Chapter 14

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Hanagumi Vs Fuyu no Shouyo

"Chuuka Zanmai!" Ren's voice entered the battle field, then the three girl's Oversoul backed off to avoided the attack. Ren run to Shouyo's front, "Are you alright?" he asked seriously.

"Yeah, you get to us in time." Shouyo grinned while Manta trembled and paled beside her, "There's three of them while on this side there's only you and Faust who can formed Oversoul, quite unbalance, isn't it?".

Ren snorts, "I'm sure that when we win, the others will attack us too." His tongari get slightly longer due to his raising temper, "Get you and Manta to a safe place, the others will arrived soon".

"Don't you interfere!" Kanna yelled in anger, "Ashcroft!" the armor charged towards Ren.

Ren evaded the attack and attacked back, while Ren get Kanna busy, Mary attacked Faust and Macchi send her doll to Shouyo and Manta.

"Manta, sorry." Shouyo said calmly and shoved him aside, causing Manta to yelped and ran to find a shelter, then she take out her twin fans while dodging her attack, her sword still on her waist, "Do you think I can't fight?" she asked calmly.

"As if normal human can see our attack!" Macchi yelled and they attacked once again.

How fortunate of me that the incantation only need to be said once for every time I need it, She thought as she evaded another attack, "Reinforce, Wind Blade." Shouyo said calmly, her fans then glowing a soft greenish white light, nearly unnoticed to naked eyes of normal human, Shaman can see them, but faintly. She is ready to fight, but then she make a mistake, she looked at the Great Spirit direction, causing her to went rigid.

Faust noticed that Shouyo stopped moving, "Eliza! Protect us!" he ordered as he get to Shouyo's side, "Shouyo-kun, don't look at the Great Spirit!".

Shouyo felt dizzy as uncountable images went through her head, again, the last image she saw was a twin baby boys. If in the past she couldn't understand the meaning, she now know that it's the picture of her and Hao as twin babies. "Ow, God, my head spinning." She moaned as she clutched her head in futile effort to reduce the dizziness, "What are these images again?".

"What?!" Everyone in the place, except for Manta because he didn't understand a thing and Hao because he had a great control over his reaction, exclaimed in shock.

"Her furyoku getting larger the instant she looked at the Great Spirit, from really weak until getting half of the doctor and the Chinese boy." Hao observed, "It seems like she received a blessing from Great Spirit".

"But, Hao-sama!" Kanna said in shock, "How come normal human received a blessing from Great Spirit?!" her face colored with disbelief.

"No, she is not normal human." Manta squeaked, "She was once a Shaman, but her Shamanic ability reduced to the lowest level because of an accident in the past." his body trembled, he is so scared of what will happen, he had heard just how dangerous Hao can be after all.

"I see." Hao commented lightly then chuckled, "Well, Kanna, Mary, Macchi, fight seriously after she passed the dizziness. I want to see her talent".

"Understood, Hao-sama." Kanna replied and looked seriously at her.

"Tell us when your dizziness disappeared so we can continue our fight." Macchi said with a smirk, "And you better don't interferre doctor and Chinese boy, or the others will kill the short kid over there".

Manta flinched and Faust gulped, he make his way to Manta, Ren narrowed his eyes and also backed away to get in front of Manta, "I hope she can fight well." Faust said nervously.

"I don't know her fighting skill, but she is quite good with Magic." Manta whispered to the doctor quietly, "I hope she can win".

"I also hope so." Faust whispered, "If not, she might lose her life".

"Not only her, but us too." Ren added calmly, "But I know she will win".

Shouyo ignore them in order to focus on her dizzy head, she can tell that she only need a little time more and she will be ready to fight again. 5 more minutes passed and the dizziness faded away, Shouyo sighed in relief and inhaled deeply, exhaling slowly, she turned to face the three girls.

"I'm ready." Shouyo said calmly, "If I'm not mistaken, you said that my furyoku grew larger?".

"Aa." Hao answered, "It's a rare case though, I can get you stronger if you join me, if you can win against Hanagumi, that is." he chuckled, "I will see if you are worth to be my subordinate".

Shouyo smiled, "Even if I'm worthy, I would never join you in your goal to eradicate all humans." she said calmly, "Oh, and Anna will surely able get me stronger if I ever want to, she has your book after all".

