Kikyo's figure dancing in the darkness vaguely resembled a red-haired woman with a missing arm from the Lands Between. Both had the same graceful posture as a water bird, lightly touching down to slice enemies into pieces without getting a drop of blood on themselves.
Their commonality was that both were terrifyingly strong.
As if not of this world, but a goddess of slaughter descended from the stars.
The whip's shadow became a blade's shadow, weaving into a cage of flashing blades. Anyone who touched it was either dead or wounded.
Amidst the scattering blood, Kikyo's figure weaved through it, her speed so fast that one could only catch her elongated, trailing afterimage.
"Don't let her get close! Kill her!"
The remaining Tyger Claws were still resisting.
They pulled the triggers, and the gun flames illuminated their ugly faces. At this moment, the guns in their hands were their courage. Having witnessed Kikyo's artistic slaughter, only the firearms in their hands could give them some comfort now.
But this was for those who could still remain calm, while some Tyger Claws, having witnessed Kikyo's undeniable power, had already fallen into uncontrollable frenzy.
"Kill her!"
"Kill! Ahhh!"
Several Tyger Claws roared fanatically, drawing the alloy katanas from their waists.
Loud unsheathing sounds rang out in unison, and the gleaming white blades emitted a cold light in the darkness. Most of the Tyger Claws were of East Asian descent; they loved these traditional Japanese swords and were mad about them.
The Tyger Claws, gripping their long blades, charged at Kikyo like a pack of unleashed beasts, roaring. Their faces were fanatic, their mouths agape, saliva spraying from between their white teeth and blood-red gums.
Kikyo, seeing all this, did not retreat in the slightest. Wielding the monowire that swirled around her like starlight, she charged directly towards the Tyger Claws.
Her confident and composed demeanor made it seem as if the outnumbered Tyger Claws were the ones surrounded.
Both sides were very fast. In less than two breaths, they had almost collided face to face. Kikyo could even feel the wind stirred up by the charging Tyger Claws.
But the resistance of the weak is futile.
At the moment of close-quarters combat, a flash of electricity suddenly passed over Kikyo's body, and she vanished into the darkness with an uncatchable speed, merging with the dark alley.
"Damn it, what's going on?!"
"Where is she? Where is she?"
Their enemy suddenly vanished from sight, leaving the Tyger Claws momentarily confused. However, they quickly realized that this wasn't a supernatural event, but rather an optical camouflage.
Although they didn't know what kind of optical camouflage could so completely hide the enemy's figure—after all, typical optical camouflage only blurred one's general outline—this didn't prevent the Tyger Claws from immediately considering this possibility.
They were actually right; Kikyo had activated her electronic camouflage in an instant.
And in that single breath while the enemies were stunned, she had already positioned herself among them.
"Damn it, little..."
The recovering Tyger Claws nervously began to speak, but the next second, a riot instantly erupted.
A shining light whip suddenly materialized in the darkness, currents surging, creating a sound that tore through the air. To the Tyger Claws' ears, this was nothing less than the reaper's whisper.
Because it was sounding from behind them.
The light whip lashed several times, and a rain of flesh and blood fragments fell from the sky. The group of Tyger Claws that had been standing there were like a painting clumsily erased by a child; in an instant, their bodies were torn to pieces, falling to the ground like rain, accompanied by viscous blood and cyberware flashing with broken electrical sparks.
The battle ended in mere moments.
The ferocity of the Tyger Claws only resulted in their abrupt demise.
As the weak, resistance also seems so comical and powerless.
And in the bloody rain, Kikyo revealed her figure, and those cold eyes that had never changed.
The remaining few Tyger Claws, looking at Kikyo in the bloody rain, were as if seeing ghosts and gods.
Even when their will to resist was at its strongest, they couldn't even manage to graze Kikyo's clothes, let alone now, in their terrified state where they couldn't even stand properly.
As Kikyo reaped their lives, they even forgot to resist.
"They are all dead."
When Judy in the corridor heard the outside returning to silence and poked her head out, all she saw was blood and broken limbs on the ground.
And Kikyo was using the monowire to reap the last of the Tyger Claws' lives.
"Kikyo, this, this..."
Seeing this cruel scene outside for the first time, Judy covered her mouth in horror, her face instantly turning pale. She looked at Kikyo in front of her in disbelief, unable to believe that this cruel hellish scene was caused by her.
"Judy, turn around, don't look."
Seeing Judy's pale face, Kikyo reminded her.
Seeing Judy outside completely stunned, she subconsciously obeyed Kikyo's words and turned around, at least preventing her eyes from being stimulated further.
Not everyone can calmly accept this scene of more than a dozen deaths, especially when they died so tragically, with scattered limbs that were not intact anywhere.
Judy is also a member of the gang, but she is just a Braindance Technician.
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