Mitsuko deflected an oncoming attack from the sky piercer and swings her scythe at the side. Lu Bu easily blocked the attack and pushes the crescent blade away and strikes overhead as he steps forwards to have more of his strength in the attack. Mitsuko barely had enough time to block the attack with the polearm. She Managed to force it to land on the ground and swings again with her scythe aiming at his neck, though this was futile as Lu Bu's superior skills shone through as he anticipated the attack and stepped back with ease before thrusting his sky piercer aiming of her torso. Mitsuko withdrew the scythe in time to grab a hold of the polearm with both hands and push the sky piercer away to her left. She took another opportunity to swing the scythe at Lu Bu's neck. Though Lu Bu's experience revealed itself as he doesn't put all his strength into it so he doesn't stumble forwards onto the oncoming crescent blade and simply stepped away from the blade before he came into contact with it. Mitsuko gritted her teeth and was infuriated with not hitting him. She kept on her offensive swinging trying to get a hit in though every attack she swings Lu Bu anticipated and dodged out of the way of all her attacks. She knew she had to try and be smarter with her attack. After her last strike she raises her crescent blade high to strike his skull.
Lu Bu anticipated the attack and deflected the attack leaving Mitsuko vulnerable as he simply swatted the scythe away. As Lu Bu strikes overhead Mitsuko could stumble to the same direction the scythe was deflected at. Lu Bu's sky piercer destroys a part of the flooring while keeping the blade itself intact. Lu Bu then thrust again at Mitsuko. This time hitting her serpent shoulder pad.
'Gotcha!' Mitsuko let her body turn with the momentum of the thrust giving after hitting the shoulder pad making Lu Bu thrust that little extra giving Mitsuko an opportunity to attack. She swings her scythe aiming again for his neck. Lu Bu steps back however the tip of the crescent blade was close enough to leave a horizontal scar on Lu Bu's armour at his chest. Even though her shoulder pad was destroyed Mitsuko smirked at the damage that she did to Lu Bu's perfected armour. He ran through the scar with one of his fingers but instead of getting angry he wore before suddenly attacking Mitsuko. The more she blocked with the polearm the quicker the attacks from Lu Bu became as he stepped forward more and more putting Mitsuko on the defensive as she had to step back. She eventually found herself overwhelmed with his flurry of attacks as Lu Bu swings his Sky piercer one more time from the side. Mitsuko barely had enough time to block it. However instead of withdrawing the blade Lu Bu pushes with all his strength which surprises Mitsuko. She couldn't prevent herself from being knocked over as she landed on her back. She groaned in pain as she made contact with the ground. She got back up to see Lu Bu smirking which infuriated her and yet in a strange way she was getting a little bit excited. She charges in again for another attack.
Gyuki managed to catch up to LingQi as she just kept sprinting however she started to slow down due to exhaustion, even so she still attempted to keep the same pace. Seeing this Gyuki picked her up and places her on his shoulder.
'Hey what are you doing?' LingQi protested and was about to dismount before Gyuki speaks up.
'Well I thought you may want to have a quick rest before we reach the castle. If you get tired you can't help Mitsuko can you?'
'I…I suppose.' LingQi sighed in defeat, as much as she didn't want to admit it Gyuki was right. Though the idea of just sitting around and waiting while Mitsuko and her father was in danger didn't sit right with her at all.
'Don't worry, despite my size I'm quite fast you know.' Gyuki reassured her as he ran through the trees as fast as he can, even knocking a couple of them over. Though all of a sudden he stops.
'What is it, why did you stop?' LingQi questioned anxiously.
'I sense a mystic nearby.' Gyuki whispered.
'What's a myst-' She was interrupted as she suddenly found the tip of a bright blue spear with bright white engravings on it inches from her face covered with black blood. She sees that Gyuki's hand was impaled but managed to block the spear for her.
'Gyuki are you ok?'
'Yeah I'm fine, this simple twig can't stop the great devourer.' Gyuki laughed as he winced in pain while pulling the spear out. He shakes his hand before suddenly blocking another attack this time with his massive club.
