Skill 7

But Stella was fully aware of that.

《Satan Fang》was purely the opening move. In order to add a fatal blow, she had to get to her back with《Flame Veil》which made her body invisible thanks to light refraction when the opportunity to make her lose her visibility with flames――

– ――!?

However, even if she swung it downward from a certain blind spot, it didn’t lead to Xiaoli.

She could catch it. And just like before, she put it between two fingers.

But this time――as she turned her back on her.

(H-How?)

– Your face says “how did you know?”

– …!

– I didn’t feel a『feeling』that would defeat me from that flame. Its appearance was just like a fake flame. A fake bloodlust. It’s a bit regrettable that you think you can deceive me with such a thing.

Xiaoli said so as she put her strength into the fingers that seized《Laevateinn》,

As if snatching the sword away from Stella.

Stella opposed her so that it weren’t snatched away and pulled the sword towards herself.

But this clearly was Xiaoli’s trap.

The moment when Stella pulled it, Xiaoli let the sword go.

As a result, Stella’s body bent backwards due to her own power and created a big gap.

Xiaoli bared her fangs at that gap.

She turned around and did a roundhouse kick with acceleration.

The blow mowed down Stella’s side.

But Stella was also the owner of unusual reflexes.

Her collapsed body forcibly recovered with the power of all the muscles of her body and caught the roundhouse kick with the handle of the sword.

――She caught it.

– Gahaa!?!?

Although that was how it should have been, the impact penetrated Stella’s body.

No, rather than penetrating her, it was transmitted to the sword that received the kick and exploded in her body.

That was a wonderful performance of Chinese martial arts and Kurogane Ikki’s《Dokuga no Tachi》was based on that concept.

A shintoukei of a head house that destroyed the opponent’s body from the inside through an impact. *

*TN: shintoukei literally means soaked strength.