This feeling, sharpened to an unprecedented degree under intense mental focus, is truly addictive.
Aoto stepped to the right, dodging the thrust of the young man in the middle, while simultaneously swinging his blade to block the Kasaya Slash from the middle-aged man on the left.
Then, his body and arms naturally inclined to the right, crashing into the short man on the right, causing the man's Upward Strike to miss.
Someone groaned:
"Ugh! Ugh!"
It turned out that as Aoto crashed into the short man, he freed his left hand to draw the Wakizashi still hanging on the left side of his waist, and plunged it into the short man's belly, twisting it vigorously a few times.
The short man, vomiting a large amount of fresh blood, staggered forward and collapsed.
