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Kamaitachi's giant body had the same skin as a tiger. Its long manes around its neck and its giant wings were covered with red feathers. It had two large spiral horns on its tiger-like head, and two long, scary U-shaped teeth protruded from its mouth. And its eyes were… glowing blue masses like the magicians in horror movies, and they were scattering blue light beams….

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"RUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!" A tall, muscular man ran towards the crawling people with a piece of iron in his hand.

And the screaming and crawling people quickly stood up and fled past Hina into the woods. Only three of them stayed with Hina and the stranger, watching Kamaitachi's arrival with fearful eyes.

"ARE YOU OUT OF MIND!!! LET'S RUN AWAY TOGETHER!!!" Hina shouted ahead at the young man who was stupidly preparing to fight Kamaitachi with the iron bar in his hand.

"TRUST ME, LADY. THIS THING… NO, KAMAITACHI WAS FLYING QUICKLY MORE THAN ANY HUMAN, I SAW IT A FEW MINUTES AGO! RUN AWAY NOW! I WILL BUY YOU TIME BY DISTRACTING IT FOR AT LEAST A FEW SECONDS!"

Hina suddenly stood still and stared at the strong young man. This young man, like her, knew that the name of that monster was Kamaitachi.

"Kamaitachi is a myth that exists in Japanese culture." The foreigner man, who had been watching with suspicious eyes beside Hina, spoke. "But it doesn't look reddish and undefined like this. It seems you and that young man are Erghon gamers like me!"

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"ARRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" The young man aggressively raised the iron bar in his hand and started running towards Kamaitachi, who was approaching him. But suddenly, feeling strong winds on both sides of his body, he had to stop as his sense of danger increased.

Two more new winged monsters came after him and swept past him, quickly reaching Kamaitachi's side, and after landing on the ground, they turned back and began to growl at him.

"MM…MANTICORES!!!"

Now, two more three-meter-tall monsters, identical to the Manticore image in the Erghon game, had joined the battle. Unlike Kamaitachi, these Manticores had slightly smaller bodies and white manes on their red skin. Its wings, on the other hand, were made of thin red skin without feathers, with four long scary bones running through them.

The young man planned to hurl the stick at Kamaitachi, hoping to at least help the people trying to escape, but now the situation had gotten much worse. In fact, he didn't think he was sacrificing himself. Because he thought he could do something foolishly to dodge Kamaitachi and then run away with his confident speed. But he was sure now that he wouldn't be able to buy a second of time against such a huge army of monsters.

"He… He is… done…" Hina looked sadly at the poor young man awaiting death.

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Kamaitachi made the first attack, and the Manticores waited for action later, drooling.

It just… took… a few seconds… no… only 1 second… It took only 1 second for the monster to reach the foolishly brave young man…

It had come so fast that the young man should have died of a heart attack from the sudden gust of wind that hit his face and the situation he was in. Any human should have died. But he was strong, and only the claws or fangs of the monster would be able to kill him.

But… That didn't happen.

Having reached him with supernatural speed, the claws of the monster could not reach him… Because an object faster than it descended from the sky and stabbed something in Kamaitachi's head.

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Hina and the others around her stared intently at the thing descending from the sky, watching the battle with a gasp.

Right now, the object above Kamaitachi's head resembled a kneeling human silhouette.

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"GRRROOOOOOOAAAAARGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Kamaitachi slammed its head back hard, full of anger rather than pain, and smashed the thing on his head to the ground.

However, this blurry human silhouette did not hit the ground, but rather slammed his knees hard on the ground and slid back tens of meters in a controlled manner along with the dust clouds.

Slid back tens of meters in a controlled manner and stopped. Then he slowly stood up and pointed the scrap sword he was holding menacingly toward Kamaitachi.

The man's body was completely covered by a dismembered cloak. A bony chin was visible from under the torn hoodie he was camouflaging his head on, but there was something strange. His mouth was completely covered with a piece of black cloth. No… It was not covered… The piece of black cloth had been sewn up with thread around his entire chin…

The monster and the newly appeared man continued to stare at each other menacingly…

"G…" "Ge…" It was clear that the man was in pain for some reason as he spoke. "Get… back…" With a soft and dim voice, he called out to the people on the battlefield in the forest. "I… will… do… it… so… solo…"

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