Campione! - Volume 20 - Chapter 1.3

Part 3 

Godou used godspeed to oppose the divine technique of the top of martial art Luo Cuilian. 

A palm strike filled with peerless immense strength was launched for about thirty attacks――Godou made all of them hit empty air. That happened even though every single strike was attack that personified the essence of The Twelve Divine Palm Strikes of the Flying Phoenix without holding anything back that was far from ordinary, they were attack that was enough to capture even godspeed. 

Nevertheless# it wasn’t something that was accomplished easily by any meant. 

The elder sister addressed him when both of them stopped moving.

「Fufufufu……have you slightly run out of breath?」

「Just a little! Don’t worry about me! I can just rest a lot after beating up Nee-san.」 

He was controlling his tempo while still in a godspeed state that put burden in his mind and body. 

It was really a tiresome work! However――it was also still a fact that Godou’s words weren’t a bluff! Compared to before# the damage to himself that was accompanying godspeed movement was decreasing. The body and mind of Kusanagi Godou had gotten used to a speed of this degree. 

Of course it wasn’t until the same degree of Black Prince Alex though, so Godou bluffed.

「I can still go one for half or even a full hour here! Let’s compare strength until the end, Nee-san.」

「You have guts, saying that to this Luo Hao. Fine then. Receive the full power of your elder sister with that body, and learn something about martial art, little brother!」 

Luo Cuilian spoke sharply with imposing air and began to sing.

「The wind is rustling and the river is frozen――」

「!?」 

Dragon’s Roar and Tiger’s Howl. Surely she was intending to pile the ultrasonic wave on top of her flying phoenix palm and Vajrapani might. 

Squall that sounded *gou!* blew from the elder sister, so Godou put his guard up.

「The heroic man has gone and will not return forever!」

「Blow out the same wind from our side too, Ama no Murakumo! Just do it as much as you can!」 

He commanded the divine sword dwelling in his right arm with the intention of buying time. 

He would create an extension of time even for just a little so that he could put in order his readiness to oppose that maddening windstorm, the broadcasting of the shockwave that would blow away everything. 

However, before the intention of the two sides could take shape.

「What!?」

「Hou」 

From the night sky where not even stars were visible due to the dark lightning cloud, a streak of white flash was soaring. 

That seemed to be a comet that was leaving a trail behind. If a comet that was flying by almost touching the surface ground existed, then perhaps this would be how it went. 

This white comet suddenly parted into two and flew toward the devil kings on the ground. 

That was to say toward both Luo Cuilian and Kusanagi Godou!

「It’s aiming at us@?」

「Under Abyss Terrain Reduction……」 

In contrast with the shocked Godou# the elder sister’s expression kept calm―― 

She chanted Daoist art’s secret word and suddenly vanished!

「Eh!?」 

Truly a calm and swift emergency retreat. 

However, this action warned Godou. That white comet was really『bad』, that a valiant warrior like Luo Cuilian could tell it was dangerous with a single glance. 

In fact, a white comet was falling toward the spot where the elder sister was standing just now. 

Gouuuuuuuuu-! 

Flash and wind blast burst, and shockwave was rushing through. 

A hole was gouged on the ground with the comet impact. Although the hole looked modest with a diameter that was at best four, five meter, it looked terrifyingly deep. It was an attack in the level that made the elder sister retreated, so by any chance the possibility that it reached a depth until several thousand meters was――! 

「Ku――@」 

Godou ran away with godspeed. 

The mountain range that included this Kumotori mountain in it spanned across Okutama – Chichibu – Yamanashi, it boasted the widest scale as the mountainous district at the outskirts of Tokyo. It was precipitous mountains that once were used as training place for the mountaineering ascetics. 

But, Godou had the speed and agility of『Raptor』. 

As the result of sprinting with godspeed in full activation, he was able to reach until a beautiful ravine in less than an instant. 

He was by the side of a mountain stream where it seemed char or salmon could be fished. 

(However, during that time he rushed through the forest on the way and leaped over steep slope and so on for shortcut. Even route that was full of thicket that normal mountaineering ascetic wouldn’t choose# he ran through the whole route by a forced march using thicket branch or leaf as foothold, and traveled through a distance of two mountains until here.) 

