Cocytus - Memes on Lizards 4

“PESKY ONE, AREN’T YOU?” Cocytus swung his spiked tail around and struck Zaryusu hard in the chest.

“Guh-hagh!” With a cracking sound, Zaryusu’s body soared like a ball hit with a bat and crashed into the marsh. After rolling several times through the mud, he finally stopped, but the intense pain in his chest and the blood he was coughing up made it hard to breathe.

Had the broken bones in his chest punctured his lungs? He tried to inhale, but the air wouldn’t come. It was like being underwater. The warm fluid running down his throat made him nauseous. When he looked at his chest, he saw multiple wounds like knife gouges and a gush of blood flowing from them. I’m this bad after just one hit…?

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Volume 4, Chapter 5.2