Hanamizuki, Because Flowers Are Not Just Beautiful
Chapter 19: The Golden Curse
“A-Alstro-san…? You okay?”
“Cannot...why..why him...?”
The figure attacked Alstromeria quickly until it bounced away with its black sword. Same with her hair color, her pitch-black eyes were so cold.
The elder who was able to sense a person's aura, felt a tremor in his body.
“Just feel it in the skin alone this is very terrible...t-but..but why...?”.
“RIRI-SENSEI—”
“NO! DON'T GO NEAR HIM! SHE'S NOT RIRI SENSEI! DEFINITELY NOT!”
Shouted Elder firmly holding back the hand of Amaryliss who was about to run towards that figure.
“Tapi—”
The elder shook his head quickly, both of his hands shaking.
“No...it is not Riri-sensei.. cold, pitch-black aura like this..it is not him..!”.
The figure was indeed similar to Riri, with a deep black hair color and a long robe covered in blood on his body. The cold eye gaze of his black eyeball actually made the atmosphere around him deteriorate.
Likewise with the two swords in his hand which is also black. He glanced at Amaryliss who was still looking at him in disbelief.
“No way...that terrible figure..is Riri-sensei..?”
Amaryliss clasped tightly onto his sword. So is Iris who is not far from her.
“R-Riri-sensei! What...what are you doing...!?”
Iris' shout made the figure look at her coldly.
DEGH!
Just...just being stared at like that only..create me..what....what happened to Riri-sensei…?
“IRIS! WATCH OUT!”
THE DAAKKK!!!
An invisible speed, the figure was—call dark Riri— attacked Iris without the slightest sign of her moving from her place.
“Nona Iris! Back away!”
Spirit flower Iris appeared with her human form and resisted the attacks of the two dark swords Riri with all her might - even if it was actually impossible because her attack power was stronger—
“N-Neo-san!”
Seeing the dark figure of Riri up close, made the Elder tremble even more in fear, as well as Amaryliss who could only retreat slowly.
“K-why...why so...why be like..ini...?”.
“I...can't..endure...more longer...!”.
Because of the strong attack of dark Riri, Neomarica— Iris— flower spirit can no longer hold it until his body bounced and returned to the form of his sword. Now Dark Riri faced with Iris who was still sitting on the ground. He brandished one of his black swords towards him.
“R-Riri-sensei..a-didn't you recognize...we…? Your students...?”
Said Iris stammeringly. Trying not to see the cold gaze of both dark eyeballs dark Riri. Dark Riri did not care. His left hand prepared to swing the sword towards Iris.
“IRIS-SAN! QUICKLY GET AWAY!”
Dark Riri's attention was distracted when his arm was hit by a large bullet attack coming from Typha. But the bullet that was the size of a pipe did not manage to penetrate his long black robe.
“You 3 quickly get out of there! We'll try to distract him!”
Shouted Alstromeria by holding the spirit of the flower which also amounted to 2.
“No! That's impossible! R-Riri-sensei—no, dark Riri has a terrifying power that far surpasses ours! You can see right when he attacked Iris without leaving a mark!?”
Shouted the Elder who had been frightened earlier. Likewise with Amaryliss and Iris who also did not move out of place.
“Definitely..There must be something that makes Riri-sensei like this! I'm sure he's not a bad guy! Dia—”
“Kyaaa!!”
BRUAAAKKKK
Again dark Riri hit his sword attacking the Elder to bounce as far as 50 meters. His long legs stepped on the Elder's feet which were sprawled on the ground and brandished one of his swords right in front of the Elder's face. The spirit flower elder slipped out of his hand and was near Amaryliss. Immediately Amaryliss took it and threw it as far away as possible.
“SAVE ELDER, SAMBUCUS-SAN!”
The Elder's slender sword darted rapidly towards its owner, then turned its form into a human and prepared to attack Dark Riri from behind.
“KNEED YOU FROM NONAKU!!”
