[color=f49ac2][center][h2]Gyuuki[/h2]
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The walk went on for a while, Gyuuki noticed that a lot of the human students would stare at her at times and whisper things to their friends, only once she heard what they were saying and it was about how they hoped they wouldn’t meet her in the ruins and how she probably ate humans considering she was a Youkai and all. [color=f6989d]“Silly humans, I’m vegetarian”[/color] she thought, dismissing the insult.

Finally they arrived at the borders of the ruined city and more clear instructions were given. They would need to cross the city and find a Tarot card under a time limit. When the talk about donuts started it completely hypnotized the ox demon [color=f6989d]“Yush, I will get the Fool’s Carrot Card”[/color] she said to herself, her ears and tail wagging in excitement.

She turned her head to ask Kurenai what a carrot card was, but alas, by then the red bladesman was gone. Not only her actually, almost all of the other participants had entered the city by now, she couldn’t find Juniper, the sleeping girl or even that one flower youkai either. She sighed [color=f6989d]“I only hope that the cards are not only on tall places”[/color]

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The exploration had been oddly peaceful so far, but by now Gyuuki knew there was danger, the sounds of other battles echoed through the deserted town, none close to her, but still a sign of what was to come.

At one point she came across a very lengthy building, while most grew vertically this one went horizontally through a few blocks, it also didn’t look completely damaged, some wreckage moving would be necessary but not too much. Since it had two stories at most it looked like a good way to avoid the open streets for a little while.

She didn’t even imagine what a mall was, for her this place was odd, full of narrow corridors filled side by side with small rooms full of random stuff like ovens, shoes, beds, toys. All of the decayed stores were creepy, but only one managed to scare her, a room full of mostly broken and decomposing mannequins. Once she noticed that they were just old objects the youkai laughed it off.

A few steps later, Gyuuki saw another one of those mannequins behind a few shelves, alone and almost intact. [color=f6989d]“Oh, this one didn’t decay? That can’t be. Maybe it is a clue to the card?”[/color] she said to herself. She walked closer to it, and when she was a step away she noticed it had a blade. 

She almost didn’t have the time to sidestep as it slashed said blade in her direction. [color=f6989d]“What the..”[/color] she didn’t know what that was but she was going to have to take it down. The youkai used a palm strike, but all that it did was to almost injury her wrist, the thing was made of metal.

The robot went for another sword slash, this time however Gyuuki was aware of the combat and she managed to block the arm before it could fully move, she pressed her legs against the thing and used all of her force to disjoint the arm. After a loud ZAP the arm lost its energy and the sword fell to the ground, the robot tried to grab Gyuuki’s leg but she avoided it and immediately followed it with a calf quick which made the robot lose its balance and kneel down. 

Finally the Ox demon raised her leg up and delivered an axe kick, breaking down the odd machine. [color=f6989d]“And that is why I hate machin…”[/color] before she could even end her phrase a shot of light flew close to her face. Another one of the robots, this time it had a gun and it had positioned itself over the shelves.

The youkai pushed the shelves, making they fall over in a domino effect. The robot was expecting such move and it somersaulted, landing on its feet on the collapsed shelf and ready to shoot. What the robot was not expecting however was that Gyuuki was strong enough to throw the first shelf in his direction as soon as it jumped. It crashed on the robot not harming it but making it loses its focus. The damage would come next, as Gyuuki managed to get close to the machine.

She heard the sound of a door opening in the back of the store, more of these things were coming, so she would have to be quick with this one and not give it the time to react. A left jab first, then left hook, finally she cross punched its head. All the metal did was crack a bit, these things were awfully resistant. But so was Gyuuki, who as soon as the punches ended did a back kick, the already cracked head finally breaking as it met the ox-demon’s hooves.

She immediately turned to the back door expecting to meet more armed enemies, but there was nothing. She stared at it with suspicion and started to walk slowly towards it. Then a sound of something hitting a wall echoed from deep within the room, perhaps this bait could have worked when the ruined mall was somewhat active, but on the absolute silence of these ruins and after she saw how sneaky those things were, said sound had no reason to exist. 

Still, Gyuuki pretended that she was going to walk into the room. Since the sound was on the back it was supposed to make her rush forward and ignore anything close to the door, so it was easy to guess the positions of the ambusher. She kept walking until she was a few steps away from the door, then she charged forward and jumped. She saw two things moving, so she went for a scissor kick, hitting one on the torso and other, who was crouching, on the head.


The one hit on the face fell to the ground malfunctioning, the other had only flinched and dropped its gun. She started to spin to get the momentum for another attack, but a sudden sting and the subsequent shock stopped her. She looked back and saw a mechanical sphere floating behind her and another dart being shot by it. Gyuuki tried to move to kick it but her legs were stiff and almost unresponsive, she needed a ranged option.

The functional robot tried to pick his gun on the ground, but the youkai reached him and grabbed his arm. In reaction, the robot used the free hand to punch Gyuuki on the face, she willingly took the hit and used the chance to grab another arm. She then swung the enemy across the room, throwing it into the flying robot’s direction. 

The spherical machine maneuvered to dodge it while also trying to stay out of Gyuuki’s range. However the room was small and Gyuuki was 1.9 meters tall, a desperate lunge was enough for the Ox-demon to reach for the sphere, spiking it to the ground as if it was a handball. 

Due to the lunge the youkai fell to the ground, her legs still unresponsive due to the shock. Thankfully the spherical robot looked like it was broke, the robot she threw however was starting to move again. If it managed to stand up she would be done for. 

The ox-demon lets out a scream and uses her hands to jump forward, she grabs the robot’s foot and pulls it towards her, however before she could punch it, the machine managed to defend itself by starting a struggle as the two fighter's hands met. Gyuuki could see the robot starting to get a better footing than she, she needed to kill it now, yet she had no free hands and her legs were unresponsive.

[color=f6989d]“HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA”[/color]

While screaming like a beast, the ox-demon dives her head against the machine. Her horn gores the abdomen of the enemy, she used it to trash circuits and wires and she kept doing it for a while, even after the lights of the robot turned off and it fell to the ground.

[color=f6989d]“Heh, this time, I didn’t lose my horn”[/color] still laying on the ground, she remembered a similar situation in her first battle.

[color=f6989d]“This was such a close call, I need to train more. But first I need to get into the academy, get my donuts, get the carrot card and get these cables out of my horn, gah, this is why I hate machines”[/color] she commented, praying that her legs would get better soon