Campione! - Volume 21 - Chapter 7.5

Part 5
The message from Mariya Hikari that had 『After this I’ll bring Shizuka-senpai to Lu-san’s place☆』 written in it and of course Lu Yinghua replied to it without delay.

『Don’t screw with me. I won’t tolerate my nest getting assaulted by that woman. For now, bring her to the shrine at your place. I will join you there later.』

Until then he was at a multi-tenant building in Shinjuku’s Kabukichou.

It was the dwelling of Yinghua and the Tokyo branch of Hongkong’s Lu family. He was having a phone call with Erica Blandelli at Shanghai inside his room in this building.

He was wearing a black T-shirt and similarly black blouson before he went outside with a sour face.

──The little sister of Mariya Yuri now wasn’t an apprentice anymore, she had formally become a hime-miko too. She was entrusted with Nanao Shrine as the replacement of her big sister who moved to Kyoto.

However, Lu Yinghua didn’t head to the tiger’s gate that was at that shrine.

Instead her went to Sanbanchou in Chiyoda district.

The detached residence of Sayanomiya family. Although it was old, but it was a refined western-style mansion.

It was the headquarters of History Compilation Committee.

But, the master of this mansion was a long time devotee of Kusanagi Godou, she restarted the committee as a lower branch of Round Table Alliance where that devil king reigned at its top.

Lu Yinghua entered this western mansion as though he owned the place and headed to the owner’s office.

「Yo.」

「Hey, this is curious. For Li-kun to come here by your own initiative.」

「Usually it will be us who intrude on your shop or your building after all.」

The beauty, Sayanomiya Kaoru was dressed stylishly with man clothing as usual.

Amakasu Touma’s worn out business suit was also as usual. Different from Lu Yinghua who grew taller by five centimeter in this two years, the two of them didn’t change much.

Lu Yinghua didn’t beat around the bush toward the pair of master and servant who had become familiar faces to him over these several years.

「About the trouble that dragged honored uncle’s little sister into it, you guys have grasped the detail anyway right? Give me the short of it.」

「As expected from Lu-san, you are sharp.」

Amakasu grinned cheerfully. Yinghua showed a grimace.

「There is no way that Mariya Hikari will skip contacting you guys. That woman is so obstinately diligent after all, she was often a bother to us.」

「Wahahaha, is that so.」

Beside the laughing Amakasu, Sayanomiya Kaoru spoke.

「At present Shizuka-san is being brought to Nanao shrine with Hikari protecting her. During that time, we the committee tried to contact the witch Lucrezia Zora in Sardinia.」

It was a name that he heard for the first time. Yinghua asked.

「Who is that?」

「She is a witch who is a contender for the top spot even in Europe, a person who created the cause of our lordship, Kusanagi Godou to be able to become a Campione. More specifically, it was her who left behind the Secret Grimoire of Prometheus──the lithograph that can steal god’s power in Japan.」

「Hee」

「In order to deliver that lithograph to Madame Lucrezia, Godou-san went all the way to visit until Sardinia in Italy and got dragged into a great adventure where he fought the war god Verethragna. And then, our Amakasu here tried to talk with her through phone call.」

Kaoru sent a glance to Amakasu. He then opened his mouth once more.

「That lithograph, when miss Lucrezia came to Japan dozens of years ago, she left it at a small wayside shrine……at a village that now was abandoned in Noto Peninsula.」

「For what?」

「It seems that it was to calm down the curse of a dangerous revengeful spirit──a wrathful god……. Due to her chivalrous spirit, miss Lucrezia stole the divine power of the wrathful god using the Secret Tome of Prometheus that she was carrying by chance, and turned the god in question powerless. And then, in preparation of the time when the god would be revived──」

She dedicated the Secret Grimoire of Prometheus at the wayside shrine.

However the time flowed, the land where the wrathful god resurrected became an abandoned village, and the lithograph then lost its place to go back to. Thus it was sent to the house of Kusanagi Ichiro who was the “acquaintance of the former owner”…….

「So honored uncle ended up murdering a god through that kind of circumstance.」

「Around ten days ago, it seemed Miss Lucrezia obtained a spirit vision. The wrathful god at that time will resurrect, and he will attempt to cause a calamity in the world. But, he will also know that the lithograph that sealed him had been sent outside the village──. That is why he will search for it to destroy it……」

Amakasu shrugged his shoulders at this point.

「The wrathful god in question should chase after the lithograph’s whereabouts and appear at Kusanagi residence. This is the oracle from Miss Lucrezia. She sent charms to protect the people in that house, and she had also sent message to the people in Shanghai and Kyoto.」

「But, the two Nee-san in Kyoto are shutting themselves inside mountain right?」

Yinghua said after hearing the detail of event from Amakasu.

「Phone call and internet cannot be used, so isn’t it pointless even if she contacted them?」

「It’s exactly as you said. And then, for some reason there is also no response from the two at Shanghai, so it’s troubling.」

「Roger. Anyway, if that’s the case」

Yinghua pondered for a bit and made a suggestion.

「Even if you called it a wrathful god, it’s just a type of revengeful ghost or spirit right? Then, how about we call that Hikari here? Then she along with me and big bro Sayanomiya will stand guard at honored uncle’s house.」

「You are planning to lie in ambush, Li-kun? And then subduing the wrathful god with brute force, is that it?」

Yinghua nodded at Kaoru’s question.

「Yeah. It will be enough with me and two hime-miko there.」

「Certainly. But, it’s unexpected that you who are in hand-to-hand combat faction will willingly participate in a fight against this kind of “monster that they eye cannot see” as the opponent like this.」

Kaori smiled and glanced at Amakasu.

「No, you see, I’m in the middle of consideration of how to persuade Amakasu-san, to show his stuff here as a master ninja!」

「Ninja art won’t be useful in the front line against a dangerous opponent like a wrathful god!」

Of course Amakasu refused with all his might, but his boss pointed out mildly.

「You say that again. You should also be able to repel back possession right? Amakasu-san is also capable in the way of Onmyodouway of Yin Yang too.」

「Lu-san has especially spoken his aspiration to participate just now, so I think I should leave it to him!」

「Well, after hearing about master’s reappearance again, I now want to recover back my instinct in real battle. Exterminating a spirit after so long isn’t bad.」

The prodigal child of martial art world, Lu Yinghua had also turned seventeen years old.

His height was around 175 centimeter. It would still take a few more years until his body build and physical ability matured completely. But, the growth of his body was remarkable compared to when he was fourteen years old.

And then, although his master was absent, for the growth of his technique to stop was──impossible.

For an expert who had reached the mental state at the level of Lu Yinghua, if they tempered their techniques, accumulated hard training, and exercised their ingenuity, they would be fine with that. Through long days of training they had learned the groundings and foundation where they would be able to reach new heights just by their own effort.

In the extreme story, people who had reached this territory were able to improve even just by sleeping.

They felt the flow of wind from lying down, even just from gazing at the flow of clouds they would obtain some kind of enlightenment by themselves, which would become an impetus to polish their technique even more exquisitely.

However, it was only in regard to 『battle instinct』 that it would dull down no matter what.

In these two years, he didn’t receive any absurd task from his master, he devoted himself in the activity of the outlaw group 《Hong Kong Lu Family》 in Tokyo. As the result his chance to head to the frontline decreased.

Lu Yinghua finally resigned himself and resolved to “return to active duty”.

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