The Crisis World XX

Chap. 18: Mission Completed!

Meanwhile, at the same time as Herlin who was fighting Inugami, Iraya and the citizens still faced the Inuijin herd.

"Son, where's your friend?!"

"She said she wanted to check something out, so we'll hold this as long as she's gone."

"Well, let's hold on as much as we can!"

"Yes!" yell at the others in a compact manner.

I smiled wryly. Herlin who suddenly left and abandoned his responsibilities. I don't know why I should apologize to them.

Currently, one Inuijin had been successfully subverted. Our comparison with the Inuijin is 7 to 10. Even though I've beaten something like this before, but I'm not sure if I can defeat them all at this time.

"Iraya! If you're not sure of your abilities, you can make them bait" Cecilia said.

"No way," I said quickly.

Make them bait? Then our current task becomes futile, dong? I didn't understand what Cecilia was saying so I ignored her and focused more on these Inuijins.

"All right, eh—?"

As I was preparing the attacking horses, suddenly one of the Inuijin surprised me.

Grpr…

Inuijin who should have been dead was hit by an arrow by one of the citizens suddenly just stood up. It surprised me and the other residents.

"Why how can?"

He got up with an arrow still stuck in his head, like a zombie. But this is strange, the Inuijin I fought before did not have this kind of power.

Now our comparison to the Inuijins is 7 to 11, plus their new 'zombie' skills.

"Son, now what are we going to do?" ask Mizumo-san.

I took a deep breath and then threw it away. Trying to calm myself down and become more focused. My gaze was now focused on the Inuijins in front of me.

"I'll attack them, you can help me with arrows or something."

"Well-Good!"

I let out a little bit of my aura to intimidate them. But the Inuijin did not falter and instead ran to face me.

Swuush…

I darted towards the Inuijin herd that tried to attack me. I slashed my sword at one of them and he tried to hold it with his bite.

Craassh…

But this sword made from Cecilia aura was too powerful for him and tore his mouth apart until it pierced through his stomach.

Is he dead?—No, it's not time to think about that because the other Inuijin started focusing on me and ignoring Mizuno-san and the others.

"Oi! Show them that my powers are no joke!" shouted Cecilia

"Whisper! Let me focus first!"

Is correct. I will show you the strength I have to protect my mother, with this power.

The Ten Inuijin attacked me simultaneously with a quick but irregular movement.

Swuush…

But I managed to avoid all the bites and scratches. My body is getting used to moving freely by relying on the aura of Cecilia which makes my body lighter and sturdier than ordinary humans.

After a while I avoided and kept my distance from the wolves. I then started to feel that the Inuijin attack was starting to slow down and it was getting easier to read.

"What's this about? Are they exhausted? They're just getting slower."

"No ...," said Cecilia.

"Hn?"

"It's not their movements that slow down, but your body that's used to dodging and your reflexes are increasing."

"Heh~ so huh?"

I put on a proud smile and then shouted to the Inuijin.

"All right! Go ahead all of you!"

Sryi…

I darted towards the Inuijin that I had been avoiding. Oh right, since I haven't attacked them yet, I'm just dodging their attacks. But now it's time to retaliate.

I slashed at the Inuijins one by one at a speed that their eyes could not follow. They even only realized when I had landed an attack on their bodies.

There are a few more left and this mission will be completed. What the fuck? It turns out not as hard as I thought, if this is mah I don't need to panic from earlier.

Sreet…

"Eh?"

Bruuks…

Without me noticing, I landed on a rock big enough to make me slip and fall quite badly.

"Satou-kun!" mizumo-san shouted in panic.

Shit, I'm off guard. My legs sprained and the Inuijins quickly darted towards me and tried to attack me.

Shuush…

When one of the Inuijin jumped and attacked me, he was suddenly hit by an arrow that made him bounce. One of the residents saved me from their attack. Mizumo-san then approached me and extended her hand.

"You all right, son?" Mizumo-san.

"Just sprained a little."

I then grabbed his hand and stood up. The other residents set up defensive formations as Mizumo-san helped me.

"Maybe we don't help much, but the more the better, right?" said it.

"Thank you, Mizumo-san."

