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Having said that, Lupin raised his dagger, ready to deliver the final blow to the fallen monster. However, a colorful door appeared in the sky at some unknown time. The door opened, and a pink, dog-like warrior descended from it, wielding a pistol and mercilessly attacking both of them simultaneously.
Without hesitation, Lupin stepped back two paces, and the rain of bullets falling from the sky only enveloped the fallen monster.
The pink dog, which had landed on the ground, straightened up and cautiously asked Lupin, who was much taller than it, "Excuse me, could you let me have her?"
“Although I really wanted to say yes,” Lupin sighed, spreading his hands helplessly, “the answer is no.”
That makes sense. If she could just give it to me willingly, I wouldn't need to transform. Aine reassured herself, her eyes under the dog mask becoming very serious.
Dong! Episode 2.5: Phantom Thief! ? Dog? Bakutaro! (Part 2)
Ain, transformed into a pink puppy, confronts Lupin, who is wielding a blaster and a short sword, on the playground of Haneoka. Between them is a monster who has been severely injured.
huh~~
A timely breeze blew, and in the instant the leaves obscured their vision, the two launched their attack simultaneously. Aine raised her blaster and fired several bullets, while Lupin, as if prepared, pulled the trigger, and a pale yellow gem shield appeared in front of him, blocking all the bullets.
Aine's eyes widened slightly beneath her mask. After becoming the dog sisters, her mind had gained many more methods of combat, as well as many things she couldn't understand, such as enhancing abilities based on specialized impressions, which Aine found very confusing.
But that doesn't matter. As long as she fights with abilities she can understand, that's enough. She's a genius who became student council president; this level is nothing to her.
She silently continued to suppress him with bullets from the blaster, while Lupin slowly approached Aine, shield raised. It was foreseeable that if things continued like this, they would be locked in close combat.
A glint of light flashed in Aine's eyes beneath her mask. Suddenly, she reached down and pulled a door open from the ground. Aine swiftly turned her gun and fired several shots into the doorway, simultaneously opening the door to her right and leaping inside.
"What?!" Lupin didn't react for a moment when he saw Aine's actions. A door opened above her head and behind her at the same time.
First, bullets rained down from the sky, and Lupin instinctively raised his cape to try and block the incoming bullets. However, while reducing the damage, the cape also blocked his vision, so he couldn't see the pink puppy charging towards him from behind.
Aine burst out of the door, her speed and weight causing Lupin, who was defending, to lose his balance and fall face-first to the ground. To make matters worse, one of her arms was pinned under Lupin's face. Aine, of course, wouldn't miss this opportunity. She quickly jumped onto the back of Lupin's head and wrapped her short legs around his neck.
Lupin not only lost his sight, but also had one arm pinned down. Aine, naturally, was not satisfied with the current situation and chose to expand her gains. She reached out and pushed open the side portal, pointing her blaster gun at the door and quickly unleashing a hail of bullets.
Lupin was repeatedly hit in the abdomen by bullets, writhing and struggling in pain on the ground.
"Hehe, I really am a super genius, aren't I?" She chuckled, firing her explosive gun even more vigorously. To be so proficient in her very first battle—she was definitely a genius among geniuses!
However, at this moment, the yellow Prototype Gem appeared from the doorway, not only blocking all of Aine's explosive gun attacks, but also slamming the gem shield into Aine's face. The force transmitted from it caused Aine to lose her balance and roll off Lupin's body.
【Oops! 】
Aine instantly realized the seriousness of the situation. Due to her lack of combat experience, she had overlooked Lupin's right hand, which was holding a weapon. Just now, while she was shooting, Lupin's hidden right hand quietly raised a shield and found the door based on the direction of the bullets, and then used the door to counterattack her.
Now, having lost his balance, he is forced to engage in a fierce fight with Lupin, who is right next to him, while holding a pistol...
As Aine had expected, the phantom thief quickly stood up from the ground and swiftly closed in on Aine, engaging her in a fierce fight.
Because of the difference in elevation, Lupin had no choice but to bend down and thrust his short sword at Aine's body with a backhand. Aine's body had not yet recovered from the loss of balance, and she could only lie on the ground and use her blast punch to block, praying that she could find an opportunity to counterattack.
Lupin closed in, pinning Aine down, and used his riding position to launch a series of attacks with his short sword. Aine could only desperately defend herself, but eventually, Lupin's short sword broke through the gun protecting Aine's head, piercing through the gap and into her chest.
"Ouch...! Huh? It doesn't hurt at all!?" Lupin was slightly taken aback by the unexpected slight pain. The feeling of the stab was like piercing into an incredibly thick suit of armor.
