50 Chapter 50: Prey or Predator?
Chapter 50: Prey or Predator?
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Fuck! Did they really have to come at such a time? And even worse, they came just when I was about to ask more about those grandiose titles of Kokushibo and Doma.
Sigh! What can they even do against a buffed-up Daki.
But it seems they had some common sense. Rather than saying anything, they quickly attacked her in a burst, throwing seven balls made from an unknown material toward Daki.
'It feels like they are throwing Pokemon balls… but in reality they were grenades,' Ace mused as those balls exploded with a large sound when they made contact with the ground.
Boom! Sling.
While a bomb was useless to a demon, those were not normal grenades. When they burst, they sent hundreds of small shrapnels covered with wisteria poison toward Daki.
Thankfully, my figure was covered by Daki, so they didn't strike him.
Sadly, they were going to be disappointed. As the smoke from the blast cleared with a wave of Daki's hand.
They saw Daki completely unscathed from the attack as she used her dark sashes to completely block the attack.
No, not completely. He saw one shrapnel had hit her pale face, causing a dark purple patch as if someone had hit her head with a wet cloth.
"You!!" Daki said with an emotionless face as she touched the part of the face where the shrapnel had landed.
Looking at the insects that had invaded her place in cold fury. 'How dare they ruin my time.' Without waiting for a single moment she used her sash as a sharp blade, and slashed at them, cutting them into pieces.
No, that was what she thought would happen. But just as her sash was about to reach them, her vision changed.
"Huh?!"
One moment she was looking at the insects that had invaded her room, and the next second, she was in midair, accelerating upwards.
"What happened?! I clearly didn't sense anything!" Daki thought and looked down towards the place where her room was.
Suddenly, something caught her eye as she looked down—her entire arm was brutally mutilated, as if it was smashed by something hard.
"This!!" She was shocked by how badly her arm was injured before it regenerated.
"It seems he really was not normal," she thought as she started falling down. 'Will need Brother's help in this,' she thought.
At Ace's side.
Hinatsuru and the others looked at Ace in amazement at what they witnessed. Her body was just petrified now when she saw the woman attack them with her sash.
It was the moment when she, for the first time, saw death so close that she almost closed her eyes and had almost given up.
But just before they were diced open into pieces, she saw Daki had vanished like smoke and Ace had appeared in her place.
"Sigh! Why did you three come here?"
She heard Ace-sama asking them with a face that said he was annoyed. "Uhh... We thought you were in danger... and you didn't send any message about the situation."
'Huh? I was supposed to send a message….Shit, I totally forgot about that. No wonder they thought something happened to me.
"Okay! Let's leave the talk for later, and you guys stay back as far as you can. This isn't a fight you can join," Ace said to them before turning to look upward at the incoming demon descending from the air.
Boom!
The room they were in was fully destroyed from her landing.
'It seems she can levitate and accelerate in the air for some limited duration,' Ace thought, seeing the momentum through which she landed.
"You are quite an actor, Demon Slayer. You even fooled me. Cheh!" Daki said, spitting on the ground as she landed.
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"Not like you were not acting! So it balances right? Haha," Ace chuckled as he said that.
"I am a demon. It's in my blood to lie and deceive, whereas you, a demon slayer, should stay righteous and noble," she said.
"And what type of Demon slayer are you who even slept with a demon? Aren't you supposed to hate us?" Daki asked with curiosity as she looked at me.
"An orthodox one! And I am quite a free-thinker type of guy who doesn't mind much! And don't say it like that when you tried to use whatever mind control ability that you have," Ace said, taking his battle stance.
"Oh! You sensed that?" Daki said with a surprised face. This time she was truly astonished as this ability of hers was a secret that she never divulged to anyone, not even her brother. Only Muzan knew it because his blood runs in her body.
"Well, you left me quite sensitive at that time, so it wasn't much to sense it."
"You! It seems I have no choice but to kill you now. I can't even make you my slave now," Daki said with a frown.
It was impossible to leave him alive now with him knowing her secret ability. She was one of the rare cases who had awakened two blood demon arts.
Her Obi sash manipulation was the first one to awaken, and her second ability, which only awakened much later in her life, was the ability to Mind control anyone for a limited time who showed any amount of lust towards her.
But she didn't know how he had freed himself from her control. Although she didn't go deep into his mind to change his mindset, she still had used at least 50% of it to control and sway his emotions and judgments towards her desired way.
She didn't wait anymore and directly used her eight Obi sashes layered over each other in a net pattern to attack him.
Looking at the multiple sashes coming his way, Ace smiled 'Time to test the limits after my training'.
The next moment, he moved, and in an instant, he vanished from his position, appearing just a few yards away from Daki with his swinging glaive in his hand.
"How?!!" Daki was shocked as she saw all her sashes were cut into fine pieces in the back, as if they were made of paper. She was even having a difficult time reacting to his speed.
'He is too fast, and his slashes are too powerful for me to dodge or block. I need to stall until Brother comes,' Daki analyzed.
But it seems things wouldn't go so simply, as a slash was already coming towards her neck. Calculating its trajectory and direction, she quickly waved her hand towards it.
'What other tricks does she have?' Ace mused, seeing her waving hands.
Suddenly, all the pieces of sashes that he cut into pieces transformed into water before shaping into water bullets, launching into his back.
'Oh. Even Water Manipulation, and it seems she can control it quite well too,' Ace thought, jumping away from the trajectory of the water bullets.
But those bullets didn't seem to leave his back and continued to chase him like a homing missile. 'She can even control the direction and their movements,' Ace thought, landing on a rooftop before swinging his glaive into those bullets and dispersing them into countless water droplets.
"You are quite skilled," Ace complimented.
"Don't talk as if you are the old one here," Daki said as all the dispersed water flowed back, forming her sash again.
"I thought women didn't like to talk about their age. It seems you are quite comfortable with it, Oba-san," Ace taunted.
"Rude Bastard!" Daki said, gritting her teeth, as suddenly all of her sash turned into dark blue water that looked much different from normal water.
'They are much heavier and denser than normal water,' Ace thought, looking at the swirling water before tens of arms made of heavy water emerged from the swirl coming at him.
"This will be fun!" Ace said, bending down in his position before he launched himself towards the incoming fist of arms, leaving the wooden roof completely destroyed.
Then, swirling his glaive in a circular motion, Ace faced them. Each fist coming his way was completely destroyed the moment it touched his swirling weapon.
No matter how many or how powerful they were, coming at him, they were completely destroyed upon reaching him.
Daki was petrified by how easily the attacks were destroyed, but before she could think of doing anything, she saw Ace descending towards her, using one of her attacks as a jump pad.
She tried to quickly summon her water to block it, but suddenly, her vision had changed.
She saw her own standing body .
Her head was severed.
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Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you've all had a good year. Perhaps some of you didn't, but don't worry – keep working hard, and things might turn out well or....maybe not. Haha, I am speaking from experience.
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