strength 10

Moroboshi, watching from the sides, noticed.
The instant Ikki entered the nodachi’s range, he changed his step,
adding sudden changes to his speed.
Moroboshi knew that technique well.
Ikki used those movements to confuse his opponent’s vision and create afterimages.

It was the Shinkirou he spread around him.
And, according to Ikki’s plan, Ouma snapped at the afterimages.
With one breath he swung Ryuuzume down from above as if cutting bamboo, cutting Ikki in half.
However, he had cut an afterimage.
As a result, he exposed himself to a flank from the real Ikki.
“He got him!”
Moroboshi clenched his fist upon seeing Ikki take the initiative.
Next to him though, Raikiri was squinting while taking her glasses off.
“No, not quite.”
She pointed out a mistake in Moroboshi’s analysis.
Ouma knew his next move from the signals his body gave him.
“!!!”
Without bringing his lowered blade back up, he took a low, diagonal swing.
Using that force, Ouma rammed Ikki with his shoulder.
“Shoulder charge…! He even read through Shinkirou!”
Ikki used Intetsu, which he was going to attack with, to block instead.
However, Ouma was heavier than he looked.
The shock of a nearly five hundred kilogram man’s ramming attack
was easily lethal.
“…!”

With the low sound of two people colliding, Ikki’s body was pushed
back and he stumbled backwards with his balance destroyed.