Part 32: Spurned

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Wu flickered in and out of conciousness, his entire body feeling like it had been encased in steel. He could barely open his eyes, glimpsing Shenhe's back, pulsing with an aurora of ki.

"So this who you are... unsuppressed..." Wu thought, a weak smile barely crawling onto his lips.

Childe's eyes widened as he took an instinctive step back at the sight of this surging power. He quickly shrugged it off, however, and chuckled.

"You must be the one Wu's been running off to..." Childe said. "Leave it to a lady to butt into a budding bromance..." Childe said.

"Dude, we talked, like, twice...!" Wu said in a pained grunt.

"Still, you yourself are really something... It's enough to get my blood pumping...!" Childe said to Shenhe, manifesting a glaive of water in his hands.

...

"What, no banter to retu-"

!!!

WHSH!!!

In a flash of instinct, Childe shot backwards, skidding back as a small cut opened up on his throat. Shenhe stood where he once was, her spear slightly raised.

"You're fast...!" Childe thought, a manic grin erupting on his face at a showcase of her prowess. "Any sooner and I'd have been killed in one blow...!" Childe barked out a laugh.

...

Shenhe didn't say a word as she de-manifested her spear.

"Huh...?" Childe uttered, confusion emerging in his gaze. "What, are you going easy on m-"

"You will die. Screaming.

Childe's mouth clamped shut, and Wu's tail shuddered.

 "So I will ensure that I do not end you so quickly." Shenhe spoke, her face an expression of cold fury as she eased into a fighting stance.

"...Damn, Wu, you found a fine one..." Childe smirked. "I didn't think I'd find another killer amongst the "good guys"..." Childe said, knowing the look in her eyes.

Blink!

"WHA-"

CRASH!!!

In an instant, Shenhe appeared behind Childe, leaving him barely able to raise his guard before backhanding him hard enough to send him smashing into another mountainside.

"How did she!? Did she pick up on my instant transmission, or is she just that fast!?" Wu thought, damning his fatigue as he tried to lift his head enough to see the action.

"You make the mistake all too many others do... Thinking that just because I fight on behalf of the Adepti, that I am at all a merciful fighter." Shenhe said.

"Heh...!" Childe said, unrooting himself from solid rock. He staggered for a step, before catching himself, the arm he used to block her blow trembling. "That's on me...!"

GSHT!!!

Childe, damning the damage he had sustained in just one blow, shot forward, his delusion sparking to life as his mask slithered over his face, his aura exploding with the crackle of electro. In both hands he manifested pointed swords of Electro, dashing towards Shenhe.

WHSHWHSHWHSHWHSHWHSH!!!

Childe came at her head on, swinging his swords with a brutal speed and technique, all looking harmless as Shenhe backpedaled, flashing and weaving and dodging so well that at some moments, it appeared as if his attacks were passing straight through her.

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