'Who's there!?' Gyuki roared as many of Cao Cao's soldiers reveal themselves hiding behind several trees along with a young looking woman with teal coloured chain mail armour. Armed with a spear with what seems to be two pieces of hard wood cross together forming several diamond shapes with the tip of the blade glowing bright teal. She also wore a spiked helmet decorated with what seemed to be a blue feather on it.
'Tch, we missed.' She scowled at their failure while Gyuki snarls at them.
'What business do you have with us mystic?' Gyuki asked with a threatening tone. This was LingQi thought Gyuki was actually like when she first met him. She looked at the woman and didn't get a good feeling about her.
'Your heads, I had hoped to kill you two separately though killing two birds with one stone isn't bad either.' She smirked as the numerous soldiers inches towards them with their weapon drawn.
'Wait the two of us? What has the human got to do with this?'
'Do you really think we're going to sit back and let the serpent gather allies as she pleases? Besides no human gets away with killing one of us. Kill them both.' She ordered as she looks to her side as the soldiers nod in unison as they crept towards them with their weapons drawn. LingQi didn't know what was going on or why these people would attack her, they all seemed to be under Cao Cao but the colouring on their uniforms seem a bit too light for a normal regiment under Cao Cao. Though she was confused by what she said. Serpent…she couldn't be talking about Mitsuko could she?
'Gyuki who are these people?' LIngQi questioned.
'Mystics. They're basically a race of people in the heavens that like to parade their so called justice. They're bad news. They want to kill lady Mitsuko as a result, I'll tell you why later but don't worry I'll get us out of this.' Gyuki responded as he keeps taking steps back as several soldiers gathered towards them with his club pointing out them and occasionally slammed it down to keep them from attacking all at once. Suddenly LingQi jumped in front of him with her weapons drawn.
'Hey what are you doing? Are you sure you've recovered enough stamina?'
'You say they wanted to kill Mitsuko right? Then I can't sit back and watch, they'll get to Mitsuko over my dead body.' LingQi declared and looked at each of them with burning determination.
'That can be arranged!' The mystic woman responded as LingQi charged in along with Gyuki.
Mitsuko and Lu Bu entered another deadlock as their blades meet once again. Both gritted their teeth, neither of them giving in to the other. Mitsuko then stepped back while turning her body, purposefully loses the deadlock so that Lu Bu could stumble as she withdraws the scythe to swing again. Lu Bu immediately righted himself and backsteps away from the blade. Mitsuko quickly attacked again from the other side this time as she twists the blade to make it face her enemy. Lu Bu blocks the attack again and pushes it away though he doesn't attack. The look in his eye beckoned her to try again and Mitsuko obliged all too well. She strikes overhead which Lu Bu smirks as he sidesteps the attack. The impact causes a miniature hole to appear in the ground, destroying a tiny part of the flooring.
Before Lu Bu was going to strike Mitsuko twists her blade so that tip of it is facing the side of Lu Bu's legs. She quickly pulled the scythe back to trip Lu Bu backwards and give her an opportunity. However it was futile as Lu Bu simply stomps on the flat side of the scythe. Mitsuko didn't have enough time to try and pull the blade because of Lu Bu's horizontal attack aimed at her neck. Mitsuko steps to the side of the scythe while keeping a firm grasp on the bottom of the polearm and pushes towards the attack to block it. Lu Bu pushes into the attack before suddenly recoiling the sky piercer and attacks from the opposite side. Mitsuko retreated to the side and did the same thing. Lu Bu withdrew his halberd again and thrusted straight at Mitsuko. She lowered her head aswell as her hands to keep a steady grip. The halberd strikes the polearm though it still stood. Mitsuko used this opportunity to lift push the polearm up as fast as she can causing Lu Bu to stumble slightly backwards as the crescent blade faces upwards so suddenly. Mitsuko uses the momentum to swing her scythe upwards from the ground and overhead to attack Lu Bu. Lu Bu easily blocks it with his sky piercer however Mitsuko smirked by how close she is. She lets go of the scythe with her left arm and reaches for the hidden blade that's sheathed and horizontally aimed at his stomach.
