"What … when did this happen …"
"Kirito -kun!" Tian Tian's eyes widened as she shouted in disbelief.
The person who had pierced through the enemy's back was Kirito.
"A Shadow Clone … no!"
Out of the corner of his eyes, he glanced at the pile of flesh and blood that had been turned into a sieve by the concentrated kunai. He saw that the figure that was originally lying in the pool of blood had disappeared without a trace. At first, he subconsciously thought that it was a shadow clone, but when he saw the disappearing figure, there was still a large amount of blood left on the ground.
"Hmph …" Despite the intense pain in his chest, the enemy relied on his willpower to hold on. He grabbed onto the sword that had pierced through his body with one hand, and a powerful aura burst out from his eyes as he forcefully turned around and tried to grab Kirito.
"… …" Kirito couldn't pull the sword out of the enemy's body no matter how hard he tried. He immediately let go of the sword and retreated a few steps, dodging the enemy's dying counterattack. He then ran around the enemy in front of him and ran towards Tian Tian, pulling her with one hand and keeping a good distance from the enemy.
"Move back a bit, Tian Tian."
Kirito said in a deep voice, "My sword has accurately pierced through the enemy's heart. That's enough. Pay attention to the enemy's dying counterattack."
"Mm … I understand."
Tian Tian nodded her head. She also understood that Kirito was right. Facing an injured beast, when faced with certain death, the enemy would definitely make a crazy counterattack.
Although she was puzzled as to how Kirito had silently approached the enemy and pierced the enemy's heart without him noticing, Tian Tian was still confused.
However, now was not the time to discuss such things.
"Cough cough ~" The enemy coughed out a few mouthfuls of blood, and his face became paler and paler. The large wound on his left chest continued to spurt out blood, and the loss of blood caused him to become weaker.
However, all of a sudden, the other party slapped the hilt of the sword on his back, and the sword sank into his body. However, because of this slap, the bleeding on the wound stopped.
Tian Tian cried out in shock, "Piercing through the body and reducing the pressure in the body can indeed be used to stop the bleeding. However, this is the heart, how is this possible!"
Kirito's gaze locked onto the blood vessels wrapped around the wound as he said calmly, "Looks like he used those strange threads to forcefully block the fatal wound in the heart.
This way, the enemy can retain a certain amount of combat ability for a short period of time. "
Kirito furrowed his brows and shouted to Tian Tian, "Tian Tian, take your companions and the convoy and leave.
I'll stay here and block him. "
"No!" Tian Tian shook her head, "The enemy is a Jonin!
Even if the sneak attack succeeded … "
"Don't worry, the enemy's's's''s's Jonin's, I'm's's's's's.
I'm's Tian's's's. "
"… …" Tian Tian gritted her teeth and nodded, "Alright, after I send them to a safe place, I'll immediately come back to support you!" After speaking, Tian Tian did not delay any longer and immediately got to work.
"You bastard brat, I'm going to kill you!"
Seeing that he had been ambushed for no reason and had suffered such heavy injuries, the enemy was furious and started to attack Kirito fiercely.
Just as Tian Tian was listening to Kirito's orders, the enemy also launched a crazy attack. His speed was shockingly fast, forming an S-shaped trajectory. His final target was still Kirito's body.
Facing the enemy who was rushing towards him with a surging aura, Kirito stood in his original position without any reaction, but his gaze did not waver in the slightest.
"Hmm?!"
The enemy who was rushing toward Kirito suddenly heard the sound of wind whistling through the air, and he subconsciously paused his charge.
"Ding, ding, ding, ding ~" On his path forward, daggers and flying daggers came from the dark and nailed all over the ground.
"Hmph!" With a stomp of his foot, his figure immediately circled to the side and pounced on Kirito again.
Whoosh! Their path forward was once again blocked by a hidden weapon attack from the dark. However, in the end, the opponent still had the strength of a Jonin. Even though he was heavily injured by Kirito's ambush due to a moment of carelessness, his remaining strength was still far greater than that of a Chunin.
His figure flashed in all directions, very agilely avoiding the sneak attacks of hidden weapons time and time again. At the same time, he grabbed one of the flying knives and backhanded it to cut down the hidden weapon that was flying from the other side.
His eagle-like eyes locked onto Kirito's position, and he thought to himself, "This is it. There are only projectiles coming from behind and from the right. I'll use my right arm to block them, then I'll force my way to this kid and kill him first!"
Clink! Clink! The enemy fell to the ground.
The enemy fell in front of Kirito's feet.
"My body … can't move …" He still had some strength left, but for some reason, he couldn't stand up. Soon after, he noticed that although the wound on his shoulder wasn't deep, the blood that flowed out was a strange purplish-red color.
He immediately reacted. "A nerve paralyzing … poison?"
A sharp longsword appeared in Kirito's hand. "It's normal for an assassin to use poison, isn't it?"
"That's it." Gripping the hilt of his sword, he thrust the sharp blade straight at the enemy's neck.
However, the enemy who had fallen to the ground stubbornly raised his left hand and gripped Kirito's sword tightly.
The blade cut open his palm, but when his life was on the line, the enemy broke out with an unprecedented vitality and forcibly grabbed Kirito's sword. His strength was so great that Kirito couldn't stab it down.
"Is that so? You still have such strength in your paralyzed state." Kirito's eyes narrowed as he muttered, "In this case, I can't hold back."
"Puff, puff, puff, puff, puff ~" His body was pierced by the sharp blades of more than ten people. No matter how tenacious his willpower was, under the situation where his bodily functions were completely destroyed, his final struggle could only come to an end.