"Basic stupid! Just praised a little already off guard," said Cecilia.

"Yes, yes, yes, I'm sorry."

Bzzz…

With the current strength, I, Mizumo-san, and the other citizens attacked the Inuijin simultaneously. Although his strength was only on par with ordinary people, but the spirit they possessed could not be underestimated.

After a while, we finally managed to defeat them all.

**

After defeating all the Inuijin, Mizumo-san and the injured and exhausted citizens immediately returned to the village hall to rest.

While I was still observing this dead wolf carcass. How do they have this regeneration power? To what extent is their regenerative ability? Many questions came to my mind.

"Son, let's go back to the village!" mizumo-san shouted which made me realize from my daydream.

"Yes, I'll be there soon!" my spoken.

I also momentarily put away my curiosity and then walked towards Mizumo-san who had walked first. But something surprised me with the Inuijin.

"Gr-Gr …!"

Suddenly there was a growling sound behind me. I immediately turned around and saw what was happening, and all I saw was one of the Inuijin standing back up. But with a terrible body. His mouth was torn, his eyes were missing next to his, and several other large wounds that made him look terrible. I took a few steps back to keep my distance and was horrified by Inuijin's appearance.

"Why did this happen?"

The Inuijin then walked over to me but gradually got closer.

"He wouldn't have died if you had just slashed him ...," said Cecilia.

"What?"

"… I told you to use your head."

My head? All right if you force! Regeneration of living things takes time even if they have very rapid regeneration. And all I need is to stop his regeneration ability. What can stop regeneration quickly?

I thought hard to find the answer and got an idea. Shock power. I had to hit him with a very high shock for his regeneration ability to stop. Yosh! Maybe this could work.

I looked around. Mizumo-san and the other citizens have left here, so I can be free to get my mana out here. I took a few steps back to set the distance.

Then I put my hand on the ground and tried to drain the mana towards my hand. Focus...Focus. Suddenly I felt a huge flow of mana heading towards my hand.

Bzztt…

An electric spark has formed around the ground and my hand. I was shocked and amazed at what I did. And suddenly I had a very interesting idea. I smiled at thinking of something like this.

"I'll borrow it for a second, Cecilia."

I drained Cecilia's aura to amplify the electricity I was giving off and an electrical energy mixed with Cecilia's aura came out of my hand.

Bzz.. Bzzt.. Blaaarr…

That enormous electrical energy exploded and caused the ground in front of me to crack and snatch towards that Inuijin. About all of their corpses that made everything go uproar and let out burning smoke. While I was bouncing backwards quite far and my right hand was flushed and let out smoke.

"Adu-duh …."

I grimaced as I stroked the back of my reddened hand due to the explosion that just happened.

"You're stupid, huh? Combining two different auras can make you explode if it doesn't match, you know?"

"Ahaha...the proof is that I didn't explode, right? That means we fit in!"

"You …. Geez, someone who's the dumbest is usually the strongest."

Sruukk…

There was a movement from the bushes that made me reflect towards him. And it turned out that what emerged from the bushes was Herlin with blood under his mouth and dirty and torn clothes.

"What's that big explosion?"

When he came to see me, he immediately asked about the explosion. Not worrying about his own condition.

"Rather than thinking about it, you yourself, are you okay?"

**

*The next day*

After resting and eating the night before, we decided not to linger in this village and went home in the morning.

"Are you sure you're not staying longer?" ask Mizumo-san.

"Sorry, we have things to do in town."

"Is that so? In that case, we will make the payment after we repair the village," Mizumo-san said.

Although the state of their village is like this, but they still have an obligation to pay for our services, yes. Even if there were no us, this village wouldn't be safe anyway. Hehe ….

"One more time I say thank you very much" said Mizumo-san.

"Thank you very much!"

Mizumo-san and the other citizens including the little children and the women lowered their heads as a deep token of gratitude to us.

"Yes! That's our job!"

Job, huh? Pretty cool too. Ahahaha …. When we wanted to go back, suddenly from behind the bushes someone appeared and immediately hid behind Herlin. He was the first kid we met here.

"You-You…?!" mizumo-san.

The little boy was hiding behind Herlin when Mizumo-san called out to him. Like he was very scared of the people in this village.

