Without any questions, Ai obediently closed her eyes and I held her shoulder. Ai has more experience in these things than me so I guess this should work.
"Akira, when I tell you, switch places with me and Ai using your ability," I said softly but it was enough for Akira to hear me with her ability.
"Wait, what are you doing?" Henry asked while tilting his head and I smirked.
"Just a little trick," I said and sheathe my katana and let it be strapped in my waist while I raised my hands. "Now don’t make me wait forever."
Both of them appeared right before us and I and Ai jumped aside dodging their blow and the ground cracked where they hit it. My eyes darted around the room and I just remembered something. Let’s see if they were able to figure it out or not. I took off my night vision goggles to peak and see that it was still really dark here but not enough to give me zero visibility. Even if the moon was not up tonight but it was more than enough visibility.
"Ai, do you think you can manage fighting them while keeping your eyes closed?" I asked her because it was what I was concerned about.
"I think I can but…"
"Can you?" I asked with more assertion.
"Kind of," she said and ducked down dodging Zack’s nails and kicked his legs which he dodged by jumping up.
Henry appeared right before me and extended his hand to grab me but I already had my hand upside down on the handle and got in my stance and drew my katana and as expected, he had to dodge it because the drawing blade was already very fast and if he sped it up, there was no way he could have survived it.
"That is enough for me," I said to Ai and my eyes fell on Akira. "Akira, now! Swap with Ai!"
At the clue, she swapped places with Ai and jumped back dodging Zack while Ai had her hand in Hagimura chest. Looks like her stake broke before she could get the fatal blow in. Hagimura coughed out blood and pushed Ai away wiping the blood off her mouth.
She stared at her hand and I could see it irritated her. She looked up at Ai with bright red eyes while Ai could feel the bloodlust that she was aiming at her.
Now, show me your ability.
I blocked a kick by Henry with the scabbard and pushed him away and rushed at him with my katana ready. I stared right in his eyes as if mocking him and it ticked him off.
But a smirk appeared on his face.
He snapped his finger and jumped up making me run straight through where he was and well…
He made a fatal mistake.
Not for him.
But…
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"Zack!" Henry shouted.
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I cut off Zack’s head and stabbed my scabbard in his chest while Akira stepped aside giving me space and stopped Henry in his tracks. Zack’s body was now on the ground and my scabbard was straight through his heart. Knowing that he was dead now, I stood up.
If it were Ai there, I knew I would have hesitated to do this in the worry that I might have injured her.
So that is why I asked Akira to switch places with her.
I guess I really am awful.
Taking the scabbard out of his chest, I stood up and looked back at the horrified face of Henry who had himself hanging in the air by Akira who was holding him by the neck. It must have hurt seeing your brother die like that but I don’t really care about it.
I heard something flying and I stepped aside and extended my arms and Ai dropped in them. She looked in pain and for some reason and I looked back at Hagimura who was staring, no, more like glaring at her and I could feel the amount of bloodlust she was releasing right now. Ai groaned in pain as I looked back at her.
She quickly regained her consciousness but did not open her eyes. Looks like she took my request seriously which was a good thing.
"Don’t ignore me when I fighting you," I heard Hagimura’s voice and looked around not seeing everyone.
Oh god.
I felt a sharp pain in my back which made me fly across the room with Ai in my arms. I threw her off and she regained her stance and braced for impact. My head will probably be crushed at this rate but if I just…
"Not on my watch."
The hard painful impact never came at all. Instead, I felt I collided in something soft and cold.
"Please get back up Kazuki-sama," Akira said to me and I opened my eyes to see her behind me. Wait, did she just absorb that impact I was about to have?
I got lucky there.
I quickly got up one of my legs and lent my hand to Akira. She stared at it with a stoic face and I smiled at her after which she accepted it. I helped her step up and Ai jumped beside and looked at them.
"So we have to take care of a boy who can speed up time and an invisible loli," I said.
"Who are you calling a loli?!" a voice came from behind me and we all jumped forward as the pillar behind us just shattered in pieces.
I looked forward seeing Henry smirking and snapped his finger and I moved quickly right before him and he punched me in the guts knocking the air out of me and I fell back on the ground but before I could touch the ground, I felt a sharp kick right on my rib cage making the ground crack where I landed.
"Gaah."
I winced in pain and rolled out of that place. Okay, dealing with both of them would be a lot more irritating.
"Team up?" I heard Hagimura’s voice.
"Is that even a question? I am going to make the faker suffer before sending him to father," Henry said while glaring at me and his eyes were glowing brightly. "If not for father’s orders, I would have tortured him t-"
"Where the fuck do you think you are looking while talking asshole?" Ai said and kicked him in the stomach crashing him in the windows and his back hit the table kept there.
"Ahhhh!" he shouted in agony as steam started coming out of his back.
Well, looks like their alliance wasn’t for too long since…
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Ai appeared before him and she had another stake in her hand which she stabbed in his heart. He screamed in pain and then silenced immediately.
