After waking up in the sealed space, Kokoa found herself under attack by an army of Giant Leeches. She then ran away and climbed up three different trees in order to escape from them. Up in the trees, a weakened, sleep-deprived Kokoa began to hallucinate and had a long conversation between her and the voice that she heard. Kokoa then resolved herself to have faith that Tsukune would come and rescue her and that she should do what she had to in order to survive until then. In Hong Kong, Fong-Fong is told by his men about Kokoa's location and general situation. He then prepared his family plane to fly Tsukune and the others to rescue her thousands of miles away. The Aonos quickly all leave to go on their rescue mission, leaving Takeshi behind in the care of Yukari's parents. Unknown to them all however, was that after they left Hong Kong, another person arrived on her own mission that would take her straight to the Aono household.
Chapter 36: Death approaches Takeshi
The Aono Estate, Hong Kong
March 2, 2008
It is well after dark, there is a light breeze blowing, and the night is cool with some light was shining down from the last-quarter moon. In the midst of all this, a taxicab sits eerily still and quiet near but out of sight of the driveway leading to the Aono estate in the woods. Inside the car, a lone woman lightly sleeps, waiting for the night to get good and dark before starting her mission. Before long, she wakes and decides that it is dark enough to go out. She gets out of the cab, leaving behind the body of what used to be the cab driver with lines of blood stains coming from his mouth and down his shirt. After convincing him to park in a secluded spot and luring him into the back seat with her earlier in the evening where she then drove her tongue down his throat and sucked his heart out through his own mouth with very stretchable tongue as a snack before the anticipated main course later that night.
Using the keys that she had taken off of the body, she opens the trunk and takes her suitcase out. She then walks a short distance away, carrying it with her, and finds a secluded spot hidden by the surrounding bushes. There she opens up her suitcase which aside from a change of all black clothing, turns out to be empty. She then transforms into her monster form and lands her upper torso onto the ground on her hands next to her lower torso. Then she puts her lower torso into the suitcase, closes, and locks it. After many years of working these kinds of jobs, Detinos knew how to compensate for her greatest weakness. If anything happened to her lower torso while she was working or feeding to the point where she would be unable to rejoin it, then she would certainly die from the dawn's early light. With her lower torso safely locked away in her suitcase and hidden behind lots of bushes far away from her target destination, it will be safe from anything. After hiding the suitcase under some bushes, she spreads her wings and flies away, flying straight for her target.
Inside the Aono household, Tamanori (Yukari's father) is having his left index finger bandaged by Fujiko (Yukari's mother). With other things on everybody's minds, nobody remembered to warn Tamanori or Fujiko about Takeshi's strength, so now Tamanori has a broken finger and both of them are being more cautious in how they handle little Takeshi. Fujiko finishes wrapping the bandages around the small splint on her husband's finger and takes the first aid kit back to the bathroom. All the while, neither one of them has any idea that they are being watched.
"This is it?" she whispers to herself. "There's just this pair of weaklings guarding my target? This will be even easier than I thought."
She had flown over to the house, glided over a group of about ten men that looked like they were standing guard in front of the house with ease, and landed on the roof. She then crawled to and looked in all of the windows to see who and how many people there were and where her target was. Detinos had been expecting to find Tsukune and the rest of the women there, so finding a few guys out front and a wimpy looking couple inside the house, she is pleasantly surprised at their lack of security.
A short time later, she creeps to yet another dark window on the first floor. She then listens next to it for any noises. Listening very intently, she finally hears the very distinctive sounds of a young baby and starts drooling.
Now, it's time for the main course.
She sticks her tongue out and uses the tip of it to quietly cut a large, round hole in the glass with the edges angled towards the middle. So when the circle was complete, the glass slipped out and fell into her waiting hand. She then threw the glass circle like a Frisbee as far as she could, so that no one would be close enough to hear it land. With a large, round hole in the glass now, she slowly lowers her long tongue inside the room until it hits the floor. At which point, she slithers it like a snake towards Takeshi's crib.
In a nearby room, Tamanori and Fujiko settle down in their bed and each pick up a book to read them both to sleep, completely unaware of the creeping danger nearby.
When her tongue reaches the crib, it slithers up and around its leg until it reaches the bedding part, where little Takeshi lays awake, not knowing what to make of the strange creature that just appeared in his bed. Having finally reached its intended victim, it starts coiling like a snake ready to strike so that she will have enough slack in her tongue before she starts feeding on him. As the tip of her tongue slowly nears Takeshi to split him open, he reaches out, grabs it with both fists, and crushes it.
