What came before: Nura Ritsura managed to avoid Shiori's youkai and find a way to reach Onieda Masato and in case nothing else happens, she should reach him soon. In meantime, the young Rihan is busy dealing with Shiori and one of her stronger underlings… and an even bigger threat preys at him from Hell…

Chapter 10

In middle of the night and under the blue light emitted by the fires of those black, floating skulls, Nura Rihan of the Nura Clan and Hikine of the Hyaku Monogatari Clan fought one another.

Although Rihan was afraid that he would be at disadvantage due to having to deal with both Hikine and Shiori, the situation was not nearly as grim. Seems Shiori felt more comfortable with safely sitting atop her skeletal minion than fighting against him. Also, Hikine created weapons from his own Fear which put him at a disadvantage due to Rihan using his Nenekirimaru, a blade created for the sole purpose of cutting Fear. Although his blade was only a copy of the one his father used (and which was now being used by Ritsura) and thus weaker, it was still strong enough to cause serious injuries even to the strongest youkai.

However, the battle wasn't that easy either: although Hikine's shadowy swords broke whenever Nenekirimaru touched them, he was able to create more and his agility alone made him a tough opponent, not to mention that the swords he created varied in shape and size so Rihan found it more difficult to get used to his fighting style. Shiori standing at safe distance also made Rihan's plan to evade Hikine and slay her harder to accomplish.

This is taking too long… Rihan thought as he tried to make a horizontal cut on Hikine, who evaded it by jumping up and trying to slash him with a claymore, a long and heavy western sword. Rihan blocked it with Nenekirimaru and Hikine's sword disappeared, only to get replaced with a katana which he tried to thrust into him once he found himself on the ground, but Rihan evaded by moving right.

The more time passes, the more likely it is that Shiori's youkai come to help this guy. Time to get serious.

Up until now, Rihan fought Hikine by using only his swordsmanship skills. And that was his usual tactic against stronger opponents: fight with his sword only so the enemy gets used to it and then he would use his Fear to confuse the enemy with a mirage and strike at a vital spot without him noticing until it was too late.

Rihan ran at him and and went for a vertical strike which Hikine, as expected, dodged. Rihan then left a mirage, stepped aside and went for a diagonal slash upwards.

However, Rihan failed to notice that Hikine held a dagger in his other hand, which found itself in Nenekirimaru's trajectory, until it was too late. While the dagger broke instantly and Nenekirimaru continued without stopping, seems Hikine noticed it as he dodged Nenekirimaru.

Hikine jumped two meters backwards, creating another dagger.

Rihan then realized what was going on: Hikine was prepared for this so every time he made a strike, he moved his dagger to where he expected Rihan could strike and his agility allowed him to dodge it the moment he realized that Rihan confused his senses.

Rihan however kept trying as it was impossible for Hikine to make a hundred percent sure guess on from where Rihan would strike. And he was right: he managed to scratch Hikine a few times. However, scratching him was the best he could do.

He gave up on trying to hit Hikine and returned to his original plan: to strike down Shiori with one, swift strike and end this war. He managed to move close enough to one of javelins the now dead Tengu threw without Hikine noticing and thus had a way to attack Shiori.

He released all of his Fear and moved away, leaving his mirage at certain distance away from Hikine. He managed to get close to the weapon when…

"Hikine, Hatsu!" Shiori shouted the name of the technique used to cut the enemy's Fear and thus negate his technique.

Hikine stopped moving towards Rihan's mirage and instead started collecting Fear around himself. "Hatsu!" Slashing his sword in air, darkness filled the space around for a moment and when it was gone, Rihan could once again be seen.

It didn't take long for Hikine to notice what Rihan was after. He threw his sword onto the javelin, breaking it in half. He then took care to destroy other javelins left, robbing Rihan of the ability to use ranged weapons.

What… how did she…

"Sorry Riha-chan, but I am afraid you will need to use more Fear to hide yourself from my eyes." Shiori stated with a smile.