"Why are you still alive?!" ask Mizumo-san.

"Eh?!"

Lived on? What does he mean? Did he think that this little boy was already dead attacked by the Inuijin? Mizumo-san runs up to Herlin and the boy, but when approached the boy is even more afraid and hides behind Herlin's body.

"Ririsaka-san, can you give the child to us? Her parents must be worried waiting for her at home" Mizumo-san said.

"My parents are dead!"

The little boy shouted while looking at Mizumo-san with a look of hate as well as fear mixed with tears inside.

"Then, let's go back to the village. The rest of the citizens will throw a party to celebrate the success of killing the monster. Yes, Haruka-chan?" take Mizumo-san.

"I don't want to! He ... That guy wants to kill me!" said the little boy.

"Me-Murder …?!"

What the hell is going on here? It seems like this is a matter that has nothing to do with our affairs and was there before we came here. Should I leave it alone or what.

"Haruka-chan, let's go home."

Mizumo-san gets closer to Herlin and the boy named Haruka. But Herlin stopped him.

"Retreat or you die."

Herlin threatened Mizumo-san with a murderous look. He doesn't seem to want to hand over the Haruka-chan to Mizumo-san.

"Hey! Isn't it your job to protect us?" ask Mizumo-san.

"My job is to kill Inuijin, not protect you. From the beginning, your life and everything else was never my business."

"Hey Herlin! What the hell is going on here?"

"This child .. is the culmination of the ritual you're talking about, right?" said it.

"What?"

"In this village, every year the ritual is done to the creatures that are in the forest on the hill there, am I wrong?" herlin.

"W-How did you …?!"

"And the one who made the presentation was a 7-year-old girl" he continued.

Mizumo-san who had already lost the debate with Herlin momentarily fell silent and bowed limply. Suddenly he shouted loudly.

"Awaha …! Ahahaha …! Damn right! That boy is the victim for this village and he is responsible for the deaths of the people here! If you die .. bad luck will not come to this village! Oh! Do you hear me, Haruka-chan?!"

"That's right, that's right!"

"He's to blame!"

"Why are you still alive?!"

"…."

The other citizens also followed Mizumo-san to blame this child. This is bad, this kid can't stay here anymore. If he were still here, he would most likely be killed.

I looked at Herlin and his current gaze was completely deep and indicated that he was eager to kill the person in front of him. I know that even if it's just from his eyes.

Zii…

"Eh?"

Mizumo-san and the citizens instantly fell silent. Herlin flew hundreds of medium-sized stones and was ready to be pointed at them.

"All right then. If you want to take this child, please take it from me. I won't hold back!"

Herlin who challenged the citizens really made the citizens afraid and finally resigned to let this child named Haruka-chan be taken by Herlin. Mizumo-san could only hold back the anger while watching us leave.

**

Herlin and I did not go back to the cafe, but to an orphanage. It seemed like this was the place Herlin was referring to.

"Himawari .. Orphanage?" muttered.

When at the door one opens the door from the inside and that person is Aiza-san.

"A-Aiza-san?"

"Hello Iraya-kun."

Herlin then explains her arrival and talks to Aiza-san that she has brought a daughter here.

"Yuuki-san, I brought someone to live here."

Herlin shows the boy to Yuuki-san. At first the boy did not want to come out from behind Herlin's back. But after seeing Aiza-san's warm smile, the boy then started to vent to speak even in a soft tone and slightly blushed.

"Sa-Salam knows, na-my name is Sai Haruka. Can I stay here?" he said in a stammer.

Aiza-san smiled then then lowered her head so that her face was on par with Haruka. "You can stay here as long as you want, Haruka-chan."

"Thank God."

"…."

"So ... Do you have any connection with this orphanage?" my many.

"This is a shelter for children who do not know their parents, street children, and orphans. And one of those orphans ... is me."

So his parents are dead, huh? And now she lives in this orphanage with Aiza-san. This could explain why his relationship was so close to Aiza-san.

"That's it."

With Haruka-chan's acceptance to an orphanage called Himawari Orphanage and although not fully run smoothly. But in the end I was able to finish my first job. On this side of the world.

Seriate