The attack crashed into Rui's vulnerable abdomen, a gigantic impact wave rippling through his body. He did his best as he tried to mitigate as much of the impact as he could with Elastic Shift, Acute Edge and Inner Divergence.

Yet it was sorely insufficient. Rui closed his eyes as he experienced a level of suffering that he hadn't since the conditioning training of the Stinger technique. Every cell in his body ached as he was launched across the arena. Large swathes of his skin were sheared off by the rough ground as he landed into a tree in the arena.

Yet what he did next shook those who beheld his mangled bloody form.

He grinned.

"...Gotcha." He stared into Fiona's eyes with a hauntingly ecstatic smile that cut through his mangled bloody face.

Fiona felt a shiver climb up her spine as she gazed into his intense bloodshot eyes.

Then, and only then, did the pain follow.

SPLURT SPLURT SPLURT!

Blood pissed out of her neck, shocking everyone who witnessed it.

What had happened??

"...Huh?" Fiona murmured, not understanding. Her body was saturated with pain-suppressing endorphins that the human body naturally released in states of extreme excitement.

But reality soon took a grip of her.

She immediately pressed her hand to her neck, suppressing the blood flow as her eyes widened in shock at what she felt.

A hole!

A hole in her neck!

She glanced at Rui in shock.

"...Ha... Haha..." He laughed unsteadily.

THUD

put one foot

THUD

foot

onto the

a mess. No one would be

And yet.

took his

where he wanted to

only ends when

him

known that launching that attack then would have resulted in a toe-sized hole in her neck, she would not have

did do it,

shift onto his right leg, making her think he was not going to move it and eliminating it as a threat in her mind.

Rui had taken

even the combination of a never-before seen trump card, along with her own mental blind spot was not enough

No.

sacrifice Rui had to provide. A sacrifice he did provide. He sacrificed defense as he abandoned his guard to land

was the price of landing his critical

a

had accelerated. His skin had been torn in multiple areas. His body was bruised

it was not

transported an enormous amount of blood. Furthermore, they carried blood not to any ordinary organ, but to the very brain

Rui had severed nearly half of them in her

a few ribs? So what if his skin

Did it hurt?

it hurt more than words could

was more than willing to endure

same level. She no longer had ample

needed to

could

whether

began losing his sense of balance.

His breathing grew

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