The Raven Dark Hero 77

Chapter 77 : Reinforcement’s Invasion

TL:SummerPeanut

Hi Shamir!

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The battle to determine the strongest human being between Shinichiro Kiryu and Heikichi Onijima was entering its final phase.

Both of them boasted overwhelming defense and offensive power that surpassed that but they were not able to land a decisive hit. However, they themselves foresaw that this battle would soon come to an end.

“ONIJIMAー!”

“Gunuh……”

The red aura covering Onijima's body flickered, and in the next moment, it became smaller. With the heavy use of the Demon God Fist, Onijima was nearing the end of his physical strength.

“FUGOH!?”

Kiryu's front kick hit Onijima's dovetail cleanly and forced him to retreat greatly. Finally, the balance was broken.

“Gah……Haa haa haa, I don't want to grow old.”

“Hoo, I don't understand. I'm sure you knew that no matter how much of a hero you are, you wouldn't be able to beat me if you tried to fight me head-on. Why did you use such a reckless strategy?”

“HAaHAaHAa…… Pride… I suppose.”

“Pride?”

“Haah hah haah …… It’s the pride of a master against his former disciple.”

Onijima knew that going head-to-head against Kiryu was not a strategy that would give him the best chance of winning. Even so, he still went head to head with him.

“I have a pretty good idea what you guys are up to. I just want to find out...... how much determination you have to get it done.”

“So you noticed it huh... You could have found another way to stop our ambitions.”

“You have a point...... if I were ten years younger, I might have done so. But if I were 20 years younger....... I might have agreed to what you are trying to do. I'm not young anymore. The future is to be decided by those who live in the future.......”

Onijima laughed and stood up.......

“But! That's only going to happen after you defeat me. If you can't defeat me, can you change the world? No! If you want to create a new era, you must first overcome my legacy!”

“Are you still raring to go? Seriously… I really don’t know what to do with you(master).”

Perhaps he was launching his last attack. Onijima's body took on the strongest, darkest red aura so far.

“HAVE A TASTE OF THIS! DEMON SECRET TECHNIQUE! CONSECUTIVE EXPLOSIVE PALM!!”[1]

“Interesting...... I'll take it all and as you wish! Prove that your era has reached the end!!”

Kiryu created ten shields in front of him. The shields were of course solidly made of Lonsdaleite, but Onijima's palm bottom broke through the shields with a single blow! He continued to break through the shields one by one with the same momentum. And then he broke through all the shields and reached Kiryu's stomach!

“HAVE THISSSSS!”

“WUOOOOOOOOH!”

Onijima's last attack did indeed reach Kiryu. ......But, it did not shatter the last of his armor…….

“……What a shame.”

“Oof……really.”

The red aura disappeared from Onijima after he unleashed everything he had.

“As expected of my master, Onijima Heikichi. I can't believe you've managed to get through my barriers. But I'm going to end this now……This is the end!”

Kiryu launched Onishima into the air. And!

“HELL’S・GUILLOTINE・DROP!!”

He jumped up himself and slammed his shin on Onijima's neck into the ground!

“GAHARGH…!”

The summit battle between Kiryu and Onijima ended with Kiryu's victory...

“GOHORH……It looks like……It’s my lost……”

“…seriously. I can't believe you took that and not only you survived but you didn't even lose consciousness.”

Onijima was still on his back, unable to move. Even so, Kiryu couldn't hide his surprise that he hadn't been cut off from consciousness.

And in fact, Kiryu had reached his limit. The impact from Onijima's last attack had passed through from the outside and caused serious internal damage to Kiryu.

At that moment, an emergency call from Line came into the radio in Kiryu's helmet.

The next moment, Kiryu was hit by countless gift attacks! Each of those attacks had a deadly level of power and a huge explosion engulfed Kiryu!

“What!? ……You……Why are you here!?”

Onijima glared bitterly at the man who must have led the previous attack.

“The demon king of Japan's largest organization, Kuroyume, Shinichiro Kiryu, will be killed by Seikichi Gonda, the general of the ...... National Defense Army!”

On top of a gentle cliff, Gonda and fifty of the army's elite were standing behind him.

“Don’t tell me, even General Gonda is here!?”

“Wh-What is happening!? Is today, the decisive battle between the National Defense Force and Kuroyume!?”

