Gate Guardian - Song of the Frozen Soul

PHASE 65 - SWORD OF THE MOON, DON'T STEAL RIKKUN

PHASE 65 - SWORD OF THE MOON, DON'T STEAL RIKKUN

The increasing tension in the air is so great that it would be harmful to the people who will inhale it. Here am I, watching my friend wield a katana. Her composed stance will make you think that she's an expert in kenjutsu.

This is the first time I've seen Tiara wielding a sword-type Weapon Gem. She already said that she's not good with swords, but seeing her in a round stance makes her a lot cooler than seeing her wielding a staff or beating the crap out of monsters with her steel gauntlets.

In front of my shrine maiden friend is a haystack formed into a tube, about one and a half meters in height. This is not your regular practice dummy. It wears a wig with long blonde hair tied in twin ponytails. And it has pink ribbon ornaments. D-Does that thing looks a lot like Amy?

Tiara closed her eyes and breathed slowly. Inhale. Exhale. Suddenly, she opened her eyes and swiftly drew the katana from its sheath!

"<Moonlight Slash>!!!"

In a split second, everything went dark. The only thing visible is a crescent silver streak with a swift swish sound! When the darkness disappeared, Tiara was already behind the Amy-looking dummy. Slowly, the dummy revealed that it was cut in half, and the head part together with the wig fell down on the floor.

Every other person in this training ground was shocked. Even Heushac, who was busy training had his eyes on that solid performance. That was a seriously amazing spell!

I made several tiny claps for the show while muttering "It's so cool!". Tiara then smiled with a blush as she gave me back my Weapon Gem.

"Try it~"

Now it's my turn. I replicated her samurai movements and even her breathing patterns. I closed my eyes, and uttered the very same spell!

"<Moonlight Slash>!!!"

Everything went dark, and there was a silver streak. When the darkness blinked out, the dummy was already cut in half. But my face is already kissing the soil. I can't handle the spell's speed!

"R-Rikkun!" Tiara rushed to me and healed my broken nose. "Y-You have to work on your balance first."

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I gave back my katana to Tiara as she demonstrates the upgraded secret sword spell. Same breathing pattern and the same posture as before. She even placed the blonde wig on her new slashing dummy! Just how much did she secretly hate Amy!?

Before she cast the spell, she explained one other thing to me. "<Moonlight Slash> can be used consecutively without cooldowns, so you have to be careful with your mana. I-I'm sorry, I haven't mastered it yet, but I'll show you how to cast it."

Tiara closed her eyes, made a deep soft inhale and exhale and then shouted! "<Moonlight Waltz>!!!"

There was this blink-darkness once again, but this time, it has three silver streaks. When the light came back, the dummy was ripped to different parts. But it the head part remained hanging on the main body of the dummy.

I clapped once again, but I noticed that Tiara is giving a deadly aura around her. Her glaring eyes are targeted to the twin-tailed blonde dummy. She raised the katana once again and prepared a chop!

Tiara cried as she went all out to make deadly quick slashes with her sword!

"F-Fall down already! Y-You l-love thief! Y-You stole his f-f-f-first kiss! How dare you! Y-Your love story with him ended years ago! I-It's m-my turn now! Mudamudamudamudamudamuda!!!"