Shattered

Along with the glass-shattering sounds, the barriers called 'ease' in the citizens' heart disappeared as panic overwhelmed then.

To make it worse, the sea creatures which was being bounced back by the unobstructed force behind the Tortoise's Shell Fragment, now turned aggressive.

The concrete, bridges and the support pillars, each of them were being attacked by the ocean creatures from every directions.

"How could this happen!?" Due to the sudden turns of events, the smile from Uzumaki's face disappeared before commanding the people.

However, they were inefficient—different from practices of this worst case scenario, an attack from ocean creatures carried deadly pressures, some even peed their pants and it won't be the last.

They required time to get used to the ocean creatures now that their safety wall disappeared.

"Hold them off! Hold them off!" Uzumaki screamed, however The Great Naruto Bridge were far too big.

Even if his commanding ability were good, at best, he can only command one place and have to leave the others to other commander.

And if even one of the bridge construction were destroyed, it will be like domino-effect, destroying the entire bridges.

Once that happens, the ordinary citizens' body will be shredded just from falling to ocean while the warriors who can survive the ocean will be killed by the ocean creatures.

At least due to its sturdy foundation, The Great Naruto Bridge is lasting but it didn't took a genius to figure that it won't be long before the ocean creatures destroy enough construction to take down the bridge.

Of course, Uzumaki wasn't just staying idle while commanding the person to defend the bridge. He was using an special device given by the Tortoise to call that mythical creature.

But no matter how much he call the Tortoise, there were no responses from the other side. The thought of Tortoise being killed never crossed his mind as he thought that Tortoise was sleeping.

"London Bridge is falling down~♪ falling down~♪ falling down~♪" While the entire bridges was panicking there were one exception. That was Kuro.

He was so calm that he was even humming lightly while teleporting everyone to his side.

Confirming that everyone gathered, Kuro shifted his eyes from the spaceship (comet) that came down before looked at Oujian.

"Hm? What is it." Oujian blurted out while firing his gun to one of the ocean creatures that bit the bridge.

"What do you want to do? Do you want to escape from here? Or save the Naruto bridges and become its hero." Kuro asked naturally.

"What do you mean by that question? Obviou-" Oujian said with serious tone but he was interrupted by Kuro.

This time, the calm and nonchalant expression from his face disappeared as it was replaced with endless coldness.

"Make sure to pick your decisions carefully. If you're too distracted on saving unrelated person, you will miss out on those who really are important to you." The expressions Kuro showed was first time even to Okayu and Shion

that they unconsciously took a step back out of fear. Although that cold emotionless eyes of him were undirected to them, it made them felt like the devil was looking at them—observing every actions they make.

"My decisions doesn't change! Since there are a person in need of help, I will rescue them out." Oujian were unfazed.

Then, Kuro disappeared from the spot before smacking Oujian's back—returning his usual smile.

"Then let's go. It was the right time when I wanted to test things out." Saying so Kuro walked toward the comet spaceship before opening the door, revealing an unconscious girl.

The unconscious blue-haired girl's eyelashes was trembling as fear swept through her face.

Without caring of such signs, water flew out from Kuro's hand as it made the unconscious girl's face wet—waking her up.

"Who!?" Saying so, dazzling stars gathered in her palm, creating something.

[Stellar Chopper]

The dazzling axe made from stars blinded the eyesight but it couldn't blind Kuro's Ki Sense.

[Strike Trap]

Kuro trapped the force in the swing of her axe as he stopped her arm by grabbing her wrist. However suddenly, the weight in the blow suddenly increased, pushing down Kuro's arm.

As the axe was about to chop off Kuro's shoulder Kuro disappeared from the spot—reappearing in her back but stayed motionless.

The girl filled with bloodlust looked for her prey before spotting him in her back as she swung her axe toward his neck… before being stopped by Ayame.

'… according to my and 17's logic, ordinary people usually stops attacking after I did this… I guess she's either an idiot or just a person filled with bloodlust.' Nevertheless, Kuro decided to not get involved with this girl.

"Anyway, stop attacking." Kuro said so, making the crazed eyes of the girl regain it's rationality—looking at the white haired little girl, the insane girl stopped.

