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Nanana’s Buried Treasure Volume 8 Chapter 6.3

She grabbed my face with all her might. She then pushed my head out from behind the flower bed.

「Wait a second! I was just making a comment! I’m not serious! I mean, he’s shooting at me! Ikusba-san is shooting at me!」, I shout desperately as the arrows of light whizz by.

「Returning a quip to someone who’s making a joke is something that should only be done on friendly terms, never on the basis of contempt! Besides, you were the one who made the joke first! Should I have said that you have the fighting power of a man with a hunting rifle, you idiot!」

Maybe my enthusiasm (or apology) got through to her, because she pulls my head back. But seriously, this guy is no joke.

「Just join me.」

「But why?」

「We have a common interest in defeating the strongest enemy, so this is a common tactic in fights between multiple factions.」

「Yeah, that’s true.」

「You’re the one who just sat back and did nothing against the enemies just now, right?」

To put it bluntly, that was true.

To be honest, what I was trying to do was exactly the same as what the demon girl had been trying to do earlier. I thought that if I could just figure out the direction the arrow of light was coming from I could avoid it, so I was fully prepared to charge in while focusing on his left hand, where the <<bow of light>> was being fired from. If Sansa-san and her subordinates hadn’t come to the hanging garden and I had a one-on-one battle with Ikusaba-san, there’s no doubt that it would have been me, not the demon girl, who had fallen there.

「……….Okay. Let’s join forces.」

So I decided to accept the offer to join forces.

「So, Yama, what do you have?」

「My Nanana collection items include the <<sword of Nanana>> which I don’t know how to use and the <<eye of Yugototh>>.」

「What about the other items?」

「Other items?」

「The ones you bought from us. You bought smoke bombs, firecrackers, and all sorts of other stuff right?」

Yeah, how does she know that I have those things I bought with me though?

「I used it all in the <<ruin>> underground.」

「Huh? You useless bastard!」

I had been brutally scorned.

「Sorry.」

「Well, never mind. So what kind of ability does this <<eye of Yugototh>> have?」

「Well, you can ask someone a question while looking through it, and if they lie you’ll see a black cloud. By the way, Nanana’s name for it is <<glittering lie detector>>.」

「Nanana’s naming sense is as hopeless as ever.」

「Oh, by the way, if you use it with bad intentions, it will blind you.」

「You idiot! Don’t point it at me! You’ll blind me!」

Apparently, it not only detects lies, but also has the power to ward away evildoers who lack any purity.

「So what cards do you hold, Sansa-san?」

「I have that one.」

What that is, or rather is lying on the ground, is the little demon girl who was shot by Ikusaba-san earlier.

「You mean?」

「That girl is pretending to be unconscious, but she’s actually awake. She’s pretending to be dead so she can see what’s going on around her before fighting.」

「How do you know that?」

Sansa points to her eye patch.

Ah, I see. That’s how it is. Sansa-san’s eye patch is also part of a Nanana collection, and it seems that it allows her to spy on what other people are seeing. (What they are also looking at)

「By the way, is she okay? Does she have any injuries? She was hit hard by Ikusaba-san’s arrow of light.」

「I still don’t fully understand how it works, but it seems those arrows of light are different from normal arrows or bullets in that they’re lighting-based and insubstantial. To put it simply, they’re arrows made out of lightning.」

「Lightning arrows?」

「It doesn’t pierce the body, it just passes through it. So if you get hit, it just makes you numb and knocks you out.」

「How do you know that?」

「While Kira (apparently the name of the demon girl) was moving around, I was observing the first subordinate who I thought had been killed. I pulled up his clothes to see where he’d been shot, and there was no hole from being pierced. Just marks that looked like burns. There was also one guy who was having mild convulsions.」

「I see.」

Come to think of it, when Tetsu-kun was first hit by that arrow of light, he just said that his body was numb and he couldn’t move. When I met up with him later he didn’t seem particularly injured.

「Although seeing as how arrows are stuck into the floor and wall, I can’t really say that’s the case. So that’s just a rough guess based on my current observations.」

That’s certainly true. The official name of the <<bow of light>> is apparently the <<spiritual bow of evil extermination>>. That may be a hint to the characteristics regarding the arrows of light fired from that bow.

「Anyway, it’s good to know that if you put your mind to it, you can withstand those arrows of light, Yama.」

「No no no, what’s with that smile? You’re implying that I should go on a suicide mission! It’s absolutely not happening!」

「What? Doesn’t your family have any training in how to deal with that kind of torture?」

「What kind of assassin family do you think I’m part of? We’re just gentleman thieves… I mean, we are just an ordinary family.」

「Huh? You think you can still hide that from me?」

「Other people are trying really hard to prove their innocence, you should use your abilities for that instead.」

「My latest hobby is making other people’s efforts go to waste.」

「You really have a nasty personality!」

Don’t give me a thumbs up! I’m not praising you!

「Well, whatever. Anyway, Yama, you figure out a solution. I’ll go along with it.」

「Are you sure?」

「I have the ability to tell if someone is useful or not. And I told you, unfortunately, I’m not good at rough work.」

So it seems I was given the initiative for some reason, and started by getting information.

「Um, what can Kira do?」

「Basically, she has mastered all the techniques for killing. Her aptitude for torture has also improved through training. That’s probably why she was able to withstand that arrow of light. However, seeing as how she didn’t move right away, it seems that she may still be paralyzed and unable to move very much.」

The Three Skulls has some amazing members.

「You also have the Nanana collection.」

「….huh?」

「? What’s wrong?」

「Don’t you have the Nanana collection?」

「Yeah. But Shiki destroyed it before I got here, so I’m limited in how I can use it.」

「Shiki? By Shiki, are you talking about Shiki Maboro?」

「What an obvious thing to ask. Incidentally, the one in charge of the comprehensive security that is rampaging outside the royal castle right now is Shiki.」

「No no no no! What the heck? I don’t know anything about that!」

This is a new fact I’ve never heard before. I mean… Shiki-san? Is that lazy manager here now?

「By the way, that woman is the strongest human being alive.」

「What are you talking about? She’s just a worthless person who drinks all day long, isn’t she?」

「…Ah, let’s not talk about this anymore. It’s not moving the conversation forward.」

「No, no. That’s not good!」

「While we’re at it, Ikusaba is getting closer.」

What? Seriously? I peeked out from the flowerbed and saw that Ikusaba was really closing the distance.

「He is! Then what else do I want to ask….?」

From there, I quickly ask about Kira’s Nanana collection and start thinking.

「Okay, it’s decided!」

「What strategy should we go with?」

「Even if we go head to head with Ikusaba-san, there’s still this big difference in strength. There’s no way we can win in a normal fight.」

「So what should we do?」

「A super short, one-shot attack.」

Then I told Sansa my plan. Sansa grinned when she heard it.

「Hmm, that’s interesting. Let me see your bluff of the century.」

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Crunch

The sound of bones breaking echoes around the room. This was the sound of the bones in Masaaki’s fist breaking as he was berserk.

Shiki, who had managed to withstand the impact so hard that it caused cracks to appear in the concrete at her feet, stared intently at Masaaki. Despite the fact that his fist had just shattered, Masaaki didn’t seem to be concerned. He bared his teeth and turned towards her with unfocused eyes.

「It seems like he’s unconscious. A typical Nanana collection gone wild. No regard for his own body. His brain’s limiter is completely out of whack.

Then a second blow is delivered from the side of the broken fist.

Shiki dodges it by stepping back. After all, Shiki’s arm from the previous blow is already swollen, bruised, and numb. Above all, if she receives any more attacks, it could leave Masaaki with some aftereffects.