"Bang bang bang bang bang—!"
Amid the unceasing explosions, the ground, as though struck by one violent bolt of lightning after another, shattered, collapsed, and disintegrated, becoming unrecognizable in an instant.
"Whoosh—!"
Karna, his entire body wreathed in flames, flashed out from the raging lightning with a few lingering arcs of electricity and retreated rapidly.
"Screech—!"
Yet, almost at the same moment, Minamoto no Yorimitsu, her entire body crackling with lightning, charged forward fiercely. Like a bolt of light, she caught up to Karna in the blink of an eye.
"Haaahhhhh!"
Letting out a cry like that of an oni god, Minamoto no Yorimitsu's eyes glowed red. As if possessed, she suddenly slashed toward Karna.
"...!"
Without hesitation, Karna raised the Divine Spear in his hand.
"Clang—!"
Amid an ear-splitting clash, a fierce gust exploded outward like a shockwave.
"Haaahhhhh!"
Minamoto no Yorimitsu did not pause in the slightest. Her katana blazed with lightning as she launched a frenzied assault on Karna, like streaks of racing thunder.
"Clang clang clang clang clang—!"
Violent clashes that shook the air rang out.
Minamoto no Yorimitsu kept swinging her blade at Karna, again and again, making wild lightning flash and fierce winds spread as though the heavens were collapsing and a torrential storm had descended.
Karna swung the Divine Spear in his hand, blocking each incoming savage slash, but he was forced back again and again. For a time, he had actually been reduced to the defensive.
Before long, however, that defense suddenly crumbled.
"Slash—!"
At a certain moment, accompanied by the sound of flesh tearing, a katana that traced an unexpected trajectory slipped around Karna's Divine Spear and cut into his flesh.
"Slash—slash—slash—!"
Amid the relentless assault, the katana's hit rate began to rise. Karna's body was struck repeatedly by the sharp