"What is..." Nashiro Yasuhisa noticed that the crystalline constructs attacking her had suddenly grown more concentrated. But she was an S-Rank Ghoul, after all. Even cornered, she could hold her defensive line, shattering construct after construct with her two powerful rinkaku.
Then, amid the densest wave of crystalline constructs before her, a different Ice Blade suddenly shot out. Its color was more vivid, its speed far greater. Even though she spotted it immediately, she had no time to dodge and could only block with her arm.
Shlkk-
Blood sprayed from Kurona Yasuhisa's pale forearm as the Ice Blade pierced clean through it. The force behind it was immense, and it kept driving deeper, straight toward her torso.
"This temperature!" Nashiro Yasuhisa looked at her left forearm, which had instantly gone numb and begun frosting over. Knowing what would happen if the blade entered her torso, her composed voice turned panicked. After only a moment's hesitation, her two scarlet rinkaku stabbed forward with a whistle through the air.
"Trading an injury for a kill..."
Ignoring their own wounds to counterattack as quickly as possible was a common ghoul tactic. Clever, but she clearly did not understand how Louis fought.
Shlk...
Shlk, shlk, shlk, shlk-!
More than a dozen sounds rang out in succession, and warm, bright blood splashed everywhere.
Dozens of Ice Spikes suddenly appeared from different angles, piercing Nashiro Yasuhisa's body and both rinkaku one after another and pinning her in midair. Scarlet blood ran down her white clothes, only to freeze into tiny crystals in the surrounding cold.
"You..."
The surrounding crystalline constructs slowly ceased their attacks, and the crystalline mask, now looking terrifyingly cold, gradually appeared before Nashiro Yasuhisa. But however hard she tried, her firmly pinned rinkaku could not extend far enough to strike his body.
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