29 Arah use Sweet Scent, its super effective (2/2)

”But in reality, they are doing it right now”

”Hm.” I hum in agreement. ”The Tengu are an organized group, they only move when they were commanded by their superior, the Tenma as they called it.”

”…You, since when did you knew how the Tengu works?” Reimu ask in curiosity.

”Good question, 'Uniformed clothes', 'As per Lord Tenma order', 'Captain', 'Formation', I hear some of the Tengu said those words, all of those are the clue for what their military looks like, and all I did was just guess it. Honestly, it's nothing to be surprised about; we have the same thing in outside world.”

”…I see.” she accepted my reasoning.

”But still, thank you for the warning; I'll look out for them from now on.”

”Your welcome.” Reimu nodded.

With that I stay until the 3 hour mark going off.

-Evening, My House-​

I appear inside my own House.

”Oh my god, I can't believe I never think about that place.” I face palm myself. ”My life should be easier if my guess is right, but of course as I say that my life wouldn't get easier than this.”

I sense many things surrounding the house, many Youkai.

”Are they actually waiting for me outside? Are they really that stubborn to getting back at me? …Wait, 'getting back at me?'...The Tengu?” I raised my eyebrow.

'Only one way to find out.'

I open up the side slide door.

”THERE HE IS!! I WAITED FOR YOU YOUNG ONI SLAYER!!”

I immediately greeted with a booming voice.

I use Thought Acceleration to making sense with what I saw.

Groups of Tengu splattered on the ground while another trembling Tengu drinking with someone that's clearly not a Tengu.

That someone is a young man that has a blond hair, there's a single horn sprouting at the side of its head, wearing a gold colored sleeveless Yukata; the sleeves part has an obvious torn design, and a Geta for his footwear.

[Lv.84 Mountain Oni]

'The cause Tengu's strange action. An Oni. Why? Young Oni Slayer. Why? The Katana. How? Saw it. Who? Yukari. Winter. Hibernation. Someone else. Ran. Why? Strange reaction on the first day. Why? Unknown. Take care of the Oni to be first priority.'

Back to normal speed.

”ALL RIGHT YOU LOTS!! EVEN THOUGHT YOUR PEOPLE ARE COWARD, YOU PEOPLE ALSO THE BEST AT TRACKING SOMETHING!! YOU ARE FREE NOW!”

”Y-yes, t-thank you, a-and have nice day, Oyama-s-sama.” the drinking buddy Tengu stutter before wobbling away to the forest.

The other Tengu that's on the ground start standing up while wobbling, they share each other shoulder before booking out into the forest, the other signature that surrounding my house also regrouping to the other Tengu direction.

The Oni decided to continue drinking from his gourd whiles all of this happening.

”Now, it's just the two of us.” he starts to smile.

”Yup, just the two of us indeed.” I step outside from the house.

”You really do have some sweet smell, but I prefer the smell of Sake more. And do you know how boring it is to wait for you to come out? Not that I mind, I have my sake and those lots for my drinking buddy, I just kinda worried that all of them will pass out before you come out from there.” he start to stand up.

”Then wouldn't that mean they will fail their job for not letting me out from my house unnoticed?”

”Hah! Then I can just order them back to track you down!! Everything in that mountain,” he points the Youkai Mountain with his thumb. ”Are our underlying, even if we've moved from there, they still follow our command.”

”I see.”

'His level is higher than me, and he's an Oni, no hesitation or I'll be killed.'

I bring out Doujigiri Yasutsuna. The Katana giving away its aura and it start to sparks in my hand.

”I understand now!! When that paper said something about 'a potential Oni Slayer', it was because of your Katana!!” His smile growing wider

'Paper?'

”It is definitely giving of an unpleasant aura, even for me, an Oni.” He pointed his fist toward me. ”Fight me, Young Human!!”

The katana continue to spark more after the Oni declaring his challenge.

'…Don't tell me this thing is alive.'

This katana, Doujigiri Yasutsuna, the katana of Minamoto No Raikou, I only know a little tid bit information about it. It was forged from pure lightning; it was used by its master to behead the Shuten Douji, the famous Oni in its time because the constant kidnapping they did to the Human, that's all, it's definitely not because Shuten Douji also become a servant in FGO, I knew it purely from history, everyone that denied it is a liar.

'Okay, time to be serious.'

I unsheathed the blade.

”Young human, Arah.”

I whipped the blade aside, creating an arc of lighting in its path.

