"As expected of Nico." Eli Ayase also praised.
Although everyone was playing excitedly, only Maki Nishikino was lying on the beach chair under the umbrella and reading a book.
Yazawa Nico, who was almost done playing, came over with red-rimmed sunglasses on her face.
"Really, even though it's a PV shoot, it's still not easy to play the role of a little devil." With that said, Yazawa Nico sat on the beach chair next to Maki Nishikino.
"Yes." Maki Nishikino answered Yazawa Nico casually, and then continued to read the book intently.
"Uh..." Yazawa Nico felt that she had been perfunctory. Even though her face was blocked by her sunglasses, she could still tell that she must be unhappy.
Nico, who held back his emotions, turned his back to Maki Nishikino and asked.
"Can I sit next to you?"
"Okay."
"I'm sorry." Then Yazawa Nico lay down on the beach chair.
Although Maki Nishikino himself doesn't know and doesn't care about a thing, for Yazawa Nico who is at a disadvantage in this matter, it can only be said that it is difficult.
It's the height difference. As a third-year student, Yazawa Nico lacks μ's and is the shortest in height. Compared with Maki Nishikino, the first-year student next to him, Yazawa Nico does not have the slender thighs of Maki Nishikino. For Nico, who has a strong sense of vanity, this is a shame.
"Cut--" Yazawa Nico gently took off his glasses and glanced at Maki Nishikino, then grabbed the edge of the chair and stretched his feet forward.
"... It's not even close." Or if you do this, you can see on the surface that Yazawa Nico seems to be a few millimeters or about a centimeter longer, but it still doesn't help.
At this time, bang, a volleyball hit Yazawa Nico in the face.
"Yeah!"
"Sorry, Nico-chan!" Honoka Kosaka, who was playing beach volleyball in front, waved to Yazawa Nico.
"Go and fight somewhere farther away!"
"Nico-chan is coming to fight too!" Yazawa Honoka invited, and everyone behind her was also looking forward to her joining.
However, Yazawa Nico has no such plan.
"How can I go back to play with such a child's thing~" Yazawa Nico adjusted his posture and put on his sunglasses.
"You're not good at saying that, right?" Rin Hoshizora cast a look of contempt at Yazawa Nico and mocked him.
"What did you say?!" Yazawa Nico was provoked and immediately sat up. Yazawa Nico left his seat and picked up the volleyball that fell behind, "Let you see my Love Nico Attack!" Now that Yazawa Nico has joined, Maki Nishikino is the only one left.
"Maki-chan won't come to fight?" Honoka asked.
"Huh? I'll forget it." Then, Maki Nishikino continued to read with the book in hand.
"That's it..."
"Maki is not easy either." Nozomi Tojo and Eli Ayase looked at Maki Nishikino a little helplessly. They couldn't interfere with others doing their own things in free time, but spending this time on studying during vacation might be a bit of a waste.
"Uh-huh~" Hearing Eli Ayase say this, Nozomi Tojo secretly smiled.
"Huh? Is there anything strange?" Eli Ayase asked curiously.
"It's nothing."
Although he said no, Eli only felt that hope was showing off, but he did not continue to ask.
Why is hope laughing? Only she knows, or in other words, Eli Ayase also knows.
In the study room of the villa, Senba Gari looked at the girls playing on the beach through the study window and couldn't help shaking his head in amusement.
"Huh~huh~ Which one should I read..." Senba Gari looked at the many books on the bookshelf in front of him that he had not read, and thought with some distress.
"Uh..." Suddenly, Senba Gari's head began to feel severe pain. In pain, he held his painful head with one hand and put the other hand on the bookshelf.
"Ha... ha... ha..." After a while, when the severe pain in his head disappeared, Senba Gari held on to the bookshelf slightly tiredly, his head covered with cold sweat from the severe pain.
Senba Gari doesn't know how many times this has happened. Since the last battle, Senba Gari's head has started to feel severe pain. However, after the severe pain, a strange scene always appears in his mind.
It was a blood-red picture, because everything around it was blood-red, but there was a scene of the moon and the sun appearing together in the sky. In the picture, a man wearing tattered armor, covered with stab wounds, arrows, and blood was half-kneeling on the ground with a moon-white sword that was incompatible with the surroundings. But when the picture reached this point, it disappeared again.
Pat--
At this time, a scroll that looked quite old suddenly fell from the bookshelf and fell on the ground in front of Senba Gari.
"Huh? This is..."
Staying at the Seaside (Part 2)--Human? God? Demon? (Chapter Two in One)
"Huh? This is..."
Looking at an ancient scroll that suddenly fell from somewhere on the bookshelf, Senba Gari, with strong curiosity in his heart, bent down and picked up the scroll that fell on the floor.
Senba Gari looked at the scroll in his hand carefully. The material of the scroll seemed to be the skin of some kind of animal. The color of the scroll had turned yellow, and it was tied with an animal tendon.
"Oh, I didn't expect there to be a scroll like this here. It looks like this scroll is from a certain age, it must have been around for a thousand years." Looking at the scroll in his hand, Senba Gari couldn't help but sigh.
"Open it and take a look."
