"Sei-ya, you're really something else!" Stella exclaimed, sitting excitedly on Seiya's shoulder and gently pounding the Saint's jaw with her small fists. Looking at Seiya, who was bathed in a warm and powerful faint light, his Cloth shining brilliantly, she felt a sense of vicarious pride.
This woman, Stella, had little of a Heretic God's ego, which also meant she adapted very quickly.
Seiya slowly raised his arm, his gaze seeming to pierce through the illusion of the Eternal Pavilion and towards the high, immeasurable sky. However, the focus of his sight seemed to have already crossed the realm of the dead, firmly locking onto the figure drinking freely in the depths of the spirit world.
"Someone is in peril and calls the name of a Saint." His voice was calm, but there was an undeniable upward lilt in his tone. "And that is the very reason I raise my fist."
The Saint Seiya had not expected that his first combination of Authorities would be the newly acquired Wheel of Friendship and the Strong Wind avatar. Although he could also unleash the Pegasus Meteor Fist and crush those who do evil, he preferred to lend his power to those who were suffering, allowing them to make their own choice.
Although it was a coincidence, at this moment, they were people who piously hoped for the Saint to bring them salvation. There was no longer any need to think about what to do.
—Now, someone had to pay the price.
Tokyo, Japan. Nagatachō. Nayuan Shrine.
The Seishuin family, as one of the Imperial Five Houses of the Official History Compilation Committee, was now in a precarious situation.
"Must we really do this, Mother?" The man kneeling in the front row, who was Ena Seishuin's father and also the current head of the Seishuin family, now looked worriedly at the true decision-maker of the family, Ran Seishuin. "Do we really have to go that far? We are the ritual officers who serve Susanoo! Nothing will happen to us!"
"Fool. Do you think the Ancestor God will spare anyone who betrays Him?" Ran Seishuin looked at her eldest son with a gaze of disappointment, as if looking at iron that could not be forged into steel.
"But we're fine right now, aren't we! And our loyalty to that Majesty... was forced upon us," the family head quickly forced a smile.
"The Onmyo Agency at the beginning was not forced, but the Ancestor God will not consider that. It is only because Ena is the Hime-Miko of a God-slaying Rakshasa that he has temporarily spared us." Ran Seishuin looked at the Hime-Miko kneeling beside her. "Even Ena sees things more clearly than you do."
"How can that be? Ena is..." The family head's eyes widened.
"Father, those who try to play both sides will come to no good end." Ena Seishuin looked at her father with the same gaze. "Right now, we only have one choice."
Ran Seishuin looked at her son. If he were not her eldest son, if he were not Ena Seishuin's father, with his stupid brain, he would never have reached the position of family head.
But at this very moment, Ena Seishuin's expression suddenly changed dramatically. She reached out and pressed down on the divine object (goshintai) resting on her lap (the Ame-no-Murakumo), but with her will alone, she could not suppress the god that was suddenly rampaging within it. In an instant, the divine steel manifested its form on the ground. Ran Seiya charged towards the divine sword, wanting to immediately shatter it—but she was a step too late.
The Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi suddenly began to grow enormous. The one-meter-long blade expanded nonstop and began to transform. The jet-black blade became a body, forming hands and feet. The Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi had now changed into a giant.
The sword, which was originally as thick as a machete, its blade pointing towards the sky, formed a vertical body. Two blades were connected to the sides of the body—those were its arms. At about the place where the elbows should be, there were even joints that allowed the hands to bend. Then there were the feet, solidly forged from steel, even thicker than the body and arms. Compared to the length of the body, the feet seemed rather short. Its form could not be called handsome, because it was originally a mutated giant, but its overall impression was one of extreme sharpness.
The Giant of Blades. The Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi had transformed into a Giant of Blades that could sever all things with a single swing. And at what was equivalent to its right shoulder, Ena's body was embedded there.
The Ame-no-Murakumo Giant God-Soldier.
Words of unknown meaning issued from both her mouth and the mouth of the Giant God-Soldier.
All the members of the Seishuin clan were on high alert, as if facing a great enemy. They had just been discussing the great crime of exterminating their clan, and in the next instant, Ame-no-Murakumo had manifested its true form. Anyone would come to only one conclusion. But this manifested Giant God-Soldier made no other move, instead gazing far into the distance.
It seemed some great disaster was approaching. What was it, that it could make even the Giant God-Soldier be on such high alert? Soon, a clap of thunder came from the distance, but faster than the sound was the light that raced to this place.
"Seventh Godslayer, this is our first conversation, is it not?" A clear ringing sound, like the clash of battle-axes, came from the mouth of Ame-no-Murakumo. Only at this time did they realize in terror that the true master driving this body was the one they served, Susanoo-no-Mikoto.
"You dare to come before me?" Seiya asked, looking at the Giant God-Soldier before him and raising an eyebrow.
Hearing this, Susanoo erupted in an angry retort. "That's a question I should be asking you! Those things you did...?!"
He couldn't even finish his sentence. In a single instant, the Boar Rushing Fist, symbolizing the concept of destruction, had slammed the Giant God-Soldier before him into the ground.
"I... I... You actually...!" Susanoo, who had come with anger to question the Saint, had never expected his opponent to be so arrogant. He had even been thinking that if his opponent was a sensible Demon King, he could share his authority with him, bring him into the council of elders, and make them four.
But he never expected his opponent's choice would be so incredibly crude.
Countless golden swords materialized behind him. Long before he arrived, he had obtained knowledge related to Susanoo from Stella. And this knowledge, through his God of Combat Authority, had been transformed into a weapon specifically designed to be super-effective against Susanoo.
"Cry! Scream! And then call for death!" the Saint coldly declared.
Seiya's figure fell straight from the sky, one foot stomping on the chest of the struggling Giant God-Soldier.
It was a completely irrational scene. A tiny human and a massive giant. But that human was pinning the Giant God-Soldier to the ground, rendering it unable to move.
Susanoo's consciousness actually saw the trajectory of the light, but He simply could not dodge. In terms of both speed and power, He, as the Giant God-Soldier, was actually unable to contend with the tiny body of flesh and blood before him. The only thing He could do was raise his arm, which had transformed into a blade. But in the next instant, a golden sword pierced through His shoulder, like a brilliantly shining golden nail, firmly locking him in place.
In the next moment, the golden figure soared up like a god. He stomped on the Giant God-Soldier's chest, piercing His body with one divine sword after another... Unable to wail, unable to resist, until the very last one, this bizarrely-shaped Giant God-Soldier was completely sealed. The will of Susanoo was now leaving this divine weapon, but His final will was like that of a demon, staring at the man who was trampling on the dignity of a god.
"Just you wait. I'm coming for you now."
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