Mei had not expected this native to be so direct. Without so much as a greeting, before they had even seen each other, she had come at her with a slash.
But... when it came to swordsmanship, Mei had never feared anyone.
As the blade light approached, Mei took half a step back... one hand gripping the scabbard, the other the hilt...
"Slash!"
She drew her blade in an instant, sending a shockwave of lightning straight toward the blade light. The collision between the lightning shockwave and the blade light ended in the lightning shockwave's overwhelming victory.
The blade light was shattered by the shockwave.
After destroying the blade light, the lightning shockwave swiftly vanished into the mist as well.
"An intruder... a living person...?"
As a young girl's voice rang out, a white-haired girl with short hair appeared before Mei. She looked no older than her teens and was exceptionally beautiful, with a unique dashing charm mixed into that beauty.
Perhaps because of her short hair, she radiated a particularly heroic air. Overall, she was the sort of person who immediately caught the eye.
The girl held two katanas in her hands. One was very long... excessively long for a human. In any case, humans were not suited to wielding a blade that long.
The other was a relatively ordinary sword, slightly shorter, but still fairly suitable.
A white ghost followed behind the girl.
"Netherworld Slash!"
The moment the girl saw Mei, she barely paused before slashing at her again with both swords.
"Hey, wait a second. We aren't enemies. Is there some misunderstanding?"
Watching the girl continue drawing her swords at the slightest disagreement, Mei had no choice but to counter with Raikiri before asking.
"Anyone who trespasses into the White Jade Palace gets cut down first!"