She defended herself against him with incredible skill.
The trick she used left him astonished, but even more surprising to him was her striking beauty. Although her face was partially covered, leaving only her eyes visible, Sai was stunned by her elegance. The way she handled her sword and the intensity of her rage everything about her amazed him.
However, she didn't share his sentiment. Her only goal was to strike him down.
Once again, she lunged at him with lethal speed. Her sword streaked toward his chest, but Sai reacted quickly, leaping high into the air to vault over her.
But then, disaster struck. As he was mid-air, his sword caught in the very pit she had dug into the ground earlier. The sudden jerk sent Sai tumbling forcefully to the ground.
With his sword knocked away from him, the girl acted instantly. She drove her own blade into the earth and twisted it in a peculiar, calculated motion.
As if drawn by a powerful magnet, Sai's fallen sword was yanked across the ground, flying straight toward her.
Sai couldn't stop his sword.
Kuro went flying toward the girl, but she had done something far more sinister than just disarming him.
Sai lunged forward to reclaim his blade, but he found himself paralyzed. He couldn't move from where he stood. His hands, his legs his entire body was frozen in place. He collapsed onto his knees, anchored to the earth.
"What is happening? I can't move... something is wrong with my body..." Sai thought desperately.
On the other side, she didn't just pull the sword closer. She drove her blade even deeper into the ground and twisted it once more with a sharp, calculated motion.
"AAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"
Sai, kneeling on the ground, let out a gut-wrenching scream. It felt as if something was being ripped out from deep within him.
The force she had unleashed into the ground beneath Sai was brutal. That magnetic power wasn't just targeting the iron on the outside it was pulling at every microscopic trace of iron inside Sai's body.
Even the tiny particles of iron in his very blood were being dragged toward the surface. Her goal was absolute: to destroy him from the inside out.
"AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"
Sai shrieked in agony, the pain becoming unbearable as the metallic force tore through his veins.
Sai knelt on the ground, screaming in agony. The magnetic force was so powerful it was pulling at the very iron particles in his blood.
Slowly, his breathing began to choke, and his body started to tremble violently.
She tightened her grip on the hilt of her sword, ready to finish him.
But then, something happened that even she hadn't anticipated.
Suddenly...
The magnetic energy she had surged into the ground began to fade away.
A heavy silence fell over everything; even the wind seemed to stand still.
She realized that something else something powerful had arrived.
In an instant...
The wind stopped completely. The leaves ceased their rustling, and even the shadows became motionless, as if frozen in time.
Seeing the lethal force she had sent to kill Sai simply dissolve, the girl shifted her gaze cautiously from side to side. There was no one in sight, and she couldn't sense anyone's presence.