After watching Kamishiro Rize leave like a teleport.
Hayashi "slap!" closed the door to prevent rain from being blown in by the wind.
It was now business hours.
But with this terrible weather.
Hayashi shook his head: "Even if customers wanted to come, I don't want to work. I just want to lie down."
Rainy days go better with sleeping in~
In this awful weather.
Hayashi would rather lie on the sofa all day, play games, watch TV, browse his phone, read books, and just let the day pass.
"Rumble~~~!"
Another thunder roared.
Heavy rain was pattering outside, but with the door closed inside, the sound was much, much quieter.
Hayashi looked at Tohru.
"There shouldn't be anything today, let's rest well and have fun."
"Mm mm!" Tohru nodded, asking expectantly: "Want to play games? Let's play!"
Play games?
Hayashi nodded affirmatively: "Sure, let's play games!"
"..."
Just as the two finished speaking, a white flash suddenly flickered outside.
As if the sky suddenly brightened.
Hayashi knew without looking: "Big thunder is coming."
After he said this, about 2 seconds passed.
"RUMBLE~~~!!!"
An incredibly loud thunder roared outside.
Light travels almost instantaneously.
But based on the speed of sound, hearing it after 3 seconds meant the thunder was about a kilometer away from Hayashi.
After Tohru heard it.
She said: "It's the kind of thunder Kanna really likes."
Hayashi: ?
Who likes it?
Kanna likes it?
Likes thunder? Or big thunder?
"Huh?" Hayashi was first stunned.
Tohru pointed behind Hayashi, toward the floor-to-ceiling window near the wooden wall.
Hayashi turned to look.
Kanna was pressed against the glass, looking up at the sky.
Every time thunder roared.
Kanna's tail would float and sway with a buzzing sound.
Then fall back down after a while.
"Rumble~!"
When thunder roared.
Kanna's purple yo-yo-like tail buzzed and floated up again.
Hayashi was first puzzled, then suddenly understood.
"Oh~~~"
He remembered.
Kanna was an electric dragon, her power source was electricity.
Hayashi asked: "Kanna's other name, is it Kanna Kamui?"
Tohru's eyes lit up: "Hayashi-san actually knows Kanna's other name! Do you know about the other world?"
"No, I heard it from mythology stories. I only know a little bit about your affairs."
Hayashi naturally shook his head.
Actually, he had just remembered.
The reason Kanna came to Earth was: 1) following Tohru, 2) because she pranked... and got exiled...
Her characteristics were: loves eating, cute and naive, mischievous.
But at Hayashi's place.
He hadn't seen Kanna show any mischievous traits.
Maybe because her love of eating was completely satisfied by Hayashi, so she wouldn't prank Hayashi for food.
Others might not be so lucky.
"Rumble~~~"
When thunder struck, Kanna's tail lit up.
Hayashi walked over, crouched down, watching the tail flash.
He watched the thunder with Kanna for a while.
Then curiously asked: "With thunder in the sky, can you absorb energy from here?"
"Yes." Kanna nodded seriously: "But very little, and it doesn't taste good."
Doesn't taste good...
Kanna added: "Not as delicious as Hayashi's cooking, but thunder is familiar, haven't seen it in a long time."
Oh~~~, so it's like meeting an old friend.
Just this friend isn't a person.
But thunder.
As an electric dragon, Kanna and thunder were good friends.
The best of friends.
Each thunder strike was like two friends greeting each other.
Hayashi looked at the thunder.
Then looked at Tohru who was watching eagerly.
Hayashi thought for a moment and asked: "Want to go up to the sky and take a look?"
"!" Kanna immediately turned to look at Hayashi.
"?!" Tohru looked at Hayashi with surprise and delight.
Being watched by both.
Hayashi was also a bit confused.
"What's wrong? Don't want to go?"
"There's nothing wrong with heavy rain outside. Just use invisibility magic and rain-avoiding magic. As for thunder, with Kanna here, it'll definitely be fine."
"Isn't being young about doing whatever you want, as long as you're sure there's no major danger?"
Heavy rain really wasn't anything.
Maybe for people in bad moods who weren't optimistic.
Heavy rain meant depression and stuffiness.
But for people in good moods, optimistic, even a bit crazy.
Heavy rain meant white noise.
Could even try playing soccer in the rain, having fun!
Wasn't this an absolutely novel experience?!
"Want to go!"
As soon as Hayashi finished, Kanna and Tohru almost simultaneously said they wanted to go.
"Then shall we go?"
"Let's go!"
Without much ado.
Hayashi was already walking toward the door.
Tohru and Kanna immediately followed.
But at the door.
Tohru looked at the "Open" wooden sign, a bit worried.
"Hayashi-san, what if customers come?"
Hearing this, Kanna also stopped, looking a bit conflicted.
