“What about Nanami? Is she – dead?”
“Nah, she’s the same as ever, she’ll live. Even in the darkness, she found a way to block me, and Shichika Hachiretsu Redux, my new Last Fatal Orchid, only found so much purchase. It took me everything I had to yank out Akuto the Eel. But I gotta say, her defense was less than perfect – she probably couldn’t see that well.”

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