In front of the gate of OresGaro. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Three people sit on a semi-circular sofa and watch a TV in the middle.

"Your TV quality is quite high, it's like watching a movie, where did it come from?"

"That's, it's the crystallization of our technology created by so many geniuses! It can be connected to the user's consciousness, and the network terminal is directly connected to our artificial intelligence 'big bald', and the 'big bald' automatically locates the area you want to observe, and then controls the viewing angle by yourself, and you can look at it from which angle you want, just like ...... Goohehehehe~"

"I understand, hey, hey~"

"You don't need to recharge it, you only need to use your own energy to power it, but the amount required is so small that it's almost negligible. There are also 3D, 4D and other modes~"

“…… Switch to 4D mode! I'm going to see ...... up close."

Before he finished speaking, the black rabbit took out a special paper fan and smashed it on the heads of Sixteen Night and Bai Chen.

"Can you two be serious! Asuka and they're fighting! ”

……

Yao immediately shielded the bird, blocking the tiger's almost invisible assault.

Yao, who struggles to avoid Garde's assault, screams to Asuka who has been knocked down the stairs by himself

"Run!"

Neither of them had time to say anything more. Garde's appearance is no longer the human tiger of the previous day, but the transformation of the tiger monster with red eyes and a strange light waiting for the three of them. As soon as Jen, who was guarding the stairs, saw Garde's appearance and understood what had happened to him.

"It's a ghost, and it's a vampire! Is it really her! ”

"Don't talk nonsense, run away!"

Asuka grabbed Jen's collar and rushed down the steps.

Gard, who had targeted Asuka and Ren, jumped down the stairs to get in front of them.

“GEEEEEEYAAAAaaa！！”

"Please, please wait! Miss Yao is still on it! ”

"Leave it alone, run!"

At Asuka's command, Ren's consciousness was interrupted as if he had been caught in a tsunami.

The feeling of having to save people is pushed into a corner, and all the spirit is focused on escaping from here.

"Get out in one go"

"Huh?"

Ren grabbed Asuka's hand, grabbed her by the waist, kicked through the wall and rushed outside. With a bird in his arms, he galloped like a beast through the streets where he had almost no foothold.

Perhaps unable to get out of the headquarters, Garde just watched Kim run away from behind and returned inside.

"Wait, wait!!"

Jen led her through the dense woods at Asuka's orders. It's nothing, but it's out of the calculations to stay away from headquarters beyond what is necessary. So Asuka hurriedly accentuated his tone

"Enough, enough! Stop now! ”

"Yes...... Ah? ”

Ren, who had returned to God, stopped. He couldn't figure out why he had run into the forest when he was still at the headquarters just now, and the fact that he was holding a bird shocked him even more.

"Wow, wow!"

"Ahh

Ren suddenly fell to the ground as if he had lost his strength. The bird, which had lost its support, also fell with him. Asuka, whose whole body was pressed against Kim, suddenly became unhappy and puffed out his cheeks.

"Hey, you're rude, aren't you? If I fall like this, others will think I'm too heavy! ”

"No, no, no, no, no! I just poured out a power that I couldn't even believe...... Isn't this because of the gift of the birds? ”

"Woo" Asuka was speechless, and let go of the hand that was pinching Ren's cheek. Asuka put it aside and told Ren everything he had seen upstairs.

"Gard protects the silver cross...... Silver and crosses. Gard who becomes a vampire. ――You can't be wrong. The designated weapon should be the cross sword. Unexpectedly, what Bai Chen said turned out to be true, but how did he know? ”

"Vampires?"

"Hmm. Gard was originally a human, a tiger, and a demon, but with these three gifts, he became a human tiger. However, now it should be because the vampires have changed from humans to ghosts. ”

That's why Gard will turn back into a tiger. It was by becoming a vampire that he could not transform into a human form. Because of the gift of changing into a human form, he has completely transformed into a ghost clan.

"Could it be that he wasn't the one who prepared the stage, but the vampire?"

"It's uncertain whether it's a vampire or not. Vampires are a rare race on the east side after all. However, the possibility of being behind it is quite high. After all, it is impossible to get Gard, who is supposed to be irrational, to prepare this kind of stage. ”

"Really...... I don't know who it is, but it's a really hateful thing. ”

Asuka turned his face unhappily and said. This should be angry that the game he provoked was interfered with by outsiders. At this moment, the bushes around the two suddenly shook.

"Who?"

“…… It's ...... me."

Out of the bushes came Yao covered in blood.

Asuka said in a slightly calm voice to the anxious Rendao

"Don't worry. No matter how strong Garde is, I won't lose to an irrational brute. ――Besides, don't you feel unwilling? Kasukabe thinks we don't have any hope of winning, so we go to fight alone? ”

She may think that if she wants to defeat Gard, who has obtained the power of the ghost clan, these two people may be a burden. Regardless of whether it was or not, Yao called "Run" to the bird. Because she is the only one who can buy time there.

Asuka thought that Yao would also run away immediately. She was originally going to renegotiate with the three of them and attack again. Ke Yao seized the sword by himself. This is the proof that she made a judgment that the inability to use the gift of Asuka will only be a burden.

"Can the bleeding be stopped by this?"

