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!

blue translucent image of a claw quickly headed in Ren's

-Swoooosh!

translucent claw headed in his direction, without hesitation, Ren pointed towards them as his other

-Bam!

-Crash!

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

the ring to completely block the

for him to

moved, slowly, a white glow started emanating from his body.

"huuu..."

leader and Kevin, Ren exhaled

Kevin and the demon couldn't react, pulling out his sword from

-Click!

first movement of the [Keiki style] : Quick

...

-Clank! -Clank!

the demon leader, Kevin skillfully and deftly

would counterattack shortly after the demon attacked. Like this, for the

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 demon leader was about to lift his hand, and thus

-Swoosh!

-Clank!

came, it still slowed down the attack by

Ren's ring, Kevin strengthened the

"huuuup!"

-Slash!

-Clank!

"Khhh..."

surprise, he now found himself on the

curse as he looked towards

you doing!

couldn't

head away

leader,

-Clank! -Clank!

minute or so, Kevin and the Demon leader fought, with Kevin holding the advantage this

sword became heavier and faster. The demon leader was starting to struggle. Beads

-Clank!

from Kevin, however, as if he was an octopus, Kevin continuously stuck onto him. Leavin him

"Huup!"

Once again, Kevin slashed.

"Khhhhaaa—ah!"

sharp nails, to

Kevin once again increased the speed

-Slash! -Slash!

-Clank! -Clank!

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

though Kevin knew that he was currently suppressing the 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

had faith in Ren killing all those demons, from his experience, Kevin felt that

thought

I end this with

end this fight in an instant, but there

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

leader during the time his overdrive was on, Kevin would be doomed. This

or should

Kevin grit his teeth and decided to go all in. He couldn't afford to fight for that long.

was confident he could

"Over—"

midway through activating overdrive, Kevin suddenly felt a gush of wind brush past his skin as subsequently after, the world around him

-Click!