Really? All Right, Unc! More Shochu! – Part 04

“You’re as tough as a zombie,” she said, raising her sword.

I charged, tackling her shoulder-first to close the gap, then threw a left jab.

“Ha! You think you can hit me with something that slow?” Kyouko smirked as she swung her sword down in a wide arc.

Now!

The drill I’d repeated again and again with Big Teach. Launch an attack, bait out the counter, then hit back with one of my own.

605 percent. The air cracked as I pushed my muscles and reflexes to their limits. A strike so fast even Big Teach couldn’t track it. But a barrier blocked it.

“I knew it. Ariel taught you that one, didn’t she?”

I failed. So even this wouldn’t work against a transformed Magiclad Girl?

No way I could land a clean counter like Big Teach, dodging and striking back against someone stronger than me.

Her Magigear sliced into my shoulder, then carved straight toward my heart