"This is getting tiring…" Hikine finally spoke. "Just lower your weapon and give up."

Rihan turned his attention back to his current enemy. While Hikine seemed as exhausted as he was, Hikine was at no disadvantage. Once Rihan gets tired enough, Shiori and her horse will likely move in and take care of him.

Damn it, what am I supposed to do here… Although the situation was grim, Rihan had no intentions to give up. He was going to continue fighting, hoping he would see an opportunity.

Suddenly, the number of youkai in this abandoned courtyard increased. "Waka! Waka is having trouble there!" Rihan could see around six youkai from Nura Clan, led by one looking like a wolf, enter his field of view. They were far in the darkness, but eyes of a youkai could see both far and in the dark.

"I told you guys! I told you Waka might be in trouble!" another youkai said.

"Yes, yes whatever you say! Lets go and help Waka!" the third one complained.

Rihan was so pleased he made a wide smile. The old situation where he was overnumbered was finally turned around and now the Nura Clan was at good position to slay Shiori.

Seven members of the Nura Clan versus two enemy youkai. We can't possible los… wait a second… Rihan finally realized something was off. I can feel two youkai but there are three enemies here… no wait, to begin with I could not feel Shiori and her skeleton so there are those two, Hikine and…

"Guys, be careful!" Rihan yelled at them. "There is one more enemy hiding here somewhere!"

"I would ask you guys to leave but…" Shiori, who was on the other end of the courtyard, turned to them. At the same time, the skeleton raised its hand and widened its fingers as if it was going to grab something "…you are members of the Nura Clan. A more threatening situation wouldn't make you turn tail and run."

When she ended her sentence, the skeleton punched the air… or more exactly, his hand detached itself from him and flew towards them. Two youkai got stabbed by two of its giant fingers, dying instantly.

Realizing how dangerous the situation was, the Nura Clan's youkai did not stand and watch: "Guys, split away from one another."

"Too laaaate!" an unknown, cheerful voice screamed and a figure flew out of the abandoned building. It was the youkai whose existence Rihan felt.

The enemy was of a short stature and was made of wood. His eyes, nose and mouth were painted on his wooden head and he was wearing a long black, ragged cloak. His most prominent feature however were four arms.

The enemy faced the four remaining youkai and pointed each of his hands at them. From each of his fingers, dozen needles attached to strings flew at his prey and stabed them. Two tried to avoid them, but the needles just changed trajectory mid-air and flew at them before they could dodge.

"Aaallow me to introduce myselfff!" he shouted after catching all four of them. "I am Shiori's Fingers, Kouri. Myyyy role is to forceee subjects of a Taaale to play the role Haha-ue meaant them to plaaay!" he talked as his victims tried to resist his manipulation but seemingly only caused pain on themselves. "Well, my Feeear is best used on unsuspecting viiictims elseee it gets painfuuul for them. Not to menitooon they are hard to controool. So… death by Seppuku."

"Waaaaaah!" the leader of the group, a wolf-like youkai, shouted and cut the enemy's Fear, freeing himself from Kouri's strings. The rest, however, committed suicide just as they were ordered. "You damn bitch! You will pay for this yourself!" he turned into a giant wolf and started running towards Shiori.

"Fool." A voice came from the source-less shadow beneath the wolf youkai. Next moment, Hikine jumped from it stabbing the wolf into abdomen with two longswords. "You should have ran in the opposite direction, to bring help if not to flee." Hikine threw the bleeding youkai onto the ground and made his swords disappear, replacing them with a claymore he held in one hand. "Here, reward for mindless bravery." He said and beheaded his enemy.

"No… way…" Rihan mumbled. The shock was soon replaced with regret. "Why did I just stand and watch… I should have acted…" Now that it was all over, he realized that he spent too much time looking at what was going on instead of doing something.

