Challenge "The Neverending Tale"

Ummm, sorry to interrupt your "happily ever after" ending... May I borrow some time from you?

Raikou! Um, weren't you just sent back!?

Actually... Foolish me, I forgot something here. So as embarrassing as it is, I came back.

Wait, you came back from the Throne of Heroes!? That isn't even self-summoning, it's self-manifestation!

Well, I hadn't actually made it all the way back, so the rest was fighting spirit. Like, "Eeeeyaaa"♡

So you were able to hold out against a banishing with fighting spirit... Kintoki, what's going on with your mother?

Don't ask me, Doc. I can't explain it.

When Lord Raikou makes up her mind, she just manages to slip through the cracks.

Despite her looks, she's got ten times my spirit. When it comes to forcing her way through, she'll get through, no matter who's in her way.

She follows her own rules! Whatever the other person's circumstances are, her own circumstances are absolute...

Like they say, an oni god can move mountains! When I think that I have inherited that blood... How promising!

Yes! I too am devoting myself to being able to suddenly appear if you're in dire straits, even without being summoned, Master!

Y-Yes... Certainly, in that way, Yoshitsune and Raikou are similar.

...I see... Master, you don't know me as an adult, do you?

Servants can't grow, so therefore don't age, but you never know. There may come a time when I do become my mature self.

Heh. Please look forward to that day, Master.

Uh? Oh, even if you do become mature, Yoshitsune, you will never match Raikou's majestic bosomAaaarrghh!

Forget waiting for a beating behind a temple! We'll finish this in the shade of yonder rock, Benkei.

Aiieeee!

...There is safety in silence...

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That aside, Raikou. What is it that you forgot?

Actually... It's the three great oni that are left on this island.

The great oni that were guarding the gate, right? Senpai already disposed of them.

No, those monsters are connected with this island. As long as the island exists, they won't go away forever.

The problem is... the more those great oni are defeated, the stronger they get.

Right about now, they're probably reviving from your slaying. And they may try to get off this island.

They're evil oni and they've got their eye on total destruction.

If Onigashima ceases to exist, they'll vanish for good, but if left ignored, they could do real harm.

Wh-Why did you give them power like that!?

Actually... I wanted to please Kintoki...

You know, with prey, the stronger, the better, right? So, foolish me, I got a little carried away...

Oh... Holy shit...

But listen, Kintoki isn't the only one here. Fujimaru is here, too!

Aren't you entrusted with restoring humanity or something like that? Then why not put your skills to the test here?

Yes, yes, in fact, that's a great idea! Ah, despite the fact that I created them, there is no need to hold back.

It will make a thousand... even ten thousand oni seem like millet served in a bowl.

Please enjoy slaying the great oni until Onigashima vanishes♡

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Oh. In that case, I myself will become an oni. (Grin)

Young people mustn't pick up the bad habit of laziness. Therefore, insolent children will be punished.

This is hard on your mother, too... but naughty children require discipline.

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Ah, sorry, Boss. As I said, this is the kind of person Raikou is.

And if you refuse, she'll cry. In public or wherever, she'll bawl her eyes out.

It's more embarrassing for anybody standing next to her. So all you can do is obey.

Awful... Oh, Kintoki, you talk about your mother like that again... when I'm just thinking of all of you...

There, you see? ...Sheesh, the fact that she doesn't mean any harm is what makes her hard to deal with.

Well, I guess we'll just have to resign ourselves to it! Besides, it'll be fun putting Raikou in our debt!

Let's do this, Boss! We can have a chicken race to see which of us kicks more oni ass!