Volume 7 - Mount Ooe: Chapter 70 – Transformation

Volume 7 - Mount Ooe: Chapter 70 – Transformation

The white-clad Lily walked through the burning Honganji Temple while holding her shining blade in one hand.

She walked through the flaming corridors and pulled open a door to arrive at the deepest part of the temple before she closed it again, leaving her no way out of the room.

Lily did not plan to flee.

The beams supporting the ceiling, as well as the pillars of the temple, fell from time to time because of the flames, giving rise to a cloud of fires. The flames were just moments away from engulfing the room Lily was in and the demons were also ready to storm inside, but Lily’s expression remained unchanged as she walked to the center of the room silently.

Lily flung her hair back and spun around while holding her blade up, performing an elegant dance with her blade as her partner in such a desperate situation.

Boom!

The demons outside howled loudly, the sounds of battle resounding miles away as flames engulfed the entire temple. However, Lily’s expression was still as calm as ever.

All the events that she had experienced until now seemed to flash through the flames reflected in her eyes.

Lily had arrived in this world with just a kimono and a crimson parasol on her. She had experienced plenty of lucky encounters, deadly battles, love, and hate.

Although the burning temple drenched her in sweat entirely, her eyes were as calm as still water right now. However, this calmness was also accompanied by some abstraction.

It was quite hard for her to give up on these memories, both good and bad ones, but the memories of her experiences were fleeting in nature.

Lily’s movements as she performed the sword dance made her look like both a beautiful woman and a pretty man, the sorrow oozing from her possessing an intensity that even a hero’s perseverance cannot match.

Her pink lips opened and closed as she sang a verse of poetry.

“Traveling one thousand years back at the age of sixteen, everything feels like it’s a dream!”

The verse signified that life was but a dream.

No one could have ever imagined that a boy who was secretly in love with his senior would travel thousand years back into an alternative reality of the Heian era and experience so many sorrowful and joyful affairs in less than a year.

Lily found the determination to live in this world because Rinne had saved her life and fought so that she could awaken her soul one day.

Uesugi Rei, Minamoto no Shimizu, Nanako, Shiu...

Ayaka, Kimiko...

Uncle Matsuda, Ashikaga Kiyoshi...

Lily had found deep companionship with many of her sisters and also acquainted iron-blooded men worthy of her admiration.

She had long become a part of this world.

Lily did not care about pleasures or wealth and spared no effort to achieve her goals, never submitting to force, never fearing the dangers.

It was all for the sake of Rinne and to protect her beloved sisters.

She knew that she was just deceiving herself by maintaining the last remaining pride as a former man, but it was just that important to her. However, her sister Uesugi was in deep danger right now while Rinne’s soul was still dormant in the dark stone room, and even Lily herself was facing a desperate situation.

There was nothing that she was not willing to give up as life was all but a dream in the end.

“I’m going to awaken you even if my soul were to vanish in exchange for it, Senior Rinne!”

“Even if you set foot on the path to Yomi and enter the Gates of Hell in Nara, I will definitely come to retrieve you one day, Sister Uesugi!”

Lily stopped hesitating any longer.

The flames of the stone lantern in the dark mirror space reflected the pretty silhouette of the flimsily dressed, ponytailed Lily.

She got up and looked at her reflection within the mirror.

“Goodbye, me. This is the final time I’ll be looking at this form of you

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The starry sky disappeared, and the stone room returned to its former appearance while shaking incessantly.

The sword movements on the second monument began shining soon after and fused to form a gigantic relief sculpture of a celestial maiden.

Although the face of the celestial maiden was obscured, she possessed a beautiful figure and had assumed a stance that contained the essence of the Tsukuyomi Swordstyle’s Second Path completely.

A carved seal that exuded an eternal aura appeared underneath the celestial maiden’s feet in the next moment.

The following words were written on it—The Celestial Maiden Path.

Lily’s round, somewhat indecent chest heaved heavily, and her body was drenched in an incredible amount of sweat.

Lily’s understanding, as well as control of her body, and applications of sword moves, as well as power, had reached an all new level now.

She had become a true transcendent now after perfecting the Tsukuyomi Swordstyle’s Second Path, the Celestial Maiden Path.

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Rei was drenched in sweat within the dark lair after watching Lily enter the burning Honganji Temple in despair after being forced into a desperate situation. Her eternal obsession made her struggle to break free from the fetters of the chains and save Lily, but all she got in exchange for her attempts was fierce whipping by the samurai woman enslaved by Shuten.

Shuten satisfied his perverted desires by having his female slaves punish the icy beauty he had captured. However, this only filled Rei with endless anger,

“Argh!” Rei screamed in pain from the whipping. “Release me, you b?a?s?t?a?r?d?! How dare you harm Lil’ Lily!”

Her struggles ended up being futile, though.

Rei had not even realized that she had lost consciousness for a short while just now, and that the two slaves were whipping her frantically because she was too staunch. Lily was the sole thing on her mind the moment she regained consciousness.

The transmission orb showed the sight of Mita’s avatar dissipating into smoke with Ibaraki’s final attack while the small raccoon dogs had long returned to smoke after being besieged by the demons from all sides.

The demons then surrounded the Honganji Temple, which had long turned into a sea of fire.

“Hahahaha! Don’t worry, Ms. Uesugi. These flames are far from enough to immolate a Throne to their death. I believe that your beloved Lily doesn’t have the courage to do something as manly as cutting open her belly to kill herself now.” Shuten chuckled wildly before he took another chug from the wine pot and looked at the image in the transmission orb with great interest.

“How about we make a bet?”

“Shut up, you b?a?s?t?a?r?d?!” Rei gritted her teeth and shouted.

“How dare you insult our master, b?i?t?c?h??!” The two slaves standing on thick poles suspended by chains raised the enchanted whips in their hands and flogged Rei’s back endlessly, tearing open her robes and leaving behind red marks on it.

“Lily...” Rei showed a rare moment of weakness when she saw Ibaraki and the other demons prepare to charge into the temple and capture Lily, tears flowing from her eyes as she shut them in grief.

“This is some really good wine!” Shuten took another chug from the wine pot while admiring the sight of his slaves whipping Rei. Seeing Ibaraki prepare to capture Lily, the woman he wanted the most, made him so excited that he forgot himself and laughed his head off. “Hahahahahaha! Hahahahahaha! I guess this is what the prettiest woman in the world amounts to in the end! She’s destined to become my sex slave! Hahahahahaha!”

Boom!

The shockwaves produced by the explosion of the burning Honganji Temple made even the transmission orb far away in Shuten’s lair tremble uncontrollably, and a bunch of crimson amaryllis flowers flew out of the raging flames at an incredible speed.

Bzzt.

The image shown in the transmission orb turned pitch black after a flicker, causing the smile on Shuten’s face to freeze up immediately.

“Huh?”

The shouts of the demons in Shuten’s lair, as well as the hands of the female slaves whipping Rei, stopped immediately, and pin drop silence reigned the cave room.

There was no response from the transmission orb as well.

“What’s going on?!” Shuten Doji voiced his astonishment while holding the wine bowl.

References

Robinxen: Is this the transition moment?!

Robinxen: Man’s literally doing a magical girl transformation transition.