A Dashing Entry! The Champion of Justice, Rinjyuku-hime Spinel Rose!
“Come out Rinjyuku-hime!!”
Noon during a day off, a battle cry-like shout rends the air. The owner of the voice is standing in the middle of an intersection while glaring at the surroundings with sharp eyes. A troublesome existence that shatters the peaceful calm of the surrounding area. However, not a single person raises a complaint against this ruffian. This is natural thanks to the fact any people have already fled thanks to the hideous inhuman appearance of the thing standing in the road.
“Let’s continue from last time! This time we can enjoy ourselves to our heart’s content!!”
Like a huge bear, the figure is wrapped in grey fur. Sharp claws like blades tip the hands of both its arms and the head looks like a ferocious wolf’s mixed with a human. It is completely the appearance of a wolf man that appears in fantasy stories. This would be impossible to see in reality, yet this isn’t a fiction. This bestial man is an otherworldly invader from a group called “Chaos Nightmare” that exists right before the eyes of humanity and threatens them regularly such as now.
“Don’t you care about human lives, hurry up and come out! I might just start killing if you don’t, are you fine with that!?”
“Why, why me, please, help me…”
Besides the wolf man’s voice, another voice can be heard coming out. It is a woman who wasn’t able to escape fast enough when the monster appeared. She’s trembling and her face is very pale while she cries.
“Well then, it seems that dullard Rinjyuku-hime isn’t coming huh?”
“Tha, that! I have nothing to do with that!”
“Ah, how annoying. That Rain told me to lure her out, I guess I’ll kill this annoying bitch and go look somewhere else?”
“It, it hurts…!”
The muscles of the wolf man’s arms bulge as he talks and the woman being held against him begins to struggle. What the wolf man is saying isn’t a bluff. If he wants to, he can instantly kills this woman. With a single flex of his rigid monstrous arm, he could crush her or snap her neck.
“Stop… please, ahh! Someone… save.. me…!”
The woman’s cries for help fall unheard across the intersection. Every other citizen of the town has already fled the attack site. Even if someone remained, there’s no way they could stop this otherworldly monster.
“To, to go that extent!!”
That’s right. This is as far as a normal human can go.
“Huh? What—“
The wolf man looks behind himself to the source of the voice that interrupted him and finds a small girl standing there. Her costume is as equally weird as the wolf man standing opposite her. The costume is a vivid pink and is covered in gorgeous white bows and ribbons. The body line of the girls is emphasised by the smart looking costume and a corset-like section pushes up and emphasises her breasts. Her shoulder length hair is also a pink colour and a deep crimson headdress matches the colour of her eyes.
There is no timidity in her gaze and anyone seeing her hesitant brilliant red gaze would never forget it. She wears a knee length skirt and white boots from which knee length socks can just be seen peeking. She also has pure white gloves wrapping both hands giving her the appearance of an innocent bride. If you only look at the dress she appears to be a pretty young maiden, but when you look at what’s in her hands, it’s obvious she’s more than that. A huge sword with cherry coloured jewels embedded in it is held in her hand. Blade equal to half the girl’s height, the huge blade’s tip is pointed towards the wolf man as the girl announces herself in a trembling voice.
“Shi… shining light that tears sunder the darkness! Rinjyuku-hime Spinel Rose is here…!”
Rinjyuku-hime. As if created by the appearance of Chaos Nightmare, these girls had appeared too. Raging flashes of light that cut through the deepest darkness. Battling evil and upholding justice, girls chosen by a miraculous power, this girl is unmistakably one of them.
“That woman… uh, let her go…! I will be your opponent…!”
The girl who called herself Spinel Rose stares at her opponent while tightly gripping the handle of her sword. Responding to her hand’s movements, pink coloured light wraps the length of the sword. Responding to her need to defeat the monster in front of her, the energy of the sword flashes according to her will. However, seeing her, the wolf man makes a completely disappointed face.
“Spinel Rose…? Tch, what a small fry Princess. I was hoping for someone stronger, could you call over one of the known Princesses?”
“Uuu…”
“Come on, hurry up and call someone better suited to fighting me. Hey! Hurry it up and call someone else!”
While yelling at her, the wolf man glares with murderous intent at Spinel Rose. Just being stared at like this, the girl feels as if her heart has stopped and unintentionally she takes a step back. A Rinjyuku-hime should never back down in the face of evil.
“Your… your opponent is me! Me here! So hurry up… and let your hostage go…!”
“Don’t be such an idiot. What is it? You want to die that bad?”
