Hogo No Yujin (Protective Friend)
Episode 61– Oni in City

While in the hospital, Fely ran down the aisle as he was looking forward to meeting Ethan who was being treated there. Earlier, the man was seriously injured from Fely's attack as they fought over the apartment.

If, in case, Fely knew that Oni had possessed Ethan, perhaps the woman would find another way to stop him than to use violence. Even so, everything has happened. What matters now is that Ethan and the little girl survived.

He finally arrives at the door of Ethan's nursery and the little girl. Before entering, he knocked on the door, then opened it. But after looking at the contents of the room, it was the horrifying sight he saw.

Inside the room, Fely found the bodies of three adults lying covered in blood on the floor. What makes Fely want to vomit is the state of the corpse that looks headless.

Not only that, he also did not find the whereabouts of Ethan and the Little Girl. Their beds were empty and there were only blood spots and small palm marks. Fely retreated backwards to get away from the room. But suddenly someone bumped into his body from the side. Because suddenly, Fely lost his balance and fell.

He objected because the man was overrunning his body. Upon reopening his eyes, Fely was startled by a headless corpse and immediately removed the corpse from his sight. He stood up and wanted to run. But before that, he saw someone standing at the end of the hall.

He gasped when he saw an Oni with a strange shape standing in the hallway. Not only that. The human figure standing in front of the Oni It turns out to be Ethan. After their eyes met, the man pointed his hand forward and at once a large Oni with a height of 2 meters more immediately ran up to Fely with four hands.

From his hand, Fely immediately stretched out a few red threads and caught one of the Oni's hands. The creature fell after the thread trapping his hand was pulled by Fely. After that, Fely smashed the creature's body into the wall until it was destroyed.

Oni would not lose just by such an attack. So Fely decides to run away and will not be fooled by a figure that resembles Ethan. He does not believe in that figure.

While running, Fely reached into his bag and took his cell phone. He called his sister for help. Then before long, he heard some other screaming sounds from inside the hospital building. He also sensed that there were some strange auras nearby. It turns out that Oni there are not only one/two tails. But there's more.

"I didn't know they were anywhere. The bodies must have been them." Inner Fely while continuing to run in the hallway. He'll be back at the hospital exit. He realized that most of his skills could not be used to fight. So Fely decided to run away. He did not dare to fight alone if his opponents were many. So he will wait for help to arrive, while evacuating others who are still in the building.

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While at home, Dylan went out of the room as soon as he got a call from his brother. He informed the emergency he had received from his brother to Oniroshi at his home. Shortly after, Asuka immediately ordered all of her students to go to help Fely in the hospital.

Zai and Lea nodded in understanding. They immediately went through the outside door. While Asuka and Divan freeze themselves into ice crystals and then the crystals break and disappear along with her as well.

Takana was already waiting for Dylan at the door. The two of them will go together and this time, for the first time, Dylan will come to fight to save his brother.

To speed up his pace, Dylan would leave on the bicycle he had taken from the garage. There was no way he would run to the hospital. His power may run out before fighting.

Dylan paddled his bike as fast as he could. Passing the highway and occasionally passing the sidewalk of the road when there is traffic jam there. Takana followed Dylan from behind by jumping and running on top of the building.

When it was close to the hospital, Dylan could not pass because the crowded crowd there wanted to see the state of the building. Police cars were also parked there.

Dylan entered an alley and parked his bike there. Then came Takana who fell from above. They held each other's hands, then Takana uttered, "Mazeru" to perform the Remote Merging Technique.

Things are the same as before. Dylan's eyes turned completely blue. Just like Takana. That means, their strength has united and Takana is ready to fight. He returned to the roof of the building, while Dylan remained in place.

He wanted to control the movement of Takana, but could not see the condition of the hospital building because it was closed by the residents. Before long, a plant fell on his head. Quickly, Dylan looked up and he saw Lea who invited Dylan to come to the roof of the building as well.

The man also tightly grasped the plant. At first, he wanted to climb on his own. But suddenly the plant moved quickly, rising itself carrying Dylan's body all the way up. The man screamed in surprise and finally got to the top.

From there, he saw his Oniroshi friends had also gathered there. Except Bell and Irvan. But Tanaka wasn't there either. "Now what are we going to do?" dylan asked Asuka who was leading his disciples.

"The location is there, right?"

