Micchi Versus the New World - Chapter 121

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Chapter 121

We laid waste to an army of beastlings leading up to Yowan, home of the Semaris Clan. Hopefully, the rest of them were being mind-controlled, but I wouldn't mind beating up the rest if I had to. When we arrived, the gates were closed with an angry group of beastlings attacking the walls and trying to scale it. Defenders on top of the wall were firing magic to keep them at bay.

"I'm already down here if you furballs wanna fight!" I shouted.

Most of them turned around snarling. They jumped off the wall, lunging with fangs bared. The soldiers under my command stood their ground until a flash of lightning fried our attackers to a crisp. Yui, who was twirling her nunchucks, flashed a grin my way.

One last beastling was still standing. He stumbled toward me and missed with a swipe. A hard kick sent him crashing into the front gates of Yowan.

"We're here. Open up!" I yelled, but the only answer I got was more Semaris beastlings showing up on the walls.

"Believe me, we'd like to." Chieftain Breila poked her head out alongside her people. "But how do we know you aren't mind-controlled by the succubi?"

"Because mind-controlled or not, I can just break through that gate anyway. Open the fuck up! I don't got all day!"

The fox beastling shrunk until only her eyes were visible over the wall. Her beastling warriors also backed away.

"Th-That sounds like Micchi alright… Open the gates!" Breila commanded.

As the gates opened, beastlings poured out to pick up their fallen comrades. We followed them in and were surprised by how much fewer people were around.

"Geez. Everyone just packed their bags and dipped or what?" I searched for some familiar faces from the last time we came but found none.

"We've been getting attacked constantly," Breila said, jumping down from the wall and landing next to us. "By our own. They hit us hard and fast. Pick off a few at a time. Their numbers grow with each passing day because of those damn succubi. It's gotten so bad, we can't even send hunting parties out to gather food!"

"Have you tried hitting 'em hard enough?" Yui asked.

"I'm sorry?" the beastling chieftain cocked her head as both ears stiffened up.

Yui and I stepped aside for the beastlings we had beaten the shit out of from the succubus encounter. Their faces were bruised, walked with a limp, and some were crispy. Breila went wide-eyed.

"That look tells me you recognize 'em as one of your own," I said.

"I do!" Breila rushed up to them. "You're one of the groups I sent to ask for help from Prince Kain! You fell victim to a succubus? How did you break their control?"

A beastling who could speak nodded. "Sorry, Chieftain… We got caught by that damn trio. Next thing I knew, we were all on the ground and feeling like a carriage ran over us."

Breila pursed her lips and looked at us.

"You're telling me… You broke a succubus charm by… beating it out of them?" she asked.

We shrugged.

"It worked for this knucklehead, too." I grinded a fist into Yui's head.

"Come with me," Breila said.

The Semaris Clan chieftain led us across Yowan to the fighting pits. It wasn't filled with fighters like before. People were trapped inside the holes with large wooden barricades laid over to keep them in. Clawed hands reached out from between the bars and tried to swipe at our feet. There had to be hundreds in total across all of them.

My favorite thing about this village got turned into a jail.

"Our shamans haven't been able to break the spell, so this is about all we can do after capturing them. We believe it's the work of an incredibly strong demon known as Superior Succubus," she explained.

"Ahh… That's a whole lotta people to beat up. It's gonna take me half a day just to knock the sense back in 'em." I shook someone's hand off my ankle and backed away.

"I can zap them all at once!" Yui offered excitedly. She skipped ahead without waiting for Breila's commission, jumping over the pits and hands. Once at the center of the fighting pits arena, she began flourishing her nunchucks.

Electricity sparked everywhere. A streak of lightning tore a trench in the dirt between me and Breila.

"Are we sure that's not going to just kill my people?" Breila asked.

"I honestly dunno," I answered, scratching my head.

"You don't know?!"

A bright flash of light blinded everyone. Lightning crashed down all around us, most of them striking the fighting pits. I knocked Breila to the ground just before another bolt roasted her. The storm had seemingly stopped when we looked up. Yowan villagers hurried to the fighting pits and skidded to an abrupt stop.

Every single one of the pits was smoking and smelled of burnt beef.

