Volume 9 - Dojigiri: Chapter 37 – Tough Battle

Volume 9 - Dojigiri: Chapter 37 – Tough Battle

“I’m almost there! Almost!” Lily’s hair flew about wildly as she sped across the ancient Suno battlefield. Her fair legs were still covered by the tattered black stockings

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The two titans, Onito and Hojo Tokimasa, unleashed their eldritch energy and fiendish spirit power, launching attacks from different directions at Ayaka. She fell back gracefully, her naginata weaving dazzling silver lights.

Clang!

Ayaka’s naginata collided with Hojo Tokimasa’s enormous brass gauntlet. In terms of sheer power, Tokimasa held the upper hand, his brass gauntlets being a low-ranked spirit artifact as well. “What incredible power!” Ayaka was sent flying by the mighty blow.

“Perish for my brother’s death!” Onito released a powerful palm strike toward Ayaka’s frail form. This palm technique, which he had perfected during his sumo wrestling days, was his fiercest skill. Having evolved into a corpse fiend and honing this art over centuries, it had only grown more formidable.

The imposing palm wind, an earthy yellow sandstorm-like force, shaped like a hand, bore down on Ayaka. It was challenging for Ayaka to fully deflect this powerful, invisible palm wind with her naginata, especially in her weakened state.

She summoned a gorgeous golden-edged mirror, a weapon typically wielded by Tamamo-no-Mae. The mirror floated midair and faced Onito. This mirror, potent enough to contend with quintuple-soul and sextuple-soul Big Dipper experts, reflected Onito’s ultimate palm art, causing the mirror surface to emit a strange ripple.

Boom!

The palm strike’s power was completely reflected back, blasting the giant corpse fiend Onito away. “Damn it! She has so many treasures!” exclaimed Hagewashi from not far off, flinging black feathers toward Ayaka. These crow feathers, with power akin to a double-soul Big Dipper expert’s sharp sword, grew larger as they streaked towards Ayaka with extreme speed.

Ayaka stepped on the air, creating lotus flowers with each step, as she deftly avoided the black feathers. The feathers changed direction in midair and continued their pursuit, which caused Ayaka to frown. She brandished her naginata to block the feathers while avoiding Tokimasa’s heavy punches.

Though her strength had returned to the double-soul Big Dipper level, and combined with her weapon was at the triple-soul Big Dipper level, she was far from her usual self. She was injured and weakened, incapable of sustaining a lengthy battle.

Suddenly, during the fight, a wave of weakness washed over her, briefly blacking out her vision. Such a change, however fleeting, created a significant opening for her skilled opponents. Aall newest chapters on n.o./velbi/n/(.)com

“Hehehehe! This woman is mine!” A hefty Throned General level devil charged at Rei, swinging his wolf-toothed club.

“Mmm... No...” Rei whimpered as her strength suddenly drained away, leaving her defenseless.

Clang! However, the devil was felled by a black sword light emitted from Shimizu’s blade.

Dazed, Rei covered her mouth, “What’s happening to me...? I can’t believe I actually made such an embarrassing sound...” While Rei’s voice was slightly deeper than Lily’s, it was still feminine, and due to her changed physical state, it had become surprisingly soft.

Rei struggled to come to terms with this aspect of herself.

“Are you alright?” Shimizu queried in a frosty tone, “Why are you behaving like a defenseless woman being victimized?”

“Tsk... Shut up...” In Shimizu’s presence, Rei seemed to regain some of her vigor, “Though... thanks.”

“On the battlefield, it’s a question of life and death. If you fall, my situation will worsen! Be cautious!” Shimizu responded, swinging her blade to intercept the incoming arrow spells.

Rei stood up, using her sword for support, and lowered her head, “That scoundrel... I’ll make him regret making me display such a face...” Rei redirected the powerful charm intent within her, converting the medicinal effects into charm power, and charged headlong into the fray against Hagewashi’s familiars.

Ayaka had already re-emerged from the ruins and was under siege by the three formidable Big Dipper demons. She relied on Tamamo’s treasures to keep up her defense. In the face of the Big Dipper demons, she had no alternative but to hold them off; if she didn’t, any one of them could effortlessly kill her sisters and Suno’s residents.

Trapped within the ancient curse, Shuten Doji knew that neither violence nor rage would break it. Having trained for eight hundred years, this archdemon sat cross-legged, focusing on dismantling the confinement spell step by step, using various charms and treasures. Regardless of the curse’s power, it was only a matter of time before he broke free. It was likely that his liberation would bring an end to the battle

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Robinxen: Author please... this did not add to the mood of the scene at all!

Robinxen: So that’s the setup.