"I said, even if it's really delicious, are you guys exaggerating..." Senba Gari looked at the girls in front of him speechlessly as if they were hungry ghosts.
"Uh-huh~ It still tastes the same as before, so delicious~" Minami Kotori said softly while holding the side of his face.
"By the way, Brother Hunter, we are going to the newly opened haunted house nearby tonight. Brother Hunter, do you want to go with us?" Minami Kotori suddenly remembered their previous plan to invite Senba Gari to go to the haunted house together, but now everyone was busy grabbing food, so when she remembered, she invited Senba Gari and said.
"Haunted house, um..." Senba Gari bit his chopsticks and thought for a while, then released his mouth from biting the chopsticks and said, "Okay, if Founder is idle, he is also idle."
"But..." Senba Gari suddenly paused, "You should leave some for me..."
Looking at the empty plates on the table, Senba Gari was really speechless. The most important thing is that he had only taken a few bites! What do you mean when you girls ate them all for me?
---Time dividing line-
At night, the silver-white moon hangs in the starry sky. Under the moonlight, a recently established haunted house looks particularly weird and eerie against the moonlight.
"I don't know why, but I don't like it here." Senba Gari, who accompanied μ's nine girls to the door of this newly opened haunted house, frowned and looked at the haunted house.
"Teacher Senba! Hurry up!" The voices of Honoka Kosaka and others also came from the haunted house.
"Oh, here it comes! I hope this is just my illusion." With that said, Senba Gari stepped into this haunted house that made him very uneasy.
--Huh~
swish swish...
A gust of cold wind blew through the leaves, making the leaves rustle. Today's night was extremely long.
Shock! Deadly scythe!
"You are so slow, Teacher Senba."
When Senba Gari trotted all the way to the nine girls who had been waiting at the entrance of the haunted house for a long time, Honoka Kosaka complained to Senba Gari with his cheeks puffed out.
"Haha, sorry, sorry, I was just thinking about something and got distracted." In response to Honoka Kosaka's complaint, Senba Gari grabbed the back of his head and said with a smile, "Ahem, what, let's get everyone here."
"Well, we're all here." After counting the number of people, Eli Ayase responded.
"OK, let's go then."
After Senba Gari finished speaking, the nine girls responded with high emotions.
"Oh!"
As soon as the words fell, everyone entered the entrance of the haunted house, but what Senba Gari didn't notice was that Beast Soul Bracelet, which he had been wearing on his left wrist and turned into a digital watch, had no reaction until now. Today, it actually flickered with a light that was difficult to detect with the naked eye.
--View switching
[Oh? Interesting, I didn't expect to meet you here. In that case, it's been a thousand years, let me see what kind of choices you can make in the hell of Nightmare.]
In a dark space, a gloomy figure looked at Senba Gari who had just stepped into the haunted house through a ball of blue flames, and the corners of his mouth curved in a dangerous arc.
"Huh?"
Halfway through, Senba Gari suddenly felt that something was staring at him, but he looked around and found that except for the gloomy area, there was nothing superfluous.
It's strange to say that the exterior and interior decoration of this haunted house is very close to that of a medieval castle, but he has never heard of such a building like a castle, and according to Honoka Kosaka they said As I said, this haunted castle was recently built. You must know that the financial resources required are not comparable to those of ordinary wealthy people. It is as if this castle appeared out of thin air, and there was no one to guard it when we first entered.
A castle suddenly appeared and there was no one to guard it, there were really more doubts about it.
Senba Gari and Honoka Kosaka were walking along a passage made of gray stone bricks. There was a complete medieval knight's armor on each side. Both 'knights' held a sharp sickle in their hands, and the sickles in the hands of the opposite 'knight' who also held a sickle were raised and crossed together to form an arch. At the same time, it gave people a feeling as if their heads might be cut off if they passed.
"Wow... these two look so scary..." Hanayo Koizumi, the timidest of all, hid behind Senba Gari in fear, only showing his two eyes to watch.
Glancing at Hanayo Koizumi who was hiding behind him, Senba Gari thought silently in his heart.
'This kid is a little too timid.'
"Wow, it looks so realistic."
Honoka Kosaka, who was very curious about this haunted house, walked up to the knight's armor and couldn't help but stretched out her jade fingers to lightly scratch the armor. Then a cold touch came from her fingertips, but what she didn't notice was that the eyes of the knight's armor flashed a red light.
"Honoka, don't touch it! What if it gets damaged!" Umi Sonoda quickly stopped Honoka Kosaka and said.
"Don't worry, don't worry, Umi you are always worried about this and that, this is not okay." As he said, Honoka Kosaka knocked on the knight's armor, and at the same time the whole armor made a "ding" sound.
I don't know if it was an illusion, but the knight's armor next to Honoka Kosaka seemed to tremble.
