My mother's love song

This time he wants to borrow the power of Shuten and Ibaraki to repel the enemies invading Kyoto.

In this way, Musashi Momiji and the others wouldn't have to put themselves in danger.

Although it is a bit unfair to Shuten Ibaraki, this can be regarded as a battle of atonement for the trouble they have caused to Kyoto for a long time.

Oeyama Group, Fight!!!

By the way, the cow-woman who ruled Kanto mentioned by Shuten seemed to be called "Princess" by the demons, right?

Ohhhhh… Could it be that she is a princess with a breast size as big as Raikou and Murasaki Shikibu?

Not good. Rhodes was already secretly excited.

Once she becomes my prisoner, how should I play with her...hehehe.

Rhode asked, "Shuten, when can we see Ugly Gozen and the other Cow Girl?"

Shuten replied: “10…”

"Huh? So soon, 10 days later?"

"9...8...7..."

Chapter 699: Majestic and dignified, the girl of the cow (referring to her figure)

"9...8...7...6..."

Rhodes stared in amazement at Shuten-doji who suddenly started counting down.

He grabbed the girl's shoulders and said, "Shuten, now is not the time to tell jokes..."

"4...3...2..."

Shuten-doji murmured softly.

"1...0."

When I counted to 0, the sky in the distance was lit up.

The dark sky at midnight is illuminated by lightning as bright as day.

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About three kilometers away from the Ghost Palace of the Oeyama Group’s headquarters, it is on another mountain of similar height that echoes the main peak of Oeyama.

There were two tall women standing in the sky.

Both of them are nearly 1.8 meters tall.

If it weren't for their slender, voluptuous and graceful figures, it would not be surprising to see them as men with such heroic postures.

How did they gain the power to stand tall in the sky?

The majestic aura emanating from the two of them, so dense that it seemed to settle the atmosphere, might be the answer.

One of the two women, the one with her long, gorgeous purple-black hair tied into a pigtail, was holding a bow.

It was not the Chinese longbow or Mongolian hunting bow commonly seen on ancient battlefields, but a larger bow that was so long that it was almost useless in actual combat.

With a total length of over 220 centimeters, it is considered the world's longest Japanese bow, but it looks just right when held in this woman's hand.

The pigtails that reached her hips fluttered quietly in the night breeze, and her straight standing posture fully demonstrated the dignified demeanor of a woman from a military family.

The woman was wearing a Kyudo uniform with a pure white upper body and dark purple lower body. The slightly tight fabric showed off her amazing and voluptuous figure to the fullest.

Although the breasts of the long straight-haired woman next to her, Ugly Gozen, could be described as magnificent, hers were no less impressive.

Anyone would think that a girl with such big and proud breasts is not suitable for using a bow and arrow as a weapon.

What's more, her upper body was not even equipped with the breast guard that Kyudo women use to protect their chest from the bowstring.

However, the bow in her hand had no string at all.

There were no arrows either.

The girl with the proper Yamato Nadeshiko beauty just smiled calmly and confidently, then she grasped the bow tightly with her left hand and prepared to tighten the bowstring with her right hand.

Then, lightning flashed from both ends of the huge bow.

Crackling purple thunder illuminated the night sky, forming the string and arrow of the bow.

The woman looked straight ahead with sharp eyes.

The moment she took her finger off the bowstring of the electric arc, her red lips slightly opened.

"...Namo Hachiman-daibatsu."

A veritable thunder arrow flew out.

The wind that raged across the wilderness was so swift, yet so insignificant.

The speed of an arrow formed by lightning is naturally the speed of light.

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The night sky was torn apart.

Arrows of lightning flew at the speed of light across the sky.

The speed was so fast that even the afterimage did not have time to disappear, and the arrow visually formed a beam of light.

The tip of the arrow, infused with great spiritual energy, pushed away the atmosphere, but the resulting explosion took a long time to come because the speed of sound was too insignificant compared to the speed of lightning.

However, the Thunder Arrow possesses more than just speed, its power is also equally astonishing.

If calculated by servants, it is at least equivalent to an A-rank anti-military weapon. The lightning arrow, wrapped in divine aura, flies straight towards the target.

The whole process takes only a moment.

The lightning arrow shot into the window of the top room of the Oeyama Ghost Palace.

BANG!!! ...

The castle tower exploded.

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Go back five seconds in time.

"Shuten, now is not the time to tell jokes..."