Forcing the words from her mouth, Spinel Rose keeps speaking for a moment before falling silent. Tension builds and an uncomfortable silence passes between them for a few moments.
“Fine, I’ll kill you if you want me too then.”
Body language showing he’s completely exasperated, the wolf man begins slowly approaching Spinel Rose who doesn’t move in the slightest.
“Uuu…”
As the monster approaches, the Rinjyuku-hime can’t tear her eyes away from its grotesque appearance. Hair bristling, feet stomping on the road, it glares at her with hideous bloodshot eyes. It’s easy to see that despite its intent to kill her, the monster isn’t even slightly serious. Unable to withstand the killing intent, the girl’s legs tremble and she takes another step backward.
“What’s this? You said such a thing so seriously but you’re trembling and want to run away that bad? Then you shouldn’t have shown yourself to me in the first place.”
“Shu… shut… shut up…! I… I can do it… I can fight you…!”
“Shut up yourself you moron. You damn eyesore, hurry up and vanish from this world.”
“I can do it, here I goooooooooooooo!!”
Letting out a scream Spinel Rose begins running towards her enemy. However, even a quick glance shows how useless this act is. This girl, this Rinjyuku-hime, is far too immature to be called a warrior of justice.
“Yah, Yahhh!”
“Hmph.”
“This, and this!!”
The girl’s stance while running about and the way she holds her sword is purely the moves of an amateur. The sword is merely a large tool she swings about blindly and there’s no power to her strokes. On the contrary, each swing of the blade throws off her balance and wrecks her posture. Bad foot work, slow movements, with this, it would probably be more effective if she attacked unarmed, and at least then the weight of the blade wouldn’t be leading her about the battlefield.
This is undoubtedly the sad scene of a child trying to match up to an adult. Spinel Rose continues blindly slashing at the monster while the wolf man easily steps back out of the slashes range. Even now the monster hasn’t had to let go of its hostage thanks to these useless attacks.
“Why, hit, why doesn’t it hit!”
“You’re like a really annoying buzzing mosquito…”
“I’m not a bug! I’m a Rinjyuu… gyahhhh!?”
Spinel Rose lets out a choked scream as the wolf man kicks her. Having become irritated, the huge monster has delivered a kick to the girl’s abdomen as a counterattack. The inhuman strength of the monster means even this light kick is enough to make her bones scream in agony.
“Ah, guh, gyahhhhhhhhhhhh, it huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurts!?”
Like a soccer ball punted across a field, Spinel Rose flies through the air in a parabolic curve. She floats in the air for a few seconds before the asphalt rises up two smash against her as she bounces across the road.
“Gah, hah…! Ow, gehoh…! It hurts…!”
“Tch, shut up.”
Even breathing makes the girl hurt. Her sight is blurred with the tears filling her eyes. Despite that, she can still hear it. The heavy footsteps of the huge wolf man’s body coming closer as he comes to kill her.
“Hi, hiiii…!?”
The word was knocked from her hand when she was blown away. Spinel Rose has nothing to resist her assailant with.
“You bore me. Now hurry up and die.”
The wolf man’s huge shadow falls over the trembling body of the girl. Bending a knee, the wolf man lifts a foot above Spinel Rose’s head as she lies there unable to move. Like the heavy iron blade of a guillotine, the wolf man is going to stomp down and crush Spinel Rose’s skull—
“…!!!”
Just before that happens, the wolf man leaps back with an agility he hasn’t shown up to this point.
“Eh…?”
Spinel Rose is confused by the sudden change in events. However, even without the girl’s understanding, things continue to unfold without her input. Barely missing, a flash like a comet appears in the space the wolf man had been occupying a bare moment ago.
“Hyahh! Eh, ehhh…!?”
The asphalt has been completely crushed and a cloud of dust rises from it. Inside the drifting remains of the road floats a shadowy figure. The flash that saved Spinel Rose from her crisis is neither a natural phenomenon not a miracle. It is undeniably the intervention of another person. The wolf man also realised this hence he avoided the attack. The only one unable to understand what is happening is Spinel Rose.
“You came!!”
Opening his eyes wide, the wolf man lets out a yell in a joyful voice. The prey he’d hoped to face has appeared as if a bolt of lightning from a clear sky. Another girl similar to Spinel Rose, the girl standing there is another girl blessed with the power to fight monsters and demons.
“I was waiting! Rinjyuku-hime Lapis Lily!!”
Wearing a costume of blue and white with a similar appearance to Spinel Rose, the only difference this new girl has is a somewhat longer skirt and a less flashy appearance. However, the atmosphere surrounding this new arrival is completely different. Where Spinel Rose gives a cuddly impression, Lapis Lily gives a noble impression.
