Saito and Oomura, with their exceptional skills, barely managed to maintain their section of the defense line from falling back.
But the others didn't have the ability like Saito and Oomura to prevent the line from retreating...
One guard after another was knocked down and died because they were outnumbered.
As the defense lines in other places retreated, Saito and Oomura also had to fall back with them...
The "oval" defensive formation was thus compressed smaller and smaller...
The members of the Anti-foreigner Group were getting closer and closer to Anthony, Elodie, and others who were guarded in the center of the "oval".
Anthony and the others could even clearly see those ferocious faces.
The mental defenses of one guard seemed to have completely collapsed.
Facing what seemed to be an endless array of enemies, the guard, whose lips had been trembling slightly, lowered the knife he originally held in front of himself.
"Wait! I..."
