Exchange between Killers

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[Ryong's POV]

With Tamamo-no-Mae emerging her 6 tails, her magic power grows stronger. Without batting an eye, she would kill anything in its path to retrieve her lost strength.

A monster with nothing to lose against someone who has a lot to protect.

This would be the worst match-up for Red. Forget even fighting her, escaping from her might even be tough.

Knowing my partner's stubborn attitude looks like I would need to help him out.

Though I have been planning to start officially teaching him Martial Art to strengthen himself, he still needs to have a better foundation or he'll die when he undergoes the training.

But now is not the time for that, what should we do now...

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With multiple civilians slaughtered in front of him. Red emotions run through his mind wildly. but not in the way that normal people would think.

Seeing the sight of dead bodies everywhere would be bad enough to drive a person mad and sick with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

But not Red.

The emotions he had when he see the dead body. He felt nothing as if it was normal. Seeing a kid no older than 14 years old murdered in front of him certainly made him angry and disgusted. However, for the rest of the victims, it seemed as if it was normal to him. The phrase survival of the fittest reigns in his mind. Only the stronger one wins, that was why these people died. It was the one rule he learned when surviving in the Forest of Death.

The fox looked at the masked human curiously. He certainly piqued her interest because he didn't even flinch when a large number of people suddenly turn into a mountain of corpses. Especially when she murdered the teenager. The man who could block her attack was just standing there staring at her.

"Did I break him?" The fix muttered to herself while looking at Red.

His stance slouched down in a very relaxed manner. His arms all laid down removing all his defense, while his body remained standing up straight. The human was just standing and staring in a daze.

[*Passive Skill Activated due to meeting condition*]

[Killer Instinct]

With the User massacring a large number of living beings. With every kill, his proficiency in identifying the vital spots of each breathing creature multiplies.

Bloodlust can be activated voluntarily. Able to sense bloodlust with a radius of 400 meters.

You are able to withstand the Enemy's bloodlust and pressure unless they are a lot stronger than you.

Causes instant death for some targets or Guaranteed Critical Damage for targets when landed on Vital Spots.

Requirements: (Killing Multiple Targets in a short period of time) OR (Surrounded by Corpses.)

The Fox who kept her eye on the target suddenly shivered.

"Wha___Whose Killing intent is this?" She yelled demanding whoever dared to raise their weapon against her to show themselves out. However, she scan the entire area to see who else could have emitted such an ominous aura. Deep down she knew only one person that could have done it

Turning her head back to Red. Sure enough, it was Red portraying such an aura of hostility and danger. Even without the need to look at the expression on his face, the mask itself was already intimidating to her, especially when the Artwork in the mask suddenly opened its eyes and blinked.

Red began his move, slowly walking forward with the Fang in his hands. The long sword now changed to a dagger was held by its owner in an ice-pick grip. With the dagger in his right hand, he placed his left hand forward while keeping the dagger near his face. His palm opened facing the enemy while his grip on the weapon was slightly loose but ready to strike at any moment. He was ready.

The fox was baffled by the sudden change in attacking pattern. However, she was still cautious of his every movement as the unnerving feeling she got earlier on was still fresh in her mind. But that doesn't mean that she was the kind of idiot that would allow her opponent to strike her with strange moves first, especially one with such a dangerous presence like him.

Tamamo-no-Mae acted immediately using 6 of her awakened tails like extra limbs to attack her enemy. The tail was also hardened with help of mystic arts so that whenever the Tail land on something hard, the tails wouldn't be damaged at all. Because of that, the tail itself has turned into a deadly weapon, something similar to a blade, slashing and impaling whatever the body of the owner wants. Each tail delivered a powerful blow to its target and every blow that landed would always leave a crater behind. This was used as a long-range attack keeping the enemy from getting closer to the main body. The Fox began striking at odd parts of her opponent's body that even Red find it odd.

Red on the hand was very proficient in handling a dagger, moving forward with incredible speed. He blocked and parried all the incoming tail with his dagger, grinding the blade of the dagger against the tail to redirect the trajectory of the tail. Sparks can be seen as the speed of the attacks gradually sped up at an astonishing rate.

Pieinngg-!!!

Thinkkkththh-!!!

Clinkk-!!!!

Jeokkkkk -!!!

Clashing from two metallic weapons collided more frequently and faster, as Red sped up his flow of attack gradually getting closer to the Nine-Tailed Fox. However, Tamamo-no-Mae wouldn't let that happen. Her tails wasn't the only weapon in her arsenal. Imbuing mystic arts in her claws, she proceeds to engage in close-quarter combat with Red, striking his body and aiming his vital points.

However, she was not the only one that knows where the vital points of the human are located in.

[Killer Instinct Active: Vital Points Available]

Red's eye unknowingly glowed in red as, from his vision, multiple points in the form of dots appeared in the body of the fox, there were even traces of vital points that could be seen from his own body. And from his point of view, the area where he has been blocking Fox's attack was so far aimed at all of his vital points.

'So that was what she was aiming for.' Red thought to himself while continue increasing the speed of his hands parrying all of her attacks.

'How does he know???' Tamamo-no-Mae thought to herself while being increasingly frustrated with each of her 6 tails failing to land a successful strike at a mere mortal.

What she didn't know on the other hand was that while Red was blocking all of her attacks, he had been secretly returning some of them with a light cut or stab at the vital spot without her knowledge due to her ignorantly switching to a close-quarter fight. This gave Red a higher chance to work with his dagger because now that the Fox decided to use her claws to strike as well, he could intercept some of the attacks and trap her in a knife fight.

Stepping in at a very close distance from each other, her tails were not as effective at landing the attack because of the near distance that may ultimately hurt herself, the Fox was forced to only rely on her claws and one of her tails to fight at rather close combat. However Red was ruthless, whenever the Fox extends one of her arms to slash, using his hand he deflected it to the side and slashed her multiple times while deflecting another strike from her claws and slashing multiple times again at her. This went on for a while to the point that even the Fox's extremely powerful regeneration speed was not able to keep up with the amount of damage done by Red.

It came to a halt when the last deflection caused Red's dagger to directly slashed the Fox's neck and was followed by a [Spinning Back Roundhouse Kick].

The attack caused Tamamo-no-Mae to fly a few feet backward, flooding the ground below her with her blood. The Fox got up silently from the ground and checked her body.

"How___HOW DARE YOU!!!!!!" She screams at the top of her lung which slowly turned into a roar.

This was when her eyes starts bleeding out.