"Master—"
"Master—"
"If that's the case, then there's only one answer—"
As she recalled the wars of the past several thousand years, the faces and words of countless fallen comrades flashed through Yagokoro Eirin's mind, along with the trusting gazes of her two disciples. Eirin looked at Susanoo and laughed, then raised the longbow in her hand and fired the little Aura she had left at him in the form of an arrow.
"Destroy me!"
Susanoo did not even need to defend himself. With a casual movement of its body, the Eight-headed Serpent he had summoned swallowed Eirin's arrow into its pitch-black haze without stirring the slightest ripple.
"What a pity. I thought you would understand me, Eirin. I never expected this was all you amounted to—"
Susanoo turned and slowly walked away, saying:
"I still remember our first meeting. You were so beautiful that I could never forget you... So goodbye, Eirin."
With that, the Eight-headed Serpent opened its enormous jaws at Eirin, ready to devour her whole.
"Bang!"
Just as Eirin gave up trying to save herself and prepared to shield the Moon Sisters with her back, she saw a ray of light.
The light went from nothingness to illuminating the world in but an instant!
The gigantic fox of light formed from the Light of the Heart descended from the sky. The instant it landed, its claws pinned the giant serpent's jaws, which had been about to bite Eirin, to the ground. The force was so immense that the earth cracked apart with a thunderous roar.
At the same time, Mo Yi, who had arrived several seconds earlier, appeared behind Susanoo. His body radiated the scorching power of his Cosmo as he gathered all his strength into his fist and delivered a righteous backstab to his brother-in-law