Again Riri's dark movements were very fast, before the tip of Sambucus' sword hit his back, he was already standing in front of him and resisted Sambucus' sword attack with both of his black swords.
“You are this..actually what...?!”
Dark Riri's expression did not change in the least. He just kept pushing strong Sambucus sword attacks.
“Sia...lan..!”.
Before his body bounced, Sambucus immediately jumped up and approached the Elder who was still lying on the ground.
“Nona! You okay!?”
Sambucus restrained the Elder's body with his hands. The elder looked at the dark figure of Riri faintly from a distance.
“Riri..sensei..”.
Without realizing it, tears came from his eyes. Sambucus choked when he saw tears on his cheeks.
“Nona Elder..you have already felt it right..that person is no longer the figure of your teacher you know.There must be something that makes him like this! Miss Elder, with your ability to sense someone's aura, you can definitely find the cause!”
The elder hugged both of his palms. Still feeling fear in his chest when he saw the cold black eyeballs of Dark Riri.
“Definitely..someone would want to harm Riri-sensei..and make him hated by all the inhabitants of this Hanatarou academy..for sure…! The Riri-sensei we know..not such a person..!”.
Dark Riri raised his two swords upwards, suddenly his body floated as if both of his swords were pulling him. On the ceiling appeared a wisp of black clouds centered onto the tip of his sword causing thunderous sounds to rumble everywhere. He glanced down, precisely at Amaryliss who was looking at him.
“What...what should we do..?”.
“Attack this strong..impossible.”.
The air around them grew colder as the black cloud grew larger. Even the entire town of Laurel can see a black cloud that is growing. They began to wonder until they ran into the house.
I feel weak, I can't do anything…
That's not Riri-sensei..Where's that shitty stupid face?
Why does she even look at me like that…?
The same eyes as when Mr. Raflesia looked at me…
The eyes were cold and uncaring…
Why...you also have eyes like that…!?
No, the Riri-sensei I know has warm, annoying eyes!
“Riri-sensei!! Where's your stupid shitty face!? Why did it even become like this!? Who would dare to snatch that stupid face from you!?”
Dark Riri looked indifferent even though Amaryliss yelled at him with tears on her cheeks. Looking at that cold gaze, Amaryliss brandished her sword.
“I...I will...I will get rid of that cold stare...and...and return your annoying stupid face!!!”
“Good Amaryliss!”
Suddenly from the sky, a golden-coloured bright light appeared to make the black cloud clumps that dark Riri had created were knocked out.
“HOW DARE YOU STAIN MY SON!!!!”
It was Carnation who was holding her giant sword, with all her might slashing down on the back of Dark Riri until it fell to the ground. But the black cloud in the sky is not gone.
“Nona Carnation!”
“Dianthus, you can see what's in the flow where Riri is?!”
“Which stream is frozen in the body of Riri is deep black. It's poison. I can see Camelyum who wants to break away from the clutches of poison in the stream where Riri.”
“Can you communicate with him?”
“Ya, I'll try it with telepathy.”
Carnation's great sword instantly vanished, he immediately ran over to Amaryliss and the others.
“You're all okay? Did he hurt you?”
“Nona Carnation where the hell is it from!? Do something to Riri-sensei! He's already injured Elder!”
Amaryliss exclaimed with a face still wet from tears. Carnation turned towards the Elder who was still lying on the ground accompanied by his flower spirit.
“I was expecting it to be like this... that brat..”.
Dark Riri stood up again and held the two black swords in his hands up.
“Damn it! He wants to make another cloud that I destroyed with my flower magic!”
Without waiting for the order, Typha threw another bullet towards the dark sword Riri, unfortunately none of them managed to make dark Riri waver.
“Nona Carnation..”
“You...call Riri-sensei as ‘anakku’ earlier right..?”
Carnation choked when she heard Iris's question. He bit his lips slowly.
“Listen, there is still a way to restore your teacher back to how it was, Riri him..The flow of mana is contaminated with poison so that it makes him lose his identity.The spirit of the flower, Camelyum is trying to release the grip of the poison from him, all you can do is help her from the outside! We have to release the poison before the big cloud over there will blow up the whole city of Laurel!”
