Chapter 182
The three slashes prove to be satisfyingly deep at his front, cutting through cloth and skin in oozing out blood, but before I or Ethan can celebrate the small victory I turn to look and, faster than one would expect from hollow out corpses, the open up cascade of my former master and the lion stand up, hollow eyes and empty open up ribcages, move up and attack Ethan all at once!
Before I have time to understand that the Demon Lord had played us around the basement and that every time his blood was spilled it would gather around these two corpses, before I could discern they were puppets with thin lines making them move, their swords pierce Ethan side and their claws latch on his shoulder, barely inches away from his neck, and the mere weigh of the lion griffin over him brings him to his knees, while the sword is taken out to let the blood ooze out freely from the gashing piercing wound.