As a Ninja, I Only Want to Live Off Women in Type-Moon

"From my observations, Uchiha Kanade has no Mage Crest, and the techniques he uses contain none of what is traditionally considered Mana. This is likely because he has no need for a Mage Crest at all, perhaps not even Magic Circuits."

"Phantasmal Species originated in the Age of Gods, when Mystery had yet to decline. They can naturally access and absorb Mana from the Great Source, and every attack they make possesses power modern Magi can hardly achieve. If Uchiha Kanade is some kind of Phantasmal Species, then he would not need the Magic Circuits or Mage Crest required by Magi to accomplish something like this with ease."

"But even if he's using Mana from the Great Source, shouldn't it at least trigger some kind of magical phenomenon? Why haven't the elements in the air reacted at all?" Luvia could not help but interject. Waver's explanation was simply too unbelievable.

"I suggest you go to the Clock Tower for further study. How do you not even know such basic common sense?" Waver sighed helplessly before explaining, "There are many kinds of Phantasmal Species, but we have studied far too few of them."

"Before the Age of Discovery, we Magi were confined to Europe, so naturally we knew very little about the mysterious East."

"It is said that in ancient China, their spellcasters were called cultivators. The energy needed for cultivation was called spiritual energy or spiritual power, while immortals used a higher-grade energy known as immortal energy. Whether spiritual energy and immortal energy count as Mana in the traditional sense remains disputed to this day. After all, we have encountered far too little of them. By the time we discovered them, they had already gone to the Reverse Side of the World."

"If Uchiha Kanade truly belongs to Japan's oni kind, then it would be nothing surprising if he used some other form of energy rather than Mana. We Magi still know far too little, which is why we must spend our entire lives pursuing the Vortex of the Root and learning every truth."

"Finally, I want to say that my speculation regarding Uchiha Kanade's identity is merely what I consider the most reasonable conclusion under the current circumstances. I do not know whether it is truly the truth. Perhaps capturing him and studying him would yield better results."

Waver looked at Higashino Kanade with eyes full of curiosity. Though he was not a traditional Magus, he too had the urge to study the unknown. If he had been able to defeat Higashino Kanade, Waver would very likely have put him on an operating table, or used deception to obtain one or two of his organs.

In this modern era where Mystery was declining, materials from Phantasmal Species were exceedingly rare—and expensive.

"Given Lord El-Melloi II's discernment, I believe your judgment."

Luvia had also recovered somewhat from the pain of her Mage Crest. Her jewel-like, pristine eyes remained fixed on Higashino Kanade, like a merchant who had discovered a vast treasure trove, filled with greed and desire that she could barely conceal.

The Edelfelt Family was the most elegant hyena in the magecraft world. Once they discovered something valuable, they naturally would not let it go—much less a treasure trove like Higashino Kanade.

Fliyou, who had been standing around uselessly for a long time, also revealed a greedy look. However, he forcibly suppressed that greed, and no one knew what he was thinking.

Higashino Kanade, immersed in his surging strength, failed to notice that the Magi he had protected were all harboring ulterior motives. Every one of them was thinking about how to put him on an operating table, slice him up for research, and preserve his corpse as a specimen.

All Higashino Kanade wanted now was to vent this immense power and smash the Demonic Beast into a meat patty.

Before making his move, Higashino Kanade glanced over his shoulder.

Though the wings grown in Curse Mark of Heaven Stage Two had torn through his clothes, the Red Cloud Robe was fortunately sturdy enough. There was only a large hole in the back, and after a few days of self-repair, it could still be worn.

If the transformation had truly burst his clothes apart and triggered the chance of "taking off clothes means certain death," Higashino Kanade would not even have had a place to cry.

During the time Higashino Kanade had spent transforming, the Demonic Beast's injuries had mostly healed. However, its body had only grown a little larger, nowhere near its previous enhancement. It seemed the Demonic Beast had reached the limit of its strengthening. Its current state was already its strongest form.

Higashino Kanade stopped watching. With a flap of his bat wings, his entire body turned into a streak of black lightning and charged forward. In an instant, he arrived before the Demonic Beast and threw a heavy punch.

"Ora!"

