Tanuki Rise of the Yokai Clan

In this first exchange, Danuki should be the one who had the advantage.

Why?

Because Danuki's frame was much bigger than Tamazuki's, while Tamazuki, who was in his 2nd year of middle school, was just around 170 cm, Danuki was massive. If they stood next to each other, his height was just slightly above his father's balls.

In the close combat confrontation, Danuki should be able to crush Tamazuki to pieces, yet in reality, he was slightly pushed, and his face twitched because of the pain. While partly because he didn't get serious at first, considering Tamazuki was his favorite son, he wondered whether Tamazuki's strength was above his.

However, this wasn't the truth.

Without a doubt, Danuki's strength was above Tamazuki's. The only reason why Tamazuki had the upper hand was because of his technique, ability, and his almost perfect-like control of "Osore." The combination of the three and his enhanced physical ability, which he trained and inherited from his father and mother, whose physical abilities were on the supernatural level, brought his punch to another whole level.

While Danuki was slightly underestimating him and didn't get serious because Tamazuki was his son, Tamazuki was only slightly serious, but still, he wasn't serious since if he was serious, he would create a hole in Danuki's fist instead of a little pain.

Still, soon, Danuki knew why Tamazuki had the upper hand.

Tamazuki's body was in metallic color, showing he was using his shape-shifting ability to turn his skin into a metal-like substance, increasing defense and attack at the same time. Moreover, his technique was trained to perfection until he could use it as easily as he breathed. He used his entire muscles, torque, and rotational on his body, giving more damage to his attack. More importantly, the "Osore" on his fist was so dense!

"What's wrong, Father? You are going to lose, you know?" Tamazuki teased.

"....."

"IT'S A LITTLE TOO EARLY FOR YOU TO WIN, LITTLE SHIT!"

Danuki was furious at being teased by Tamazuki and sent out a barrage of fists covered with "Osore" to his son. Tamazuki was the same. Neither of them dodged, and they exchanged their fists with fists, giving heavy blows to each other bodies with all of their might, showing a slugfest between the two most powerful youkais in the Shikoku!

Their fight caused many to exclaim since the earth gouged and the impact blasted everything, causing many of them who were in the 100 meters of vicinity to run away. Yet this battle caused the hearts of all of them to boil. Still, no one dared to let out a voice from their lips since they were afraid to interrupt their battle.

"AAAAAAAAHHH!"

"AAAAAAAAHHH!"

As the two let out a roar, Danuki jumped and backed off, giving up the confrontation with his son since he could tell if he continued, the bones on his fists would break apart. However, Tamazuki chased after him without giving him a moment to breathe.

Danuki didn't show mercy this time and smashed his huge jug of sake into Tamazuki's head.

Tamazuki didn't dodge either and just smashed the jug into pieces with his fist, but at this moment, Danuki sent a kick into his body. He quickly raised his arms and blocked this attack, yet the force of this kick, threw him far away and crushed him into several trees until he stopped, but even so, he stood up as if nothing had happened.

With the distance separating them, the two stared into each other.

Unlike their previous appearance, their current appearance was far from their previous appearance.

Still, Danuki was much worse since he was covered by wounds, and his nose was bloody. His son's punches packed a massive impact, and each of them caused his bones to tremble. Somehow, he believed that his son might be the strongest close-range combatant among all the Tanuki or even all the youkai.

"Tamazuki, you have developed a good ability."

"Thank you."

The "Full-Metal" was a good ability for the Tanuki since it enhanced their defense and attack and fully optimized their advantage on their physical ability.

"But Tanuki isn't all about this!"

Saying those words, Danuki suddenly disappeared.

"...eh?"

Everyone was dumbfounded. Disappear? The commander has disappeared?! While many were surprised, the old generation knew about what Danuki did.

"Ah, the commander has used that ability."

"No one can win with that."

"Yes, this ability is just too strong."

Invisibility.

This was Danuki's most prized ability. While Tamazuki had the upper hand, and it wouldn't be weird of him to win, as long as Danuki used his invisibility, it was impossible for him to win!

Yet, watching his father, who suddenly disappeared and became invisible, Tamazuki knew he had underestimated Tanuki's shape-shifting ability. While he could turn his skin into a steel-like substance, his father could turn his body invisible.

As soon as Danuki became invisible, he didn't hesitate and punched his son. Without a doubt, he was angry about being beaten by his son, so he released that emotion into his son annoyedly. During their confrontation, he had never had the upper hand, and Tamazuki had always seemed calm, so his pride got a little ahead of him.

Danuki knew that the Shikoku Youkai had already been controlled by Tamazuki, more or less. Even many of his siblings also had given up on the throne of the commander since it was impossible to steal it from him. He knew that, and this was why he accepted this battle. He knew Tamazuki's momentum couldn't be stopped, so he was going to pave the way for him to lead his inheritance. However, before that, Danuki was going to give his all!

Yet, as creatures of darkness, how could they fight fairly like a knight in the storybook?

Naturally, many of them used dirty tricks and used everything to their advantage. It was the case with Nurarihyon, and similarly, his father was the same.

'Those old farts, none of them are good.'

He wanted to curse them, but he was going to end this duel soon. Yet, at this moment, everyone was worried, thinking that he would lose. When his father turned invisible, no one thought that Tamazuki would win since Danuki's ability was too tricky, yet who would have thought...

Suddenly, Danuki's fist was caught by Tamazuki's palm.

"......."

Danuki was stunned, but his belly was smashed.

"Ugh!"

Danuki almost vomited all the things on his stomach before he clutched his belly painfully and looked at his son in disbelief.

"H-how?"

How did Tamazuki crack his invisibility?

Tamazuki only pointed at his nose.

"Even if you can make yourself invisible, I can still smell your scent. If it's another youkai and even another tanuki, you might be able to win, but not me."

If it was another youkai, they would be panicked and unable to do anything before being beaten by his father senselessly, but for him, who was trained while being blinded by Yosuzume's ability, his father's invisibility was nothing. Compared to the world of darkness, his father's invisibility was tame.

Danuki was speechless, but he also understood the weakness of this ability.

"Hmph! Even so, it's too early for you to win!"

"The moment you said that I was going to win, you had lost!"

"Bastard, let me teach you manners!"

In the end, everything returned to the previous slugfest. When one punches the other punch. When one received a punch, the other was the same. No one was holding back, and neither was backing down, but in the end, Danuki fell to the ground and lost.

Tamazuki pressed his nose and blew his nose to release the blood stuck on his nose. His face and body were also full of brushes because of Danuki's punch.

"...you have won."

Danuki, who lay on the ground, looked at his son with a complex mood. He was happy that his son was strong, but he also felt a little sad that he had lost.

"Please leave the Shikoku Youkai to me." His voice was calm and dignified.

"Un."

Danuki sighed, but he stood up slowly, letting Tamazuki help him, then while facing each other, he nodded. "From now on, you are the commander of the Shikoku Youkai."

"Thank you, Father."

His position was confirmed, and he had become the commander of the Shikoku Youkai.

Hearing those words, everyone was happy.

"Yahoo, congratulations, Tamazuki-sama!"

"Amazing!"

"Commander! Commander!"

Yet, when everyone was happy, a single sound quieted down everything.

*Bang!*

"This battle is invalid!"