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High School Hack and Slash Chapter 176 Part 1

Rescue Operation

―― Territory『Onimenurakyo, Greater Palace』 ――

―― countdown: 07:18:00:59 ――

 

「Happy New Year.」

I don’t dislike this barefaced, New Year’s greeting.

It feels very Japanese.

「Like I told you, it’s not the time for such a thing, isn’t it?!」

Riru-san, putting her hands on her hips, throws in a retort.

I think greetings are important.

Nonetheless, I guess this is not the situation to be having a leisurely conversation.

「We, too, have a lot of things we’d like to ask over here, but… I mean, why do you have two onis with you?」

「Actually.」

「Moreover, quite the cute and sexy female onis you’ve got there. The usual harem members are also nowhere to be seen, which means, you’re dragging around the onis girls you raped after losing your mind, aren’t you? You pervert, rape demon! Natural brute list!」

She disses me with great vigor.

She’s the type of person my socially inept self is not very good with.

And then, the feeling that it’s too late for Kotarou-kun, who twists his hips with delight at the words: cute and sexy.

「Riru-chan, calm down a bit. We do need to exchange information, but if you speak too loudly, they will find us.」

「Ah. Y, you’re right.」

「Yeah, we certainly need to talk about it.」

Since I don’t need the title of『rape demon』 or anything like that.

But still, this place is in the middle of enemy territory, so to speak.

It’s not a place to have a chat calmly.

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「Alright.」

If you don’t have it, all you have to do is secure it.

Boldly and openly, we visited the estate and physically conquered it as it was.

It seems to be the estate of Somethingkuma-douji, so I feel no sense of guilt either.

There were about five general onis, but they’ve all been rendered unconscious, just inches away from death.

However, we can’t take our time too much since Tatsuya and Riru-san have let the guy who seems to be the gatekeeper return from death.

If the resurrection point is located in this oni capital, I get the feeling that he’ll be back soon.

「… So you suppress onis like it’s only natural, huh.」

Riru-san’s making an exasperated look on her face, but even Tatsuya can do it against this level of opponents.

The high-ranked onis should probably have joined the hiking corps.

Although you can’t call it deserted, I think the force inside the city has been reduced drastically.

「Err, we’ve locked up all the female onis in the warehouse.」

As Tatsuya turns his gaze away and scratches his cheek, Riru gives him the stink eye.

「We don’t have much time, you know? Really, geez.」

It seems that just like me, Riru-san is a feminist.

On the other hand, Tatsuya and Kotarou-kun seem to be sexists.

Specifically, there was a conflict of opinion between us, who wanted to make the oni girls living in the manor physically lose consciousness equally, and them, who proposed to discriminate sexually.

「No, no, no. I mean, forget hitting them and the like, they fainted just from having you approach them after all, Touma.」

「The visual of you trying to calmly land the finishing blow, it’s just, you know, right….」

「There is a misunderstanding here.」

I try raising an objection to Tatsuya and Kotarou-kun, who are showing distant eyes.

Pretending to be dead or fainting to launch a surprise attack is a basic strategy.

Whether it’s true or false, making them physically lose consciousness is faster and easier.

In other words, I believe me and Riru-san are right.

「Hmph. I don’t want to hear any excuses. More importantly, let’s share our respective information now!」

The case where I got betrayed out of the blue.

As expected, she’s the type of person I’m not very good with.

Tatsuya, smiling bitterly, holds Riru-san back and opens his mouth.

「Now then, let’s start with our situation. When our party raided in to this Onigashima—」

There is no conference room that can be used for the meeting.

So we’re casually sitting in a circle in a Japanese-style room facing the engawa.

The buildings in the capital of the onis are all old-fashioned Japanese style.

They look like the set of a period drama with a lived-in feel to it.

For the time being, to summarize the story of Tatsuya and Riru-san, they participated in the quest『Onigokko』 with the same five party members as in the『Marvel World』 raid.

During the raid dive through Rashomon, a slight problem occurred.

They wound up going in with the members split up, on top of that, the place where they logged in was not the safe area, but right in the middle of this oni capital.

They were close to getting captured by the onis who were there as if lying in wait for them.

There, although Tatsuya and Riru-san succeeded in escaping, Honami-san was captured by the onis and kept in captivity.

As for Shinnosuke-kun and Yuka-san, they’re missing, something like that.

「Hmm. In our case… Kotarou-kun, I’m leaving it to you.」

「Huh. I, I understand. I’ll do the explanation.」

Rather my poor talker self, Kotarou-kun is better suited to do the explanation.

Besides, it’s similar to the situation Kotarou-kun has raided in to.

I, too, was sent to the face of the homo oni samurai, let alone to the safe area, after all… it sure is too buggy in a lot of ways.

Well, it seems that Rashomon is a fairly old facility, so it must be a malfunction due to aging.

「Yes. Sorry, how should I put it… To the last part, I cease to be able to understand the meaning of it all at once.」

Riru-san, who is closing her eyes, is rubbing her brow as if she was enduring a headache.

「The part where Shiho-san is being held captive is, well, okay. And the part about that oni girl over there named Momiji, well, it’s okay, too, I guess. But around the part where you became Kotarou-ku… san(?), my brain refused to comprehend it.」

「Do perceive it with your feeling.」

「You, who reek of the main culprit, aren’t one to say that, no?」

「No, but…」

「No buts nor shits!」

Kuh, she sure is tough.

「N, now, now, Riru-chan. But I more or less get the gist of it. In short, you guys infiltrated this oni capital to rescue your friend, too, right, Touma?」

「Yeah.」

I get the feeling that she’s not my friend or anything, but she more or less is a classmate of mine.

「I didn’t realize it at the time, but, Kotarou-san, that means you guys were also present at the place where we raided in, huh.

「That’s because we got caught so easily… But I do remember that the other onis were fighting against something.」

「Looks like there’s no mistaking it now. As expected, I wonder if we raided in to the same place or something like that?」

「It’s too convenient for coincidence, isn’t it? It feels as if they had been lying in wait for us all along to catch us in a trap.」

The three of them, who are looking at each other, are floating grave expressions on their faces.

Momiji is doing things at her own pace, though, leaning against Kotarou-kun’s back.

Well, the rescue targets gathering in one place is a good thing.

「The point is, all we have to do is rescue them all together, right?」

「Huh, once again, you’re making it sound so easy, but….」

「Besides, we don’t have time to dally around.」

Using the Item Box as a sheath, I iai-draw Bhaudhara.

「So you’re still here, you bastards!!」

Bursting through the hedge of the estate is a single, obviously furious oni.

It’s hard to distinguish his beet red face.

However, he’s probably the one that Tatsuya and Riru-san previously took down.

The single blade of the thrown Bhaudhara penetrates the oni’s guts.

Or rather, the torso bursts open.

As the scattered limbs turn into phosphorescence disappear, he once again returns from death.

As I thought, looks like the resurrection point is located somewhere in this capital.

Catching Bhaudhara, which comes back to me like a radio-controlled toy, I stand up as it is.

「Looks like time’s up. The time for stealthily sneaking around and hiding is over.」

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