Though Lu Bu saw through the cunning tricks of the serpent and tilts the polearm making the scythe drop to the ground on Mitsuko's left while the halberd blade blocked the sword barely before she made contact with the ground. Mitsuko eyes widen with shock, she looked up to see Lu Bu's arrogant smirk yet again as he pushes the blade away and steps back before being in the vicinity of Mitsuko's scythe. He thrusts his trusty Sky piercer again at Mitsuko who was able to block with both of her weapons as they crossed each other. Though the attack once again pushed her away and created some distance between the two. Mitsuko growled softly at Lu Bu. Normally she'd feel great about having a decent fight but that arrogant smirk is something that Mitsuko despised too much. Truth be told she started the fight well enough however the more Lu Bu kept that arrogant smirk up the more Mitsuko couldn't just enjoy the fight. The image of LingQi' sad expression with the red mark across her face was still fresh in her mind. It just reminded of the Akari incident all over again, except this time she can do something about it. If only this disgusting excuse for a father would just die! Mitsuko yells as she charged forwards, gripping both weapons tightly.
Pang Tong's and Chen Gong's soldiers have been going at each other for a while, Pang Tong looked rather pleased while Chen Gong just looked angry. One of Chen Gong's soldiers get killed first as he gets stabbed in the gut with a spear. Which in turn helps turn the tide towards Pang Tong's squad as one manages to throw an enemy over the edge of the wall, crushing their skull as they landed head first. Another soldier manages to gut them and push them off the other side of the wall, through the embrasures. A loud screaming could be heard before suddenly silence after a quiet thud. One soldier managed to cut the enemy's hand off before they strike making them scream in agony and crashed to their knees before decapitating them. Suddenly the lone Chen Gong soldier finds himself surrounded before suddenly behind thrusted and stabbed by all of them before they stopped and turn towards Chen Gong as he takes a step back out of fear.
'Excellent work men, excellent work indeed. Though you seem to have missed one.' Pang Tong chuckled while pointing at Chen Gong.
'Once you finish him off, we can finish the main fight on the frontlines, abandon the castle safely and pat ourselves on the back of a job well done.' Chen Gong gritted his teeth an anger. How dare this upstart unworthy hermit dare try to assassinate him, Chen Gong. He wasn't going to die in a castle like this, he refused to be known throughout as the strategist of a tactless man, he will not suffer that disgrace! He was meant for much more than this however he stopped walking backwards and smirked confidently as he reaches inside his robe to reveal a red scroll.
'I know you want history to remember you but don't you think it's a little late to write your last words? I mean after all we can't just wait for you to finish writing them, not to mention your blood may cover some words and they may get lost to the sands of time, that's the last thing we want.' Pang Tong chuckled however he notices that Chen Gong doesn't respond and instead opens the scroll.
'You fool! You really think you can get rid of me? An unknown, mediocre strategist? Don't make me laugh. As I said before this castle will be your grave, now witness this, a gift of the gods themselves and proof that you are nothing before me!' As he unfolded the scroll fully beams of light erupted out and into the air before suddenly crashing all around Chen Gong. They quickly began to form into armoured soldiers in all white while being transparent like spectres. Pang Tong's squad took a step back and awed at them.
'What is this?'
'Some king of magic perhaps?'
'Who cares, they're still going to be vanquished the same way.' One of the soldiers charges in and slashes the spectral warrior only to fall through the soldier and falls to the ground face first. He quickly turned around and waved his sword at one of the warriors who doesn't react though they ominously turns towards them. Another soldiers attacks from behind but it just goes through them.
'What's going on, we can't hit them!?' One soldier exclaims as the rest take a step back fearing for their lives. The spectral soldier slowly walked to the warrior on the ground.
'Get away from me!' He yelled as he grovelled back, he soon finds unable to do so as he's next to one of the walls. The spectral warrior holds their spear high and thrusted downwards. The soldier screamed and coughed up blood as the spear twists and turns inside his body before releasing a final death sigh. The spectral soldier returns its haunting yet completely dead gaze towards Pang Tong's squad as they remove the spear with blood staining the tip of the weapon as if it's a normal weapon despite the transparency.