What the hell is going on? Detinos thinks in pain. How can a mere infant be this freakishly strong? Just what is he?
Detinos then struggles to wiggle her tongue loose from Takeshi's iron grip. A couple of minutes later, she finally frees it, but not before Takeshi had stretched and partially ripped it to the point where it would not be usable for several days. So she is forced to suck her tongue back in and change tactics.
She then holds the tip of her tongue in her hand and uses it to carefully cut out the glass of the entire window. As she makes the final cut, she holds onto the glass by the hole to keep it from falling and shattering on the ground which would alert everybody there and make her job harder.
After she silently places it on the ground, she slowly climbs through the window with her arms and slowly crawls over to Takeshi's crib, noticing the giant stuffed Panda next to his crib and angrily thinks about how spoiled that brat must be. Reaching it and hearing no other noises from anyone else, she flaps her wings and hovers over him. Looking down at him, she frowns in anger at him.
"You… little… freak," she angrily whispers to him. "I'll just have to eat you the old fashioned way."
As she reaches out for him, something else, something big, grabs her head in a vice-like grip. Unable to move, it lifts her up to its face and she sees what it is. It was the supposedly stuffed giant panda with a very angry look on his face!
What the hell is going on? Detinos thinks in panic. This thing is alive?
2
The Aono House
Earlier that day
After Tsukune and the others had left, Fong-Fong went back to their house to let Tamanori and Fujiko know about Tsukune's concerns of a possible attempt on Takeshi's life and that he would be sending some of his men over to help protect them and they both thank him for his help in this matter. As he turns to leave, he suddenly remembers something.
"Oh yeah, is he ready to come home or are they still playing together?"
Fujiko giggles before answering him.
"They never stopped playing the whole time you where gone. It was really nice of you to summon your panda to cheer Takeshi up since he wouldn't go back to sleep or stop crying when you were picking everyone up."
"I'm still amazed at how extremely energetic that child is," Tamanori comments. "Even Yukari was nowhere near as lively as that boy is when she was at that age."
"Yeah," Fong-Fong agrees. "You're right about that. It makes sense when you consider who his parents are though."
"I'm amazed at how close the two of them are," Fujiko states.
"I am too," Fong-Fong tells her. "Ever since they met in between sparring matches we were all having here together a month ago, they've really become attached to each other. I never would have guessed that he would be so good with kids."
Fong-Fong sighs happily before continuing.
"Well, since he's not ready to come home just yet, and if it's not too much trouble, could you two watch him for me?"
"It'd be no trouble at all, Fong-Fong," Fujiko replies. "I know that it would mean a lot to little Takeshi to have him around, especially since he just met the two of us and so does not know us very well."
"Then I'll have some bamboo for him to eat brought over later. Right now though, I have some things to take care of so I have to go."
Fong-Fong walks back to his limo and turns around just before he steps inside.
"I'll come by and pick him up sometime tomorrow, take care."
They all smile and wave to each other as he steps inside and then leaves. As the house fades from sight, he quietly sighs and talks to himself.
"That went smoother then I thought it would. I still think that Tsukune is over-thinking things and being a little paranoid, but I can't shake this feeling that he just might somehow be right. And if he is…"
Fong-Fong pauses before continuing.
"So, now even if an assassin should come and somehow get past my men standing guard there along with the extra equipment I'm sending with them, then they'll still be in for a big surprise. That guy would protect Takeshi with his very life. If he did see anyone trying to hurt him…"
Fong-Fong gulps.
"Then not even my dad would be able to control him."
Fong-Fong's limo reaches the road and pulls out his phone to arrange everything, still hoping that Tsukune's fears will not come to pass.
3
The Aono House
That Night
What the hell is going on? Detinos thinks. This thing is alive?
She sticks her tongue out, grabs it…
SLASH!
…Slashes the tip at the panda, cutting his extremely sensitive nose…
RAAAAAGH!
…Causing him to release her and loudly growl in pain. She then flies backwards to put some distance between the two of them and thinks to herself.
Damn it! With all the noise that damn bear is making it won't be long before I have company and lots of it. I need to hurry up and make this a take-out meal.
She dashes straight for the crib, but quickly pulls back to avoid the panda's massive paw as he swings at her.
Damn Oreo bear!
The bedroom door flies open as Tamanori appears in the doorway wearing a night robe and turns the lights on. He instantly sees and figures out what's going on and a throwing knife instantly appears in each of his hands.
