"You're pretty capable!"
From within the mist, where vision could not reach, came Black Assassin's clear voice as she tossed out a handful of concealed weapons. For an Assassin of her type, hidden weapons were a required subject.
"Don't underestimate me, Black Assassin!" Mordred knocked every concealed weapon aside with a single swing of her sword. Like a beast baring its fangs at an enemy, she snarled, "You're no hero at all. You're just a murderer, Jack the Ripper!"
"Huh? How did you know our True Name? That's so strange!" Jack's voice sounded beside Mordred's ear. The voice that some found quite pleasant was, to Mordred right now, as irritating as a buzzing fly.
Thanks to Jack the Ripper's Noble Phantasm, "The Mist," visibility here was now practically on par with Doraemon's. Combined with Assassin's class skill, "Presence Concealment," Jack had been able to approach Mordred without her noticing.
"You're seriously annoying, brat!"
Mordred violently jerked her shoulder, trying to throw off the assassin clinging to it. Yet Jack landed lightly on all fours like an agile cat.
"Hey, hey, hey, hey! Since you already know our True Name, tell us yours too!"
"In your dreams!" Mordred stepped forward and slammed her demonic sword down hard where Jack had just been.
A dull clang of metal striking the ground rang out. As expected, Mordred's blow had missed.
Jack's Agility was A-rank. Although her Master was an ordinary person who could not provide her with much mana—
"Jack the Ripper" possessed the traits of a murderer, making her Soul Eater ability extremely efficient. Even with Rokudou Reika, an amateur in terms of magical energy supply, as her Master, she could maintain front-line combat strength through constant killing.
Meanwhile, because Mordred was inside the enemy's bounded field, both her Agility and sense