Returned from Another World, Earth Turned Out to Be Quite the Fantasy Too. Also, Losing Heroines, Stop Looking This Way. - V5 Chapter 58

Chapter 58: “Creative Differences, Right?”

“Uh—time out. Sorry, hold up.”

“Uh… o-okay?”

The oni, too stunned to react, just blinked as Natsuki suddenly called for a break.

Thrown off by the whole situation, they ended up nodding without thinking.

Ignoring them completely, Natsuki turned back to his allies.

“Okay, seriously—Koume-chan, Senju-san, Yusuke-kun. Remember that planning session we had on the bullet train? Shinonon only joined last-minute, so fine, he gets a pass. But why the hell are all our team names different?! This is literally the kind of thing that makes teams disband! Like, for real!”

“Why the hell are you assuming we’d all happily be disciples of Kappas and just roll with that as our team theme?!”

“No, no, no, no! Beautiful Girl Sentai? Koume-chan aside, none of us are beautiful girls! Senju-san, you’re hogging the ‘mystic eye’ thing all to yourself! And Yusuke-kun—you’ve got to drop the self-pity angle, man, it’s just depressing!”

“Kappas don’t even have anything to do with us!”

“Hey, hey, the mystic eye’s non-negotiable. It’s my charm point!”

“And if I don’t emphasize my ‘tragic otherworld trauma,’ then what’s my identity supposed to be?!”

“…Yusuke-kun, this is sad. You need counseling. Like, real counseling.”

“Well, hey, maybe something good will come out of this. Y’know… like the Mama Lilith situation.”

“You’re the one who needs to go to a psychiatrist after we’re done in Kyoto!”

While Natsuki’s group was busy bickering and consoling each other, Shinonome had drifted a little apart, quietly gazing up at the night sky.

That’s when one of the armored oni—Hoshiguma Doji—suddenly called out.

“H-Hey! Shinonome Abe!”

“Me?”

“Yeah, you! Get over here—c’mon, hurry up!”

Beckoned over, Shinonome obediently approached.

The oni crouched down, gesturing for him to do the same, so he crouched as well.

“…What the heck? You oni don’t seem to have any sense of danger.”

“No, no, the ones with no sense of danger are you guys! Not us!”

“You ambush us, and then you start fighting amongst yourselves over something dumb like ‘creative differences’?!”

“Bea bea!”

“See? Even Kuma Doji’s telling you to hold a proper strategy meeting first!”

“…Sorry, but all I heard was ‘bea bea.’”

“That’s ’cause only people with a pure heart can understand Kuma Doji’s words.”

“You guys are the last ones who should be talking about purity—you’ve spent centuries devouring humans!”

“What was that?! Humans kill each other all the time too! At least we said itadakimasu and gochisousama before eating—so we’re better than you!”

“You’re the most annoying oni I’ve ever met!”

For Shinonome, neither side had the moral high ground when it came to killing.

But the fact that he could even have this kind of conversation with Hoshiguma Doji and her lot made them feel all the more troublesome.

“Seriously, kids these days don’t even believe in oni anymore. Half the time they just think we’re cosplayers.”

“Yeah, like, one of my underling oni girls tried to attack a human the other day… but somehow it turned into marriage. Can you believe that? Humans are wild.”

“Bea bea!”

“…Why am I even sitting here chatting with you guys? Wait—did you just say an oni girl actually married a human?”

“It’s true, dead serious. We all went to the wedding just the other day.”

“…You guys living like normal humans now?! Don’t tell me there was some massacre at the ceremony—”

“There wasn’t! We even gave fifty thousand yen each as gifts!”

“…Bea bea.”

“And Kin Doji, who had a little crush on that oni girl? He bawled his eyes out the whole time!”

“Like I needed to know that!!”

Shinonome had no idea why he was sitting on the ground having this conversation with oni.

“Anyway—are those idiots still arguing over there?!”

Hoshiguma Doji finally lost patience and shouted.

From the group of four still huddled in a “strategy circle,” Natsuki stepped forward as their representative.

“Uh, we regret to inform you that due to creative differences, we’ve decided to disband. Thank you so much for your years of support. We’d be grateful if you’d continue to follow our solo careers from here on out.”

“Don’t make it sound like some band breaking up over creative differences, you moron!!”

〜〜Afterword〜〜

Sadly, they couldn’t become a Sentai team!

But don’t worry—the battle’s about to begin!