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Volume 5 Trouble File First Half Part 7

No matter how you looked at it, it was a declaration of war that could not be taken back.

And that was the day when The Seven Great Sages have been branded as The Seven Great Demon Lords. They threw away everything they have achieved until this point, all of the things that they have slowly accumulated like the small embers added into the bonfires of their legends, all for the sake of the bond that they shared between themselves. Now all that was left for them was guiding all of the non-humans and those who have been abandoned by the heavens in their rebellion against them.

They knew that this was a path that would one day lead them towards destruction. They knew that the only way they could go from there was down, without any possibility of ever climbing back up. When the looked up into the sky they realized how painfully far away from them they were now, and when they sometime tried to reach out towards them with their hands, they were soon realizing that their hand could not grasp them anymore, drowning in the abyss of ever-expanding darkness below them instead. But even so. . . even in the situation what would drive most to despair and madness with how hopeless it was, The Seven Great Sages kept on believing that what they did was the right thing to do, and that the bond that they have shared between each other was an unbreakable one that would surely be able to withstand the test of time.

Their seven flags floating against the vastness of the blue sky above them. That was the scenery that each and every one of them etched in their hearts and burned in their minds, swearing that they are not going to forget it for as long as their bodies continued to draw breath. Because if they are going to remember both that scenery and the feelings that drove them to do what they have done, they were certain that the flame of determination that was burning in their hearts would never go out, no matter how unsightly of an end was waiting for them at the end of the road they were now locked on, and that they will never regret the choice they made on that day when they turned themselves into the enemies of the heavens.

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By the time when Shuten Douji finished telling his story, most of the audience that gathered around him was already too drunk to be paying attention to what he was saying or so smashed that they ended up passing out or falling asleep wherever they were sitting, but to be honest, the sight around Shuten Douji and the problem children was more reminiscent of the piles of corpses rather than anything else. Even Kasukabe You, who was known as the biggest glutton in the {No Name} Community and quite possibly in the entire East Side, and Kudou Asuka, who was resisting and enduring the effects of the alcohol that wa slowly accumulating itself inside of her over the course of the story, were now shaking from one side to the other and looked like they were about to topple over to the ground as well.

「Oi, ladies. You know that you do not have to force yourself to keep going, right? If you want, or if you feel like you cannot do this anymore, you are more than welcome to call it a day and fall asleep.」

「Fall ashleeph~~ . . . ? And why would I do that~~ . . . ? I am not shleepy at all~~. . . you are the one whose shleepy ‘ere~~. . . 」

「I am alsho feeling all. . .  all right. Fantashtic even, I would shay. And more impornatntly *hic* thish Jshade Emperor guy. . . he ish shuch a shchuphid jerk. . .  and I will never forgive him for what he hash done! Shun Wukhong really ish not a bad person, and yet… and yet he dared to trample all over the bond between her and her shworn brothersh! Thish. . . thish ish. . . . thish ish jusht too shad. . . ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !」

*GULP* *GULP* *GULP* *GULP* Asuka continued to drink her sake while shedding many crocodile tears. All signs on heaven an earth seemed to be pointing to her already being completely drunk, and yet it would seem that she herself did not realize that at all.

On the other hand, You also looked like she was about to reach her limit.

「. . . Hey, Izayoiiiii~~~ Come sit here next to me for a sec~~」

*Pat Pat* You said while patting the space next to her. Or rather, extremely close to her.

「*Sigh* I told you it is okay for you to go to sleep. I will carry you to your room later.」

「Nooooo~~~! ! ! ! ! ! I said I want you to sit right next to me and I mean it~~ ! ! ! ! ! ! !」

*Bang Bang!* *Bang *Bang!* This time You did not pat the space next to her. She banged on it pretty hard.

「No, Kasukabe, listen. As I was saying. . . . 」

*BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!*

「Okay, all right, Jesus Christ woman, I get it, I get it! Sorry, I was the one in the wrong here. I am coming, see?」

Seeing as You was about to cry while banging on the spot next to her so much and so hard that there was a real danger of her literally banging a hole through it, Izayoi had no choice but to go along with her demands. Just like he thought, dealing with girls who are the crying type of drunks might have been too much even for someone like him. Sighing heavily, he sat right next to You, exactly as she requested, and when he did that, she immediately placed her head on his lap.

「Yay~~! Izayoi’s lap pillow obtained~~! So nice and cool. . . . z z z z z z z z z z z z z z. . . .」

「Oi.」

「*Inhale*. . . *Exhale*. . .  z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z . . . 」

「 「Z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z」 my ass! Do not think that I do not see you are making those snoring sounds yourself! You are not sleeping at all, so get your head off my lap now that you had your fun with it!」

「No waaaay~~ I am sleeping~~ Most definitely sleeping~~ Sleeping so resolutely and firmly that no one is going to wake me up from it~~~」

「G A H A H A H A H A H A H A H A! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! So you are doing a lap pillow play now?! Very well then! Girl, you should get in on the fun while you still can yourself! Here, I will give you a hand, so go ahead and lie down!」

Shuten Douji gave Asuka a light push on the arm, and she slowly fell onto Izayoi lap on the other side of him as well.