push the dead birds to the front and supplement their target by crushing the enemy at once, it was calculated that there would be no major changes in the strategy anyway.
　The bare bones of the operation were more carefully calculated with the presence of the expert dead birds, and it was more carefully calculated after the target was captured. Two Dark Night Leopard and a large number of Chinese agents who did not participate in the operation were supposed to be waiting, and after the capture, they were supposed to be flown directly to Beijing by a top-secret Chinese chartered plane.
　But that is no longer the case.
　That dependable dead bird is now engaged in a fight to the death with the enemy's rank D little boy.
　Normally, such a little boy would have been killed instantly, and it would have been strange if the dead bird hadn't attacked the real-life Mizuho and Marion and the others from behind.
　Then Yuto and Stopwater collided with each other, and a second terrific shockwave hit Hyakugan and the others.

''Ha!　Get down!

　Quickly, Hyakugan turned to his companions and shouted.
　The selected group of Dark Night's Panther, who had been hit deeper than Hyakugan by the blast and shockwave earlier, lay down on the spot as Hyakugan had instructed. The tops and backs of those Hundred Eyes are held down by the gusts of wind and air vibrations, and they can't even raise their heads.
　Hundred Eyes, the planner and commander of this operation, had difficulty grasping the situation and was unable to command properly.
　Then a condescending girl's voice comes from above Hyakugan and the others.

''What the hell is wrong with you guys? What are you doing crawling in there? Did you lose the will to fight before you even started?

!

　There was Ruiho with a fearless smile on her face.
　Mizuho and the others protected themselves from the shock wave with the light sanctuary that was built to surround Marion's rear under Meira's direction, while Meira's wind spirit art prevented the air vibrations that were also coming from the front with the air screen.
　There was no way for Hyakugan to do this as Mizuho's gaze down at him sent a chill down his spine.
　Mizuho grabbed the spirit in both hands and activated the technique. Then a tremendous amount of gravity is applied to Hyakugan and the others, and their already prone bodies are too heavy for them to stand up.

''Kuaaa!　You!

　Hyakugan looked in anguish at the weight of being trampled by the giant on the asphalt.
　The worst of the situation, that they would all be captured at this point, passed through Hyakugan's mind, and he immediately gave the order to the dark night leopard, who was refraining from giving the order to retreat.
　Hyakugan's ability to see the entire situation from all directions, just as its two names suggest. Hyakugan's mind had a number of screens, and he could grasp them at the same time. And it was able to control the actions of those it could see to some extent.
　This manipulation technique is especially effective for people with weak willpower or weak mentality.
　Hyakugan uses his eyes on the two teleporters whose consciousness is about to fly, and forcibly manipulates their hands towards him.

''Mm!　Mizuho-sama, this guy!

　As soon as Ming Liang said that, Hyakugan's figure disappeared, and he appeared in the space by the side of the highway and fell directly under the highway's elevated tracks.

'How reckless!　If you try to travel a distance beyond the teleporter's capabilities, the teleportation failure rate jumps!

　Mizuho was surprised to see Hyakugan in action. The teleporter's ability is known to be a powerful ability in itself. A teleporter has the ability to instantly move objects within visible range and within a few meters of each other.　However, if they try to move beyond that ability, there is a tens of percent chance that they will disappear but not appear anywhere.
　And no one can know where it has disappeared to. It was such a dangerous behavior that there were even high-level teleporters who used this characteristic to attack us.

''Mizuho-san!　It's Yuto-san!

　Marion, who is activating her jutsu while facing backwards, shouts out.
　Right now, Yuto and Stopwater are crossing each other almost evenly, but they are not unharmed.
　They are repeatedly attacking and intercepting each other's special attacks, and each time they duck only the most urgent points, but carve wounds all over their bodies. Yuto spits blood-covered spit out of his mouth, but he doesn't stop moving. His uniform was already soaked in blood in various places, and that was as well as stopping the water.
　That epic beating is still going on between the two sides.
　As Mizuho and Meira turned around at the sound of Marion's shout, Yuto took a thrust from the black-coated cudgel of the water stoppage to his left shoulder and looked slightly anguished, but he quickly erased his expression and used the left shoulder blow he received from the cudgel to propel him forward, turning his body to the left and thrusting out a posture with his right hand.
　The posture of the posture pierced through the left shoulder of the stopper.

