Chapter 147 Ronin Samurai, Wild Wanderings Bring Great Calamity…
"Who are you going to chop up? Hahahaha! Say that again!"
The stragglers almost immediately burst into laughter, their laughter sharp and terrifying, like the howling of vengeful ghosts.
"Well…"
Mainkun pressed down on the cat's ears with his paw and groaned softly.
"Your laughter is giving me a headache..."
"Hahahaha—ridiculous."
The puppet's laughter began as violently as it abruptly stopped, and he glanced with disgust at Mainkuhn's pale face, which even his mask couldn't hide.
"A sickly fellow like you dares to spout such nonsense? Get out of my way! Just looking at you makes me sick!"
The skirmisher wasn't human, and Mainkun wasn't afraid of him. The cat, expressionless, extended its black mist tentacles, covered the skirmisher's mouth, and pressed him to the ground, rubbing him from head to toe.
"Get out of here! Ugh!"
"When you're not the leader, it's best not to breathe on things carelessly, otherwise being punished by being pinned to the ground is to be expected... El-Elhesen?"
Mainkuhn, who had been recklessly playing with the dolls, immediately became docile and stood up straight when he saw the scholar arrive.
"You wanted to see me... Is there something you need?"
In recent years, Mainkuhn's height has stopped growing again, falling far behind Elhesen. So much so that scholars can clearly see, with a slight downward glance, how anxiously his vertical pupils look up in his eye sockets, and how cautiously he scrutinizes his own face.
Tsk.
“Since you have visited Inazuma many times, you must have seen the Musou-no-Kagema.”
"...Right? The terrain there is very strange...and the water is also..."
"Thor's ultimate martial arts skill, a single, thoughtless strike."
Interrupting Mainkuhn's recollection, Elhesen spoke bluntly:
"A rootless tree, if you still want to maintain your absurd plan to save the world, don't try to provoke the eternal edge, like an egg hitting a rock."
"Eh..."
After Elhesen left indifferently, Mainkun slowly realized that he was answering the question, 'Just how strong is General Thunder?'
"Hahaha! My God, a smart person? Even a smart person can't do anything about it!"
The stragglers, who had initially looked angry, ended up lying on the ground and laughing uncontrollably after watching the whole thing.
"How did you do that, huh? He's actually afraid you'll die? That heartless, emotionless mannequin? Hahahaha! There wasn't a shred of warmth in his eyes when he grabbed me!"
“Elhesen is fine, you mustn’t say anything about him.”
Mainkun had just narrowed his eyes dangerously when he saw the skirmisher reveal a malicious smile.
"Well, you dying idiot."
"If you can truly rip out the heart of that god, what harm is there in me serving you as king for the rest of your life?"
*
Mainkuhn was just asking first; he hadn't really made up his mind to take action against General Thunder.
The reason is the same as what Elhesen said: Fontaine's rescue plan is more important than anything else, and Mainkuen has no intention of wasting his life on matters unrelated to it.
[Whatever happens to Inazuma is none of my business.]
[But gods can be this powerful? Really?]
Think about it: Fucarus, Narcida, Barbatos, Mainkuhn were somewhat skeptical.
[This is just a test of strength; it doesn't mean I'm going to face off against Thor.]
He tentatively extended a fingernail and poked it into the water between the narrow gaps of the blade.
Crack!
"hiss."
Ouch, that hurts! How is this god so powerful?
Lightning element instantly flowed into his body through his fingernails, bringing intense burning pain. Mainkun reflexively jumped back, stepping on a liar flower that was only buried in the soil.
"careful!!"
Just as Mainkun was about to crush the monster, he heard a shout in the distance. A purple light appeared first, and a young man in a red robe and long scarf, carrying a white cat, descended from the sky and slashed open the electric ball that the Deceitful Flower had spat out.
"My friend, my friend."
He gave Mainkuhn a reproachful look, and Thor's Eye gleamed from his clothes:
"How can you travel the world without even a weapon?"
More than one person arrived, and soon another young man came riding the wind. He fluttered his sleeves amidst red leaves, and a small tuft of white hair at the back of his head made him look lively and cute.
"To put your hand into dangerous, murky water, alas, you are far too careless about your own safety."
"..."
Mainkuhn, in his normal state, calmly observed them.
warrior.
It appears to be a samurai who was displaced due to the Eye Hunting Order.
This is... an act of bravery.
Is the object of my attention?
absurd.
"rise!"
Just as the two of them had quickly eliminated the deceptive flower, five more purple giant slimes spawned in the same spot.
"Ah, Yuren, they are immune to your lightning element."
"It's alright, Manyo. Use your wind and our swords, my friend! Help me take down the cat!"
In the blink of an eye, Mainkuen found himself holding a little white kitten.
"?"
The kitten looked back at its owner with a dazed expression, then sniffed Mainkun with a dazed expression.
"Hiss!"
In just one strike, it was so frightened that its fur stood on end and its back arched, its instinct to fight back kicked in, and it fiercely extended its claws.
"Wait! Why are you suddenly scratching me?!"
Youren was shocked and reached out to stop him, apologizing loudly:
"Sorry, friend! Snowball isn't usually like this!"
Before he could even pick up the cat, he saw the cat-eared youth's eyes sharpen. He placed the cat on the ground, simultaneously placing both hands on the ground:
"Hiss!!!!"
...
In the same posture, it hissed back at the little white cat even louder.
...
"Friend? What are you doing?!"
