'What the hell... What are those eyes?'
Yoichi his skin tingled in apprehension and curiosity about what was in their minds.
"Let's start the fight now, you can all get the needed equipment in the weapon racks down there. For the time remaining, you all can form a battle plan or strategy. After all, we're gonna fight with some stakes here."
In an instant, he grabbed a staff as his main weapon and tanto for a side weapon in case of unfortunate circumstances. We will never know until it comes...preparation and a calm mind are a must.
"My students and Makima will stay here! They can watch our fight with the help of this television. I know you wanted to be on-site but I don't want anyone to disturb or even distract someone with a cheering shout. I am very sorry." Yoichi added.
"No, it's fine for us. I am also curious about how things will go alright with this brand-new machinery you have here all along. Just enjoy the fight and be at ease. Is that right, kids?" Makima replied with a gentle voice, wanting to support her man whenever she could.
"That's right, sensei! Beat those sparky evils!" Ryoma's fist clenched as the excitement and adrenaline rushed into his brain.
"Dad, I believe in you! You will always be victorious!" Surprisingly, Sumiko ignored Ryoma's nonsense reply and hugged her father.
"Hmmm! I will support both teams! I hope Yuki-nee and Yoru-nee as well as Mother and Aunt gave their best performance!" Natsumi nodded and cheerfully shouted her declaration.
"I will go now, just stay here." Yoichi walked out with confidence and assurance in mind.
"Go sensei! Go sensei!"
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"What's gonna be our plan here, Maki? Come on, use that big brain of yours for some brainstorming." Satomi impatiently urged her buddy, Maki, who chose a spear as a main weapon and began inspecting, performing spear actions with proper skills and training.
'What a great weapon, feels good clutching the shaft with such ease!'
"We will go like this, Satomi, Yuki and I will be aggressive in our assault while Yoru will be our little pesky being against Yoichi. Injure him enough and we will do most of the job, Yoru. Stab his limbs and run quickly, a hit-and-run plan against him. All of you, do you understand?"
Maki's harsh tone put a tense atmosphere around her, a fiercesome and tactical war goddess indeed.
"But about—" Satomi inquired but...
"Shut up, Satomi! We have enough information about his staff mastery. He was impeccable in such refined details of its usage and proper spacing just like a spear master. Remember everyone, this guy that we are fighting right now was an unmistakable monster who lived for so long and we don't have the time to overthink such problematic situations, understand?"
After hearing her words, Yuki, Yoru, and Satomi merely nodded while being seriously focused on the upcoming battle. As a leader, unexpected situations must be expected to be that surprising with such hidden elements of surprise that could get them off guard.
The atmosphere was palpable and tense while looking into each other's eyes, feeling the determination for a well-deserved victory.
The fresh winds from the forest and beaming sunlight shone inside the larger space with all of the people surrounded by nature's vegetation.
"I assume all of you are ready?" Yoichi with his staff on his shoulders like a monkey from the west, farming formidable aura points.
"We are, and you?" Maki readied her stance, like a dragon awaiting against his nemesis.
"I am always ready! Let's have a dance, shall we?" He replied as Yoichi was in his stance.
In a blink, Yuki rushed with her rapier first before Maki and Satomi followed swiftly. As for Yoru, she's proceeded to be hidden nearby with quick feet and nimble movements, blending amongst the forest shades in a vast forest.
'As expected, this plan of them is surely one of the best. Oh well, let's give it all!'
Yoichi inwardly thought with a smile on his face.
Yuki arrived in front of Yoichi, thrusting her rapier into the body but he redirected the attack through his staff and shoulder-bumped her upper body, leaving a good amount of space for Yoichi's maneuverability.
At the same time, both Maki and Satomi arrived with the spear and longsword thrusting and aiming for Yoichi's torso. He simply responded by grabbing the upper shaft of Maki's spear and swinging his staff against Maki's tightly gripped hand.
Due to the differences when it comes to thrusting, Yoichi exploited the situation with a decisive blow.
'Shit, this guy... Is he for real?'
Looking at her bruised hand and Yoichi fighting against Satomi and Yuki, Maki waved her hand a little bit to numb the discomfort and rushed once more back to the battlefield.
Both Longsword and Rapier were in front of Yoichi but he gradually noticed the changing surroundings as he heightened his perception instantly, waiting for a surprise attack but reducing his focus by half due to the pushback of both aggressive sword users.
Cuts and gashes were seemingly appearing but it was superficial as Maki returned with much more aggressive strikes, still grieving for her swollen hand.
