Clang!
Clang!
Killer01 and the shadow kept trading blows at close quarters. Suddenly, Killer01 seemed to make a mistake, stumbling and falling toward the ground.
The shadow naturally seized the opportunity. Its determination-colored cleaver sliced through the air, descending toward Killer01's head.
Crack!
Killer01 abruptly raised her head. She had deliberately offered that opening, too tempting to ignore.
...How to put it? Murder wasn't surprised. Killer had even more combat experience than he did, so it wasn't hard to understand how she could pull off an unexpected move.
If he had to choose an opponent from among those close to him in combat strength, he would never choose Killer. She had a slight edge over him in combat experience, and although his stats were superior, any fight without an overwhelming advantage was a gamble.
Whoosh-
Thwip, thwip, thwip!
Killer01's dagger became a blade of energy, severing the shadow's neck.
But an ordinary attack like that seemed to have little effect on the shadow. Several threads emerged from its severed head and reattached it to the neck, beginning to pull it back into place.
Tap, tap!
Killer01 stepped through the air, appearing beside the shadow's head in the blink of an eye.
A vivid red light shone in her hands. A small portion of determination, as brilliant as a dazzling river of stars, separated from Killer's original body and gathered in Killer01's hands.
"..."
Her face cold, Killer01 pressed both hands, coated in blood-red determination, against the shadow's head with lightning speed.
In an instant, like a pellet meeting Pac-Man, the shadow's head broke down from a solid mass into atoms and was absorbed by the mindscape.
As though sensing the danger, the shadow's body twitched briefly. Then the hand holding its determination-colored blade swung at Killer01 overhead at a bizarre