Blue and Sagara shouted in surprise.

“……What the hell? I didn't think he'd come out yourself……”

Senzaki, who was in charge of this operation, had expected that Gonda had some other purpose in this operation when he realized he was set up. But he was puzzled because he didn't expect that Gonda himself would come out to fight.

“As expected it’ll be tough to take on one general and 50 well-trained soldiers in our current state... I, and probably the boss, are already at our physical limits.”

“More importantly! Even if it’s boss we’re talking about, that previous attack isn’t it pretty dangerous!?”

Vendetta showed a rare panicked face. This was in spite of her absolute trust in Kiryu. In other words, the previous attack was just that powerful.

“The boss will be fine. But we'll have to join them from here. I don't know how much resistance we can muster. I never thought we'd be in this much danger as prophesied.”

Onijima was also surprised by Gonda's sudden intrusion.

“Gonda! You, why are you here!?”

“That's my line, Onijima-san. Why are you, a member of the Air Force, here? I thought this was a top-secret mission under the Army's jurisdiction?”

“Guh……”

“You involved yourself in Army's operations without being requested to do so. On top of that not only you tried to hog the credit yourself, but you’ve also been defeated by the enemy… Hero Onijima. Looks like you can’t beat old age.”

Onijima could not complain about Gonda. As Gonda said, it was his own decision to go to this place.

“Well, that's fine. I'll have you court-martialed later, but the Demon Lord of Kuroyume… No, the head of the former Major General of the National Defense Force, Kiryu Shinichiro, will be taken by us, the army, by me!”

At the previous moment, Kiryu had prevented the surprise attack by using a simple air-raid shelter, a protective wall constructed only around his body with strong Lonsdaleite.

Then, when he released the barrier, he shouted at Gonda.

“You're still the same, Gonda! Didn't I teach you that there's nothing more foolish than wanting to get ahead without having the skills to do so?”

“Hmph……Kiryu, you're still a nasty piece of work.”

“What? What's wrong with looking down on someone who's inferior to you?”

“……Hmph! But, today is the day you are done! I've been waiting for this day since you quit the army and formed Kuroyume! Now go, my elite squads! Kill Kuroyume and Kiryu!”

Gonda had been Kiryu's peer when he was in the National Defense Force, but he had always had a hard time achieving military merits with Kiryu always being on the front line.

The army's elite troops took up their fighting stance toward Kiryu. Their movements were well organized, as expected from military men.

And in front of Kiryu, Jiren and Vendetta stood, ready to intercept them.

In the midst of this, one of the army's elite troops, ‘Sato’ opened his mouth.

“I never thought that the Kiryu of Kuroyume was the same person as that legendary Kiryu Major General……. This is where we take the head of Kuroyume. We'll defeat the ghosts of the NDF ourselves! Formation one!”

The long-distance specialized troops lined up in a row and concentrated their attacks on Kiryu and the others.

“FIREFIREFIREー！！”

And in the meantime, the melee troops started to move to surround Kiryu and the others from behind.

The long-range attack that had just hit Kiryu came flying again.

“Don't underestimate me!!”

Jiren cancelled this out with a single swing of his giant flame but he couldn’t cancel it all out, and the damage is done.

“Tsk……Even if we are in perfect condition, we are still going to have a hard time considering their force. As expected, it's only harder when you're out of gas.”

“Boss! Let's pull out of here for now! It's not safe to wait for Bright any longer! If we don't, boss really will……”

“If we were to run away here, we wouldn't have carried out this operation in the first place. Everything up to this point has gone according to plan. Now, all we have to do is wait for him.”

To be honest, Kiryu had also reached his limit in his battle with Onijima. Nevertheless, he had defeated Onijima as planned and dragged Gonda out. This is where the real battle begins.

Author’s Note:

The members of Kuroyume are in a pinch! But this is where that man turns the table….

Next time: "Senzaki's Rebellion" ......I'm not your dog!

※I know this is sudden, but I'm going to be updating every three days from today until the last episode of volume 4. I'm really sorry for everyone who's been looking forward to it. m(__)m

TL: Not me.

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TL: Welp, I’m currently considering taking a new series to translate/mtl after this arc. Hmm, should I?

TL’s note:

1. Rensho Burakuretsu (連掌破烈). If it sounds cooler for u guys.