Chapter 71：S Rank Snake

"I will grab Miss Kudo a little bit," Kai said.

"Just call her Ayaka like you usually do." He said. "By the way, where did she go?"

"She is there." Kai pointed at one of the tallest buildings.

He glanced at Kai, wondering why he did not stop her. But considering his ears, he thought Kai must know that it was not dangerous, so he let her be.

"Alright." He nodded. "I will ask the others to set up a few traps before standing by in the helicopter.

Kai then moved toward the building. He did not know what Ayaka wanted to do inside, but it seemed she had been doing something. When he arrived, he saw Ayaka playing with her magic circle.

"Ayaka, what are you doing?"

"I… I am making my Magic Bomb." She said. She had been planting her new magic, Magic Bomb through the building. She noticed that they had been making loud noises one after another. So, she decided to come to this building and planted her Magic Bomb.

She chose this building because it was a building that had the most strategic position and without any magical beasts nearby. So, when she saw Kai come, she knew she did not manage to help them again. "Are we going now?"

"Around one and a half minutes. We will have visitors in around thirty seconds." Kai said.

"!!!" Ayaka realized. "Magical beasts?"

"Yeah."

"From where?" Ayaka suddenly felt a bit enthusiastic about this.

Kai pointed in a single direction. It seemed they would pass this building first. Because of that, Ayaka blinked her eyes a few times, wondering if this was her chance or something.

"I will destroy this building with my Magic Bomb and let it bury the magical beasts. This will give us time to get away." Ayaka grabbed Kai's shoulders.

"So, that's what you are doing this entire time?" Kai looked at her.

Ayaka immediately placed her hands and activated her magic circle. It was set to fifteen seconds. She then grabbed Kai and used her Firewings to get away from the building. She said, "I know I am not really useful to you or to Father and Mother, but I will keep trying. Even if this one might not bring any result and go unnoticed, I will do it again and again. Until at one point, I can truly help all of you."

Kai was astonished. Just from his conversation with Yoshihiro, he knew he was a protective parent. And the reason why he wanted Ayaka to guard the chopper was because she would not need to fight them.

Kai involuntarily smiled as he murmured, "You are fine as it is."

"???" Ayaka looked at Kai with confusion as she did not hear him saying that. She flew toward the helicopter and saw many magical beasts coming toward their position.

Kudo Chiyo and Becca were surprised to see her coming out of a building. Because of the battle, they did not realize she had gone to that building. When they were about to voice their concern, they finally heard many explosions.

"Boom Boom Boom!"

More than ten explosions were heard as they saw the building that towered up to the sky suddenly crumbled and buried the magical beasts that were trying to pass the building.

When they arrived, Kai immediately said, "Let's go. We can chat later since we need to get going. The traps should be able to buy enough time for us."

They also heard the helicopter engine and knew they should go. Although they wanted to ask Ayaka why she did that, they refrained themselves and went to the helicopter.

All of them boarded the chopper and flew away from the spot. Kai took the last glimpse of the monster, seeing them trapped and could only look at them without being able to do anything.

"Ayaka, what were you doing just now?" Kudo Chiyo said.

"Mother. I am sick of always needing to be protected. I want to help both of you, not watching all of you scrapping your flesh just to protect me!" Ayaka shouted.

When Yoshihiro heard that, he could only sigh inwardly. It seemed she had truly grown up.

"You are still 17 years old. You have a bright future ahead, so let the old pave the way for you." Chiyo tried to reprimand her.

It was at this time, Ayaka Carter put her hand on Chiyo's shoulder. "Paving the way and caging her is almost the same.

"If you are truly supportive of her, then what you should do is let her do whatever she wants and take care of her mistakes." She said. "I always want to do that but unable to do so due to my weak ability."

"Still…" Kudo Chiyo gritted her teeth, wanting to argue, but she knew Ayaka Carter was right. She was the one who was being overprotective. This would only halt her growth.