His fist was like a cannonball fired from its barrel. With that single punch, Higashino Kanade sent the entire Demonic Beast flying. Its massive body carved a long trail across the ground before finally stopping after smashing through several trees.

Before the Demonic Beast could rise, Higashino Kanade appeared before it again as if he had teleported. Then his two small fists rained down upon the Demonic Beast's body.

"Ora ora ora ora ora—"

Higashino Kanade's fists produced a dense flurry of afterimages, every strike filled with enough force to shatter the earth.

The ground trembled, and the Demonic Beast wailed. Under Higashino Kanade's full-force barrage, half its body was beaten into a bloody pulp, while a massive circular crater ten meters in radius and two meters deep formed beneath it.

The battle had become a one-sided slaughter. The once-ferocious Demonic Beast was now like a little puppy being pinned to the ground and relentlessly crushed by Higashino Kanade.

The Demonic Beast had been beaten to its last breath, but Mana from the earth still struggled to repair its injuries. Higashino Kanade did not show mercy. He decided to use his strongest finishing move to end the battle.

Higashino Kanade raised one hand above his head. The surrounding airflow began to whirl violently, and a blue sphere quickly formed, then rapidly grew larger, larger, and larger still.

The Sage Chakra within his body continuously poured into the Rasengan. The Rasengan, originally no bigger than an ordinary palm, became a gigantic blue sphere as tall as two people.

This attack was—Sage Art: Super Big Ball Rasengan!

With a thunderous boom, Higashino Kanade slammed the Super Big Ball Rasengan onto the Demonic Beast. A raging storm swept through the entire forest.

Amid the Demonic Beast's wails, the Rasengan continuously annihilated its body. Its pitiful regenerative ability was utterly unable to match the Rasengan's destructive power.

As a spherical crater half the size of a basketball court formed, Higashino Kanade completely killed the Demonic Beast, leaving behind only a few remains and an entire forest leveled to the ground.

Waver and the others stared in utter shock at this unprecedented sight. The destructive power of Higashino Kanade's attack had already far exceeded what modern magecraft could achieve. Perhaps only the magicians of the Age of Gods, or Heroic Spirits who existed only in legend, could accomplish such a feat with ease!

This Uchiha Kanade was no longer a Magus. He was true Mystery walking in the modern age!

Looking at the immense destruction caused by his attack, Higashino Kanade could not help but tear up.

He could finally make a bigger ball!

At that moment, the castle gates were pushed open. Like a police officer on television who only arrived late after everything had already been resolved, Grea came out panting, carrying the completely unharmed Roxanne in her left arm and the severely injured Jirobou Seigen Shitou over her right shoulder.

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Uchiha's Maniacal Laughter

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Save it. I'll stock up on some luck.

Higashino Kanade let out a long breath, then noticed the late-arriving Grea.

Grea was looking at Higashino Kanade with a vigilant expression. Her face was hidden beneath her hood, making her expression impossible to see, but the slight trembling of her legs showed that she had probably been frightened by his current appearance.

"J-Junior disciple."

Grea cautiously called him that, then shrank back as though she had done something wrong. She seemed to be doubting something, since Higashino Kanade did not look human at all right now.

"It's me."

Higashino Kanade nodded in confirmation, but his tone was not as gentle as usual. Instead, it was filled with an icy indifference that reached the extreme.

Only after receiving confirmation did Grea let out a sigh of relief. As she walked toward Higashino Kanade, she asked worriedly, "Junior disciple, what's wrong? You don't look very well. And what happened here? Where's the Demonic Beast? Is Master and everyone else alright?"

Grea swept her gaze over the surroundings.

The front courtyard was now utterly unrecognizable. It no longer resembled the elegant, natural scenery from when they had arrived three days ago. It looked as though it had experienced a brutal battle. The forest had been leveled, and the entire land had been overturned.

"The Demonic Beast has already been defeated by me. Waver and the others are fine too."

"Eh! Really? Junior disciple, you're amazing!"

Grea's mouth fell wide open, her emerald-green pupils filled with astonishment.

