Vol 3 Chapter 6 Part 2
Vol 3 Chapter 6 Part 2
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Part 2
“Xiaolin-sama, now!”
“Yes!”
Xiaolin stepped forward. Her body was bathed in a crimson light.
“Xiaolin…! That light is…!”
Xiaolin covered the surprised Liu Jian with her back and slammed the dragon power she had kneaded into the Flame Tiger with all her might.
“Haaah!”
Bang!
“Gruaaaaah!”
The tiger was blown away by a direct hit from the tremendous dragon power.
“Wha…! What is that red power?”
“A-as I thought! That’s her dragon power!”
Yue shouted as Liu Jian’s eyes widened.
“T-that power is… no way…!”
“Vuvu, grrrr…!”
The tiger slammed into the wall and writhed madly.
Unlike when the princes and the others had attacked it, there was a large scar on the Flame Tiger’s face, and it was clearly damaged.
However.
“Gah, aaaaaa…!”
The tiger stood up while grunting in anger.
The princes and princess turned pale.
“No way, how can it not be defeated even if that mass of dragon power is smashed against it…!”
“Grrrrrrrrrrrr…!”
“Hah, hah…!”
Xiaolin breathed heavily. Her dragon power had just been unleashed and was still difficult to control, severely draining her concentration and mental energy.
Nevertheless, she stared at the flaming tiger with her burning eyes, its fur bristling with flame.
“The Seven Deadly Sins that have tormented the people of this land for a thousand years, the Flame Tiger… This is where we will settle the matter! I will not let you mess with the Lianxi Empire or the world! I will definitely protect them!”
Next to her, Lexia also smiled fearlessly, her blonde hair fluttering in the hot wind.
“I don’t know anything about seals and stuff, but the point is, if we can defeat this tiger, then everything will be fine!”
“It’s still a sketchy plan, isn’t it? Well, it’s a ship we’re on. We just have to see the mission through to the end.”
“Yes! If this is the last trial, we can’t just throw it away! After all, we are Xiaolin-san’s tutors!”
The four of them fearlessly faced the tiger, and the princes and princess shouted in a tense voice.
“No, not even the first emperor could defeat the tiger! There is no way you can defeat it!”
“Yes, you must not risk your lives!”
“Brother and the others, stay here out of sight. Take care of Father.”
“You can’t! Run, Xiaolin!”
But Xiaolin shook her head fearlessly.
“No! For the sake of my country, for the sake of my people, and for the sake of Lexia-san and the others who believed in me!”
“Vuoooooooooooo!”
Xiaolin gritted her teeth, choking on the hot wind that blew against her.
“(In order to defeat the tiger for sure, I need to knead more dragon power than before…! But it takes time to accumulate dragon power… and we have to buy time somehow…!)”
At that moment, Luna and Tito jumped out.
“We’ll lure the tiger to us!”
“Xiaolin, use your dragon power to stop it!”
“Luna-san, Tito-san…!”
Lexia, holding the Six Flower Shield, closed one eye on Xiaolin.
“Leave the defense to me, Xiaolin-sama; in the meantime, gather your dragon power! Don’t worry, I will protect you no matter what!”
“Thank you…!”
Xiaolin nodded and began to knead the dragon power.
Meanwhile, Luna and Tito were having a great fight against the tiger.
“Take this! Spiral!”
“Claw Piercing Bullet!”
Luna’s strings bunched up and pierced a huge hole in the tiger’s side while Tito shot out debris, inflicting countless small wounds.
However, unlike when Xiaolin had attacked with her dragon power, flames covered the wounds, which were quickly healed.
“Vuooooooo!”
“I see, as expected from the Seven Deadly Sins. It seems to be true that attacks other than dragon power are impenetrable.”
“But it seems that the bigger the wound, the longer it takes to heal!”
The two of them had just read that the wounds Luna had pierced were slower to heal compared to the small wounds Tito had inflicted.
“Ah. Once we know that, it should be enough to buy some time.”
“Until Xiaolin-san is ready, we’ll let you play with us! Thunder Roaring Claws・Extreme!”
“Spiral!”
Luna and Tito attack one after the other to stall the tiger.
“Guuuuuuu… gaaaaaahhh!”
The tiger, perhaps fed up with the non-stop attacks, spits flames at the ground.
A blazing fire spreads across the ground, and various strange shapes made of hellfire emerge from the flames.
“Gishaaaaaah!”
“Wawawa, there are more enemies!”
“As expected from the Seven Deadly Sins, it can do this…!”
As Luna and Tito prepared themselves in panic, the strange shapes born from the flames attacked them.
***
“Keeee!”
“A nine-tailed fox, that’s quite strange.”
Luna was facing a nine-tailed fox.
Lu Won and Yue, who were watching from afar, gasped at the majesty of the fox clad in flames.
“W-what was that monster…!”
“A flaming fox…! I’ve never seen a monster like that…!”
“Kukeeeeeeeeeeeee!”
With a high-pitched howl, a tail of flame rushes toward Luna.
“Prison!”
Luna stretches her strings around the fox, then leaps onto the strings, dodging the tails.
Nine tails change their trajectories to pursue Luna.
“Keeeeek!”
Luna jumped from string to string, dodging the tails that tried to pinch her from above, below, left, and right.
“H-how fast is she to dodge all those attacks…!”
“But this heat, I thought she’d run out of energy by now and wouldn’t be able to escape──no, that was…!”
Luna accelerates with the recoil of the string.
