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!

the demon slashed, a blue translucent image of a claw

-Swoooosh!

hesitation, Ren pointed towards them as his other

-Bam!

-Crash!

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 as the translucent claw image moved

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

him to

speed, Ren left after images of himself. As he moved, slowly, a white glow started emanating from his body. With

"huuu..."

and Kevin, Ren exhaled as turbid air escaped from his

Kevin and the demon couldn't react,

-Click!

first movement of the [Keiki style] : Quick

...

-Clank! -Clank!

leader, Kevin skillfully and deftly dodged the sharp and pointy nails

his sword, Kevin would counterattack shortly after the demon attacked. Like this, for the next

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

-Swoosh!

-Clank!

down the attack by a split second.

the opening that was given to him thanks to Ren's ring, Kevin strengthened the grip of his sword

"huuuup!"

-Slash!

-Clank!

"Khhh..."

demon leader's surprise, he now found himself on

curse as he looked towards

you doing! Kill

the disruption, he couldn't help but shout at

head away from me mid-fight?

before the demon leader, Kevin

-Clank! -Clank!

or so, Kevin and the

sword became heavier and faster. The demon leader was starting to struggle. Beads of sweat started dripping from the side of

-Clank!

from Kevin, however, as if he was an

"Huup!"

Once again, Kevin slashed.

"Khhhhaaa—ah!"

demon's sharp nails, to the demon leader's horror,

Kevin once again increased the

-Slash! -Slash!

-Clank! -Clank!

this, Kevin's advantage became even more apparent. As Kevin attacked, he couldn't

demon leader...he couldn't see this fight ending any time sooner. If things went on like this, Kevin felt that the fight would end in at least twenty more minutes...that was far too long

happen. Although he had faith in Ren killing all those demons, from his experience, Kevin felt that he

into deep thought as he couldn't help but

I end this with

he used overdrive he could end this fight in an instant, but there was a

long he used it for, Kevin would find himself unable

his overdrive was on, Kevin would be doomed. This was a really

I or

to go all in. He couldn't afford to fight for that long. The faster he

was confident

"Over—"

activating overdrive, Kevin suddenly felt a gush of wind brush past his skin as subsequently

-Click!