Hogo No Yujin (Protective Friend)
Episode 52– Battle of Irvan

Note: Sorry for suddenly changing POV, the plan is to change & start from this eps. Later previous eps also want to be repaid again for POV replacement as well.

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On the way to school, Irvan and Bell had just come out of the potocopier and bought the school equipment. It was only five meters away to get to the school gate. More precisely, just crossing the street.

But when he wanted to cross after looking to the left right, Irvan suddenly pulled Bell's arm and hugged him. Before long, a large needle was stuck into the place where Bell stepped on earlier.

The girl was surprised then asked, "E–e–eh?! A–apa this? Isn't that the same needle that stabbed a bookstore clerk yesterday?!"

There was no response from Irvan. The man still kept glancing around including to the roof of the potocopy shop behind him. From there, he had seen the shadow of someone running over the precarious, then disappeared.

He feels watched. Irvan is worried that someone mysterious is attacking her again while in the school environment. It could cause a death toll. So to check it out, Irvan holds Bell up, then goes into a small alley between two houses so that no one else sees the action.

He climbed up the wall quickly, then jumped until his feet landed on the tarmac. From there, he could see the roof of the potocopy shop. There was no one there but a bird that was flying.

"Uwaaa... very tall! Irvan ... What are you doing, anyway?" Bell who had not realized the situation was even more astonished by Irvan's vigilance.

But still, the man could not answer because, suddenly he looked back and heard a small explosion. At that instant, Irvan's body was pushed hard. Fortunately, the two of them did not fall from the roof of the house he was on. Just ruined some precarious.

Not wanting the owner to know what he did, Irvan moved to another place by jumping on the roof of another house. In addition, he also wanted to avoid some other attacks that might appear again.

The small explosion did not injure him, only giving a strong wind effect. Irvan still had not seen the figure that had attacked him. It could be Oni, or worse ... Onirids.

"Irvana! What's going on?" Bell asked again.

"Some tried to attack us. But I don't know who." All four of them Irvan replied because he felt bad to ignore his darling.

"Now what are we doing?! You want to use my body?"

"No." Irvan shook her head slowly. "I want you to save energy." Then once again, he jumped into a terraced house higher than the others. Because from there, it might be easier to find the creature that attacked him. He still hasn't seen anyone there.

However, he could still sense the presence of the creatures as well as his attacks. Before long, there was one small bomb attack aimed at him. Quickly, he stood in front of Bell, then pointed his hand forward and instantly formed a huge bubble that surrounded the two of them.

After the bubble appeared, the bomb exploded as it hit the bubble. Irvan could still withstand the attack with a bubble shield. But it seems like the attack was still small.

A TAP! STAPLE!!

Irvan and Bell are shocked when two strangers suddenly come out of nowhere. They were very close to Irvan. The man then moved away and returned to vigilance.

Those two people don't look like humans. Just his posture alone, yet they had a tail and horns like demons. Their faces are similar, just different. The man looks to be carrying a snake and is more excited. While the woman sat crouching with the long barrel gun she was holding while eating gum.

"You can too" said the demon man. He stroked his pet head, then pulled the snake's tail and threw it at Irvan. The snake's mouth was gaping and with its fangs, it managed to shatter Irvan's bubble shield easily.

The man held Bell back and wanted to escape by jumping into another building. But after the demon girl pointed her hand at her prey, the white light that surrounded her turned into a cute, but deadly, little mochi-shaped monster.

When the mochi flew into Irvan's rear body, the mochi exploded and caused Irvan's body to bounce until he fell off the roof of the house with Bell. Luckily, due to his quick reflexes, with his strength, Irvan brought up a pool of water under his feet so that he could easily land to the ground without pain. Then after that, he again carried Bell and ran into the alley.

"Hogbab." In the alley, Irvan made a barrier made of solid water to block the entrance of the alley. Then after that, he again invited Bell to run again into the alley and pass through the densely populated settlement.

There the area is quiet because the residents are working at this hour. Therefore, if you want to fight, he prefers in a quiet place. But Irvan realized his opponent was stronger than him. After that, he decided to just run away.

Before long, the two of them arrived at another exit from the alley. But just as it wanted to get out, suddenly two other large needles shot rapidly towards it. Irvan took only two steps back to avoid it. Then from above, fell a demonic woman who was seen holding a long barrel weapon.

Irvan asks Bell to take cover behind it. But as Bell looked back, he patted Irvan on the back. "Eh .. it .. there are others ...."

Irvan looked back. He was surprised to see the demon whose man had managed to pass through the barrier he had put in the entrance of the alley. Somehow he got in. Maybe he can destroy it easily. Right now, the two of them had been completely surrounded.

"Running out in a tight spot turns out to be a bad idea." Irvan murmured in his heart. Despite his current state of emergency, his expression remained unchanged. He looked calm from the outside, but he was actually scared.

"Who are you guys?! And what did you want from there?" Bell dared to ask. But he still took refuge behind his body.

"I'm bored. Just want to play games with you, all of you complete our tasks." Answer the demon. While the girl was just silent with her gun still pointed at the two of them.

"Ah, really disturbing, anyway? We want school. Don't want to play with you!" Bell snapped at him again.

"Main stretch doang, until you can not move again. After that, I can only bring you guys and my task will be done quickly." The demon walked closer. He wanted to grab Bell's hand, but suddenly came a fountain attack that emerged from the underground stepped on by the demon.

"Mizu ... Piasu." Clumps of clear liquid that emerged from the underground also moved following the direction of Irvan's hand. Then it splits and each forms several taper objects that look like long, but transparent spines.