“Which flow...contaminated poison…?
“You are all the people closest to that brat, so I entrust this to you!”
With the help of his flower spirit, Elder tried to stand up despite still feeling the pain in his body due to the attack of dark Riri. He showed eyes full of courage.
“Since the beginning..I believe..if Riri-sensei..is a person we can count on!”.
“Nona Elder..”.
Sambucus looked worried seeing his nona standing with great difficulty.
“Sam-kun, lend me your strength…! I will.. I will save Riri-sensei...!”
Sambucus nodded his head, turning himself back into a sword in Elder's hands.
Amaryliss, Elder, Iris, Alstromeria and also Typha straightened their necks together and looked at each other.
“There are...voice passing by just like that in my mind..”.
“A-I also heard it..”.
“She named Riri-sensei.”.
“What don't-don't..?”
“ROAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!”
Suddenly Dark Riri shouted loudly, both of his swords falling from his hands. He held his head in pain, dropping his knees to the ground.
“JAAAANGAAANNN COBAAAA COBAAAA BLOCKING MEUUUU!!!!!”
The moaning, his body revolted on the ground, like someone was harassing him.
“Nona! Camelyum is still trying to release the poison from Riri's mana stream! it's an opportunity to attack his poison from the outside!”
“AMARYLISS! THE ELDER! IRISES! THE ALSTROMERIA! TYPHA! SEND YOUR STRONGEST ATTACK TO DARK RIRI AND CHANNEL YOUR BOND AS A TEACHER AND STUDENT TO HIM!”
Upon hearing the command, the 5th of them instantly positioned themselves in a circle. Lifting the spirit of the flower forward, and issuing the ultimate attack each.
“Riri-sensei..your stupid face will definitely be returned..!!”
“AMARYLISS VARIEGATA!!”
“Aura Riri-sensei is always warm, like giving spirit in our class who have always felt failed.”
“SAMBUCUS~NIGRA!!”
“Riri-sensei has encouraged me not to be afraid.taught me the true meaning of life, until I was more determined to face it.”.
“NEOMARICA GRACILIS!!”
“Riri-sama and nii-san are different people, but I see one thing in common with you, which is her smile.”
“PERUVIAN LILY~!”
“I like you, Riri-san.”
“TYPHA ANGUSTIFORM~!”
“No matter how you are now.You are still my only son!”
“DIANTHUS CARYOPHYLLUS!!”
“GROAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!”
***
PRAAGGGS!!
“Argh! Damnit!”
The daffodil swore itself as the triangular-shaped crystal in its hand suddenly broke until its golden-coloured shards fell on the floor. He's tripping on her pissed.
“Padahan.padahat only a little more.padahat only a little more will I present to the Great Lord!”.
“So it was you, Daffodil? Your way is quite frivolous.”
A deep purple-haired woman grinned at him on the doorstep, while folding her hands together in her big chest.
“K-you?! Since when were you there?!”
“Since you cursed ‘ah! Damn it!’”
The woman just entered into the room ‘Daffodil’, more precisely the research room belongs to Daffodil the 4th rank.
“As a poison master, you always do strange experiments, but this time you will not be forgiven, dear.”
“Whispering! It's as if I'm getting into my place!”
“Oh? So you want to fight me, Verbena this second-rate beauty?”
Daffodil held his breath for a moment. Then he picked up some crystal shards that he had stepped on.
“I will poison him again until this crystal is perfect, and I present it to Lord Agung—”
Before the sentence was finished, Verbena brushed off Daffodil's hands until the crystal she had just picked up fell back.
“What are you doing huh!?”
“After being reckless, stay reckless, you fool!”
“What did you say!?”
“You said you'd poison him again? Hey, you think Riri Hanamizuki's a rat who's gonna be stuck in the same trap over and over again? Stupid fool!”
“Do not underestimate my abilities!”
Verbena looked at Daffodil with her sharp gaze. He took the gun-straight-on his waist and cocked it.