'Well that's something you don't see everyday. Well do your best everyone!' Pang Tong chuckled as he encouraged the rest of his squad who just looks at him with confusion on their faces before blocking the oncoming attacks from Chen Gong's spectres. Chen Gong starts to laugh as finally he can show this miserable upstart who is the superior strategist!
Mitsuko swings her weapons wildly at Lu Bu clearly frustrated that she can't seem to land a single solid blow on him. Was this really the best she could do? If she doesn't start stepping up now she knows it'll be the end. And that means letting this vile excuse of a human live and that's something she will not abide by. Even still she had to give Lu Bu credit, he wasn't the strongest warrior in the land for nothing. Even still why can't she even lay a finger on her? Didn't she train? Wasn't she stronger than before? Didn't she swear to avenge LingQi? Yet she can't even take down one simple man!? Lu Bu dodged the attack from both weapons. Before deflecting a horizontal strike from the scythe before thrusting his sky piercer. Mitsuko deflected the attack with her normal blade and attempts to use her momentum to strike with the scythe again. Lu Bu was too experienced in reading body movements and pulled back and thrusted again as soon as the scythe passed him. This caught Mitsuko off guard though she manages to pull the scythe back hitting the sky piercer passed Mitsuko's face as she tries to stab Lu Bu with her blade in the face. He moved his head to the side to dodge it and takes a step back as soon as she recoiled it to attempt to slice his throat.
After narrowly missing Mitsuko grew even more frustrated as she wildly swings her weapons out of anger. Mitsuko's attack from above is blocked by the halberd. As she attempts to attack with her blade, she was shocked when Lu Bu caught her wrist. She caught his smirk before he headbutted her which knocked her away. She wipes her nose as she winced in pain to find that its actually bleeding. She should be more concerned with the fact that its colour is just pitch black but she doesn't care. She just wanted to kill Lu Bu. She shrieked in anger as she goes back to swinging her weapons wildly trying desperately trying to inflict a wound, a cut anything on Lu Bu. He sees just how desperate Mitsuko is and simply toyed with her, something that frustrated her more. Lu Bu managed to entangle Mitsuko's scythe with his sky piercer and pushed it to the ground, forcing them to stand shoulder to should to each other. Allowing Lu Bu to let go of one of his hands on his polearm to backfist Mitsuko forcing her to spin on her own axis with more blood trickling down from the corner of her mouth. As she recovered while keeping a firm grasp on her weapons though she feels them starting to get heavy. She received another hit across her jaw, this time it was from Lu Bu's polearm causing her to once again spin. When she faces him again Lu Bu deals the finishing blow as his halberd piercers her armour and makes a huge wound diagonally upwards on her chest causing her to fly back. Everything just goes slow motion for Mitsuko as she's lifted up in the air before suddenly dropping to the floor. She felt every ounce of agony hit her at once and spit out a lot of blood as she was struck. Her helmet disconnected from her head and rolled away from her. She never experienced this much pain, she was hyperventilating. She felt the blood trickling from her wound and saw just how black it was as she put her hand on the wound and looks at how much was spilt. She could only lie as her eyelids got heavy.
'Is this how it feels to die?'
Zang Ba, Wu Zi and the rest of Mitsuko's forces successfully fended off the first wave of Cao Cao's troops as were beaten and retreated back to the main army. The serpents forces cheered as Zang Ba wiped sweat from his forehead.
'The next one wave will come soon, we should retreat back to the square it's a bit more defensible especially as I don't think the defenders in the east will have as much luck as we did.' Wu Zi suggested.
'Yeah good idea, hopefully Mitsuko finished in there so we can get out of here.' Zang Ba responded.
'You think she's ok in there? This is Lu Bu we're talking about here. Maybe we should've gone in with her on the safe side.' Zang Ba laughed at this.
'Nonsense, she'll be fine. Lu Bu's strong but if anyone can beat him its our lady.'
