Chapter 115 - #114 Mount Hakuba 3 (2/2)

”?!” Cornelia felt threatened and instantly darted towards Najasho to interrupt whatever he was doing.

When she was close enough, she threw a punch towards Najasho's face, intending to punch off his whole head but Najasho's closed eyes suddenly opened and his growing hair suddenly reverted back to original state.

”I am sorry, Cornelia.” He said and slashed with his buried broadsword in an upward motion, making quite deep cut across the entire Cornelia's body. The cut was indeed deep from the outside look but Najasho avoided any vitals and since she was raised in the wildness, she shouldn't bleed out unless she keeps fighting. Her toughness was probably the second-best in the entire group right after Gai.

”Huh?” *Thud* She looked at Najasho with a confused expression before she dropped down on the ground with her back first.

”?! Fuck, Suzak-” Mudi instantly panicked since he didn't think that Najasho would cut down his own friend.

”Too late!” Mudi only heard Najasho's voice nearing him at an incredible speed.

When Najasho was close enough, Mudi's scared expression suddenly disappeared and was replaced by a twisted smile as he took a gun from behind his back and shot at Najasho at point-blank range.

*Bang*

However, instead of getting shot in the head, Najasho leaned forward, dodging the bullet just by a few centimeters and then he swung his blade from above his head in a vertical arc, intending to split Mudi into two halves.

*Splash* ”GYAA!” Mudi screamed when he put his hand in front of him to protect himself but his hand was cut off which resulted in Najasho's slash to lose its effectivity. He was unable to cut him into two halves but instead, he cut off his right hand and made not too deep cut on his ċhėst.

Despite failing to kill him on first try, Najasho simply followed with another slash in an upward motion.

*Whoosh!* However before his sword could make contact with Mudi's body, a wind vortex has blown him a few meters away from Mudi.

Najasho regained his balance and looked at the attacked just to see Cornelia standing in front of Mudi without caring for her injury.

'She can still move with that injury? She is killing herself by standing and moving around so much. Should I wait until father or Green's group come to help us or should I transform right away and try to break through this encirclement.' Despite feeling furious at how his comrade was being used and controlled, he still kept his nonchalant expression on his face.

”You fuċker, I will get you for this. How unfortunate that your comrade will die when I die so be careful about planning your next attack. If you think that by killing me, you will free her, you are extremely wrong, haha!” Mudi quickly used his clothes to stop bleeding before he started cursing at Najasho and then laughing like a madman.

Najasho looked at Poney's situation just to see her getting upper hand over her opponent but she still had to be careful not to get shot from the point-blank range.

'Even if we will defeat them, we will have to face thousands of bandits afterward. This situation is bad...even if others will come to help, all we can do is to retreat.' Najasho was hesitating what to do in such a situation but after a very short moment of having his eyes closed, when he opened them, there was a new resolve and decisiveness.

”Poney! Go and get Tsukushi!” Najasho shouted with a stern tone and Poney despite being confused didn't even ask anything and just simply followed his instructions. She distanced herself from Mashiro and she, on the other hand, was angered that her enemy was retreating from her so she started shooting at her once again.

Cornelia once again sensed that sense of dread and she tried to interrupt Najasho once again like before but despite not caring for her own injury, her body definitely cared and didn't let her move as fast as before.

This gave Najasho enough of time to complete his transformation and his hair became much longer and his pupils became slit, eyes resembling that of a dragon. He kicked Cornelia to her side in the location that wouldn't worsen her bleeding any further while making it look like he wasn't hesitating to hurt her at all.

Poney kept dodging bullets until she got close enough to Tsukushi but while she was getting her onto her back, she was at the most vulnerable state.

”I won't let you!” Mashiro shouted and sent numerous shots aiming at her non-vital spots which only showed that she was dead set on torturing them.

'This is getting out of hand!' Suzaku thought when he observed the entire fight. He quickly issued a command to get ready for an attack in case they try to run away.

”What?!” Mashiro and others were shocked by his new speed and not only his speed of traveling but also his speed of handling his sword. Everything about him became at least twice faster and maybe even stronger in raw strength.

”...Let's go!” Although Najasho wanted to at least kill one of them, he knew that he should focus all his energy on escaping together with Poney and injured Tsukushi since his transformation can hold on only for a few minutes.