However――Godou was astonished when he glanced at the sky. The white comet was still following him close!

「Just what’s with this@?」 

Godou was still in the middle of sprinting with godspeed. 

He jumped over the beautiful mountain stream and then continued to run without difficulty even on ground that was piled up with deep snow or ground with frozen ice that normally would make him slipped up. 

The white comet didn’t get left behind and tailed after Godou! 

In other words, that thing was also flying with godspeed! On top of being able to divide to aim for multiple targets, it even had homing ability!

「What is that light!?」 

What utility. As expected was this an authority that was controlled by a Campione? 

But before he could find the answer, Godou was shocked once again.

「!?」 

His ankle was suddenly caught when he was in the middle of sprinting in godspeed. 

And then he was dragged back. Into the ground. To below the ground that he had run through in full speed until now. 

Godou’s whole body was sinking underground as though the ground was mud. 

From his legs to his waist, chest, and last the top of his head vanished into the ground. 

It was at that time the white comet lost its target and passed through vainly right above the point where Godou disappeared.

「Uwaa――@?」 

Even though he was dragged inside the ground. 

For some reason Godou was――tasting the sensation that felt like he was falling from the sky. 

He was falling inside darkness with terrifying speed. There was no floor or bottom in this jet black space, not even any kind of object existed, he got no feeling at all that he would crash into something.

「Rope?」 

He looked at his left ankle that was caught by someone just now and noticed. 

His ankle was being entangled by a rope with weight attached. It seemed that this was the perpetrator that dragged Godou into the ground――no! It wasn’t underground! 

Godou understood already. That this place was inside spell barrier. 

He was being captured by some kind of spell right now and was in the middle of being imprisoned somewhere.

「Don’t underestimate me@」 

As the result of piling up more than enough experience as Campione even if reluctantly, it seemed that even his instinct in this kind of thing was working. He reflexively thought up an idea to resist what was happening. 

He concentrated his mind and heightened the magic power dwelling inside his body and heart――! 

It was a trick in order to oppose antagonistic spell and so on. 

And then# what was happening wasn’t something so powerful that it could restrict a devil king Campione indefinitely. 

As he expected, the thing that captured Godou which was something between magic to authority suddenly vanished.「Uwah!?」 

A moment later, Godou was thrown out to a dry river bed where there were only gravels. 

It was still night. There was variety of rocks, small and big at the side of a mountain stream! He was inside a mountain――it seemed that he was at an area with elevation that wasn’t that high. Godou stood up while enduring the pain throughout his body.

「I’m still in Okutama……?」 

The place didn’t seem that different with the valley that he saw before he escaped from the white comet. 

He didn’t travel that far from where he was just now! Godou stared fixedly at the『enemy』with aniticpation. 

Power for the sake of fighting was overflowing in his body the instant he got thrown out here. 

There was the enemy of godslayer, a『Heretic God』right nearby. A sticky gaze was being directed at Godou from slight distance……!

「Is it, Rama?」 

The good looking youth before his eyes looked exactly like the『King of the End』Ramachandra. 

His blue long hair was conspicuous as always, he was also carrying on his back the divine sword of salvation which had blade over one meter long. However, there was also something different from him. 

His skin was brown, and the color of the garment he was clad in was ominously black. 

And above all else his eyes were different. The refreshing air of that great hero had vanished away somewhere. Now his eyes looked really venomous, glaring at Kusanagi Godou with eyes that were full with hatred. 

「I’ll ask again……! Are you Rama?」

「Laksmana. O fiendish Rakshasa Raja, know that I am the little brother of my exalted elder brother.」 

The tanned good looking god introduced himself with small volume. 

Godou tried to recall about Rama’s little brother! Laksmana was the second son among four brothers. Among the little brothers, it was only Laksmana who accompanied his wandering elder brother for lifetime, he devoted himself to his elder brother by putting his life on the line.

「You carrying that sword mean……」 

Laksmana was carrying a sheathed divine sword of salvation on his back. 

That sword ought to be called as the other self of the hero Prince Rama. Godou spoke.

「Looks like you are planning to become the proxy until Rama come back huh.」

「Not a proxy! I’m doing the dirty work for my elder brother’s sake! That’s all!」 

The little brother of the great hero smirked broadly. 