"Get away from that child!"
He throws them one after another at her.
THUNK!
THUNK!
She managed to dodge them both and they harmlessly hit the wall behind her.
"Fujiko!" he calls as another pair of throwing knives appears with one in each hand. "Get over here!"
Fujiko breathlessly rushes into the room wearing her own night robe, not sure of what to make of the scene before her.
"Fujiko, quickly take the baby and get him out of here! I'll hold her off!"
Unable to do anything else since she just came from the bathroom and didn't take her wand in with her, she dashed over to the crib and scooped little Takeshi up into her arms.
"That's mine you bitch!" Detinos yells at her.
Even though it was still damaged, she shoots her tongue out of her mouth at Fujiko and Takeshi. Fujiko dodges it, but…
SLASH! THUNK!
…Not completely, and Fujiko's left arm is grazed before her tongue hits the wall.
"Fujiko…!" Tamanori yells, full of worry. "Daaamn youuu…!"
He throws both of his knives at her…
THUNK! THUNK!
…But she easily dodges them both. They did however, distract her long enough for Fujiko to escape with Takeshi, leaving only the two of them left in the room. Angry over her target getting away, she frees her tongue from the wall and whips it at Tamanori, who…
CLINK!
…Blocks it with another pair of throwing knives. With him now distracted, she quickly sucks her tongue back in and flies out the window.
"Damn it! Just who the hell is that guy?" she angrily asks herself. "Those damn daggers remind me of those accursed Monster Hunters and their damn Buntot Pagi back home. How I hate knives!" [*1]
She is angrily circling around the house looking for her target again when she sees him. He is still being carried by Fujiko who is just reaching the group of men out front with the panda running right next to her.
Damn it! This is going to take a lot longer than I wanted it to, she thinks. Dawn is still a long ways away, so I don't need to worry about that, but it's still damn inconvenient.
Now alerted to the intruder's presence, the group of men spread out in all directions, forming a circle.
"Hit it!" one of the men shouts.
Night turns into day as countless floodlights are turned on and light up the entire area. Detinos is temporarily blinded by the bright lights, but she is flying too high for the spotlights to reach her since none of the lights are pointed upwards. While it was good thinking on their part, it was obvious that they weren't expecting their intruder to be airborne. Even so, while she's still concealed by the darkness of night, her target is not. So she does the only thing that she can at this point, create an opening.
On the ground, the most of the men that Fong-Fong had sent to guard everyone spread out to search for the assassin, leaving four men behind to stay with Fujiko, Takeshi, and the panda in the middle of the floodlights, sub-machine guns at the ready.
A few minutes later, one of the henchmen found one of the other guards lying on the ground on the other side of the Dojo in the backyard, dead.
"Hey guys, get over here! We have a man down!"
The other men rushed over to the one calling them. The Dojo was at the edge of the light coming from the floodlights, so it was only partially lit up. Everyone gathered near their fallen comrade under the roof of the Dojo, peering out into their surroundings… searching… searching for the unseen killer.
"What happened?" one of them asks.
"Looks like someone surprised him and snapped his neck," the first one answers. "He's dead."
SLICE!
GAHAH!
Before anyone else could say another word, one of the men in the back had been attacked and blood was spraying out of his throat that had been slit from side to side. He then fell to his knees and then forward onto his face. He lay there motionless as a pool of blood slowly spread out and away from his body in the Dojo as the rest of the men frantically look all around them, but see nothing.
SLICE!
GWUAH!
Another man drops dead after his throat is also sliced open and he drops to the ground just like the last one. Again, nobody saw anything.
"What the hell is this thing?" one of them shouts. "Is it invisible?"
They were all really nervous now. They had just lost two of their buddies killed right next to them on top of the first guy and had no idea how it happened. Some of them could feel beads of sweat run down their faces despite it being a very cool and eerily silent night. Everyone was as alert as they had ever been.
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
AHHH!
"I'm hit! I'm hit!"
GYAAAH!
"Something just cut me!"
"I see it! It's coming out of the roof! The bastard's on the roof! Shoot him!"
They all start shooting through the roof at the assassin, but she had just flown away ahead of their bullets, completely unscathed.
"Where did that bastard go? Where is he?"
"Boss, there's something wrong with us!"
The last three men all started grasping their chests and then dropping to the ground, one after another.
