World Terror 38 Surrounded

" What?! are we surrounded by my siblings' forces on both sides. " panicky Masako.

Even though Masako had immovable confidence in her grandma's strength to protect her

and defeat all enemies. But last time when faced against grand masters from 13 families her grandma did not fare well and ran, deciding to live to fight another day. That time they had to pay a huge cost as all the Sukehimes subordinates in the capital sacrificed themselves to let them grandma and granddaughter pair to escape the siege of Grand masters from 13 families.

Now hearing that the grand masters of the 13 families have surrounded them from both sides Masako could not believe what she was hearing, this time she did not even have strong subordinates who would block the enemies as she escaped, she really felt desperate and cornered.

Sukehime in her prime could pridefully take on the whole world and still come victorious, these grand masters of the 13 families where nothing, these little kiddies were not even born in her heyday and therefore lack the horror and terror when they face Sukehime. The old fogies from her time are half killed by her and the half that is alive still tremble in horror just hearing her name. Do not look at Sukehime as a normal priestess, during the initial period when the yokai were rampant in Edo j.a.pan Sukehime single handedly ma.s.sacred the ' Night parade of 100,000 yokai'. such a character was now made to retreat from some hairless Juniors really frustrated Sukehime.

Like Masako's panicky reaction, the team was going crazy, Just when they thought they had hugged on to a golden thigh world terror had increased the scenario difficulty by another level. Mira was freaking out , she had just received a 8 star Occupation and a 9 star sub occupation, Just when Scenario was finally taking a good turn in their favor, the scenario took a sudden u turn to bite their a.r.s.es. She frantically asked [ Malinda, what is happening? Tell me we are going to be okay]

[ Okay, Mira we are going to be Okay!] replied Malinda dramatically.

Hearing this, the rest of the team gave Malinda a not so funny look. Malinda spreaded her arms and said [ What were you guys expecting? I repeatedly warned you guys not to bring huge changes to the scenario, Sukehime was supposed to die under the Moon Dew Poison but she lived, now scenario is trying to kie her at any cost. Hence big brothers of 13 families have gathered to kill her. ]

Whenever a change happens in the scenario from the original plotline, the scenario tries to fix it by any means necessary, therefore many Dreamwalkers or Terror walkers try not to bring any kind of change to the scenario till they have completed the main taskline, unless their Main task lines itself requires them to do so.

Similarly in case of Sukehime, He was supposed to die at the hands of the sniper earlier but survived now bringing a huge change to the plotline, Now the scenario is trying to self heal itself trying to kill Sukehime at any cost. scenario should have also made appropriate damage control, that is to ensure the safety of Masako and Hito even after the death of Sukehime.

According to the Scenario if The only bug weapon to kill a op person like Sukehime Moon Dew Poison has been used up, leaving the only other way to kill Sukehime are all the Grand Masters from the 13 families. Even though these grand masters are not strong enough to kill Sukehime they are strong enough to hold her back while the rest will kill Masako.

According to the Scenario if everything goes according to plan,

The grand masters of the 13 families will try to kill Masako when the opportunity provides itself, then Sukehime in order to protect Masako willingly burn through all her vitality killing all the grand masters and herself in the process this way Sukehime is killed while Masako is safe, the scenario returns to original potline.

But the problem that concerns the Team is that, Scenario will see to the safety of the Princess Masako and Hito will the big leagues fight but what about them they are weaker than Masako and require more protection, definitely the scenario will also try to get rid of the variables that is them during this chaos. Thinking of this James and the team shuddered with horror.

Mira, who heard Malinda's words, was furious and asked [ are you blaming Trisha for saving Sukehime? Now, I did not see you complain when you were receiving the occupation prop from Sukehime. You hypocrite if not for Trisha timely saving Sukehime you would be dead right now. Why? You do not believe me, what would Masako think if you were to refine Nether flame heart while her grandma was dead, she would definitely rip you into pieces. you have to be grateful to Trisha if not for her selfless act do you think Sukehime and Masako would let you have the Nether flame. They would rip it out of you even if it meant killing you.]

James and the team who were also upset with Malinda's remarks were surprised to see Mira come to Trisha's defense, even though it was not necessary as what Malinda said was just a thoughtless remark she clearly did not mean to blame Trisha. But still Mira's action did surprise the rest of the team.

Sukehime slow flew down and answered Masako " Your Siblings forces, allies, troops and a.s.sa.s.sins have gathered and are heading towards us surrounding us on both sides. Instead of waiting in ambush for us they seem to have decided to corner us in the middle of the road of wandering misty forest. It seems like the escaped sniper has sold our information, otherwise they would not dare to attack us from both sides without accurate information. They will be here within the next 20 minutes. I think they have ditched the low ranking soldiers to reach us faster. "

Then the Team began their act and acted as if they did not understand what was going on, Janet dramatically asked " Sukehime Sama, forgive my interruption and rudeness."

Sukehime glanced at Janet who had bowed her head trying to show proper the j.a.panese manners, and explained, " I already told you before we were on the run. These guys are the ones we are running from. They are the grand masters from Masako's elder brothers and sisters' maternal families. Their purpose is to kill Masako or me. Either way Masako will lose the chance to inherit the throne. "

Sukehime was right if Sukehime dies then Masako's chances of inheriting the throne are almost zero, as the allied force that supported Masako only supported her because of the Sukehime supporting her. In the original works when Masako and Hito finally reached Kitsuki to gain the support of allied forces, the Kitsuki allied forces laughed at Masako's naivety and also tried to capture her in order to gift her to the 13 families and gain some rewards.

Sukehime knew this but still sacrificed herself to protect her beloved granddaughter. This act of selflessness in Sukehime's part friend the will of Masako to defeat all her siblings and claim the throne in honor of her grandma.

Sukehime's Gaze landed on James, noticing the huge changes to James physically and spiritually Sukehime was surprised then she intently looked at James. Masako and the team also followed Sukehime's gaze and were surprised to find ripping James.

James felt everyone's gaze so he blus.h.i.+ngly stood there, " if I told you I Just happened to have an enlightenment from the world and turned like this, are you willing to believe me? "

" That explains a lot " exclaimed Masako and the team also nodded in agreement. Sukehime seems not to believe James's story and said " that explains the Nature runes but not you trying to inscribe runes on yourself. "

" Nature Runes!!Inscribing runes on live body " exclaimed Masako, the team did not know much about the runes and Janet was just a rookie so they did not understand why Masako exclaimed hearing Sukehime's question neither did Masako bother to explain to them, she just stared intently at James.

Sukehime was a peak rune master; nothing could escape her eyes; she could easily spot the hidden runes inscribed on James' entire body. James sweated bullets and hurriedly explained, " your Highness, I have basic mastery of runes, once I saw your Corpse Puppets, covered in runes I was inspired and thought to try the same with myself but when I started to Inscribe the runes on my body I had a sudden enlightenment then one thing lead to other and I turned like this. "

Hearing James' explanation , Sukehime nodded in understanding. Masako also nodded and said " you are really lucky to receive enlightenment at the right movement or else your body would explode if you had copied the same runes from the corpse puppet. Is getting enlightenment so easy these days " sighed Masako " anyways congrats on learning 3 Nature runes now you have become someone worthy of my follower. I think I should reward you. "

" Fortune favours the bold. "