Campione! - Volume 20 - Chapter 6.5

Part 5 

There was vast grassland around Plutarch’s Mansion! 

Right now, a gale was blowing violently on this land. Even rain with large drops were pouring down, striking incessantly on 

Godou’s body painfully! 

The authority to summon storm『Storm und Drang』. 

Even with the dragon transformation# Marquis Voban’s dreadful authority wasn’t affected! 

And then――

「Hahahaha! Finally the time to stand against you has come!」 

The voice coming out from the dragon’s jaw was also the powerful voice of that twisted old man.

「Your strength is obviously grown than before! But……have you grown to be a caliber that can satisfy Voban at his seriousness# or not! I’m going to ascertain that now@」

「If you are going to stand against me, then take off that doll costume and come down here!」 

Godou yelled at the dragon that was flying calmly at the sky of the raging storm. 

Perhaps it was planning to observe how Godou would make his move. The wolf king that was transformed into an evil dragon was coming and going far above Godou’s head!「In the first place you aren’t standing on the ground right@?」

「Of course# I also won’t mind doing so! But only if you can endure this meager greeting from me!」

Godou was already unable to catch up to the flying black dragon. 

He came to a standstill with his sharp gaze directed to the sky. 

The ground was muddy and hard to run on# and anyway――if he waited then Voban would surely come to attack. 

He would be in offensive with his fighting spirit full of vim and vigor. That was the constant personality of this old man whose act was unbecoming for his age.「Lightning!」 

Lightning was falling down like heavy rain along with that howl. 

It resembled the『Mandala of Divine Sword』that Rama and Laksmana used. In contrast with his speech of『meager greeting』, it was a really lavish hospitality. 

Godou could slip through it using the avatar of godspeed. But, this time he――

「All enemy of mine――tremble in fear before the avatar of victory.」 

He chanted the scripture of Verethragna and used the power of『Goat』. 

The lightning energy directed at him would be a waste if he erased it or made it go past him. Godou began to gather them all.

「O lightning. O lightning. O lightning. O lightning. Gather for my sake, safeguard me from the immoral!」 

The barrage of lightning falling from the sky――! 

All of them were sucked into Godou’s body! 

Even the lightning that should strike the ground nearby instead twisted their trajectory and got absorbed into Godou’s body rapidly. 

Like that the gathered energy changed into half-sphere shape. 

A dome of bluish white electricity light――was created around Godou. 

At first its size could only barely cover Godou alone. But, the dome swelled up suddenly and became a size that resembled even Tokyo Dome. 

The dragon gliding on the sky above also had large body of thirty meter class. 

If it spread both its wings fully, it would look even bigger.

「A box this around this size is necessary to oppose that body!」

「Kukukuku. You are really saying something flattering, youngster. So you multiply your strength until my level!」 

When Godou asserted on the ground, the huge beast on the sky also expounded. 

Even though they both had the ability to manipulate lightning strikes, Verethragna’s『Goat』was the more elaborate one and excelled in sorcery techniques. 

However, what was crucial in head-on fight where both sides clashed right from the front was “power”! 

The jet black dragon spread its wings widely and finally it came to a halt in one spot. It gazed sharply at Godou on the ground and the lightning dome. 

It finally intended to participate in the contest of power.

「This might be nosy# but isn’t it better to put down the excessive baggage first?」 

The dragon’s right front limb! Its palm was still clutching the body of an old man. 

Of course it was “the sleeping Dejanstahl Voban”!

「For example, you can entrust it to someone among your underlings?」

「I’ve thought about it! But# it’s no good!」 

Wind was blowing noisily with rain pouring down hard. 

The loud voice of the demon wolf king that transformed into a dragon was resounding with reverberation that overwhelmed those noisy sounds of nature.

「After all you――have really good affinity with my servants! 