''Yuto-oh!''

　Witnessing that horrific battle of skills, Mizuho's face turned pale and she screamed out.
　Marion was also speechless as her eyes widened.

''Mizuho-sama!　Du Du, you have my back!　That's our preferred range for this distance!

!

　Said loudly by Meira, Mizuho instantly generated Kamitachi and released it towards the water stoppage as they stopped moving for a moment from each other. Among the many spirit arts, wind spirit arts is characterized by its speed being the fastest.
　The Kamitachi released by Mizuho is approaching the water stoppage at the speed of sound.
　But.........

Don't mess with me!

　Yuto, who should have been covered, yelled at him.
　Stoppage jumped away from Yuto and sent back to Mizuho and the others as if inviting a vacuum blade as he treated the cudgel like a baton with his right hand only while hanging his unmoving left hand against the approaching Kamigami.
　Yuto used this gap to slam a posture on the stopwatch while hanging his left hand, which was as motionless as the stopwatch, with his left hand hanging down.

''Hmph!''

　Stopwater takes it with a cudgel clenched in his right hand.
　Blood gushed from the wounds on their right arms like water leaking out of a perforated water balloon.
　When the Kamaira were sent back, Mizuho and the others were unable to intercept them in time and jumped to the side, slamming their own bodies into the asphalt.
　Meira spun around and regained her poise, and stared at Yuto and the water stoppage as if she had seen something unbelievable.

'There's no room to take advantage!　You can't even cover us on our own!

　Once Yuto and Stopwater separated, they grabbed their prey with only their right hands and glared at each other.



　Yuto sets up his posture right halfway through the posture and talks back to the cessation.

''You too, give up already!　If you come any further....

What's coming?

I'm going to kill you!

　Stopwater smiled at that spirited line of Yuto.

''You didn't tell me your name my name is Yan Shizui, Doudou Yuto.

....

But if I kill you here and there's no courier to carry you off I'll have to step aside!

　At the same time as those words, Stopwater threw the cudgel at Mizuho and the others.

''!''

　The cudgel filled with the sacred ki of stopping water was spinning high as it charged at Mizuho and the others.
　Zuiho and Marion quickly realized that Zuiho and Marion quickly deployed the rock wall of earth spirit art and Marion deployed the Holy Cycle, but they quickly realized the error in judgment. From the fragments of power released by that cudgel, they could tell that it wasn't just thrown at them, and their faces were strained.
　The cudgel radiates a presence that separates life and death and gives a glimpse of the interstices of this world. Zuiho and Marion also found that out by experiencing several deadly battles.
　With that black-painted cudgel looming in front of them, Mizuho and Marion had given up on being unharmed, but they would not give up on living. They would give everything they had to this one defense with their full spiritual power.
　Meira suddenly threw her body out and jumped in front of Mizuho and the others.
　And at the moment when the cudgel reaches Mizuho and the others........
　The cudgel thrown by Stoppage flew in the air to the left.
　At the same time, ETIbai bursts to the right.
　Mizuho, Marion and a speechless Meira saw the figure of Yuto in front of them as he threw the ETOBA towards them.

''Yuto!''

Eugene!

　And there's no sign of the cessation that was supposed to be there.
　Ming Liang breathed a breath of relief from the bottom of his heart, but he immediately stood up and rushed towards Yuto.

''Dou Dou-kun! Are you...? Hurry up and get that wound fixed!

　Slightly later, Mizuho and Marion followed suit.
　Marion's eyes and cheeks were already wet with tears.
　On the destroyed highway, Yuto didn't care about the wounds all over his body, and he was staring at the place where Stopwater should have been.

''Yan Cessation........''

　That's all he muttered, and Yuto's eyes stared sharply in the direction where the water stop seemed to have disappeared.