Shinoa Squad and Yuichiro meet.
Yoichi looks at the purple-black japanese sword at Yuichiro's waist.
"Is this Yu's new weapon? It feels a bit longer than asuramaru."
Yuichiro pats the blade, proud.
"It's not as handy as asuramaru, but it lends me power without reservation."
Shihō Kimizuki asks.
"Is it Rakshasa-class?"
Yuichiro scratches his head.
"I don't know, but the power doesn't feel much weaker than asuramaru, and it's actually much stronger during Demon Transformation; it's probably Black Demon-class, it's called onikiri."
Shinoa Hiragi frowns and rebuts.
"Black Demon-class cursed gear are all individually controlled, how could you get one so easily? Yu, be careful."
Yuichiro smiles.
"Don't worry, Shinoa."
Mitsuba nudges Shinoa Hiragi with her elbow and whispers.
"Hey, you haven't fallen for this idiot Yuichiro, have you?"
Shinoa Hiragi's face reddens as she says flusteredly,
"Mitsuba, don't talk nonsense."
Mitsuba didn't push further, saying she was just joking.
Shihō Kimizuki sits in the driver's seat and calls out to everyone.
"Get in the car."
Shinoa suddenly leans toward the driver's side and says to Shihō Kimizuki,
"Let me do it! Shinoa-go, ready to set off!"
Shihō Kimizuki gives up the driver's seat, and Yuichiro also leans in.
"Eh? Shinoa can drive too?"
Shinoa doesn't answer, excitedly sitting in the driver's seat and buckling her seatbelt.
"Huh?"
Shinoa stretches her neck, finding she can't see the road at all no matter what.
"Hahahaha!"
Shihō Kimizuki and Yuichiro see everything and hold their bellies, laughing mercilessly.
"You can't drive with that height, hahaha!"
"Shinoa is so mini!"
Shinoa feels offended, turns her head and smiles.
"I see, ahaha~"
As she speaks, shikama doji appears in Shinoa's hand.
Yuichiro and Shihō Kimizuki feel a dangerous aura.
Minutes later, Shihō Kimizuki is in the driver's seat and Yuichiro is in the passenger seat, both with facial injuries.
The other three are in the back, with Yoichi sitting properly in the middle.
Yuichiro looks at the scenery outside the window and suddenly speaks.
"Next time, let's not joke about Shinoa's height."
Shihō Kimizuki says with a serious face,
"This is one of the rare times I agree with you."
The armored vehicle drives smoothly on the abandoned highway.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The sound of explosions comes, and Yuichiro says,
"Is it the Four Horsemen of John again? What do you think, should we take them out?"
Mitsuba carefully senses the direction of the explosions.
"The explosions are coming from Shinjuku!"
They look at each other and decide to go check it out.
It was also fortunate that they spent some time picking up Yuichiro, otherwise they would have run into Crowley head-on... and Shinjuku was indeed suffering an attack from the Vampires.
"Shoot the arrows! Vampire Helicopters are coming!"
On the high wall, several First Sergeants are commanding several Cursed Gear bow and arrow squads.
Hundreds and thousands of arrows imbued with Cursed Gear are fired, flying toward the Vampire Helicopter units.
"Hahaha, foolish humans, using bows and arrows against our Helicopters, have they regressed into savages?"
A Vampire on a Helicopter mocks.
But his laughter stops abruptly when an arrow pierces the Helicopter shell and happens to pierce his chest.
"How... possible..."
Many Helicopters were shot down by this rain of arrows.
But a significant number of Helicopters didn't rush forward from the start.
A Vampire in one of the Helicopters sees the fate of the crashed Vampires ahead and sighs.
"Good thing Lord Demon King warned us not to rush ahead, Lord Ferid lost many subordinates again."
The Imperial Demon Army on the wall cheers at this heartening scene.
"Don't underestimate humans, bastard Vampires! This buys time for the evacuation of the city's residents."
But when a large transport plane flies toward the wall, all the Imperial Demon Army soldiers panic.
"Retreat!"
BOOM!!!
The transport plane hits the wall, creating a hole; the cabin was also loaded with explosives, which explode, collapsing the wall, and the Vampires swarm in.
A male and a female Upper-ranking Vampire walk out from the smoke of the transport plane's explosion.
The male Vampire takes a deep breath.
"Tragic humans, celebrating such a trivial advantage."
The female Vampire seems to have wanted to leave him for a long time, running straight into Shinjuku city.
The male Vampire doesn't stop her; they weren't from the same faction to begin with, and he didn't know what Ferid was thinking putting them together. He sighs watching her leave.
"So energetic, Guren, pity she followed the wrong Vampire."
Another Vampire approaches the male Vampire and asks,
"Crowley, what did Lord Demon King instruct?"
Crowley, also known as the Story Bro, shakes his head and smiles.
"Lord Demon King had no special instructions, just said for everyone to have fun, try to slack off as much as possible when meeting the Imperial Demon Army, don't kill them all, just leave them unable to get out of bed for months to bog down their logistics."
The other is stunned.
The Cute King could think of such a dirty trick?!
Soon, Shinoa Squad also enters Shinjuku from the other side, as a broadcast plays.
"Vampires have breached the west wall, please prepare for battle."
All Imperial Demon Army personnel mobilize.
"Dammit, Shinjuku is the second-largest city of the Japanese Imperial Demon Army, what is the Vampire Extermination Unit doing?"
Without the defense of the high wall, Vampire Helicopters fly in easily, firing a shell at the building where the Imperial Demon Army is located.
Everyone dodges.
When a Helicopter passes a clock tower, several arrows fire from within, shooting it down.
Yoichi says in surprise,
"cursed gear just like mine!"
Shinoa Hiragi corrects him.
"That's an old version of yours, not even Hungry Ghost-class, easily mass-produced."
Mitsuba adds from the side,
"These are ordinary spell weapons simplified from cursed gear."
A Helicopter notices them and strafes them, but it's clearly intimidation marksmanship—maximum firepower, zero damage; all bullets are dodged.
The Imperial Demon Army soldiers take cover, and the Vampires jump off the planes.
"Now, fight!"
The Imperial Demon Army and Vampires engage in direct combat.
"We're joining the fight too!"
Shinoa Squad joins the battle.
Yuichiro undergoes Demon Transformation from the start; compared to others' demon markings, the demon markings from onikiri clinging to Yuichiro are noticeably darker!
With Shinoa Squad's help, the battle turns one-sided; especially Yuichiro, who has gone into a bloodlust, killing half of the Vampires.
"Kill, kill, kill!"
Shinoa Hiragi notices something wrong with Yuichiro; seeing only a few Vampires remain, she approaches him from behind.
"Yu, are you okay?"
Yuichiro hears movement behind him and slashes directly; fortunately, Shinoa Hiragi was prepared and blocked with shikama doji.
Yuichiro clearly still has some consciousness left and forcibly ends the Demon Transformation.
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