Campione! - Volume 19 - Chapter 3.4

Part 4 

「Uuuuu-. Geez Onii-sama, this time he is greatly spirited……」 Aisha lamented. 

Even right now she was in the middle of running away by entrusting her body on the back of the werewolf that was running in full speed. 

Not only the werewolf was jumping form rooftop to rooftop without difficulty, the leg power and dash power of the werewolf that could even dash up vertical wall were amazing. 

Thanks to that they were able to pass through Kabukichou’s vicinity in the blink of eye. 

They also dashed through in front of Shinjuku station right away. It seemed that several dozen, or possibly several hundred evil wolves were let out as pursuer, but somehow they still weren’t overtaken. Surely it was thanks to the distance they could take when they first started and dashed. 

Right now they had got down on the road and in the middle of sprinting with full power above asphalt surface. 

But, from the back the werewolf man that was running hard. 

Aisha vividly looked at the town that had been changed completely. 

The people where she was going――were turned into salt statue. They became white humanoid statue without a single exception and filled the traffic everywhere to the brim. 

「No way……」 

Aisha was taken aback on the back of the sprinting werewolf. 

Right now they had passed in front of the Shinjuku ward office and crossed through Yasukuni Street. 

Through the journey they couldn’t meet any safe human at all. Everywhere there were only people who had been turned into salt wearing winter street clothes standing still. 

People walking the street expressionlessly. Smiling people. 

People who had drunk too much. People who made merry with companion. People who was talking while standing, etc. They were all equally transformed without exception at all. 

Even the most bustling area in front of Shinjuku Station was at the same state. 

Large bank, large bookstore, electronic store, anime shop, and so on, numerous large shop and small shop, company office, and so on, they were all bustling with people. 

It was fortunate that although it was Shinjuku, but it was late at night so there weren’t many people but……. 

「It’s because they were seen by Onii-sama’s eyes……!」 

Something at this level was just like a child play for Marquis Voban. 

Rather he was holding back even like this. After all a single glare from evil eyes was so terrifying it could turn all the people of a city into salt all at once. 

This authority was named as《Eye of Sodom》by Wizengamot. 

Sodom. A city that was touched by god’s fury due to its citizens that had lapsed into the bottom of degeneration. The divine punishment ruined the city and all of the people there died out. 

It was an episode in Old Testament. 

Because the evil eyes could reproduce that episode that this authority was crowned with the name of that immoral city. 

「For some reason, a lot of Onii-sama’s power is in the system that「affect everyone altogether」……」 Aisha grumbled. 

His authority was not merely『transforming into wolf』, but summoning『pack of wolf』. 

He even transformed his subordinates into『army of wolf』. By any chance, perhaps his way of life as a man that climbed up from an orphan that lived on the street until he became the greatest devil king of Europe had some kind of influence to it. 

……Now then. 

UoN! UoN! UoN! UoN! UoN! 

「No, no good. Can you go faster than this?」 

Aisha called at the werewolf that was carrying her. 

The howling of the evil wolves that were pursuing from behind was gradually getting closer. The distance was getting shortened. Even so she had managed to escape this far, so the physical strength of the werewolf that was piggybacking Aisha was at a considerable level. 

Furthermore, when she requested him to escape with her before this, she didn’t particularly gave the instruction about the destination. 

Even with that kind of instruction, this werewolf had moved nicely. The authority of fortune that Aisha had used a few hours ago――perhaps this was the effect from that. 

However. 

A good fortune that was too abrupt, would also grant an abrupt bad luck as the recoil from that. 

Those two aspects were a set in this authority. And then this time too, a trouble that Aisha didn’t even imagine was unfolding in front of her. 

「My my?」 

Vines――some kind of plant that looked like vines were generated in large amount. 

It was a street late at night with no presence of people, green vines were growing thickly, covering the whole surface of the street and also the walls of the buildings and houses along the street. Such scenery was continuing everywhere within Aisha’s sight, everywhere……. 

The Mr. Werewolf that was transporting her was in the middle of sprinting while trampling on those vines. 

The vines were obviously suspicious. However. 

「Somehow this is a little bit different with Onii-sama’s interest……」 

Right after, further misfortune arrived. The werewolf――the cooperative worker that was piggybacking Aisha suddenly pitched forward and tumbled down. 

With that momentum, even the baggage on his back got thrown away. 

「Kyaaaaaaaaaa-!?」 

Aisha was struck on the asphalt surface――not. 

The vines that completely covered the ground fulfilled the role as cushion. Furthermore, the body of Campione was abnormally tough. 

「How shocking. Was it your feet that got entangled?」 

Aisha nonchalantly stood up and called at the werewolf. 

「Aa……」 

Her words got caught in her throat. 

The brawny werewolf that was powerfully dashing until just now had returned into white statue. 

Using healing authority, the saltification was removed only temporarily but――the time of the magic cancellation had finally arrived. 

「Thank you so much for everything until now……」 

Aisha pressed her hands together like in a prayer and said her gratitude. From her on she had to run away with her own strength. 

Aisha looked around her. 

She should have run about one station from the noisy station of Shinjuku. 

This area too also had a lot of buildings. However, it didn’t seem that there was any facility where the coming and going of visitor seemed intense. There was also no hustle and bustle of night, the place was deserted. 

It seemed that this was an area that had a lot of company office and small scale shops. 

If the station name had to be said, then it was around Shinjuku third district or Shinjuku imperial garden――. 

Aisha tried to recall the picture of Tokyo’s geography. She was often thought as a person with no sense of direction, but the truth was the opposite. 

She would gather the maps of the destination where she would stay and read them until she memorized it. That was her hobby. 

It was for the sake of acquiring the familiarity of the land that was a hard to obtain special technique for traveler and adventurer. And then, Aisha was an expert at this path. However, well, as the result of running into a bit of misunderstanding and bad luck, she also couldn’t deny that there was a lot of time she lost her path. 

Just when she thought of wanting to say that this time for sure such trouble would be unrelated with her――at the next moment. 

「Kyaaaaaaaaaah!?」 

The vines covering the surface. One of them suddenly entangled on her ankle and lifted up Aisha’s slender body to the air. 

It was as though she was a fish that was fished up from underwater. 

「As, as expected, is this vine aiming for me just as I thought!?

」 

The vine that was the replacement for fishing line was steadily drawing away. Naturally the body of the prey that was Aisha was also going『pyuuun-』midair. The speed was terrific. 

Just where was she getting dragged away? She soon understood with her body floating midair. 

「Shinjuku――imperial garden?」 

The origin of the vine was at the public park several hundred meters ahead. 

The excessively spacious lawn possessed Japanese garden, stylish tree-lined road, and so on. It was a popular spot that should be called as the oasis in the centre of the messy city――was how it was supposed to be. 

However right now there was a “jungle” at the end of Aisha’s gaze. 

Standard large trees like plane tree and sakura tree, Chinese plum, Japanese cedar. 

Every single tree had accomplished great growth that reached until fifty, sixty meter where they almost overflowed from the public park’s ground. Yes, in the Shinjuku imperial garden that could be filled with more than ten Tokyo Dome had become filled with trees to the brim. 

Even Yakushima’s primeval forest that became world natural heritage would look inferior to this, not only that this jungle looked like it would keep growing until it surpassed that forest eventually. 

Even though this place didn’t have subtropical climate or high temperature and humidity! 

It was already clear whose work this was. 

「O――Onee-sama, you are here aren’t you!? Luo Haooneesama-. I think, this is a bit too rough!」 

With her yell ended up in vain, Aisha was pulled into the Shinjuku imperial garden that was turned into forest of evil.