'Hmph, I suppose you're right.' Wu Zi concluded as he ordered the warriors to retreat further into the castle. Zang Ba boasted confidence in Mitsuko though he looked to the castle worried about Mitsuko. They retreated to one of the castles squares where shortly later reinforcements from the East appeared led by Song Xian, Shi Huan and Wei Xu. Officers who Zang Ba was friends with and had attempted to persuade them to abandon Lu Bu and join up with Mitsuko. He smiled as they appeared.
'Hey what time do you call this, we already started without you.' He laughed. Song Xian armed with a standard glaive rested it on his shoulder before giving a confident smirk.
'Sorry we were held up, we had to wait for the water to subside on our side. Which by the way thanks for the heads up.'
'No worries what are friends for hey? Besides if lady Mitsuko and Pang Tong could predict this the land is pretty much good as theirs. No point hanging around with Lu Bu any longer, especially now right?'
'Too true Ba, too true. I say we declare our independence from Lu Bu now.' Shi Huan suggested which all three of them agreed with. Wu Zi joined Zang Ba to his side.
'You told them about the flood attack?' Wu Zi whispered to Zang Ba who seemed confused.
'Of course. After all I know these guys, lady Mitsuko could use all the help we can get.' Zang Ba whispered back. Wu Zi sighed.
'Honestly sometimes you need to think about these things more.' He started to walk back as the three of them look at each other with a malicious glint in their eyes.
Mitsuko managed to roll over to her side making herself lie on her stomach and put her hands on the floor to help in getting up.
'Not bad, not bad at all. I didn't think you had any strength left I'm impressed.' Lu Bu declared as Mitsuko grits her teeth and uses all her might to straighten her arms no matter how much it hurts though after a while she just collapsed.
'Honestly you shouldn't feel too disappointed in yourself you're a lot stronger than the majority of men I slain. You put up a good fight, that was the best fight I had in quite a while. Alas though, this is your grave' Lu Bu started though Mitsuko noticed that his voice started to fade away.
'Damnit, is this how I die? Just a stepping stone to someone's greatness? I have no doubt Akari that you're up there smiling at this, I suppose this is what I deserve isn't it? Well you got what you wanted and I got my just desserts so I guess that's that. I'm sorry.'
As the last warrior under Pang Tong's command was slain Chen Gong was laughing manically.
'Haha yes! I am the victor of this engagement, you lose hermit! Finish him off and make it painful!' Chen Gong ordered his spectral soldiers. They walk ominously towards Pang Tong who simply sat down with his legs crossed while not saying anything.
'What? Got nothing to say? After all the verbal lashings you gave me this is how you die? Ha pitiful! You really are a disgrace!' The spectres surround Pang Tong and raise their weapons ready to strike,
Shi Huan offered his hand towards Zang Ba who graciously accepted. But was taken back immediately by the dastardly look on his face. As Wu Zi was returning to his soldiers Wei Xu armed with his spear gutted him. Wu Zi struggled to say anything as he looked down to see the tip of the spear covered in his blood. He felt his strength rapidly fading away as he was pushed to the ground and stabbed a few more times to make sure.
'What!?' Before Zang Ba reacted Shi Huan stabbed him with his other arm with his sword right in the stomach. Zang Ba hunches over and spits out a lot of blood. He looks up to see Shi Huan with a malicious grin on his face as their soldiers run past them to attack Mitsuko's forces.
'Don't take this personally old friend. But neither lady Mitsuko or Lord Lu Bu will survive this battle. And we really do not want to die, why should we? We never asked for this, we just wanted to live. Siding with either of them is suicide! That's why us three decided we'll take your heads to Cao Cao to prove our loyalty to him. Again its nothing personal.'
'Argh!' LingQi slays another mystic and is now surrounded by their corpses however she deflected yet another attack and decipates another mystic. However she's starting to get tired. Before she was attacked again Gyuki assisted her by slamming his club on the ground, crushing him from the waist up. Leaving a flattened, bloody mess in the aftermath. He spotted a warrior jumping high from his side with his sword overhead ready for a strike. Gyuki swatted him away like an insect. He left a lot of blood on the tree as he was knocked into it straight first before the body dropped.
