And we are back for another round, the person who see the reference I made in This chapter will have cookies :3
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The hand of the general was raised as he used some primitive binoculars to looks at the crumbling castle, or rather, the damage inflict upon it, while the cannon had smoke surrounding it because of the violence of the shot, while the soldiers nearby were busy clutching their ears, the noise was really, really strong, as if some kind of ancient beast was roaring right in their ear.
Ryojiki Gurmanchi smiled in a sadistic way when he saw that the wall that was hit was completely destroyed, while its surroundings were now covered in flames and corpses of guards and civilians. He loved it when he had the bigger stick, it felt quite good to watch the terrors in the face of the survivors as they search for the weapon, hoping to know what killed them at least, presumably.
He threw the binoculars to a random soldier and made hand-gestures, as sixteen soldiers leaped with their horses towards the castle, escaping the tiny forest they were hiding it, as he rudely took the binoculars again to look at the future conflict between his trained, armed men and some pussies hiding in an armored coffin.
The castle was obviously filled with panicking people of course, all of whom were now trying to survive, guards included. Some were using crates in an attempt to hide, ignoring the fact that the firepower of the cannon would easily kill him with or without crates (or perhaps denying it), others were coming out of the hole caused by the attack to run and finally, some were poking objects everywhere to find a secret exit.
Therefore, the riders were in for an easy win, easily overwhelming the entire population of the castle as they slain civilians, guards or servants, slashing their throat, stabbing them, decapitating them or trampling on them with the horses, anything was good for the veterans of the war, much to the general's delight who started to jump around while making slashing motion with his free hand.
"CLUTCH ! CLUTCH ! CCLLLUUUUTTTCCCHHHH !"
At least 4 guards could react in time. And a muscular, seemingly stronger than average Daishonin soldier leaped to stab one of the invaders in the throat with his spear, before smashing another one in the face by throwing the body of the dead soldier at him.
Two others also ganged up on an attacking soldier to stab him and the horse with blades, successfully killing him until the large blade of another sealed both their fates by swiftly cutting their head, with the murdered being ultimately impaled in the face by one of the last guards, who was swiftly killed by one invader who blindsided him.
Now alone, the last guard took out his sword and made one another victim by throwing the spear at him and slashing two other soldiers, until he was repeatedly stabbed at by the rest of the soldiers, although he killed yet another one by throwing his sword at the face of the first guy who attacked him, before dying.
"What the hell was wrong with them ?" said one of the soldiers, watching the corpses of his comrade, amongst those of his victims.
"Probably elite guard, but who care ? We can kill the Ootsutsuki king right now !"
They looked at the small part of the castle where the king reside, ignoring that the coward fled long ago, and watched with a frown when a cannonball managed to hit it.
"I really wanted to murder the hell out of this dude."
The throne room was shaking, as each of its occupants tried to find a way to maintain themselves, with various degrees of success. Kaguya herself was shaking on her throne, looking around in frantic panic as her mother tried to get close to her, in an attempt to shield her "daughter" with her body and reassure her, even if the bodyguards leaped in to take the queen by the arm and yank her out of the throne.
"Queen Kaguya ! We must go !"
The future rabbit said nothing and just griped the arm of Tenchiro, looking around again as the crown fell from her head and shattered, which was ignored by everyone in the room, as Mikazuchi leaped to punch the face of a statue of the former king, much to the surprise of Mina who was too busy holding Kaguya to intervene.
"There's a button Mikazuchi, you can activate it by just opening the face with a push to the chest."
"Whatever ! the palace is crumbling !"
In fact, the statue of the king was never used in the "correct way", people punched it in the face all day to activate the hidden trap, when the tyrant wasn't watching. Having an occasion to punch that smug face was something that few people had in their lives, after all, and since the king was the reason this all happened, punching even a replica of him was a good way to calm one's nerves.
However, the exit opened rather slowly and rocks started to fall upon the room, although the bodyguards tried to keep their calm and open the exit in a quicker way, cursing the designer at the same moment, before turning their heads toward Kaguya, who just let out a rather loud scream.
A medium-sized back fell on her back, fortunately not breaking it by some miracle but clearly hurting the Ootsutsuki queen who nearly dropped to her knees, only standing thanks to her bodyguards, who notice that she'll need some medical help really fast ! Therefore, Tonpo opened the passage by himself and everyone in the room went in the secret passage.
The former queen was running near her daughter, who nearly passed out because of the pain, and tried to help with some words, which clearly did not succeeds since the future rabbit demon went trough phases of being somewhat conscious and trying to look around, before going back to being unconscious, sweating profusely all the while and spouting out incoherent babblings.
The tunnel, leading underground, finally led to a forest, although it wasn't the one where the cannon was. They could still clearly see what was happening to castle, and therefore see that the part of it that wasn't gone because of the collapse was destroyed by the fire, with the general of the invading army gleefully riding the cannon as the captured members of the castle were executed at random by the soldiers.
