Chapter 26: Chapter 25 - Kyoto Arc 16
"Konoka and Asuna are safe right now and they both now heading to a bath that not far from this place," Shirou said. "We will be meet with they both there."
"Then let's hurry," Negi said. "We must meet them immediately!"
"But we must be careful," Rin said, "Because we don't know where the enemy is and when the enemy will attack."
"Rin, both me and Negi already understand about that!" Shirou said. "So stop lecturing us, f you keep lecturing us like that, When we can meet with Konoka-san and Asuna-san! So right now we better go, If we late Asuna-san and Konoka-san will be in danger."
"Hmmph!" Rin said slightly sulking because of being scolded by Shirou.
The three of them came out of the room where their friends became stone statues and they ran towards the baths.
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Setsuna ran with thoughts full of worry about Konoka, because of the enemy attack was really sudden.
Setsuna was able to survive the enemy attack, because by a coincidence she was in the toilet when the enemy launch the attack.
When Setsuna came out of the toilet, she had seen the residents of the Genbi temple. Suddenly it had turned into a stone statue.
Feeling worried about the safety of her friends especially Konoka and Shirou, Setsuna ran as fast as she could to the room where members of groups 5 and 6 gathered.
At one of the intersections that led to the her destination, she could hear the sound of footsteps running toward her.
Setsuna waits on one side of the intersection with her sword which she is ready to pull at any time from the sheath if the person who is running towards her is an enemy.
Setsuna was ready to draw her sword, while Shirou was preparing to slash Setsuna using Kanshou and Bakuya. When Shirou and Setsuna faced each other.
"Setsuna-san!" Shirou said. "Thank god you did not become a stone statue."
"Shi-Shirou-sama! You are safe!" Setsuna said. "Rin-san and Negi-Sensei also survived! Thank god!"
"Rin and I were in another place when the enemy attacked so we both survived," Shirou said.
"Setsuna-san currently me, Shirou, and Negi-kun is going to meet Konoka-san and Asuna-san," Rin said. "You must come with us!"
"That was my purpose from the beginning Tohsaka-Sama," Setsuna said. "Because my duty is to protect Konoka-Oujo-Sama."
"Setsuna-san," Negi said. "Where were you when everyone is gather together in that room?"
"I was in the toilet Negi-Sensei," Setsuna answered with a blushing face. "Because the toilet near the gathering place was broken, so I must go to the another toilet that quite far from the gathering room."
"Ne-Negi-kun, Shirou-kun." From the back where Setsuna stood, Eishun who was breathing heavily and half of his body had become a stone called out the names of Negi and Shirou.
"Eishun-Dono!" Shirou and Negi said.
"Eishun-sama!" Said Setsuna.
"Chief Eishun!" Rin said.
"S-sorry," said Eishun. "Apparently I was too careless, for not paying attention when the kekkai protecting this temple was destroyed."
"A long period of peace that was making me weak and careless. So when this temple has been attacked. I was completely unaware," said Eishun.
"Eishun-Dono!" Shirou and Negi said.
The petrification process from Eishun has become even more severe and now almost all parts of his body has became a stone.
"Be careful of the white-haired youth," said Eishun. "He is an opponent who is at a different level, sorry if I became a burden to all of you, please take care of Konoka."
After saying those words, Eishun's entire body completely turned into a stone statue.
"Hurry we must go to the bathhouse immediately!" Rin said. "I have a really bad feeling!"
"Me too," Shirou said, "Setsuna-san, Negi! Let's go!"
"OKAY!" Said Setsuna and Negi.
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Inside Eishun private office,
"Maga Nosferatu Dark Evangel, for a vampire of your caliber to be caught this easily, you have really become weak after you are sealed inside Mahora."
"Arrrgh! Damn it!" Said Evangeline. "How could I be caught in this stupid trap! "
"That magic circle has the power to hold a creature as strong as you for a long time, so stay there for a while. Until my mission is over here."
After saying that, the enemy who managed to trap Evangeline entered a magical portal in the form of a puddle of water and disappeared into the portal.
"Damn it! That stupid white-haired young man!" Evangeline said. "If I manage to escape this trap I will kill you!"
