Chương 156: A Fox Or A Rat?

The room was spacious and a perfect place to fight for someone with a spear like Lucas. Only some moonlight entered through the rooftop cracks, and most of the floor was covered in darkness. Lucas raised his head and looked at them.

"It's time to end this, won't you agree?"

"Me?" Harris looked around and pointed his finger towards himself.

"Listen! I don't know what you kids are scheming, but I'm leaving!" Just as he turned around, Stiles pushed him, making him take a few steps closer to Lucas.

"Thank you, Stiles." Lucas smiled at him, then looked at Harris.

"Why are you still hiding? Are you a fox or a rat?" Only silence remained in the room as Harris was still acting confused. Just as Lucas was about to say something else, he noticed a few dark shadowy figures emerging from the ground. He noticed that there were eight of them and he could feel that one of them was stronger than the others.

"The last tail…" Everybody's body tensed and Stiles and Scott got behind Lucas. The Oni formed a circle around them, then they all took a step forward simultaneously. Lucas got up and glanced at the girls and spoke.

"Allison, you will handle one, Malia and Lydia, you two will face one together." The girls nodded and Lucas glanced at Scott.

"If you're up to it, you can also handle one." Scott looked at the Oni, then at him and nodded solemnly, he came to help, not to stay and watch them fight. Lucas glanced at Stiles and Harris, then turned his attention towards the Oni. It was time to harvest all of them and grow stronger. You could be reading stolen content. Head to the original site for the genuine story. He took a deep breath and just as the Oni were about to step closer again, Lucas threw his spear towards the strongest of them.

"Clink!" The Oni used its sword and deflected the spear, but this achieved Lucas' objective, and his body flashed forward. Just as the other Oni were about to strike him down, his spear came back flying, and Lucas used it as a bat, sending them flying in a cloud of shadow.

"Now!" He shouted and the others took the chance to attack their target. While Lucas was keeping five Oni busy, the girls and Scott attacked their opponents. Surprisingly, Scott managed to keep up with the Oni this time. He struck sparingly, being careful about the Oni's blade, this way he could keep up with its speed and not get hit. Malia and Lydia's situation was a bit different, they didn't have much synergy as a team.

Malia's eyes turned blue and her claws came out, she swept with them right for the Oni's face. The Oni stepped sideways and slashed her back in the blink of an eye.

"Ahh!" Malia groaned in pain and took a few steps forward. Just as the Oni was about to slash her again, a silver arrow flew straight for it, if it chose to continue the attack, the Oni would most likely get killed. The Oni made the decision in a split second and dodged the arrow.

"Lydia! Malia! You need to work together!" Allison shouted angrily at them, then hurriedly flashed away from the sword that was about to strike her neck. Lydia's face trembled as she realized that Lucas was right, she wasn't quite ready, just as the pessimistic thought was going through her mind, Malia grabbed her by the shoulder and gazed into her eyes.

"We can do it! Let's show him that." Her eyes were getting wider and she nodded heavily. She needed to show that she wasn't useless. Seeing that with the corner of his eye, Lucas smiled, the most important thing was that they would build a strong will. One that would face challenges even beyond their comprehension, that way they could have a chance to get through them. Lucas then concentrated his gaze on the Oni in front of him. He had to admit that the Oni from the last Tail was clearly harder to deal with.

His eyes turned crimson red and before an Oni to his left could react, he plunged the spear right into its chest. Just as the Oni was about to ignore the attack like it always had, it suddenly froze and looked down at its chest. The spear somehow was suppressing its ability to turn into a shadow, and just as Lucas wanted to finish it for good, two Oni attacked him from left and right, and another pulled the embedded Oni from his spear. Lucas spun the spear and deflected all the incoming swords.

He then looked at his spear and his lips raised slightly.

"I knew I could count on you."