"By the gods." Breila's jaw dropped.

"Yui, you could have held back a little!" I scolded her.

"What are you talking about? Everything's fine!" Yui insisted.

A charred hand rose slowly past the wooden cage and gave a thumbs up.

"Chieftain…" The voice came out wheezing and full of pain. "We're okay…"

Another hand from another pit emerged.

"Speak… for yourself…"

"I want all the shamans and healers to the fighting pits now!" Breila bellowed.

After taking care of Breila's mind-controlled village problem, the chieftain brought us to her war table. A couple of her top people were apparently among the cages and joined us when they came to consciousness.

"Aha… Sorry about that." Yui chuckled nervously next to a lioness beastling, whose gold mane had been zapped black and brittle.

"What the hell's been going on? I heard Anya went and got herself captured," I said.

Breila nodded and pointed to a lake not far from here. "That's right. Anya led a platoon of Semaris' greatest warriors and Drox to investigate an obelisk that rose at a village here. They never came back. I know Anya is as powerful as yourself, so it spells trouble if she had fallen under the succubi's control."

There had to be more to it, right? Some bat bitch couldn't bring Anya down that easily.

"Well, you got one thing wrong. I'm helluva lot stronger than Anya, and I ain't scared of a couple of bimbos. If we're going to attack though, then we gotta do it together. They probably got an army of their own."

"Agreed. There are small tribes scattered across Kazaar. We should attack now before they have a chance to seize control of them to bolster their numbers," Breila said.

We gathered everyone who could still fight outside of Yowan. It was only four hundred strong, including the forces I brought. Not a very good number. Especially with how outnumbered we were…

"You feeling that, Yui?" I asked as we made our way to the lake.

"Ueehh… You mean the smell? How can I not? It's like the rabbit pens back in elementary school all over again." Yui pinched her nose shut.

Breila and her people no doubt already realized it, too. Snarling beastlings and demons followed after us from the trees, behind bushes, and literally everywhere possible. If they weren't attacking yet, then the succubi must have ordered them to let us through.

We crossed the trees and into a clearing where a fishing village sat at the edge of the lake. Behind it was an obsidian obelisk. Hundreds of charmed beastlings and demons waited with weapons in hand. More were behind us, too.

"My, my. If it isn't the ones who defeated Dogra." A female demon's voice echoed from everywhere at once. "That big oaf relied too much on his brute strength and lost. Maybe he should have used his brain for once, but I suppose it's much too late now."

Another succubus landed in front of the army of mind-controlled horde, joined by the other three succubi from before. This one, however, her wingspan was a lot wider. She had gray skin, painted red nails, and was devilishly hot.

"That's her, Lady Lilim!"

"She broke our hold over the thralls just by hitting them!"

"Did she? Oh, you fools. It's quite clear that she can cast magic. She must have connected with some sort of dispel or anti-magic on contact," Lilim said.

"Is that true?" Breila whispered to me.

"I don't got a clue what she's saying." I shrugged, then pointed Sacchan at the succubus. "You, batwoman. Where's Anya?"

"Wouldn't you like to know?" She giggled.

"Yankee diplomacy it is!" Yui zipped ahead with her nunchucks. The impact created a shockwave that blew dust and dirt all over the place.

However, Yui didn't hit any of the succubus. Lilim and the others stood their ground unfazed, because Anya had blocked the attack. She threw a punch and sent Yui crashing into my arms.

"Yo, Micchi, Yui. Hope you don't mind me crashing the party." Anya smirked.

"This one is just so strong it makes me wet~" Lilim said, embracing Anya from behind. "Her mind is so vulnerable. Giving her a glimpse of what she wants brought her right under my control. Ahaha!"

"Anya, you dumbass. Why the hell did you go and get yourself caught?" I shouted.

Before I realized it, Anya was right on top of us. I shoved Yui out of the way to block her bone-shattering punch with Sacchan. A battle unfolded right away. Demons and mind-controlled beastlings jumped out from behind us.

"What's gotten into you, Micchi? Can't you see that's Chika? I ain't letting you hurt her!" Anya growled.

"What part of that bimbo over there looks like Chika? Her tits are bigger than your head!"

