No matter how many blades existed in the same timeline, yatsufusa always remained just one. Beolgr's Horn, facing certain death, firmly lodged the blade that pierced his heart within his body. This caused Rin a momentary pause, abruptly halting his offensive and preventing him from turning around in time.
At this moment, Rin's back was wide open. The assassins, whose drug effects were nearing their end, had no time to think.
Just then, Beolgrs Breath, using Shadow Split, suddenly threw a grenade-like object in front of Rin. As it landed, a silent explosion emitted a blinding flash of light! It was a homemade, powerful flashbang. Interfering with vision was secondary; under the intense light, a long shadow stretched from Rin's feet all the way to Beolgrs Breath.
The blade of the shadowy Akame ga Kill suddenly stabbed into the floor next to Rin's shadow's neck, then slashed towards Rin's shadow's neck—
Clang!
A collision sound, impossible between shadows, suddenly rang out. Beolgrs Breath instinctively looked up in shock, only to see Rin holding yatsufusa's glossy black scabbard to his neck. The blade of Shadow Split had struck the shadow of the scabbard, unable to advance an inch.
"The blade of Shadow Split only works when it cuts a shadow in light. Unfortunately, this scabbard is forged from Orichalcum!"
The scabbard in Rin's hand spun in the air, and its corresponding shadow naturally performed the same movement. The shadow, originally insubstantial and unable to touch physical objects, suddenly struck Beolgrs Breath's forearm! With a "crack," the shadow of the scabbard actually broke the man's forearm bone!
"The one holding Shadow Split can cut touching shadows, but following the rule of relativity, the shadow can touch you."
Rin had already drawn yatsufusa, its renowned cold blade shining in the strong light, reflecting a chilling divine glow. He swung it horizontally, cutting a slashing mark in the space. The invisible murderous intent of the blade qi sealed off all of Beolgrs Breath's dodging space, aiming directly for his head! He couldn't dodge, evade, or block this strike. If he didn't display some ultimate skill, his head would be severed in the next instant.
Shadow Split Secret Technique: Shadow Escape!
Just as yatsufusa's blade was about to cleave Beolgrs Breath's head, the assassin holding the Teigu Shadow Split suddenly transformed into an insubstantial shadow and merged into the shadows on the ground, dodging the killing blow. Rin precisely controlled his wrist, slightly adjusting the path of yatsufusa's swing. The razor-sharp blade, sharp enough to cut a hair, struck the chain-sword swung by Beolgr's Ear. This excellent weapon, which had clashed with Teigu countless times and remained usable, finally gave way. yatsufusa's blade severed the steel wires connecting the chain-sword, and the entire weapon instantly fell apart.
A weaponless assassin is like a viper with its fangs removed, as good as dead. However, Rin couldn't kill him directly yet, because Beolgrs Breath wasn't the only one activating a Teigu secret technique. At this moment, Beolgrs Fang, the leader of Beolger, clad in black cloth and wielding the strange sword Wuchang, suddenly charged at Rin from the front with unknown courage.
Also moving at the same time was Beolgr's Eye, using Silver Hand. The highly poisonous silver needles from the Teigu's gauntlets shot out directly towards Rin's direction, which was behind their leader, as if defecting. Thirty silver needles from each gauntlet burst out from tiny spring-loaded pinholes, showering the air with needles towards Beolgrs Fang's back in an instant.
Beolgrs Fang seemed unfazed by this sudden attack from his comrade, who was also his subordinate, as if it were a betrayal. Even though his figure blocked Rin's view, he knew his back would be riddled with silver needles from the gauntlets.
The internal spring mechanisms of those catapult silver needles were also made of Orichalcum, like Teigu. The force of the projectiles was strong enough for the silver needles to penetrate a three-inch-thick steel plate. These silver needles were coated with the metal poison of Silver Hand; if they entered the human body, they would cause metallization and corrosion from within. If the limbs were hit, one could still escape by severing the limb, but if they entered the internal organs, there would be no chance of recovery.
However, just as the silver needles struck Beolgrs Fang, the hit body seemed to be completely absent; the flying silver needles passed directly through Beolgrs Fang's body. When Beolgrs Fang was only an inch away from Rin, they flew out from his chest and shot towards Rin!
Wuchang Secret Technique: Complete Virtualization.
And at the same time, behind Rin, Beolgrs Breath, who had just hidden in the shadows, suddenly leaped out from the darkness behind Rin. His broken right hand was unusable, and his left hand's Shadow Split stabbed towards Rin's back, blocking Rin's possibility of dodging.
Suddenly appearing silver needles, the virtual sword Wuchang in front that ignored blocks and couldn't be intercepted, and Shadow Split from behind that sealed off escape – at this moment, Rin seemed to be in a desperate situation, like falling into a death trap. It had to be said that Beolger was indeed worthy of being an assassin organization whose reputation had echoed throughout the Akame ga Kill World for a thousand years; even Rin couldn't help but feel a little tricky.
But... that's what makes it interesting!
Rin, in the midst of this desperate situation, instead wore a slight smile. At this point, it was too late to even activate demons extract.
However, Rin chose to ignore the attacks in front of him, blocking Shadow Split's sharp blade with yatsufusa behind him. Just as Silver Hand's deadly silver needles and Wuchang's virtual sword were about to hit Rin, a black shadow suddenly appeared in front of Rin—
"Puff puff puff puff puff..."
All sixty silver needles, without exception, struck the suddenly appearing black figure. And Beolgrs Fang's complete virtualization consumed an immense amount of stamina and mental energy. At this moment, the virtualization time had reached its limit. He had already swung Wuchang and couldn't retract it; his virtualized arm solidified directly as it passed through the body of the figure in front of him... "Ahhhhh!!!!"
The greatest danger of using Wuchang is the timing of complete virtualization. A virtualized human body is not like the Teigu itself; once an object exists in the space occupied by the body during the virtual-to-real transformation, it will merge with the solidified body. At this moment, Beolgrs Fang's sword-wielding arm was merged with the chest of the black shadow in front of him, unable to separate.
Just then, yatsufusa's sharp blade pierced out from the figure's right chest. The gleaming blade, obstructed by a person, precisely pierced Beolgrs Fang's heart. Only then did he see who this suddenly appearing figure was, the one who had completely reversed the situation where his sure-kill was about to succeed.
"...Horn..."
The figure was as black as night, his entire body wrapped in dull, coarse black burlap, revealing only his eyes. He was the tallest among Beolger's Death Masks, the assassin who had just died first under Rin's yatsufusa.
yatsufusa... yatsufusa... Damn it, he only remembered his exquisite swordsmanship, but subconsciously forgot the ability of the Teigu in his hand... Feeling the death qi instantly spreading throughout his body the moment his heart was pierced, the soul-chilling coldness spreading and eroding his brain, Beolgrs Fang finally realized the fatal mistake of him and his comrades. They had too much overlooked Beolgr's Horn, who had already become a corpse. Because they had forgotten their deceased comrade too decisively, they suffered retribution in the next moment.
Just as yatsufusa had pierced Beolgr's Horn's heart earlier, and he had held yatsufusa in his body with a desperate will, Rin, in less than a blink of an eye, had turned him into a corpse puppet controlled by yatsufusa. When Rin delivered that killing blow towards Beolgrs Breath, he had stored him within yatsufusa, and just when the assassins thought they were about to succeed, he suddenly released him in front of them, instantly reversing the situation!
"Don't underestimate the power of the dead."
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