"Kouri, how did they come here?" Shiori asked the wooden doll. "I asked you to keep possible intruders away from here."

"Sooorry Haha-ue, I was a bit borrred and thought it would be more fuuun to let few slip and kill in front of his eeeyes." He said to which Shiori just sighed. Noticing the look on Rihan's face, Kouri replied: "Oh don't wooorry, young Nurarihyooon. Other than theeese six, nobody was harmeeed. I just stabbed them unnnoticed and made theeem, you know, change their miiind about where they weeere going, make them wooorried about someone eeelse or simply confuseee them."

As glad as he was to hear he caused nobody else's death, Rihan was not relieved. He was afraid… realizing how many strong enemies he is facing and that likely nobody else will come to his aid made him feel as if he were already defeated. This… this can't end this way… I am…

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From a balcony of one of skyscrapers, a black monkey was watching over what went on between Rihan and Shiori.

Actually no, it was not monkey who watched. It was monkey's body and monkey's eyes, but he was not the one watching. The one watching was sitting in Hell, in meditation.

The six-handed Maou, Shoumen-Kongo, opened his eyes. "Seems my little plaything is in trouble… bu bu bu…" He spoke to himself as he rose up back on his feet. "It would be a disgrace if my current plaything… my favorite plaything I ever had… were to lose against my old plaything which evaded my grasp."

He walked up to the three monkeys.

"Hear no evil?", "See no evil?" and "Say no evil?" they said with worried look. They knew very few words so that's the only thing they were able to say.

With each pair of his six hands, he grabbed one of the monkeys. "I think it is about time I send you another gift, young Rihan." He said as he was squashing the monkeys with his hands. After a minute of sounds of bones being broken and meat being knead, Shomen-Kongo now had three meatballs in his hands. "After all, what kind of Koushin-san would I be if I didn't punish evil, eh? HA HA HA!" he laughed and, with all his incredible strength, threw the three meatballs into air.

)(

Rihan was still standing paralyzed when three black balls jumped our of the ground. He looked as the balls turn into black, red-eyed monkeys, with fangs in their mouths and claws on their hands.

"Ah yes…" he remembered these monkeys. "You were the ones who gave me that ability to feel Urban Legends… and who thought me how to create that technique… how come I always forget you…"

He looked at them calmly, as if talking to a friend. A weird sight, seeing as the three monkeys were jumping at him as if they were intending to shred him into pieces.

"HEAR ALL EVIL!"

"SEE ALL EVIL!"

"SAY ALL EVIL!"

)(

"Shit!" Shiori shouted when she saw Shomen-Kongo's monkeys appear and jump at Rihan. "I feared he would join in!" she took out a pistol, which looked like it came from 16th century, from under her dress.

Hikine was quicker then she was and he managed to strike one monkey down by throwing a dagger into his head. Shiori quickly aimed her gun at another one and fired a shot at him. The fact that he turned into black smoke suggested she managed to hit him.

She fired another bullet but this time she missed. Unfortunately, Hikine also missed.

The last remaining monkey hugged Rihan and put his hands onto his eyes. "SEE ALL EVIL!" he shouted once again and turned into Fear which engulfed Rihan.

"WAAAAAAHHHH!" Rihan screamed fell onto his knees, holding his head with his hands.

"Hikine, get away from him!" Shiori started giving orders as she jumped onto the ground. "And prepare to fight with all you have!"

Hikine nodded and engulfed himself with his own Fear. After a few seconds, he was clad in what looked like a shadowy samurai armor.

Shiori then turned to Kouri. "Kouri, you prepare yourself for using that back-up plan!"

Kouri nodded and flew away. Shiori then turned towards the floating skeleton.

"You go away." She said and the skeleton disappeared, without a word. Although powerful, it was a wild card that could disobey her at any moment and she didn't want to have it around during a critical situation like this one.