'Thanks for that.'
'Don't mention it.' Gyuki insisted as he knocked another mystic in the air and watched him splat on the ground. The mystic leader picked up one of the spears that her comrades dropped and threw it at LingQi. She didn't anticipate the range attack which penetrated her left arm. She cried out in pain as she dropped one of her double bladed glaives. A few more mystic soldiers attempted to rush her. Gyuki helped by landing the club infront of her and swatted them away.
'Are you ok?' Gyuki asked with concern. LingQi yelled more as she forcefully removed the spear from her arm.
'Yeah, I'm ok.' She winces, clearly injured as blood flows all the down her arm and reached her fingertips. She clutched the wound for a moment before blocking slicing the gut of an enemy, forcing them to their knees and slashing their face. Gyuki stepped in front of her protectively.
'You wish to get this human then you have to go through me first.' Gyuki roared confidently. Though he recognised the situation was bad and wasn't sure what to do as he can't protect both her and himself form this relentless mystic ambush. He glanced behind her to see LingQi clutching the wound with her other arm clearly in pain.
Mitsuko closes her eyes, though when she does. Memories come flooding back, memories from her own time. Back when she was too weak to even speak up. A time when all this just seemed like a fantasy to her. She remembered the loneliness, the people that affected her life, for good and bad. Her memories become more recent from when she joined the army. She remembers actually feeling like she belonged somewhere, where she found her strength and friends. Pang Tong, Zang Ba, LingQi. Her memories of LingQi were the most vivid. It was with these memories when she felt like she was reliving them all over again. Though when she saw the mark Lu Bu left her and imagined him laughing at her as she stepped in the carriage and rode away. That made Mitsuko angry.
What the hell was she doing? Was she really going to die like this? Was she really going to let Lu Bu get away with this? 'No! I can't…I can't just let her suffer like this. I can't let this disgusting individual get away scot free, I made a promise. A promise I intend to keep! I can't die yet…not until I hear his blood curling screams!' Mitsuko started to laugh as she feels her strength returning to her. Lu Bu stopped walking away and turn towards her. He was surprised that she was getting up and just laughing it all off. Mitsuko managed to stand up right while keeping a grasp on both of her weapons.
'You know something my lord? You remind me of so many people I used to know in another world, another life.' Mitsuko left arm started to pulsate violently. Lu Bu raises his eyebrow in suspicion.
Just before the spectral soldiers struck, Pang Tong suddenly felt a surge of newfound energy inside him. Large amounts of wind suddenly erupted from the ground blowing himself softly in the air while sending the spectral soldiers flying in all directions, completely evaporating them into nothing. Pang Tong spins in the air and lands on his feet. He opened his eyes to see a very frightened Chen Gong. Chen gong saw his trump card completely destroyed and the blood red eyes that Pang Tong revealed to him horrified him to his core. He wasn't human, he couldn't have been!
'Well, that was a strange turn of events. Though I have no doubt that this was Lady Mitsuko's doing. Now then Chen Gong where were we?' Pang Tong sinisterly chuckled at him while holding the front tip of his hat with his left hand and his large fan with his right.
'You're just so fucking arrogant it pisses me off to no end. You think yourself as superior to everyone else, you think you can get away with treating people like their worth nothing.' Mitsuko's right arm suddenly starts pulsating violently just the same. Lu Bu took a step back, unsure of what's going on.
Zang Ba looks at Shi Huan and feels a burst of energy again. He roared as he punched Shi Huan in the face which forced to let go of his sword and stumble backwards and stab him in the gut with his glaive before he was able to react. The other two officers looked stunned at this sudden display.
'Don't take it personally? You just betrayed me to save your own skins of course I'm going to take it personally!' Zang Ba winced as he proceeds to remove the sword before throwing it away on the ground. He screamed so much while doing so he has to stop himself to calm his breathing down.
