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Chapter 21: Inheritance Arc 5

"Weapons?" smirked Daemon Spade "Are you so unsure of your abilities as Mist users that you need weapons to defend yourselves?" he taunted
"You really don't understand do you?" Chrome casually asked, nanigata barely dodged by him and poisonous plants appearing with her powers to attack the man
"He doesn't." Mukuro confirmed "We don't define ourselves by our Flames, ghost!" a smirk "We are fighters before anything else, and will use anything we want to dispose of our enemies! Be it illusions or weapons!"

"Well," Daemon Spade answered back , a deck of playing cards materializing in his hand "I'll let you see the true powers of a master Illusionist then! And you'll understand why your weapons are futile against me!"

The next second, an Intuition check appeared in all Vongola X vision – and for nearly all of them, failed.
Boasts or not, Daemon Spade still was powerful.
The world around them faded to darkness, multiple eerie eyes glowing and while most Vongola X struggled to find up and down in the darkness, Mukuro's trident glowed in indigo Flames, and the demonic illusionist was soon taunting the old ghost "You know, with the way you're glaring at my weapon something tells me you didn't expect it to follow me in your illusion... In other words you've failed the first duty of an illusionist! You failed at totally ensnaring me!"
Daemon Spade merely snarled as an answer, then a second Flame lit up – and Chrome continued "You see, you assumed that our weapon were just that..."
"Yet you forgot that we are illusionists too. Why should a weapon only be a weapon?"

Chrome nanigata's met the floor – in a place where there hadn't even be a floor a second earlier – and the sound of the three chimes ornaments on the weapon echoed in the dark.
Then, the illusion cracked, and they were back in the real world.

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[Intuition check : 77/100: Fail]

Kazami frowned at the notification – but it wasn't unexpected in any way, Daemon Spade was well known for his proficiency in illusions after all.
And well, they had two exceptional Mists users on their side...

The darkness in which she'd fallen was broken by the sound of a small chime – and she was back into the real world, just like the others.
"Chrome's new Cambio Forma is really powerful." muttered Tsuna while getting back up – he'd fallen on the ground when they were ensnared by the dark illusion

The three chimes on her nanigata were still softly ringing, preventing any further illusion to take hold on them. With that, the three illusionists were back to fighting each other rather than trying to control the whole battle-ground...
And Kazami went back to controlling said battle-ground.

With Daemon Spade possessing a body that wasn't his, he was, whether he knew it or not, susceptible to exorcism. Which meant two things were needed mainly – separating him from his body, and preventing him from possessing any other body, or running away.

In the weeks following Enma's idea to draw out Daemon Spade, the Mystic Team had worked hard on crafting amulets attuned to the ghost – an overall protection against possession wasn't possible, but an amulet directed against one specific ghost could be done.
The fighters were taking care of weakening Daemon Spade, so that his hold on Katou Julie's body lessened – and everyone had potions at the ready to heal the poor teen possessed by the shade.
But they also had to make sure the old Mist Guardian didn't escape, and that was why she was walking across the battle field, taking care not to be seen, as she placed anchoring runes that would prevent any ghost from escaping the zone she was marking.

And so, while the Mist Guardians were battling fruitlessly, she carefully arranged her runes.

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Soon, it was clear enough to everyone that while Chrome and Mukuro could prevent the first Mist Guardian from weaving large-scale illusions, he was still taking it easy against them, and would tire of this game sooner or later.
Kazami was about half done with covering the battle-ground when Daemon Spade decided he'd played around enough.