Blazblue: Phase Shift 4: Chapter 4

Its long necks thrashed about in frustration, and it swung its massive legs through the sky and smashed the earth beneath it, sending countless fissures running through the ground. The Black Beast charged forward with a roar, seeming to pull its body along behind the sound, and from its mouths shot a wave of seithr. That single attack blasted away a portion of the Ars Magus Corps along with the very ground they stood on atop the plateau, but in the instant after it did, a white shadow darted past the wave and assaulted the Black Beast from a diagonal, slicing into its side.

Seithr sprayed from the wound in place of blood. The man responsible for that gushing wound was Hakumen, half of his body now drenched in the stuff. He paid it no mind, bringing the naked blade of his nodachi down once more. He stabbed his long blade so deep into the base of one of the Black Beast's necks that it seemed like it had simply sunk right into it.

Its roar, previously sounding like an enraged animal trying to cow its opponent, now changed to a high-pitched shriek.

Its heads writhed madly. Hakumen moved his arms like he was driving the beast. Changing his grip on the still-buried nodachi, he sliced it from the inside like he was trying to throw it over his back. The resulting cut was many times deeper than the actual length of the blade itself, causing the Black Beast visible harm.

"This is Ookami..."

Kicking the rampaging Black Beast in the side and jumping to its front, Hakumen muttered with admiration. Nine had said that it would show its true power when it was wielded against the Black Beast, but he was only now truly understanding what that meant.

The sword was becoming sharper and more forceful than a sword should be, cutting his enemy ever deeper. He could swing it with the weight of a guillotine and the speed of the racing wind.

Leaping out in front of its red eyeballs, Hakumen swung Ookami down to strike one of its heads right in the brow. Even though the blade didn't reach all the way through, he still smashed the giant head downward so far that it nearly hit the ground.

That one strike was the decision maker for the Black Beast's heads: they were now considering Hakumen to be a greater threat than the Ars Magus Corps, and prioritized crushing him first.

The heads swooped down at Hakumen from left and right, trying to devour him with colossal fangs. He took the first one on with Ookami. He used the recoil from that clash to narrowly dodge the second head, but in avoiding the fangs of the third one he ate an intense head-butt, and Hakumen's body got sent flying.