498 Demon Fox? (2/2)

Nomura nodded and accepted.

Then, without saying anything else, everyone immediately returned to where Seiji and Ya-chan were currently battling.

*Clang!* Seiji received another direct attack that destroyed yet another one of his [Mana Barriers]. He forced himself to receive this attack in order to slay his opponent. Seiji then immediately retreated in order to dodge the other zombie girls' attacks.

There were only a few zombie girls remaining.

'I'll take care of these mobs and then retreat and meet up with everyone else.' Just as he was thinking so, a new group of zombie girls appeared!

Three of the zombie girls in the new group were wearing helmets. The two walking in front were both wielding sickles with a ball and chain attached at the end. These were unique weapons called ”kusarigamas”!

The helmeted zombie girl in the back was not only wearing a helmet, she even wore a majestic armor. Her weapon was a huge horse-slaying sword… no, the proper term was ”odachi”!

Seiji instantly had an ominous premonition when he saw these three zombie girls.

The next moment, the chained balls on both kusarigamas came flying at him!

Seiji blocked one kusarigama with his longsword. However, he failed to dodge the second, which struck him in the shoulder!

It hurt… but he was able to bear the pain.

The other zombie girls took this opportunity to rush him as well! Seiji could only retreat.

The odachi-wielding armored zombie girl speedily rushed towards Ya-chan who was still locked in combat with other zombie girls!

”Ya-chan…”

Seiji wanted to warn the ghost child, but the two kusarigama-wielding zombie girls started attacking him again.

This time, they sent their sickle halves of the kusarigamas flying at him!

Seiji speedily swung his sword and forcefully knocked away the two sickles, blocking the attack successfully.

”…dodge!” He finally finished the warning that he had tried to say before.

However, he was too late.

*Shing!* One sweep of the odachi seemed just like a brilliantly shining crescent moon.

The demon protecting Ya-chan was sliced in half!

”Whoa! So scary!!”

The ghost child rolled on the floor and barely managed to dodge this attack. It then used its hands and feet to speedily scamper away.

The odachi-wielding zombie girl chased after Ya-chan.

Seiji wanted to go and help out the ghost child, but he himself was currently under attack by numerous zombie girls as well.

Just as the odachi-wielding zombie girl reached the ghost child again, a crossbow bolt landed on the masked part of her helmet!

Miyabi had arrived.

She ran over towards them while shooting at high speed with one magical crossbow in each hand!

The odachi-wielding girl used her tremendous sword to block the bolts. She gave up on chasing Ya-chan and instead turned to rush at the person shooting at her!

Matsutani who was running right behind Miyabi cast a sealing magic that successfully hit and stopped the odachi-wielding zombie girl's movements.

However, the odachi-wielding zombie girl roared and instantly dispelled the sealing spell on herself! Not only that, her armor began glowing red, automatically blocking all the magical crossbow bolts!

This zombie girl had a personal barrier magic!?

”Hurry and dodge!” Matsutani shouted to Miyabi when he saw that the odachi-wielding zombie girl had a personal barrier magic and was approaching them at high speed.

However, Miyabi didn't dodge or run away. Instead, she ran up to the odachi-wielding zombie girl!

*Shing!*

There was another crescent moon that appeared with one swing of the odachi's blade.

The fox eared girl was sliced in two… No, that was only her afterimage!

Miyabi flashed right next to the odachi-wielding zombie girl and performed a whirlwind kick that viciously landed a direct blow right on the odachi-wielding zombie girl's head!

The beautiful fox girl jumped in midair, causing her white hair and white tail to flow in the wind… it was quite a beautiful scene which was etched itself deeply into Matsutani's, as well as the slightly farther away Nomura and Yuuko's, minds.

*Boom!*

The armored zombie girl collapsed on the ground with a deafening noise.

The next moment, she backflipped and jumped back on to her feet again! She swept upwards with her odachi at an incredibly high speed!

However, once again, she sliced through nothing but an afterimage.

Miyabi had ducked and used a low horizontal kick that once again knocked the armored zombie girl onto the ground!

The odachi-wielding zombie girl got back up again and used an upward slash followed by a diagonal slash!

She still only hit afterimages.

The fox-eared girl kicked the zombie girl into the ground for the third time in a row. It was clear that she had the solid advantage in melee combat even against such a powerful opponent!