Detinos was an experienced and crafty assassin. She had used her hurt but still usable tongue like a whip to wrap around the first man's neck before snapping it cleanly to draw the rest of the men over into her trap. She laid in wait on the far side of the Dojo's roof which was in the dark and made a hole in one of the roof boards, waiting for her next victims. After they got there, she slowly lowered her tongue down and rapidly cut a throat open and pulled her tongue back. She did that one more time and then pulled out a small container that she had in her pocket. She opened it to reveal the thick, poisonous cream inside (that she had developed an immunity against) and swished the tip of her tongue around in it, turning it into an even more deadly weapon. She knew that they would eventually figure out where she was and decided knock out as many of them as she could. After whipping her tongue around and cutting up all of the remaining men, she hurriedly flies off. Thanks to her clever trap, she had killed or poisoned the other guards there, making it much easier to go after her intended target again.
Back in the front yard, Tamanori had rejoined Fujiko and brought her wand out to her. Knowing that she will not have a better chance than right now, Detinos dives on the group, makes a speedy pass by them and…
SLICE!
…Cuts one of the guard's head right off and quickly flies away, disappearing into the darkness again.
"What the fuck was that?" one of the remaining three guards yells.
"How the hell is this thing so damn fast?"
Aside from her other talents and tricks, Detinos could also grow her sharp fingernails out at will. While not as long or strong as those of a Succubus, they were still more than capable of slicing somebody's body in half or lopping off their head. When combined with the speed of her dives, she can easily swoop down and kill someone before they even know that she's there.
The three men look all around them, searching for a sign of her. Detinos smiles down at them from where she is hovering, waiting for the right moment to strike again. Then, one of them tells out.
"Up there! She's in the moon!"
Detinos snaps her head around to look back and sees the more then quarter-full moon right behind her.
BANG! BANG! BANG!
They start shooting at her and she dives straight down to avoid their fire.
"Damn it! How could I make such a rookie mistake?" she yells at herself.
She levels out just above the ground, flying fast and straight for those pesky guards.
In full view of everyone thanks to the floodlights but with only a couple seconds to react, the guards all fire at her.
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
She flies past them, cuts their chests open, and all three go down. Right after that though, she loses control and crashes onto the ground. After she finally stops rolling and with a number of aches all over her body, she looked back and saw that those pests had shot several holes through her wings, which would both ground and be the death nail for any normal Manananggal. But, Detinos wasn't normal. She hurriedly took out a small vial from her pocket and drank it. An intense pain instantly swept through her entire body. She could feel the Elixir of Life and Death working, and not a moment too soon. She quickly rolls away to dodge the throwing knives that Tamanori threw at her and takes off again. [*2]
GAH!
She feels a dagger hit her right arm as she tries to make her escape and then attack them again.
"Damn dagger boy!" she yells.
She angrily pulls it out and dodges one dagger after another before getting away. As soon as she was out of sight again, she circles back and hovers over 100 feet above Tamanori, Fujiko, Takeshi, and the panda.
Just how many knives does that guy have? Detinos thinks. He's already thrown countless of them at me and are now littered all over the area. Now though, we'll see how well he adapts to this.
She dives straight down at them, counting on them not expecting a surprise attack from right above them. She was right. Just as she is about to cut everyone down…
BONG!
…She bounces hard off of a dome-like barrier around them and hits the ground, stunning her for a second. She then looks up to see another dagger flying towards her but dodges it too. She then looks at him closely and sees him with his fist in the air with a bright light coming from it.
What the hell? Detinos thinks. He throws knives and has a glowing ring that he uses to create barriers? Is he a warlock or something? If that's the case, then he must be using that ring as a wand substitute! I never expected to find a warlock here. ...Wait a minute… if he's a warlock, then she must be a witch!
She frowns to herself.
This is going to take longer than I expected.
She glares up at the two of them, not sure of what they're planning to do next.
BOOM!
A nearby explosion knocks Detinos to the side and instinctively she keeps on going and flies for her life. She just misses the storm of tarot cards that Fujiko sent at her.
What the hell was that? What blew up?
Looking over at them after she flew away, she sees Fujiko with a wand in her right hand and a small bottle in her left. Tamanori was now holding little Takeshi and both of them were back-to-back.
Alchemy…? What the hell is that women? Is she a witch or an alchemist?
Knowing that she still had to get her target regardless, she hovers nearby about 100 feet above them, takes her light black long-sleeved shirt off, leaving only her black tank top on, and drops her long-sleeved shirt, counting on the gentle breeze to blow it a little ways away as it flutters down.
