But come to think of it, this was his first time seeing a girl's actual body. Even with Asuna, he hadn't truly seen hers, only her avatar in the game.
'Does this count as the first time?'
Yusei thought awkwardly, but quickly pushed the thought away.
However, just as he reached her, his eyes were covered again. Then, a shy and furious voice sounded.
"Yusei... Yusei-kun, be decent!"
Yusei was speechless but allowed Kaguya to keep her hands over his eyes. But her hands were trembling quite violently.
'Had she really never seen such a scene before?'
Hina saw her 'body' right in front of her, within the passage Yusei's Susanoo had created. She quickly ran along the arm towards it.
When she touched her own form, the original 'limbs' rapidly transformed into light and merged into her body.
"This... I'm restored?"
Hina undid her clothes happily and looked at the parts below her neck. They had indeed returned to normal.
But before she could rejoice, she found the cloud platform beneath her feet collapsing. Hina instantly lost her balance and fell.
Yusei quickly caught her and brought her back into the diamond-shaped crystal on the Susanoo's forehead.
"Are you restored?"
Hina nodded happily, "Thank you, Boss."
"It's good that you're restored. In that case, let's leave..."
But before Yusei could finish, they saw the countless layers of clouds in the sky rapidly disappearing. The Sunshine Girls on them all vanished. The clear, sunny sky swiftly turned overcast and densely clouded.
"What's going on?"
Kaguya watched this scene, a bad feeling rising in her heart.
Yusei's eyes narrowed as he stared ahead. He saw a mass of energy gathering there, immensely powerful.
"It doesn't look good. Hold on tight, we're going back to the ground."
Clearly, Hina reclaiming her body had angered [Heaven], so Heaven was venting its fury towards them.
But Yusei didn't want to engage in a pointless fight. Moreover, the other party was obviously not to be trifled with. Just that vast energy was far greater than his own.
After all, this was the entire sky, and he was just one person.
But just as the Susanoo was about to move, a dragon formed from clouds within the overcast sky slammed into the Susanoo's armor.
Immediately after, an irresistible force sent the Susanoo crashing back to the earth like a cannonball.
Hayasaka was on the rooftop of the Shinomiya Family's hotel, silently gazing towards the distant mountain range where her young lady was.
Suddenly, she looked up. Before she could even see what it was, she saw a large object crash directly into that mountain range.
Boom!
The tremendous sound was audible even from such a distance.
"Ojou-sama?!"
She remembered clearly that Kaguya, along with Yusei and Hina, had gone over there.
The ground trembled, the vibration arriving slightly later than the sound. Feeling the tremor, Hayasaka quickly held onto the railing.
This sudden, earthquake-like event threw the entire city into tension.
In Japan, which was prone to earthquakes, a sudden tremor didn't cause much panic, but a certain level of tension was inevitable.
Following their drilled knowledge, the citizens began evacuating to shelters.
As for Yusei, who had caused all this, he was unaware of the commotion. Right now, he felt as if his internal organs had been rearranged.
At the last moment, he had used all his defense to stabilize Kaguya and Hina, ensuring they wouldn't suffer the full impact.
"What was that thing?"
Yusei coughed, the blue energy around him slowly fading. The massive Susanoo disappeared, leaving only a giant human-shaped crater in the ground.
He checked on Kaguya and Hina beside him. Seeing they were only unconscious and unharmed, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Haruko had been held in the Susanoo's hand the whole time. Now that the energy had dissipated, she fell to the ground but seemed to be alive.
Yusei had no energy left to deal with her. He helped Kaguya and Hina up. The area was now a scene of ruins. The car they came in was gone, and even the village had been completely destroyed.
Taking out his phone, Yusei called Hayasaka, asking her to send a helicopter to pick them up.
The power of [Heaven] from before was truly astonishing. Even Yusei felt his Complete Body Susanoo couldn't resist it, otherwise he wouldn't have been smashed into the ground in one hit.
"That was close. I just hope it doesn't pursue us..." Yusei wiped non-existent cold sweat from his brow.
Unfortunately, what Yusei didn't expect was that the overcast clouds, which should have been at ten thousand meters, now seemed alive, pressing downwards.
Clearly, the other party had no intention of letting them go, of letting Hina, who had taken back her body, escape. To 'it', Hina was a 'thief'.
The way these dark clouds dealt with a 'thief' was obviously not as simple as handing them over to the police.
"What a troublesome fellow." Yusei muttered, setting his phone to a mode that could receive signals. He would wait for Hayasaka to simply fly the helicopter over to rescue them.
As for him... he would have to work a little harder, charging straight into the overcast sky.
Blue energy rose. The massive Tengu Warrior formed and swiftly flew towards the sky, crashing fiercely into the black cloud dragon, shattering it.
Without Kaguya and Hina by his side, Yusei could fight more freely. Having absorbed a considerable amount of lightning energy earlier, he was now at full strength.
Yusei never intended to fight this formless [Heaven] and its clouds head-on. His goal was merely to buy time until Hayasaka could take Kaguya and Hina away.
Flying above the cloud layer... Yusei plunged into the overcast clouds. He immediately noticed the air around him seemed to be becoming viscous.
Before Yusei could investigate what was happening, immense pressure bore down on him. The air around him trembled, faintly carrying a roaring sound.
"...How... dare..."
The broken words were incomplete, but they were enough for Yusei to understand the [Heaven's] anger.
"What wouldn't I dare?" Yusei sneered. Since this mass of clouds had consciousness, there was no need to keep quiet. Taunting it a bit was acceptable.
A blue longsword materialized in the Susanoo's hand, and Yusei charged forward directly. He still needed to buy a little more time for Hayasaka to get the two of them away.