She was thinking, was she being a bit selfish?
Wouldn't this interfere with Hayashi's business?
"Still open shop? Open what shop?" Hayashi looked completely opposed when he heard this.
He waved his hand: "I'll know if anyone comes, and Pochita is watching the door. We also have teleportation magic."
"If someone comes, we'll just teleport back."
"Right, Pochita?"
Pochita, who was lying by the door, immediately perked up when he heard he finally had something to do.
He stood up at once to respond.
"Woof!" (Yes!)
Then there was no problem.
Pochita was watching the house at home.
There was a red buff guarding the backyard.
Hayashi had also left an invisible scouting ward at home, providing 24/7 surveillance with no blind spots!
All three of them could use teleportation magic!
With all these conditions.
Couldn't they prevent customers from suddenly arriving?
"Let's go!" Hayashi shouted to go.
Tohru immediately hugged Hayashi's arm and acted cute.
"Ride on me, ride on me, Hayashi-san!"
Kanna heard this.
Quickly hugged Hayashi's other leg.
"Ride on Kanna, ride on Kanna!"
The two of them.
One hugging a leg, one hugging an arm, swaying back and forth.
Hayashi was completely dizzy from being shaken.
A flash of inspiration came to his mind.
"How about this - ride on Tohru when going, ride on Kanna when coming back. That's settled."
One way each, one person each time, very fair.
Tohru and Kanna looked at each other, both nodded in agreement.
"Good!" x2
So Tohru first transformed into a big green dragon!
She leaped toward the sky, light flashed, and she became a giant dragon as tall as a building when standing!
And in the air.
She used invisibility magic and rain-avoiding magic.
Invisibility magic made her invisible to both humans and electronic technology like cameras and satellites.
Rain-avoiding magic made the heavy rain fall to the sides, creating a space around Tohru where no rain fell.
"Let's go."
Hayashi took Kanna's hand.
"Teleportation magic."
The two flashed and appeared on Kanna's back.
"Departure!"
"Roar~~~!"
Tohru let out a light roar and flew straight up into the sky.
300 meters, the sky was dark.
1000 meters, passing through the dark clouds.
3000 meters, reaching clear skies!
At 3000 meters, all of Tokyo appeared in Hayashi's view.
The storm clouds that seemed endless from below actually only covered an area of one or two provinces, looking quite small from up here.
On the ground, the sky was dark.
But at 3000 meters high, at 6 PM, there was still sunlight, just setting below the horizon with only a bit of afterglow remaining.
There was no more rain around.
The entire environment was incredibly quiet.
As if peaceful.
"So beautiful." Hayashi gazed at the horizon and sighed.
This feeling was incomparable even to being on an airplane.
Sitting on a plane, you felt like just a package, with the scenery along the way being fleeting glimpses.
But when you could fly.
You felt like the entire sky belonged to you!
It was no longer brief.
You had more time to stop and waste this time.
And it was all immersive experience!
Hayashi sat on Tohru's dragon back.
Kanna sat in Hayashi's arms.
At this moment.
Their altitude was higher than the clouds.
So when looking at lightning.
They had to look down at their feet.
And with the broader view, they could see much more lightning.
When viewing an area the size of provinces.
Lightning was truly continuous.
There was lightning everywhere.
Kanna sat in Hayashi's arms, her eyes glowing blue, her whole body buzzing like 100,000 volts.
"Need to get closer?" Hayashi asked.
Kanna spoke up, shaking her head: "It's all the same, already close enough. These thunders, first time meeting, saying hello, making friends."
Hayashi found it very magical, honestly.
Thunder spirits could greet thunder and make friends.
So what kind of consciousness was thunder?
What were its emotions like?
Similar to flower spirits?
"Then let's just fly around, Tohru." Hayashi patted Tohru's back: "Consider it getting some air."
"Roar~~~"
Tohru responded: "Okay."
Then began flying around everywhere.
Soaring in the sky, flying through thunder clouds, accompanied by lightning strikes.
Sometimes the lightning was right beside Hayashi.
Aside from being a bit loud and bright.
Hayashi felt everything was fine.
Just like that.
The three played in the sky for nearly half an hour.
Hayashi felt a pulse from the earth's veins!
"Earthquake!"
As soon as Hayashi said this.
The next moment.
Waves rose at Tokyo's seaside, the earth began trembling and shaking.
Due to the heavy rain, most residents in the city were inside their houses.
This earthquake made many people start taking precautions and seeking shelter.
From Hayashi's aerial perspective.
First and second-floor houses showed basically no visible changes.
But those high-rises were visibly swaying, though the amplitude was small.
A magnitude 5 earthquake was right at the stage where buildings began swaying.
Not violent, but would cause objects to fall.
This feeling was quite interesting to watch from above.
"There's an earthquake." Tohru said.