Just as he was told, Senba Gari stretched out his hand to untie the tendons tied to the scroll, and then carefully placed the tendons on the table. Then, Senba Gari grabbed one end of the scroll and slowly opened the scroll to both sides.
Then what came into view was a huge ferocious pattern. At the same time, Senba Gari was suddenly frightened by this pattern. He leaned back and sat down on the ground.
"Whoa!"
--Wow
At the same time, the scroll was thrown out instinctively by Senba Gari, and slowly fell to the floor. The scroll was also completely unfolded, revealing the entire inside.
"Senba Gari, Senba Gari, what happened to you recently? You were frightened by a painting." After Senba Gari calmed down, he realized that he was frightened by a painting.
Then Senba Gari got up from the ground, then picked up the scroll from the ground again, and saw clearly the contents of the scroll, a painting, just a painting, but this picture gave Senba Gari a kind of shock and a hint of... familiarity.
The pattern that scared Senba Gari just now was just the tip of the iceberg of this painting. When Senba Gari followed the pattern, a ferocious beast shadow came into his eyes.
Eight snake-like heads, each snake has red ferocious eyes, and each snake has a very ferocious mouth open with sharp fangs. The lower body of the snake is replaced by a group of ferocious beast shadows of different shapes. Opposite these beast shadows, there is a group of figures holding various weapons. The most prominent one is above the crowd, a figure with eight snake heads in front of the monster. The figure wearing armor and holding a sword looked like he was about to rush in front of the monster with eight snake heads, and the monster with eight snake heads seemed to be looking at that person. I don't know if it was intentional or for some reason. Senba Gari couldn't see clearly the face of the most prominent figure in the painting, and that person seemed to overlap with the figure that appeared in his mind.
After watching this painting, Senba Gari suddenly felt that this was obviously a painting, but he felt that the characters in the painting were real, otherwise he would not have been scared. It was as if he had experienced it personally, and he could feel a hint of coercion from the eight snake-headed monsters and the man in the painting, and -
"These monsters seem to be Mlortha... Isn't this painting going to talk about the war between Mlortha and humans?! Then these eight snake-headed monsters will be..." Looking at the monsters with eight snake heads in the painting, Senba Gari already had a vague answer in his heart.
Yamata no Orochi.
The creator of Mlortha and seven-HBRUTE (Seven-HBrute), the leader who caused this world to merge with other worlds ten years ago, leading to an unknown war, and the enemy he must face next.
"Wait, then this person can't be Susanoo..."
Susanoo, also known as Susa-no-Mikoto, Japan, is the youngest of the three children of Izanagi in mythology, and his most famous incident is that he once beheaded Yamata no Orochi and took out a knife from its tail, and this knife was later passed down as 'Ame-no-Murakumo'.
"It's an illusion... How could it be such a coincidence that Yamata no Orochi jumped out of the myth and became the creator of Mlortha and seven-HBRUTE (Seven-HBrute). I can't accept it anymore. If there is another one, I will probably go crazy..." Senba Gari sat on the chair in the study and rubbed his temples. He now felt that his worldview had begun to stray away from the scope of normal people.
"But..." Senba Gari looked at the painting in his hand again, "Didn't Mlortha appear in my memory thousands of years ago? Besides, I have only heard of the existence of Yamata no Orochi from senior Philip in addition to myths. But why was it that the description of Mlortha I saw in the ruins that day was limited to Mlortha, seven-HBRUTE (Seven-HBrute), the existence of Divine and Spirit, but only the existence of Yamata no Orochi has not been revealed at all. Could it be that people in ancient times deliberately concealed it? Impossible, if that is the case, then they do not need to reveal the existence of Mlortha, seven-HBRUTE (Seven-HBrute), Divine and Spirit..."
Senba Gari tried hard to associate everything he knew together, but the more he thought about it, the more complicated it all seemed. So complicated that he almost began to doubt that Divine and Spirit were really trying to eliminate Mlortha and seven-HBRUTE (Seven-HBrute)? All of this... seemed not as simple as Senba Gari thought.
For a long time, Senba Gari raised his hands and grabbed his hair, shouting in great distress.
"Ahhhhh... I can't figure it out at all! I can't figure it out!" Then Senba Gari suddenly opened his eyes, "No! It seems that I need to learn more about the history of Mlortha, otherwise I will be passive in the future."
At dusk, the girls who had just returned from the beach were on their way back to the beach villa with laughter and joy.
"Hey, everyone, how about we go to this haunted house together tonight."
On the way, Honoka Kosaka shook a brochure of a haunted house in their hands, which they got from a strange stranger on their way back.
"Not bad, I very much agree with Honoka's idea." Eli Ayase very much agrees with Honoka Kosaka's idea. After all, there are some fun activities for everyone to go to together, and her "senior ban" plan will go more smoothly, "What do you think?"
Eli Ayase also didn't forget to ask other people's opinions.
"Haunted... haunted house..." Hanayo Koizumi shrank timidly behind Rin Hoshizora.
"That must be very interesting, cat!" Rin Hoshizora seemed to be very interested in the haunted house.