“A-what do you want to sell—”
THE DHOOORR!!
After releasing one bullet, he again kept it in his waist.
“Riri Hanamizuki is just a stupid puppy barking from abandonment, and we will be his place to go home.”
Verbena smiled sinisterly at the gaping Daffodil, knocking on the forehead of the man shorter than her until his body spontaneously sat on the floor.
“Hey, you're not dead yet. When I let my sweet sister die in my hands? Khukhu. I have to save my ammo to pick up my beloved puppy~”
Verbena disappeared in a puff of smoke just like that. Shaking, Daffodil turned behind him. Looking at the bullet marks that destroyed one of the giant mirrors to smash into pieces.
“That woman...totally-tu..monster..”.
***
“RIRI-SENSEI!! ME.PLEH~!!!!!”
“See above there..”
The black cloud clumps in the sky slowly faded away, the dazzling light successfully dissipated them, forming flower buds. The light that formed the flower buds in the sky swallowed all the black cloud lumps until they vanished without a trace. The stunning scenery was witnessed by all residents of Laurel city. They were amazed until some of them gave thanks and prayed.
“Ya...Riri's last name has the same meaning, flower bud...”.
Carnation smiled wryly as he looked at that incredible sight. From the end of the flower bud, appeared a figure dressed in white and black combat, which was none other than—
“Ah! Camelyum!”
Carnation exclaimed spontaneously, and the 5 girls who heard it turned their heads together.
“RIRI!”
Camelyum quickly caught his Master's body before landing on the ground. He has returned to the way he was.
“Riri..s-thank goodness..thank goodness you've been..you're back to normal..”.
“RIRI-SENSEI!!!”
Likewise with the 5 girls who immediately ran up to him. They looked at him with teary eyes.
“S-thank goodness..thank goodness Riri-sensei..!”.
The elder could feel that his teacher had returned to normal from his aura, until his tears came back down.
“Dianthus, good work.”
Dianthus appears in his human form behind Carnation. He just gave a salute.
“Well, in my opinion, Camelyum was the one who tried the most so that his foolish Master would not continue to fall into his other self.”
“Haha, you also consider him a stupid Master?”
Dianthus smiled a little. “She's stupid for making us all bother.especially those girls, you know I can least bear to see women's tears.”.
“So, have you found the cause of the poison in which stream is Riri? What makes it so?”
“I'm still not sure, but I guess, Camelyum knows better. Now all we have to do is recover the condition where they are both.”
“True also.”
Dianthus disappeared again and Carnation ran over.
“Riri are you okay?! Riri!”
Riri did not respond to Camelyum's exclamation that shook her body. His body was covered in scratches.
“...What...what is our teacher okay?”
“Nothing, this teacher of yours only needs a full rest until the mana condition is restored, as well as those of you who have fought hard to bring out all the abilities you can to help this bad boy.”
Carnation immediately replied to the question that Iris stammered.
“...What are you..is the flower spirit belonging to Riri-sensei?”
Asked Amaryliss who had been fascinated to see Camelyum's face when calling out his Master's name with a look full of anxiety. Camelyum smiled briefly and nodded. His hand tightly grasped Riri's shoulder.
“True...during this my Master always hid me from before all of you..because he said he did not want to attract attention because he had two types of flower spirits.”.
“A-what!? Riri-sensei has 2 flower spirits?! Isn't it just 0.01% in this world that has it?!”
Alstromeria was spontaneous, but Camelyum did not answer. He stood up while clenching his Master's body.
“Sorry I can't say much, my Master's safety is my priority. Goodbye to.”
In an instant, Camelyum and Riri disappeared without a trace. Anyone who sees it will be surprised.
“S-magic teleport high level!”
“Where did they go? What is Riri-sensei's house?! Can we also go there?”
“Nona Carnation!”
The 5 girls looked at Carnation at the same time. He took a short breath.
“What...Riri-sensei is your son..?”.
Carnation can't seem to hide it anymore.
“You how else..”