Skill 8

No, it wasn’t just wasted effort.

Because Taizan, which was what Stella faced now, changed into a person and counterattacked.

Stella caught the hard counterattacks again and again, her body danced in the air and struck the bedrock.

And now too――

The catcher Xiaoli didn’t give a step with her pivot leg and only the challenger Stella continued rolling and being repelled.

Tatara, who watched attentively this one-sided development, grinded her teeth.

– ! That moron, why is she getting counterattacked so easily…!?

– She’s not.

The one who denied so was Ascaride standing next to her.

She was better at martial arts than Tatara, she could see the advanced techniques used by Xiaoli.

– 《Toutetsu》is good at that. She hides the origin of her counterattacks with the sword and arm of Stella.

– … “Blind”, huh.

Yes. Xiaoli hid all her counterattacks behind the arm and sword of Stella who launched slashing attacks.

Blind was――the so called technique 『sudare』in karate.

The real identity of the technique that Stella felt as『invisible blows』.

In other words, Xiaoli showed a half fed up expression to Stella who got up every time she was thrown down without being sloppy――as she adjusted the blows until the very last minute to not kill her.

Even if the degree of consideration powers to the opponent was reduced, the pressure of the heart wasn’t lowered.

She was prepared to counterattack any possible counterattack with all her strength at any time.

(She has no openings…)

Her degree of perfection as a samurai was too high.

She couldn’t win.

That was more than evident.

Stella herself understood that as well as she saw it from the beginning