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Shing!
Bang!
Caelum blocked one of Shin's sword-drawing attacks and was forced to slide back due to the powerful force behind him. His feet drew a long trail on the ground as he was trying to stop himself from moving further away.
And when he was finally able to regain his footing, he stood up straight at looked at the people surrounding him from different directions.
Shin and the others stopped moving as they stared at Caelum with grateful eyes. Their time with him might be short and had a strange relationship, but they had learned quite a lot from the battle that looked like a training session.
Ara and Alucard were the ones who learned the most from him which made their marksmanship reach another level. They might still be far from standing on equal footing with these monsters alongside them, but they were sure that the gap shrunk albeit a little.