“That is Christie’s older sister, Stephanie.”
……..Yes? I thought I had misheard her, so I asked again. “…….Older sister? …….Stephanie? T..That’s a female?”
“Yes, a maiden.”
Wait, it’s a battle between sisters!? What is going to happen!? “The referee will be me, Kiba Yuuto.”
Kiba is standing at the centre of the field. He makes the two snow gorilla’s come inside the battlefield. Senpai’s dad and I stood at the edge of the field and we started the battle by giving orders from there! “Begin!”
The land monster battle began at the same time as Kiba’s call! “Stephanie! First do the drumming!”
“Hokyoooooon!”
DON DON DON! The opponent gorilla started to hit her chest after the order senpai’s dad gave her! “The Yuki-onna’s drumming has the ability to increase its attack power!”
What!? It has an effect like that!? Thank you for the explanation, dad! “Then we will also do the drumming Christie!”
“Uhohohohohoho!”
DODODODODO! Ignoring my order, Christie suddenly started to run across the field! What is that girl doing!? Seeing that, Koneko-chan mutters. “That is……Yuki-onna’s special technique, the snow-clone.”
Snow clone!? As I looked on in bewilderment, Christie increased its number to two, then three, then four and without realising it there are many gorillas on the field! So it’s a self duplicating technique! Snow cloning! Man, there are only gorillas! This is the worst scenery ever! “Did you know that, Koneko-chan?”
Koneko-chan gave an explanation to Akeno-san who asked her! “…….It’s a high level secret technique, which can only be attained by Yuki-onna that live in the Japanese Alps. They say clones can make different movements to that of the original self, once mastered.”
There are things like this!? The World sure is filled with mysteries! “Ngh! You are quite good! To do the snow-cloning while giving the order to do a drumming!”
Her dad started to groan! You are wrong! It’s just that gorilla started to act on its own, going beyond my imagination! “Stephanie, we can’t lose either! Counter it with the “Freezing Beat-to-Death Stick”! What’s that scary sounding technique!? Stephanie started to take something out of the bag she has on her back! It’s a banana! Buuuuuuuu! She throws the banana into the air after freezing it with her freezing breath! Please look everyone! These gorilla’s can do freezing-breath! “Uho!”
Christie who has her eyes focused on the banana jumps into the sky together with her clones! So it reacted to the banana! It can’t be helped since it’s a gorilla! Wait, that’s the “Freezing Beat-to-death stick”!? It’s just a frozen banana! Christie started to jump towards the banana! This is bad! Her clones also disappeared! She’s defenceless! Without any hesitation, Stephanie tackles Christie’s body! DOGON! “Ubo!”
Christie, who received the tackle head-on, gets thrown outside the field and she lands violently on the ground! “……..To attack by using the frozen banana as bait, which is the favourite food for Yuki-onna, to make its attention go there…… Normal Yuki-onna wouldn’t be able to resist and eat the banana on the spot. But it used that as an item…… The opponent Yuki-onna who can overcome its greed towards the banana has been trained very well…..”
Koneko-chan explained, like a commentator. Huh? Was this girl always like that? Perhaps she’s a secret fan of monster battles? Christie who is on the ground is laying there flat down. Ah, this is over. “The winner, Stephanie! So the winner of the first match is Abe-senpai’s father.”
The referee Kiba declares! Shit! They got one victory! I never knew a gorilla battle was so complicated! So we have to include a banana among our strategies huh! Goristie, your death won’t be in vain……Perhaps! Also she isn’t dead! “Fufufu. Absurd. I won’t be able to permit you dating my daughter at this rate.”
Senpai’s dad showed a fearless smile! Can I win against this person? I only feel uneasy about it! But my fighting spirit also raised! Since we came this far, I’m definitely going to win! “The next match will be the sea monster battle. So that pool is going to be the stage huh. Now, I shall show all of you my monster.”
While lightning flashes, a giant fish-type monster appeared! It has the form of a shark…..a creature with legs! Uoooooo! It’s a shark-version of Estleena! But it’s filled with a dangerous atmosphere! It looks strong by its appearance! After all, ours looks like a tuna! No matter how you think about it, the shark is stronger! But…..the shark shows no sign of movement. It’s just standing there while its mouth is wide open. “……………”
When senpai’s dad thinks it strange and touches it, while mounted on his horse……DROP! The shark dropped to its side! Huh? This shark isn’t responding. “Ah, since it’s a shark it would die if it doesn’t continue to swim.”
…………….Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh!? I was shocked at the stupid reaction of senpai’s dad! Kiba approaches it, and confirms it's status. After a while, he shook his head and then declares. “The winner of the second match is Ise-kun.”
I attained a victory which I cannot describe. I won without doing the match! Incidentally Estleena, who was also waiting for us by the poolside, died from dehydration without anyone realising it. Later on, there were tuna and shark fins on the dining table. Well that’s a story for another time. And finally, the last match was about to begin! The final match. The sky monster battle. We changed the location to a mountain with no sign of people. We teleported using the transportation method of Devils, a magic-circle. If it’s deep in the mountains, we can have the monsters fly as much as we want without caring about anyone seeing. Senpai’s dad and I are opposing each other on the surface, which has bumpy rocks. If it’s this place, we can look around the sky, and there aren’t things that will become a hindrance. “Both of us will do the sky battle while riding on top of the monsters. Alright?”
Senpai’s dad tells me the rule. I see. Hold on! Senpai’s dad prepared a large mysterious looking bird! “Gyaaaaaaaon!”
It threatens us with that terrifying sound! Hiiiiii! If we get poked by that large sharp beak, it will leave a big hole in our bodies! My partner is Takahashi-san! I was riding on Takahashi-san’s back. I’m piggybacking. “Fufufu, boy. It’s good weather. This wind, this feeling on my skin is definitely the one for a battle.”
“Why do you have such high tension……? I on other hand want to go home quickly……”
“You can say that I’m like a ‘weather vane’ right now!”
I don’t like this bird. I don’t get what he is saying and I want to punch him…… It pisses me off even more that his feathers feel good! Senpai’s dad is already up in the sky with the ominous bird. While riding on his horse that is! He’s riding on the ominous bird, while straddling his horse! The ominous bird is carrying a giant horse which is also carrying the Fist-King. That looks so abnormal and it has so much intensity! Does he like to be on top of a horse that much!?