"I don't care, that thing is just to fool children anyway, Nico I'm not afraid of it."
Yazawa Nico said pretending not to care, while Maki Nishikino walking next to her also mercilessly undermined her.
"Oh, really? Then don't run away when the time comes." Maki Nishikino's subtext is that she will go too.
"Haunted house? Since it's Honoka's idea, I'll go too." Minami Kotori also expressed his intention to join.
"Yeah, I'll go too. I haven't been to a haunted house yet." Umi Sonoda nodded in agreement.
"In this case, let's call Teacher Senba. Today, Teacher Senba has almost never gone out to play in the villa." Walking to the door of the villa, Nozomi Tojo suggested.
"Okay, okay! It will be very interesting if teacher Senba comes too!" Honoka Kosaka fully agrees with Nozomi Tojo's suggestion.
At the same time, Nozomi Tojo also looked at the other girls, who also nodded in agreement.
"We are back!" Then the nine girls walked into the villa one after another.
"Eh?"
It's just that the villa is now empty, and there is no sign of Senba Gari.
"Strange, where is Brother Hunter?" Minami Kotori looked around with some confusion.
"It's probably in the study room. Teacher Senba seemed to have borrowed the study room from me before." Maki Nishikino remembered that Senba Gari had borrowed the study room from her before.
"Then let's go to the study and have a look." So the nine girls ran to the study one after another.
--Kacha
"Senba old... uh..."
When Honoka Kosaka opened the study door, the nine girls saw a rare scene.
In the study, the desk was filled with all kinds of books, and Senba Gari was lying quietly on the desk. Judging from the steady rise and fall of his body, Senba Gari was asleep, and he slept very peacefully.
"Hey, poke." Honoka Kosaka walked up to the sleeping Senba Gari out of curiosity, then stretched out his hand involuntarily and poked the side of Senba Gari's face.
"Well..." In response, Senba Gari did not wake up, but frowned slightly.
"Hehe." Honoka Kosaka seemed to be very amused by Senba Gari's reaction.
"Honoka, what are you doing?" Umi Sonoda asked Honoka Kosaka in a low voice. After all, this might wake up Senba Gari.
"Eh? What didn't you do?" Honoka Kosaka didn't seem to be surprised by what she just did. She often teased Takasaka Yukiho like this when she was a child.
"You guys, you are too nervous." Yazawa Nico complained in a dark way.
"Okay, everyone, let's go down first. Don't disturb Teacher Senba's sleep." Eli Ayase said in a low voice.
"Hmm."
Then the girls walked out of the study carefully one after another, and then carefully closed the study door, leaving only Senba Gari sleeping peacefully on the table.
However, it was different in his dream.
A blood-red sky and land, a hill made of piles of bones, and a man in armor half-kneeling on the ground holding a moon-white sword. His body was covered with cuts and scratches, and his back was filled with arrows. Blood was constantly flowing from his body, and his figure was full of--.
Sadness and loneliness.
"Here is..."
Looking at the surrounding environment and the figures in front of him, in his dream, Senba Gari felt a little familiar with the sudden appearance of the scene.
"I must be dreaming." Senba Gari remembered that he seemed to be searching for information before, and then because he was too tired, he lay on the desk and squinted for a while. As a result, he fell asleep and dreamed of this scene.
While Senba Gari was still deep in thought, the man who was half-kneeling on the ground in front of him suddenly stood up and slowly walked towards Senba Gari.
"?!" Seeing the dead man in front of him suddenly pretending to be a corpse, Senba Gari stepped back in surprise. At the same time, he raised his head curiously and looked at the other person's face, and then his pupils suddenly shrank.
There was nothing on the other party's face, just a blur. No, to be precise, there was only a pair of eyes on the other party's face, a pair of colorful eyes, like glass.
Then when the other party suddenly stopped and kept only about five steps away from Senba Gari, looking into Senba Gari's eyes, and Senba Gari also looked at him, a voice came from his ear.
"Humans kill gods and fear gods; gods fear humans and kill demons; demons kill humans and use humans.
The three coexist, the three restrain each other, and the three control each other. They are indispensable. If one of them is missing, it will collapse.
Humans can kill gods, but in order not to be slaughtered by demons, they worship gods, kill gods and fear gods. Gods, in order not to be killed by humans, help humans kill demons, and fear humans and kill demons. Demons, in order to compete with gods, slaughter humans, but use humans to kill gods, and slaughter humans to use humans.
The three of you..."
As soon as the words fell, Senba Gari came back to his senses. He was curious about where the words just came from. When he looked up, the armored figure had disappeared from in front of him. He was half-kneeling on the ground, holding tightly the moon-white sword that had been inserted upside down on the ground.
"Hey! Did you say that just now, and what did you mean by that?" Senba Gari looked at the armored figure in front of him in confusion. When he was about to step forward to ask clearly, a hand suddenly grabbed Senba Gari's shoulder.
"Who?!" Senba Gari quickly turned around and looked behind him, only to find that the person grabbing his shoulder was actually Divine, and he appeared in the form of Divine Garuda.
[Boy, you can't go forward.] Then a familiar voice came from Divine in front of Senba Gari.