Asuka untied the two ribbons that tied her hair and handed them to Jen.

"Uh...... Ah, yes. ”

Jianren agreed, and she checked again that the pure red dress on her body would not affect her actions, and said to Yaodao

"Ten minutes will be solved. Hold on a little longer. ”

“…………”

Perhaps he heard her voice, and moved his left hand as if he had said "be careful" again.

Suddenly, a green light flew from the sky and enveloped Yao, and then Yao's injuries began to heal rapidly.

After a few seconds, Yao's injuries were fully healed, but he couldn't exert any force at will.

"Is it Bai Chen?"

Yao and Asuka looked in the direction where the light was flying.

"Thank you."

Then the bird turned and walked into the forest.

……

Garde Gaspar is still crouching on the second floor of the headquarters.

The left leg, which had just been cut in the battle, showed no signs of stopping the bleeding at all.

（……… Is it because he was slashed by a silver sword)

Gard doesn't know the rules. No. He became incomprehensible to human language. The blonde vampire sent someone to explain the rules, but the man was no longer breathing. He became Gard's first meal with the power of the ghosts. Gard thought that this man should be his subordinate, but he couldn't remember it anymore.

I don't know that the rules are still protecting the silver crosssword, because of the fear of the race.

Since selling his soul to a demon, Garde has never touched silver. This should be the same as the human wolf, afraid of the demon-breaking power that silver has.

(When you came into the world as a tiger, you never needed to be afraid of such things.) No, there's nothing in the forest that scares me at all. ……… But when did it start? I'm scared of a lot of things)

By the way, it started from getting the appearance of a person and entering the life of the box garden. Since then, I have become scared of many things. Because in this box garden, there are countless beings who are stronger than him.

Soon, Gard got the rights, but he was even more afraid. When he learned that there was a [NoName] but had a community of "Hakoniwa nobles", he was maddened with jealousy.

(And this right, the community, everything is gone...... There are just, this headquarters)

It's not that he can't leave headquarters. Rather, they are reluctant to leave.

competition, it has long forgotten all about it. It is the only remaining reason that guards this place. Only this office, built to show strength, is its last dignity.

So it will never let anyone set foot in the headquarters. It's like swearing that this is my territory, occupying this place.

If it were now, I'm afraid that even in the face of blonde vampires, it would fight without fear. The human tiger, which had been stripped of its edges and corners for various reasons, finally regained its wildness when it was alone in the past.

At this point, something unusual happened at headquarters.

（…………！？ ）

A pungent odor came. This is the smell of the distant past, smelled in the jungle. However, it could no longer remember when or under what circumstances it smelled. But only the restlessness in the chest is stirring instinct.

The slight uneasiness shook its determination not to leave the room on the second floor as long as there were no intruders. Garder, who couldn't bear to rush downstairs, was stunned by the tragic situation on the first floor.

(Headquarters in ...... Burn......!? ）

Faster than anger, there is instinctive terror. Fear of fire is in the nature of wild beasts. The first fear it experienced in its life was the countless flames that burned the woods when it was a tiger cub.

And what burns away its last consciousness as a human being is the flame that terrifies it.

“GEEEEEYAAAaaaa！！！”

In an instant, Garde rushed out of the headquarters. The cold flame burned away the last of its rationality. All that remains is its instinct to run to the forest as a beast and its cannibalistic instinct to survive as a vampire. It's not far from the place where the smell of blood has recently come from. He rushed through the woods as if he were being guided, only focused on his goal.

“…… I've been waiting for you for a long time. It's faster than you think~"

Tiger, stopped. This is not because of vigilance, but because of the fear of the blazing flames in the rubble in the target's hands, and the fear of the silver's crosssword.

"Oh, you still want to run at this time? You don't have anything left as the leader of OresGaro, right? So, at least you should rush up like a jungle king, right? ”

Even if provocative, the tiger does not understand human language.

If it were rational, it would have sensed the anomaly in the forest. Sensing that it was supposed to prevent the intruder from entering the intertwined trees, it was as if he was inducing himself, and separated left and right to make way for a branch road.

“…… Can't communicate? And it's no wonder. Because now you are completely a tiger. ”

The bird is at the end of the road that separates the left and right. Gard, who has the power of the oni clan, should be able to rush up and bite her neck faster than a leopard. However, the flame in the bird's hand made it unable to do so.

"I don't want to spend any more time anymore. So—"

Asuka tossed the fire aside. Here's the signal. She raised her silver cross sword and said

"Let's go one-on-one!"

“――GEEEEYAAAAAaaaa！！！”

……

When he saw Yao walking out of the forest covered in blood. The black rabbit was already screaming anxiously

"Miss Yao!"

Even Sixteen Night frowned, and then he saw a green light fly past his ears and shoot directly towards the place where Kasuga Yao was. Sixteen Nights and the Black Rabbit turned their heads to look at the starting point of the light.

"Since Yao has temporarily lost her combat effectiveness, after curing her, it should be okay to let her not interfere in the battle until the end of this match."

Bai Chen, who knew the agreement between Sixteen Nights and Ren, lazily collapsed on the sofa and said indifferently.

”…… OK. “

"Helped a lot."

Then the three of them continued to watch the game.