An eerie yet tender smile appeared on his face as he said:
"I only care about you."
In an instant.
Without any warning, he attacked Lynn. There were no flashy moves, only the most savage, primal close-quarters combat. His figure left trails of afterimages through the data space, and in the blink of an eye, he appeared before Lynn.
His hand became a blade!
Lynn's psionic intuition screamed a warning.
He leaned back almost instinctively, and the terrifying knife-hand swept past the tip of his nose.
But just as he thought he had evaded that terrifying attack, his opponent abruptly accelerated. The knee strike came at more than twice his previous speed, leaving Lynn no room to dodge. It slammed into his chest and sent him flying.
"Lynn-!"
Light Banquet gritted her teeth and lunged, slashing the blade of light in her hand straight at the silver-haired man's head.
But she was too slow!
Her blade met those mocking eyes, filled with a tender smile.
A ripping sound rang out.
With a scream of pain from Light Banquet, the silver-haired man not only evaded her attack but left five deep wounds across her chest. Shattered data fragments scattered like a rain of light.
The corner of his mouth lifted, and the fingers he had turned into sharp blades slowly returned to normal.
He licked the fragments of Light Banquet's data from his fingers.
"You're nowhere near as delicious as your brother, Light Banquet."
Bzz-
Lynn forcibly channeled his psionics and steadied himself amid the data blocks.
He narrowed his eyes, his gaze flickering. That strike hadn't done him much damage, but he knew perfectly well that it had only been a probing attack. Even if this Ether was only Monarch-Level, his combat skills and knowledge far surpassed Lynn's own.
And