The man in the felt hat used his ability to sense and manipulate Evil Spirits to continuously dodge the other party's lethal attacks.
Fortunately, this was a high-end residential area with trees, fountains, bushes, and artificial hills providing cover for him to hide and maneuver...
But his evasion was still very clumsy. The Evil Spirit controlled by the Assassin was like a yo-yo packed with explosives; each throw caused astonishing destruction. A mere brush with that darting black shadow meant a guaranteed spray of blood and flesh, too gruesome to witness.
The man in the felt hat had to exert all his energy, resorting to whatever desperate measures he could under the compulsion of the will to survive. It didn't matter how unseemly his posture was; what was important was to avoid each attack over the widest range possible.