Yashakiden: The Demon Princess, Volume 4 Omnibus Edition by Hideyuki Kikuchi

Author:Hideyuki Kikuchi
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Digital Manga Publishing

“They’re surrounded. They can’t get out!” Kajiwara stared out the window of the helicopter and shouted, “Let’s do something!” He reached into his pocket and said to the remaining guards, “Open the door. I’m going.”

“You can’t, Mr. Mayor. It’s too dangerous! Not with those bastards out there. Backup should be arriving from Totsuka Station any moment!”

“We can’t wait that long. Hey, cameraman, can you still operate that thing?”

“No problem!” the cameraman promised. He’d whacked his head during the emergency landing and was still a little woozy. “You going out there yourself? Damn, no way I’m missing that shot!”

“Well, keep the camera on me. Open it up!”

The perilous intel from the Pentagon vanished from Kajiwara’s mind. When it came to the pursuit of public honors, he would always work the situation so as to magnify his excellence as a public servant.

The door slid open. The fanged faces formed a solid wall before him.

“Get away!”

For Kajiwara, this was a once in a lifetime moment on the stage. Like the lion bowing to the lion tamer’s whip, the blood-lusting voting public slunk back. High over his head, the mayor held a somewhat shriveled peach.

As he descended from the helicopter, Kajiwara felt himself hesitate. The vampires mobbed him like a movie star, but it wasn’t his autograph they were after. This was the first time he’d felt such a looming, inescapable threat.

“Fucking A,” the mayor grumbled to himself, an expletive very much unlike him, and stepped onto the ground.

With their eyes on the vampires, the cameraman and guardsman followed after him.

“You got that?” Kajiwara asked over his shoulder.

“Got it!”

“Good. Now get back on!”

“What?”

“Get on board and haul me up on my signal!”

Confirming that the two had returned to the helicopter, Kajiwara scowled at the vampires around him. He grinned, leaned forward, then reared back, his throwing arm tracing an arc through the air.

The cameraman figured it out first. An image rose to his mind from his files on Kajiwara. Many decades ago, Yoshitake Kajiwara had pitched for Shinjuku High School at the Koshien National Baseball Championships.

The summer sun slanted off the sweep of his hand. A roar rose from the crowds in the stands. Kajiwara was going to make that peach the pitch of a lifetime.

In that instant, the earth shook. Everybody there turned his attention across the crowded street. The cordon grew larger in circumference. A dark brown lump rose up from the ground. It was the trunk of a giant tree.

A spider web of cracks branched out through the sidewalk as the fat roots reached out, groaning like some bellowing beast stretching its limbs.

Kajiwara and all the vampires stared dumbfounded as black lines reached out into empty air. The bottoms of the lines were dotted with bright plump spheres.

“Aiiyee!” A very unladylike shriek split the air. The tree shook. The heavily-laden branches rained the fruit down on the heads of the demons.

Hundreds of peaches.

Fewer screams than might be expected. Such was the excruciating assault on their senses that they fell wordlessly to the ground and lay there spasming and twitching.

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