54 Night Parade of One Hundred Oni Every Four Days Part 4? (2/2)

”…Ugh, even if I'm at fault, I also don't want to get hurt, so I'm sorry for my retaliation.” I said as I bring out my Light Jewel.

'Do I reflect it back? No, let's just fight normally like always. I figured out that Reflect doesn't really work with stronger opponent lately, also, I got a feeling that Yuyuko will work around it and somehow by pass it, which is a simple solution once you knew the trick.' I thought.

”Ha!” She thrust her hand fan forward, creating barrage of beams.

'Calculate the trajectory, predict the beam power.' I release barrage of beams of my own.

The clash between our beam barrage happened, and they canceled each other out.

Yuyuko waved her hand fan, creating another barrage with more beam from before.

'Repeat the calculation. Increase the beam power to overpowered Yuyuko's beam.'

The beams clashes and they all cancel each other out once again.

'Looks like she has the same idea.'

Yuyuko send another wave of beams with butterflies mixed in her attack.

'Stop beam clashing, mana pool different, eventually will lose, start dodging her attack, also, destroys the butterfly.'

I changed the Jewel into Light Saber mode and with a little bit of foot work I dodge her beam while slashing at the incoming butterflies.

'I guess I was wrong about the butterfly being the tell tale of her ability activation, those butterfly are Danmaku, a butterfly shaped Danmaku.'

After I deal with her attack, she shot another wave of her attack, but since I don't want to deal with it again, I chose to teleport way above her head.

'Plunging Attack!'

When I'm thinking that she doesn't know what will hit her, flocks of Butterflies Danmaku suddenly appear and they immediately heading towards me.

”You think that will stop me?!”

With adding my mana into the mix, I make the Light Saber thrice bigger than its normal size, and I cleave through the butterflies straight into the ground.

I search for Yuyuko, and there she is, standing just outside of my enchanted Light Saber slash range, and she's already prepared for another one of her barrage.

'Must stick close to her, based on knowledge, ranged attack are nightmarish, but her melee attack are terrible!'

I start rushing toward her position.

When she shot beams, I immediately jumped over it, but then the butterflies start coming from all direction. I Vector Change my whole body to move more forward. I slash all the butterflies in front of me before pointing my other palm behind me to Light Shotgun Blast everything in there.

I look at Yuyuko, and she already creating more space between us by going backward before I even landed on the ground.

'She's kiting me. Good strategy for her, but bad for me. I gotta do something.'

Kiting, a terminology that used by gaming community to refers to keeping an enemy chasing you while also keeping it at a range where it cannot attack you, just like playing with kite. Primarily used by ranged character to defeat a melee character, which is what Yuyuko currently doing right now. The only way to break this strategy is to hinder the kiter movement (this is impossible right now) or the kiter target suddenly has increase in movement speed.

Enchant: Speed, Enchant: Reflex.

I zoomed quickly to Yuyuko's direction as soon as I touch the ground.

With surprised look knowing how quickly I suddenly move, she sent another flocks of butterfly to slow me down.

Of course, like before, I make my Light Saber bigger again and wipe them all out.

'Ugh~, I need to finish this quickly, 5 more of this and I'm out. It might sound I still have a lot, but it's not.' I thought.

I sense something coming from behind me. I turn my body to slash at it, and it revealed to be a single butterfly.

”Distraction in front and then a surprise attack from the back?”

I look toward Yuyuko and she starts moving off road, toward the sea of trees.

”No, all of those are distraction so that she could get away.” I chased after her.

From here on, the fight become more annoying.

Butterflies everywhere, butterflies in the Yuyuko's path, butterflies behind the trees, butterflies around the corner, second butterflies behind the first butterflies.

Just when I decided to just tank the hit to go faster, mines start appearing, a pink floating explosive bubble. When it first appeared, I tried to jump over it, but then it immediately exploded.

Right now, I'm manually denoting the mine using my own Danmaku while slashing at the butterflies; occasionally some of the butterflies took the hit for the mine, making me have to take the

roundabout way that Yuyuko already prepared to further slow me down.

I guess the annoyingness balance out with 'she's done when I catch her'.

For the first time, after what I feel like hours chasing after Yuyuko, I see a giant tree ahead of her.

”Fufu~” she just giggled before phasing through the giant tree.

'Pincer attack.'

I create a Danmaku in my other hand. I throw it and make it path curved along the right side of the tree while I went to its left side.

'Please at least make her stop for mo-??!!'

When I saw the other side of the tree, I'm really surprised. There's nobody there. My Danmaku just fly harmlessly in the air until it hit another tree.

”Wha-Don't tell me!” I quickly turn toward the big tree.

A hand came out from the tree and it pointing its finger at me. A thin beam came out from the finger and I barely dodge it by diving in to the ground.

”I missed~” Yuyuko came out from the big tree and proceed to run away once again.

”AN-NO-YING!!” I got up and start chasing her with renewed vigor.

We continue our chasing sequence until we finally arrived on a clearing.

Cherry Blossom Sign ”Saigyou Cherry Blossom Blizzard”

She used her spell card.

A big ethereal background picture opened up behind Yuyuko while she's up in the air.

From the ethereal background picture, came out cherry blossoms like Danmaku that flutter around Yuyuko like a blizzard. It really stinks when the petal touched your body, but it doesn't matter. This is the end. SHE STOPS RUNNING AWAY.

I start my stance. I reel in my arm that holds the Light Saber, and I stretch my other hands toward Yuyuko.

I endure the cherry blossoms while I start condensing more energy into the Light Saber.

She looks skeptical at what I'm doing but she still didn't move from her position.

'Do you think I can only make it bigger?! You're wrong! I also could make it longer!! AND IT SOUND SO WRONG DAMMIT!!'

One Point 'Single Thrust'

I launch my charged up attack by doing a thrusting motion, it create a slim but dense beam that penetrate all the cherry blossoms, and it hit straight to Yuyuko's body.

”Ugh!” Yuyuko groan, her spell card end, everything vanished and Yuyuko starting to fall.

'…Did she seriously falling? She's seriously falling!!' I start running to catch her.

Since its look like I'll barely made it, I slide on the ground to make it in time and use my whole body to cushion her fall.

It's mysterious, even though she's a ghost, I can still feel her weight on top of my body.

”Y-Yuyuko-san, are you okay?! I'm not hurting you that badly right?!” I said worriedly.

Yuyuko slowly get up from my body to look at me.

She's pouting.

'CUTE! Wait, no, stop pouting! '

”…This is cruel, this is supposed to be your punishment so why am I the one who's losing?”

”I…Well…I'm sorry.” even thought I feel annoyed at her moments ago, what she said was correct, so I can't rebuked to her.

”If I can't punish you, then I'll order someone who can.”

”Hm?”

”Yuyuko-sama!”

Another challenger appeared! It's Youmu.

Author Note:

Heyo, Author! I finally finish this chapter. Yuyuko's character is a nightmare to write. So I choose the easy way out, which is telling her background story.

I'm actually surprised with the story behind Saigyou Ayakashi, I never knew about it until I read Yuyuko's bio in Perfect Memento in Strict Sense, the info about the tree origin actually wrote in there, not in the Yuyuko's or the Tree's wiki page.