"Netto!" she shouted at the air. She had her cell hidden and turned on so she could stay in contact with the Network Fairy. "Are preparations for using Nose's Tale finished?"

"YeS" A robotic sound gave a short answer.

"Good." Shiori closed her eyes and concentrated. Youkai are made of Fear and Fear is fueled by people's thoughts and once enough people believe in a certain Tale, it is possible for it to be born. Shiori, who is able to use the Fear from the Teapot of the Hundred Demons, is able to enforce that birth. And she was going to create another youkai now.

Black Kanji started floating around, representing thoughts of humans who know the Tale of the new youkai to be born. Then the Kanji turned into Fear and engulfed the pistol she held, turning it into a Tsukumogami.

"Ha ha ha…" Rihan, still on his knees, started laughing. "Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! How stupid of me…" he rose back onto his feet, with his head still turned towards the ground. "Thinking about unnecessary things. Worrying about unnecessary things. How stupid of me…" he turned towards Shiori. "Ripping you guys apart… that was the only thing I should have been doing."

His formerly worried face was now replaced with a wicked smile and glowing yellow eyes. It was a face of a killer… a cruel killer.

Hikine ran at him, with a katana in each hand and protected by his armor.

"Ah yes, the kitty cat." Rihan said, looking annoyed rather than wary. Rihan rose his left hand diagonally and, when Hikine's katanas came close enough, he punched them both with one swift strike, both throwing them away and breaking them into pieces.

Shiori noticed that Hikine tried to evade him, but Rihan's enormous Fear had paralyzed him so Rihan managed to grab him and raise him up. Rihan's Fear mixed with a portion of a Maou's own Fear made him a powerful adversary.

"There is a reason kitties run away once you get close to them you know." Rihan said with a smile. "You should have acted more like your Senpai's you know."

Rihan threw him into the ground with all his strength and Shiori was certain she heard the sound of bones breaking. She tried to move, but his Fear was so strong even she was affected. I am a leader of a Hyaki Yakou! I can't let myself get affected by his Fear like this!

But before she could muster strength to move, Rihan had already stabbed Hikine. Then he rose his sword and stabbed him again. "No screaming eh? Well, that is disappointing…" he said and rose up. "Maybe you just don't want your mommy to see you cry? Well then, just you lay down and wait a bit." he turned towards Shiori again. "Maybe once you see her tortured and killed in front of your eyes you will change your tone?" he said snd started walking towards her again. The way his eyes looked at her made it certain that he was honest about what he said.

"Hmph…" Shiori, still far away from him, frowned. "Is this how a-"

"Pssst." He put his finger onto his mouth and silenced her. "Your words mean nothing, villain. So don't waste your last minutes on this."

"How ironic." Shiori thought to herself.

"You know, for some reason…" Rihan started "…I feel like all those who were killed by you villains spoke to me… as if they let me feel how they felt when they were killed by evil youkai… and their wish for vengeance upon them." He put his right hand over his chest. "And I can give it to them… by murdering every last villain, I can give it to them."

Ha, so Kongo made him go insane by filling him with thoughts of countless humans and youkai while they were being killed. And knowing Kongo, he chose the best ones for the role.

"So, Shiori-san, I shall kill you slowly until every last of them is satisfied." He gave her a maniacal smile. "Every last one of them…"

"Nooot so fast, young Nurarihyon!" Kouri's voice could be heard again.

"Ah… the blockhead is back…" Rihan sighed. "I really hate these interruptions."

"Wa…ka…" a voice, belonging to neither Shiori nor Hikine nor Kouri, munmbled "You… are alright? I am… so glad."

It was a youkai from the Nura Clan, captured by Kouri in case the situation got bad and they needed a hostage. And this was definitely a situation to use that card.

Rihan stopped walking as he saw a youkai with big, masked head, be forced to walk up to him. The youkai held a sword under his own neck.

"Fu fu fu…" Kouri giggled as he floated high in the air.

