The vampiric foes passively approached the formation, flanks exposed.
Sword brandished, Erik charged the Breaker as he pointed at the fleeing bird—on the last moment, Erik would roll his shoulders, swerving beneath the beast’s might to slip around and cut the tendons behind his knee.
*
Sakura never had a magical hold on Georgy. She had conjured a whispering spirit that also produced an ominous hum. Whatever else that happened beyond that was not of Sakura’s power.
Moreover, something happened that stifled reality. Whatever magic Rina possessed, the disruption of the flow of time was enough to allow she and Georgy to have a brief conversation while Sakura remained paused in time.
When Sakura dragged her axe, there was nothing that would have stopped her. She had no way of knowing a dagger was at her back, as was revealed, and even if she had known, it would not have stopped her from driving her axe across the neck.
Once time flowed normally for Sakura, she would continue heaving her axe towards Georgy.
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