"I am already 17 years old, Mother. Please trust Ayaka a little bit. I am afraid I will lose both you and father without knowing it like Grandfather." Ayaka was saddened when she did not even know her grandfather was killed until that incident.

"Ayaka…" Kudo Chiyo looked at her with worry.

"It's enough. Maybe it's time for her to soar. We can worry about her, but not stop her." Yoshihiro said.

"..." Kudo Chiyo looked remorseful before nodding her head helplessly.

Kai suddenly noticed that Shirotsuka Sanae finally woke up after a few days unconscious. She had a fever a few days ago because of her wound, so his mother was focused on treating her. And it seemed, she managed to wake up, albeit did not have any energy on her body.

"Mhmm…" Sanae slowly opened her eyes, looking at an unfamiliar place, and hearing a loud sound. She then heard, "Teacher, I am glad you have woken up."

"Where is this?" Shirotsuka Sanae summoned the little bit of energy she had to ask.

"We are flying to the US base with this helicopter because of the series of events. Don't say anything, and just focus on recovering."

He then used magic to lower her brain wave and made her sleepy again. After making her fall asleep, he then felt relieved. The others also did not voice any concern about his action as they knew she needed rest.

After around four hours, they almost arrived at the S rank magical beast territory. Yoshihiro immediately warned them.

"We are going to enter the Snake God territory in five minutes. Kai, ready your teleportation." Yoshihiro announced.

Kai nodded at his order and activated his magic, ready to use the teleportation at any moment notice. He could teleport them a hundred kilometer from this place, but he might pass out after he teleported them.

However, it should be fine since they had the Kudos as the fighters. He was also curious about this giant snake that had a length of one kilometer. Together with its giant body, it was pretty easy to search his position.

After entering its territory for a few kilometers, they had yet to find the snake. The snake had a vast territory, so Kai wanted to meet the snake first and confirmed its position before using the teleportation magic. He was afraid that if he used the teleportation magic recklessly, they might meet the snake on the other side. They would not be able to do anything and died.

Yoshihiro proceeded with caution. It seemed they were near the snake as they could not see a single flying magical beast around.

They had found many flying magical beasts on this trip. Most of them were shot down by Tasha's bow. Luckily, they did not meet any powerful flying beasts as they might need to avoid it.

The deeper they went inside their territory, the quieter the place. Yoshihiro wanted to take a detour, but it would only waste fuel. The situation became tense as all the people were looking left and right, trying to find the giant snake.

Kai also focused his entire being to his hearing, trying to locate the snake. With a snake that big, it should make a loud noise.

It was at this time, Ayaka suddenly pointed her finger. "Look."

All of them immediately turned their head as they saw a huge trail on the ground. Everything was wiped out on that trail, trees, giant buildings, a skyscraper, and so on. Everything was stumbled to the ground and became a pile of rubbles.

Kai did not find anything, so they proceeded again. Until at one point, Kai and Yoshihiro shouted at the same time. "Found it!"

Kai heard the movement of a huge creature while Yoshihiro found a huge snake five kilometers in front of them.

When everyone turned their heads, they could see a giant anaconda, moving slowly on the ground.

However, when the anaconda found them, it slowly raised its head to the sky and roared, "Scree!"

"!!!" All of them felt danger the moment they heard that. They saw the giant snake suddenly move toward them at a speed that was beyond their imagination.

They thought if the snake moved that slow, they could attack it or just take a detour without using Kai's teleportation. But when they saw that speed, it almost gave them a heart attack. As expected from an S rank magical beast. If it could only move slowly, it would not become an S rank magical beast as it would only become a punching bag.

"Not good!" Yoshihiro cursed the snake and shouted, "Kai, now!"

"I know." He immediately made a huge teleportation magic circle around their helicopter. Seeing that, Yoshihiro halted their advance to make sure they were in the magic circle.

The snake was coming so fast as it was almost a few hundred meters away from them. Kai clasped his hand while sweating as he finally activated his magic circle.

"Teleportation!"