Seconds later, Fujiko sees something moving, sends her tarot cards at it, and shreds her target.
"I think I got her, dear," Fujiko told Tamanori.
It was her shirt that Fujiko had shredded. Her distraction had worked.
SLASH!
GYAAAH!
Fujiko is slashed across her chest as Detinos flew past her before she could realize her mistake.
"Fujiko!" he yells out.
Thinking that the assassin was now dead, Tamanori had let down the barrier that he had been maintaining. Seconds later, his beloved wife was cut down right behind him and the assassin had disappeared into the darkness again. He bends down over her and lifts her head up with one arm, still holding Takeshi.
"Fujiko, stay with me!" he yells to her.
"Tamanori," she quietly says in a strained, pained voice. "I-I'll be okay. Just… help me up."
As they stand up, something hits Tamanori from behind and he feels something sharp at his throat. Tamanori was so focused on Fujiko and the fact that she had been injured that he didn't think to put his barrier back up again. That gave their enemy the chance she needed to get close to them and was now holding her nails at Tamanori's throat.
"Hand over the baby or you both die," she angrily growled at them.
No longer distracted and thinking fast, Tamanori…
GAH!
…Uses his ring to send a dagger that is lying on the ground near the two of them flying straight into her arm, causing her flinch. He then ducks down and slips out of her gasp.
"Tamanori, your eyes!" yells Fujiko.
Knowing what she meant, he covered both his own and Takeshi's eyes. Fujiko throws the bottle in her hand at the ground between her and the assassin and…
FLASH!
…A bright light flashes out from it as the bottle shatters, blinding Detinos.
"Damn you!" she furiously screams as she tackles Fujiko. "I don't have to see to kill you if I already have you!"
"Get off my wife!"
STAB!
Tamanori threw another dagger at her, hitting her side, and then…
BASH!
…The panda swatted her off of Fujiko with his paw, momentarily stunning her. He then rushed over to Fujiko. Seizing the opportunity, Tamanori raises his fist and shouts out.
"Odoruha!" [*3]
STAB! STAB! STAB!
Detinos is stabbed repeatedly by several flying daggers while others form a circle around her and Tamanori and Fujiko then multicast a spell together. [*4]
"Monster Sealing Barrier!" [*5]
AAAAAAAHHH!
"Go back to hell where you belong, you evil demon!" Tamanori yells at her.
She is shocked and her body is violently shaken by the large amount of magic attacking her and she falls to the ground, unable to get up. The panda then runs over to her, rears up on his hind legs, and…
CRUSH!
…Crushes her head and body with his powerful paws and starts tearing her to pieces. With the assassin now dead, Tamanori turns his attention back towards his wife. He carefully helps her up and sees that the wound on her chest is not as bad as he first feared.
"I kept some of my cards with me and they lessened the damage she dealt when she attacked me earlier," she explains.
Relieved that it was finally over, everyone lets out a sigh of relief.
"Hey Fujiko, what kind of food would a panda consider a treat?"
4
Takât Castle
A sealed space
Kokoa had woken up, climbed down since she didn't see any of those disgusting leeches around, and started looking around for a source of drinkable water. What she really needed more then anything else was blood, but the only things with blood around were the leeches, and as revolting as the thought was, even they were starting to look good to her. Then, she hears a women's voice.
"Miss Shuzen! I have a blood bag for you!"
That instantly gets Kokoa's attention and she runs right to her. Half-starved for blood, she grabs the blood bag and bites into it right away. Looking at her, the woman appears to be another but older servant, probably in her late 20's, but dressed in the same cheap clothing that Kokoa was already familiar with.
"Lady Reinfeldt wishes to see you right away. I am to escort you to her as soon as you're finished with your meal," she said with an emotionless voice.
Knowing that she hadn't assaulted her son's balls since the last time that she had seen her and knowing that she wouldn't kill her in any event, Kokoa finishes her blood bag and agrees to go with her.
A few minutes later, she leads Kokoa to the main hall where she had first met lady Reinfeldt. As soon as the heavy doors open and she walks inside, she hears Fiammetta Reinfeldt angrily lecturing her son. Jerk and Kahlua are also there, but are both off to the side, watching Carl get a tongue lashing from his mom.
When Fiammetta sees Kokoa enter, she hurriedly walks to her, spins her around, and looks at her back.
Kahlua gasps in horror.
"Damn…" Jerk comments. "Somebody got overeager, hehehe."
