Daisuke’s bde whistled through the air.

  Yumi ducked—just barely.

  Then—he vanished.

  Yumi’s breath hitched. Where—?

  A whisper.

  “You’re looking the wrong way.”

  A cold hand cmped onto her wrist.

  Then—

  BOOM.

  Yumi was flung into the shifting bck mist.

  Daisuke sighed. “Kiyohime’s wielder can’t even keep up with this? How sad.”

  Yumi clenched her fists.

  Then—Daisuke smirked.

  “Slow.”

  Yumi’s breath caught.

  “I’m Daisuke.” A slight bow—mocking. “Fastest among the Death Phantoms.”

  Yumi’s fingers curled.

  “Slow?”

  A pause.

  Then—an internal whisper.

  “Kiyohime. I need you to make me faster.”

  A surge of power.

  Her Tamashkii exploded.

  A slow exhale.

  And then—

  The scales along her arms spread.

  The air hissed as spectral fmes licked at the edges of her skin.

  Then—

  Wings.

  Spectral, draconic wings erupted from her back, unfurling with a thunderous snap.

  Daisuke’s eyes widened slightly.

  Yumi vanished.

  SLASH.

  A cut across his chest—the first hit nded.

  Yumi smirked.

  “Not slow anymore, huh?”

  Daisuke sighed.

  “Maybe you are worth fighting.”

  BOOM.

  Yumi was smmed into the ground, cratering it beneath her.