It will be unbearable if the baggage I entrusted to them is then taken away.」

「So you remember huh.」 

The dead army serving Marquis Voban. However, they became like that not by their own wish. They submitted to the authority of the god of underworld Osiris that changed the dead into slaves, and they served reluctantly. 

With the ninth avatar『Goat』, Godou could connect to their heart. 

He could call to them to lend him their power, and fight Voban together. 

Even at the previous battle he was helped by them. That was the reason that it should be Godou that fought the wolf king of Eastern Europe instead of Salvatore Doni. 

And then it was the reason why Voban didn’t call even a single servant this time.

「So there is no chance for it to happen the second time huh……」 

Even while muttering that# Godou’s lips were twisting fiercely! 

It became clear with this. Voban was carrying his sleeping human body even in this situation. As expected, that meant it was an exposed weak point. 

Although it didn’t mean that he would have the room to take advantage of that, but there was no doubt that it was an advantage.

「Here I go, Kusanagi Godou!」

「Yeah! I’ll overturn the table on you this time for sure@」 

The jet black dragon began swooping down. Godou met the attack along with the electricity dome. 

It was finally the time for the head-on clash.

「Finally I can have contest of skill with sect founder-sama……」 

Salvatore Doni grinned broadly. At the temple after his Japanese ally and the old man of Eastern 

Europe left! At a position that wasn’t that far from the space rift――the『Fairy Corridor』. 

The weather was the worst. Wind, rain and lightning became a raging storm. 

The opponent he faced here was Sect Founder Luo Hao――! 

Right now she was putting her right hand quietly far forward, while her left hand was taking position in front of her heart. 

She didn’t form a fist with her palm opened! 

If a biwa (TN: Japanese lute) was placed inside those left and right hands, it would surely settle there beautifully. 

It was a stance that could move into offense and defense anytime. Her beautiful eyes were tranquil like a bodhisattva that had reached Nirvana, those eyes were staring at Doni and she talked.

「King of Italia country. Previously, I had seen your technique even if just for a little.」

Sect Founder Luo Hao gently smiled.

「I understand――that you have certainly improved compared to that time. Fufufufu. Now quickly show that fruits of your effort.」 

It was charming word of invitation. Doni immediately discerned it.

「So sect founder-sama will come like that huh……」 

The supernatural sect founder was waiting! For Doni’s strike! 

Furthermore not just for a normal strike, but a slash that was filled with Salvatore Doni’s everything to come at her and split her beautiful limbs into two. And then, she would meet that full strength slash with a counter in a hair’s breadth――! 

Although it was in a different shape, but this was a tactic that was also done by Black Prince Alec yesterday and Marquis Voban before this. 

It was the logical option exactly because they knew of Doni’s simple and clear personality as well as his tactics. Well, 

Salvatore Doni’s used a magic sword exactly because it couldn’t be defended against even when the opponent of it was coming. 

However he couldn’t pretend to be tough like that when the opponent was a fellow Campione. 

However――! 

Doni vaguely felt it. 

That……after going through the deadly combat yesterday and today, he felt like he became used to that kind of attack. 

That even if the palm of Sect Founder Luo Hao was unleashed risking her life to intercept him, he would overcame it unharmed this time for sure using his sword that had been even more polished―― 

Such a thinking sprang into a corner of his mind for a brief time. 

Doni immediately stopped thinking of anything and he faced Sect Founder Luo Hao absentmindedly. 

He was free from any worthless thoughts. No scheme, no intention, no thinking. 

He was merely, merely, leaving his whole body and sword to move like flowing water. 

That was the absentminded swordsmanship. He also planned to unleash a sword with even more expertise than yesterday, than even thirty minutes ago, but well, he had no intention to be fixated with that. 

Doni was holding his katana in his silver right arm limply in self-indulgence. 

Its tip was pointing at the ground limply, even calling it a stance was too good for it. 

It was fine like this. When the moment he should cut came, his arm would move by itself. The sword would swing. Right now, 

Doni’s senses and mind eye were polished to maximum# grasping everything of Sect Founder Luo Hao. 

