A dark glow flickers to life instantly.

Across the Sorcerer Killer 's body, there is an erratic shadow that rises and coalesces into a veil of darkness, enshrouding him fully. But the eerie umbral shine only lasts for all of a single heartbeat, before promptly winking out as if it had never existed in the first place '

' without anything to show for it.

Zenin Toji remains well and unharmed, completely unaffected by Shiki 's reversal technique.

In fact, the man himself barely even pauses as he registers this fact as well. He catches his balance and shifts, movements unhampered, then swiftly closes in on her once more '

And Shiki raises her blade and

cuts.

'

It misses, unsurprisingly. Shiki is fast, but Zenin Toji is faster. Throughout their entire altercation so far, she 'd been unable to land a solid blow on the man. So it 's not surprising that the Sorcerer Killer is able to avoid this strike just as he had all the others.

Except '