Setsuna didn't have time to think, and just instinctively changed his swinging arm to attack the person on his shoulder.
"Bang!" A powerful and heavy punch hit the clone's waist firmly. It instantly turned into a ball of white smoke and dissipated.
The main body also took advantage of this opportunity when Setsuna failed to stand still, re-condensed a short blade and stabbed it into the part closest to itself.
"Pfft!" The short blade stabbed Setsuna's left waist accurately.
He couldn't help but groan, and the fierce look in his eyes became even worse.
"Uh-huh--!"
He ignored the wound on his waist and waved his arm again, preparing to complete his unfinished attack.
Ning Xue succeeded with one blow, but did not pursue the victory. He decisively dropped the dagger and retreated to a distance of more than ten meters.
Setsuna gasped, pulled out Ice Blade from his waist and covered the wound. Dark red blood seeped out between his fingers, staining the strange red and blue lines on his arms.
"Asshole..." He stared at Ning Xue, his eyes becoming more and more malicious.
On the other side, the clone of Ning Xue had cleared away all the surrounding soldiers and then dissipated on its own initiative.
Feeling that his clone was dissipating on its own, Ning Xue adjusted his breathing slightly and assessed Setsuna's condition calmly.
In this form, the physical improvement of the opponent is obvious, but the price is also obvious, which is the decline of sanity, weaker defensive awareness, and stronger pain tolerance.
He looked at the gradually thinning and dim purple Chakra in the other party's body, and knew that the other party was like a candle in the wind, no longer as violent as before.
Oh, power is borrowed from others after all.
Ning Xue thought to himself and decided to consume it at the same time.
He was no longer eager to attack and tried to subdue the opponent instantly.
Instead, keep your body shape at a distance that can respond to Setsuna's counterattack at any time and maneuver safely.
To put it simply, it is flying a kite.
Because of Mōryō's power, the wound on Setsuna's waist healed quickly. He roared and roared, clenching Kunai in his hand again, and came towards Ning Xue.
The feeling of power is still there, but the initial burst is missing.
Ning Xue moved back and forth between boulders or trees, sometimes using Ice Blade to fight back, sometimes using Ice Cone to harass from a distance.
The forced Setsuna had to use ninjutsu or more physically consuming movements to resist or counterattack.
"Wind Release, Divine Wind!" Setsuna quickly Hand Seals, and spit out a strong tornado from his mouth, which bounced all the flying objects thrown by Ning Xue away, and rushed towards Ning Xue like a broken bamboo.
But Ning Xue, who was on guard, easily dodged again, but this dodging completely allowed Setsuna to break his defense.
"You only know how to hide? Coward!" Setsuna roared, then suddenly accelerated again, waving the Kunai in his hand, trying to attack the opponent.
Ning Xue ignored this, but without saying a word, he condensed Ice Cone from his hand and shot it towards him.
Seeing Ice Cone flying out again, Setsuna said the dirtiest words he could think of in his life.
"You****..."
It's really sweet.
Just like this, after several rounds of repetition, Setsuna's aura became thicker and thicker, and the red and blue intertwined patterns on its body also flickered on and off like a light strip with insufficient power.
His Mōryō power is gradually fading away.
And the darkness in the eyes gradually turned into normal whites. The rapid return of reason also brought about a weakness that could not be concealed.
That's it now!
A cold light flashed in Ning Xue's hand. Taking advantage of the moment of stalemate caused by Setsuna's sharp decline in strength.
Chakra suddenly erupted under his feet, and a Body Flicker Technique came to him and raised his knife.
"Ghana."
Ice Blade arrives with the announcement.
"Don't even think about touching my brother!"
A hoarse but decisive roar exploded from the side!
Kusuna, who was ignored by Ning Xue and seemed to have lost most of his combat power, felt his chest rise and fall violently at this moment.
He injected the last Mōryō tentacle, the power left to Gitai, into his chest.
The next moment, dragging his seriously injured body, he burst out at incredible speed and crashed between Ning Xue and Setsuna like a cannonball!
"Bang!"
Kusuna used his scarred body to miss Ning Xue's determined blow.
Ice Blade rubbed Setsuna's neck. Although there was a trace of blood, it was not fatal.
After being carried some distance away, Kusuna spit out a mouthful of blood and returned to his normal appearance.
"Setsuna! Let's go!!" He knelt down on one knee and growled at Setsuna.
At this moment, he was extremely weak, so he could only let Setsuna, who was in a slightly better condition, take him with him.
"Brother..." Setsuna was deeply moved as he looked at his eldest brother who risked his life to save himself.
But the emotion only came back momentarily, because now I wanted to escape.
He quickly picked up Kusuna and ran away in one direction without looking back.
The Ning Xue that was knocked away still maintained its Ice Armor. He never expected that this guy with a broken candle in the wind would dare to risk injecting Mōryō Chakra into himself.
He dismissed Ice Armor in front of him and glanced at Kusuna who was held under his arm by Setsuna.
Without hesitation, he once again condensed a Ice Cone.
"Whoosh!"
"Ah!"
Unfortunately, the distance was too far and it only hit his shoulder.
What a great help. Ning Xue sighed inwardly and then started to think.
If he pursues him now, he might be able to stay.
But after thinking about the witch on the cliff, he gave up the idea. After all, there was a distance between the clones. If he went to pursue him now, the clones left next to Shion would definitely dissipate.
After all, his current duty is to protect the miko. With them like this, once they recover from their injuries, the matter will probably be sorted out.
After weighing for a moment, he looked coldly at the two people who were seriously injured and escaped, and then turned his attention to the cliff.
On the cliff.
Since I couldn't see clearly the battle below, I could only hold the bell in my hand and pray for it.
"It must be okay..." She prayed in a low voice, unconsciously stroking the ancient bell on her chest with her fingers, as if she could gain a little strength from this relic left by her mother.
At this moment, Mr. Fujiwara, who had been quietly guarding her, suddenly appeared without warning.
With a soft "pop" sound, it turned into a pool of clear water, sprinkled on the rocks, and quickly disappeared.
Shion was stunned.
She stared blankly at the quickly disappearing water stain, and then suddenly looked down at the stopped buzzing sound.
A terrible thought came to her mind.
The removal of the clone... usually means that the main body has encountered a major crisis, or Chakra is unsustainable... Could it be...
"No... it won't..." She muttered to herself, her voice beginning to tremble.
Is this the only person who can shake the trajectory of her prophecy...
No! How could this be? She finally saw a glimmer of hope for change, could it be shattered like this?
Huge loss and panic seized her instantly, and the hope that had just risen seemed to have suffered a devastating blow.
After being stunned for a moment, her legs softened and she slowly slid to the ground along the rocks.
She buried her face in her knees, shrugged her shoulders slightly, and the familiar feeling of despair from the past enveloped her again.
"As expected... it still doesn't work... nothing can be changed... I..."
She was autistic again and curled up on her knees, choking and laughing at herself.
Just when she was about to close her heart again.
"What's wrong?"
A calm, slightly doubtful voice suddenly came from above her head.
Shion's body stiffened suddenly, thinking that he was hearing hallucinations.
But she still couldn't help but raise her head suddenly.
With tears in her eyes, she saw the figure wearing a mask and a gray sweater.
At some point, the other party stood quietly on top of the rock, tilting his head slightly and looking down at her with some confusion.
"You... you..." Shion's eyes widened, and she forgot to cry for a moment, and she also forgot to maintain the demeanor of a miko. She just looked at him in disbelief, pointed at the place where Water Clone disappeared, and then pointed at the real him in front of her.
"Clone... clone... you... you're not... you're not dead?"
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