"Yes." Yeah." Dylan nodded then watched the screen of his phone. "That's the only hospital in town. Uh but there's more somewhere else. But the only ones that are crowded are here. I'm sure, brother must be stuck with Oni in there!"

"Okay, let's move now!"

"Yes!!"

Zai immediately jumped from the top of the building and destroyed the streets below. With his strength, he drilled the ground under the asphalt and went to the hospital building through the underground passageway.

Because of its movement in there, it has made a small earthquake that made some residents so scared and ran away from the scene. Except the cops are still in place. They are also evacuating victims inside the hospital.

"Goshio!" Asuka pointed her right hand under the foot. Precisely to the edge of the roof of the building, then shouted his skill. After that, a large ice crystal formed into a slide that led to the front door of the hospital.

Everyone there instantly turned away as soon as the ice crystal appeared. Then their view leads to the beginning of the appearance of a giant ice bar.

Takana forces Dylan to do so. So he pushed the unprepared Dylan into the slide. After that, Takana will also follow. He looks happy because gliding there is so fun.

Everything landed safely to the front door of the building. While Dylan's body turned black and finally he hit the hospital's glass door. Fortunately it didn't break. Before long, the door opened itself. Turns out automatic doors.

Upon seeing the door open, Dylan grumbled, "His head is too late." Then he stood up and touched his sick head. Takana walked up to him and asked, "Dylan-san is alright?"

"Ah, you must know the pain." Dylan was still stroking his forehead which hit the door.

"But Dylan-san .. I can't feel the pain of my darling, hehe ...."

"Ah cheated! If you get hurt, I can feel it. But instead, you can't even feel my wounds!"

"Already ... Now let's find Fely in there." Asuka walked in through the door that was already open. Then before long, a small vibration from the underground again occurred and right in front of the hospital door, a small hole appeared and from inside came out Zai's body.

"Oh? Finally got here." The man came out from inside, then again closed the hole with the ground of his strength.

"good. Now track the Oni's whereabouts." The orders from Asuka Zai directly carried out. He closed his eyes for a moment while touching his forehead. Inside his brain, he could analyze the surrounding places to look for Oni who were wandering there.

It didn't take long, Zai finally found them. "There are about 13 Oni in this building." Then his hand pointed to one of the left aisles. "There's one."

Turns right. They all saw an Oni walking leisurely out of the hallway. But after the creature saw the existence of the Oniroshi, it began to attack.

But fortunately, Asuka had a chance to stomp her legs and instantly an ice crystal came out from under the Oni and directly pierced her body. After that, the Oni was crushed into ashes and disappeared.

After Oni It died, Zai went back to check the whereabouts of the others. "Okay, there's only 12 more. There are 5 below and the story is upstairs. On the 3rd floor there are 3. They're in the room, and there's also one in the hallway."

"If the humans are here?" ask Dylan quickly. "There must be patients with nurses who work, right?"

"Of course .. I have found no human existence but you." Answer Zai.

"Maybe they've evacuated."

"All right! Then we can be free to hunt them down without hurting anyone else!" Zai looked excited.

"But don't destroy this building! Stabilize your power," Asuka said. Zai nodded in understanding. Then the woman asked everyone to split up and hunt the Oni in there. Meanwhile, Dylan and Takana are assigned to find Fely.

They both understood. Then Asuka asked everyone to move immediately. They all leave. Asuka and her darling, Divan, will hunt the Oni downstairs. If he finds Fely there, he'll tell him soon.

While the others will check the second floor, Dylan and Takana will also be looking for their older sister. But near the stairs, Lea broke away to check into the next floor. Those two Oniroshi can fight, so don't worry. They have often been solo in the face of Oni.

While everyone was at work hunting Oni, in a food stall, there was Tanaka there who was relaxing while enjoying the dishes. While occasionally feeding the street cat who asks to eat him.

But not only cats, it turns out there is a human who approached Tanaka. A short brown-haired little girl is seen wearing shabby clothes asking for food as well on Tanaka.

Because she felt like she was a mess, Tanaka would buy the child food as well. But as he watched the child's appearance, Tanaka was surprised by the drops of blood coming out of his palm. Then slowly, his eyes glanced at the eyes of the girl who had already turned yellow.

"Don't .. you–"

Knowing her disguise was uncovered, the girl's eyes glanced in all directions and suddenly her mouth filled with pointy teeth opened wide and ready to want to devour Tanaka's whole body.

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To be continued–