Awakening of the blade

That unidentified voice was of no help to me at all.

My mind was in a daze from being dragged down from transcendence to everyday reality in an instant.

What I had been doing, or even what I needed to do, was blurry like a dream and hard to recall.

What awakened me from my feeble state of mind and body was a Cold blade.

Burn - .

Blood splattered from my cheek. I felt a burning pain from the laceration.

If it had been just a little deeper, my head would have been chopped off.

The reason I avoided being split in half like a watermelon was thanks to the suit’s combat Athletic Ability Assist system, which moved even faster than my Reflexes, and the Microchip in My Head that activated on its own.

Unlike before, the switch didn’t turn on. It merely vibrated in place.

Even so, the surrounding air bent and created an airflow. An invisible attractive Force acted on its own, twisting the trajectory of the katana swung by the Ninja...