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Part 5 

—Pumpkin Street. Old recreational plaza. 

Jack and Ayesha nodded their heads in satisfaction as they watched over the progress of the game in the open area. This plaza offered no cover for an effective ambush and it was easy for them to escape. And this made the place their exclusive territory. Any brazen plan of waiting for the enemy to appear and chasing them down was never going to work against these two. This is because the spiritual forms of Jack and Ayesha were capable of the skilled technique of utilizing the gates created by Willa to escape to several other possible locations. 

But talking about Willa herself, she had gone on a trip to wander around the region outside of the Community’s territory and have yet to return. The two members could only feel bewildered by the habitual carefree personality of their leader while enjoying the progress of the Community decreed festival. 

“But come to think about it, the time has finally come. Contestants who dare to pick a direct battle with Jack-san.” 

“Yahoho! That’s right! During the initial years that we held this Community decreed festival, there used to be many contestants who would come and challenge me……” 

Talking up to that point, his words stopped abruptly. And there was this awkward atmosphere around the two of them that kept them from continuing the conversation. 

For any publicly open Game that is hosted by a Community, only the initial attempts would be rather lively. Although this could be said to be a common phenomenon in the world of Little Garden, it was more symbolic for the first attempt in a game of a newly formulated concept with the promise of a Gift. This is fairly symbolic condensation of hopes and believes due to the motivation to break through the trial when there is little to no clues circulating for the other participants and the creativity that is needed to overcome it. 

But this Community decreed festival was hosted over twenty times when including this current ongoing event and the participants had gradually reduced to a few regulars and children who participate for free. The earnings weren’t much as well. 

Although it might be good to have a change in the game concept, but it would be a disgrace to the Community’s pride. As long as a Community launches a Community decreed festival Gift Game, it would be a difficult position for both the host and the participants to back down if there wasn’t a single person who could clear the Game. 

“Mah, it’s not a bad idea to change the game if we win…… but it will just be a little lonely for the host.” 

“That’s right. If the win leads to the promulgation of our Name, it would be an undebatable desire for us…… but it will not bring us any fame to change the Game when it is a win in a Community decreed festival. And the number of people who are willing to participate in our next game would surely be turned off by that.” 

Then that will an unnecessary spilling of blood that will not give anything in return. Rather than getting a big crowd of participants to challenge their trial, it was their motto to allow a greater number of people to receive their fair share of enjoyment. 

And for that purpose, they had decided to extend the invitation to the Community that has the highest possibility of defeating Jack— the [No Name]s, but it turned out to be a burden too heavy for them which they could only smile bitterly about. 

“Although that is indeed the case, if we were to be lenient in this round, we would be betraying the participants who have challenged us till date. So we do hope that they will be able to obtain their victory on their own.” 

“Even if you do say that, that lad hasn’t answered our invitation. Is it really going to work out with those girls alone?” 

It wasn’t a conceited or exaggerated comment but purely factual in observation. Jack believed that he was stronger than those girls and he believed that in a duel with them, they would already be having a hard time catching up to his speed. 

If that is the case, they will not have any other strategies to utilize…… 

“…….Ayesha, here I come!” 

“Aie?” 

Ayesha gave a cry in her confusion. At the same time, a strong wind struck the both of them. Ayesha held down her twintails in the wind while Jack had his vision obstructed by the billowing tattered cloth that flew up to cover the eyes. 

“Wuaah!?” 

“You’re open……!” 

This time, Yō attacked from the rear with Asuka’s silvery white sword. Sensing the malicious intent that was embedded within the sword, Jack only managed to avoid it at the last moment. 

And he reached out a huge white hand to grab Yō as he laughed in admiration. 


“Yahohohoho! I didn’t expect you to have such a Gift up your sleeve! But if you had that sort of Gift, you should have used it in the first attempt and it would surely have pierced this pumpkin head of mine!” 

“……uu……” 

Yō grinded her teeth as she stared at him. But having waited for this opening, Asuka shouted her command. 

“Deen, it’s your turn!” 

“DEEEEEeeeeeEEEEEEN!!!” 

The stretchable metal wrist shot towards Jack from a distance away from the plaza. 

That was a strength that possessed the power to shatter Jack’s pumpkin head if it were to land a direct hit. But Jack who leisurely dodged the punch pointed at the combination of the duo as he gave a loud laugh. 

“That’s too naive! Too naive, girls. Your control of the game is still too naive! To attack in waves is only meaningful if you have the numbers on your side! With this number of people on your side, it is only a basic tactic to work as a pair you know?!” Laughed Jack at the efforts of the continuous attack that would be of no avail from the two girls and a doll. 

But indeed, he did not possess the durability to surpass the strength of Deen’s punch. Perhaps a lucky strike might get though and it was best to escape the area. 

Jack held Yō as he summoned the flames around them —- 

“Now’s the time, Asuka!” 

In an instant, Yō’s whirlwind surrounded Jack. 

The flames were unable to condense into their linkage units and were conversely blown away by the winds. And it was then that Jack started to panic in earnest. 

“Could, Could it be……!” 

“Yes, it is what you are thinking, Jack. You needed the flames to surround yourself to engage in that instantaneous teleportation right?” 

This is bad, Jack clicked his tongue in his heart. 

From the start of the Game, Jack had disappeared from the people in his escape and those two times were with the common pattern of the precursor conjuring of flames around himself. 

The Community of [Will O’ Wisp] was one that was based around the demon of ‘fire that stems from the borders of life and death’. 

Hence it was possible to predict that the requisite for his disappearance would be to summon the fire to cloak himself. 

Although that was the case, it was really a crazily thrown together battle plan and Yō was secretly surprised by the success of such a smooth execution but that was no reason for her to miss the opportunity. 

Deen who broke through the pumpkin’s head under Yō’s command had revealed the gem that was hidden within its shell. 

“Uu. I won’t let you succeed!” 

Ayesha flew towards the gen while Yō who was gripped by the hand was slightly slower in her jump. But even though Yō was slower by a beat in the initiation of the action, she utilized the explosive powers of a leopard to leap over Ayesha’s head. 

And grabbed the Azure gem tightly in her hand. 

“Kuu……!” 

Yō looked down at the gradually mending body of Jack as she puffed her small chest, 

“…….and that’s my win, right?” 

To declare her victory to the host of the game. 



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