'If there's something Lady Mitsuko doesn't tolerate its traitors, you say you just wanted to live. Well unfortunately for taking Wu Zi's life you need to pay with your own!' Zang Ba declared angrily as he sprinted towards Song Xian and initiated a deadlock.
'And yet you're so incompetent its unreal. But I could've looked past that you know, I could've at the very least tolerated that out of you. But then you decided to lay your hand on your own daughter because you couldn't directly control her anymore.' Mitsuko's arms stopped violently pulsating however now her head started to act like it had a seizure, Lu Bu was getting wary of Mitsuko. Though he swore he could hear some form of hissing for some reason.
Gyuki swatted another mystic but then one sprinted under his leg and Gyuki missed his attack on him as he turns around.
'No!' Gyuki declared but suddenly he felt something stir inside him, this feeling felt a bit alien to him. The mystic was about to attack LingQi though he smirked sadistically as she used her weapon to sweep her opponent off his feet and promptly stabs him in the throat before the body reached the ground., her arm shaking with how much strength she put into it. She looked up at her enemies with renewed vigour while wearing a more demonic look about her. She noticed that her arm felt good as new as she picked up her other weapon. The mystic leader was wide eyed as she can't take her eyes off the renewed LingQi. She noticed that her eyes were changing and contorting from normal pupils to reptilian. She as also petrified by that demonic, sadistic grin she wore.
'That was a mystic spear through the arm, it should've paralysed that arm completely. Unnatural regeneration maybe? No that can't be she's human its not like she's a de-THE SERPENT! Shit she must've done something to her.' She concluded though she noticed that Gyuki was also renewed as his movements were faster than ever.
'That was when your fate was sealed. Do you really think I can just lay down and die to you? A person who wants control but yet is so incompetent when in control? Someone who doesn't take others opinions into consideration. Someone who is a vile, disgusting human being!? Hehe I'm sorry to say but that will not happen.' Mitsuko's head stopped spazzing out. She turned around and Lu Bu was taken aback by Mitsuko. Her arms have completely turned into large snakes with black scales with black pupils and golden yellow eyes. They both hiss in unison but sway from the left to right separately like they have a mind of their own. Suddenly the snake on Mitsuko's right begins to pulsate again before partially regurgitating Mitsuko's crescent blade out of its mouth though the polearm doesn't seem to join it, only the blade erupted from the mouth covered in drool as it slowly drips from the tip of the blade.
The other snake repeated this however instead of a crescent blade its instead partially regurgitates a large broadsword with the incomplete markings on the faces of the blade. Again covered in drool. Mitsuko's eyes are completely reptilian like however the iris is pure black like darkness itself with the left pupil being blood red and the other a violet purple colour. Her wound seemingly patched up. Mitsuko grins demonically revealing her newly formed serrated teeth and a forked tongue that licked the top lip hungrily before letting it rest at the bottom lip.
'Unfortunately for you my world will have no place for people like you. I hope you're ready for round two because this time I won't hold back and I'll be sure to enjoy myself this time around.' Mitsuko laughed. Lu Bu smirked as he got into his battle stance.
'Ha don't get cocky just because-' Lu Bu was interrupted as he felt something trickle down his left cheek. He put one of his hands to it and sees that he's actually bleeding. He's bleeding!? That can't be! He looked up to see Mitsuko wasn't there. He heard demonic laughing behind him. He looked behind to see Mitsuko behind him with some distance between them. Though he noticed that Mitsuko's broadsword attached that came out of the left snakes mouth was slowly dripping with that very blood.
'What was that my lord? I didn't hear you over the sound of your stunned silence. What's the matter? You're normally so talkative. Well in any event I should've let you monologued first. How about this I'll let you have a free attack.' Mitsuko moved her snake arms to both her sides and openly exposed herself. Lu Bu gritted his teeth and remained where he was, he didn't want to fall into her trap…whatever it was. Mitsuko smiled demonically revealing more of her newly formed serrated teeth.
'Oh? You want me to go first? You're so generous…and arrogant! But this time I'll oblige to your request this time.' Mitsuko laughed as she lunged forward towards him with her snakes to her side.