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Nanana’s Buried Treasure Volume 8 Chapter 7.1

Episode 21: <<Game>> Conclusion ~GREAT 7~ meeting

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The head of the governing board and the actual ruler of Nanaejima, Shunjuu Ikkaku made his appearance. The words that he spoke directly to the heads of all the people in Seven’s Land made everyone fall silent.

「The General Security personnel, under Shiki’s command, will provide medical care to the injured. Students, please stop resisting immediately and give way so that we can rescue the injured. I will guarantee your safety on my name. I would also like to inform the members of Three Skulls, your leader has already surrendered to our forces. Stop resisting and immediately disarm. I repeat, disarm.」

「I’m not surrendering! I’m just letting you off the hood this time because Koma insisted!」

Sansa-san hugs Mutsumi-san from behind, resting her chin on his head and looking at him with a fixed gaze.

Ignoring Sansa-san, Shunju Ikkaku sends out a series of telepathic messages and moves on to his next action.

「Well, let’s get rid of the intruder.」

Shunju Ikkaku closes his eyes, holds his staff in front of himself, and mutters something.

「43864…..」

He thought what he had been chanting earlier was a spell or something, but he realizes that its’ actually a string of numbers. And the moment he raises the <<wizard’s staff>>, a blue light spreads from it. It spreads over the hanging gardens, the royal castle, and all of Sevens’s Land.

「Bigyaaaaa!」

It was only moments later that a strange voice rang out.

I had pulled the <<sword of Nanana>> (still sheathed) from the flower bed and then looked over the fence surrounding the hanging garden to look down. I then saw blue flames burning here and there in the castle. I quickly realized what it was that was burning.

「The pitch black humanoids are on fire.」

The humanoids bodies are engulfed in blue flames, as they writhe and cry out, then collapse, and dissolve into black mist one by one. This is most likely due to the blue light that had been emitted from the <<wizard’s wand>> earlier. The humanoids are surprised.

The blue flames are only burning the humanoids.

「Is this even something a <<wizard’s wand>> can do?」

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Suddenly, the humanoids he had created all burst into flames at once. He immediately summoned new humanoids from his <<stardust army command cloak>>, but they began to burn with blue flames as soon as they came out. The blue flames did not spread to the surrounding area, but only burned the humanoids to death.

<<God>> who was controlling the large man calmly analyzed this abnormal situation.

「It appears that some extremely powerful magic has been deployed.」

The range is only inside Seven’s Land. The target is the pitch black humanoids. The effect is that if there is a target within the range, it will be activated and the target will be burned to ashes with blue flames. It is still happening. Who did this and how?

<<God>> has already guessed the cause.

「It’s going to be quite troublesome now that Shunju Ikkaku has the <<wizard’s wand>> in his hands.」

In any case, the <<stardust army command cloak>> is useless.

The setting is the battle in the hallway from earlier. After retreating due to the ceiling collapsing caused by Hiiyo Ikusaba, <<God>> deployed his humanoids and steadily made preparations to attack the room where the Seventh High School Community was barricading itself and protecting Saki Yoshino.

He has no choice but to give up on his plan to retrieve all three of the Nanana collections that he had lent to Saki Yoshino.

After judging this to be the case because of the current situation, <<God>> took his next action. Having completed the work he had to do, the large man slipped out of the royal castle unnoticed via a previously prepared escape route, and continued on his way through Seven’s Land.

「We’ve been waiting for you.」

But then he suddenly stops, because ahead of him stands a beautiful young woman in a kimono. Uzuki Kakyou, one of the GREAT 7.

Utsuki smiles beautifully, as if she knew he would be passing by.

「Don’t worry. I don’t mean to criticize how you do things. But it seems like you’ve stepped a little too far into our territory this time.」

His eyes smile as if he can see through everything.

「So this is a warning. If you sneak around out of sight, we won’t worry about you. But if we see you, we’ll crush you. Remember that.」

The big man, or rather <<God>>, bites his lip.

