Hogo No Yujin (Protective Friend)
Episode 71– New Enemy

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Someone was walking in a dark corridor and there was only light from a torch stuck on the wall. Not just by yourself. The man also carried a small creature resembling a cat-headed squirrel that could talk and had bat-like wings.

The man stopped in front of a door filled with heart stickers. He knocked on the door and the door opened by itself. The man entered and approached a large throne with a cute rabbit doll that adorned the room.

Before long, a big, burly man appeared from behind the throne. His gaze was sharp and his face was hideous. He is not a human being, but an Onirida. His physique was horned, four-eyed, and tailed.

But that's not the leader of the place. But the figure of a small child who carried a large-bodied Onirida. She's a cute little girl with a doll ribbon in her hair.

the newly arrived man arrived in front of the pink line. Then the little creature he brought came down from the man's shoulders. They both bowed their respect to the leader.

"Sir Vann has come!" The girl got down slowly from her big seat. Assisted by his bodyguard. Then he jumped up and down to the man he called by the name Vann. "Where's your report? How's it? How's it?"

Vann just kept quiet. But the little creature replied, "The Oniroshi disappeared with Lucid and Lucia. It seems like they were taken somewhere to fight."

"Oh! It turned out that the rumor about Oniroshi who had the power of teleporting to another world did exist!" The girl came down from the top of Vann's head, then she stood before the man. The instant his face changed, it became terrifying. "Sister Vann~ I want Oniroshi that's any way!"

After that, his face returned cheerful. He nodded while smiling. "Can, huh?"

Vann just nodded without saying anything. Actually he can't talk, but it's his little creature that will say what Vann wants to say. The creature could tell what was in Vann's heart.

The black creature bowed and said, "By pleasure, we will. You should look happy always, Eilena-sama."

The girl named Eilena smiled. He looked so happy that he jumped up and down. He went back to his throne and sat there. "I'm waiting for the good news~"

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Vann and the Black Beings came out of the room. The Black Being flew beside Vann, then alighted on the man's shoulder. Vann took out the tablet. He played a game on the tablet. A game in which he will run a character that is exactly like his black creature.

"If this is the case, how do I find Oniroshi, huh? We just don't know who owns the power that Eilena-sama wants." Said the Black Creature.

While staying focused on the game, Vann replied inwardly. "The cat entered like it was. He's gonna work."

"Ah is right! Let's disturb human~"

"I'm tired. You're alone."

"Ah come on~" The creature tugged at Vann's hair with its legs while flying. Forced, Vann had to obey. They will return to the forest before, while disturbing other living things that they can find.

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"Tama Aoi!"

Takana shot his fireball towards Lucia. Lucia points some of her mochi bombs at Takana. Takana retreated quickly to the rear to avoid any such explosions. While occasionally he attacked back with his mana.

Not just by yourself. Takana is also assisted by Lea. They work together to defeat Lucia. Lucid is busy with Zai and Tanaka. But since his opponent was the strongest Oniroshi, Lucid could not hold on for long and chose to keep dodging because Tanaka was too brutal.

"Woy, demon! Where are you going, you? That's a big style snob to fight, huh?" Tanaka kept firing his fireball at Lucid. Then he darted fast until the ground he stepped on shattered, then instantly his body appeared in front of Lucid.

The devil was surprised by his presence. Quickly, Tanaka directly punched the creature's face until it bounced far away. Lucid didn't fall. He used his snake whip as a body counterweight, then stood up straight again. He wiped the blood on his lips, then readied the weapon.

But when he looked at his opponent's place, he did not see Tanaka anywhere. Lucid glanced around. Until finally, the snake can see Tanaka is already behind his master. Lucid quickly turned around and crossed his arms forward.

Tanaka again struck the demon with a fiery fist. Lucid tried to hold him back, but in the end he bounced back and could not resist the attack from Tanaka. Lucid's body hit one of the trees. He immediately got up, then used some trees there to hide.

"Nee~ Don't play hide and seek, dong." Tanaka looked until the long bangs covering her right eye opened and her blood-splitting eyes were visible. The man grinned, then ran quickly to Lucid's hideout.

When he got there in seconds, Tanaka saw no one. He turned his head and finally found Lucid trying to escape while preparing his weapon.

"So you're gonna play a romp with me, huh?" A blue aura enveloped Tanaka's body. The man crossed his arms forward, then uttered his nurse. "My sister Irashu." The blue aura formed into a wisp of light that then changed into a fiery eagle.

