Moments ter a bst of dirt and debris exploded from deep within the ranks of the demons. A heavy cloud of dirt spread rapidly through the field and into the town blotting out everything. Everyone paused, staring towards the impa fusion. Demons turned around trying to figure out what attacked them.

  “Hunters?”

  “Of course not, you idiot. There’s no Hunters on this side.”

  “hat want to live anyway.”

  “It’s that woman!”

  “The ohat killed the Lord!”

  Back withiown, Yuki and Neriared at the bst wave of dirt ing into the street. A bit of sweat dripped as he looked at Seiji’s pn. “I guess that’s a way to get their attention…” he muttered. Moments ter, the clouds surrouhem, cutting off any sort of sight that they might have on the ing battle. Yuki could only make his move as promised. “Get into your position, Nerine! It’s begun!”

  Chapter 420 – Killing Impact

  Amidst the fusion and storm of clouds a white light fshed from within shooting out streams of narrow beams. Several demo down in an instant while others lost limbs. Roars of anger directed at their clouded foe sent several blindly charging in. Yet before they could even reach their target a couple of demons flehazardly in their way, cutting off their path suddenly.

  The demons turned in even more fusion towards the dire of the towhe demons came from. Out of the thick clouds two lines of light glowed brightly to annouhe presence of another enemy for them. Splitting their attentioweewo, they flung several ons at the target.

  However, to their uling discovery the ons all came to a stop suddenly gathered up together. They stepped out of the thinning clouds first, before Saki revealed herself to them. The oversized ons of the demons casually slung over her shoulder. “Reckless charge as always,” she shot back with Seiji stepping forward.

  “It got their damn attention didn’t it?” he replied, grinding his hand into his palm excited for a fight.

  “I think Yumi did that, not you.”

  “That was sort of the point.”

  Then a bst of wind carved away all of the dispersing dust from around Yumi as she revealed herself to the demon mass. White bdes hovered around her along with sparkling shards of her barrier. Gone from her face was the fusion and doubt. Focused and deadly, she only had a sihought to be read on her face.

  Death.

  “There’s two of them.”

  “Whie is the one we’re after?”

  “No one said anything about two women.”

  Seiji walked up alongside Yumi with Saki following, as they monitored the movements of demons trying to decide what they were going to do. “Looks like they’re fighting over which of you two to kill.”

  “Doesn’t really matter, they’re all dead anyway.”

  ‘I hought I’d hear such cold words from Yumi,’ Saki eo herself. She was gd that the doubt aation disappeared for Yumi. Yumi gained enough focus in proteg the ihat she could push past her dilemma, though Saki didn’t expect to see such a different sort of Yumi. ‘I uand why Yuki’s worried. This is a more dramatic shift than I was expeg as well.’ It made her remember the path of corpses she left behind for them to follow. That had been Yumi as well.

  However, Saki khat she had to focus on the immediate problem for now rather than the oh Yumi. They had demons fully surrounding them and not even the worst had arrived yet. These were merely the grunts. “Just be on yuard, we don’t know the strength of these demons.”

  Yumi walked out in front of them with her bdes quickly shifting into an offeanbsp; “It’s fine. I’ve learned how to fight with these sorts of odds.”

  “Let’s just kill them all to be certain!” The demons seemed to have reached a sensus that they could agree to in the end. None of them had a problem with the proposal. Though it was just as likely that they po kill every human anyway.

  “I’m not a damn woman!” Seiji protested.

  “I thought you wao fight them.”

  “Of course! But this shit is different.”

  “The human’s right.”

  “Maybe we just ignore him then?”

  Saki staggered a little feeling like Seiji’s stupidity was tagious. She had trouble believing what she was hearing. Rubbing her hand against her face, she just wao end this farce.

  Then a rge half bird and humanoid looking demon pushed through the ranks. They stood signifitly taller than all of the other demons in the group. From Yumi’s experie still was smaller than Manekamaru, but the other demhly were only about a half to twice their height. Somewhat small for the demons that she had been sying for weeks now.

  An oddly soft woman’s face came from the demon looking down at the others fighting over what they were going to do rather than killing. Her presence seemed to halt debates going on as they all went silent. “Cease this prattle. We’re here to exact revenge, kill them all. The ohat still lives is the one we’re seeking.”

  “The ander’s right!”

  All of the demons refocused their attention with a unified goal now. Their ons came to bear ohree friends along with the glow of demoniergy in the air. The air quickly became ignited with thick pressure of murderous i.