Tonight’s <<game>> really didn’t go well. One thing after another, things went beyond what he had expected. Nothing went as planned. On top of that, Sansa Kurosu intruded, stirring up the <<game>>, Shunju Ikkaku got in the way of the cleanup, and now Uzuki Kakyou, who could see through his presence, is acting very empowered.

The GREAT 7, their existence will most likely become an obstacle to carrying out the contract with Nanana in the future.

「Hmmm, what a waste. Negakana is surprisingly stupid.」

And it was with this thought that Nanana’s words crossed my mind again. Now I understand the meaning of that proposal. No, I can’t help but realize it. Therefore, <<god>> changed his mind and decided to accept Nanana’s proposal.

BANG

And then suddenly, the big man collapsed on the spot.

Mayu, who had been staring at the whole thing, muttered, 「I guess this kid’s no longer of any use.」

The fallen big man was no longer wearing the <<stardust army command cloak>>. The dragon mark that had been burnt into his arm had also completely vanished.

「You two were late.」

Maboro Shiki, who had already arranged for the students to be treated, walked to Uzuki, followed by Futaba Saito.

「Uzuki, what’s with this kid?」, Shiki points to the fallen big man and asks.

「Oh, he was confused and passed out on his own. Shiki, I’ll ask you to make the rest of the arrangements.」

Shiki doesn’t feel right about being ordered around by Uzuki. She does give instructions to the medical team via intercom though.

「Well, shall we go?」

Without seeming to care about what Shiki does, Uzuki starts walking.

「Where are we going?」

「Of course, to clean up after you.」

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Leaving the hanging garden behind, Shunju Ikkaku went to the hall where the Seventh High School Community has barricaded themselves in order to protect Saku Yoshino. Even when he sees the giant wriggling blue dragon Izura, and the incarnations of the komainu Naata and Onku, Shunju Ikkaku doesn’t bat an eyebrow. He simply stands in front of the person he needs to talk to.

「It’s been a while.」

Shunju Ikkaku’s appearance makes the Student Council President of the Seventh High School look nervous.

「I understand everything that’s going on. How is Asumi Nishi-kun doing?」

Asumi is surprised when Ikkaku calls her name and straightens her back, turning to face him.

「Yes. We’re trying to treat her using Naruko Nagumo’s Nanana collection, but it seems that it doesn’t have an immediate effect. Honestly, we can’t do any more than this….」

He applied all the ointment he had to the hole under her right chest, where the wound was deep, but that was the limit. Naruko, who brought the ointment, apologized tearfully, saying, ‘I’m sorry’. Everyone there looked depressed.

「I understand.」

Ikkaku knelt down next to Saki, who was still lying there, and held up his <<magician’s wand>> over the wound.

「3934294….」

He chanted that ‘number spell’ that he had created to use the <<magician’s wand>> more efficiently, strengthening the image. The power of the <<magician’s wand>> is basically dependent on the image from the user. It can be effective even if it is somewhat vague, but the clearer it is, the greater the effect. That’s why Ikkaku created countless patterns of numbers to accurately keep the various effects in mind. Each number Ikkaku mutters has a meaning.

Days of recovery, healing of injuries, regeneration of body tissue, beginning the repairs of any missing parts… She arranges the meanings of the numbers assigned to them, visualizes their effects in concrete terms, and communicates this to the Nanana collection she holds in her hands. In response, the <<wizard’s wand>> emits a light. And bathed in the light, Saki’s wounds begin to close up immediately.

「Amazing….」

While everyone was impressed by what was happening, one person bit their lip. Isshin Yuiga, who had once held the wand in his hands. And the other person, who was staring intently at the wand with a serious expression, was Ageha Kachou. Less than a minute later, the large hole in Saki’s right side was completely closed.

There was even cheers.

「We can’t rest easy just because the wound has been closed. We’ve arranged for her to be transported to the hospital by the helicopter we came in on. Is anyone going to accompany her?」

「I… I will….」

Immediately, one person volunteers.

「Okay. Then please accompany the medical team that is coming soon, Tetsunoshin Tsujimi.」

Tetsunoshin is even more surprised than Asumi when Ikkaku called her name.

Ikkaku continues.