Hayashi looked carefully: "Feels a bit like when playing with blocks and accidentally hitting the table corner. This god's-eye view is really interesting."
No wonder the gods in stories don't care about people.
Just looking down from this perspective.
He felt humans were just so-so.
If it became like playing a civilization game with a god's-eye view, you probably wouldn't treat people as people, but like animals, also as animals.
A magnitude 5 earthquake from a god's perspective looked like a trembling table.
At this moment, Hayashi's phone rang.
He took it out to look.
Takatsuki Sen: "It's starting."
Only then did Hayashi react, patting Tohru's back.
"Go to District 23 to watch the show. If we're late, there'll be nothing to see."
"Roger~!"
Tohru flapped her dragon wings, instantly accelerating and disappearing from her original position.
This definitely wasn't physical propulsion.
If it were purely physical propulsion, Hayashi and Kanna would have been thrown off long ago.
Just like that, in a short while.
Tohru had arrived above District 23.
And descended to about a kilometer, the height of two skyscrapers.
Hayashi looked around and pointed to the tallest building nearby.
"Let's stand on top of that. Floating in air is too high, and we don't need to stay transformed. We'll be snacking later."
"Okay."
Tohru flew to the rooftop of a skyscraper.
Hayashi jumped down holding Kanna, landing on the building's roof. Tohru also transformed back into human form, holding her maid skirt hem as she gently landed.
The three stood on top of the skyscraper.
The surrounding strong winds, heavy rain, and thunder didn't affect them in the slightest.
Even the ground beneath their feet was dry.
Tohru looked down below and found the CCG branch's underground ghoul prison.
She pointed at the prison and asked curiously.
"Hayashi-san, will Miss Takatsuki Sen attack this prison later?"
"Yes." Hayashi nodded, then added: "But there's also a feint attack location that will attack first to draw attention, in District 13, at Aogiri Tree's branch."
Takatsuki Sen's operation this time would have two locations.
District 13 was the feint - ghouls from the Aogiri Tree branch would feint attack the CCG branch to draw attention.
Since the feint's purpose had to look like a full-scale assault.
When other CCG forces mobilized to suppress it.
The ghoul prison in District 23 would be attacked by Takatsuki Sen leading an elite force.
The elite force had far fewer people than the feint force.
But their combat power was on a completely different level.
The feint force only had 1 SS-rank ghoul leading.
While the elite force had many SS-rank ghouls.
At this moment.
The earthquake stopped.
Hayashi took out his phone and started browsing news.
"Why isn't there any news yet?"
Just as he finished speaking.
A news alert popped up.
"District 13 CCG Branch Under Full-Scale Ghoul Attack Again, Large Numbers, CCG Branch in Great Danger!!!"
As soon as the news broke, it caused a sensation.
And the next moment.
"Rumble~~~"
Another earthquake struck.
Even the skyscraper Hayashi was on swayed along with it.
Though only slightly, it was like a signal.
Around the ghoul prison Tohru had pointed to earlier, a group of cloaked ghouls suddenly appeared, rapidly approaching!
They were even carrying lots of explosives.
"The fight's starting, the fight's starting!" Tohru shook Hayashi's arm to remind him: "Look over there, I can sense Miss Takatsuki Sen's aura."
"Wait a moment, let me distribute some sunflower seeds." Hayashi quickly pulled out several bags of sunflower seeds.
Then he lightly tapped the ground with his toe.
A layer of clean white cloth woven from thin strings appeared beneath their feet!
"Sit, sit, sit."
Hayashi sat down with Tohru and Kanna, then distributed sunflower seeds to them.
"Crack crack crack~~~"
Accompanied by the sound of cracking sunflower seeds.
Under the three's gaze.
Aogiri Tree's elite force rushed near the CCG prison.
This prison was underground!
So they needed to fight first, clear out the guards above, before they could enter underground.
But Takatsuki Sen obviously didn't have such a simple plan.
SS+ ghoul Tatara glanced at the nearby squad leaders.
"You clear out the guards above."
After saying this, he led other SS-rank ghouls and explosives straight underground.
The purpose was obvious - split operations.
One group would clear the guards.
The other would go directly down for a fierce assault.
Not giving the layered guards above and below any time to gather or react.
So under Hayashi's distant observation.
Above the ghoul detention facility, ordinary elite forces and ordinary CCG defense forces began fierce combat.
These groups were roughly evenly matched at 50-50.
At most, counting the surprise attack, it was 60-40, with ghouls at 6 and defense at 4.
While the fierce battle raged above.
A few minutes later.
"Boom~~~!!!"
Accompanied by a small mushroom cloud rising.
Above the detention facility.
It directly collapsed!
Hayashi looked at the smoke rising straight up, then extinguished by the heavy rain.
"Isn't this just giving Reze the bomb devil more power for free?"
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