I backed away from an uppercut and brought a barrier of ice between us. Anya bulldozed through it. We were about to collide until Yui zapped her away.

"Lemme fight Anya! You get the succubitches!" Yui exclaimed.

Seizing the opening Yui made for me, I charged for the four succubus who looked like they couldn't be bothered. An army of thralls threw themselves over me.

"As if this is gonna stop me!" I batted a flying imp into them. It knocked one succubus out. The other three stared at their downed companion and gaped.

Some of the mind-controlled beastlings were snapping out of it. Their confusion only lasted a few seconds until the succubus came back to consciousness and fell right back under her charm.

"Get her, thralls!" Lilim ordered.

"You keep 'em coming! It's just more fun for me!" I bum-rushed them only to be ganged up again.

"With you, Micchi!" Chieftain Breila body-checked her own people, knocking them unconscious with her swiftness.

Together, we rushed the succubus together until a giant wolfman tackled Breila to the ground.

"Kuh— Drox! It's me, your chieftain! Don't you recognize… eh? Aahh!  Drox, stop!" Breila cried, flustering as her right hand man started licking her cheeks.

"Hey, hey… Find a room if you're gonna do this." I sighed.

"I-It's not like I have a choice, but I'd prefer if he were in his right mind!"

I was about to grab Drox off her, but Lilim appeared behind me. Her cool hands wrapped around my chest.

Everything turned upside down. My vision became blurry first, then went pitch black.

"Relax, my sweet. Open your heart to me. Let me show you what you desire most," Lilim's voice echoed between my ears.

The world took shape again. I stood on the bridge of a riverbank back in Tokyo. Water rushed past underneath. The bright sun shone down on me with a warm glow.

"Over here, Micchi!" Chika called out to me from the other side of the bridge with her arms outstretched.

"Chika…? No way… is it really you?" I asked, emotion welling up in my chest.

"I've gone for some time, haven't I? Don't worry, I'm here now," she said.

I swallowed my hesitation and ran toward her.

"Chika… you fucking BITCH!" I balled up a fist and suckerpunched her across the face.

The city and Chika melted away, and I was back in the forest with a battle raging around me.

"Lady Lilim!" The three succubi raced past me to help their master, who was shaking with anger.

"What… What kind of fool are you to punch someone you hold dear to your heart?!" Lilim snarled, hand pressed to the bruised side of her face.

"What are you bitching about? Where I come from, that's how we show love." I smashed a fist into my palm.

"Well, that's weirdly fucked up! You're fucked up!"

They backed away as I stepped forward.

"You can thank my parents for that." I sneered, raising ice to capture their feet when they tried to fly away.

Yui suddenly rolled up to my feet.

"Anego, what's taking so long? I changed my mind. You can take Anya!" She pouted.

"Stay away from Chika!" Anya stampeded like a herd of rampaging bulls.

"It's time to wake up, Anya!" I charged Sacchan up with focused elemental power and clobbered Lilim over the head.

The blast shattered Lilim's horns and knocked everyone off their feet.

As mind-controlled beastlings came back to their senses, they quickly turned their weapons on the demons and forced them to retreat to the obelisk.

"Fuck me, I guess. Had a nice little dream about going on a date with Chika, then you little twerps came to ruin it." Anya stuck her hands out to pull me and Yui back on our feet.

"Ora, ora! Anya, you dummy! Why'd you go and let yourself get got like that?" Yui asked, driving punch after punch into her stomach.

"These bitches were working with Riri… Embarrassed to say it, but Riri actually got the jump on me." She rubbed the back of her head out of shame.

After a quick look around, it seemed the chaos had pretty much vanished. The obelisk was sinking back into the ground. Breila and Drox sat at a distance from each other, both red in the face. The four succubus were lying in a pile on top of each other, eyes spinning and knocked the fuck out.

I picked up the one named Lilim by her tail.

"You can pass out later. I got questions for you," I said, slapping her awake.

Lilim came to consciousness slowly. Her eyes snapped open upon seeing me, but it wasn't full of fear.

"Yes, my master! Anything for you!' she exclaimed, breathing heavily and with a love-struck gaze.

Anya and Yui cackled off to the side.

"Ugh. Maybe I hit her in the head a little too hard." I groaned.