聖闘士星矢 : Invasion of the Sea

CHAPTER 7

Megalodon Arawa looked around.

God damn...Where'd that bastard go?

He was talking about the god warrior he had been chasing after. The god warrior seemed to have the speed like a whirlwind, and Arawa would have lost track of him entirely if he hadn't the skill to trace where his prey had gone.

As he focused, he could sense the faint trace of cosmo that went in the direction of the thickly grown trees. Arawa raced in that direction as fast as he could, and eventually found an old, ruined down castle.

It was the typical old castle that could be found anywhere in Asgard, but this one has one major characteristic. The whole place was decorated with emblems of wolves, and the Mariner faintly recalled a legendary wolf in the Norse Legend. Fenrir, was it?

But that didn't matter now, he had to track down the quick-moving god warrior. But when he approached the gate, he saw a hole gaping in one of the pillars, with a cracked emblem with gold emboss of a wolf lying on the snow near it.

For he sensed that something that emanated cosmo used to be there, but it was missing now.

No way...He stared in disbelief. He had his hands on the god robe already...?!

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The narrow footholds on the cliff wall would have been impossible for anyone to use them to pass through the ravine, but Narfe did not think so — and he was sure that Vale would think so too. They had been trained to go over harsh terrains, so a cliff wall amounted to almost nothing to them.

As he leapt from the tree stump that had tried in vain to grow on the snow covered wall, Narfe sensed an unfamiliar presence near them. He turned, alarmed, just as a shadow passed right beside him, aiming an attack at the god warrior.

"Narfe!!" Vale stopped short beside him, surprised.

Instead of replying, Narfe immediately reached his hand out, intending to retaliate with an attack of his own.

"Viking Tiger Claw!!"

The stranger vaulted over Narfe's hand smoothly and landed on the clifftop, looking down at the twins with a haughty air. Narfe's jaws tightened in surprise when he realised it was a woman.

"Eh?" Vale, who'd joined his brother next to him, looked up in surprise. "A female marine general?"

"You got a problem with that?" the marina asked in a vexed tone. She launched herself off the cliff and with incredible speed attacked the twins.

"Hornet's Sting!!"

Narfe immediately avoided the attack, but Vale clumsily leapt off—fortunately he did not fall into the ravine but managed to land on a narrow foothold.

"Blue Impulse!!"

Narfe attacked the marina, his right fist wrapped in blue light, but the marina disappeared so quickly that it was difficult to not think that she had teleported. She reappeared behind Narfe, ready to strike him down.

"Not so fast, lady!"

Vale had come to his brother's aid at the last minute. The Marina turned sharply as Vale leapt behind him, his claws in the air.

"Viking Tiger Claw!!"

Again, she avoided the attack smoothly, even though she was clearly exhausted by the tag teamed blows from the Zeta twins.

"Interesting," she said, eyeing both of them with sharp, eagle-like eyes. "Nice teamwork."

Narfe did not like where this was going. If this continued, they would never find the Zeta Robe, and that was the top priority. But they couldn't very well ignore the presence of this marina. Narfe hesitated for a moment, before tossing his Zeta Rune Stone to Vale.

"Huh?"

"Take that with you and find the robe," Narfe told him. "I'll deal with the Marine General here."

Vale looked at him, and immediately understood what his brother was thinking. Vale immediately turned to continue his journey.

"You are not going anywhere!!" The female general was about to go after Vale, but an explosion of blue light near her prompted her to stop.

Narfe met her eye as she looked in his direction.

"Your opponent is me."