That was a grin that was filled with great hatred. His noble good look declined wastefully by his own expression. It was expressing the distortion of his soul. 

Godou came to a realization when he reached that thought. Before this there was a mysterious shadow squirming on 

Rama’s back# it took out powerful arrow from the quiver by itself in order to shoot it. Rama called that shadow as『the one accepting all the distortion in my place』――!

「I met you before too wasn’t it?」 

Convinced of that, Godou declared.

「You hid inside Rama and tried to secretly shoot me dead. The other day, that time at the battle in Boso.」

「So you noticed, godslayer! I’ll correct the blunder of that time right now. Though I would be able to easily take care of thou if the『Nagapasha(Dragon Knotted Rope)』just now could imprison thou.」 

Laksmana’s left hand was carrying a bundled rope with weight attached. 

It was the tool that entangled Godou’s ankle and dragged him underground. It seemed that it was a weapon that was related with India myth.

「Well# no matter! The current thou……is the one most exhausted among the seven devil kings. Even this Laksmana who succeeded the valor of my radiantly fierce elder brother has enough prospect of victory.」

「Now that you mentioned it, Perseus and others said it.」 

The grand free-for-all fight from Tokyo’s Odaiba that traveled until this Okutama. 

Among the participating Campiones, the one who used the most power was indeed Godou. 

But, this scheme of Laksmana who was attempting to take advantage of that was really narrow-minded and vulgar for the little brother of the『King of the End』.

「They said about a plan to wait for us to weaken from the battle royal. So you were the one who thought that up?」

「Correct.」

「So it’s only your face that is similar with Rama……」 

Godou rethought after whispering so. 

No. That older brother has really excellent character that is abnormal for a Heretic God, then it’s just like what he said# perhaps Laksmana was like this exactly because『he is taking in all』the distortion of the exalted hero Ramachandra. So this too is this guy’s dedication as a little brother!「So you are going to kill me for your big brother’s sake?」

「It’s for the sake of my pure and virtuous elder brother# and it’s also for the order of the world!」 

He was looking at Godou with eyes that looked like terrifying poisonous insect while declaring that. 

That weight-attached rope vanished from Laksmana’s left hand. In exchange a steel long bow appeared. And then an arrow also appeared on his right hand. 

The arrow possessed red――fresh blood colored arrowhead# it was an eerie arrow.「I will exterminated thou this time for sure, o godslayer.」

「Sorry, but I absolutely want to beg off of that!」 

Godou turned on godspeed at the same time when he said that. 

He turned it off when he was dragged into the barrier of darkness by that sacred rope. And then, he circled to behind Laksmana with a speed that was equal with lightning. 

He returned to normal speed after he took the back of the too distorted god.

「!?」

「Ama no Murakumo, do it.」 

The divine sword dwelling in his right arm launched shockwave when he shortly commanded so. 

Sonic wave that came from demonic wind――that was the authority of his elder sister, Luo Cuilian that he copied. Laksmana that got hit directly with that was greatly blown away and yelled in irritation.

「Kuh――@ You still have that much power remaining@?」

「…………」 

Laksmana was sinking into the ground while cursing. 

It seemed he retreated. It was meaningless to be thoughtlessly elated with triumph, so Godou was instead staying silent. The excitement in his mind and body when he was near a god was also vanishing. 

Even though Laksmana was a god, but after all he was a subordinate god of Rama. 

He should have postponed his confrontation against Godou by the time his scheme was broken through. 

Perhaps Laksmana’s distortion was just that great that he couldn’t even make such judgment!

「Rama’s little brother huh……」

Godou sighed and then pondered. 

Should he say that it was an unexpected ambush? Actually when he was thrown out on this dry river bed, he was suspecting a possibility that another man was waiting for him. 

Yes. The white comet flying at him previously. 

An attack that was aiming at Kusanagi Godou and Sect Founder Luo Hao, two Campiones at the same time. 

Not only the flying projectile was homing at escaping target, it even exhibited an extraordinary additional ability of godspeed. By any chance the arrow just now, was perhaps something that was launched by that man……! 

Godou fiddled with a certain suspicion.