(Thank you very much to 'Lei Xiang', 'Yume no Shouyou', and 'Wei Zhi De Yue Ding' for your tips!)
"Rip..."
As the tearing sound rang out, it was as though every sound in the entire area had been muted, vanishing without a trace...
Below, Mikoto, Rin Tohsaka, Luvia, Illya, Miyu, and the others looked up toward the rooftop, their mouths slightly open in astonishment.
Not only the other girls, but even Hinagiku, who had swung Bai Ying down, was slightly taken aback.
Hinagiku had naturally controlled both the force and direction of that strike. At most, it should have left Xiao Hei with nothing more than a superficial wound.
Yet when the sword came down, what answered the tearing sound was not Xiao Hei's cry of pain or the spray of crimson blood, but scattered scraps of clothing drifting around her and blowing away on the wind...
With a gasp, Xiao Hei unleashed a burst of magical power from her wrist, blowing apart the iron-sand whip wrapped around it. Then she flashed away, retreating beneath a tree below.
However, Xiao Hei's current state left all the girls rooted to the spot.
Her skin was dark like unprocessed chocolate, yet it gleamed with a smooth luster so dazzling it was hard to look at directly.
A pair of slender legs supported a body as fragile as a meticulously crafted glass ornament. Combined with her dark skin, she looked like a blazing flame, exuding a wild charm.
But that wild body was now completely naked...
Bare as could be...
Her unusual clothes had been reduced to a few tattered remnants, nowhere near enough to cover her modesty!
At the instant Bai Ying was about to strike Xiao Hei's body, Xiao Hei had instinctively drawn herself back.
As a result, because Hinagiku had