Hardmode held nothing back from the start. She slammed her right hand against the ground, and an astonishing number of bone spikes erupted across the ruined corridor's floor, forcing the human into the air.
Click.
The entire world seemed to stop for a moment. By the time the human came to his senses, Hardmode was already behind him.
Was this a time-stop flank?
But Hardmode had the power to pull it off.
Hardmode spun around, seized the human's head in her hand, and gathered a massive surge of energy!
The human seemed intent on fighting back, swinging his knife at Hardmode!
That speed! He was so fast he left afterimages!
Hardmode's pupils narrowed slightly. She remembered that before she died, this human hadn't been this fast.
But she wouldn't give him a single chance! Hardmode accelerated the gathering energy and launched the human out of her hand.
The blow sent the human flying like a kite with its string cut, straight toward Kyuuseishu and the others.
But that was exactly what Satsujin wanted.
Satsujin flashed beneath the human and gripped his body tightly with both hands. The hand behind his back, holding a dagger, drove it straight into the human's chest!
Shlck.
The stab seemed to cost the human quite a lot of HP.
But even that stab couldn't kill him. Just how absurd was his Def?
Not just anyone could withstand a stab from Satsujin in this state. His Atk had already reached a terrifying figure.
Yet the strike seemed to do little damage to the human. Was his Def really that high?
"Killer, were you holding back?"
"No. This timeline hasn't run its course. I think the timeline is suppressing the damage we deal to the human."
Deep within their soul, Killer explained her theory to Murder.
So