"No…"
The queen started to somewhat cry, seeing the castle as her (former) new home and turned toward an unconscious Kaguya, gently stroking the head of her false daughter who was unconscious, as the bodyguards were standing there, too shocked by the fall of the castle to speak something that would look dignified or coherent. Instead, they looked at each other.
They all looked utterly defeated, despaired and confused. The sudden fall of the castle, the depart of the king and Kaguya's wounds were hitting them harder than they thought, and they had to pull themselves together by thinking about the problem of the princess.
Daishonin was gone, defeated, and the other nations were going to fight for this tiny piece of land, Kaguya was wounded, the waste of a king was gone and the war had something else to rage on for years, thought the bodyguards as they headed to hide in the forest.
Needless to say, the ambiance was a wee bit depressing until the youngest of them raised her hand.
"Hey ! That's the Konibi village !"
They looked at the alert village in the distance, with people gathered at some high spot to see what the hell was going to happen and crying at the destruction of the castle, and potential risk of the war becoming even more barbaric. However, Mina did not drop her smile as Mikzauchi groaned and picked up the princess, who was spouting out lines about hair drying.
"I has a family there ! Maybe we can hide the princess !"
"Quiet !"
Mina calmed down at Mikazuchi's orders, as the large bodyguard, while walking toward the house, raised his voice a bit to give his opinion on the very convenient fact that the family of one of the bodyguard was there.
"Listen. Maybe some soldiers are waiting to murder the hell out of this village ? And maybe that someone will spot the princess and deliver information to the invaders to receive money and be spared ? And maybe that your family isn't there, or fled because of the war ? If we do knock on this door, and like, your mother opens, I swear to god that I will…"
The mother of Mina opened the door, having seemingly just woke up because of the pockets under her eyes, and promptly hugged her daughter upon realizing her identity, probably a bit to the despair of Mikazuchi who rolled her eyes upwards as an reaction.
"Sorry miss, but we have to enter. Our… friend there is wounded and we'll need medical help."
"Well, who is this friend my DEAR GOD !"
The queen popping out and the discovery that the "friend" was the princess was enough to make the mother froze for a moment, at least until she made some moves to indicate that they could enter, and closed the door when everyone was there, letting "calm" fall once again on the village.
Temporarily at least, since tomorrow shall be a "great" day.
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The hand of the general was raised as he used some primitive binoculars to looks at the crumbling castle, or rather, the damage inflict upon it, while the cannon had smoke surrounding it because of the violence of the shot, while the soldiers nearby were busy clutching their ears, the noise was really, really strong, as if some kind of ancient beast was roaring right in their ear.
Ryojiki Gurmanchi smiled in a sadistic way when he saw that the wall that was hit was completely destroyed, while its surroundings were now covered in flames and corpses of guards and civilians. He loved it when he had the bigger stick, it felt quite good to watch the terrors in the face of the survivors as they search for the weapon, hoping to know what killed them at least, presumably.
He threw the binoculars to a random soldier and made hand-gestures, as sixteen soldiers leaped with their horses towards the castle, escaping the tiny forest they were hiding it, as he rudely took the binoculars again to look at the future conflict between his trained, armed men and some pussies hiding in an armored coffin.
The castle was obviously filled with panicking people of course, all of whom were now trying to survive, guards included. Some were using crates in an attempt to hide, ignoring the fact that the firepower of the cannon would easily kill him with or without crates (or perhaps denying it), others were coming out of the hole caused by the attack to run and finally, some were poking objects everywhere to find a secret exit.
Therefore, the riders were in for an easy win, easily overwhelming the entire population of the castle as they slain civilians, guards or servants, slashing their throat, stabbing them, decapitating them or trampling on them with the horses, anything was good for the veterans of the war, much to the general's delight who started to jump around while making slashing motion with his free hand.
"CLUTCH ! CLUTCH ! CCLLLUUUUTTTCCCHHHH !"
At least 4 guards could react in time. And a muscular, seemingly stronger than average Daishonin soldier leaped to stab one of the invaders in the throat with his spear, before smashing another one in the face by throwing the body of the dead soldier at him.
Two others also ganged up on an attacking soldier to stab him and the horse with blades, successfully killing him until the large blade of another sealed both their fates by swiftly cutting their head, with the murdered being ultimately impaled in the face by one of the last guards, who was swiftly killed by one invader who blindsided him.
Now alone, the last guard took out his sword and made one another victim by throwing the spear at him and slashing two other soldiers, until he was repeatedly stabbed at by the rest of the soldiers, although he killed yet another one by throwing his sword at the face of the first guy who attacked him, before dying.
