Chapter 42

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“He seems to have gotten through.”

While defeating the surrounding monsters, Ritsu gazed at the explorers climbing the wall.

“But Misumi-san is still headed over here…”

Ritsu sighed while looking at the two.

(Seriously, this would have gone much faster had I been on my own.)

“Yozakura-san! Are you okay? Where’s Ren-kun?”

Sayuki and her friend head towards him while raising their voices.

“Ren!!? Where are you?”

Yuu approaches Ritsu while cutting down the monsters in her path.

“That kid already went back towards the wall. Didn’t you see him?”

“Eh!”

“More importantly, get away from here. Right now it’s mostly low-level goblins, but soon the higher-level ones will start appearing.”

Ritsu looked at the two with sharp eyes.

“I shall fight with you.”

“I can, also fight.”

They declared, while gripping their swords.

“No, go back. I’ve seen Misumi-san’s performance inside the labyrinth, but if a high-level comes it’ll be dangerous.”

“I can fight. I’m prepared to do so.”

Sayuki replied to Ritsu with a slight frown.

“I can also…” “Stop.”

Ritsu overlapped the words of Yuu, who tried to follow-up with Sayuki.

“To tell you the truth, it’s a drag. I’ll have no choice but to fight while covering for you two. Keep your own abilities in mind, and step back from here.”

“But… We wanted to support you.”

Yuu doubled down, after looking side-wards at the downtrodden Sayuki.

“Yuu, he is…”

“I appreciate your feelings. Now, head back.”

“Is that fine? I don’t sense any magic in you, and to be honest, I can’t believe you’re that strong.”

Yuu asks him in a worried tone.

“Yuu, he is…”

“It’s fine.”

“But…”

“Wait…Yuu. Let’s go back.”

Sayuki stops her, and decides to head back.

“I’ll clear a path for you, so strengthen yourselves and make a dash for it.”

“[Sakura Ichi-monji].”

Ritsu released his attack in the direction of the wall, and opened a path.

“Go. I’m going to fight seriously now, so it’ll be a pain to have you involved. Once you reach the wall, don’t move from it no matter what.”

“Yuu, let’s go…”

Saying that, Sayuki broke into a run.

“Ah! Sayuki!”

Yuu pursued her, hesitatingly.

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“Hah. That was exhausting.”

Ritsu let loose a few attacks in their direction to protect the two, while dealing with the monsters that were beginning to get stronger.

“It’s a relief being able to kill these monsters before they get to display their commandeering abilities. I guess I’ll prepare as well. It would suck if there were any casualties in this battle.”

Muttering so, Ritsu wrapped himself in Ki that was incomparably stronger than usual; causing the ground at his feet to start cracking. The goblin next to him tried to sneak an attack, but got assaulted by the dense Ki instead, and disappeared after being ignited from the inside.

“You all came so greedily onto me till now, is this Ki really that scary?”

Seeing the attacks of the bloodthirsty monsters around him stop all of a sudden, Ritsu curled the corner of his mouth and smiled.

The Ki around him becomes ferocious and starts engulfing everything around it. With glittering clothes and hair, Ritsu wraps the rampaging Ki around himself as if to appease it, and looks at the goblins as if he saw through them.

“I guess it’s ready now.”

Seeing Ren wave on top of the wall, Ritsu took a deep breath with his sword sheathed, and stopped moving.

“[Ren-ou].” (Smoldering Blossoms)

While simultaneously drawing his sword, the surrounding goblins get engulfed in Ritsu’s Ki and burst into flames. Along with the swung sword, the cherry blossom petals filled with Ki, turn into waves and attack the goblins, evaporating them one after the other.

“I wonder if the ones heading to the wall have been cleared up. The sun’s also just about set now.”

Staring at the smiling Ritsu from a distance, the monsters remain stationary as if they couldn’t move. Ritsu’s Ki diffuses into the battlefield as if crawling around, and a heart-gripping bloodlust dominates the area.

“I can only use this technique at night.”

Sensing imminent danger, the goblins move at once to stop Ritsu.

“It’s too late.”

“[Kyouya-zakura].” (Mad-Night Cherry Blossoms)

From the ground that lost its color in the darkness of the night, countless cherry blossom trees popped out and pierced the goblins.

The remaining goblins also touched the scattered flowers, and burst into flames, unable to endure the trapped Ki in them. Cherry blossoms were in full bloom throughout the battlefield.

With nowhere left to go, the remaining goblins scattered into mutiple directions out of insanity, but they too get burnt up.

After releasing his technique, Ritsu sheathes his sword into its scabbard, while standing on a carpet of cherry blossom petals mixed with goblin entrails.

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“Oi! Get up on the wall quickly!”

After cutting through the goblins and reaching the wall, Sayuki and Yuu are greeted by the explorers awaiting them and climb up the wall.

“Kid! The signal!”

“Yes!”

“Nee-chans! I’m so glad…”

After sending Ritsu the signal, Ren runs up to the two of them.

“Sorry… I made you worry.”

Yuu hugs Ren and apologizes.

“Oi, kid. It’s gonna start now. You better watch. An Ousei‘s battle isn’t something you see everyday.”

Approaching Ren, Ryukawa points his finger towards Ritsu.

“OUSEI!?”

While widening her eyes and raising her voice, Yuu’s face goes pale.

“If you knew then tell me…”

Seeing Sayuki’s reaction, Yuu murmurs as though blaming her.

“Sorry.”

Sayuki darkens her expression and looks down.

“Nee-chan did you mess something up?”

“No, that’s…….”

“Did you get angry and pick a fight with him?”

Seeing the two’s expressions, Ryukawa softens his face and guesses.

“”A bit.””

“I see. I’ve also done the same thing as you two and gotten yelled at. Don’t worry about it too much.”

Ryukawa goes “hahaha” as if he remembered something, and comforts the two.

“I,”

Sayuki tries to say something, but stuffs her mouth.

“Sayuki, let’s do our best at our own pace, okay?”

Yuu places her hand on Sayuki’s shoulder and says that.

“Nee-sans…”

The moment Ren calls out to them, an unnerving air runs through the area.

“Oi oi… I’ve never seen such a skill before. The goblins burst into fire all of a sudden.”

Ryukawa says, seeing Ritsu’s attack.

“There’s no way, I could reach that…..”

“Sayuki…..”

“Awesome…..”

Ren’s eyes sparkle at the spectacle in front of him.

“A tree? Cherry blossoms? They’re the same as the ones in front of the headquarters.”

One explorer says while looking at the trees in full bloom on the battlefield.

“Amaz…”

Captivated, Yuu tries to lean over the edge of the wall, but is stopped but Ryukawa.

“Don’t. I have a bad feeling about those.”

“The goblins that touched those flowers all burst into flames.”

Ren widens his eyes at the unbelievable phenomenon.

The surrounding explorers also break into discussion over Ritsu’s technique.

“Something like that is even impossible for [change in magic nature], isn’t it? How’s he doing that?”

“Maybe it’s fire element mimicking the shape of cherry blossoms.”

“In that case it’s a ridiculous skill. Nothing within the realm of humans.”

“Maybe it’s possible with the highest level [Perfect Manipulation]…..”

“If that’s the case, then it could even be a special attribute…”

“It looks like the reinforcements have arrived, so I’ll explain the situation.”

Ryukawa runs off towards the large group of explorers heading their way.

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