So they could not let their guard down before dawn.
That monster could appear on any battlefield that night.
"So you used Extreme Flow Intent right away because you didn't want Akaza distracted? You were trying to give me a chance to escape? Damn it!"
Shinobu Kocho jerked her head up. Through blurred eyes, she watched the two figures locked in furious combat once more. "How could I abandon you here and let you play the hero alone? You only started learning Swordsmanship later than the rest of us. What makes you so special? Just because you're my brother-in-law... does that give you the right to order me around? You want me to leave? I won't!"
She tightened her grip on her Nichirin Blade and looked sharply up at the first light overhead.
"Hey... I'm sorry."
A clear tear struck the ground. The next instant, she charged forward with absolute resolve.
Her Swordsmanship carried a decision made in the depths of her heart: to press on without retreat, to risk death for a chance to live!
"Together?"
Akaza dodged Shinobu Kocho's blade while fending off Tetsu no Sosuke's assault. "Good! Two of you shouldn't be much harder to handle..."
Before he could finish, Tetsu no Sosuke's heavy hammer came crashing toward him just as he cleared Shinobu Kocho's blade.
He twisted aside at an impossible angle, evading the blow by a hair. The next instant, Shinobu Kocho's blade struck again.
A coordinated attack!!
Akaza's eyes lit up.
Fighting together did not mean that adding one person simply added another person's worth of strength.
In fact, if fighters did not know each other or coordinate their movements, an extra person was only a burden.
But these two were clearly different.
They knew each other intimately. Each accounted for the other's attack