After the sharp rebuke, the two men finally noticed Champ, pinned to the ground by a long blade.
The clown was now charred black, as if he'd just crawled out of a furnace. His vocal cords were ruined, and he could only stretch out his hands in desperation, enduring the agony of the blade tearing through his flesh. His hoarse voice rasped as he pleaded for help.
"Tch, tch… to think you got beaten this badly by some frail-looking kid. How embarrassing, Champ!" one of the men sneered.
They assumed Lan was the one who'd attacked, given how he was gripping Champ's collar, looking ready to interrogate him.
But Champ, struggling, raised a trembling finger and pointed behind him. "N-No… it's her… she's… a Revolutionary Army… assassin…"
"Revolutionary Army?!"
In that instant, the two men's expressions shifted.
They didn't care about Champ's life. After all, they were just a band of scum gathered from the world's corners, brought together by Syura. There was no loyalty between them. But if the one who'd crushed Champ was a Revolutionary Army assassin, that changed everything.
This was their chance to prove their worth to Syura!
"Heh, a Revolutionary Army assassin, and so young? They really don't take us seriously," one of them scoffed.
"She's a girl, and a pretty one at that… let's try to take her alive for Lord Syura. He'll like that," the other added with a grin.
As the two men whispered to each other, Uchiha Hikari stood calmly on the other side of the courtyard, watching their performance unfold.
She had already recognized them—Syura's lackeys: Izou and Enshin.
Izou wasn't a Teigu user, but he was the strongest in the Wild Hunt, wielding the blood-drinking demonic blade "Kousetsu." He'd once killed the escaped Lubbock with a single slash. Enshin, on the other hand, was the wielder of the Teigu "Moonlit Dance: Wind Blade Sword," a curved blade that unleashed vacuum slashes. Its power waxed and waned with the moon's phases, reaching its peak under a full moon. Like Syura, Enshin had a vile penchant for assaulting and torturing women.
At that moment, Enshin jerked his chin, signaling the soldiers to surround her. He drew his curved blade from his waist, raising it slightly. As he did, the blade gleamed with a cold light, resonating with the moonlight above. The glow grew as radiant as the full moon itself, and a sharp, whistling wind gathered around the blade, exuding a tangible killing intent.
"…Vacuum Slash!"
With a series of swift swings, several two-meter-tall air blades erupted from the Moonlit Dance, tearing through the air with ferocious speed as they hurtled toward Hikari!
Faced with the onslaught, Hikari gripped her blade and unleashed a flurry of horizontal slashes.
Clang—!!!
Sparks flew!
In the moment of collision, her Dragonbone Blade didn't budge, while the vacuum slashes shattered into invisible gusts, scattering outward. They left sharp gouges in the surrounding air and ground before dissipating entirely.
"!?"
"A defensive blade-type Teigu?!" Enshin gasped, stunned.
Hikari, meanwhile, assessed the force of the attack and nodded slightly. "A bit stronger than Cross Tail, and it looks decent enough… it'll do as a toy, I suppose."
"…A toy?" Enshin blinked, then laughed in fury. "You little brat, you think blocking a few of my vacuum slashes means anything? Since you dared come here, your grave's already been dug!"
"Shut up," Hikari cut him off. "I've seen your 'Vacuum Slash.' Now… it's my turn."
With those words, an overwhelming aura erupted from her. The Dragonbone Blade in her right hand thrummed to life, its four-foot blade extending rapidly to a terrifying length of over three meters!
Demonic energy surged!
The enhanced Dragonbone Blade was worlds apart from its original state. Hikari's spiritual power, honed through rigorous training, had grown immensely. Without even lifting the blade, a howling wind exploded around her. An indescribable pressure radiated from the blade, sweeping across the entire courtyard!
Crack—!
The ground beneath began to splinter, shards of stone and debris flying into the air!
"W-What the hell?!"
"Is that Teigu controlling gravity?!"
"…Kill her, now!" Izou, sensing danger, drew Kousetsu in a flash and charged at Hikari like lightning. Before he even reached her, a wave of bloodthirsty killing intent enveloped her completely!
Hikari raised her head.
Calmly, she lifted her blade, swung it, and parted her lips. "Crescent…"
"…Moon Slash!!!"
In that moment, a massive milky-white arc of light burst from the blade, expanding at a visible rate. What started as a three-meter crescent swelled into a monstrous thirty-meter arc, like a crescent moon plucked from the night sky, soaring forward!
"?!"
Izou, mid-charge, was blinded by the moonlight. In an instant, both he and his blade were swallowed by the crescent. His body was pulverized into dust in mere moments, Kousetsu reduced to scattered iron fragments!
And it didn't stop there.
The Crescent Moon Slash tore through everything in its path—soldiers, houses, rock gardens, walls, and even the forest hundreds of meters beyond the governor's mansion! Under this divine strike, everyone was struck speechless, their eyes locked on the crescent as if it were the only thing left in the world. When the dust settled, a massive vacuum zone stretched hundreds of meters, everything within it utterly annihilated!
For minutes, the sound of collapsing buildings echoed.
"No… no way…"
"Is this girl even human?!"
Clang—
The sound of a blade hitting the ground rang out.
In front of Hikari, Enshin—half his body obliterated by the edge of the Crescent Moon Slash—opened his mouth, then collapsed. His body shattered like broken ice, scattering across the ground.
Silence fell.
No one dared speak.
In the dead quiet, Hikari tilted her head, glancing at another Teigu user nearby. "You want to dance too?"
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