"Mizu," Once again Irvan muttered to activate his power by popping a splash of water that appeared from under his shoes. Then safely, he could land on someone's precarious. After that, with the same skill effect, Irvan continued to use her water element to quickly jump over other buildings and away from the two twin demons earlier.

"Duh, run away again. I had to chase, huh." The demon man grabbed his back head and complained. Then he and his brother moved back quickly to pursue Irvan and Bell which they were still chasing.

A TAP!

Irvan landed on the roof of an empty house. From there, he could see the city forest that might be there rarely seen ordinary humans. So he decided to go there and if there was a cave or a tree, he could make the place a temporary hideout.

Irvan got to one of the trees and stayed there. Likewise with Bell who sat on a sturdy tree branch, even though he himself was afraid. From up there, Irvan looked around again. Feeling the situation was already safe, he was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief again.

"Who, the hell were they? Bother us to go to school! Huh!" Bell was still grumbling as he continued to hug the tree trunk to hold on so as not to fall.

However shortly after grumbling like that, he suddenly got a slight shock from Irvan's body beside him. As he turned his head, Bell was surprised to see Irvan being attacked by the male demon who had reappeared. "Yahoo!! Why is he so desperate to find us?!"

Bell screamed in fear. Irvan fell from the tree. The man landed safely, but he asked Bell to stay in his place. Then shortly after, a hand punch led to Irvan. The man jumped up and immediately attacked back with his water ball and ran up to the demon and gave a physical attack.

The two of them fought each other and with their respective powers. The movements of the two were quite fast, but the demon was faster until finally, the two stopped with gasping breaths.

The demon man looked at Irvan happily. He likes to get an opponent balanced with him. "Hehe .. You may as well, you. But I still want to mess with you, you know!"

The demon man took out his long claws and returned to attack Irvan. The expressionless man caught his hand, then managed to hit the demon's chest along with the water ball he released. The demon retreated backwards, then pointed his hand forward.

Instantly the ground shook under Irvan. The man was surprised and he was even more shocked when he saw a giant snake that appeared from underground looking to devour him whole.

Having not been able to dodge due to a sudden attack, Irvan was forced to defend by using his bubble shield. The snake also bites the bubble intact and Irvan continues to hold so that the effect remains out and the bubble will not be destroyed easily.

While holding it back, Irvan thought of another way to stop the huge snake. Until finally he remembered with one hidden skill that he could use now.

"Mizu ..." Irvan closed her eyes, then shifted her legs slightly. "Ko Yui!" Irvan opened her eyes again, then stomped her feet to the earth firmly. Then suddenly a few strong streams of water emerged from the ground. The two sticks of water pierced the body of the snake.

The strength of the water power has made two holes in the body of the snake. The creature wriggled in pain and then returned to smallness and returned to his master by flying.

Irvan removed his shield and retreated backwards. He glanced sharply at the male demon, then again attacked with the same power. Because he did not want to stay silent, the male demon also did not want to lose and attacked. They are fighting each other with their own power.

Bell who was on top of the tree looked amazed and also a little worried about Irvan. He was afraid that the man could lose because he used too much power, without borrowing power from his darling.

"IRVANS! BE EXCITED!!" Bell shouted from the top of the tree to encourage Irvan who was fighting desperately with her enemy just to protect her. He wanted to help as well, but when offered help, Irvan always refused him as before.

"Mizu ... Otaboru!!" shouted Irvan while taking out his power which was considered the most powerful. It was a big glowing water ball. The pain is in the clear water that turns out to contain acids that can damage the skin also exposed to a drop.

"Heh, Moeru Zimmen!!" the man shouted proudly showing one of his powerful powers. After yelling at the manager, the ground shook again, then a few hot rocks emerged from the ground cracks.

Immediately, the devil launched his attack. So did Irvan. They again fought for power until finally their two powers collided and caused an explosion accompanied by a strong wind. Both held themselves in place.

Then when the smoke from the explosion disappeared, Bell again breathed a sigh of relief because he could survive on the tree after the shock. Then he looked back to the place where his friend fought with the devil.

At first he was happy because Irvan was still able to stand. While the devil had been squatting as if he was holding his body so as not to fall. But it turned out that shortly after, Irvan's body fell on the spot.

"Eh?!" Bell who saw him was shocked. He thought, Irvan had used all her strength until her body ran out of steam and fell on the spot. But there is another cause. He saw a needle stuck in the man's right shoulder.

"IRVANS!" Nell wanted to get down from the tree to check on her friend. But he was again surprised by the presence of someone who was beside him. The man closed Bell's eyes, then whispered beside his ear. "Don't move if you don't want to be lucky with your friend."

It turned out that the demon girl appeared beside Bell and sat down beside him. Bell was threatened with the devil's weapon. Weapons with bullets that can paralyze an Oniroshi, but very deadly if exposed to ordinary living things.

"A–what are you going to do to us?" bell asked quietly and fearfully. But just as the demon girl wanted to answer, there was suddenly an arrow piercing the branch of the tree they were sitting on. Almost the arrow hit the foot of the demon girl.

The demon girl was also shocked by the attack. When he wanted to find an opponent, suddenly the arrow that stuck in the branch also let out a small explosion and immediately turned the objects around him into ice. Including with both feet to half the body of the demon girl.

The girl was trapped with ice covering half of her body. The Bell nearby looked fine. But he was a bit shocked to see the real ice that could freeze a human in an instant.

Before long, the wind blew and the cold appeared. Bell had no idea what was going on in that place. Then before long, he again glanced under the tree and he was again surprised by the presence of an all-white woman who was in the middle of the fight between Irvan and the Devil Man.

As Bell's eyes glanced at the woman, the man looked up and looked at her with a smile. Looking into his eyes, Bell got goosebumps. He did not know the woman was his opponent or friend ....

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To be continued–