Nanami kept on shuffling his blade before he slammed his foot harshly on the ground lunging towards Geto. Nanami swung his blade at Geto until a curse formed in front of the blade blocking the attack. Nanami stares at his blade crushing the cursed spirit as purple blood spews out.
The purple blood rains on top of Geto as he grins wildly, Geto bends his knees before dashing back while waving his hand, and instantly a rhino with two heads is summoned before it storms toward Nanami. Nanami tracks the rhino with his eyes before tilting his blade blocking the charging rhino, Nanami grits his teeth as his feet slide back from the powerful curse pushing him, as Nanami is pushed back, two bird curses form above Geto and fly at Nanami.
The birds twirl around each other as Nanami twists his forearm and deflects the charging rhino off of him, the rhino slides past Nanami. The rhino turns around and watches Nanami in a single swift motion slice the birds in half, the bodies of the birds begin to fall to the ground before they glow bright orange, Nanami's eyes widen as he crosses his arms blocking an explosion that entirely engulfs Nanami, covering his body in smog.
Nanami breathes heavily as the dust cloud from the explosion is blown away by a gust of wind. Nanami stares at Geto staring at him cockily before he smacks his lips annoyed before lunging toward Geto. Geto puts up a guard as Nanami leaps into the air, swinging his blade down at Geto's head. Geto quickly twirls his feet gracefully dodging the swing. Nanami's body slides past Geto before Nanami twists his body and is about to swing his blade again until a powerful elbow slams into his chin.
The elbow forces Nanami to stumble back before a palm slams into Nanami's nose. The force of the palm busts open Nanami's nose, causing blood to gush out of it. Nanami wipes his nose and regains his balance before swinging his blade but his attack narrowly misses Geto's jugular before a knee slams into Nanami's wrist making him drop the blade.
The blade rattles on the ground as Nanami shakes his hand in pain before tightly gripping his fists together, throwing a jab followed by an overhand at Geto. Geto parries the jab before slipping the overhand. Geto grins wildly as he pivots using his lead leg, before throwing a high kick at Nanami.
The kick sails through the air before Nanami's left-hand flickers, catching the kick. Nanami holds onto Geto's calf tightly before he throws a leg kick. The powerful kick slams into Geto's leg tripping him to the ground. Nanami lets go of Geto's leg before trying to stomp on his face.
Geto smirks before rolling out of the way of the stomp. Geto rolls back onto his feet and throws a lightning-fast palm at Nanami. Nanami barely slips the palm before Geto pulls back his arm, grabbing onto the back of Nanami's neck.
Geto tightly grasped Nanami's neck, throwing a powerful knee into Nanami's chest, making him crouch over in pain until Nanami swung his left arm smacking Geto's hand off his neck.
Nanami grits his teeth in pain before throwing an uppercut at Geto. Geto stares at the punch before leaning back, however, the punch still grazes Geto's chin, making him stumble. As Geto stumbles Nanami dashes back while dragging his hand on the ground, grabbing onto his blade lying on the ground before coming to a stop, around ten feet away from Geto.
Nanami breathes heavily, as Geto starts to playfully hop on the balls of his feet. Nanami grits his teeth annoyed before he dashes towards Geto swinging his blade. The blade inches closer to Geto's face until a painful sharp pain ripples through Nanami's body. Nanami spits out blood as a loud thud ripples out. Nanami's body is launched back flipping through the air.
Nanami repeatedly bounces off the ground before he slams his feet into the ground coming to a grinding stop. Nanami stands for a few more seconds until he drops to one knee. Nanami stares at the rhino cursed spirit standing next to Geto before it fades away. Geto slowly approaches the kneeling Nanami with a cocky grin on his face.
" Don't think I don't see through your plan Nanami, I just wanted to see how well my hand-to-hand matches yours. Of course, I guess I did technically cheat using my curse manipulation. "
Says Geto, the plan Geto was speaking of was a simple one. Nanami planned on stalling for time until other sorcerers came to the mountain to back him up. Nanami let out a worried grin until the sound of several footsteps entered his ears. He and Geto looked over towards the noise and saw Inumaki and Panda running up a dirt path being followed by several sorcerers.
Seeing the sorcerers arriving Geto quickly waves his hand as a massive white bird forms. Geto walks up the wing of the bird as the sorcerers stare at him. Geto glances at the sorcerers before talking.
"Unfortunately, you joined the party late. So, sayonara. "
Geto says waving his hand. Before the sorcerers could react the bird flapped its wings shooting up into the dark sky. The sorcerers look up into the sky and are about to do something until Nanami suddenly speaks.
" You don't need to do anything. It went just as I expected it to, but tell Qeru to come here. I need to give her something. "...
