The Author's POV

Opening his eyes, Ren calmly stared at the demons coming at him from all directions. As he saw them coming his way, he felt nothing.

No fear, no excitement, no anger...absolutely nothing.

With an indifferent expression, Ren slightly moved his neck sideways as the hand of a demon brushed past his cheek.

-Shuuuua!

Thereafter, aiming towards the solar plexus, Ren turned his body 45 degrees as he elbowed the demon.

-Bam!

As soon as Ren's elbow connected with the demon, a shockwave swept the surroundings as the other demons that were similarly headed in Ren's direction halted for a split second.

"Khhhhaaa—!"

Falling to the ground, the demon hit by the elbow spit out blood as he hold onto his chest area. He was in complete agony.

Staring at the demon beneath his feet, Ren slowly said

"Let me end the pain for you..."

-Click!

-Thud

Without looking at the demon, Ren placed his hand onto the grip of his sword. Shortly after a subtle clicking sound resounded across the area as the demon's head flew in the air.

...All of this happened in a matter of seconds.

-Shaaa! -Shaaa!

A split second after Ren decapitated the demon, moving backward, Ren narrowingly avoided the hands of two demons as a strand of his hair flew in the air.

-Dash

Tensing his calves, Ren quickly shot backward and distanced himself from the other demons. As he moved back, a green hue enveloped the bottom of his feet as his movement increased with every step.

"Get him!"

"Die you vermin!"

Staring at the six demons that were quickly approaching him, Ren's face remained calm and indifferent. Rather than focusing on their attacks, his attention was drawn towards their face.

...and he soon noticed one thing. How completely unfazed they were by the fact that their fellow comrades died before them. There was no shred of fear or hesitation in their eyes. Almost as if they didn't care about dying.

Noticing this, Ren glanced in Kevin's direction. He was currently back on the ground fighting against the demon leader.

Currently, both Kevin and the demon were in a stalemate. However, upon closer look, Ren could see that Kevin held a bit of an advantage. Despite the fact that neither of them budged from where they stood, Ren could tell by looking at the fine detail of their fight that Kevin was holding back whilst the demon leader was going all out.

...Moreover, he was also starting to show signs of exhaustion.

Thus without hesitation, as Ren moved backward, unsheathing his sword, Ren drew two circles in the air.

-Swooosh!

Thereafter, whilst still keeping an eye on the demons diving in his direction, quickly pointing towards Kevin, one of the circles flew in his direction.

Right after doing that, stomping his foot on the ground, Ren forcefully changed direction as his body shot towards where Kevin was. His speed didn't decrease. No, rather, it increased.

"No, you don't!"

Noticing that he could no longer catch up with Ren who was speeding up by the second, a white glow enveloped one of the demon's hands. Glaring at Ren, he quickly slashed in his direction.

-Thuaam!

slashed, a blue translucent image of a

-Swoooosh!

claw headed in his direction, without hesitation, Ren pointed towards them as his other ring directly moved forward and

-Bam!

-Crash!

couple of seconds neither refused to budge. However, shortly after, the glow around the ring diminished. Not even a couple of seconds after, the ring broke into millions of pieces

didn't need the ring to completely block the demon's attack. All he wanted was to

him to

slowly, a white glow started emanating from his body. With each passing second, the white glow around his

"huuu..."

from the demon leader and Kevin, Ren exhaled as turbid air escaped

at a speed that both Kevin and the demon couldn't react, pulling out his sword from the sheat of his

-Click!

first movement of the [Keiki style] : Quick

...

-Clank! -Clank!

demon leader, Kevin skillfully and deftly

sword, Kevin would counterattack shortly after the demon attacked. Like this, for the next few minutes, Kevin and the demon leader found themselves in

attack and one would defend. This pattern continuously alternated between the two...however this did not last for long. Just as the demon leader was about to once again attack Kevin, appearing from out of nowhere, a translucent yellow ring appeared right when the demon was about to attack. Right at the moment the

-Swoosh!

-Clank!

the ring broke as quickly as it came, it still slowed down the attack by a split second. But

Kevin strengthened the grip of his sword and a red hue enveloped his

"huuuup!"

-Slash!

-Clank!

"Khhh..."

step back, to the demon leader's surprise, he now found himself on the losing

curse as he looked towards the

are you doing!

the disruption, he couldn't help but

away

before the demon leader, Kevin

-Clank! -Clank!

Kevin and the

heavier and faster. The demon leader was starting to struggle. Beads of sweat started dripping from the side of his face, as movements started becoming sloppier by the

-Clank!

tried to distance himself from Kevin, however, as if he was an octopus,

"Huup!"

Once again, Kevin slashed.

"Khhhhaaa—ah!"

to the

increased the

-Slash! -Slash!

-Clank! -Clank!

this, Kevin's advantage became even more apparent. As

time sooner. If things went on like this,

many things could happen. Although he had faith in Ren killing all those

fell into deep thought as he couldn't help but think to

end

fight in an instant,

that skill, depending on how long he used it for, Kevin would find himself unable to

the demon leader during the time his overdrive was on, Kevin would be

or should

was struggling under his barrage of attacks, Kevin grit his teeth and decided to go all in. He couldn't afford to fight for that long. The

confident

"Over—"

of wind brush past his skin as subsequently

-Click!