"Let's go after him! Chase it!! Haha!" Tanaka laughed excitedly seeing his opponent being chased by his fire eagle. Then shortly thereafter, Zai's head emerged from the underground beside Tanaka.

"Oy, when am I gonna strike? You're too greedy!"

"Be quiet, you earth rat!" Tanaka stomped on Zai's head until his friend was buried in the ground. Irritated, Zai made a hole in the ground that Tanaka stepped on and as a result, the man fell into the hole.

Tanaka wanted to strike back, but his friend was no longer nearby. Turns out Zai escaped first by passing through the underground path. "Tanaka's raging, cringe cuy."

Asuka glanced around. He saw Takana and Leaa still fighting Lucia. The woman smiled, then pointed in the direction she saw. "You better help them. Tanaka can face one person. So you help them."

"Huff ... boring–"

"Be careful!!"

"Aakhs!!"

"Eh?!" Asuka and Zai heard Fely's voice, then followed by a shout of someone behind him. Asuka turned around and Zai immediately jumped backwards.

"You?!" Zai glared at the sight of another creature that had suddenly come. The creature is the Black Cat Onirida, Tanaka's nemesis. He sees Fely protecting Dylan, Fely and Irvan with his shield.

"Guil!!" Asuka is shocked to see a new Oniroshi named Shikoo being stabbed by a sword right in his stomach by the Cat Onirida. The woman immediately prepared a bow and fired an arrow at the Onirida.

But before that, suddenly the ground shook violently. The sky seemed to split open and then shattered into broken glass. Suddenly, around them it became dark.

Lucid and Lucia move quickly towards the Cat Onirida. Tanaka wanted to chase after her, but did not have time because the three Oni were hunted down after the Cat Onirida pulled her sword from Shikoo's stomach.

After they disappeared, the black land they were on shook again. Then before long, the bodies of Takana, Tanaka, Dylan and Zai gave off a blue glow. They were initially astonished, but started to be surprised upon seeing his body slowly disappear.

"Eh, brother! What's wrong with me?!" Dylan wanted to touch his brother, but he couldn't. Likewise with Fely who wants to touch his sister, even translucent. Before long, the person shrouded in light finally disappeared.

Fely removed his shield. "Likes! What's going on?!" He approached the woman, then covered Shikoo's wound with a red thread.

"If Shikoo gets hit by damage, his power gets out of control. He ... can move others to any place including another dangerous world." Obviously Asuka. Then before long, his body also let out a blue light. So too with the others. They all left the dark world.

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Asuka, Fely, Leaa, Shikoo, Irvan and Bell return to the human world. The place is still the same. It's in the woods. But there were no other friends there. It seemed like the others had been transferred to another world by accident.

"Where is my sister now?" ask Fely quickly. He was worried that his sister would be in danger elsewhere.

Asuka calmed Fely with her words. " He was surrounded by the great Oniroshi. So just calm down. He'll be safe. But now ... we have to go back."

"Wait, I feel the aura of another Onirida here." The plant crest above Lea's head begins to interact and move on its own. Indicates that the surrounding area is unsafe.

"A–ada apa– aw!" Fely's head suddenly hit someone. Shikoo's healing process was halted because of it. Quickly, he looked back. There was only Bella who was hugging Irvan. "Bell, why did you hit me?"

"Eh, since when?" Bell shook his head quickly. He swore he would not do that. Before long, Fely was pushed by someone to the point of falling. He was surprised to not see the culprit. "Who did it?! Come ngaku!"

"There's an invisible Oni. Maybe it's him."

"Eh, Irvans! Are you awake? Is anyone sick?" ask Bell quickly. Irvan wakes up, looks at Asuka who walks up to him.

"What do you mean the invisible Oni?" ask the woman.

"When Bell was kidnapped, I was plagued by something invisible. If it's a ghost, it's impossible. Because I felt a strong aura at that moment. I thought, that invisible thing is Oni." Irvan. Before Asuka retaliates, Fely is suddenly attacked again. This makes him disturbed while trying to cure Shikoo.

"Ugh, who, anyway?!" Out of annoyance, Fely formed a large invisible shield. To protect all his friends too.

"Eh, protect Shikoo!" Asuka asked everyone to prepare.

"Eh what's up?" ask Bell.

"There's Onirida coming after Shikoo."

In another place not far from the Oniroshi, an Onirida sat on a tree branch swinging its legs. He held a large tab that became his weapon. It's Vann.

"Well, get caught, huh."

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To be continued –