A flash of steel sliced across Aizetsu's neck.
Unlike that armored fellow from before, this demon did not have such an outrageously hard shell.
If it was only skin, she could still cut through it.
And for Shinobu,
breaking the skin already meant maximizing the damage.
Kazetoriin's expression remained unchanged, but inwardly, he rejoiced.
He knew perfectly well that this girl's poison could bring down even a Lower Rank demon...
[Aizetsu], of course, did not know that Shinobu Kocho had this trick up her sleeve.
He merely took her for a swordsman who did not know her own limits.
"Even your attacks are so feeble. How truly saddening..."
He turned his spear around.
In an instant, a dense barrage of spear thrusts covered almost every space Shinobu Kocho could dodge into.
[Poison Breathing: Total Concentration!]
[Second Form: Empty Cicada]
She could only parry desperately, dodging by varying her speed.
She barely held out through two rounds of attacks.
This demon's spear... its blows were too heavy!
I couldn't hold on much longer!
Just as she was about to lose control of her Breathing Style, a long silver dragon lashed his arm clean off.
Only then did Shinobu Kocho manage to catch her breath.
[Aizetsu] had intended to regenerate his arm immediately, turn around, and thrust his spear at Kazetoriin, who was fighting his other three clones.
But he discovered that his arm had not grown back as expected.
He looked at his missing arm.
Strange yellow patterns were creeping along his blood vessels toward the rest of his body.
His regeneration had been suppressed...
Beside him, Shinobu Kocho also realized that the poison had taken effect.
[Gold Poison]
It was a specially formulated poison mixed with heavy metal powder and glass fibers.
Now, it had proved effective even against an