Humanity Salvation Academy Episode 6: 'Auditorium Decisive Battle' i
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Gokuraku Shinnyo's face was twisted. Its color was a festering, dark red; its eyes were slanted upward, and its wrinkles were deeper, shrinking as if pulling toward the center of its face.
"Shaaaaaaa!"
The air in the stadium trembled. That monstrous sound, which even surpassed the loud cheers of the students, was emitted by Gokuraku Shinnyo. Shinnyo curled its fingers like claws and held them high.
Rushana wore an arrogant smile.
"Ha... so it comes."
Behind him, Hououmaru, while keeping his eyes fixed on Shinnyo, called out,
"...Dougaku Ruri!"
He called out.
"Your crimes will be judged again later. But for now... run!"
"Yes...!"
Ruri started to run. However, after running for a while, she stopped hesitantly. She looked back. Staring at the backs of the three facing Shinnyo, she clasped her hands as if in prayer and said, "Please..."
"Please, avenge Hogon-san..."
And then she turned on her heel and ran again.
"...Please, good luck!"
Rushana muttered.
"...I'm sorry. I couldn't save you."
Where he was looking, on the dais, Shinnyo kept its hands raised and, with a "Shiyaaaaa!", stretched its arms as if arching its back!
"Educational... guidance!"
That hand thrusts forward. A vortex is born. It is a sequence of two tremendous torrents, black and white, like jagged sawteeth. Creating a contrast of black and white so sharp it distorts vision and induces vertigo, it rotates, engulfing space, twisting it, swirling, and closing in on Rushana!
Rushana wears a fearless smile. Arms crossed, standing firm. The gold-striped school jacket draped over his shoulders flutters. The black and white torrent approaches Rushana. It dyes his field of vision in a bizarre contrast. Yet, he does not budge. With a gaze as fierce as a beast's, he simply stares down the vortex.
And then!
"Katsu!"
A roar. Rushana's great shout shatters space itself. The black and white vortex cracks and is blown to smithereens! All that remains are remnants like static. Rushana snorts.
"Pathetic..."
He lifts his chin arrogantly,
"Is this..."
He declares!
"All a teacher has to offer?"
"Heh heh..."
Gokuraku Shinnyo twists his face into a demonic expression and laughs.
"The instruction... has only just... begun..."
His eyes glow ominously.
In the shadows of the tiered seating, a plague mask pops out. It is Kuzuryu Takimine, who had been hiding. Takimine swallows hard and mutters.
"I-is this what Rushana-chan's true power is like...!"
"No, that's wrong... not yet... he is not... serious at all... yet..."
Mikage Kyo-o replies. "Ehh!" Takimine lets out a bewildered cry. "Then what's going to happen to this auditorium..."
Kyo-o's hologram-like outline flickers.
"However... it is dangerous at this rate..."
“...?”
“If things continue like this... Rushana will... end... without ever showing her true power...”
At that moment!
The students throughout the stadium erupted in a stir.
“Heh, heh, heh...”
“Heh, heh, heh...”
“Heh, heh, heh...”
“Heh, heh, heh...”
It was as if a massive swarm of insects had emerged. From everywhere in the stadium, they appeared in droves, pouring into the center of the stadium—people, people, and more people.
“““Heh, heh, heh...”””
They were all Gokuraku Shinnyo. They had the same appearance, the same movements, the same expressions, the same wrinkled faces, and the same laughter.
Rushana frowned.
“Gross.”
The Shinnyos gathered around Rushana, centering on the Shinnyo on the dais. Their numbers... they exceeded a hundred!
“““Heh, heh, heh...”””
Their wrinkled faces were cast in dark shadows, and within those shadows, the Shinnyos wore eerie smiles. Their eyes glowed suspiciously. Writhing, filling the space, those glowing eyes looked like flames spreading through the darkness of a prairie fire.
“Kyuse-kun...”
Ho-omaru groaned and gripped her war hammer. “No, not yet.” Kyuse restrained Ho-omaru.
“Originally, only the student council president is allowed to intervene in conflicts with teachers. That is why... we must wait for the decisive moment... that single instant.”
He then looked at Rushana.
“Rest assured. She is... capable of more than this.”
“““Heh, heh, heh.”””
The Shinnyos began to speak in unison.
"""The teachers enrolled in this academy are... me, and only me!"""
The voice shook the stadium. The students twisted their faces in pain and covered their ears. It was a unison that brought hell to mind.
"""I have taken care of you all by myself, and with compassion, I have continued to guide you toward graduation! But!"""
Shinnyo and the others all pointed their fingers at Rushana at once.
"""Now, all of me, with all my might, will... you!"""
Their throats gurgled in unison. The light in their eyes flickered from side to side, tracing eerie paths.
"""Turn you into minced meat! Expel you, and make you taste the suffering of hell!"""
The next moment... it was truly a tsunami.
One after another, they leaped up and lunged at Rushana. A tremendous explosive sound roared as they shattered and kicked the floor. The impact shook the auditorium from side to side. The lunging Shinnyo and the others formed a wall, filling the space, towering over, and closing in. It was truly a tsunami of Gokuraku Shinnyo.
A surging wave of teachers, like a raging torrent!
"Ha..."
Rushana laughed.
"One minute you talk about guidance, the next about expulsion... try to have some consistency, old hag."
The halo on his back increased in brilliance. Rushana clenched his right fist. Golden radiance flowed into his fist, enveloping it.
Rushana thought.
It always comes to mind during a fight.
The faces of the students living at the academy. Rushana remembers every single one of their faces. They learned, worried, played, and frolicked... each living their own youth. The same moment never comes twice. A series of brilliant instants. That is youth. Rushana pictures them. The students, while suppressing their anxiety about graduation, are still living their youth. They are continuing to live! He savors their irreplaceability...
I am... I am...! I am!
The radiance of his fist increased. Rushana was laughing. Striving to be bold, arrogant, like a beast! His fist was pulled back to its limit. And then!
He swung it through, diagonally!
His feelings overflowed.
They gushed forth.
It is love that shines in gold.
It is the shield that protects the academy, the students, their lives, their days, their hopes, and their youth... and it is the spear!
One of the Shinnyo opens its eyes. She was watching. She saw the golden radiance bursting forth from Rushana's fist. It scattered like buckshot. And then, one of those bullets approached... and pierced her own face, which was twisted into a smile.
In an instant!
It emitted a cross-shaped radiance.
The Shinnyo's face was severed.
Hmph...
Rushana put his hands in his slacks pockets and turned around. The golden-striped school jacket he wore over his shoulders also fluttered as if dancing.
Behind him...
Countless golden crosses shone, blinked, and exploded in a chain reaction. Amidst that radiance, Rushana muttered.
How trivial.
It was a spectacular and magnificent sight. The tsunami of Gokuraku Shinnyo was sliced apart one after another by the golden light, shining and exploding. It was as if large golden flowers were blooming one after another, scattering into pieces.
The stadium was... enveloped in golden radiance.
This is the serious Kondo Rushana...
Hououmaru was moved. His heart trembled. That power was overwhelming, and it seemed truly invincible. This man... Kondo Rushana, is no mere show!
However.
Not yet...
Kyusei continued to hold his Japanese sword in a guarded stance.
Rushana still hasn't shown his true power. Not at all. And perhaps... that guy is the same...
Where Kyusei was staring.
The golden radiance was fading away.
"Ah, ahaha, ha..."
A young woman's eerie laughter echoed. Within the fading golden light, a massive, writhing shadow could be seen.
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