However, in the next instant, Shinno and Mukiwa, who thought Aoto would directly take on this fierce slash, widened their eyes in disbelief at the incredible scene before them.
Mukiwa was so shocked that she couldn't help but raise her two small hands to cover her slightly opened red lips.
Just as Shinno's blade was about to strike Aoto, in that critical moment, Aoto slightly opened his mouth, exhaling a breath of stale air, and then leaped lightly.
Not forward.
Nor to the left or right.
But backward!
Aoto leapt lightly backward, easily dodging Shinno's blade, and then landed firmly on the rounded top of a bridge railing post behind him!
"What?" Shinno, shocked by the scene before his eyes, couldn't help but exclaim.
This was the first sentence he uttered since the duel with Aoto began.
Shinno didn't have long to be astonished… because the blade of the Ghost-Slaying was already closing in with the wind!