"Fu fu fu…" to their surprise, he giggled back. The next they saw was the mirage of him standing disappearing and the youkai getting beheaded by Rihan's sword.

"Whaaat?!" Kouri was surprised, as was Shiori.

"Using a hostage… " he said in belittling tone. "How cheap."

He then punched the giant head into Kouri. Then, before Kouri could regain balance in air, Rihan jumped up, caught his hand and brought him to the ground.

"Yo…" Rihan winked at him. "Wanna go yoyo?" he said with a cruel smile.

As if Kouri was a yoyo he spin him around by his hand for a while and then threw him into the abandoned building, breaking the wall in the process.

"Finally alone, sweetheart…" he turned back towards Shiori. "Come on, don't be so shy…" he said as he closed to her.

"Killing your comrade…" she commented. "What kind person you have become… as a matter of fact, the complete opposite of your grandfather."

The younger Rihan shrugged. "I see the chicken is trying to save herself by buying time."

"Haah… I see that talking to you has become meaningless."

"It always was." He replied. "After all, I don't really care about your opinions."

"Still, killing your comrade?"

"He would have died anyway." He gave a cold-hearted answer. "After all, I had no intention to let you slip away. Might as well do it myself."

Shiori didn't say anything back at him.

"Anyway, where is that skeleton of yours? I only see these skulls floating and emitting light."

"Pft." She frowned. "I don't need that to deal with you."

Rihan's smile finally disappeared and he wrinkled. "You think you have a chance of beating you."

It was time for Shiori to give him a wicked smile.

"Huh? What is it?" he seemed to have started to get frustrated. No doubt this person wanted Shiori to shiver in fear in front of him and seeing the opposite happen irked him.

"Hahaha…" she laughed a bit. "An amateur of a villain thinking he has a chance of a professional like me." She smiled. "Your sword won't be able to even scratch me." She said as she pointed her pistol at him.

"Good thing I am no villain then…" he said, now standing three meters away from her.

"You are no hero either… heroes protect, villains murder. Motives are nothing but excuses, which I guess befits someone with your lame character development." Shiori said. "Anyway, lets end this with one strike."

Without saying a word, Rihan ran towards at her, his sword prepared to cause a painful wound.

Shiori didn't pull the trigger or evade. She just continued standing.

And the sword slashed through her, with him passing past her.

"What… how come…" Rihan started muttering as Shiori, still in one piece, turned towards him.

"I won." She said and let the pistol, whom she has turned into Tsukumogami, aim itself. She then pulled the trigger, with the bullet hitting him into his left shoulder.

"Waaah!" he screamed and fell onto the floor. He let Nenekirimaru fall so he could cover the wound, from which Fear was sipping out at, with his right hand. "Is this an…"

"An exorcist bullet." She answered. "I had a skillful Onmyouji make it for me. It is still a prototype though… the final product should be as strong as your Nenekirimaru." She said and fire another bullet at him

"Argh…" he fell onto the ground, still in agony. "How come Nenekirimaru didn't… " he started saying but then stopped.

Shiori didn't wait for him to continue and instead took Nenekirimaru without him noticing and moved away from him. She shot another bullet at him, again into a non-vital spot.

"I see… I should have realized it the moment I saw those skulls emitting light!" he seems to have finally realized why he wasn't able to hurt her. "Youkai can see in the dark better then when there is light… you… you are a human!"

"Bingo!" Shiori confirmed. "Well, I can't blame you for this mistake. After all, it is quite unconventional for a human to lead a Hyaki Yakou." She winked.

"Damn it… I knew something was afoot when you didn't attack me… or when you were so composed in front Nenekirimaru."

"Yes, yes… whatever…" Shiori had no intentions to talk with him anymore. "Good night, Nura Rihan."

Shiori fired few more bullets at him, until he fell unconscious from pain.

"Netto, everything ready?"

"YeS" she gave a simple answer again.

