In that split second, Fubuki's pupils constricted in absolute shock!
What on earth was she looking at?!
She saw that as Ryuu brought the dagger down, a colossal, blinding crescent of brilliant green light suddenly erupted from the tiny blade, screaming forward to meet the incoming azure energy beam!
The sheer, roaring momentum of that emerald gale was not a single fraction weaker than the monster's devastating blast!
It happened faster than the eye could follow.
The green slash and the blue energy wave collided head-on with a spectacular crash!
Yet, the apocalyptic explosion everyone would have expected never came. Instead, the brilliant green slash sliced clean through the azure energy beam like a red-hot knife through butter. Splitting the blast right down the middle, the crescent blade maintained its terrifying momentum and roared straight toward Vaccine Man in mid-air!
"What?!"
Vaccine Man froze, completely stupefied.
Fubuki, meanwhile, dazed yet again.
This man—this Hawkeye Mihawk—had launched an attack with nothing but a fragile little pocket knife, and it had completely overpowered Vaccine Man's destructive energy blast?!
At that moment, Ryuu's eyebrows shot up as a flicker of genuine delight surfaced in his hawk-like eyes.
It actually worked!
He truly had become incredibly powerful. To be able to unleash a flying slash of this magnitude using a mere dagger, shattering Vaccine Man's counteroffensive and sending it running for cover, was exhilarating.
But what brought an even greater surge of excitement to Ryuu was the sudden chime of the system's voice in his head:
[Ding! Current role-playing completion rate +5%!]
His completion rate was climbing once again!