"That's right!" Yui replied with a smile, gripping her long sword in both hands as she suddenly attacked.
She charged and slashed in one fluid motion. With a piercing clang, a dazzling white blade swept across the rock giant, throwing off showers of metallic sparks.
Clang...
Her attack finished, Yui planted her feet. A trace of gravity entered her eyes as she looked back. "This hardness... it's the same material as the Stone Tower..."
She murmured, "This is trouble!"
"Raaagh!" The rock giant let out a hoarse, furious roar, enraged by this human who dared challenge it.
"You all deserve to die!" The rock giant swung its thick arms, breaking the Ice Release shackles around its feet in a few movements. Then it turned and leaped high into the air, hurtling down toward Yui.
"Oh no! Yui, watch out..." Nai Hyuga cried out in warning.
Yui reacted swiftly. Just as the attack was about to land, she used the Body Flicker Technique and immediately evaded the crushing blow.
But the rock giant refused to let up. The instant its attack landed, it drove forward with its legs again, charging toward where Yui had stopped and throwing a punch. "Don't think you can dodge!"
Feeling the pressure rushing toward her, Yui was stunned for a moment. She hadn't expected something that looked so cumbersome to move so quickly, catching up with her in an instant.
But she was no pushover, either.
She pushed off with both legs and leaped high to evade it. Then she lightly tapped her toes against the rock giant's body and circled behind it. The instant she landed, she gathered chakra in one palm and struck.
"Eight Trigrams, Air Palm!"
With a dull thump, a transparent wave of chakra struck the rock giant's back without causing the