Fighting on Three Sides Simultaneously

Sakata Kintoki split a giant toad in two with a single axe blow, but his body involuntarily took a step back. Smacking his lips, he said, "Tch, these things just never end. Didn't Manlio say there were no Phantasmal Spirits here?"

"Did you leave your brain behind?" Carmilla fought with her scepter, casting him an impatient glance. "These Phantasmal Spirits clearly sensed our approach and emerged from the mirrors. Manlio probably failed to detect them earlier because he hadn't come this close."

"Oh, right!" Sakata Kintoki killed a humanoid Phantasmal Spirit with an axe strike in the middle of a flip, finally piecing together the logic. "But no matter what, isn't this number way too terrifying!? We've never run into such a huge swarm before!"

Even with the combat strength of Sakata Kintoki, Carmilla, and Simonetta, although they were clearing out the Phantasmal Spirits quickly, more of them were appearing even faster!

Just as Carmilla and Kintoki were starting to feel the strain, another male voice rang out.

"Die alreadyyyyy—"

The male voice carried uncontrollable frenzy and exhilaration as it charged into the swarm of Phantasmal Spirits. Though he wielded only a tiny dagger, his fighting style was incredibly practiced. Within seconds, he directly slashed a Phantasmal Spirit to death with several frontal strikes.

"Boss Jekyll!?" Sakata Kintoki cried out strangely, though the axe in his hands did not stop swinging, forcing back several Phantasmal Spirits.

"Who are you calling Jekyll? Huh!?" The "Jekyll" with the changed hairstyle let out a wild shriek, weaving and twisting through the Phantasmal Spirits in an extremely bizarre posture. "That goody-two-shoes has already scrammed, gone for good~"

"The great me standing here now—"

Clang—

The man stretched out his neck and grinned.

"Is Hyde!"

Another Phantasmal Spirit was cut in two with a single