"Come on!"
Watching the confident smile on the girl's face, Cain sensed the change in Isolte. Her battle aura no longer clung tightly to her body as it had before, but flowed around her like water.
Although it wasn't like his flowing-water battle aura, whose very nature he had completely transformed, being able to do this was already remarkable!
Cain's lips curved upward, and he unleashed a slash at the speed of light.
The dark-blue-haired girl blinked, her pupils contracting!
What was that?!
But her body reacted faster than she could think.
Her body moved before her mind could catch up, raising the Wooden Sword at light speed. Clang! She deflected the battle-aura slash, condensed as solidly as a blade.
Isolte's eyes widened. Her arm had just deflected the incoming slash as though acting on muscle memory.
"I knew I wasn't mistaken. You're the most talented of the girls."
A faint smile lifted Cain's lips. Even when he held back enormously, only a handful of supreme fighters, such as the Water God and his master, the Sword God, could withstand his ranged Blade of Light.
Most other swordsmen would simply be killed instantly.
"Master, that was a coincidence. I didn't actually react at all..."
"Was it really a coincidence?"
"Yes."
Cain smiled without answering. He simply planted his Wooden Sword in the snow and loosened his wrist.
Isolte tilted her head slightly.
"Master Cain?"
But before Isolte could puzzle over it, a hand chop came hurtling toward her eyes at the speed of light!
Her dark-blue pupils contracted sharply. Isolte swore it was the fastest slash she had ever seen! The ringing of blades filled the air. By the time she came to her senses, the Wooden Sword she had raised to block was broken down to its hilt, and