Grea had fought the Demonic Beast before. Though their encounter had been brief, she was certain that without releasing the Holy Lance, she would not have been its match. Yet this junior disciple, who looked several years younger than her, had defeated the Demonic Beast without relying on a weapon from the Age of Gods. She could not help but be shocked by Higashino Kanade's strength.

"Idiot Grea, don't get any closer to him! There's an incredibly evil aura on him. He's no longer human—he's a monster!"

Add beneath Grea's cloak frantically warned her in a voice only she could hear, fearfully bouncing all over the birdcage.

Add was the Mage's Garment held by Grea, inherited from a graveyard. It was a cube made of multiple components, carved with eyes and a mouth, and stored in a long cage resembling a birdcage. Grea usually kept it in her right hand.

Not only was Add a Mage's Garment with a personality, it was also one of the seals restraining King Arthur's Holy Lance, Rhongomyniad. In its first stage, it could transform into weapons such as a scythe, shield, or hammer. In its second stage, it released the Holy Lance, and its personality temporarily disappeared.

Precisely because Add was a Mage's Garment that had lived in a graveyard for a long time, it was especially sensitive to the evil aura emitted by the dead. Thus, it could sense the malice coming from Higashino Kanade more clearly than anyone else.

"Add! You're not allowed to say that about junior disciple. He's the benefactor who protected Master and everyone else." Grea shook the cage in dissatisfaction, leaving Add dizzy from being flung around. Grea had a very good impression of this junior disciple.

"Hahahaha! With the power of the Sharingan, victory is only natural!"

Higashino Kanade covered half his face with one hand and once again let out Uchiha's maniacal laughter. Then he realized something was wrong.

He clearly was not an attention-seeking person, so why was he acting so chuunibyou right now?

A wave of embarrassment surged into his heart. Higashino Kanade suddenly recalled that in the original Hokage story, the evil Chakra awakened by the Curse Mark of Heaven could affect the host's personality. For example, Jugo, the source of the Curse Mark of Heaven, turned into a murderous demon whenever he transformed.

Though he had not become cold-blooded and cruel like Second Uchiha, his personality had still become more arrogant and conceited. The reason his personality had not continued worsening was probably because his will was firm enough. Unlike Second Uchiha, he was not constantly talked into submission by others.

"Junior disciple, what you just said was kind of cool." Grea lowered her head shyly, shocked by Higashino Kanade's domineering side.

"Ahem. Let's not talk about that. Where did you go just now? I heard from Waver that you went after the Demonic Beast. Why did you only come out after the fight was over?" Higashino Kanade hurriedly changed the subject.

"S-Sorry! I put all of you in danger."

Grea quickly bowed in apology and said with a guilty expression, "When I was pursuing the Demonic Beast, I saw Mr. Jirobou Seigen Shitou running away while carrying Miss Roxanne. I wanted to rescue Miss Roxanne first before continuing after the Demonic Beast, and then... I got held up."

Grea lowered her head dejectedly like a sad little deer, blaming herself for being so useless.

Jirobou Seigen Shitou really was no match for Grea. She should have been able to subdue him easily, but while pursuing him, Jirobou Seigen Shitou activated the Mage's Workshop's defensive mechanism, successfully delaying Grea, who was not skilled in magecraft.

Furthermore, Jirobou Seigen Shitou's mind had already descended into madness, and he was holding a hostage. Rescuing the hostage without killing Jirobou Seigen Shitou had not been easy.

"Sorry, I'm just too clumsy."

"It's fine. At least things turned out well. Just remember to come sooner next time. It's been a long time since I was pushed this far."

Higashino Kanade could not help placing his hand atop Grea's hood, gently patting it in an attempt to comfort her.

Incidentally, because Grea was much taller than Higashino Kanade, he had to raise his hand to reach her hood.

"Eek, eek, eek—"

Grea was startled by the sudden intimate gesture. Her face instantly flushed so red it seemed to steam. After shouting, "Sorry!" she hurriedly ran behind Waver, too scared to poke her head out.

"Why can't I control this hand?"

Higashino Kanade looked at his right hand, feeling that ever since he had patted Ryougi Shiki's head, he had awakened some strange trait.

As he spoke, Higashino Kanade pulled out a Kunai from his ninja tool pouch and looked toward Jirobou Seigen Shitou, whose entire body was covered in wounds as he crawled toward the Demonic Beast's remains.