"What the hell was wrong with them ?" said one of the soldiers, watching the corpses of his comrade, amongst those of his victims.
"Probably elite guard, but who care ? We can kill the Ootsutsuki king right now !"
They looked at the small part of the castle where the king reside, ignoring that the coward fled long ago, and watched with a frown when a cannonball managed to hit it.
"I really wanted to murder the hell out of this dude."
The throne room was shaking, as each of its occupants tried to find a way to maintain themselves, with various degrees of success. Kaguya herself was shaking on her throne, looking around in frantic panic as her mother tried to get close to her, in an attempt to shield her "daughter" with her body and reassure her, even if the bodyguards leaped in to take the queen by the arm and yank her out of the throne.
"Queen Kaguya ! We must go !"
The future rabbit said nothing and just griped the arm of Tenchiro, looking around again as the crown fell from her head and shattered, which was ignored by everyone in the room, as Mikazuchi leaped to punch the face of a statue of the former king, much to the surprise of Mina who was too busy holding Kaguya to intervene.
"There's a button Mikazuchi, you can activate it by just opening the face with a push to the chest."
"Whatever ! the palace is crumbling !"
In fact, the statue of the king was never used in the "correct way", people punched it in the face all day to activate the hidden trap, when the tyrant wasn't watching. Having an occasion to punch that smug face was something that few people had in their lives, after all, and since the king was the reason this all happened, punching even a replica of him was a good way to calm one's nerves.
However, the exit opened rather slowly and rocks started to fall upon the room, although the bodyguards tried to keep their calm and open the exit in a quicker way, cursing the designer at the same moment, before turning their heads toward Kaguya, who just let out a rather loud scream.
A medium-sized back fell on her back, fortunately not breaking it by some miracle but clearly hurting the Ootsutsuki queen who nearly dropped to her knees, only standing thanks to her bodyguards, who notice that she'll need some medical help really fast ! Therefore, Tonpo opened the passage by himself and everyone in the room went in the secret passage.
The former queen was running near her daughter, who nearly passed out because of the pain, and tried to help with some words, which clearly did not succeeds since the future rabbit demon went trough phases of being somewhat conscious and trying to look around, before going back to being unconscious, sweating profusely all the while and spouting out incoherent babblings.
The tunnel, leading underground, finally led to a forest, although it wasn't the one where the cannon was. They could still clearly see what was happening to castle, and therefore see that the part of it that wasn't gone because of the collapse was destroyed by the fire, with the general of the invading army gleefully riding the cannon as the captured members of the castle were executed at random by the soldiers.
"No…"
The queen started to somewhat cry, seeing the castle as her (former) new home and turned toward an unconscious Kaguya, gently stroking the head of her false daughter who was unconscious, as the bodyguards were standing there, too shocked by the fall of the castle to speak something that would look dignified or coherent. Instead, they looked at each other.
They all looked utterly defeated, despaired and confused. The sudden fall of the castle, the depart of the king and Kaguya's wounds were hitting them harder than they thought, and they had to pull themselves together by thinking about the problem of the princess.
Daishonin was gone, defeated, and the other nations were going to fight for this tiny piece of land, Kaguya was wounded, the waste of a king was gone and the war had something else to rage on for years, thought the bodyguards as they headed to hide in the forest.
Needless to say, the ambiance was a wee bit depressing until the youngest of them raised her hand.
"Hey ! That's the Konibi village !"
They looked at the alert village in the distance, with people gathered at some high spot to see what the hell was going to happen and crying at the destruction of the castle, and potential risk of the war becoming even more barbaric. However, Mina did not drop her smile as Mikzauchi groaned and picked up the princess, who was spouting out lines about hair drying.
"I has a family there ! Maybe we can hide the princess !"
"Quiet !"
Mina calmed down at Mikazuchi's orders, as the large bodyguard, while walking toward the house, raised his voice a bit to give his opinion on the very convenient fact that the family of one of the bodyguard was there.
"Listen. Maybe some soldiers are waiting to murder the hell out of this village ? And maybe that someone will spot the princess and deliver information to the invaders to receive money and be spared ? And maybe that your family isn't there, or fled because of the war ? If we do knock on this door, and like, your mother opens, I swear to god that I will…"
The mother of Mina opened the door, having seemingly just woke up because of the pockets under her eyes, and promptly hugged her daughter upon realizing her identity, probably a bit to the despair of Mikazuchi who rolled her eyes upwards as an reaction.
"Sorry miss, but we have to enter. Our… friend there is wounded and we'll need medical help."
"Well, who is this friend my DEAR GOD !"
The queen popping out and the discovery that the "friend" was the princess was enough to make the mother froze for a moment, at least until she made some moves to indicate that they could enter, and closed the door when everyone was there, letting "calm" fall once again on the village.
Temporarily at least, since tomorrow shall be a "great" day.