Chapter 107: Confrontation
Chapter 107: Confrontation
It did not take him long to arrive at the location Kuraruka had mentioned, which was Ayatsuji Plaza.
The problem was, he did not see his sister, or Kuranaga Kuraruka.
“Kuraruka, I’m already here, but where are you?”
He muttered to himself, his eyes scanning the crowd with confusion.
He did not see Kuranaga Kuraruka, or anyone else, for that matter.
Right at that moment, his phone rang again.
He received another call from Kuraruka.
“Senior, you’ve finally arrived.”
“Kuraruka, where are you?”
“Don’t be so impatient, Senior. Please walk toward the intersection ahead, turn to the right, then make a circle…”
Kuranaga did not tell him her location directly, but instead kept making him go around in circles.
(This girl is checking if there are any followers nearby… This is bad!)
Fang Jing had already activated the radio transmitter on his hand. He had also called Karasawa and the others, but unfortunately, the call didn’t go through.
“I can only hope he notices this. If not, I’ll have to handle it on my own.”
Once the radio tracker was activated, he should have gotten a response. With the phone call not connecting, he had no choice but to follow Kuranaga’s instructions.
“She should be able to see my movements, which means… her position must be high enough to have a bird’s-eye view of the area…”
Thinking that, it should be in that direction.
He raised his head and looked toward the city’s landmark building, the direction of the City TV Tower.
The City TV Tower was the tallest building in the entire urban area and the city’s landmark. If she were standing in that direction, she might be able to see the situation on the streets.
Beep beep beep—!
His phone rang again. Fang Jing checked the number and was surprised to see Karasawa Meisuke’s number displayed on the screen.
Karasawa was calling.
Did he notice what was happening on my end?
Fang Jing reached out to answer the phone, but at that moment, a figure approached him and grabbed his arm.
“Senior, you’ve finally come.”
Kuraruka smiled faintly as she moved closer without making a sound. Her left hand grabbed his wrist, while her right hand crushed the phone in his hand.
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Damn it!
Why isn’t there any response after all this calling?
Karasawa was unusually impatient. After realizing something was wrong, he desperately called Fang Jing, but after many attempts, there was still no response.
“It can’t be that they found him so quickly!”
He quickly reacted and began using the program on his phone to track the transmitter’s signal.
“Please, Nishizuka, don’t die so quickly.”
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“Kuraruka, can you tell me now where my sister is?”
“Senior, you don’t need to worry. Satsuki is very safe.”
Kuraruka walked arm-in-arm with him, looking just like a couple.
She leaned against Fang Jing like a delicate bird.
“You don’t need to worry about her. She’s in a relatively safe state, just sleeping for a while.”
This girl was very difficult to deal with!
Fang Jing was certain that she had been hiding in some tall building earlier, monitoring his movements and checking if there were any followers around him.
After some judgment, she probably thought there wasn’t much danger and took the initiative to “meet” him.
Though it was called a “meeting,” it was actually a disguised form of kidnapping.
Karasawa’s guess that her target was him didn’t seem to be entirely off the mark.
But that wasn’t the main issue. The main issue was how to solve the problem at hand.
The woman currently holding his arm was a man-eating monster. According to Karasawa’s intel, she also had powerful regenerative abilities.
Only the Exorcism Blade of the Fang Hunters could completely kill them or destroy the regeneration power of these monsters.
(That means a direct confrontation would be quite foolish. Without the Exorcism Blade, there’s no way to deliver a fatal blow.)
And that was the most troublesome part. Fang Jing had some confidence in his own fighting ability.
But facing a man-eating monster that could continuously regenerate was quite problematic.
Human stamina is limited, but no matter what injuries the man-eating monster suffers, it won’t die.
“Kuraruka, what exactly do you want from me by coming here?”
He stopped walking and fixed his gaze on the girl in front of him.
This was the last question. Depending on her answer, Fang Jing would take different actions.
“Please leave this city with me, okay?”
Kuraruka also smiled at him and held both of his hands.
“Just the two of us, let’s leave this place together. I’ll take good care of you, Senior. Even though I may not look like it, I’m quite confident in cooking and housework. Senior, you don’t need to worry about anything; just come with me.”
“Is that so?”
As expected, this was completely hopeless. There was no reasoning with this girl.
“By the way, we can leave by train right now. I’ve already made preparations. I have cash and spare clothes ready in a station locker. From here, we can take a train directly to the neighboring city, and then head to the Kansai area.”
Fang Jing gave up on the idea of “communicating” with her. Kuraruka was completely immersed in her own world. She kept muttering to herself, talking about how the two of them should live after leaving.
“Senior, you just need to stay at home. I’ll work hard to earn money. After we go to another city, we can find a place to live. It doesn’t need to be a big room; as long as it can fit two people, it’ll be easy to clean.”
Thud!
Someone with heavy footsteps pushed through the crowd and rushed in front of the two.
