CH 56

By Effugium December 25, 2022

Kirika was confronted by Death Green in the form of Rintaro in a deserted urban area. Wearing sunglasses and a long black coat, Rintaro looked down on Kirika with a sneer, as if he was looking down on her.

「Prepare yourself, Mayuzumi. It won’t just end with a spanking, you know?」

「……You……Noticed, huh?」

「Well, after such a big show of violence. The location of the base is information that is normally known only to the top management of the Ark Dominion. It is only logical to suspect the existence of an informant.」

Rintaro took off his sunglasses and played with them with his fingers.

「I didn’t think it would be me, though.」

For the past few days, Rintaro was attacked by Victory Rangers everywhere he went, as if by design.

The first was at Sayamako, the second at a top-secret clinic in the suburbs of Omiya, and the third at a botanical garden in Chofu, where he secretly set up a meeting with Zazoma.

These locations are known only to Rintaro.

Furthermore, the attack of each base by Victor Black that looks as if she was hitting tatami mats.

These were information that only Rintaro, who was in charge of covering each base as a member of the rescue team, would have been able to know. No one but Rintaro, who was in a position to provide backup for the entire army, would have been privy to this information.

Of course, Rintaro himself did not leak any information to the outside world.

So how exactly did the Victory Rangers get information from Rintaro?

Rintaro’s first sense of discomfort came just before Great Kanto Conquest Operation was launched. It was when he had a conversation with Tagarak in the Dark Council Hall.

『Rintaro, you had a good time last night. It’s been talked about that you had an Asa-Chun with Swordminas. Uhyahyahya……』

『Wait a minute. Why is there such a rumor spreading?』

『Well. If you came out of your room together in the early hours of Christmas morning, there would be rumors. And, since neither of you had enough sleep, Swordminas was also wearing your clothes? I heard she said her buttocks hurt from all the comfort you gave her.』

『I can’t believe the rumors are spreading that far! Where the hell were they watching us from? …… I left no room for error……』

Tagaraak accurately guessed it as if he had been watching.  But if you think about it, it is strange that the events of that morning reached the ears of upper management only a few dozen minutes later.

There is one possibility. Tagaraak actually “saw” Rintaro’s actions. And Tagaraak has a history of doing so. 

The video of the accusation against former commander Onuki, who once led the Victor Rangers. It was filmed by a super-compact hidden camera hidden in the frame of Rintaro’s glasses.

The Victory Rangers had somehow hacked into the system and planned the entire attack. In other words, they obtained information through Rintaro’s “eyes.

「So, if we can use this as an opportunity to spread information, we can catch the idiot who bites the bait like this. Listen Mayuzumi, those who rely on information given to them by the enemy will be swept off their feet in a second.」

Rintaro was lecturing with a relaxed air, but Kirika was ready to attack him.

「That idiot is going to destroy you. Headquarters, please respond and dispatch the backup immediately!」

『This is the Headquarters, understood.』

Asaka, who had been quietly shaking her fist at the failed hacking attempt she had made, hurriedly switched her computer screen to the command console. She had a few heroes on standby as backup personnel in case of an emergency, even though they were few and far between.

They had received information that many mysterious beings were gathering in Saitama Shin Toshin accompanied by Death Green. In order to round them up, they decided to carry out this operation. It was a major capture by the combined efforts of the Hero Headquarters.

But think about it, where was the source of that information?

In the Hero Headquarters building in Jimbocho. From the Victor Rangers secret base, in one of the rooms, Asaka tried to contact all the units on the outskirts of Saitama.

She  typed in the command to dispatch them into the console and hit the enter key. At that moment, an illustration of a pretty blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl appeared on the computer screen.