Around an hour later, Geto's bird could be seen landing next to the log cabin. Mimiko and Nanako walk out of the log house and wave towards Geto. Geto walks off the bird's wings as the curse starts to fade away.
" So? How fast did the sorcerers react? "
Ask Mimiko.
" Not bad, but their response was still a bit shabby. It took them ten minutes to respond. "
Says Geto until he yawns and speaks to Mimiko.
" But go tell everyone this is the last day in the cabin. We need to get back to slaughtering those monkeys. I'm sure thousands of them have already been born during our break. "...
Ten hours later, a group of sorcerers could be seen riding in a black limo. Nanami and ten other sorcerers were driving down a dirt path. A black-haired woman had her eyes closed and was holding onto a piece of hair. She snapped her eyes open before speaking.
" We're here. "
Nanami nodded his head before opening the door of the Limo. The woman holding onto the hair was named Qeru. Her cursed technique involved tracking. If she gets her hands on a piece of the target, she could track their movements for three days. After three days, she needs to get a new piece of the target.
Nanami steps out of the limo before seeing a log cabin. Nanami begins to walk toward the log cabin. After walking up the wooden stairs, Nanami twists open the door and enters the cabin. Nanami looks around but sees nothing, except a pool table with two pool cues resting on it.
Nanami walks deeper into the cabin before he notices a fireplace, he walks over to it and crouches over, Nanami reaches down and grabs onto ash. The ash was still slightly warm, meaning that Geto and his group had only recently left.
Nanami hears the other sorcerers entering the cabin before Qeru speaks to him.
" I'm sorry, it seems they left. My technique is now telling me their more north. "
Nanami quickly responded to her.
"It's fine, we can always keep on tracking them. But we need to search through the cabin and maybe we can find some clues about their next attack. "
Quero and the other sorcerers nod their heads and quickly start searching through the cabin...
Five minutes later, a few miles north of the cabin, in the sky. A massive white bird curse could be seen flying through the sky, with Mute, Geto, and the others standing on it. Geto and Mute were having a conversation, as Mimiko and Nanako argued.
" So, you're saying that water is nasty? "
Said Mimiko with a confused look on her face. Nanako just nodded her head before responding to Mimiko.
" Yes, it has no taste to it. "
Mimiko let out a loud sigh and was about to say something until Geto suddenly looked south, stopping his conversation with Mute. Everyone stared at Geto confused until Miguel spoke with a concerned look on his face.
"What's wrong, Geto? "...
Four minutes prior back at the cabin. The cabin was ransacked. Drawers and doors were wide open as the sorcerers looked through the cabin. Nanami was walking through the cabin trying to find a single clue.
He walked over to a wooden table before he tilted his head noticing an empty picture frame. Nanami walked over towards the picture frame sensing weird energy leaking off of it. Nanami grabbed onto his picture frame lifting it off the table.
Nanami stared at the picture frame before his eyes widened and he threw it on the floor breaking it. The other sorcerers looked at him confused as he looked at them and screamed.
" Everyone get out of the cabin! "
As soon as Nanami finished screaming a massive amount of cursed energy started to swirl in the middle of the room as a curse began to form. Following Nanami's orders the sorcerers rushed out of the cabin as the curse silhouette started to form.
The curse formed in front of Nanami was a second-grade curse. Massive wings spurted out of its back. The cursed skin was grayish, it had long black fingernails, and its face was shaped like a bug. Antennas were on top of the curse's head.
Sweat rolled down Nanami's face as the curse looked at him making a clicking sound with its mouth. While the curse made the noise Nanami realized something about the curse. Its body was covered in cracks.
The spirit clapped his hands together as bugs started to spew out of his body. The bugs were termites. The termites buried themselves in the wooden logs of the cabin before the cursed spirit clapped again.
The termites started to glow until a massive explosion happened destroying the cabin. Debris rained down from the sky as a smoke cloud engulfed Nanami and the curse. The sorcerers stared at the smoke cloud until it moved oddly and a figure flew out of the dust.
Nanami landed back first on the ground holding the curse's arm. Blood poured down Nanami's face. Nanami gingerly stood back up before tossing the curse's arm on the ground.
" That was close, that curse was meant to kill everyone in the house, like a suicide bomber, but luckily that explosion killed the curse. "
Said Nanami looking over at the sorcerer, Geto had laid a trap for anyone who found the cabin. If it was a regular person, they would never notice the curse energy coming off the picture frame but if it was a sorcerer, they would surely notice.
Nanami stood motionless breathing heavily...
Back on the cursed spirit bird in the sky, Geto was still staring south with a grin on his face. He just felt someone activate his trap. Geto continued to stare south until he spoke.
" It looks like the sorcerers have a means to track us. "...