He felt the pressure gradually increase but his masterclass maneuvers and monster-like agility were beyond insane. Yoichi's evasive movements dodged most of the lethal attacks with unpredictable and adaptive counterattacks like a monkey inside of its natural habitat.
If this was an RPG game, Yoichi's agility and endurance would be maxed out with tons of passive abilities providing him with such boosts.
All three of them felt incremental exhaustion mental and physical due to never-ending assault for over 10 minutes. The women's physiques were generally and biologically weaker than men's physiques but these fierce women proved to other average men how to be so tenacious and determined they are compared to them.
Maki's spear was grabbed again by Yoichi but he pushed her backwards. In the meantime, Yoru quickly rushed against Yoichi's side with her daggers, aiming at the legs of Yoichi and salvaging the nearly exhausted teammates.
'She is trying to injure my tendons!'
Yoichi noticed her agile movements but Satomi and Yuki interjected with rapier and longsword once more, cutting his decisive thoughts back into them as he forcefully swung his staff on the right side, aiming at Satomi's stomach while advancing his next attack on Yuki by pushing her out through the head of his staff.
"Arrrrrghhhh!!!"
The moment the attack connected, Satomi felt like dying on the battlefield due to it being excruciating as the sheer force of Yoichi's attack blasted her. Satomi slumped down on the ground, clutching her stomach with her hands.
In an instant, Yoru arrived at his back and slashed his left leg with a decisive strike. He followed an attack as revenge by hitting her nape through the lower shaft of his staff, quickly enough for Yoru to unconsciously pass out.
But Yoru's strike left him out of balance due to the pain but Yoichi gritted his teeth and looked at the remaining combatants, who were sweating and panting for air, still not recovered but enough for a few finishing touches.
Each step with his left leg felt so uncomfortable and painful but not enough to shake his resolve. Yoichi's sharp jawline tightens as if like mewing.
Maki and Yuki looked at Yoichi's stature and saw an opportunity to close the battle as the two rushed again with sheer blazing stubbornness and fierce expression on their faces.
'I need to persevere here or deal a decisive strike!'
Although he had unparalleled stamina and perception, Yoichi's endurance was not unlimited.
Both Yuki's and Maki's assaults felt much slower and sluggish compared to the earlier attacks but the intense emotions kept them from going on as Yoichi went into a defensive position again while gritting his teeth at countless backward steps.
He began finding the flaws in Maki's right lower body attacks to overextend her position and Yoichi capitalized on that mistake by pulling her staff and elbowing her head in a quick moment.
"...What...a...monster..."
Due to the swift elbow attack and stacks of fatigue debuffs, Maki plopped to the ground as she unconsciously muttered the words.
Yuki, the last one standing fought so hard but her rapier got caught by Yoichi's left hand, and he decided the final blow against all odds.
"... Well done... My...husband..."
In the last attempt, Yuki slowly fell and passed out of exhaustion from both physical and mental limits.
"HAHAHAHAHAhaaaaa! My wives are so awesome! What a battle!"
The guy with a sliver of strength miraculously survived with the staff as an assistant for barely walking while his left leg was in its last straw and dragging it forward to the wide-open area.
"Dad! You won! HAHAHA!"
"Sensei! You are the best! As expected of my teacher!"
"Yoichi-sensei, what about my mother and sisters? Are they fine?!"
Three of the kids assisted with his walking while sharing their emotions and feelings.
"They are just sleeping, passing out because of fatigue. Those tigresses will be able to wake up."
Yoichi patted Natsumi, assuring her concerns were well-placed in good hands.
"Yoichi! Are you alright?!" In the distance, Makima ran and examined his severe condition with consideration and gentleness.
"I'm fine, I'm fine. Just a little bit of weakness... More important was my win against those formidable women, it felt great fighting with challenging and determined opponents!" Yoichi raised his hand and clenched it tightly with his minuscule strength left.
"Akashic, reveal the result!"
[Contract Summary Review.]
[Checking violated conditions...]
—[No violations have been seen.]
[Contract Conclusion.]
—[4 contracted enemies incapacitated.]
—[1 person barely hanging on the thread.]
[Yoichi Murakami won the fight!]
[All injuries will be now healing.]
[Congratulations, Master!]
"Let's go!!! I won!" Yoichi felt relieved as some of his shallow and deep injuries were unhurriedly restored, feeling the warm and cozy healing sensation all over his body.
"Let's help them with transferring those unconscious women into the eastern mansion near here!" Yoichi ordered all of them as the kids and Makima nodded, aware of the unseen dangers here.