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High School Hack and Slash Chapter 173 Part 2

「Kuha!」

I despise launching a surprise attack, but what an enjoyable act a surprise attack is.

I snap my fingers and turn my head.

「Kuhaha.」

「N, not good. Wait, Touma-kun. Please!」

「Hindrances are….」

「T, there’s a girl. It’s not a smart move to get her caught up in it. It’s against my policy.」

He grabs me by the shoulders with a look of desperation on his face.

If he’s going to put his policy at stake, then I have no choice but to take a step back.

「… Hmm. Then what to do?」

「Huff, huff. Do leave it to me. Let me show you the secret arts of the yin and yang.」

He brushes his bangs up and takes a katashiro (paper doll used in purification rites) from the butt pocket of his damaged pants.

Somehow, it looks like he’s going to fight using playing cards or something as a weapon.

Kotarou-kun seems to be getting in tune as well.

The tension is nicely going off the rails.

He holds up the three talismans held between his fingers in front of his face and chants the trigger words.

「Kyuu kyuu nyo ritsuryo (emergency administrative and civil code). O faithful shikigami of mine, come forth here.」

With a puff, the talismans burst and a single rabbit appears in front of Kotarou-kun.

Like a caricature of birds and wild animals, the rabbit looks like one drawn with a brush.

It feels like it would go on a sumo match against a frog.

「Listen well, okay? Here is the plan. First, my shikigami will restrain the oni that is raping the girl. As for the other oni, I don’t think my shikigami alone will be enough to stop it. So, while my shikigami is drawing their attention, I want you to finish the oni off, Touma-kun.」

「I see.」

「Even my shikigami shouldn’t be able to stop his movement for that long. But if it’s one-on-one, Touma-kun, you won’t have a hard time against an oni. Am I right?」

「Yeah.」

I think I can instant-kill them even if it’s not a one-on-one battle, but as far as strategy is concerned, it’s not bad.

Besides, it’s a good way of putting things, one that makes people feel like it.

「Now, o shikigami of mine. Let’s start the operation.」

Rabbit-kun jumps out of the bushes and hops toward the checkpoint.

It’s a fair and square frontal assault.

At a glance, Rabbit-kun looks like a doodle, but the possibility of it possessing some special abilities is not completely unthinkable.

I even feel that it has a critical correction just because of its attribute as a rabbit.

Let’s have it show us, the power of the so-called Shikigami.

*Pomf pomf* Rabbit-kun, having reached the feet of the onis, begins to launch rabbit punches.

But there is no change in the onis’ state.

The oni holding the female, who is only about half his height, is pounding, screwing the buttocks he is holding.

They are so different in size that it looks like he’s playing with a doll.

The way he’s holding the female’s buttocks with both hands and rocking them back and forth in front of his crotch is akin to someone masturbating using an onahole.

The other oni is sitting on a stump and having big gulps from the gourd-like tube in his mouth.

Amazing, no reaction at all.

Is it a stealth type ability, or is it a specialized assassination skill that disrupts perception?

「Ah.」

It’s the seated oni that grabs up Rabbit-kun, which has been punching at his feet, before then swallowing it whole as he is.

What a gallant end.

*Crunch crunch* The oni that has been chewing on Rabbit-kun begins to roll while letting out a scream.

「Phew. As I thought, onis sure have low intelligence. For him to eat my white pepper rabbit without even suspecting it!」

When Kotarou-kun, with a smug look on his face, snaps his fingers, the giant centipede that has been crawling through the grass and drawing nearer to them twines around the rape oni.

With a flutter of its wings, a doodle raven rams into the oni’s face as he lets go of the female he’s holding.

The female, who is attached to his waist only by the member that’s crammed into her, is shaken off by the rampaging oni.

「Now, Touma-kun! Use this chance….」

That’s a splendid show of carrying out one’s words.

In that case, I should do my part, too.

I jump out from the forest edge and attack the checkpoint.

First, I step on the head of the writhing oni.

Then, I thrust a stabbing hand into the back of the oni that’s tearing the giant centipede twining around him to pieces.

Without even realizing that they are dead, both of their husks get reduced to miasma.

「Haa, haa… Mission Complete. Phew, all according to my plan.」

「Yeah.」

Kotarou-kun, running up to me, combs down his hair.

It certainly is according to plan, but what’s the plan for this one, I wonder?