"Uchiha Kanade, what are you trying to do?" Seeing this, Waver hurriedly stepped forward to ask.

"Of course I'm finishing him off. Why keep him alive, to celebrate the New Year?" Higashino Kanade spoke ruthlessly in an entirely matter-of-fact tone.

"There's no need to go that far. The Demonic Beast is already dead, and the Mage's Workshop has mostly been destroyed. Granit no longer has the ability to threaten us. All we need to do now is knock him unconscious and hand him over to the Clock Tower. I believe the Clock Tower will help Jirobou Seigen Shitou remove Granit's personality and turn him back into himself." Waver tried to dissuade him in a gentle tone.

Among the many Magi, Waver truly was an anomaly. He possessed more kindness than traditional Magi, and his way of handling matters was gentler as well.

"Fine. Then I'll leave him to you."

The quest had already been completed, and Higashino Kanade did not want to offend Waver over such a trivial matter. He simply left it to them.

While Higashino Kanade and Waver were speaking, Jirobou Seigen Shitou had already crawled over to the Demonic Beast's remains.

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Grea's Soft Rice

Jirobou Seigen Shitou grabbed the Demonic Beast's corpse in the crater, and the pained expression on his face revealed an indescribable joy.

"Hahaha, you damned bitch! You got Father killed! You deserved to die!"

Jirobou Seigen Shitou let out a hearty laugh, as happy as if he had finally avenged a great grievance.

But as he laughed, two streams of tears ran down Jirobou Seigen Shitou's face, and that carefree laughter suddenly turned into sorrowful sobbing.

"Mother is dead. Father is dead. Now I'm the only one left. What is this pain in my heart?"

Jirobou Seigen Shitou clutched his chest in agony. His heartbreaking cries reached everyone's ears, but aside from Grea, everyone else wore cold expressions.

Grea wanted to go comfort him, but Waver stopped her.

This was not because Magi were naturally cold-hearted. The culprits behind this situation were the Gryphon family. Had Higashino Kanade not killed the Demonic Beast, the ones crying now would have been Waver and the others' families.

"My home is gone! You killed my mother! I want you all to be buried with my parents!!!" Jirobou Seigen Shitou roared madly and suddenly crushed something in his arms.

The next moment, the entire Stripped City began to shake. Countless terrifying vengeful souls flew out from every corner of the castle and charged toward Higashino Kanade and the other living people.

These ghosts had been formed from the Magi killed by Gryphon. They had died on Gryphon's operating table in life, then after death, Gryphon had imprisoned them in his Mage's Workshop to use against his enemies.

"This is bad!" Waver cried out in alarm, his expression becoming uglier than ever before.

There were many ghosts, and since they had all been Magi in life, their strength after death far surpassed that of ordinary spirits. At this number, they could very well be wiped out entirely.

"We should've finished him off." Higashino Kanade sighed helplessly. It was not as though he had failed to consider this possibility.

In his previous life, Higashino Kanade had suffered because he failed to finish someone off. During a squad mission, they discovered an eight-year-old child among their enemies. Higashino Kanade's squad had softened and spared the child, only for the child to bring reinforcements afterward and hunt down Higashino Kanade's team.

Although no one in Higashino Kanade's squad had been hurt in that incident, he had deeply understood the importance of finishing off enemies. Any enemy Higashino Kanade dealt with was usually unlikely to survive. He could even bring himself to kill ordinary civilians.

Looking at the terrifying spirits swirling through the sky, Higashino Kanade roughly counted them. There were around three hundred.

This time, Higashino Kanade had a headache. In the Naruto world, there were barely any ninjutsu capable of harming souls. As for Fuinjutsu, he only knew the basics. It was definitely useless against so many undead.

In other words, attacks against the dead just happened to be Higashino Kanade's greatest weakness at present, and it was very difficult to make up for.

Either he had to open treasure chests until he obtained the Rinnegan, or he had to learn necromancy from the Type-Moon world. Until then, undead would be Higashino Kanade's greatest nemesis.

"Let's test it first. Maybe the undead in this world can be hurt by ninjutsu."