Shuten-doji, whose shoulders were grabbed by Rod, just smiled and continued to count down.

"4...3...2..."

When the demon girl reported "1", Rhodes suddenly turned his gaze to the window of the castle tower.

"..."

Rhodes frowned and stared suspiciously out the dark window.

Apart from the howling of the evening breeze outside the window, the earth and the sky were in a peaceful slumber.

However, looking at the peaceful scene, the boy suddenly stood up from the tatami as if he realized something.

He put his left arm around Shuten, holding her in his arms, and at the same time he grabbed the sleeping Ibaraki by the collar and dragged him to his side, while raising his right hand with five fingers spread out towards the window.

"1...0."

When Shuten-doji counted to 0, the distant sky was illuminated.

The dark sky in the middle of the night was suddenly illuminated by the purple light, making it as bright as day.

At almost the same time, a beam of light shot into the castle tower, illuminating the room with the incandescent glow of a supernova explosion.

BANG!!! ...

The castle tower exploded.

When the smoke cleared, all that was left was a tragic scene.

The earth wall where the window was opened was directly evaporated in the explosion, one third of the room disappeared, and the magnificent castle tower was turned into an open-air balcony with only three walls left.

This was the result of Rhodes' timely deployment of defensive techniques.

The black-haired boy stood motionless in the center of the room.

He and the two boys he protected were unharmed.

Since Rhodes is now the king of Oeyama, he certainly has the obligation to protect his private property Shuten, Ibaraki, and the gold and silver treasures here.

At the moment the lightning arrow hit, the light that rolled up from Rhodes' hand turned into five petals. He created a beautiful barrier shield shaped like a huge cherry blossom, which deflected all the powerful explosions.

If he had not been able to keenly sense the hostility three kilometers away, or if he had hesitated for a moment, the entire castle tower would have been reduced to ashes in an instant.

"……I see."

Shuten-doji, who was held in the young man's arms, saw everything that had just happened.

What was revealed in her ghostly eyes was not the relief of being rescued, but rather the astonishment of sudden enlightenment.

"Five-petal papaya pattern... Master, you are indeed..."

It was not until this moment that Shuten-doji finally understood the true identity of this young man who made him feel so familiar and so nostalgic.

The five-petal papaya pattern is the five-petal papaya flower.

This pattern became famous 500 years later when it was used as a family crest by the daimyo, the sixth-day demon king Oda Nobunaga, who swept across Japan, and is now known as the Oda papaya.

It's just like temples and noble daimyo who have influence over temples often use the Sanba pattern, the sacred pattern that symbolizes Hachiman Daibutsu, as their family crest.

The papaya family crest used by the Oda family is of course not original, but the exclusive mark of a certain violent god [the God of Destruction] who is known as the strongest and most fierce.

"Shuten, you had already sensed the demonic aura beforehand, right? Why didn't you just warn me?"

Rhodes said as he looked at the night sky in the distance.

Shuten-doji looked at him in silence.

Judging from the ghost girl's expression, it seems that she is not so much speechless as immersed in the shock of knowing a certain fact.

"If you dare to test me again next time, I will never let you off easily," said Rhodes.

"...Understood, sir."

The girl lowered her eyes in a daze.

"Wow? What happened? Is this an enemy attack?!"

Ibaraki Douji was awakened from his doze when he was grabbed by the collar.

“Aaaaaaaaah… My castle! Who on earth was the bastard who did this?! I’m going to kill him!!!”

Rod stroked her hair and said, "Just be quiet, Izuku. You can make as much noise as you want later."

"Oh...oh oh..."

As soon as they finished speaking, the second, third and fourth lightning arrows came straight at them.

Each arrow was equivalent to an A-rank [Anti-Military Noble Phantasm], and three arrows like this were fired at almost the same time.

Facing three consecutive shots from the enemy in the distance, Rhodes raised his right hand again, opened a large magic circle with five petals, and perfectly offset all the attacks.

However, perhaps it was because the power of the lightning arrow was too amazing, or perhaps it was because the arrow was entangled with divine aura.

The defensive barrier spell created by Rhodes also fell apart after blocking the last arrow.

"Hmm...the compatibility is terrible."

Rhodes looked coldly at the fragments of light that were flying around his palm like falling cherry blossoms, and muttered to himself.

"I've heard it from you... but... is it really a demon with the same nature as me?

Never mind, the truth will be revealed once we meet."