At the mercy of the meteor-like speed, tail and tail collided or tangled violently.
“K-keee…!”
The fox desperately chased after Luna’s figure as it untangled its tangled tail.
Luna was close behind.
“Too late──Spiral!”
Boom!
A bundle of threads spiraled in a drill-like pattern aimed at the fox and pierced him.
“Keeeeeeeeee!”
“No matter how many moves you have, it’s useless if they can’t keep up with my speed. The great swinging attack has become a setback.”
“S-she defeated such a powerful enemy in no time…!”
“S-she’s too strong…!”
However, when Luna’s feet land on the ground,
A school of horned monster fish leaped out of the sea of fire that spread across the ground.
“Gishaaaaaah!”
“L-look out!”
Before Lu Won could shout, Luna jumped, dodging the flaming fish and releasing her string.
“Boisterous Dance!”
But just before the string cut through, the monster fish dove into the sea of fire and hid.
“I see, so they are hiding in the flames and looking for an opening. It seems difficult to defeat them by simply attacking them.”
Luna’s mind flashed back to when she was training with Xiaolin in the forest.
“If that’s the case──”
Luna quickly looked around and manipulated her string.
“Gishaaaaaaahhhh!”
The fish jumped at Luna, who stopped moving for a moment.
However.
“Fuh… Caught you?”
Luna was not there; only her jacket, manipulated by strings, swayed.
“Gigii…?”
“Too bad it was a decoy──Boisterous Dance!”
The waiting strings sliced through the school of monstrous fish all at once.
“Gishaaaaaah…!”
“I-I can’t believe she defeated such a strange monster so easily…!”
“Her speed and strength are extraordinary… It’s not the strength of a mere tutor…!”
Luna’s hair fluttered in the hot wind as she watched the monster fish disappear into a firestorm.
“Not just attacking, but using what’s there… I guess I grew up with Xiaolin.”
A quiet smile appears on the corner of her mouth.
“I can’t let my cute little student see me being uncool.”
***
“Kukeeeeeeee!”
A huge monster bird born from the sea of fire spreads its flaming wings towards Tito.
“W-what is that flaming bird…?”
“Can the tiger even create familiars through flames…!”
Mao and Liu Jian shouted in amazement.
Tito fearlessly intercepted the monstrous bird as it glided past on the ground.
“Claw Flash!”
A flash of sharp claws reached out to the bird, aiming straight at it──.
Just before the attack hit, the bird flapped its wings and soared to the ceiling.
“Kukeeeeeeeeeeeeee!”
Mao and the others grit their teeth as the bird screams in derision.
“Damn it, we won’t be able to reach it with our attacks if it escapes into the sky…!”
“What a troublesome opponent…!”
But Tito looked up at the monstrous bird and prepared her claws.
“No matter how high you fly, you cannot escape my claws! Heavenly Impulse Claws!”
As Tito raised her claws from the bottom to the top, a sharp slash shot up and sliced the bird in half.
Zubaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
“Kekeeeeeeeeeee!”
“Wha!? T-to think she could cut such a huge bird in half…?”
“Did she send a slash that high…? I have never seen such an attack before…!”
Mao and Liu Jian were dazzled.
But before they could catch their breath, an eerie shadow rose from the flames around Tito.
Shadows similar to mirages─swarms of ghosts─were created one after another, surrounding Tito.
“Oooo-oooo…!”
The ghosts stretched out their flame-covered hands and attacked Tito at once.
“Claw Concert!”
Tito slashed with her sharp claws.
However.
“It doesn’t work…!”
“Oooooo…!”
The ghosts that were supposed to be attacked swayed without seeming to take any damage.
“Could it be that they are immune to physical attacks…?”
To Mao’s surprise, there were some enemies in this world, such as the ghosts that roamed the Great Devil’s Nest, who were immune to physical attacks.
“Oooooooooooo…!”
The spirits let out an eerie scream.
Then countless will-o’-the-wisps floated up and attacked Tito.
“Wawawa!”
Juuuuuuuuu…!
As Tito rolled to avoid them, the ground where the will-o’-the-wisps landed melted due to the high temperature.
“I-if someone got hit by something like that, they would burn to death in an instant…!
“Oooooooo!”
The ghosts roared, producing a larger amount of will-o’-the-wisp than before.
Seeing this, Liu Jian shouted.
“Physical attacks are useless against them! There is no way to defeat them; you have to run!”
Tito, however, lowered herself and braced herself.
“No, I will not give up! Just like Xiaolin-san, she kept trying no matter how many times she hit the wall! If physical attacks don’t work, how about this── Whirlwind Claws!”
As soon as the concentrated fire of the will-o’-the-wisp was unleashed, she crossed her hands and swung them out at once.
A huge gust of wind swirled around the will-o’-the-wisp, engulfing it and taking the ghosts with it.
“Ooo-ooooooooo…!”
Inside the tornado, the will-o’-the-wisp and the swarm of ghosts collided with each other, exploding and disappearing.
Mao and Liu Jian gasped as they watched the ghosts disappear.
“N-no way, she made them fight each other…!”
“How could she make that decision in an instant…! And that strength… those girls, who exactly are they…!”
Tito wiped the sweat from her brow.
“Phew, I did it! While taking the trials together with Xiaolin-san, I also learned some important things…!”
Without even taking a moment to catch her breath, she readied her claws and slashed at the newly born strange creature.
“Now, there is more to come! I’m not only Xiaolin-san’s big sister──but as her tutor, I have to show her the best of me as well!”