If this kept up—no!
If this kept up—there was absolutely no way they could defeat these two!
"Damn it—damn it, damn it, damn it!"
"I hadn't intended to use this spell on the likes of you, but now—savor it to your heart's content!!!"
Taking advantage of that brief lull, Amakusa Shirou Tokisada furiously unleashed some kind of sorcery.
"Bear witness to the kind of hell from which this body was born—"
"Wail for me—"
"[Shimabara Hell Scroll]!!!"
A Reality Marble—
Deployed!!!
Unlike Sakumura's Reality Marble, which could only be deployed after his slash connected, the one deployed by the sorcerer Amakusa Shirou Tokisada was more akin to the so-called mountain-of-corpses, river-of-blood stages previously deployed by the Heroic Spirit Swordmasters.
Burning.
Burning—
Everything was—
Burning.
"This is—"
Fujimaru Ritsuka looked around, lowering his stance as he warily surveyed his surroundings.
"It's all a blur! I can't see anything—there's fire and smoke everywhere!"
Senji Muramasa, Fujimaru Ritsuka, and Kotarou stood back-to-back, gritting their teeth.
"This is a Reality Marble, similar to the barrier where we fought the Heroic Spirit Swordmasters one-on-one before, but this one should be even more advanced!"
"Be careful! The air here—it's poisonous!"
Kotarou warily noticed that something was wrong with the air.
Poisonous—and not ordinary poison, either!
This was poison laced with flames. If they let their guard down, even their lungs would burst into flames in an instant.
Whereas the previous one had merely marked out a space for a Heroic Spirit Swordmaster to duel another being, this place had been made entirely to trap and kill its enemies.
"Damn it—I can't see a thing!"
Clang—
Musashi's eyes were obscured by smoke, leaving her unable to see anything at all.
"I can't even swing my blade—what the hell is this place!?"
"A completely sealed-off world... Even Guanyin's