Fwooooosh—!!
Flames grazed my cheek. Startled, my reaction lagged. I swept the qi aside and frowned.
‘Daughter?’
Did that woman just say she was a daughter? A daughter?
She even said she was this house’s daughter.
If I didn’t mishear, that’s definitely what she said.
‘What is she talking about?’
A daughter? Before I could even process it—
KWA-AAA—!
I slipped past the flames, dodging left and right. The woman kept busy hurling fire at me.
‘Her realm… around Five-Star?’
Judging by her Gu Flame Wheel Art, she’d reached the point of Five-Star. The realm she’d achieved and her proficiency in martial arts seemed about that level.
Fwooooooosh—!!!
Even so, she was blasting out a considerable volume of flame all at once.
She seemed quite good at modulating her firepower, but—
‘It’s too much.’
If you asked whether she had enough inner energy to keep pouring it out like that, it felt borderline. If she kept firing like this, before long—
“Huff… huff…”
“…”
As expected. She already looked worn out, panting over and over. Her…