Just as the first ghoul to reach Dion and Ino was about to bring down its bone sword upon the two weeping figures, a whip of red-hot flames, with a razor-sharp blade at the tip, sliced through the air. It plunged straight into the ghoul's head and burst out the other side. The sheer force of the blow caused the creature's lifeless body to immediately crumple where it stood, sending a spray of hot, dark blood splattering over Ino and Dion.
The two figures flinched and whipped their heads around to see all the ghouls that had been chasing them suddenly fall one by one to the ground as whips of flames tipped with blades pierced through their heads.
"Wh-what?"
Both stared, their panic momentarily replaced by sheer confusion. They watched a final ghoul collapse just meters away, revealing a figure far more horrifying than the ghouls themselves.
It was a woman who appeared like a true demon, complete with sharp, menacing horns, and clad with armor decorated with dark, dried blood.