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Arturia, Chachamaru and Yue were currently running in the forest after the three of them had survived the attack of the white-haired youth.
"What exactly happened here?" Yue asked. "All of our friends has become a stones statue!"
"I know you have a lot of questions about what happened before your eyes, Yue-san," said Arturia, "But I can only say that in this world there are many things beyond common sense."
"Then what should we do right now!" Yue said.
"Certainly seek for a help," Chachamaru said. "The level of the enemy we must to faced is too hard to deal with."
"Wait, Chachamaru," Yue said, realizing something from Chachamaru's words. "You said earlier that we need help, maybe I can get the help we need!"
"You can get a help," Chachamaru said. "But who will help us?"
"I will call Gu Fei and Kaede," Yue said. "They were strong enough to help us!"
"If they are strong to help us that'd good," Said Arturia.
"Then let me calling them first," Yue said.
Arashiyama Inn, hotel lobby.
Kaede Nagase was eating her favorite snack while sitting leisurely on the sofa. But suddenly her cellphone rang.
"piririri"
"A Goodfather! My favorite ringtone!" Said Gu Fei, who was next to Kaede.
Kaede answered the call and then answered the call.
"Nagase here!? Yue-dono? What's wrong?" Kaede asked. "First calm down first! Uhm, uhm, in the middle of the mountain? Ooh so? Uuuhm. So? You need help, huh, Yue-dono."
Mana Tatsumiya who happened to be passing near Kaede accidentally eavesdropping on the words of Kaede that Yue had called. Because she was curious about what she heard she then asked Kaede.
"What happened, Kaede?"
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Inside the bath house, Asuna and Konoka were already inside and at this time they were both waiting for Shirou and the others.
"Shirou-kun and Negi haven't arrived huh," Asuna said while holding her harisen.
"I'm really afraid Asuna," Konoka said. "Why Shirou-kun hasn't come yet?"
"Shirou-kun will definetely come!" Asuna said. "So stay behind me and you will be safe."
From behind Konoka, on the wooden floor not far from Konoka and Asuna, a mysterious puddle of water appeared.
The white-haired young man stretched out his hands to Konoka try catch her, but Asuna felt the danger approaching. Swift her harisen towards the white-haired young man on reflex and made the white-haired young man step back a few steps.
"You're good," said the white-haired young man, "You have a well-trained reflex."
"But it seems right now no one is protecting that young lady but you, I'll will make you sleep for a moment."
The white-haired young man chanted an unknown language and directed petrification at Asuna, suddenly around Asuna there was a smoke that surrounded her and when the smoke touch her yukata, the smoke made the yukata that are used by Asuna become stone.
"Asuna!" Konoka shouted.
But fortunately because the Magic Cancel owned by Asuna the petrification did not work at all and the petrification only made Asuna's yukata become a stone.
And as a result the petrified yukata that Asuna used was cracked, then smashed into pieces.Making Asuna completely naked without any clothes.
"Kyaaaa!" Asuna shouted.
"!?" The white-haired young man was shocked, the petrification he used to Asuna did not turn Asuna into stone at all, only the yukata Asuna used that became a stone.
"Asuna!" Said Konoka who wanted to immediately run to Asuna to help her. But unfortunately before Konoka could walk Konoka was captured by a monster-shaped Shikigami who was summoned by a white-haired youth.
"Well, I'll take Miss Konoka," said the white-haired young man.
"Asuna! Help!" Konoka shouted.
"Hey!" Asuna said. "Release Konoka!"
"Shikigami go now," Said the white haired youth.
The shikigami who captured Konoka flew and took Konoka away as instructed by the white-haired youth.
"Ah, Wait!" Asuna said.
The white-haired young man then floated in the air, took out a spell paper. Chanting mantras in Sanskrit and making hot water in the baths change into many hands.
"Suiyoujin!" The white-haired youth snapped his fingers and the hands formed from the hot water began to move towards Asuna.
"Ehk, the hot water!" Asuna said in surprise.
The hands began to grope Asuna's body and examine Asuna very tightly.
"Ahahahahahaha, what the hell is this! Ahahahahahahahahaha!"