Aine naturally wouldn't let this opportunity pass. She raised the blaster and fired several shots at Lupin. The powerful impact sent Lupin flying back to a distance.
"Oh my, oh my, cute little kitten... no, little puppy, your defense is really high, this is troublesome." Lupin adjusted his hat and exclaimed with emotion, "Well then, give it your all and take me down."
Mr. Phantom Thief, it seems you're being controlled by someone to do this... Aine gripped the blaster in her hand, genuinely angry at the existence of the mastermind behind it all.
"This might be a bit difficult." A voice came from behind Ai-yin, and the two of them turned around to look.
Ai Yin was taken aback: "It's the guitarist from Pastel Palettes!"
That's right, the person who came was none other than Hikawa Hina.
"I'm sorry, although I'm very unwilling, I can't control myself. Every time I wake up, I forget everything I'm doing. It's really not good, but I have no choice but to do it." Hina didn't have any special expression as she placed a black belt around her waist, and the belt automatically fastened around her waist.
"Looks like you're the same. Heh... Hina, what a cruel fate," Lupin lamented.
Hina smiled slightly, displaying a white object: "But since there's no way to resist, let's enjoy it! I hope you can defeat us, Woof-chan~"
Then, Hina took out another purplish-black object, fastened it to the buckle, and made a "gachan" sound. A somber musical tone followed.
Then she pressed the button on it, and the strange object responded with a voice: "Dangerous-Zombie"
A game screen appeared behind her, and countless ordinary people wearing strange hoods emerged. Their movements were very strange, just like... zombies in a movie.
"Next, it should be like this, right?" Hina carefully placed the cartridge into the device, pressed the red button on the side, tilted her head, and thought, "Next, it seems like I should say... transformation?"
"Buggle-Up!" the device responded to her words, and a large black screen appeared in front of her. Red and white zombie bodies flashed on the screen, which slowly receded to touch Hina's body.
The device also emitted sound effects in sync: "Danger! Danger! Death The Crisis! Dangerous Zombie!"
Finally, what appeared after breaking through the screen was a warrior wearing white armor!
"Ah...it's over," Aine couldn't help but feel a little desperate. She was already struggling to win one-on-one, let alone one-on-two.
Although it feels a bit spineless... Aine is thinking that if she surrenders... well, the other side probably won't accept it, but if she runs away...
As Aine meticulously considered the possibility of escape, a peculiar Japanese-style melody suddenly began to play. Accompanying it was a wild, unrestrained laugh: "Hahaha, hahahaha!"
All three of them turned their heads toward the direction from which the music was coming from.
Aine tilted her head: "Kamihashi...?"
Lupin tilted his head: "Motorcycle?"
"Hahaha, it's such a great combination!" Hina shouted excitedly.
On the other side where the music begins, a sacred bridge is led by dancers in white and carried by men in black, and on the sacred bridge is a peculiar combination of motorcycles.
The dancers waved golden paper flowers in front of the carriage, dramatically announcing their arrival to everyone.
Riding on the motorcycle was the owner of this arrogant laughter—a warrior dressed entirely in red, holding a paper fan printed with his family crest, loudly proclaiming: "Ya ya ya! Mazda Mazda (festival)."
"Huh...? Another one!" Aine's eyes widened, her heart filled with despair.
I'm sorry, Mom and Dad, for raising such a terrible person like me. If there's a next life, I won't open anything I shouldn't out of curiosity again.
Aine left her last words for the second time today; this time, she may really be going to die.
"Hey! A festival! I love festivals!" Hina clapped her hands excitedly, seemingly welcoming the other party's arrival.
"Ah... such a scene on the battlefield, it's truly... a dream!" Mr. Phantom Thief sang, not to be outdone.
The red warrior swayed slightly in sync with the black warrior's movements, like a live MC warming up the crowd, announcing his arrival: "A chance encounter is a predestined connection from a past life, a pebble on the roadside is a fragment of a predestined connection, and dancing together is a connection."
"This family is paradise—blow away all your troubles!" The red warrior struck a classic Noh pose, then slapped his thigh and waved his hands up and down: "Laugh, laugh! Hahahahahaha!!"
"Haha!" Hina laughed in perfect unison.
"Ah—even on the battlefield, you should bring a smile to people's faces, Dream!!"
"Huh? Am I the only one who's not normal?" The pink puppy, Aine, asked uncertainly, pointing to her chin.
The sound of a motorcycle engine starting rang out, and the red-clad warrior sped down the mountain on his motorcycle, the accompanying components vanishing into the wind before Ai-yin's astonished expression.
