Ligard rushes at Roxie with a vicious expression but before he can get close Roxie pulls out three throwing knives and tosses them in his direction.
Ligard stops and blocks all three of the knives with his metal claws.
"I told you I'm a master at my wea—! Wait the hell! She's gone!"
Suddenly Ligard receives a kick to the side of the knee.
"Fuck!"
Ligard looks to his left and sees Roxie. Ligard swings his left claw at Roxie but she instantly flips out of the way.
"You get distracted too easily and you call yourself a lion?"
Roxie rushes in and weaves out of the way of two slash attacks and after kicking Ligard in the chin does a stationary backflip where she lands on her hands. Ligard crosses his arms to block Roxie's incoming handstand kicks but she flips again into a split. She then sweeps Ligard's legs and when he's on the ground stabs him in the shoulder with a knife.
"Ahhh!"
Roxie jumps off the ground and looks down at Ligard.
"Damn you! Those little flips and splits might be good in a fight but those attacks will never be enough to beat me!" Ligard yells as he yanks the knife out of his shoulder.
"Then I should turn it up shouldn't I?"
Roxie digs into both of her pouches from her right hand throwing multiple throwing stars and from her left hand throwing six throwing knives.
"You won't get me again with that shit," Ligard says as he dodges the knives but suddenly eight throwing stars hit him in the back.
"Ack—"
Before Ligard can even react Roxie jumps into the air and kicks him in the face sending Ligard stumbling backward.
"With a little flick of the wrist, it doesn't matter what you dodge or block," Roxie remarks.
She was able to make the stars go around! That perscion! Ligard realizes.
Roxie rushes to the front of Ligard and dodges two of his slashes. Ligard then kicks Roxie to the ground with his left foot.
"There we go!"
Ligard looks to the ground but sees nothing. Suddenly he receives a kick to the back of the head.
"You are nothing but an overgrown behemoth nothing I can't cut down."
She slipped in between my legs before I even noticed! Ligard thinks.
Ligard swings his left metal claw widely behind him but Roxie swiftly runs back to his front.
"Sit down already!"
Roxie hits Ligard in the chest with her palm.
"Stop moving already!" Ligard screams.
Roxie spins out of the way of a punch from Ligard and then jumps on his shoulder.
"You know you said earlier that you were a master of your weapon. I'm not seeing it," Roxie remarks.
Ligard tries to grab Roxie but she does a backflip off his shoulder and kicks him in the nose. Roxie lands and then grabs a hold of the handles of both daggers at her back.
"Let me get serious now," Roxie says with a serious glare.
Roxie pulls out her two curved daggers which are black with sliver outlines and a single red jewel at the end of the hilt.
"Cute tools but you'll never get me with some bullshit like th—"
Before Ligard can even finish speaking he feels a part of his ear get cut off.
"Ahh!" Ligard screams as he grabs his ear.
Ligard looks down and sees Roxie swinging her left dagger upward. Ligard blocks the slash and then attempts to counter with a punch from his left hand but gets blocked. Roxie parries off Ligards claws and then slices him twice in the gut.
This woman how did she get to the other side of the room so fast? She's moving at speeds I've never seen before! Ligard thinks to himself.
Ligard regains his stance and with Roxie running towards him with great speed, he goes on the defensive.
"Oh, I see you finally learned your place too bad you've already shown me your true self go ahead and die a virgin," Roxie states.
Roxie and Ligard begin clashing weapons back and forth relentlessly. Roxie slashes Ligard on the cheek but he quickly pays her back with a tackle sending her backward. The two of them begin clashing again without taking any rest. Roxie stabs Ligard in both his legs before blocking an overhead slash. Ligard tries to stab Roxie in the stomach while she's blocking but she quickly blocks the attack while jumping out of the way of another overhead slash.
Fuck! No matter what counter I throw at her it seems like I won't be able to hit her! Have I even landed an impactful attack yet not a single drop of blood has left her body yet! Ligard exclaims in his head.
While Ligard is contemplating Roxie bends her knees while flexing them as she crosses her daggers in front of her face with a deadly glare.
"Alright time to slice through that neck of yours," Roxie whispers.
"That stance I've seen it before!" Ligard yells.
Ligard begins thinking and remembers a shadowy figure wearing a bloody hoodie in a forest standing in the same stance Roxie is currently in with rain pouring in the dark background.
"It was about 25 years ago a little before I joined The Echelon Four when I was in the German army. I was tasked with security work at some big meeting where all I had to do was make sure nobody not authorized got into the function! It was supposed to be a piece of cake but all I did was take a few seconds to use the bathroom and I came right back! When I left the bathroom I found everyone in the function cut at the throat!"
Ligard begins to tremble as he grabs his shoulder.
"That's when I saw someone with your stature moving through the shadows and jumping out of a window! I chased you to make that person pay but I was defeated in ten seconds flat the second they pulled out that fighting stance of yours! At that moment I remembered a rumor I heard going around the army of a faceless assassin who could take down armies in an hour flat! That night I knew it was true..."
An image of the shadowy figure standing over Ligard with a blade to his throat pops into his head while he has a huge slash on his right shoulder.
"I never thought I would run into a faceless international assassination twice in my life. Who would think the one they call the "Reapers Shadow" would be hauled up in America?" Ligard remarks with a nervous smirk as he breathes heavily.
"The fact that we met before intrigues me I must have spared you because of lack of time well I guess I get a chance to finish the job," Roxie says as she rushes Ligard.
"Is she moving faster!" Ligard screams.
Ligard barely blocks a slash from Roxie and instantly jumps back. Roxie keeps on the pressure by continuing to rush forward while attacking. As Ligard defends thoughts begin to race through his head.
Fuck! Shit! Fuck! I had a feeling the reapers shadow was a girl but didn't actually think it was true! If she's here I need to take care of her here so the others have an easier time during this mission! I got this! I will show her the power of the claw! Ligard thinks to himself in a panic.
Ligard firms his stance and parries off both of Roxie's daggers but he receives a kick to the jaw and then gets smacked on the top of his head with the back of Roxie's right dagger.
Ligard attempts to grab Roxie but she jumps out of the way. Roxie lands on the ground and instantly rushes back in.
"No not this time!" Ligard shouts
Ligard points his left fist at the incoming Roxie and squeezes his fist tight. Suddenly the metal claws shoot out at Roxie.
"Throwing out your weapons I see foolish," Roxie remarks.
Roxie pulls out three throwing knives and tosses them at the incoming claws deflecting all of them mid-air. As the claws and knives hit the ground Roxie rushes to Ligards front but then rushes to his left.
"She's trying to back door me! I'll smack that bitch into next week!" Ligard shouts to himself.
Ligard swings his right arm backward in an attempt to hit Roxie but...
"She's gone!"
While he's lost Roxie calmly and slowly walks past Ligards left side and puts his dagger to the side of his neck.
"Do you really think I would be that predictable I thought you knew so much about me. Looks like you're just another splat on the pavement," Roxie remarks.
"Ach—"
Before Ligard can even say a word Roxie cleanly slices through his windpipe. Roxie continues walking forward as Ligard takes his last breath and falls face flat on the ground with blood gushing out of his throat. Roxie wipes a drip of blood off her cheek with her left thumb and with her left index finger clicks on her earpiece.
"Hey Raven I'm done here go ahead and tell me the location of Leon.