What the hell?
How is killing nobles being this so easy now?
Is it the number difference?
Or experience?
Soon, Henry dissipated into dust and I got back on my feet. Wow, just because he was talking too much, he lost concentration and died. Okay, my life is not from a manga or light novel because they let the person speak everything there.
Wait, it never was in the first place.
Oh.
"Huh, looks like I am all on my own now," Hagimura said and let out a sigh. "Whatever, it is not like anything serious will happen due to it. Ricky did say that he would not abandon us and he probably has work to do underground so I can either go back or still fight you. Hmm, what should I do?"
"How about not staying at the same place while talking?" I said to her.
"Huh?"
The next thing she knew, Ai appeared behind her and stabbed her in the hand with the stake and blood started trickling down Hagimura’s hand and was showing where she was. I could see her running around away from us and her bleeding soon stopped and all blood reentered her blood vessels. That is really convenient honestly.
"I guess I will stay and fight," she said and I too, closed my eyes and concentrated completely only on the sounds I could hear and that is where the problem was…
I couldn’t hear anything.
I jumped aside on instinct and the wall beside me had a big crack in it. Shit, if this is how things are going to be, then it would be much harder for us to defeat her…
Wait a minute.
"Akira, can you sense her?" I asked the noble and she nodded her head.
This was someone I cannot defeat on my own even if I tried.
"Ai, Akira, drive her to a corner," I said to the both of them and they jumped right before me and stopped a blow.
The impact caused the ground to shake and I looked out and saw something worrying.
Some novices entered the tenth floor. Looks like we need to get this over with quickly.
"Ai, Akira, hold Hagimura off for me please," I said.
"As you say Kazuki-sama," Akira said.
"Kazu-kun doesn’t need to say please to make me do something," Ai said.
I looked at the novices that were pouring in and unsheathe my katana. There were a total of thirty novices right before me, I think I can take care of them.
I ran down the hallway and they followed me knowing that a noble was already fighting Akira and Ai. I decided to play around a little with them so I entered a room and picked up a chair and threw it at the hoard of the vampires which really did damage which also gave me enough distraction so I dashed at them slicing their heads off and stabbing them in the chest. I used a novice as a launching board and kicked off the ground from him and looked down at them jumping up too.
Wrong move guys.
"Akira!"
I sliced horizontally and teleported from there and my blade connected with Hagimura’s arm chopping it off. It fell down and could be seen properly. She jumped back and her invisibility stopped and I could see her holding her regrown arm.
Suddenly, I felt the air being sucked towards one spot.
"Ai, jump," I said to her and she did as I said.
"Akira!" I said to her and appeared before the novices and the ground started shaking. I could be able to tell Akira was about to do something because of the air moving quickly.
I twisted my body and cut off the heads of six novices making them stagger back and I stabbed their chest and jumped back dodging the other novices.
"Come and get me," I said mockingly and ran towards a wall sheathing my katana.
I jumped up and looked back at Akira and Ai before kicking the wall cracking it. Let’s get this over with.
"Akira!"
I appeared right before Hagimura and unsheathe my katana quickly and cut her head off. I landed behind her and was about to stab my scabbard in her chest but…
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"Ahhhh!"
Ai stabbed her in the chest with her stake before I could do anything. My scabbard just stopped before Ai’s neck and one wrong move and I could have hurt her with it.
Hagimura decapitated into dust and both I and Ai retracted our weapons and looked at the hoard of the novices that were crushed into nothing by Akira. Their bodies were squashed down on the ground and they were slowly regenerating.
I and Ai looked at each other and nodded our heads and went to quickly kill the novices off. It did not take much time and once it was done, they all were nothing but just dust. I looked at the destroyed floor and let out a sigh. I just hope that James does not ask me to compensate for all this.
I felt a weight on my back and I looked to see Ai hugging me with a smile on her face and snuggling on my back. I smiled and pat her head and she giggled.
"I did good, right Kazu-kun?" she asked me like a little child asking their parent how they did.
"You were amazing Ai," I said to her while patting her head. "A lot better than me."
"No, Kazu-kun was also very strong, I did not know you could use Akira’s ability like that," she said in a matter of fact voice.
Wait a minute.
"When did you get comfortable with her? Aren’t you angry at her or anything? Like you usually would," I asked her raising my eyebrow.
"Um…I was at first but she did save you from getting hurt really bad so I guess I can forgive her for that," she said averting her gaze.
"Oh, that reminds me," I said. "Akira, come here."
Her eyebrows strained a little in worry but she listened to me none-the-less. I raised my hand and she for some reason closed her eyes and her eyebrows trembled. I placed my hand on her head and gently pat her head surprising her.
"Huh?" she said.
"You did well, and thank you for saving me back then," I said to her with a soft smile on my face.
She stared at me in disbelief and I saw a slight smile form on her face.
"I was just following my duties as your servant, Kazuki-sama."
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