"Honoka!... Watch your back!" Umi Sonoda suddenly said in horror, while others also looked in the direction behind Honoka Kosaka in horror.
"Hey, don't scare me, Umi, you want to collude with everyone to deceive me, I won't be fooled!" Honoka Kosaka didn't realize that a shadow was slowly approaching her behind her.
"Eh?"
At this time, Honoka Kosaka suddenly felt a shadow appearing under her body, and the shadow continued to expand. When she looked back, the knight's armor that was originally motionless suddenly moved, and she picked up the sickle in her hand and swung it at Honoka Kosaka.
"Honoka!..."
"Get away quickly!..."
"Honoka..."
Everyone's voices echoed in Honoka Kosaka's ears, but at this time she could no longer lift her legs. Looking at the sickle getting closer and closer to her, Honoka Kosaka felt despair in her heart, but just when she was desperate--
A slightly slender hand wrapped around her waist and pulled her back with a slight force, just enough for her to completely stagger with the sickle, narrowly missing death.
Honoka Kosaka looked up in a daze at the owner of that hand - Senba Gari. Senba Gari shouted loudly to Honoka Kosaka who was a little dazed.
"You idiot! Didn't you know you almost died just now? Why didn't you hide when I told you to? I was almost scared to death by you!"
Just now, if we hadn't injected spiritual power into his legs to increase speed like he did when he rescued Nozomi Tojo from Mole Mlortha in the collapsed building, then he simply didn't dare to think about the consequences.
"... Woo... Woo..." Honoka Kosaka, who looked at Senba Gari blankly, began to have moisture in his eyes, and then he immediately threw himself into Senba Gari's arms and cried.
"Wow wow wow--! I'm sorry... wuwu... I... thought... I almost... couldn't see you all... wuwuwuwu..."
Just when the sickle was about to touch her, Honoka Kosaka's mind replayed all the things that happened after her death, including her parents and Yukiho's sad and distraught looks crying for her, μ's everyone looking sad, regretful, and blaming themselves, etc. She didn't want to die, and that was the only thought in her mind at that time.
"Brother Hunter! Honoka! Watch out behind!" Just as Senba Gari was about to say something more, Minami Kotori's voice came from the side.
At the same time, Senba Gari turned around and saw that the living knight in armor did not intend to let go of Honoka Kosaka and Senba Gari, so he raised his sickle and walked slowly towards their direction.
"Tsk, if this is really a haunted house, then the staff here must be a little too dedicated."
As he spoke, he looked at the knight's armor that was slowly walking this way. Senba Gari quietly reached into his pocket and took out something like a glove. In this case, it was impossible for him to transform into Divine, but he had already thought of a plan to deal with this situation a long time ago.
When the knight's armor was only a few meters away from Senba Gari and Honoka Kosaka, the knight's armor waved the sharp sickle in his hand again.
--Chi!
The scythe cut through the air, creating a sound of breaking through the air, and the sharp scythe blade was heading straight towards the direction of Senba Gari and Honoka Kosaka. On the other side, Umi Sonoda and the others, unable to do anything but weak in willpower, could only work in a hurry on the spot.
--Bang!
However, the most unbelievable thing is that the knight's armor was shattered by Senba Gari's punch. Yes, it was shattered. There was nothing inside to drive it. It simply moved on its own.
Seeing this, Senba Gari frowned slightly. His punch just now had no force at all. The knight's armor just fell apart. There is something weird! There is definitely something weird in this!
But Senba Gari he has no time to think about it now. What he must do now is to take Honoka Kosaka them away from here.
"Honoka!"
When Senba Gari brought Honoka Kosaka in front of the other girls, the others surrounded Honoka Kosaka. Originally, they wanted to say a lot, but thousands of words could only be combined into one sentence.
"Are you okay?"
"Well! Woohoo... Originally I thought I would never see you all again... Woohoo..." Seeing that everyone was caring about him, Honoka Kosaka couldn't help crying again.
"Okay, let's not talk so much now. It is not suitable to stay here for a long time. We must leave here." Senba Gari's words suddenly made everyone wake up.
"Yeah!" The nine girls nodded quickly.
Then, Senba Gari took the nine girls back along the same route, but when they came to a corner.
"Senba teacher (Brother Hunter)!"
A sickle suddenly came from around the corner, and its target this time was--Senba Gari!
--Tsk!
Red blood spilled into the air.
--tick
Drops of bright red blood fell to the ground, splashing blood, but the scene of heads falling to the ground did not happen.
"Uh..."
There was some cold sweat on Senba Gari's forehead, and his black-gloved hands tightly grasped the scythe that suddenly appeared in front of him. The sharp blade of the scythe cut his palm, and blood continued to drip from Senba Gari's palm along the scythe blade to the ground. The tip of the scythe was only a few millimeters away from him. As long as the knight's armor exerted a little force, Senba Gari would separate the corpse.