「The girl is also, safe…ly?」

In front of the female who is plopped down on the ground with her buttocks exposed, Kotarou-kun’s smile stiffens up.

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―― Territory『The Wailing Forest』 ――

―― countdown: 08:15:10:59 ――

「… U, um, Touma-kun?」

「Yeah.」

「T, this, what should we do with this one?」

Hell if I know.

As far as I’m concerned, my plan is to get extra experience points out of that one.

On the back of Kotarou-kun, a two-horned oni girl is clinging to him.

The horns protruding from both sides of her head are swirling horns that look like hair accessories.

Curling horns like that of a goat.

Well, it’s that.

Kotarou-kun’s looks are that of a fair and delicate, or rather, innocent-looking boy.

I, on the other hand, often get frightened looks.

In fact, perhaps frightened too, the oni girl is hiding behind Kotarou-kun’s back.

「My recommendation is either to cut the neck or stab the heart.」

「She’ll die either way, right, if we follow that recommendation?!」

I suggested methods that’d spare her from pain, though.

At Kotarou’s level range, even a single oni would serve as a substantial nourishment.

Somehow, I think he’s too influenced by appearances.

As a feminist, I would recommend exterminating them equally, whether they are male or female onis.

「If you can’t, feel free to leave it to me. Just close your eyes for a sec.」

「Sto, wai, a sec. Please wait, c, calm down.」

I’d like to tell him to calm down himself.

It seems that when someone gets their pace thwarted, their character development will collapse.

「I, I’ll take responsibility and take care of this girl, so c, can I ask you to overlook her?」

He puts out his hands and bows his head.

She’s not a kitten in a cardboard box, though.

Kotarou-kun’s class is of the『Arts User (Magi)』 branching, not the『Officer』 branching, which employs monsters.

In the first place, only monsters that have turned into cards can be summoned and employed.

Not a boob-jiggling flesh-and-blood oni girl like that one.

「Well. If you’re fine with that, then I don’t mind.」

「I, I see. Worry not. In the face of my technique, even if the other party is an oni girl, she’ll be as good as a baby. Phew.」

If she attacks us, I’ll simply turn the table on her right then and there.

The oni girl, too, seems to know the difference in our prowess (level), and I bet she understands that Kotarou-kun is protecting her.

If it were me, I would kill her.

But if Kotarou-kun can’t live with that, then so be it.

I just hope he won’t regret it later.

「It would be a shame to kill such a cute girl, hahaha. No, it’s not like I have some wicked thoughts or anything, yes. Her having big boobs has nothing to do with it, either. I’m popular to a certain extent myself, and I’ve even formed relationships with a number of girls. My point is, I’ve long graduation from the snotty boy I was that would be tempted by a woman’s sex appeal. Phew.」

It seems that when someone has a guilty conscience, they’ll become a jabbermouth.

Or rather, so annoying.

「Well then, I’ll be your… ah, err, your name is….」

「Probably 』Momiji (autumn leaves)』. That’s all I can think of.」

「Yes, you have a good naming sense. It’s a perfect name for this girl. Is that okay with you? Momiji.」

Kotarou-kun turns around and puts a tuft of her autumn leaf-colored hair on his palm.

There’s no reaction from the oni girl who is going along without resistance.

If I may add, she remains completely naked.

She’s a big-breasted oni girl, with a boob’s size that seems able to easily land on an E.

There’s a pink-colored crest painted in the area beneath her belly button.

It’s what people would call a『lewd crest』.

She’s staring fixedly at Kotarou, but it doesn’t seem like she’s going to attack him.

「For the time being, I think she needs something to wear. Her current appearance is a little too stimulating.」

We should look for a pair of tiger-striped panties and a bra or something.

I try to rummage through the checkpoint casually.

Besides the log-pitched fence wall, all there’s to it is an oni-size hut.

Even if it’s a checkpoint, or perhaps a fortress, it’s unclear what this facility is designed to prevent.

At the very least, it’s not a defense facility designed for invasion from us humans.

「I think it’s probably a countermeasure against the monsters living in the forest. There was this unbelievably huge, strange-looking spider, you see.」

「Hou.」

It’s probably an Ushi-oni (gyuuki).

They’re an outstanding food source, so they seem to travel all over the place.

They have『oni』 in their name, so I guess it’s not at all surprising if they also exist in Onigashima, huh.

And then, if there’s such a checkpoint here, the town of onis should lie at the end of the road ahead.