Jujutsushi Wa Yuusha Ni Narenai

Maybe Orochi was truly pissed off right now since we managed to crush five of its heads in succession. Its roar was even louder than usual.

And naturally, the three heads had finished charging for a breath attack.

The throats of the three heads were glowing red, blue, and purple respectively, and their muzzle opened wide, ready to unleash their breath.

「Leave the right one to me.」

「I'll take the left one then.」

Both Souma-kun and Tendou-kun moved together towards their respective positions without being flustered to stop the incoming breath attack.

But, even with that, they could only stop one each.

Three heads prepared to fire breath.

Meaning that the eight heads, the one positioned in the center could fire its breath unhindered.

Ominous purple light could be seen from the opened maw of the head in the center, and the next moment――

「Kenzaki style――『Hundred Falling Petals』」

Kenzaki appeared out of nowhere while spinning in the air, striking the cheek of the 8th head while scattering brilliant flashes.

The Kenzaki style, whatever its name, was a technique that unleashed consecutive strikes while spinning hundreds of times in the air. It wasn't the kind of technique that could be used by your average Joe earthling. That was definitely your own original technique.

I held back from retorting, but when that technique was unleashed by adept 『Twin Swordsman』, I had to admit that it was truly a terrifying technique.

Orochi's head got sent upward as blood splattered from its gouged cheek. And then, when its muzzle faced the ceiling, a gigantic purple-colored breath scattered countless sparks towards the ceiling.

「As expected of Asuna.」

「Sorry Souma. I almost can't make it in time.」

Kenzaki said to Souma-kun as soon as she landed on the ground,  as the breath attacks fired the background looked really splendid from my position.

You become really lively when Mei-chan isn't around eh?

「Tendou-ku~n!」

「I'll be your backup!」

Coming after Kenzaki was JuryMary combi but,

「Nuaah, finally arrived.」

「Dammit, that's too far.」

Even further behind were Ueda and Nakai and lastly,

「Huff, huff, huuff…」

Himeno-san who was seemingly about to take her last breath.

「Okay, everyone has gathered.」

「The only thing left to do is buy time.」

We gathered everyone available to fight the five heads.

Even if there were only five heads, things didn't look pretty good when all of them could fire their breath at any given moment.

But, we had plenty of leeway if it was only against three heads.

Especially Souma-kun and Tendou-kun who did a really great job in knocking out two of the five heads. In this way, as long as we could keep two of the five heads in the state of resuscitation, we could theoretically buy as much time as we could.

Until we, the infiltration team destroyed Yamata no Orochi's core, its real body.

「The real thing begins from here――」

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「――The real thing begins from here. From this point on, retreat won't be as easy as before.」

In the first stage of the plan in which all we had to do was seal the head, we could retreat immediately in case of failure.

Even during the second stage of the plan when all heads had already come out, it was still possible for everyone to retreat immediately.

But the third stage was climbing onto the rocky mountain. Meaning that we had no choice but to defeat Yamata no Orochi once and for all.

We had to be completely prepared, and that went for everyone and me. We would even use Goma's drug in case that wasn't enough.

「Everyone is already present right?」

After sealing the 3rd head, we, the infiltration team gathered at once in the trench.

Currently, there were Mei-chan, Randou-san, Shimokawa, Yamada, and Sakura-chan.

Included in our team was Rem 1st form 『Dark Knight』, Rem 2nd form 『Arachne』, Rem 3rd form 『Alfa』, and Rem 4th form 『Minotaurs』.

「Are you ready?」

「Yeah.」

The only one who nodded calmly was Mei-chan. The others obviously couldn't hide their anxiety. I guess the same went for me.

I have rushed ahead to my death countless times with my 『Twin Shadow』, but I couldn't help but get cold feet when it came to the real deal.

But, I had to go. I'm not alone. As long as my comrade was with me, I could definitely do this. We will overcome this crisis.

That's why please let the difficulty adjustment of this raid boss be beatable!

「Shimokawa-kun.」

「Ro-Roger――『Ice Mist』!」

The 『Aquamancer』 Shimokawa released water mist like usual.

The thick mist covered our surroundings immediately, covering our field of view with white color.

The gargoyles residing in the rocky mountain would rush to attack us the moment they saw us. That was the reason we were using a smoke screen from the get-go.

Moreover, even by some off-chance, I wanted to avoid being detected by Orochi's head along the way.

We could have some leeway during the practice, but they would attack us as soon as we stepped on the mountain. Even if everyone was working to stop them, we should consider the "What if" scenario.

In fact, this 『Ice Mist』 was improved a bit for today's operation. It was obvious when I touched it since it felt warm.

The mist was just the usual mist, the modified version had a temperature. Shimokawa was working hard in order to control its temperature. Now one shot of spell from him would allow us to have a nice hot bath.

As for the reason we were raising the temperature of the mist, it was to deceive the heat sensor.

Yamata no Orochi was a snake after all. It might have eight train-sized heads,  but its appearance was obviously that of a snake.

That's why it might have a pit organ in its nose just like that of a snake.

And speaking of the pit organ, it is an organ of the snake that detects heat. It isn't the sense of smell, sound, or color, but the sixth sense that enables it to sense the change in temperature like a thermograph.

It seems that the majority of snakes are nocturnal creatures, that's why as long as they had their pit organ, they wouldn't have any problem detecting rats even in the dark night.

Speaking of Yamata no Orochi, we humans might look like mice to it. It might be able to find us easily if it had a pit organ.

I've tried to confirm that and the result was almost positive, this guy has an organ to sense temperature. In addition, it might be able to sense magical power too.

Temperature or magical power, it might be one of the two.

That's why I came up with the idea of masking our temperature with this thermal protector called 『Ice Mist』

「Okay, let's get going.」

Our infiltration team walked in the trench while being shrouded by the mist.

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