"Chou Senji Ryakketsu?" Hao raised his eyebrows, "Does that mean she was the one who tamed my Shikigamis?" he asked casually.

"Oh, about it." Shouyo's smile widened, "Zenki, Kouki." she called and the Shikigamis appeared behind her, "I was the one who did it".

Hao smirked, "Interesting." he simply said and snapped his fingers, the three girls attacked right away.

"Zenki, Kouki, smacked the two dolls aside." Shouyo ordered calmly as she charged towards Ashcroft.

Zenki and Kouki moved to attack, but the two dolls speed increased, "With that slow movement, you can't win against us!" Macchi yelled, "Trick or Treat!" the doll with pumpkin head marched.

"Reinforce! Speed Booster!" Shouyo cast a Magic to increase Zenki and Kouki's speed with wind, indeed, the two Shikigamis movement become faster that they can easily knocked the dolls away.

"Ashcroft!" Kanna yelled in irritation, "Knock her out!" she breathed the smoke from her cigarette.

Shouyo blocked Ashcroft's blade with the fan in her left hand, she then swung the fan in her right hand. The force of the wind released from the fan send the armor backwards and broke it to piece, "I guessed your medium is the smoke from your cigarette?" she asked calmly.

"And what if it's true?" Kanna asked as she reformed the armor while Mary and Macchi's dolls still pinned down by Zenki and Kouki's feet.

"I will only do this." Shouyo grinning mischievously, "Wind Gale!" she cast the Magic as she waved her fan in her right hand from left to right so fast that the movement blurred, then a wind vortex washed over the armor, making the smoke disappeared.

Hao claps hid hands when the three girls unable to attack anymore, "I suppose you can use Magic?" he asked in carefree way.

Shouyo smiled her lazy smile, "Yeah, I guess Magic is like Shamanic ability, that's why I can tamed Zenki and Kouki even with the low level of my Shamanic ability." she responded, "But as I said, I won't join your side and help you in your goal, I will stopped you one day, without killing you of course".

"Such confidence." Hao said calmly, "But I like it, you are not count as normal human, so I will accept you if you change your mind." He smirked, "You are interesting, prepare yourself for constant attack from me, I would like to have you as my personal servant." With that, he and his followers left from the place.

Shouyo sighed, "Oh God, I thought I would fight him right from the start." She exhaled softly and Zenki and Kouki turned back into papers, catching them easily, Shouyo put back the papers in her pocket, "Good things that furyoku is similar to Mana, I can easily understand what to do".

Ren huffed, "But really, why did you never show us that you can fight?" he asked, "And you are so strong too, what was that big Shikigamis just now?" his face frowned slightly.

"That was Zeenki and Kouki, Hao's old Shikigamis that guarded Chou Senji Ryakketsu, the seal accidentally removed outside the inn back in Japan, so I tamed them and make them mine." Shouyo explained calmly, "Where is the rest?".

"They are exploring the village, I was nearby when I heard a fighting noises, I was curious so I came." Ren answered nonchalantly, "Why are you with Faust though?" he looked sharply at Faust.

"I'm helping in the hospital." Faust answered calmly, "Why don't we talked in the shop? Shouyo said that she was hungry".

Shouyo laughed sheepishly while Ren smirked, "You are always hungry it seems." He said teasingly, then they got in and bought food for them, "What do you think Hao will do about you?".

"Maybe he would meet me often to seduce me or send his followers to attack me, he said he had taken interest in me after all." Shouyo answered nonchalantly as she playing with her orange, "I bet he would get a heart attack if he know I'm his twin brother".

Faust sprayed what he just drank to Manta who unfortunately sit in front of the doctor, he looked at her in shock, "You are a boy?!" he asked in shock but careful not to yell in public. Shouyo nodded calmly as she still looked at her orange with blissful expression on her face, causing Faust to shook his head in wonder, "And here I thought that you are beautiful girl, not as beautiful as my Eliza though".

"Oh, that's right, about Eliza." Shouyo looked up from her orange, "Why don't I asked Anna to call her spirit from the Spirit world?" she looked at Faust, who had his eyes widened.

"She can do it?" Faust asked in surprise.

Ren nodded, "The question is, will she do it?" he asked calmly as Anna and the rest entered the shop.

To be continued . . .

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