Chapter 588: My Summons Are Full of Gimmicks! (Part 2)

The Shadow Ninja's crimson gaze brimming with malice made Tsuchimiya Kagura subconsciously step back; the reality of actual combat was completely different from the experience of training in the dojo, leaving her feeling stiff all over.

Tsuchimiya Kagura bit down hard on her lower lip, the pain diluting the fear continuously sprouting in her heart; she took off her schoolbag and held it in her hand, looking as if she were preparing to use the schoolbag as a weapon to fend off the Shadow Ninja — and this was the only thing at hand the girl could use right now.

"Kagura, run!"

Jianshan Huangquan, who had been cleaved away, noticed the situation on this side and shouted anxiously at the girl.

The next moment, the frozen Shadow Ninja moved again, swift as a hare, instantly arriving before the girl and kicking out with one leg.

Tsuchimiya Kagura had not yet reacted when a tremendous force transmitted from the schoolbag in her hand, pressing against her chest, sending her whole person flying backward.

Perhaps because she had practiced kendo since childhood, after being kicked away the girl subconsciously adjusted her posture in midair, merely rolling a few times upon hitting the ground.

【Is this what real battle is like? It hurts...】

Tsuchimiya Kagura scrambled to a sitting position, but her elbows and knees already bore abrasions of varying degrees.

Over there, the Shadow Ninja, after kicking the girl away, seemed somewhat nervous.

The girl's weakness somewhat exceeded its imagination; its whole body maintained the kicking posture.

Only after confirming the girl was fine (had not died) did it retract its kicking leg, assuming an unconcerned appearance, then walked toward the other party.

"Stay away from Kagura, you bastard!"

Seeing Tsuchimiya Kagura injured, Jianshan Huangquan's eyes reddened somewhat; she raised her blade and rushed over from the side, and upon drawing close unleashed a heavy, powerful cleaving slash at the Shadow Ninja.

*Clang—*

However, the ninja sword wreathed in special-effect black flames easily caught this strike, and the Shadow Ninja reversed its grip and changed moves, sweeping the blade edge toward the girl's wrist.

Jianshan Huangquan stepped back to dodge, but it looked a bit too late; even so, she actually released the hilt directly, accelerating her evasion.

After rotating half a circle, she caught the falling Lion King with her other hand and launched another cleaving attack at the Shadow Ninja.

The girl's swordsmanship had already touched the threshold of a Six-Faced World Upper Swordsman; not being bound by rigid sword forms was the best proof.

But the gap was too obvious; the Shadow Ninja merely spun the ninja sword in its hand once, held the blade horizontally before its body, and easily caught this beautiful flash-counter again.

The Shadow Ninja raised its leg and side-kicked; the girl, only managing to raise her arms in a block, was kicked flying to the side.

The Lion King spun as it flew, embedding itself in a sand pile not far away, and Jianshan Huangquan, who likewise fell beside the sand pile, let out a cry of pain.

Her right forearm, which had blocked the kick, throbbed with burning pain; fine beads of sweat emerged on her forehead, hair plastered tightly against it, looking quite wretched.

"Sister Huangquan!"

Tsuchimiya Kagura came to her senses, hurriedly stood up and ran over this way, her small face full of nervousness, brimming with worry for the girl.

"I'm fine, get behind me..."

Jianshan Huangquan showed a somewhat forced smile, shielded the girl and fell back, pulled the Lion King from the sand pile again, and summoned Ran Guren once more.

Her gaze fixed dead on the Shadow Ninja approaching step by step, her mouth moving, as if quietly exchanging words with the girl behind her.

"Kagura, run—"

And after the Shadow Ninja drew near, the re-summoned Ran Guren charged at the opponent, while Jianshan Huangquan rushed from the other side, pincering the Shadow Ninja from left and right with her spirit beast.

Tsuchimiya Kagura, obeying the girl's words, ran off in another direction.

"Do you think you can escape?"

The Shadow Ninja pressed the button on the side-slide lid toy henshin device, and the device played a new recorded line again.

It dodged Ran Guren's bite again, kicking this multi-eyed red lion flying once more.

Then, another sword strike sent Jianshan Huangquan, person and blade together, flying.

"Kagura, now!"

A black briefcase was thrown over; the fleeing girl did not escape, but circled around to retrieve the briefcase that had fallen beside the broken park bench.

Following Jianshan Huangquan's quiet instructions from just now, Tsuchimiya Kagura, at the moment both Jianshan Huangquan and Ran Guren were knocked flying again, pulled the detonation cord inside the briefcase and hurled the briefcase toward the Shadow Ninja.

*Bang—*

The briefcase hit the ground and, just as Nikaido Kiri had described, turned into an explosive pack that detonated; the steel bullets soaked in spirit water burst forth at point-blank range.

