Volume 2 - CH 270

Garak committed self-destruction.

However, I knew that at the end he uttered an uncanny skill.

Something was about to happen.

Something was about to burst out of Garak’s corpse.

At that moment, the sound of flapping wings could be heard from above.

I looked up and saw Houen was flying unsteadily in the form of a child, and was falling toward me.

“OHSHIIIIIIIIIT!?”

”WHAT THE -!!”

When I manage to avoid him, Houen child form pierces the ground.

Thanks to his wings, he seems to have been able to reduce his speed just before he hit the ground, and he still seems to be alive.

As soon as he pulls his face out of the ground, he starts to complain to me.

“Come on! At least catch me!!”

“Well, I mean. ……. I don’t want to be burned by your wings …….”

“Oh.”

Don’t make that face if you forget about your skill.

And since you’re not going to die no matter what, it’s probably fine.

No, that’s not important right now.

“Houen, get ready.”

“Eh? Hold on? You beat the Akki!? That’s amazing!”

“It’s not over. He’s still trying to do something to me.”

“Is he?”

Houen might be wondering why we should be so cautious about someone who is obviously dead, at least I warned him.

Garak, who had muttered his skills to me while before he self-destruct.

Then I noticed something unusual about Garak’s corpse.

The bones were beginning to rise and break through the skin, as if shedding the skin, and bones that defied their mass were beginning to emerge.

It was making a cracking sound, but this was not the sound of a bone breaking.

This is the sound of a joint snapping.

The bone that came out completely had an appearance reminiscent of a Gasha-dokuro, but without the head.(*Giant Skeleton youkai)

And there is a large hole in the ribcage bone.

That alone is creepy, but from the waist down, there is flesh and a stench wafting from the air.

The size of this creature is well beyond the size of the Keep in this world.

Maybe 30 meters long?

It would look a little taller if it had a head, because it is that big without a head.

“GYAAAAH! I- Isn’t that Gasha-dokuroooooo!!”

“Houen, you know that kind of stuff ……?”

“Eww, stinky! It’s got flesh on the bottom half of its body!”

“Could you please have a word with me?”

Maybe because he is a child (form), he seems to be a little confused.

I don’t want to babysit this child, so I’m going to leave him alone.

Even if he dies, he’ll come back to life.

How should I attack this ……?

Let’s just burst the air created by the remaining air compression and see how strong it is.

It should give us an idea of the strength of this thing.

As soon as the idea occurs to me, I act immediately.

Immediately manipulate the compressed air to make contact with the bones of the Gasha-dokuro.

At the same time, all the air explodes, damaging the skull.

The power of the blow is so strong that even a large Gasha-dokuro seems to be shaken around by the blow.

I was hoping things would continue to go well, but it seems …… nothing is working out as it should.

“────”

“A little chipped, huh ……”

“How about this? [Flame Bomb]!”

Houen creates a large fireball and shoots it at the Gasha-dokuro.

As soon as it made contact, a huge explosion and hot wind were generated, but the Gasha-dokuro still did not pay any attention to it.

Then, Houen’s Eternal Flame was ineffective.

“WHY?!”

“It doesn’t burn, …… Hey, what happened to your eternal flame ……?”

“The hell I know! I’ve never had anything like this before!”

It doesn’t burn, and those bones look pretty hard …….

I wish I could blow it up with my Wave Fist,…… but it’s going to be quite a feat just to get close to that thing,…….

The first thing to do is to aim at the leg where the flesh is.

If it’s over there, the flame of the phoenix might also work.

I take out Hakuryuzen, which I had stored in my bag of magic tools, and then I give Houen an instruction.

“Houen! Aim for the leg!”

“Roger that! [Flame Bomb]!”

“[Heaven Split]!” (Tenwari)

The two of us aimed at the legs.

We thought that since there was flesh on it, it would take some damage.

Houhua’s Flame Bomb exploded at the moment of contact, and the smell of burning flesh wafted around us.

After that, my Heaven Split strikes directly.

Clank!

I heard a sound like something snapped.

I looked at the Gasha-dokuro to see if I could have cut its leg, but it showed no sign of losing its stance.

The one that broke seemed to be my Heaven Split.

“No shit!”

“The flesh burns, but …… the bones is not!”

Gugugugu …….

The Gasha-dokuro is now moving.

Although it has no head, it seems to be looking firmly in our direction.

It raises its skeletal arm and tries to hit the ground.

“Whoaa! Ouren, let’s avoid it!”

“Stop it! Block it!

“Why?!”

“If that thing hits the ground, it could blow up this whole area! Even though it’s like that, that thing is coming from Akki!”

“How can you stop it? My skills are not up to the task.”

“Just do it!!”

All you have to do is attack him and make him less powerful.

This guy seems to have no sense of reason or anything.

Unlike Garak from earlier, he’s bound to attack without care.

If that happened, the watchtower where the princess was supposed to be would be destroyed.

I wanted to avoid that.

“[Earth Spirit! [Water Binding]!”

“Dang it! [Flame Manipulation]!”

The earth was lifted and deflected from its trajectory.

Then the water binding stops its movement.

Apparently, Houen is trying to suppress its strength by manipulating the flames.

However, the Gasha-dokuro’s attack seems to be heavier than we imagined, and the earth is crushed faster and faster, and the water binding was repelled.

The flames are also almost meaningless, but the combination of these three skills seems to have finally reduced the power of the flames.

However, at this rate, we would be crushed.

“Just hang on a little longer, earth spirit!”

“Waaaahhhh!”

Then Gasha-dokuro loosened its power.

Not knowing why, I looked at Gasha-dokuro and- …….

Gasha-dokuro was leaning back.

It seems to have lost the strength in its arms and is now trying its best to regain its position.

“Ouren-sama!”

“! Uchikage huh! Thank goodness!”

“Oooh! Thank you-!

Then Tenda appeared next to me.

I wondered how he could move so quickly, but I’ll ask him about that later.

Tenda seemed surprised to see a Gasha-dokuro.

“W-what is this thing?!”

“It came out of Garak’s corpse.”

“Then, why is Houen-dono a child? ……”

“‘Cuz I was dead☆”

“Eh?

I don’t have a time to explain it and yet, he answered it like that.

Uchikage also comes down carefully.

Both of them are battered and bruised, but they don’t seem to be badly injured.

I’m going to give them both a great heal and get them back to full health.

“Thank you very much.”

“Excuse my rudeness.”

“It’s okay. So, can you handle this thing ……?”

“Even with my attacks, I can only chip it a little. ……”

“Even Uchikage?”

This might be a little tough, but, well, we have to do it.

We’re doomed if it destroys the rest of the building!

I think Gasha-dokuro quietly regained its position and looked at us.