"Can we call a truce?" Kinji Hakari asked with an awkward smile.
"No, we can't." Blood flecked Fenghua's face, and her smile was both gentle and cruel.
She swung again, but her descending blade only severed a cursed tool thrust across its path.
Kento Nanami had somehow gotten back to his feet, though the hand gripping his cursed tool blade still trembled slightly. Hakari looked at Nanami and slowly let out a breath, like a drowning man finally grasping a reed by the shore.
I'm saved...
Nanami and Hakari quickly retreated, putting distance between themselves and her amid the rubble.
"We were still too reckless." Nanami kept his eyes fixed on Fenghua and tilted his head toward Hakari, his voice low. "How did Okkotsu end up fighting Kashimo?"
"They switched targets on the fly."
Nanami frowned at that and turned his gaze back to Fenghua. The woman had planted the Sky-Piercing Blade in the ground and rested both hands over its hilt. She watched them with her head tilted, as though studying two mice that could never escape their cage.
This woman...
Isn't she a little too strong?
Boom!
An explosion rang out nearby, and Hakari turned to look. Okkotsu was sprinting along the side of a building, his feet striking its shattered glass curtain wall. Every step sent a web of cracks spreading beneath him.
Kashimo stood atop Rika's massive white body, continually firing small bursts of Piercing Thunder from his palms. Blue-white beams exploded at Okkotsu's heels one after another, scattering rubble and broken glass like a meteor shower on fast-forward.
Okkotsu suddenly leaped down from above.
During their earlier standoff, he had already fully reestablished his connection with Rika.
Now was the perfect time to use Dhruv Lakdawalla's cursed technique.
Pain suddenly shot through Kashimo's body as