“Finally… I found you.”
Karasawa Meisuke arrived at the scene with the girl behind him. However, this was a bustling street with crowds coming and going.
“…This woman is a Corpse Hound.”
Takami Fuyumi stopped in her tracks. The moment she saw Kuranaga Kuraruka, she clicked her tongue, and her tone of voice changed. Though her voice was strangely childish, her words carried a chill.
She half-closed her eyes, her hand resting on the small sheathed sword at her waist.
The moment this middle school student touched the sword hilt, her entire aura changed in an instant. She became sharp and overbearing.
A bone-chilling killing intent spread out. Both Fang Jing and Kuranaga Kuraruka, who were targeted, felt goosebumps all over their bodies.
With one hand on her sword, her originally childish demeanor vanished, as if her entire personality had changed.
“Hey! Are you out of your mind? You want to draw your sword in a place like this?”
Karasawa Meisuke didn’t notice anything unusual. As soon as he saw Takami Fuyumi’s actions, he grabbed her hand, which was holding the sword hilt.
“Eek! S-sorry!”
Takami Fuyumi shrank back like a frightened little animal, her shoulders trembling suddenly as she curled into a ball.
His and Takami’s strange behavior attracted the attention of the surrounding onlookers. In their eyes, this pair of teenagers was acting a bit odd, especially since one of them was carrying what looked like a model sword—because it was a small sword, most people didn’t pay much attention, and some even thought they might be cosplaying.
Realizing that the hunters had caught up, Kuranaga Kuraruka instinctively took a few steps back.
“I’m sorry, Senior. I’ll come find you later.”
Kuranaga did not choose to fight head-on. She turned her head, pushed through the crowd, and quickly ran toward the other end of the street.
“Don’t let her escape!”
Takami Fuyumi quickly gave chase, but Kuranaga, being a Corpse Hound monster, had greater physical strength and speed. She dashed into the street with moving vehicles, crossed to the other side of the road, and left Takami Fuyumi behind.
“Barely made it in time. If we were any slower, you would have been eaten as a snack.”
Karasawa was panting heavily. The tracking icon from the transmitter had been moving around everywhere. He and Takami had searched for a long time before finding the two of them.
“Senior, give me your phone.”
Fang Jing spoke with a cold expression.
“Okay!”
Karasawa didn’t think twice and handed over the phone.
Fang Jing took it and opened the tracking program.
“This is the tracking program, right… Good, then I’ll borrow your phone for a while.”
After saying that, he also rushed off.
“Wait a minute.”
This jerk, what are you getting involved for?
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He couldn’t just let that woman escape so easily.
Fang Jing had no intention of letting the Fang Hunters handle this matter. In his heart, he had already passed a death sentence on “Kuranaga Kuraruka.”
If the Fang Hunters couldn’t deal with her, he would definitely find a way to kill her himself.
The man-eating monster was impossible to reason with, and Kuraruka was completely lost in her own world.
If she were only targeting him, Fang Jing might have been able to endure it. But since Kuraruka had set her sights on those close to him, it crossed the line of what he could accept.
Even if she managed to escape this time, she would probably come after him again.
“How much does that woman know about my background? The apartment, and other information… Whatever, it doesn’t matter… I don’t plan on letting her go anyway.”
He rushed into a narrow alley between buildings. His legs accelerated as he jumped, stepping onto the wall of the building on the left, then immediately used the reaction force to leap again. Just as it seemed he was about to climb up the wall on the right, he pushed off once more, grabbing the edge of a balcony on the other side.
Fang Jing climbed onto the balcony of that residence and took a moment to check the tracking program.
“…Due south, is it?”
He kicked off the iron railing of the balcony and leaped again. His long legs repeatedly bent and extended, bouncing back and forth in the air. Using gaps between buildings and various objects, he moved up and down with incredible agility, like a nimble great ape.
As he sped along, he recalled the movements Kume Nansho had once used, while also not forgetting the footwork of “Cloud Dragon Willow.”
His movements became lighter and more graceful. His figure soared through the air like a flying swallow, leaping between the mixed-use buildings and apartment complexes at the end of the street.
Before long, he followed the location indicated by the phone program and found the “Fang Hunter” girl and the fleeing Kuranaga Kuraruka.
The two had already engaged in a fierce battle. Facing off on a sparsely populated street, they moved simultaneously, matching each other’s pace as they dashed quickly.
The Fang Hunter girl wielded her small sword. She rushed toward her enemy like a bullet, thrusting her blade forward.
Kuranaga was very afraid of the Exorcism Blade in her hand. She continuously dodged and evaded, hastily avoiding the flashes of the blade while calculating the distance between them. A steel support beam behind her was instantly cut in half.
The awning collapsed with a creaking sound. The two were locked in close combat, but this time, the swift and agile blade was deflected by a bone-colored “whip-blade.”