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Nanana’s Buried Treasure Volume 8 Chapter 6.2

Along with his arms and legs, he now had a shackle around his neck.

CLANG CLANG CLANG

The iron shackles trembled, and then began to crack.

「Hmm, this is, this is….」

Not only Shiki, but Yukihime noticed too. Obviously something was wrong.

「Gugyaaaaaa!」

The third form of <<Hekatonkeiru’s shackles>> which is over the limit.

Drooling from his mouth, Masaaki roars like an animal as he crawls along the ground and charges at Shiki. His speed is incomparable to that of the second from.

With a roar, Shiki leapt backwards and raised her arms in an attempt to block. And the sound of bones breaking rang out.

1

The deciding match began in the hanging garden.

Ikusaba firing an arrow of light at one of Sansa’s subordinates was the signal to start the match, and things got moving quickly.

As Sansa’s subordinates started firing their guns, they hurriedly hid behind a nearby flower bed.

Just as I was wondering what to do, something shot up high into the sky. I immediately realized that it was an arrow of light fired by Ikusaba-san, who was hiding in the shadows at a distance, just like me.

It wasn’t just me, but Sansa-san’s subordinates, who had been firing their guns, looked up at the shining arrow that had been shot high into the sky. What is it?

「Scatter!」

I was startled by Sansa-san’s angry voice.

It ended up just being a decoy. When the gunfire stopped for a moment, Ikusaba-san appeared from behind something and shot down some of Sansa-san’s subordinates with the shotgun form.

Sansa-san and her group scattered in a panic and hid behind cover.

And so the exchange of bullets and arrows of light begins. Oh, and by the way, I’m outside the main walkway, hiding behind a flower bed and just staring at the gunfight.

Following Sansa’s instructions (done through hand signals), her subordinates deploy to surround Ikusaba. To prevent Ikusaba from being surrounded, he uses arrows of light to keep them at bay and move away from their cover. They move further and further back.

Suddenly, the gunfire stops.

Then out came the girl with Sansa-san who was dressed in a little devil outfit. With a knife in her hand, the girl jumped over obstacles such as benches and flower beds on the way to Ikusaba, and closed the distance in one charge.

Ikusaba-san fires arrows of light one after another to scare away the approaching monster, but she instantly changes her movement pattern. She is zigzagging from one shadow to another. He is unable to hit the demon girl as she moves at incredible speed.

「Heh, if I know the direction it’s coming from, it’s not scary at all.」

It seemed like she wasn’t dodging arrows that were coming at her, but instead was staring at the release point of the bow and dodging where Ikusba-san was pointing it. What impressive dynamic vision, and judging from her movements, it was easy to imagine that she had undergone some kind of special training.

Ikusaba-san also jumps out from the shadows, readies his <<bow of light>>, and tries to aim while carefully avoiding the barrage of attacks. However, he can only make small adjustments to the aim of the <<bow of light>> as the little demon approaches in a zigzag pattern. While he is unable to fire a single show, the little demon closes in on Ikusaba-san. In the blink of an eye, the distance between them was down to five meters.

「If I get this close, I’ve won.」

She readies her knife as if to say that she’s close enough.

「I see, then ‘don’t move’.」

At that moment, the little demon girl who was about to swing her knife at Ikusaba-san stopped dead in her tracks.

The distance was barely a meter.

「That’s not fair.」

「I agree.」

The little demon girl, who was given the ‘absolute command’ to ‘stop’ right in front of Ikusaba-san, was shot with an arrow of light. As the little demon girl is blown away, she notices something and mutters, 「Hey, is that even okay?」

The <<bow of light>> is wrapped around Ikusba’s left hand. He notices that on his middle finger is the skull ring <<whisper of death>> that was supposed to have been on his right hand before the battle. It is now stuck on his left middle finger. In order to avoid the arrows of light, the little demon girl was staring intently at Ikusba-san’s left hand, the launch point of the <<bow of light>>. Because of that, the little demon girl was a perfect target for Ikusaba-san to give ‘absolute orders’ to.

As soon as the little demon was defeated, the firing resumed. In the midst of this, Sansa-san made hand signals. Her three subordinates, who had been deployed, threw away their now empty pistols and drew their knives. They charged at Ikusaba-san from different directions. From the front sides, and behind, it was exquisite positioning.

This should make the <<grim reaper’s whisper>> a non-factor as it can only give an ‘absolute order’ to one person.

「Don’t move.」

With that order, one of the three who had charged (from the size), stopped moving. Meanwhile the person charging from the front fell victim to an arrow of light, and then the one who had been immobilized by the ‘absolute command’, was shot.

But almost at the same time as the second shot was fired, the third person (who was approaching from behind) closed in on Ikusaba-san. There was no time to give an ‘absolute order’ or prepare an arrow.

Pashin, Dogan!

It all happened in an instant. Instead of moving away from the man swinging the knife down, Ikusaba closed the distance by one step and caught the arm that was holding the knife with his left hand. This countered the man’s force. Using his opponent’s strength against him, he slams him into the ground, erasing the <<bow of light>> that was in his left hand until then.

Then, as the third person was slammed head first into the ground and writhing in pain, his <<bow of light>> reappeared and shot an arrow of light, finishing off the opponent.

「You can’t take me down that easily.」

This unknown ability of the <<bow of light>>… No, it’s not even something that can be called an ability. Compared to the offensive power it has, this is more of an added bonus that is overlooked. The <<bow of light>> can be deployed and released from the left hand, and this can be done instantly. If anyone else was using it this probably wouldn’t be noteworthy, but when used by Hiiyo Ikusaba, it is very significant.

This means that while Ikusaba can shoot arrows of light from long distances, he can also instantly switch to close-quarters combat mode at any time and make full use of his signature throws. The ability to switch between these two fighting styles without any time loss is of great significance. It perfectly matches Ikusaba’s fighting style.

One more thing to mention is that <<grim reaper’s whisper>> can work in combination. The ability is to give ‘absolute order’ to the opponent. In the current situation it was used to freeze the opponent and to force a slow down when multiple people attacked at the same time, but it can be used in other ways as well. I can be used in countless applications.

「Seriously?」

Looking at Ikusaba’s current appearance, I can’t help but feel like this is destiny. I think that the <<bow of light>> was a special weapon made to strengthen Ikusaba-san range, who makes use of throwing techniques, and even the <<grim reaper’s whisper>> was a piece of equipment to make the most of the power of the <<bow of light>>.

It was because I felt that way that I realized I had a completely wrong idea.

It’s not that the <<bow of light>> collection is too powerful, or that the <<grim reaper’s whisper>> collection is too troublesome. It’s because Hiiyo Ikusaba is the one who uses them that they become such a threat.

It was a reminder that Hiiyo Ikusaba was incredibly skilled at taking advantage of the special properties of the Nanana collection.

「What a nasty combination. It’s not addition of power, its multiplication.」

It seems that Sansa-san has the same opinion as me, huh.

「What are you doing, Sansa-san?」

Behind the flower bed where I was hiding, and before I knew it, Sansa-san was standing next to me.

「Hey, Juugo Yama. Let’s join forces.」

「Join forces?」

「Well, all the subordinates I brought with me were wiped out.」

I looked around the hanging gardens, but all of Sansa’s subordinates were lying on the ground.

「No, no. You talked so strong at first, but now you want to join forces….?」

「Well, I can’t fight alone.」

「…..」

The Don of Tsukuyomi Town started making some incredibly weak remarks.

「Oh, by the way, my fighting power is 5, so don’t think of me as a fighting force.」

「So you are trash?」

「Huuuuh?」