”Mountain Oni, Dorokin Oyama.”

He's doing a sumo pose, he lift one leg, and slam it to the ground.

*BOM*

The ground shakes, the dirt flying into the air, and he create a wind pressure just from his stomp.

'…Very serious.'

I show him the Katana sheet.

”When this hit the ground, we will start our fight.”

”No problem.” he said smugly.

I throw it to the side.

'Live 'True Damage' Experiment, No Mercy.' I though.

Though Acceleration.

3 second until it land on the ground.

Calculating all possible teleportation angles.

2.5 second.

Calculate every possible slash angles.

2 second.

Calculating his entire counter to my opening attack.

1.5 second.

Create all scenarios based on his entire counter attack.

1 second.

Continuing calculating all created scenario.

0.5 second.

'…Wait, if he's killed then Ran probably gonna get punished by Yukari, then what about Chen, poor Chen probably gonna get thrown out because of her Master failure, we absolutely can't have that.'

0.25 second.

Erasing all scenarios that resulting him dying.

0 second.

*Thud*

I immediately teleport behind him.

*Slash*

'So light, almost no resistant.'

I teleport again to his front, the timing is perfect as he turn his body to try hitting my previous position using his forearm.

I slash deep at his left leg, the leg separated from the body.

'No resistant from the bone.'

He starts to fall from not having one of his legs.

Teleport.

Vector Change the slash direction to continuing its path and faster slashing speed to his other leg.

Legless Oni.

He's in shock.

Utilizing Teleport and Vector Change to immediately making him lose his arms.

Quadruple Amputated Oni.

He starts screaming and flailing his amputated limb.

I immediately touch his body and prevent his body from dying of blood loss by assisting his blood circulation using Vector Change.

I create Telekinesis Barrier around his head to shut him out.

After a while, he passed out from the shock.

I start patching him up while he's still out cold.

I bring his arms and legs closer using Telekinesis, I connect them back using [Bandage(Regenerative Enchantment)], all of them cost 800 IP.

After I finish, I start to relax and sit a feet away from him.

I look at the color of the sky, it's still orange.

”Less than 10 second, that fights only last less than 10 second…*sigh* Can that even be called a fight to begin with?” I ask no one.

I look at the bloodied ground, bloodied hands, and the unconscious Oni.

'…Now, what the fuck do I tell him after he wakes up? I think his pride pretty much gone after what happened.' I though.

After a few minutes, the Oni wakes up while I'm in the middle of brain storming.

Now both of us staring at each other eyes, his eyes are glaring, while mine is normal.

'No homo please.'

”…Why? Why did you let me live? Why didn't you kill me? Aren't you an Oni Slayer?”

Times up, no more excuse thinking, he's already asking.

'…Fuck it, let's be shameless.' I decided. ”Straight to the point, I see.” I folded my arms. ”I strongly believed that the key to become stronger is if we have a rival in life. Me.” I point to myself. ”Oni.” I point at him. ”We are rival, instead of killing each other, we strive to become stronger by fighting each other, no more killing, and it's a waste of people and potential to fight enjoyable fight.”

He narrowed his eyes.

”That fight was not what I called enjoyable.”

”You lose because of two reason. One,” I raised one finger at him. ”I'm testing this Katana, it was super effective to your kind, but it definitely making the fight not enjoyable to anyone, so I'm not gonna use it in the future. And then there's reason number two.” I raised one more finger at him.

I grin, I grin so wide that I feel I might split my own face.

”You are weak.”

I can see his vein start appearing on his head, his eyes turn bloodshot, his muscle turn tense, and he grit his own teeth.

”…I see, I'm weak is it?” he said with definite trace of holding back anger.

”Definitely.” I said still with my shit eating grin.

He start to standing up, I immediately follow his example.

He trusts his fist to my direction. ”Next time, just you wait, I will win next time.” he said with full determination before stomping his way into the forest.

I keep watching until he disappeared from my view.

'No need to clear away the misunderstanding, I need real threat for my training, and he fit the bills perfectly, but because of that, I lost my chance to ask how he knew about me.'

I sigh.

'I hate this challenge.' I thought as I walk back into the house.

Author note:

...I genuinely feel triggered when I'm typing this shit.

Yo, Author here. I think I kinda bullshit the fight with the Oni, but meh, I did gave True Damage Enchantment to the Katana, and it's been a while since Arah fight anything, so why not go all out using his abilities.