He had to admit that he was impressed with Verdandi’s strength, especially this ice golem that she had created. The unenthusiastic attention he had been giving to the spider monster before would be pulled away by the golem. He was a fan of techniques of this nature, similar to clone techniques, and so he found himself watching the way that the creature moved. He could see the inspiration that Verdandi had taken from her beloved little pet, Pebbles. It was adorable, almost. Perhaps it was unwise to distract himself in a combat situation, but that wasn’t an attitude that Chigetsu could adopt right now, even if he knew it was the smart thing to do. When he had been hit from the spider’s attack earlier he felt nothing. There was no pain involved in being crushed like that. In most normal fights he had some sense of duty or entertainment to motivate him, or some other emotion that was driving him forward. While he did have that here too, wanting to help out his sweetheart and then the implied ‘reward’ that he had flirted with her about earlier, it felt suddenly like there was a weight in his chest. Hearing the voices again made him feel as though he had lost control of something, and it sent him on a spin. Maybe it was his own easily pushed around emotions that were getting the better of him now. He swapped to often between hyper excited and bubbly and this fidgety, tired uncomfort. Now wasn’t exactly the time to be thinking about his weak emotional state but it was at the same time hard not to. A lot of emotions and thoughts came to mind, and he couldn’t exactly stop them. Things had become weird as he stopped hearing the voices, and now to hear them again was equally as strange.
Luckily for him it seemed as though the ice golem was taking the majority of this spider’s attention. It would hold the beast as Verdandi began to prepare herself. The manner in which she charged her blade seemed to only increase the sound of the music that was emanating so beautiful from the metal. It combined with the revving of the chainsaw portion of the blade to create a beautiful melody, which would quickly be deadened as the whirring blade was shoved into the spider’s stomach. Pieces of meat would seem to fall out as the blade was swept across the carapace, sawing through the entire thing as if it were made of butter. The spider screamed. Chigetsu nearly screamed as the frost exploded around the area, stopping only a few inches from where he was standing. He immediately flinched and jumped back, and he was completely removed from the thoughtspace he had been in earlier. While he had seen this sword before the explosion of frost and ice was new. After a moment of panic, he found himself steady on his feet again, patting himself down and quickly attempting to pretend like that all had never happened. Casual. Smooth.
The death scream of the monster brought dozens of others swarming down the tunnels. It seemed that this infestation had been here for a while. At least long enough to create this massive brood. With the frost surrounding Verdandi, and the corpse of what was likely all these spiderling’s mother, the swarm went into past her and for Chigetsu. Still a bit off center from having just nearly stumbled into falling, he wasn’t quick to respond to their attack. He would be swarmed immediately by the mass of charging spiderlings, completely covered by them as they all jumped over him. He would be bitten all over his body in a matter of seconds. Bits and chunks would be ripped away. Wherever pressure was applied his body would liquefy and give away easily. This would continue for a few moments, with the spiderlings that coated him ripping and tearing away at the liquid. It seemed that they lacked the acid of their mother. Internally several hand seals would be formed, all being squished together in his stomach where the spiderlings couldn’t interrupt. An orange goo would explode outwards from his body as soon as he finished the seals, sweeping over the swarm that coated him and completely filling the tunnel that they were in. The slime that he spawned would shape itself to avoid Verdandi, leaving a pocket of air around where she stood and the frost that still coated the ground. The orange goo would jiggle for a few moments, appearing like a giant gelatin mold, before it would begin to dissolve away. The bottom of the tunnel would be left with a sticky liquid residue after the slime disappeared. Surrounding Chigetsu, who was quickly revealed at the epicenter, were the dehydrated and curled up corpses of the innumerable swarm that had chased after him. They appeared as if the had been completely sucked dry. They would crush under his feet as he stepped forward, collapsing into dust. He would step carefully through the piles of corpses, and then further onto the frost-coated ground. Once he reached the massive body of the spider broodmother he would give it a solid kick, as if to make sure it wasn’t about to start moving again.
“Well. That’s that.”
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