Ran Guren was recalled, Jianshan Huangquan hid her body in the sand pit, and Tsuchimiya Kagura, after throwing the briefcase, also found cover and hid; the Shadow Ninja alone bore this attack resembling a fragmentation grenade.

However, a *ding-ding-dang-dang* sound rang out; the ninja sword in the Shadow Ninja's hand knocked away the steel bullets shooting toward it.

The explosion came fast and went fast.

"Did it work?"

Jianshan Huangquan lifted her head from the sand pit, looking toward the Shadow Ninja's direction.

Then the girl saw the Shadow Ninja, virtually unscathed.

The Shadow Ninja — only the black armor on its shoulder had been punched with a hole by the spirit-water-soaked steel bullets.

But that hole was now being rapidly repaired by black flames at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"How can this be?"

The self-defense weapon the Countermeasures Bureau gave her had unexpectedly not the slightest effect.

"Petty tricks of the weak — nothing but futile struggle."

If not for the need to guarantee the safety of this henshin device that serves as a mouthpiece, the Shadow Ninja might not have had to take even a single spirit water steel bullet.

"This ends here; I shall grant you my final mercy! (The Shadow Ninja assumes a posture preparing to deliver a finishing blow)"

But it must be said, the henshin device's recorded lines are still quite useful for setting the atmosphere.

At least, right now, the girl felt despair.

Being knocked down twice left her body with a sensation of being unable to exert strength.

She could stand, but her hands and feet were limp.

*Snap! *

A stone was thrown over; the Shadow Ninja flicked it away.

"Don't go near Sister Huangquan!"

Tsuchimiya Kagura held a stone in her hand; though her body trembled, she faced the dangerous enemy very bravely for the sake of the girl lying on the ground over there.

If this were a real battle, the Black Shadow Ninja would have cleanly beheaded the girl in front of him, then gone on to behead the girl over there.

But this was not a real battle; it was a teaching mission ordered by the master.

So, when the Black Shadow Ninja kicked Tsuchimiya Kagura to the ground, was about to swing his blade to kill the girl, and the girl shouted【Don't】with eyes nearly splitting open.

"HENSHIN!"

The White Shadow Ninja, this justice ninja spirit playing the role of the one who arrives to save the scene, appeared right at that plot point.

Only seen, it walked toward the sunset light, took out a Side-Slide Lid Henshin Device of the same model as the Black Shadow Ninja's but in a different color, and inserted it into the belt.

White platinum spirit flames burned, condensing on the White Shadow Ninja a set of White Platinum Armor with a style different from the Black Shadow Ninja's armor, and the opponent stood still in place.

The Black Shadow Ninja's motion to kill the girl stopped; its scarlet gaze looked toward the White Shadow Ninja, as if suddenly appearing archenemy had attracted all its attention.

Originally, this should have been an act.

But after seeing the White Shadow Ninja take out a toy Henshin Device and complete a transformation similar to its own, there was no need to act anymore.

The sanguine color in the Black Shadow Ninja's eyes almost burned like flames; it stared at the White Shadow Ninja, and its scarlet gaze seemed to ask: Why are you imitating me?

In response, the White Shadow Ninja drew a Ninja Sword burning with white platinum flames, rushed over directly, and answered it with the Ninja Sword: This is to better complete the mission entrusted by the master!

The role setting Broly arranged for them was that they were two sides of one ninja spirit; the Black Shadow Ninja represented Evil, and it represented Justice.

And the Black Shadow Ninja chose to play the villain role from this world's Kamen Rider tokusatsu drama to show its own Evil Element.

Then it also had to follow suit using the same method, only playing the role of a righteous Knight character in the tokusatsu drama to show its own Justice Element.

Mm, this absolutely was not because it saw the Black Shadow Ninja, obtained a toy Henshin Device with a shape similar to the master's Slide Phone, and thus produced a desire to obtain a similar Side-Slide Lid Henshin Device.

【Spirit Apprentice!】

The collision of blade edge and blade edge produced a huge noise; completely different from the restrained teaching used to temper the girl, when the Black Shadow Ninja dealt with the White Shadow Ninja, it used full power!

【All of this is to complete the mission entrusted by the master!】

The White Shadow Ninja was also not polite at all; its pale gold pupils met the scarlet eyes of its kind, and the two summoned creatures simultaneously turned around and delivered a spinning kick to each other, but instead of clashing Ninja Sword with Ninja Sword, it became a collision of leg against leg.

Jianshan Huangquan, still fearful, held the shaken Tsuchimiya Kagura and hid to the side, watching the two black-and-white ninjas whose fight almost whipped up a whirlwind around them.

If not for the pain on her body, Jianshan Huangquan almost thought she had mistakenly entered the filming site of a Kamen Rider tokusatsu drama, and one that had many special effects added for television broadcast at that.

"Sister Huangquan, should we……"

The girl wanted to say they should escape while they had the chance, but was stopped by the girl.

