Taniwha / Leviathan (Interlude)

Nurarihyon stands on top of the gate with his shinobi watching the surroundings. The reason he stands on the gate in the heavy rain is that he has a bad feeling that is slowly growing stronger. In all his experience as Master of Spy to Yasaka, he knows that he should listen to his instinct as it already saves him multiple times. When an hour after the departure of Yasaka, Amaterasu, Susanoo, and Kojiro to fight against Taniwha, his instinct immediately screamed at him to increase the patrol around the palace. However, even after he raised the patrol, his instinct still screams at him that the castle will be attacked at any moment. Without hesitation, Nurarihyon orders his shinobi corp to stand on the wall of the palace while he stands on the gate.

He also knows that the barrier around the palace has already been upgraded by Kojiro's weird technology and also his magic expertise. However, even knowing about it, his instinct was still screaming at him about the danger.

His instinct is proven right when he sees multiple missiles coming at them from a distance.

*Boom* *Boom* *Boom*

When the explosion finished, Nurarihyon immediately ordered his people to follow him to the source of that missile. A few seconds later, they arrive in front of a man standing on the ground, unmoving, and the only thing that indicates he is alive is a missile projection around him that he fires at the barrier.

Seeing the attacker, Nurarihyon and his people immediately charged. However, before his Tanto can reach the man in front of him, there is a hook coming from the bushes near the man. Nurarihyon and three of his shinobi avoid it with ease. He looks at the forests and sees a giant wolf made of many blades, hook, needle, and other weapons coming from the bushes.

"Finally, showing yourself, huh, Hookwolf?"

"Heh, I need to take a leak in the bushes, Grumman. No big deal."

"Hn"

Nurarihyon knows the people in front of him. Grumman, the well known Stray Devil mercenary who has the power to switch between Flying Tank or Artillery Platform. He usually worked with his team, consisting of Grumman, Blasto, and Purity. They are well known as a destructive mercenary that accepts any kind of fighting quest. While on the other hand, Hookwolf is one of the leaders of Neo-Nazi in Germany, where their modus operandi is more of a gang than a Neo-Nazi organization. They indulge in Weapon, Human and Drug trafficking around Europe while also fighting local magician organizations to expand their influence. He doesn't know the reason why both of them are working together as they have different races. Grumman is American-African while Hookwolf is 'pure' Aryan Race, who also well known Neo-Nazi.

"Can you take care of them?"

"Heh, With pleasure. It has been a while since I fight any of these yellow c*nt."

"Hn"

After saying that, Hookwolf immediately jumped at Nurarihyon, intending to finish the fight quickly.

Nurarihyon sees Hookwolf coming at them, immediately leap away from his place and create a few hand seals and says.

"Water Release: Water Bullet Technique"

Suddenly Nurarihyon spewed a powerful torrent of water toward the incoming Hookwolf, pushing him away from Nurarihyon and his ally. Seeing Hookwolf thrown away by the torrent of water, Nurarihyon quickly orders half of his shinobi to attack the Grumman while he and one of his shinobi distract Hookwolf.

Seeing the shinobi try to kill Grumman, Hookwolf immediately abandons his fight and tries to chase the shinobi. However, before he could leap away, the ground under him began to sink and create a giant hole.

"Earth Release: Moving Earth Core"

Hookwolf looks at him while snarling like a caged beast before Hookwolf begins to crouch and ready to spring at him. However, before Hookwolf could spring at him, Nurarihyon already finished doing a hand seal and then placed his hand on the ground.

"Earth Release: Golem Technique"

Just Hookwolf about the jump, a hand made of stone appears from the ground and grabs his legs and pin him down on the ground. As he gets pin down, Hookwolf looks up and sees a giant stone golem pressing him down on the ground. Hookwolf uses his claw to tear the golem piece by piece, however, before he could destroy the golem, he hears Nuraihyon say.

"Dear, I need lightning."

"Yes, Sir"

Hookwolf looks up and sees two Nurarihyon and a young woman standing above him and doing the weird hand seal at high speed.

"Lightning Release: Thunderbolt"

"Water Release: Water Bullet Technique"

"Water Release: Water Bullet Technique"

Hookwolf eyes widen as Nurarihyon and his double release a torrent of water at him. At the same time, the woman stands between both Nurarihyon and creates lighting from her hand then enchants the torrent of water with her lightning.

Nurarihyon looks at Hookwolf getting hit by their combination attack. However, he frowns a little as he can see Hookwolf still standing even with his whole body getting electrocuted. Nurarihyon snaps from his thought when he sees Hookwolf destroy the stone golem with his claw and begin to climb the pit he was in, and in a second, he appears in front of Nurarihyon and his shinobi. As he appears in front of them, Hookwolf immediately changes form into a serpent giant serpent with a wolf head and begins to charge at them at high speed. Nurarihyon, who is too late to dodge, gets hit by the metal body of the giant serpent. Lucky for him, he has the forcefield, the gift from Kojiro, activated, making Hookwolf attack useless.

Hookwolf, who already changed back into his wolf form, frowned a little seeing there was no visible damage to Nurarihyon's body. Seeing his previous attempt is not going to work, Hookwolf then uses another tactic.

Nurarihyon looks at Hookwolf with a frown on his face as he sees Hookwolf leap away from him. He doesn't know what Hookwolf is planning, but he needs to join his other shinobi dealing with Grumman. A second later, Nurarihyon leaped away from his position as he saw a bolt of lightning coming from Hookwolf.

"Heh, you think that is the only trick I have?"

He sees Hookwolf summon another magic circle, and coming from the magic circle is another Lightning. Seeing the incoming attack, Nurarihyon does a quick hand seal and places his hand on the ground.

"Earth Release: Earth-Style Wall"

Suddenly a giant wall made of stone appears in front of them and blocks the incoming lightning. There is a huge explosion happening on the other side of the wall as he knows that he successfully blocked Hookwolf magic. Nurarihyon looked at one of his shinobi, who nodded at him before doing a quick hand seal. Seeing his ally preparing to cast her jutsu, create a clone who immediately does a hand seal.

"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique"

"Wind Release: Great Breakthrough"

Just as they activate their combination technique, Nurarihyon deactivates his stone wall making the gale of fire launch toward Hookwolf, who is still preparing to fire another lightning. He sees Hookwolf try to leap away from the combination attack, but as he jumps away, Nurarihyon fires another Jutsu at Hookwolf.

"Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique"

Suddenly a dragon made of water appeared from the nearby water source and bit Hookwolf before bringing him down to the ground. When Hookwolf pins down on the ground, Nurarihyon clones immediately use another jutsu to capture Hookwolf.

"Water Prison Technique"

After he says that, a dome made of water appears and traps Hookwolf inside of it. Slowly Nurarihyon walks toward his trapped enemy while his ally prepares another jutsu just in case Hookwolf escapes.

However, as he appears in front of Hookwolf, Nurarihyon sees him smirk at him smugly. At first, he confused why Hookwolf smirked at him while trapped inside a sphere made of water.

A few seconds later, he found his answer as he heard an explosion coming from the palace, and he could see the barrier around the castle begin to crumble after the explosion. He can feel his face begin to become pale as he says.

"Shit"