「Wha……!?」

『Hallo hallo. You are pretty lucky to be able to see the beautiful me, hohooi.』

「What is this……?」

『You must be very skilled to hack into my server. Well, I was one level higher than you! Well then, I, a beautiful girl, will announce the time limit. Three, two, one!』

At the same time that the count reached zero, the computer exploded and all power was turned off at the Hero Headquarters building. The outside light shining into the pitch-black room shimmered in the smallest of twinkles.

Zushin…… zushin…….

A sound like a rumbling of the earth slowly approached. As Asaka timidly looked out the window, her eyes met a pair of huge round eyes.

「Sa……Same……?」

「Ah, Oneechaaan. You better hurry and ruuun.」

The Hero Headquarters building in Jimbocho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, is surrounded by countless giant mysterious beings.

All of the tiger’s cub hero teams have gone to the outskirts of Saitama. Currently, there are no heroes to protect the headquarters, and there are no robots to operate.

「Gahahahahaha! Hey you guys, let’s play block crushing!」

「Then, let me be the first one to attack it. Full power drop kick rabbit(shoot)!」

Immediately afterward, the Hero Headquarters building shook violently.

…………

「Command room!?? Reply! Command room!!!」

『…………』

No matter how much Kirika called out, there was no response from the intercom. Kirika was convinced that the sudden loss of communication with the command center was not an accidental problem.

「Too bad I’m the only one that’s here. I’ll have to make up for what you’ve done to me. I wonder if Jimbocho will be cleared by now.」

「Death Green! Do you think you can do this to the Center of Justice and get away with it!」

「Oh scary. Mayuzumi’s idea of justice is to make insects eat boric acid dumplings, isn’t it? Why don’t you quit being a hero and become a pest exterminator? Ha ha ha ha ……」

Rintaro laughed, opened his hands, and looked up at the night sky.

Kirika had misjudged the heinous mysterious Death Green. In the first place, he had not set his sights on the strongest hero, Mayuzumi Kirika, alone.

Even the most powerful heroes would not be able to continue their activities if they were to smash not Kirika herself but her base, the Hero Headquarters, to pieces.

Get false information for the heroes’ headquarters and gather Kirika and other heroes in a suburb far away from the headquarters building. The plan was simple enough: attack the empty Hero Headquarters with sheer force of numbers.

「Listen Mayuzumi, crushing the easiest targets first is the foundation of the art of war. Keep this in mind.」

「Guh……Gununu……!」

Kirika bit her lip under her mask.

Was Rintaro Kuriyama defeated and even killed by such a man? The more she thinks about it, the more she cannot suppress the blood that wells up inside her.

「Mugetsu Itto-ryu, Murasaki Tsubame!」

When Kirika swung the “Kuroageha” to the side, a blade of vacuum struck Rintaro with tremendous speed. It looked as if Rintaro’s body was split in half. His coat, which had been cut and torn, fell onto the asphalt in a flurry. But Rintaro was not there.

With a dry clang of iron footsteps, a figure clad in a green suit alighted on the railing of the pedestrian bridge. His cloak fluttered, and his deformed mask, reminiscent of a dragon, shone in the moonlight.

Rintaro, who had turned into the heinous mysterious Death Green, was there.

「That’s about 80 points I suppose, Mayuzumi. That’s right, you don’t have to bother with the opponent’s story. It seems that you had properly reviewed the lessons, and teacher is happy.」

「Don’t talk to me! I will take your head off myself!」

Kirika took a small breath and readjusted her “Kuroageha” to the Hassō-no-kamae[1]. The pitch-black blade did not even reflect the moon, but only sharply aimed at the neck of the enemy.

Death Green, on the other hand, looked down at Kirika and pulled out his green, poisonous sword, the “Ninja Poison Sword”.

The final battle between the strongest(最強Saikyou) hero and the evilest(最凶Saikyou) mysterious being was about to begin.

「The black light that cuts through the darkness, Victor Black. In the name of justice, I will slay my enemies!」

「The peace-loving green light, Death Green! Go to hell for the sake of my peace.」

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hass%C5%8D-no-kamae