Asuna burst out laughing as a result of being tickled by a hand made of hot water that came from magic that has released by the white-haired youth.
"Hmmm, apparently Suiyoujin is a magic to tickle someone," Said the white-haired young man.
"Earlier you were not affected by the petrification I gave you, it was not only the power of your artifacts, how could you do it?" Asked the white-haired young man.
"Hah?" Asuna said, "How could I tell you my biggest secret!"
"Ooh, then I'll make you die laughing," The white-haired young man snapped his fingers again and the hands that tickled Asuna, tickling her even more.
"Gyaaa wait a minute!" Asuna shouted.
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"Ah, Asuna-san!" Shirou shouted.
Seeing Asuna lying on the bath floor with a body full of sweat and trembling after laughing too much.
Shirou immediately ran towards Asuna to help her.
"It seems that there is someone who makes Asuna laugh too much, to the point that Asuna is lying on the floor trembling like that," Rin said.
"How can you guess like that Rin-san?" Said Setsuna.
"Because I was also have experienced the same thing with Asuna," Rin replied. "Cause of Shirou."
"Experiencing the same thing as Asuna-san!" Said Setsuna who had a nosebleed thinking about what happened between Shirou and Rin.
"Kyaaa Setsuna-san!" Negi said. "Your nose is bleeding a lot! "
"Setsuna," Rin said. "You seem to have misunderstood me by what I said!"
"Are you allright Asuna-san! What happened to you !?" Shirou said.
"I'm sorry Shirou-kun," Asuna said. "Konoka has been kidnapped."
"We all the one who has to apologize, Asuna-san," Shirou said. "We arrived late."
"Shi-Shirou-kun, you must be careful!" Asuna said, "Most likely the enemy is still here."
And after Asuna's said that words, suddenly Negi, Setsuna and Rin were thrown backwards and hit the bathing wall, the three of them immediately collapsed due to a sudden attack from the enemy.
And Shirou, thanks to his own experience of fighting servants and the abundant experience of Archer in him, managed to withstand the super-fast attack of the white-haired youth with his right hand. Although Shirou right hand was tingling because the blow from the white haired young man was very hard.
"Can hold my blows in an instant, even though I have eliminated my presence when I will hit you," Said the white-haired young man. "Your level is completely different from your friends that I make fainted before."
"Are you the one who kidnapped Konoka and made Asuna suffer?" Shirou asked while holding his tingling right hand.
"If I did it, and then what?" Said the white-haired youth. "You want to defeat me? You are much weaker than me. "
Finish saying that the white-haired young man entered the puddle of water which is his gate and then he disappeared from the bath.
(Myself, the enemy we are fighting this time is very dangerous.His physical strength and magic energy are at a level that even surpasses Berseker and Caster! let me come out to face him, with your current level of strength you won't be able to fight him!) said Archer who was in Shirou's mind.
(I will get you out Archer, but after I help Rin and the others.) Shirou said in his mind.
"Are you OK, Asuna-san?" Shirou asked while putting his jacket on Asuna's naked body.
"Y-Yeah, I'm fine," Asuna said with a reddened face.
"Asuna-san, I will treat Rin, Negi and Setsuna-san so they can regain consciousness," Shirou said. "Therefore, can you look for a clothes to cover your body? If you keep naked like that, you might catch a cold."
"Ah, that's right." Asuna said with her face still red.
Asuna ran outside of the bathhouse only by wearing Shirou's jacket to look for clothes. While Shirou whose face was much redder than Asuna's started making Elixir use Denial of Nothingness to treat Rin, Setsuna and Negi.
(You know me, it's really funny to see your face turn so red just by seeing that girl completely naked!) Archer said.
"Shut up, Archer!" Shirou said with his face still flushed.
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"You are good new guys!" Chigusa said. "How did you get to penetrate Kekkai from the Genbi temple! "
"I have my own way," Said the white-haired young man, "Have you finished preparing everything needed for the ritual?"
"Huhuhu, of course," Chigusa said."We just need to bring Konoka-sama to the ritual site, and the summoning of Ryoumen Sukuna no Kami! Will begin!"
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