The fight with the Boss.

"What's that?"

"A gift"

"Eh" he looked at her with some confusion but I assume it must be some kind of attack.

So we continued to walk there while preparing for an attack.

We entered the cave Sayuki had pointed out.

Then as we approached the wooden door in front there was an explosion.

*boom!*

From the corners of the door there is a slight smoke of dust.

"You did that?"

"Just a little gift"

While I'm a bit surprised by the 'little gift', Rai to the side looks on nonchalantly, unsurprised.

Ignoring my surprise, Sayuki kicked the door open.

Then the scene inside is shown.

The smoke is dispersing showing in a part of the destroyed floor.

The smoke disperses and shows the place to be partly a mess.

"Did you hit him?"

"No"

At that moment a slight whistle was heard from ahead.

Two kunais shot towards our direction.

Quickly jump dodging effectively.

Then as the smoke clears ahead it shows us a person who appears to have gone to a war as he is wearing tattered armor.

"Damn brats, this time you played me" The bandit boss clenches his teeth while he has a furious look.

"You're still alive?"

"*grits teeth* Now you will die!" My question infuriated him more.

He then he pulls the katana from his waist and rushes towards us.

Then as he was running towards us a ball of dirt comes out of the ground.

"The same trick won't work again!"

He slashes towards the dirt ball.

*tink* *sparkle*

In the last instant before cutting, his katana released a glow indicating that he carried electricity.

The sphere was cut in two revealing the insect inside it.

*tink**tink**tink* The man deflected the shuriken that Rai had thrown at him with his weapon.

Wasting no time I ran straight at him with my hardened fist.

Brimming with a confident smile, he quickly strode forward.

The bandit boss seeing my intentions didn't hesitate and cut forward with a cruel smile.

*impact* *screech(metal rose to metal)* *cut*

So because we both hit with a similar force we gave each other a knockback.

On recoil I felt a stinging pain in my fist.

Then when I turned my hand I saw that in the middle of my fist there was a cut from which blood was dripping slowly.

My face instantly turned into surprise knowing that he was able to cut my skin, something that had never happened to me.

The bandit boss for his part also looked at me in surprise.

"Impossible, why do you still have your hand? Even if your hand was made of metal it's still part of the earth element, it's weak to thunder" The man mutters that last part because this is the first time he can't cut something.

I direct my attention forward again with a more cautious gaze.

Seeing that my greatest defense was breached, I feel the urge to finish off this person quickly before he can hit me with a blow to a vital point in my body.

'Looks like I found a strong enemy'

With the intention of finishing this quickly I call my companions.

"Rai, Sayuki, help me entertain him, I'm going to hit him hard"

With a serious tone they just nod without asking why.

I raise my fists but this time I do not close the palm of my hand, but stretch out my fingers like those of an eagle giving the illusion that I am grabbing the air.

'I'll finish this quickly'

Then like a charging bull, I again run forward without bothering to dodge as as I run forward my whole body turns dark from the tips of my fingers to the tips of my feet.

In this state I am confident that few things can harm me right now.

There are few times that I have shown the hardening of my body and much less the full body, for Rai and Sayuki it is something unusual but they cannot pay much attention to me at the moment so they can only admire in their thoughts that I have such an ability convenient in terms of complete defense.

Not worrying about running out of energy, I appreciate that this skill doesn't consume a lot of energy.

"Hmp, let's finish this quickly" The bandit boss rushes at the three of us without any fear.

Situation that is used by Rai and Sayuki to throw several shurikens.

The bandit boss just raises his katana and swings it in a certain pattern deflecting all the shurikens at once.

I am slightly surprised by the precision the man had in being able to deflect them all at once because even I would have a hard time doing that unless he used my hardening.

But I quickly shake myself out of those thoughts and proceed to launch a blow at the bandit boss who has stopped due to the earlier attack.

My punch is aimed at his face.

*ffhh*

My punch was nimbly dodged by the man who had a cruel smile at that moment.

He raised his katana that exuded a faint blue glow that arced on the blade's edge with his free hand and cut forward towards my neck.

At that last moment my back bent backwards at an angle that was very difficult to do next to my neck, avoiding the cut of the sword that seemed like a cut that was impossible to dodge completely.

The bandit chief opened his eyes when he saw the arc in which my body bent but he didn't have time to think anymore because by pushing my body backwards I can counterbalance pushing my lower part.

One kick is directed in the direction of the side of the head.

The man only goes to raise his other free hand to block my kick as he raises his katana with his other hand for this time to deliver a blow that is impossible to dodge.

It's impossible, his katana is close to my body so he will hit me before with his weapon than with my kick.