Chapter 045 Zanpakuto Part 5
After the next opponent was spawned, without warning she appeared in front of me and stabbed her stinger-like middle finger blade. I panicked and blocked it by raising both of my arms.
*PUCHII*
The sting-like blade pierced my arm but instead of blood coming out, a butterfly like mark appeared in my right arm. Since I can't use Observation haki due overusing it and need a few minutes to recover all I can do is observe and anticipates the attack from her. As I observe her, she suddenly vanished and appeared behind me and aimed to my neck. I avoided it narrowly due to instinct as I duct my head. I countered with Shigan but misses. She seems using Shunpo in attacking which makes her dangerous since I can't use Observation haki. I send a few attacks but she easily dodges it by blinking few times. She closes our distance and started melee combat. She stabbed her blade towards my heart but I stopped it by holding her hand. She pulled her arms and launches a kick aiming for my chin. I back flipped not only to dodge but also counter attacked by sending a kick but easily dodged. She then launches barrages of attacks, some hits and some misses. After a few more exchange almost all of my body has a butterfly marked.
'Shes damn to fast. If I can stop her movement even for a moment, I can definitely kill her with one blow. Although I can kill her using Room and Shambles but it takes a lot of stamina and I don't know how many more will spawn so I have to conserved my reserves or else I would end up dying.' (Satou)
We continued our exchange and more marks appeared in my body.
'Since I can't use some of my skills I have to risk this in order to win.' (Satou)
I made a trap by making an opening by attacking her with a right hook making an opening for her to attack and she took the bait. As she attacked using her blade aiming for the mark near my chest. I simply jump upwards making her hit my leg. After that I spread my arms wide opened and hugged her neck then twist it making her head move to 180 degrees. Along with her body disappearing, the butterfly marks also started to disappeared. After defeating her, another one appeared and this time a guy holding a hilt while the blade of the katana became Cherry Blossom (Senbonzakura).
I distanced myself from the enemy and the petals of cherry blossom attacked the area I was previously standing. He swung his katana (hilt) and the cherry blossom followed its command, like the one I fought before (Haineko). I dodge the attack but still got hit by few cherry blossoms leaving few cuts in my arms and legs. Since I still can't use any type of haki because I haven't recovered enough willpower I am forced to a hard fight. As I was thinking on how to defeat the enemy, I felt a danger from below and jump backwards to dodge the incoming danger.
*BOOOM*
I manage to dodge the attack from below without relying on Observation haki. I again felt danger from my back and decided to jump sideways and roll to avoid it.
*PSHSSSS*
I manage to avoid another attack.
'Is this the so called Instinct that I want to learn from Guemon?' (Satou)
This so called "Instinct" sometimes called "Intuition" enables to react without thinking in combat while performing the best possible action on the situation and pick up undetectable things.
'Maybe because of my experience of battles that I have developed Instinct and awakened it in this battle due to not relying on Observation haki.' (Satou)
I clear my mind from distraction to test if I have really developed Instinct. I felt a lot of cherry blossom attack from my left side followed by the right side. My body moved by its own as it side step from left to right dodging the attacks and moved forward. Upon reaching the enemy, my right hand clenched tighter forming a fist and stored a lot of power. And then throws a Hit Nail Punch.
*TATATATATATATATATATA*
*BOOOM*
*BOOOM*
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*BOOOM*
*BOOOM*
*BOOOM*
The enemy got hit in the chest and started to fly as the shock waves started to take effect. As his body fell down, his chest caved in from the attacked destroying his internal organs.