Rewind time a little earlier.

Beneath Shiizaki Shrine, which has been hosting Noh performances for the past few days, the open space on the lakeshore is already filled with first-year students of Inaba High School and local residents.

Even the nearby hillside is full of people, looking forward to the fireworks festival that will begin soon.

Shiratori sat on the spread out blue cloth and turned to look at Hikari, who was burying his head in a skewer of grilled pork belly.

"Hori Rin-san, is it really okay if we don't tell the teacher that the three of them are gone?"

Light gave a thumbs up and said indistinctly: "The nest has a sister style." ”

She swallowed the barbecue in her mouth and wiped her mouth: "Don't worry, and besides, please call me by my name directly in the future." ”

"Huh? All right. ”

Shiratori Mao still took out his mobile phone and sent a message to the two who suddenly ran out.

"But if they don't come back, they'll miss the fireworks show."

The light snapped and broke the bamboo stick in his hand.

"Maybe the two of them will be alone admiring the dragon's breath."

"The dragon's breath...... Ah, you mean fireworks, right? It's a bit like that, indeed. ”

Shiratori Mao agreed, "But Li Wujun wouldn't do such a thing." ”

"I also went to the hot spring hotel alone before, Prince Bo Xiaowu."

"Hikari really hates Prince Bo!" Shiratori Mao complained, and then put on a narrow smile, "Do you care so much about that?" ”

"I don't care at all, it's only about half as much as the son of the fourth generation of fire ○ cares about same-sex best friends."

"I think that's already in the category of a lot of care!"

While the two were talking, the first fireworks had already exploded in the air.

On the other side of the lake, a series of white fountains sprung up on the flat ground, and sparks rolled down like thousands of disintegrating white jade beads, followed by various flowers blooming high in the sky, and the moonlight was also eclipsed.

As a result, the light of remembrance and celebration attracts the behemoths that roam the island.

Standing on a rock on the shore of the lake, Shinhiro Teraya pointed his phone at the fireworks to take a picture and pass it to his sister, who was clamoring to see it.

"It's a real problem...... What is that? ”

He looked up and saw the moon hidden in a dark cloud.

Ninjas are far more sensitive to danger than ordinary people.

Now, the experience honed over the years—no, the more direct survival instinct of being an animal roars.

The blood flowing in the veins began to accelerate, and the excessive secretion of adrenaline caused a dizzy feeling in the brain.

Something is coming.

Tiny monsters squeezed through the gaps in the crowd, taking a bite to eat while someone looked up to watch the fireworks.

Zashiki raised his head stiffly suddenly.

The eyes of the light reflected a figure that emerged from the dark clouds.

The head lifted arrogantly, on the same central axis as its hanging thorny tail, and the dragon's wings stretched out to either side, suspended in the air.

It was like a huge white cross lying in the air, casting a shadow over the crowd to bring down sanctions against mortals.

As if impatient with the colorful dots of light around it, it flapped its wings slightly.

As if a storm had blown away the stars, the night sky returned to silence and darkness, bringing terror to humanity below.

"What's that?!" "Is it a dragon?" "Monsters!" "Winged Gora!"

The screams spread like waves, and the blackened crowd stirred.

Hikari was pulled up by the anxious Shiratori Mai and subconsciously reached behind his back.

There is nothing there.

This was the first moment of the arrival of the white dragon.

Just as it noticed the ant-like creature beneath it, a meteor lit up in the distant sky.

It is a phenomenon in which air friction generates heat due to the high-speed flight of massive objects.

The red comet slammed into the white dragon's waist from the side with the firelight.

Because the sound was so loud, the world fell silent for a short time.

The shock wave from the air shook tore apart the clouds above before it caused a rolling sound.

As if hundreds of stun grenades had been dropped, the crowd below covered their ears in pain, and many of them fell to the ground due to the disruption of their sense of balance.

But it's like a miracle of fate, when they recover, they will find that although they may have heard the loudest noise in their lives, miraculously everyone happens to be left with no physical damage.

And because of this sudden collision, the commotion stopped for a while.

"Everyone! Please calm down and evacuate from here in an orderly manner! ”

Teraya Mahiro jumped lightly onto a tall tree and loudly commanded the formation of the crowd.

"The students of Inaba High School are walking from this side of the hill!"

Covering her left ear, Yamama led the first-graders to keep the class formation and run away, and when someone fell, some incredible force would lift them up to avoid a stampede.

The boy was panting from exhaustion and looked up at the sky.

The white dragon was rolled out of thin air and knocked out of a distance of several hundred meters, but there was no damage on the outside, and it looked angrily at the existence that defied it.

Arisa generally spread her red dragon wings in a demonstration, making the white dragon, who was already in a frenzy, even more angry.

"Another dragon!"

Someone below exclaimed.

"Is there someone above that dragon?"

Shiratori asked uncertainly, holding his bare hand as he moved forward with the crowd.

Li Wu maintained the state of manifestation of the law phase, half-crouched on the neck of the red dragon, blocked his front with his hand, and recovered from the violent collision just now.

Looking down at the crowd below that had begun to evacuate, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Although the once a day [Self-Fulfilling Prophecy] was consumed here, casualties were successfully avoided.

He stood up, but the figure of the magical girl beside him disappeared for a while.

Two dragons of very different colors face each other in the distance above Lake Kamo.

The first to attack was the white dragon, whose mind had been tainted by the monsters of the Negative Realm, and instead of using breath, it tried to ram in a tooth for a tooth.

On the beach, it has already shown an ability similar to that of a storm, and the skill of using it seems to be on the next level.

Without any movement, the wind naturally generated behind the dragon's body, like a wake ejected by a supersonic fighter jet, and a total of four white pillars of wind propelled the dragon to cross a distance of several hundred meters in an instant, leaving a clearly visible sonic boom cloud.

Arisa deftly turned to her side, avoiding the impact by a fraction of a centimeter for the dragon's size, and as she passed, there seemed to be invisible walls rubbing against each other, splattering red and white sparks.

"That's the barrier that interferes with Hoshikawa's magic."

Li Wu needed to grasp the scales around Erisa's neck to avoid being thrown off, and he captured the phenomenon that had just occurred.

"Arisa, according to the plan, hit it into the mountains to the north. I'll warn you before your father attacks. ”

Under the action of inertia, the white dragon, which had rushed out of a considerable distance, urgently turned around, and the wind pressure brought by it set off a wave on the surface of the lake.

It humanized a hideous smile.

The turn-based offense and defense just started at the beginning.

On the other side of the lake, although the fireworksman has fled, the ignited fireworks are still being released according to the established procedure, like a stage backdrop for the confronting creatures.

Under the fireworks in full bloom, as if the history that once happened in Britain was about to be repeated on a foreign island, the war between the red dragon and the white dragon, the daughter and the father, was about to break out.

(End of chapter)