"I was careless. I didn't expect there was another one here."
He stared closely at the second 'living' knight armor that suddenly appeared in front of him, frowning slightly, and then saw Senba Gari's feet slightly separated by a short distance in front of him.
"Haah!" Then Senba Gari shouted softly, and kicked hard with his right leg - the lower plate of the knight's armor.
At that moment, the knight's armor fell apart instantly, and several pieces of the armor were scattered on the ground with a "ping-ping-pong-pong" sound.
The scythe of the knight's armor was held in Senba Gari's hand just in case when he couldn't transform. He had a hunch in his heart that this haunted house was definitely not an ordinary haunted house.
"Teacher Senba (Brother Hunter)! Are you okay?" Honoka Kosaka and others who had been behind Senba Gari looked at Senba Gari's injured hands with worried faces. Senba Gari's hands are still bleeding with blood.
"Don't worry, I'm fine. This little injury is nothing. Just bandage it a little." He held a sickle in one hand and looked at his cut palm. The injury was not as serious as he thought. Maybe a little bandage would be enough for him.
---View switching---
In a dark space, a black shadow silently looked at Senba Gari's actions just now through a ball of blue flames. Its scarlet eyes looked at the scene in the flames with some teasing.
[It seems that I underestimated you a little, but it doesn't matter, because...
The fun has just begun.]
"Brother Hunting, is your hand okay?"
Minami Kotori walked forward and worriedly grabbed Senba Gari's hand and looked at it carefully. There was a shocking scar on Senba Gari's palm, and it was still bleeding. If it was not dealt with quickly, it would definitely leave a scar.
So Minami Kotori took out the handkerchief he carried with him and carefully bandaged Senba Gari's most injured left hand.
After Minami Kotori finished bandaging Senba Gari's left hand, he looked anxiously at Senba Gari's injured right hand holding a sickle, and then a warm touch came from Minami Kotori's head. Minami Kotori raised his head and looked at Senba Gari in shock.
In response, Senba Gari looked at Minami Kotori and the restless girls behind her with a slight smile, and secretly made up her mind.
"This little injury is nothing to me. Don't worry, no matter what, I will definitely take you out of here, I promise!"
I don't know why, but looking at Senba Gari's dark and deep eyes, the restless hearts of the girls suddenly calmed down, as if Senba Gari's words had a kind of magic power, making them believe it subconsciously.
--dangdangdang
At this time, the sound of metal colliding suddenly came from all around, and he secretly thought that something was not good. Senba Gari's nerves immediately became tense. He looked around warily, and the nine girls behind him hid behind him.
When Senba Gari looked at the source of the sound, the most unbelievable scene appeared.
The two pieces of knight's armor that were originally broken up by him actually reorganized themselves. Although the sickle in one of the hands was taken away by Senba Gari, it took out a very sharp knight's sword from there. The two pieces of knight's armor began to slowly move towards Senba Gari and the others one after another.
Seeing this, Senba Gari waved the sickle in his hand and struck directly at the head of one of the knights holding the scythe. However, the knight's next move made him completely confused.
I saw the head of the knight's armor holding the scythe being knocked away by Senba Gari with the scythe. The head of the knight's armor was rolling on the ground like a football, but the knight's armor did not fall apart like before. Instead, he waved the sickle in his hand and collided with the sickle in Senba Gari's hand.
--Qiang!
Senba Gari twisted his wrist and turned the direction of the sickle in his hand from offense to defense. The two sickles collided together. A crisp metal collision echoed in the silent passage, and then the two sickles staggered.
"Teacher Senba, be careful!" At this time, Umi Sonoda's voice suddenly reached Senba Gari's ears.
Then a sharp knight's sword stabbed straight from the other side of Senba Gari's body.
Senba Gari's body leaned back slightly, and his body happened to be staggered with the knight's sword. However, because the knight's sword thrust too fast, a slight blood mark was drawn on Senba Gari's face.
Then Senba Gari stretched out the end of the sickle and pressed it against the gap in the stone brick passage, and then used the force to support his body.
But it wasn't over yet. The knight's armored wrist holding the knight's sword was twisted and turned into a slash, slashing straight towards Senba Gari's neck. Finally, Senba Gari placed the end of the sickle horizontally in front of him. At the same time, his body had no support and his back fell heavily to the ground.
"Hiss--!"
Senba Gari couldn't help but take a breath of cold air and frowned tightly.
--clang!
The knight's sword slashed at the long metal handle of the scythe mercilessly. At the same time, Senba Gari's hands felt vaguely numb. The strength of the pile of hollow iron lumps in front of him was so great.
---View switching---