"Why don't you two stop and have a cup of tea fir—ugh?"
Jiu Ming stared at the massive fireball hurtling toward him. Its scorching air sent his hair flying wildly and cut off his words.
Bracing both hands against the fireball, Jiu Ming tore it apart with force. Tch, what was a mere giant fireball to him... Boom!
Jiu Ming was struck head-on by the spirit bullet that followed. So the fireball had been blasted his way. Shaking his head, he found that while it hurt, it was nowhere near enough to kill him. Yet whenever Mokou's flames drew close to Kaguya, they slowed enormously.
And Kaguya's movements were even more... abnormal!
One moment she was standing in one spot; the next, she had suddenly appeared somewhere else. Teleportation? It didn't seem like it.
"Heh~ Aren't you going to help?" Kaguya's voice suddenly rang out behind Jiu Ming. Instinctively, he chose to evade. Her appearing behind him could not possibly mean anything good! Sure enough, when the enraged Mokou noticed Kaguya behind Jiu Ming, she immediately burst into a charge.
"Argh! You bitch, stop running!!" Unable to catch Kaguya again and again, feeling as though she had been toyed with all along, Mokou's fury kept mounting.
"Ha, I'm not stupid. Looking at you now, how are you any different from a turkey?" Kaguya lightly brushed a palm across Jiu Ming's back as she chuckled at Mokou's insults.
"...You..." In any case, when Jiu Ming saw the indiscriminate AoE attack Mokou had gathered, he immediately prepared to open a gap and flee without another word. Especially after she roared, "Don't block the way!" But to his shock, something seemed to be wrong with him.
He couldn't run! And even the intervals between his words seemed to have been stretched out...
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