Gimoul heard Ryuuga as his sword was pointed at him, as well as his glare, and he flinched while shaking.
Seeing so many people on his side go down, he did not want to believe in this situation where only he was standing, and wanted to think this was all a nightmare. Then he suddenly remembered something.
“D-don’t move! I have! Hostages!”
The spare birdcage handed to him by Regen. And the children inside it.
The shock of seeing Ryuuga fight like a fierce god made him forget he could turn this around using hostages, but once he remembered, Gimoul saw a light of hope. But…
“Hostages… Where are they?”
“He, hehehe…! In this magic item, kids… W-wha?”
Gimoul wanted to show off the birdcage after Ryuuga’s question, and turned pale when he realized it was nowhere to be found.
He looked around nervously, and saw Ryuuga whistling as if to provoke him while pointing behind him. He looked behind Ryuuga and saw… dolls made of paper carrying a magic item he recognized.
“Ahhhh! T-the birdcage! W-when!?”
“You were too busy cheering for the urchin man. That’s why I pretended to have trouble with him.”
“P-pretend…!? Then from the start…!!”
“I’m really glad you didn’t try to use the hostages as a shield until the end. That gave us an opening to save them.”
Just before he left the hospital alone, Ryuuga left Raiha to look after the people inside… but that was not all.
He would create an opening, and asked her to rescue the captive children somehow, but she knew what he had in mind even before he spoke and played out her role.
She sent out her shikigami while Gimoul was focused on the fight between Ryuuga and Gabejin, sneakily took the birdcage, and destroyed it in front of all those people.
There was light, and children came out. She yelled to Ryuuga as she saw them.
“Ryuuga! The captive children have been retrieved! You don’t have to worry anymore!”
“Beat him up, big brother!!”
“…You heard them. Are you ready?”
“Eek. Eeeeeek!!”
Everyone on Gimoul’s side was down, and the children were taken back. He had no more cards to play.
Ryuuga infused the Loong King Fang with magic energy in front of him, and held it up to the sky.
He swung it as if drawing an arch, lightning fell as if matching those moves, and blocked Gimoul’s escape.
‘Hey Gimoul! I don’t care who it is, bring someone and torture them to death! We need to teach these idiots a lesson!!’
“B-boss! Mister Regen!”
‘What’s wrong Gimoul? Can you hear me?’
The one thing he had left was the communications device, and when he heard his boss’ voice coming from it, Gimoul desperately clung to it.
Flames were to his left and right, and as he found himself with no escape path and tried his hardest to get away from Ryuuga, he yelled half mad.
“H-help! Send reinforcements! Please! Help!!”
‘Hey, what happened!? Report! Are the guards there already!?’
“Monster! There’s a monster! Just one but all of us…! H-help gyaaaaaaaaah!!”
The confident expression he had on his face not long before was fully gone, as he desperately searched for a way to escape.
He thought to run through the hospital’s gate, but before he could, some people he did not really understand blocked his path.
“All right, we finally made it! That’s enough! Now you’re facing us… Eh?”
“Outta my way!!”
Shian and the others arrived with their party members, and were baffled by a sight they did not expect.
Gimoul found them in his way, thought they were much better opponents than the monster behind him, and ran to break through them.
Shian, Wars, and Trin tried to enter the hospital before the others, and stood still in confusion as they saw the villains on the ground and Gimoul crying and yelling while charging towards them.
They saw fire to the left and right of him, and had a bad feeling.
“Tempest Loong Sword ・ Wind Form…”
Ryuuga glared at the back of his enemy quietly, held his sword under his arm, and kicked the ground.
He jumped and dashed as if he was gliding, closed the distance between himself and Gimoul instantly, and swung his lightning magic energy infused sword in a horizontal slash.
“North Star Flash!!”
“Gyaaaaaaaaaah!!”
“Gueeeeeeeh!?”
“Wha!? Ugyaaah!!”
“How did this ngaah!”
Ryuuga sheathed the sword held right in front of his eyes, and as if signaled by it, there was an explosion behind him where Gimoul’s final scream (as well as the screams of the trio that was caught in it) echoed.
There were four sounds of people crumpling, and Peewee and the rest of the party spoke to Ryuuga with shock.
“H-hum…? What happened?”
“…Sorry, I was fighting people attacking the hospital, and they were caught up when I was taking down the last one.”
“People attacking the hospital… And you took down this many people alone!?”
“It wasn’t a big deal. It was just a bunch of ruffians.”
As Peewee and the others spoke to Ryuuga, he put on the facade of a sociable young man.
Incidentally, he hid that he saw Shian and the others getting caught up in his final blow to Gimoul, but figured it was fine and hit them all together.
Peewee and the others were surprised he cut down a hundred people, and he asked them something with a gentle smile and polite tone.
“I’m sorry, but can you help me restrain them? We wouldn’t want them waking up and rampaging.”
“Y-yes! Leave it to us!”
“Thank you very much.”
“It’s okay, it’s all we can do. And… Sorry about our leader. It’s our fault for jumping in while you were fighting, so don’t worry about that.”
Said Velda and Peewee, as they moved to restrain the villains on the ground.
Ryuuga exhaled, and after a little rest, was about to join them, but he heard a voice he recognized.
‘Hey, Ryuuga! Can you hear me~?’
He turned towards it, and saw the communications device Gimoul was holding on the ground.
He picked it up, and responded.
“I can. I just finished up here.”
‘Oh, I see! Good thing you were there! Thanks partner! So… I’m asking just in case, are you okay?’
“Am I okay? You know the answer.”
There was never a doubt, he said as he smiled at Yuugo’s half joking question that carried his trust.
He was a little thankful for Yuugo’s lead in… and responded with what he always said.
“Don’t ask me questions, partner.”
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