Chap 109: bigger threat
Back to Takumi, he is currently standing face to face with the leader.
"So....devils, can't say I met your kind before." He opened up first, said in a neutral tone. Seeing the woman did not react to him at all, he kept on talking.
"Whatever business you want, this world doesn't have it." This time, Takumi changed to a firmer tone. "Leave."
A high amount of curse energy emanates out, and the leader watches as green flames consume Takumi's full body.
Now her expression changed, he sees it through her eyes. Even in the current demonic form she takes, the way her eyes shifted.
"No."
"No ?"
"You are strong, I admit it. But your world will lose when they come, and she will take your world."
*swish*
Serrated blade sprouted from her forearm as she took a stance, ready to fight him.
"Well, thank you for the useful advice, at least I managed to get something."
*Roar*
The leader let out her voice in a feral shout, charging straight forward. Takumi stands ready, no weapons, just pure hands.
She reached him in seconds, her hands were flat as she brought them in a slicing motion. Takumi reacted by dodging to the side, demonstrating a speed that she did not expect from the man.
He punched hard in her face, breaking the blades around her face, showing a human face under the devil mask. She attacked again.
Avoiding slashes to his neck and chest, Takumi moved in quick succession. Not getting hit a single time and frustrating the woman as she tries to attack more times.
'Fuck, i can't keep up like this.' She gave up on trying to catch him, folding her upper body. Knife edges elongated, they shot out of her body, not any normal knife blade, they curve and bend as if they're alive. Aiming towards Takumi's position.
"Heh." A smirk tugged at the corner of his mouth. He changed and reinforced his body in curse energy, all the knives broke as they came into contact with his skin.
*Shatter*
"My turn, Nue." Making a hand sign, lighting cackle at the tip of his finger. "Iron conducts electricity, you know."
Purple lightning flew out of his hand, the flow of electricity moved as if it had a mind of its own, attracted to the metal blades in her body.
The leader's body lit up like a bulb, shocking her in place with the force of a lightning bolt. She screamed in pain, even so, still trying to move forward to him.
Takumi increases his curse energy output, and the lightning grows more intense, making the already shocked devil look like a Tesla coil. Her body dropped to the white snow after a few more minutes of electrocution.
"You done over there ?" Takumi asked, facing Mahoraga, who was now hauling the bodies of multiple devils and the wolf back to him.
She stacked all of them into one pile, the last wolf was given a much more rude reaction as she huffed at the animal before tossing it down.
"Thank you, now guard this place. Make sure no one escapes while I finish my business." The Shikigami nodded, Takumi leaves her here as he goes to close the gate by himself.
Closing the last gate, it erupted in sparks like something was resiting his control.
"Hmp." Gasping his hand, the area returned to normal like it once was.
"Was that everything ?"
[↻]
[Scan complete]
[Zero other worldly anomaly detected]
[Quest completed]
[Received +50 free stat points]
"Wow, that's a lot of points." Not once has the system given him so many stat points in one quest.
'This other worlder must be really dangerous.' With the benefit he just received, Takumi also realized how great the potential danger was in this.
After finishing his work, Takumi walked slowly back to Mahoraga's place. Now awake, the leader returned to her human form, but when she saw him again, she became stiff, her mouth was dry, and she didn't know what to say. Witnessing the scene of the group being defeated, she could tell that she was no match for the enemy, with no intel about the them. Encountering such an overly powerful enemy, she felt fear and a sense of disorientation like falling into a dark pit.
"Wanna talk now ?" The leader nodded slowly in a nervous manner.
Shadows moved and shifted as they made space for a table and two sitting mats to rise from it. Takumi sat down on one of the mats, his hand gesture to one of the mats on the opposite side for her to sit down.
They sat in silence for a long time, Takumi had a can of drink in hand, in the cold weather. He left them in the snow to be picked up and used.
"Which devil is in charge ? Death ? Control ? Or someone else entirely?" Takumi broke the silence, eyes watching the leader's face showed some surprise in her eyes. Shaking her head, the woman composed herself before speaking.
"It's Control, he's the current Prime Minister of Japan."
"I see, and what is the current state in your world ?"
She gave him as much detail as she could, all the gaps could be filled using Takumi's knowledge of the series. While she had the title of mission leader. Her actual rank was just that of a low-tier human contract holder in the devil army. So the info was largely missing its core.
Takumi did figure out the world she came from was indeed the world of Chainsaw man. But there was also some difference to it, like how that world is currently in World War 5.
The existence of devil kind was quite common by then, Control devil, also known as Mankima. She is now the current leader of Japan's human and devil common alliance. Rising to such a position from all the wars humans and devils made, originally the alliance was created to stop the death devil, but was then changed to stop the other worlder.
No one knew about this other world being but Takumi, they just referred to her as the "devil beyond this world" as no one knew where she came from or who she was. But seemingly, this person managed to possess abilities that had never been seen in their world, creating enemies that had never been seen before, and causing a major war that destroyed half of the planet.
Takumi also asked about Denji and what of the monsters she knew about. Denji or this world chainsaw woman did not exist, or Takumi suspected she had not been found yet. Because the devil known as Chainsaw Woman was still fighting in hell as he was told. And the monsters that the Leader spoke of were too vague to see if they were actually from other worlds.
"So...why did you come here ?"
"I don't know, my team's task was only to set up base and transport to link up with other bases that would appear in other regions of this planet." By now, she had given up any hope of a second team or the other region gate teams.
If someone as strong as this man right in front of her can be around when they first entered, there would be no chance for help to arrive.
*Swish*