"Good… time to save this damsel from distress then."

Creating youkai was not the only thing Hyaku Monogatari was able to do by controlling spread of Tales. After all, not all Tales are about introducing new characters. Some are about giving special attributes to certain items. Enchanting an item to have special effects was possible, especially when it fits it and it is already magical.

She put her hand on Nenekirimaru and started creating a Tale about it. Black Kanji started floating around.

Shiori started silently reading some of them to give those elements special strength, thus turning them from black to red.

"Nenekirimaru is a sword belonging to a certain youkai clan."

"Nenekirimaru has become a very symbol of that Clan."

"It represents their chivalry."

"It represents their pure hearts and heroic spirit."

"They are weapon that protects their master from harm."

"It slays the wicked and protects the good."

"It is no sword for a villain, but a sword of a hero."

"A heroic sword for a heroic soul."

"As it fits the sword, its master will always be a hero."

"No Maou can change that fact."

She read the final sentence with extra srength.

"Even if its master falls into darkness, this sword, which embraces the wishes of those who need protection, will be the reason he comes back to light."

The Kanji turned into Fear and engulfed the sword.

"And it is done." She said and walked back to unconscious Rihan and put the sword back into his hand. If everything goes as planned, he should return to his old self, at least for a while.

"I still claim… that we should kill him." Hikine's told her. Due to wounds inflicted by Nenekirimaru, he was unable to remain in his human form so her turned into a black cat.

Shiori sighed, walked up to him and took him into her hands. "And I want otherwise. Yet, you will still disobey me and continue trying, will you not?"

Hikine said nothing.

"Hah… anyway, you held yourself well there." She pat him on the head. "I am promoting you Hikine. You are now my Shadow."

"Shadow?"

"Yes, for you are protecting me from shadows… from behind my back."

After a few moments of silence, Hikine simply said "I am honored."

Shiori turned back towards Rihan. Although she won, what just happened made it certain that he was close to becoming Shoumen-Kongo's pawn.

And she had no intentions of letting that happen.

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Back in Hell, Shoumen-Kongo laughed.

"Ah Shiori, my dear girl… guess you won this one. Good, it would have been boring otherwise. One would think you could even succeed to stop him from fully becoming my peon. But you know Shiori…"

Shomen-Kongo lay down on the ground and out his hands behind his head.

"That what you have done with that sword tale… on the long run, you have just made it easier for me…"

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"Masato-dono…" Yashimotsu Hiroto begged. "WHY are we standing here?"

Onieda Masato, who sat on a bench near a train station, didn't reply but continued to type something on his cellphone. Masato, Hiroto and two Onmyouji were driving through Tokyo when youkai started attacking them. And just when Masato managed to avoid them, he suddenly stopped his car here and just sat on the bench. The two Onmjouyi, both of whom have been in Masato's service for years, stood around looking unconcerned. Hiroto, an exorcist specializing in foreign arts, was employed only a month ago which might be the reason why he was not as composed.

"Masato-dono!"

"You will see." He finally said something. "Now shut up."

This man, dressed in long black coat, wearing a hat and holding a walking stick (which he did for decorative purposes), was Onieda Masato himself. He was a genius whom few could understand and his behavior, always composed and serious, was more than fitting a legendary reputation he had.

But the truth was that he was even greater than most knew: Onieda Masato was also the leader of the Shin Sekai, the organization that will reform the world and make it perfect, both materialistically and spiritually. And Hiroto worshiped this person who made reacing something impossible look so simple. To ne honest, he was more worried about what might happen to Masato than to himself.

"Youkai are coming." One of the Onmyouji said.

"Eek?!" Hiroto cried.

"Finally…" Masato threw his cell into his pocket and leaned against the bench. "Now lets enjoy the show."

"The show? We are going to be… AH THERE THEY ARE!"

Two youkai appeared from around the corned, one being a male with an umbrella and the other being a female in a colorful kimono and holding a mirror in her hand.