  Saki prepared herself for the fight to e. “Seems your stupidity wore off.”

  “Whatever, I’m ready for this shit!”

  Behind them a barrier suddenly grew up around the town with a simple, but elegant fre. Saki gnced over her shoulder at the Field that rose. He kept it appearance wise to fit within the bounds of the setting for the world. She could tell he was being careful to keep attention off his powers. ‘He’s being smart about it etting caught up in the world, not pletely sure whibsp; But this works…’

  Immediately jumping before the demons resumed their attack, Yumi grabbed one of her bdes at her side and in a fsh beheaded the Demon ander. The demons stood in shock at Yumi’s lethal opening move, not expeg her to ght for the kill and pre-emptive attabsp; Equally shocked were her friends. They saw a pletely different side of Yumi that seemed almost alien to the friend that they knew before.

  “ander?!”

  “What the hell are you doing, Yumi?” Seiji yelled with untrolled shobsp; He tried to charge forward to reach her, but she immediately tinued her assault on the demons, wiping out more than a dozen with little effort. It stunned him watg Yumi mercilessly sughtering demons that couldn’t even mao fight back from her swift movements. A barely uttered word came from him watg her.

  Saki kicked a demon out of the way that came flying at Seiji, tossed carelessly by Yumi. It was already dead by the time it reached them. Most of the demons that had been surrounding them weren’t even paying attention to them anymore. Yumi had pletely stolen their gaze. “Seiji. Seiji!”

  He absentmindedly looked back at her, not fully recovered. “…Saki…”

  “You o get your head in the fight.”

  “But…”

  “I know it’s surprising to see, but she’s out there alht now. sidering the numbers she won’t survive ohe shock of her attack wears off.”

  Like with Saki before, Seiji started to see where Yuki came from during their versation about Yumi. He had trouble believing that things had ged this mubsp; Seiji wao know where his friend had gone.

  To their surprise, the Demon ahat Yumi slew in the opening attack rose back up in front of the two. It burst in the fmes along with the head darkening the field beyond the source of the light. Even Yumi paused out of curiosity at what was happening, evaluating the threat.

  “What the hell’s going on now?! Yumi killed that thing!”

  “Maybe it’s going to self-destruct?”

  “It wants to win that bad that’ll kill us all with that shit?!”

  “I’m just guessing…”

  However, the fmes didn’t seem to be burning the demrowing. Rather the fmes seemed to have some sort of life of their own transf into a hand. Stretg out through the air, the fmes called out to each other.

  “Is it searg for its head?”

  “Is that even possible?! How the hell is it alive still?”

  Alerted to the danger, Yumi snapped ba the attabsp; ‘I don’t know what’s happening, but I guess this sort of demo die so easily. I’ll o be more thh with it…’ Demons stepped in the way trying to slow her down, but she used her gravity orbs to pull open a path. All her struggling was in vain however as the demon found its head before she could reach it. Throwing her bdes in a futility attempt did nothing to slow it down.

  ected with its head through the fme, the head quickly returned back to the demon with the fme disappearing. Once more the giant Demon aood staring down at Yumi only ing up to its knees. “I’ve missed seeing such a ruthless human, it’s been too long!”

  Yumi groueeth, ahat she couldn’t prevent the revival. The reason didn’t matter to her, only that she had to kill the demon once more. Her bdes returo her side preparing for the fight. ‘If it e back from that, I’m not sure how much it’ll take to actually kill the demon…’

  On the opposite side of the demon, Saki and Seiji tried to get closer to Yumi, but the revived demon gave a bolstering effect to the demon army. They fought back strohan before keeping them separated.

  “Shit, we’ve got to do something! Yumi’s pletely surrounded!”

  It surprised Saki a little how quickly he dropped the other issue that previously ed him down. But he wasn’t wrong. Priorities in their survival came before everything, no matter the personal moral crisis before them. “Then we just o go around them!”

  “What?”

  She leapt over the demons nding sharply behind Yumi watg her back for the demons that wanted as much of a piece of her as their ander. This was all she could dht now. The immediate problem o be solved first before anything.

  Crashing through the demons in the way, Seiji arrived with the group kig a few off that were still in tow. He looked around at their pletely surrounded position. It somehow looked worse thahey first dropped in at the start. But he found his fighting spirit. “We’ll keep this shit off your back!”

  “Focus on the big one!”

  “I will!” Yumi charged at the ander while her friends split the demon horde between them. The struggle to protect the town hit a new wall, but they would keep pung through.