She also made full use of dharma art of mind eye and groped for how Doni would come. 

She would catch the moment when his slash began and launch her right palm blow. 

She would strike the side of the katana Doni swung in order to pulverize it into pieces. Next she would launch the second blow and deal the finishing blow. 

――Oh! Has Sect Founder Luo Hao ate something bad? 

Her body temperature was really high. Magic power and stamina was fiercely being burned inside her, her majestic body was being gnawed on. The longer the match stretched out, the more exhausted she would be. 

――My heart# is in a clear and serene state. 

At this time# Doni’s senses were even trying to swallow Luo Cuilian’s martial art! 

But, this great woman that was the ruler of martial world suddenly frowned.

「I had perpetrated a failure with my doing.」

「Heh?」

「As the pioneer in this path of martial art, this expert me yield the initiative toward the young person, where I will meet the attack. Certainly that is also not a bad gesture. However, in the devil king civil war of this occasion that has reached the final stage, for a move like that to be shown in such a scene――it can only be said as playing it safe and also boorish.」

「Now that you say that, certainly that might be so.」

「Yes. This is the time where I ought to grasp the victory with an attack of the supreme ruler that is worthy for me. For this Luo Hao to be unable to immediately notice that, I too am still immature――」

Perhaps this too was a battle perception. Sect Founder Luo Hao that seemed to abruptly felt ill at ease suddenly let out「HA!」 with fighting spirit.

「The might of Vajra dwelling in mine body, now is the time to become the move that will strike the whole world far and wide!

」 

Doni went「Oo!?」with his eyes opened wide. The might of authority『Divine Might of Vajrapani』became a golden aura that was welling up from the sect founder’s whole body like a torrent. 

Clad in the supreme radiance, the beautiful heaven-sent child of martial art murmured.

「King of Sword. Clash your prided sword at the same time when I unleash my palm! Your slash and my palm, which technique and strength will be the victor――it’s a match@」

「Ahaha, a head-on clash huh.」 

It was forcefulness that made every tactics to “become nothing”! 

But, Doni lightly laughed. Leaving his body to the flow like water was the sword of blank mind. And then, riding this flow right now was――the most natural@ 

「That# it’s great that it’s easy to understand@」 

Doni slashed with a diagonal stroke from below. It was a slash that should split even a god into two. 

What Luo Cuilain clashed into this was a straight palm thrust from the middle. Added with the golden aura that surged out from her whole body. 

Katana and bare hand, it stood to reason that katana with its longer reach would arrive first. 

But Sect Founder Luo Hao had an “additional part” that was her golden aura. That clashed with the katana. In that moment, the golden light――became a giant fist! 

Yes. It transformed into a clenched fist that was as big as Sect 

Founder Luo Hao’s stature and punched Doni’s sword that was tracing diagonal line from below, right from the front! Vajra might and silver magic sword contested each other, and the latter――was defeated! 

The katana was smashed into pieces and became countless fragments, falling on the stone paving. 

Luo Cuilian’s fist continued straight ahead like a bullet toward the heart of Doni who lost his weapon!

「!?」 

His ultimate sword strike was defeated. Doni was dumbfounded. 

However# the King of Sword――didn’t stop his silver right arm! It wasn’t an action that came from his heart or his head, but the sword art that he polished was automatically moving his arm. 

The moment his diagonal strike was smashed, his right arm formed a sword hand and struck. 

It aimed at the stabbing right palm blow of Luo Cuilian. That was a slash with Doni’s right palm that was changed into the magic sword itself. 

The technique of magic sword transformation that couldn’t be used until now without a target object, surpassed that limitation. 

In the critical time where the strongest enemy stood in the way# Doni’s authority finally stepped into a new stage!

「DEYAAAAAAAH!」

「HA――――@」 

The chivalrous king of the Oriental and Italia’s King of Sword# both of their hands struck each other――!