"CARL!" Fiammetta Reinfeldt screams and rushes back to him.
SLAAAP!
She slaps him so hard that she knocks him off of his feet.
"You little idiot!" she furiously screams at him. "Do you have any idea what you've done? We are already walking on thin ice with the council as it is just with the weddings taking place and you beat her almost to death before throwing her to your disgusting leeches? Either one of those could've killed her with her powers sealed! What were you thinking?"
Carl stands up, angrily glaring at his mother in the eye.
"Weren't you the one that taught me to never tolerate any disrespect since we were superior to everyone else?"
SLAP!
She slapped him again.
"Are you really that short-sighted? You know very well that we're all forbidden from harming members of the other clans outside of sanctioned duals by council law and yet you would go so far as to risk killing her and endangering our plans just for your own ego?"
"She's still alive, so what?"
"So what?" she angrily repeated. "So you still could've killed her and ruined all of our plans!"
"I had to teach her lesson."
"You can't teach the dead you idiot!"
"How do you plan to do this?"
Everyone turns to look at Kahlua after she shouts her question to her.
"How do you plan to do this since there's no one from our family to do the Blood Exchange with you?"
Fiammetta Reinfeldt looks her in the eye and gives her an extremely unexpected answer.
"Because the head of the Shuzen Clan is here and will be making the exchange."
Kahlua says the first thing that comes into her mind.
"You mean… our mother… is here?"
Fiammetta laughs at her question.
"Hardly," she replies. "I meant the new head of the Shuzen Clan."
Both Kahlua and Kokoa look at her with very puzzled faces.
"Congratulations, Kahlua, since you're the oldest of her actual children, you are automatically the default heir since she never bothered to name one. So you will now inherit her role as the head of your family and oversee the exchange. Afterwards, you and your new husband will come with our family and live with us since you couldn't bear to be separated from your beloved little sister. Eventually, you will simply decide to join our clan and we'll all be one big happy family."
"So you got greedy and are now trying to take both of us back with you?" Kahlua questioned her. "Don't tell me that the council will actually allow you to carry out your plan!"
"That is the thin ice I mentioned earlier. The other members of the council may not like it, but fortunately there are no laws concerning this matter. Besides, the others know that opposing us would be pointless. Even if the Kossuth and Saltik clans publicly opposed my plans and called for a council vote to resolve the matter, my father is the current head of the Acerbi Clan. So even though he does not like it either, I convinced him to publicly throw his support behind us in this matter. If it were known however, that another High Noble was mistreated against council law like this... Carl… then even my father would be forced to withdraw his support and all of our plans would be destroyed. As it currently stands though, a vote now would result in a 2-2 deadlock and only serve to strain relations. So both the Kossuth and Saltik Clans are instead kissing up to us in the hopes of us favoring them when the time to exchange my future grandchildren comes."
"What the hell woman?" Kokoa yells at her. "You're worse than Mizore's mom!"
"You shut your mouth!" Fiammetta yells back.
BOOM!
Everyone has confused looks on their faces as the hall shakes all around them and they hear multiple explosions and yelling coming from the outside.
"What the hell is this?" she angrily yells.
"Lady Reinfeldt! Lady Reinfeldt!" a man wearing an all-white uniform breathlessly shouts as he bursts into the room. "We're under attack!"
"WHAT?"
To be continued…
Note #1: Buntot Pagi or Sting Ray Tail – It is a type of Filipino whip-like weapon. It is most known for fighting and warding off mythical creatures in Philippine folklore (such as the Manananggal). In actual combat, a Buntot Pagi is often used with a knife or short sword.
Note #2: Elixir of Life and Death – A rare monster Black Market item. It can almost instantly heal most wounds, but at a steep price. Aside from the intense pain after drinking it, it also increases the strain on and prematurely ages the drinker's internal organs. Thereby shortening the drinker's lifespan since there is no cure or way to heal old age.
Note #3: Odoruha or Blade Dance - It is Tamanori's signature spell from his younger days. He uses it to control countless flying blades on the battlefield as they follow his every command and are absolutely deadly to soft (flesh and blood) targets.
Note #4: Multicast – It is the term used to describe two or more magic casters cast a single spell together to combine their strength to increase the power of a single spell being cast.
Note #5: Monster Sealing Barrier – It is the same spell that both Yukari and Ruby cast on Tsukune in Season II, Chapter 6. After a circle of magic-conducting items is made, it attacks any monster caught inside it and seals their powers and abilities, rendering them helpless.
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