"Ha! We finally caught you!" the male one proclaimed.

Masato continued sitting like nothing was happening. Hiroto and the Onmyouji put their hands into their pockets to take out their tools when…

…giant ice spikes flew from the air and thrust into the road.

"Huh? What is that?" the female youkai wondered.

And then someone jumped from behind the four men, right onto the largest spike. And that person then whistled.

"Attention please!" the female voice, not belonging to the female youkai who was pursuing them, declared. When Hiroto saw her, he was left speechless.

She was a teenage girl with white-teal hair. And, what was even weirder, she was dressed as a policewoman with a miniskirt. The badge on her chest and the bedge on her hat however had a paper sticked on them, with kanji for Fear.

"In case you are not aware yet, you are attacking someone on the Nura Clan's turf." The mysterious girl said with one eye closed. And then she used her whistle again and put her left hand on her hip. "I am Nura Ritsura and I came to restore law and order here!"

Then another woman, with pink hair and in yellow kimono, came from a different direction and stood right of Ritsura "So prepare for trouble." She said in a composed tone.

"AND MAKE IT DOUBLE!" someone shouted and jumped to left of Ritsura. He was a youkai in form of a gorilla wearing a bandana and old fashioned Japanese clothes.

"In short…" Ritsura added with crossed arms and a big smile. "You are royally screwed."

Now it is safe to check the full illustration of Nura Rihan Jr.! (link on my profile, as usual)

Author Notes:

And chapter 10, which I am sarcastically sure didn't shock anyone, is here. In case you thought I'd go easy on young Rihan, you were wrong ;) Shomen-Kongo is not someone who fools around after all. It should be "fun" to see Rihan after he wakes up and remembers what he did to his comrade. And yes, the yellow glowing eyes was inspired by the scene in OVA where grampa Rihan tried to strangle Setsura (it was what gave me the idea for this development in the first place).

Luckily, Shiori's spell should return him to his old self… and lets hope it lasts and he wins against Shomen-Kongo's influence, shall we?

Oh, and Ritsura and the Toonp youkai officially reached Masato-dono. Woohoo!

…I'd say more but this was an incredibly short chapter. Still, it was likely the most important chapter yet.

Now onto replies to some of reviews!

Guest: "Kyaaaaa!? my coment got a reply XDXD

Anyways very good chapter. Cant wait for the next one."

"Due to not being able to PM them personally, all Anons get a reply." Nayrael said and winked. "Glad you liked chapter nine and I hope you liked this new chapter as well!"

Anime Chick344034: "Woah woah woah. Ritsura...what do you mean THAT ability. Omg don't tell me you been holding back on us."

"Fu fu fu fu fu.." Ritsura laughed silently. "Of course! I am Nura Ritsura, the Yondaime of the Nura Clan. I have quite a few tricks up my sleeve. You see, I just LOVE to see surprise on faces of my enemies once they realize I can do more than they expected."

"What happened there anyway?" Araya asked her.

"And now, I am gonna eat some ice cream…" Ritsura said with a smug smile.

"Hey, don't you just ignore me! Hey stop walking!"

Citsimsan: "Shiori is powerful, but after seeing the punishment of the Shin Sekai, they're the most fearsome enemy around. I hope they don't end up being Big Bad Wannabes (although I doubt it; after all, the fic is named after them)."

"Indeed, nii-san was a fearsome man." Onieda Mahiro said with a pleased face as he drank from his wine glass. "Although he is no longer with us, we all follow his example. Right Azuru?"

He turned towards another seat only to see it was empty.

"Ah yeah right, she went to check up on her new boyfriend." Mahiro sighed. "Anyway…"

"…look forward to more from us." Voice of an old man said through a speaker. "Although Mahiro is a disappointment, I guess even he has something in store for all of you."

"Gramps, I will kill you one of these days… wait, what is that speaker doing there anyway?!"