Passing through the gap between the two monsters, Amamiya Rin stomped heavily on the ground. Generating power from his waist and abdomen, he halted, twisted his body, and turned back. His left foot stepped forward fiercely, the heel scraping against the floor and letting out an ear-piercing screech.
Amamiya Rin's center of gravity consequently lowered forward. Like a cheetah about to pounce, he was brimming with gathered strength.
He tossed the scabbard toward the monster's massive head while both hands tightly gripped the hilt. The Wooden sword was stabilized in the middle stance, the tip angled slightly downward, pointing directly at the monster's neck.
It was a neck fused from dozens of Kawakami Tomie faces. Countless strands of black hair were tangled together, and the pale skin adhered to one another, forming a bloated, grotesque structure.
A sharp glint flashed through Amamiya Rin's eyes. His core muscle groups in his waist and abdomen contracted abruptly, twisting his entire body's strength into a single rope that transmitted through his spine straight into his arms.
"New Shadow Style—Evil! Swift! Thrust!"
Accompanied by an explosive kiai, Amamiya Rin's body acted like a spring. After compressing to the absolute limit, he suddenly erupted, his figure transforming into an arrow released from the bowstring as he shot toward that meat worm.
The Wooden sword was no longer a tool for slashing, but an extension of his arms. It became a resolute bolt of lightning, cutting through the air in the most concise straight line, stabbing directly into the intersection of those Tomie faces.
Squelch!
The tip of the blade hit the target with precision. Accompanied by a muffled, sluggish sound of piercing flesh, half of the blade sank into the meat worm's neck.
What followed was an even stronger resistance. It felt like fragile, fused bones, or perhaps a massive cluster of tough, resilient sinew.
The muscles on Amamiya Rin's arms tensed to their absolute limit. He could clearly feel every fraction of difficulty as the blade pushed forward.
A Wooden sword was ultimately just a Wooden sword. Being able to achieve this much was already entirely due to Amamiya Rin's transcendent swordsmanship.
"Gwaaaaah—!"
The impaled monster let out overlapping wails. Dozens of Tomie faces twisted simultaneously in intense agony. The massive body thrashed around violently, attempting to fling the Wooden sword away along with Amamiya Rin.
"Don't... thrash around!"
Amamiya Rin adjusted his stance, gritting his teeth tightly. The veins on his forehead bulged as he nailed his body dead in place.
This monster's weak point was probably right at the neck!
Chopping at the fat torso was useless, and the head was too high to reach. Only the neck, with its heavy traces of splicing, could be penetrated by the Wooden sword.
Seeing that the other meat worm was also about to turn around, Amamiya Rin took a deep breath.
This breath was inhaled deeply and rapidly, causing his chest to violently expand.
Immediately after, a scorching aura rose from his abdomen, surging madly up along his spine and piercing straight into his crown!
"Red Lotus Breathing! Limit State!"
It was as if some sort of shackle in his body had been violently shattered. Adrenaline surged like a bursting dam. An explosive power that transcended his own limits erupted from within Kawakami Tomie's body!
"Left Sweep!"
Amamiya Rin's hands tightly gripped the hilt, pressing the weight of his entire body, his strength, and the brief burst brought by the breathing technique all onto this single strike!
Pushing against the immense resistance pieced together by bones, the Wooden sword—which had already deeply pierced the monster's neck—was pressed downward from the center point by Amamiya Rin using brute force paired with technique, tearing open a gap sufficient to exert power.
Amamiya Rin forcefully twisted his wrists and spun his body, driving the blade to slash horizontally.
Accompanied by a muffled, murky thud, the blade fully sank into the bloated neck, and then, with an indomitable momentum, penetrated out from the other side!
More than half of the monster's neck was cleaved open. Viscous black blood erupted from the gaping wound like an out-of-control fountain, drenching Amamiya Rin from head to toe. The foul stench was like that of a long-dead rotting corpse.
Amamiya Rin's expression remained unchanged. His right foot stomped heavily on the ground, stabilizing his forward-rushing posture caused by the exertion.
He forcefully twisted his wrists, shifting the angle of the Wooden sword's edge. The blood-stained blade that had just broken out of the body aimed once again at the ruptured neck.
Without a shred of hesitation, he poured all of his strength into his arms without reservation.
"Right Sweep!"
Moving from left to right with an even more ferocious momentum than before, the Wooden sword sliced back horizontally along that massive wound.
This time, the resistance was much smaller.
The blade slashed through the Tomie faces, ruthlessly tearing apart the adhered muscle bundles and snapping the fragile bones, forcefully decapitating the neck made of countless Tomie faces right down the middle.
Above the bloated worm body, the neck—still seemingly attached by skin—toppled over to the right. The massive face of the giant head seemed to gain a spark of life for the first time, revealing an expression mixed with pain and relief.
Then, it slammed onto the floor with a crash, letting out a dull, booming thud.
Having lost its head, the meat worm's torso convulsed violently. Countless hands and feet danced madly, and foul bodily fluids splattered everywhere. But its movements had clearly lost all coordination; it was merely a dying instinct.
Those dozens or hundreds of Tomie faces were seemingly just faces, lacking a brain that could control the body.
It was also at this moment that cold arms draped over Amamiya Rin's back, grabbing onto his shoulders and arms.
That was the other one. Although the time Amamiya Rin took to kill the first monster was brief, that little amount of time was enough for the other monster to turn around.
A massive shadow enveloped Amamiya Rin's body, and foul breath sprayed down from above. Sensing the rapidly descending behemoth, Amamiya Rin exerted force in his waist. While twisting his body to dodge, he reversed his grip on the Wooden sword and erected it behind his back.
Crunch!
A sharp pain exploded, and warm blood immediately flowed down his cheek. Enduring the agony, Amamiya Rin swung the sword from behind, batting away the arms grabbing onto his body. He collapsed to the ground and rolled a few times to widen the distance from the monster.
Getting back up and looking toward the monster, he saw a Tomie mouth chewing on a piece of meat.
Without any suspense, that was exactly Amamiya Rin's, or rather Kawakami Tomie's, ear.
"Could be worse!"
Faced with this situation, Amamiya Rin instead breathed a sigh of relief.
His previous maneuver was to prevent his head and shoulders from being bitten off by the monster. Merely losing an ear wouldn't affect the battle.
The monster twisted its worm body, flailing the arms and legs growing out of its torso as it lunged toward Amamiya Rin.
"New Shadow Style! Simple Domain!"
Amamiya Rin's gaze was focused, his breathing steady and long. With a state of mind like still water, he maximized his perception, spreading it out from himself like an invisible radar.
Within a radius of two meters, every single movement of the monster—including the contraction of its muscles, the shifting of its center of gravity, and the trajectory of its attacks—was reflected clearly in the lake of his mind like ripples on the water's surface.
The moment the monster approached, Amamiya Rin shifted his footsteps and slid sideways, brushing past the monster in an extremely dangerous posture.
The distance between the two was at its closest a mere ten centimeters, yet Amamiya Rin did not panic in the slightest. While dodging, he launched a counterattack, swinging the Wooden sword in his hand down and forcefully snapping an arm that was reaching out to grab him.
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