Tengen Uzui immediately swung at Haruto's blade, trying to set the long sword spinning and twist Doma's head off.
With no time left to maintain the act on his face, Doma stepped back, barely dodging Tengen Uzui's blade.
Haruto gripped the hilt tightly, his body swaying with the pull, revealing Inosuke behind him, swinging both blades!
"Take this!"
Kanao caught up as well. She and Inosuke flanked Doma, one on the left and the other on the right!
Dodging one person's blade meant running straight into the other's...
Doma quickly weighed his options. Compared to the rough, reckless Inosuke, a sweet, soft girl seemed likely to have less strength.
Clang!
Kanao's blade struck Haruto's Nichirin Blade, turning the trapped sword a little farther.
That was nowhere near enough.
Besides, judging by its trajectory, that boar-headed boy's blade would miss too.
Then he would only need to use his Blood Demon Art to create a few copies of himself, and he could easily escape to intercept the people who had killed Akaza.
A radiant smile spread across Doma's face again.
"Come on, you lot, stop wasting your-"
Before Doma could finish his cheerful remark, he suddenly caught sight of what the boar-headed boy was doing.
He had actually...
Dislocated his arm?!
"What are you so relieved about?!"
His dislocated arm suddenly extended a considerable distance, driving the Nichirin Blade in his hand hard against Haruto's blade!
"Beast Breathing, Ninth Fang: Extending Bendy Slash!"
"I can even do... this!"
With all those forces converging on it, the Nichirin Blade was like a heavy wheel being pushed, sluggish at first, then rolling more and more smoothly.
The blade spun, and Doma's head spun with it.
Before the shock could fade from his face, his head fell to the floor along with the sword,