The warrior jumped off the motorcycle, gripped his longsword, and charged at the two knights: "Come on! Enjoy yourselves and let's settle this once and for all."
"Then let's have a showdown!" Hina seemed full of confidence, but the next moment, her voice became ethereal, and her body emitted a blue light: "Eh? Huh? Looks like I'm waking up. Let's settle this another time. Bye-bye."
As the voice faded, the transformed warrior's body dispersed into blue specks of light and disappeared from the battlefield.
"They actually left me here alone. It's not bad that I got knocked down, but I'll do my best to fight back—" The Phantom Thief naturally wouldn't sit idly by and wait to die. He turned his short sword into a regular grip, ready to strike.
This red warrior, needless to say, is none other than Tomotaro, transformed from Momoi Taro. He gripped his sword and unleashed a swift, sweeping attack on Lupin.
Lupin, who was observing Taro's movements, reacted quickly, raising his short dagger and holding it horizontally at his side.
The clash of the blade and the short sword sparked a shower of sparks. Lupin felt a slight tingling in her hands. She quickly assessed the situation and realized there was a significant difference in strength between her and her opponent; she had to change tactics.
In an instant, Lupin, with his short dagger at his side, slid along the sharp edge of Taro's long sword, his entire body lunging forward.
However, Taro's change of tactics was even faster. The instant he saw Lupin's movement, he had already turned his sword so that the blade was pointing downwards, and the long sword slashed towards Lupin's body.
This blow landed squarely on Lupin, sending sparks flying and forcing him to take two steps back.
Before she could regain her balance, Taro's long sword thrust at her from the side again. Lupin struggled to raise his short sword and smash it down on Taro's long sword, causing the long sword to deflect its aim and strike nothing but air.
She naturally wouldn't let this good opportunity slip by. She steadied herself, pushed off with her foot, and charged towards Taro.
As if he had anticipated this, Taro deliberately abandoned the distance advantage of his longsword and charged towards Lupin. This caught her off guard; before she could even swing her dagger, Taro's shoulder bump disrupted her balance, causing her to stagger back two steps.
Once again, Lupin was back in the sword's comfort zone, so he had no choice but to take two steps back and move out of Taro's attack range.
"Oh my, so this is what they mean by the longer one being stronger?" Lupin's breathing became slightly rapid. The intensity of his fight with this red warrior was on a completely different level from the ones he had fought before. What was even more deadly was that the warrior had almost completely controlled the rhythm of the normal battle.
"No." Taro sheathed his sword, slightly relaxing his grip as he pointed it at Lupin, and said, "The stronger one is stronger!"
"Oh my, that's quite a confident statement." The phantom thief wasn't annoyed, but simply pointed his blade at Taro: "So what if that's how it is~?"
Countless bullets sprayed from the gun muzzle and shot towards Taro. Aine couldn't help but shout, "Danger!"
Taro watched the bullet's trajectory with complete indifference, and then slashed out several times at a speed almost invisible to the naked eye.
Dangdangdang——
The sound of bullets hitting the ground. The bullets of the Lupin gun were physical bullets formed by condensed energy. These bullets, now broken in two, lay silently on the ground.
"I said, the stronger one is stronger!" he answered confidently, then raised his long sword and charged forward.
However, Lupin's body was also radiating a blue light. She spread her hands and said in a somewhat helpless tone, "Oh well, although I wanted to play with you a little longer, it seems I have to wake up. Well then, see you next time."
As Taro's sword slashed down, Lupin's entire body transformed into blue specks of light and vanished. This caused Taro's sword to miss its mark, and he quickly reacted, retracting the sword to his side before it struck the ground.
"You escaped... Then you're the only one left." Taro looked at the strange man lying on the ground, barely alive, and raised his sword.
Thud 2.5! Phantom Thief! ? Dog? Bakutaro! (The End)
"You escaped... Then you're the only one left." Taro looked at the strange man lying on the ground, barely alive, and raised his sword.
"No, not here! Here, here!" Aine shouted from the other side, her two short arms being grabbed by two zombie hordes. Then, the zombie hordes surrounding her stabbed her with their long, thick weapons.
Although Aine tried her best to kick away the surrounding zombies with her thighs, she was still no match for the overwhelming number of opponents. In a one-on-one fight, Aine could use her extraordinary wisdom to come up with a solution, but in a group battle, numbers and experience are more important than wisdom.
After struggling with the Collapse Corps for a while, Aine was forced to be controlled by the Collapse Corps' desperate attack.
"Be careful. For some reason, my attacks don't work on them." Aine tried hard to break free, but it seemed to be a futile effort.
"I don't want to go to school!!"