Chapter 9: Slightly Cool
Peeeeewwwww.... BANG!!
Someone landed beside Akira with bone-shaking force. The stone pavement erupted in shards and dust, a gust of icy wind blasting outward from the impact.
It was a beautiful little girl looking around twelve years old with ice blue hair and a frighteningly powerful ice energy aura radiating outwards.
Without missing a beat, she unleashed a punch filled to the brim with devastating ice energy!
Shua!
By sheer instinct, Akira poured all of his newly awakened wind energy into a spiraling barrier, the air around him whirling in violent defense.
Bam!
But it wasn’t enough.
Her ice energy, vaster and purer by orders of magnitude, tore through his barrier like fire through silk. The freezing pressure bit into his skin and numbed his arms.
But just as the supremely powerful punch was about to land on his body, Akira twisted his body savagely sideways and dodged it by the narrowest margins.
At the same time, his left forefinger came to a halt just inches from the girl’s delicate neck, an almost invisible blade of wind energy already nicking the surface of her skin. A faint line of crimson appeared and a single drop of blood slid down her collarbone like a ruby tear.