Slender and tall, she has conspicuously large breasts that are obvious despite her conservative costume. She has very long silver hair that is done up in a chignon held up with blue ornaments that resemble lilies. The thing that stands out the most about her is the fact her eyes are closed even while she gives a gentle smile, looking as if she’s calmly praying in a church. However, these closed eyes have fully captured her enemy and she’ll never let him escape. In her hands is a rapier decorated with indigo jewels and not a hint of cloudiness mars the thin silver blade.
To the wolf man, she has the appearance of a dignified medieval knight.
“Lapis Lily…!? Why are you here? Weren’t you fighting monsters on the other side of town…”
“It’s alright, I already finished dealing with that ruckus. Just before… I noticed Spinel Rose had disappeared so I decided to look for you. Luckily I managed to find you before it got too dangerous.”
“Ah… is that right…”
Without turning away from the wolf man in front of her, the Rinjyuku-hime exchanged words with Spinel Rose behind her. Keeping her blade low, the girl keeps shifting her position as the wolf man moves. There is no sign of the immaturity Spinel Rose displayed in her movements. The face of the wolf man keeps grinning as she looks at the Rinjyuku-hime in front of him. The smile one that you’d see on a carnivorous beast eyeing prey that would make your blood go cold.
“I’m sick of waiting Lapis Lily! As we said last time, let’s finish this today!”
“I don’t remember making such a promise with you Jack Grey. It seems you’ve been running amuck while I’ve been busy elsewhere.”
“Don’t say that. I didn’t want to use a hostage, I just wanted to small fry to go get you so we could fight.”
The wolf man, Jack Grey, doesn’t appear to be upset by Lapis Lily’s words. On the contrary, his booming voice seems to be becoming happier and he doesn’t even try to hide it. Unable to ignore his prized prey, the wolf man stares at the Rinjyuku-hime with eyes that want to devour her.
“Then release that woman first, if you truly only want to fight me, you don’t need her.”
“You’re right, since you’re here I don’t need this kind of baggage anymore… Hey woman! Get out of here, you’re going to get in the way of our fight.”
Without hesitation, Jack loosens his arm and releases the woman. However, the woman was just dropped and falls to the ground painfully without being able to stop herself. Having been under such extreme threat and tension, there’s no normal person who wouldn’t be affected by it. Trembling and shuddering, the woman can’t even properly hold herself up with her arms.
“What wrong? Get out of here.”
“I… I can’t stand… My waist… I can’t stand…”
“Ahh!? Tch, so troublesome. Hey, small fry Princess!”
“Eh…?”
“This bitch can’t move. Come over here and get her out of here.”
Spinel Rose is at a loss for words at being ordered around by the wolf man that was going to kill her a moment ago. It’s too unreasonable. Someone that would have killed her seconds ago now wants her to help him. Completely mortified, anger makes the girl’s body tremble. However, she’s not strong enough in body or heart to oppose him. Gritting her teeth and clenching her fists, she can only lie there.
“Could you please Spinel Rose-san.”
“Lily…”
“Since he’s so dangerous, could you please protect her so she doesn’t get hurt.”
Protect her. These words are enough to make Spinel Rose stand up and begin moving. She doesn’t want to aide her enemy, but at the same time she does want to do her best to help and protect others. Thus, she forces her painful body to move. Stumbling over to the woman, she lends her a shoulder and then helps take her from the battlefield.
“The bothersome people have disappeared. Come on, let’s have some fun now!”
“…I refuse. It’s not a hobby of mine to enjoy violence.”
With a loud roar that makes Spinel Rose look back at him, Jack begins moving too fast for Spinel Rose to follow him with her eyes.
“Wow…!”
Concrete is obliterated with each of his steps and he leaves huge craters in his wake. A trail of dust follows the roaring wolf man. Despite this inhuman speed, Lapis Lily matches it easily. With clear ringing sounds, her rapier fends of his brutal attacks with perfect swordsmanship. There should be no way this girl’s body can match the strength of this monsters, but just like in a fantasy, they clash together so fast the only leave afterimages as they fight.
“Um, are you, you alright?”
The question comes from the woman. Even citizens she’s supposed to help worry about spinel Rose. Despite being a Rinjyuku-hime, her figure is completely dishevelled after being kicked along the ground.
“Uuu… shit… shit… shit…”
“Er…?”
Feeling helpless, Spinel Rose’s tears begin leaking again. While various emotions boil in her chest, the girl keeps cursing herself without noticing.
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