Once, five times, ten times...
Uesugi Tetsu had nearly lost count of how many times he had destroyed Ai Bielie on the ground with Kaga Kiyomitsu.
He had sliced her apart, shredded her, burned her with Corona Qi, then doused her with heavenly lightning again.
Uesugi Tetsu had exhausted every method he could think of, yet all he could do was gradually slow Ai Bielie's recovery speed, little by little.
In other words, no matter how she died, it made no difference to Ai Bielie. All he could do was whittle away at her "vitality" bit by bit.
"So this can actually be called near-death."
The five-minute cooldown reached zero again. Lightning plasma as thick as an arm came crashing down like water, covering the charred ground and evaporating every drop of blood.
Uesugi Tetsu stared at the face that was still smiling at him and once again drove Kaga Kiyomitsu into her eye.
Crack.
It sounded as though something had shattered.
In Uesugi Tetsu's eyes, the head covered in long white hair did not knit itself back together this time. Instead, it filled with cracks like a fragile work of art, then fell to the ground piece by piece and turned into specks of ash.
The mental disturbance that had affected him until the very last second finally vanished, and Uesugi Tetsu's thoughts suddenly lightened.
"One hundred and twenty-three times."
He murmured in a low voice and looked toward the prompt that had finally appeared before him. Exhausted beyond words, he quietly let out a sigh of relief inwardly.
Uesugi Tetsu looked around and thought that it was fortunate the Onmyoji and police in the area had not arrived yet. Otherwise, more complications would likely have arisen.
He casually glanced at the prompt first, but his pupils suddenly contracted--