"The situation is unclear; we had best not act rashly, lest we attract attention……"

After the black-and-white ninjas fought for real, she discovered that the black one had just been toying with her completely, or rather playing cat and mouse; if she tried to sneak away and was discovered, in her current state, she had no confidence in protecting the girl beside her.

"Such powerful Spiritual Power fluctuations; the Countermeasures Bureau will definitely sense it, and they will surely come rushing over soon."

Jianshan Huangquan said this, then thought of Broly who had gone to buy drinks, but now in this situation, she instead did not want the boy to come over, because it was very dangerous.

The two summoned creatures fought without restraint, but because their spirit levels were the same and their tricks were similar, neither could break the other's moves at all.

Just as the girl and the girl thought these two spirit beings of unknown identity would fight until the Countermeasures Bureau's reinforcements arrived here, the black-and-white ninjas who were fighting suddenly staggered in the same direction while clashing blades again.

The black-and-white ninjas looked in that direction and both felt the master's displeasure hidden over there; that moment just now was a reminder to them: once your scene is done, hurry up and exit the stage!

The Black Shadow Ninja glared viciously at the White Shadow Ninja, then forced the opponent back with one sword, and retreated under the tree shade, its figure vanishing into the shadowy ground as it exited the stage.

The White Shadow Ninja did not pursue, but turned its head to look at the girl and the girl on the other side; under Jianshan Huangquan's gaze as she pulled Tsuchimiya Kagura behind her, looking at it somewhat guardedly, it took out a Horse Talisman given to it by the master from its bosom, came before the girl, and handed it over.

"This is?"

The White Shadow Ninja showed no hostility, nor did it radiate the ominousness and resentment like the Black Shadow Ninja; so, after Jianshan Huangquan saw the other party hand her a stone with markings on it and make no further movements, she couldn't help but ask.

【Something for healing; holding it can heal injuries.】

White Flame took form, becoming a sign, held up by the White Shadow Ninja, with such information written on it.

"Thank you."

Jianshan Huangquan thought for a moment, feeling the other party had no need to tell such a lie to deceive her; after hesitating for a moment, she took the Horse Talisman from the White Shadow Ninja's hand.

As soon as the Horse Talisman entered her hand, Jianshan Huangquan felt a tingling itch in her swollen right arm, and it actually truly possessed a healing effect, wonderfully so.

"Kagura, this is for you."

"Eh?"

After Jianshan Huangquan confirmed the item truly had a healing effect, she handed the talisman in her hand to the girl; Tsuchimiya Kagura was stunned upon receiving it, and after feeling her injuries being healed, she hurriedly stuffed the talisman back.

"My injuries are not serious; Sister Huangquan, you keep it."

White Shadow Ninja: "……"

And it also faced an awkward situation where the girl and the girl did not cooperate to push the plot.

Fortunately, at this moment, Broly finally returned with the drinks.

"Pa~"

The convenience store bag fell to the ground, making a sound.

"Sister Huangquan, Sister Kagura, what happened here? Are you injured?"

Broly pretended to have just returned and was shocked by the messy scene in the park; after seeing the injuries on the girl and the girl, he nervously asked.

"Ah, was it you who injured Sister Huangquan and Sister Kagura?"

Then he glared angrily at the White Shadow Ninja, and with an impulsive appearance, raised his small fist and rushed toward the White Shadow Ninja.

"No, Broly, it wasn't this…… uh, Ninja Spirit that injured us (the White Shadow Ninja held up a sign to indicate its identity to the girl), but rather another evil Ninja Spirit injured us, and this one is actually our life-saving benefactor spirit."

The rushing Broly was stopped by Jianshan Huangquan; he did not resist, but asked: "Ah, is that so?"

【That's right, exactly!】

Cooperating with the master's performance, the White Shadow Ninja actively used its White Flame to form signs, then held up a sign to answer.

After Jianshan Huangquan soothed the boy who was worried about them, she then asked the White Shadow Ninja: "May I ask who exactly you are, and who is the fellow who attacked us?"

【I am White Shadow; that fellow is Black Shadow; we are two sides of one ninja spirit. Black Shadow is the evil side that has committed many misdeeds, while I am the kind side; I have always been stopping the other from doing evil.】

The white shadow ninja answered, paused, then held up the sign again: 【As for why the black shadow attacked you all, I think it was targeting this Miss Tsuchimiya.

Over a long span of years, to shake off my pursuit, it has been seeking an outside force to break the balance between us.

And the Tsuchimiya Family's spirit beast Byakuei seems to have been marked by the black shadow.】

Jianshan Huangquan: 「……」

Everyone at the Countermeasures Bureau really did guess right.

There really is someone—oh no, an evil ninja spirit—who has set their sights on the Tsuchimiya Family's bloodline!

(Chapter End)