Kuro gave out an fake smile as he said; "You're in Virturan—although I don't know how you travelled through the seals casted in this world,

your actions even if unintentional, has caused an disturbance to the citizens living here. Wanna take responsibility?" Kuro said in a way that he didn't care what her decision was.

"Although we won't force you, you should consider helping us out!" Ayame seemed to want to say more but she stopped herself midst the sentences.

"Did you say I am in Virturan?" The girl said suppressing her excitement.

"Yeah."

"Yes!" After saying so, her knee gave in as her whole body relaxed.

The two waited for her to digest the information on—as she put strength in her leg, she stood up as she nodded to the two.

"Tell me the situation."

"So you're in?" Kuro asked her.

"Hm." She nodded.

***

After Kuro explained the situation to her, she went outside to help defend the bridge.

"Kuro, what's the plan now?" This time, it was Okayu who asked him.

"Plan? There's non. Go help them defend the bridges." Kuro said nonchalantly as he directed his finger toward the most gathered places.

Nodding on, Shion and Okayu went there for reinforcements.

'Now then…' it was time to test out his theory.

'21… 17… Zero… Gacha… Roll!'

'Fuck (17)'

'Ohhhh it worked (6)'

'Fuck. You. (17)'

'Now, now. Help me out… wait a minute (6)'

'17 help me out. My stress is pointing out and if I wrecked my brain to solve this problem the extreme stress gathered in my brain will explode. (6)' Kuro said jokingly.

'Sigh… when I wanted sleep the most, the world won't let me. You have desire sensor, don't you?… alright. Change with me. (17)'

'Huh? Are you serious? Oh, wow! (6)' Kuro's souls flew out from his body as his current state became similar with the 21's and 17's.

At this state, he was now at the same space with 21 and Zero… and…

'Peko peko peko! Give me your body! Give me your body! (1%)'

'Oh hey me! Isn't this your first time being in this space while your body is in active? (21)'

'… weren't you sleeping? (6)'

'Urgh, with this annoyingly loud rabbit, who could sleep? (21)'

'No, first of all, why is Pekora here? (6)'

'Ş̸̭̞̙̼̞̺̼̺́̿́̈́͆̀̐̂͋͠t̷̖̟͙͇̲͖͖͔̲̽̅̿̌́̌̏͝r̴̡̝͍͇̥̺̻̱̍̋̃̆̅o̸̰̹͒̍n̸͓̬̘̯͇̘̓g̶̲͎͉̰̪̫͒ ̵͙̳̄̾̔e̶̼͔͚͂͜n̵̪̤̦̝̱̮̏̅̎́ó̵̥̙͓̻̱̤̀̕ü̸̡̥̹̼̳̬͋̽̽͆͝ͅͅg̴̡̢̧͈̹̗̈́͆̈̐ḧ̸̺͕͕̺̻̭̻̳̩̖̿͊͛͌̈́̕͠ ̸̧̠̩̹͖̬̙͕̥̔̄͐ę̴̡̭͚̲͇̪̊̏x̵̨̬̮̩̬̳̹̙̜̟̊͗̓̀̐́̒i̴̪̖͕̻͈̩̊̽́̐͛͆͋͜s̷̨̨̧͎̫̖͓̟̒͆̑͛̍̚t̵̮̰̤̜͚͉̗́́̿̂̽̐́ę̵̛̛̤̪̉͂͊̄̑͗̆n̵̢͎̱̬̼͇̜̳̼̔͒̐͂̌̐c̵̜̪̺̆̓̀͂̆̑̚͠ȩ̵̹̙͉͎̦̫̦͍̏̐͒̏͋̍͌̏̉̕ (Zero)'

'Oh, so her existence is strong enough that her soul formed inside me without being completely devoured? (6)'

'Oh, seriously? That was why? 17 never explained it to me clearly and this zero is so low with his word counts. (21)'

'Take me out, Peko! AH↓HA↑HA↑HA↑HA↑ (1%)'

'Mind shutting up? Lemme concentrate on the current situation (17)'

Oh, so this is how they heard when I was talking from outside. 6 thoughts inwardly after hearing the voice echoes inside the space.