Yes.
If only my opponent had not been one of the ‘Seven Deadly Sins.’
The girl, leaning her body slightly as she sent her right arm flying, wore an unsettling smile.
It was not the expression of someone who had just lost one of her limbs.
Of course it wasn’t.
She was not human in the first place.
The demon charged forward, leaving streaks of blood across the silver flames.
The drops of blood that should have fallen to the ground were instead rising into the air, already glowing with an ominous light.
When I twisted my sword, the enemy leaned even farther.
To an angle from which it should have been impossible to keep running.
I had seen it before.
That bizarre flexibility she mainly used when twisting her neck.
She was a being capable of turning her face all the way around to look behind her.
Nothing she did would have surprised me.
Even if she assumed a posture utterly impossible for the human body.
For the moment, I had no choice but to withdraw the flames.
My companions were nearby, after all.
There was no reason to keep an unnecessarily wide area within the range of my attacks.
The girl immediately exploited that opening and spun her body.
Clang, clang, boom!
The blood spilling from where her arm had been severed struck my sword like a hardened solid.
Then she…