Sanemi's roar echoed through the mountain valley like thunder. "Are family members things you can just replace?! Are they dolls you bind together by force with fear and violence?! You disgusting scum who's never loved his family, how dare you even say the word 'family'!"
That bloody night flashed uncontrollably through Sanemi's mind. His gentle mother had become a demon and torn his younger brothers and sisters apart, while he had been forced to hack his beloved mother to death with a hatchet himself. It was a wound in his heart that would never heal!
"Unforgivable! I'm going to chop you into mincemeat, you piece of shit!!!"
Boom!
The ground beneath Sanemi's feet collapsed in an instant. His entire body became a raging green whirlwind as he charged at Rui without hesitation.
"Wind Breathing, Third Form: Clear Sky Gale Tree!"
Violent wind blades swept wildly in every direction with Sanemi at their center. Three enormous blades of wind instantly ripped through the rocks and trees in their path like knives through butter, bearing straight down on Rui's head.
"How crude." Rui coldly watched Sanemi charge toward him and sharply pulled with all ten fingers as though playing a piano.
"Blood Demon Art: Thread Prison."
Hiss, hiss, hiss, hiss!
Countless spider threads gleaming with a ghastly white light instantly interwove into a gigantic net in the air, descending on Sanemi like a meat slicer.
"Don't take it head-on, Sanemi!" Obanai's voice came from the side, accompanied by his eerily moving figure.
"Serpent Breathing, Second Form: Narrow-Headed Venom Fang!"
Rather than attacking the spider threads head-on, Obanai used his extraordinarily supple body to twist his waist and abdomen impossibly in midair, slipping through a gap between the threads in a posture that defied human anatomy. Like a venomous snake darting from the