The friend was shocked, while Kaedehara Manba remained silent for a while, trying hard to come up with an elegant reason.
"Relax, maybe he's just a bit too vengeful."
"But you can't, you can't do that to a cat—"
"This is not my fault."
After subduing the little white cat in a few swift movements, he summoned black mist to pulverize the slime. Mainkun, supporting his crown, explained:
"Both of us are adult males and neither of us are neutered, so when we meet, we always want to see who is better."
...
"What sterilization, what ranking, what is all this nonsense?" Even Wan Ye couldn't think of a suitable reason. He crossed his arms and smiled helplessly.
"You don't need our help at all... You're not some kind of cat demon hiding in the mountains, are you? But your clothes are neat and clearly foreign in style. Youren, what do you think?"
His friend did not respond, but stared motionlessly at the remaining black mist on the ground, his eyes suddenly gleaming.
"Could you be the 'Black Mist Beast Lord, Wild Wanderer's Calamity God'!?"
"? I don't know what you're talking about."
"It must be! The legendary beast-eared youth who roams the mountains and fields, using mist to drive away demons and villains, leaving only blood and clean land in his wake!"
"So it was you."
Manyo also recalled this matter and immediately composed a poem for Musou-no-Jin Hazama and the cat:
"Dark clouds obscure the moon, casting a lonely shadow; alone, I sweep away the dust, illuminating the clear mountains and rivers."
They did not take money to pay for the bloodshed on the road, but only saw the deep forest and the calm mist.
Despite being nameless and without reputation, you carry out acts of purging. Your chivalrous spirit in protecting the country and its people resonates with this rugged landscape, inspiring awe and admiration. In that case, why don't you join us...?
"..."
Faced with Inazuma's praise, the crowned venerable one inexplicably darkened his expression.
"Nonsense, that's not me."
"Go away, don't follow me."
Mainkun quickly stepped away through the black mist. Wan Ye's ears twitched, and he vaguely heard the bandits' mournful cries and the villagers' joyful yet startled screams carried on the wind.
"Just like the rumors say, he only gets things done and doesn't like to communicate..."
*
After casually defeating some bandits and thugs, Mainkuen soon felt weak all over and climbed up a tall tree to rest.
[Although the potion hasn't worn off yet, it doesn't matter.]
[Anyway, this nap will allow me to skip the cooldown period and immediately reapply the potion.]
The cat climbed up the tree and fell asleep peacefully.
When I woke up, I found it noisy.
"Wow, it's really up there! It's so high!"
Scattered villagers formed a circle under the tree, tied red ropes and bells to the trunk, and laid out simple and meager food on the ground.
"Please, let the war end soon... Thank you, Brother Fengyuan, without your guidance we really wouldn't have been able to find the Wild Wanderer."
"It was just a small favor."
Wan Ye's ears twitched, and he looked up to find Mainkuhn looking down at him from among the leaves, his vertical pupils unreadable.
"Everyone, keep your voices down."
He lowered his voice.
"His heartbeat sounds unhappy; he seems a bit grumpy when he wakes up."
bass.
When I looked up again, there was no cat in the tree.
*
The number of wandering samurai in the Inazuma wilderness is constantly increasing, and they almost all quickly degenerate into bandits.
Mainkuhn had never seen this phenomenon in other countries, and for him, Inazuma was an inexhaustible treasure trove of good fortune.
Maintaining the status quo is beneficial to me because other countries simply don't have such a stable source of emotional support.
After washing the blood off his body in the spring, Mainkuen found a cave, lay down on the rock, and fell into a deep sleep.
When I woke up again, it was noisy again.
"He's been sleeping for fourteen hours. He can really sleep."
"Isn't your Snowball like that too? Maybe that's just how cats are."
It was those two annoying samurai and the cat again. They had built a campfire by the river and, to their credit, hadn't stepped into the cave.
"You're awake? Would you like something to eat? Manyo's grilled fish is amazing."
"Why don't you accept the villagers' gifts? The food may not be varied, but it tastes pretty good."
...
bass.
*
[This is bad.]
[That kid named Wanye seems to have ears even more sensitive than mine, and a pair of nimble legs. He and his companions always manage to find me while I'm asleep.]
"What are you doing following me?"
After making a compromise, Mainkun injected the medicine and then asked the two men.
I won't give you anything.
"Huh? We weren't planning on doing anything."
Manyo was somewhat confused.
"I am a wanderer, a drifting red leaf, with no fixed abode and no place to return to. I do things only out of interest and have no real purpose."
"Interest... your current interest is stalking me?"
"Exactly! There's nothing else to do anyway!"
His companion, boasting shamelessly, practiced his sword vigorously under the moonlight.
"Who are you? Where did you come from? Why are you so powerful? Why are you all alone? All the answers are so irresistible!"
"……boring."
As the cat said this, it felt much more relaxed.
[Just a detective, not bad.]
[If they've come seeking my protection, I really don't know what to do.]
"Actually, if I had to say, there is one purpose."
Mainkuhn's heart skipped a beat: "What?"
"Could you spar with me? I've wanted to have a match with you for years."
"……No."
*
The younger one is called Kaedehara Manyo, which sounds rather scholarly.
The older one is Tokugawa Tomohito, who loves martial arts.
The cat's name is Snowball. He likes calico, but calico doesn't like him.
...
Al-Hysen, I held back today and didn't do anything stupid.
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Author's note: The name of Manyo Yuu is a personal creation.
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