Unamused by his words the pink-haired girl rushed at him with more strength behind her than before. She stabbed at him with the spear but the man kept backing away just out of its blade's reach.

He whistled as he touched the spear's tip.

"I guess that'll be an alright post-meal workout." He said before casually removing his thumb. A moment later the whole spear was covered in electricity.

Without any hesitation, she thrusted the spear. In a shocking show of flexibility, the masked man in black kicked it up, briefly lifting Tina into the air before closing the distance between them and landing a blow on her. Luckily she managed to maneuver her spear quick enough to block his punch. It still sent her sliding across the floor for a few feet.

The man looked at his fist and also lifted his shoe to see its underside. Both of them were burnt though his shoe was worse. The area of his shoe that had touched the spear was burnt and over a centimeter lower compared to the material around while his hand only had a light char on its surface.

"It's resisted by mana, eh?"

The girl paid him no mind and continued her offensive.

("Should I call out for them? No, if they haven't woken up in this havoc then shouting isn't going to be much better. Tsk, still this bastard had the fucking gall to light a fire here? Did he know how long it took us to help that bastard build this place?")

Her swings were starting to have less force behind them but the blade itself was moving quicker.

("Guess I'll have to chip away at this bastard and hope the place is still intact when I finish.")

With this new strategy, the blade was now able to contact his skin. Though the wounds were shallow and the electricity running through it cauterized his wounds.

She smiled at the fact she had put him on the defensive. After continually attacking him for a while she was finally able to land a hit on him, with the shaft. He blocked it but the spear blackened the parts of his arm used and he was forced to back away.

"I would have considered keeping you alive if you didn't set the place ablaze. Consider it karma."

The man looked at his injured arm before replying

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"Maybe I should have just gone all out from the start. I'll still win but I feel these things are going to be nasty to heal without any potions." As the man reached into his pocket he noticed someone running down the stairs. It was the short-haired and short-statured girl, Lily.

"What the- you need any help?" She asked.

"Just focus on putting out the fire, I'll deal with him first."

The short girl nodded her head before rushing to the fire.

With a thud, the man in black sneakily roundhouse kicked her but she barely managed to block it with her spear. While his leg was still in the air he managed to sweep her legs with his remaining leg. She fell to the fall and nearly had a boot planted in her head. She had to let go of the spear in her hand and the man took advantage of that to kick it away.

"Well getting rid of that was easy. What, did you have butter in your hands?"

("Dammit he kicked it too far away. Guess I'll try to use that.")

The man in black soon restarted his assault and Tina was forced to block and occasionally receive hits. The man soon got a particularly hard blow in her gut that sent her stumbling backwards. Then surprisingly enough she kicked something at her feet upwards and grabbed it in her hands before thrusting it into him. It was her spear.

He managed to block it with both arms, but the spear blade went through both of them and was stopped just before it reached his face.

He then received a full dosage of her electricity for two seconds before he managed to free himself from the spear and back away.

He began reaching for a knife on his waist before stopping his hand.

"Nah, I'd be a sore winner if I reached for it now."

"?" Tina looked at him in confusion before resuming her dismantling of him.

An earring-ringing scream soon echoed through the house.

A few moments Lily walked up to Tina's side holding something in her hand. It was Ezekiel's knife.

"Where did you get that?" She asked the short girl.

The girl didn't respond. She had tears in her eyes and spoke to the man in black.

"Y-you, you're the one who did it, d-didn't you." She said with venom most snakes wish they could produce.

"Someone finally noticed it. I was wondering how long it would take."

Before he could even finish speaking she went straight towards him hoping to end this. She felt the knife connect and looked at his masked face with hatred in her eyes. She soon felt a punch and was sent tumbling on the floor. Upon looking up at him and realized what happened. He had blocked the knife with his hand. He pulled it out and limply threw it her way.

She tried to get up but was still suffering the aftereffects of the punch and fell back to the ground, still struggling to stand up.

"Lily what the hell's going on, why are you trying to fight him on your own? Didn't you say you were going to put out the fire?" She asked.

Lily paid her comrade no mind as she continued to glare at the masked man while still on the floor.

"Say, who do you think was in the kitchen?"

"What?"

"And why do you think she has your boss's knife?"

Tina threw the spear at his head but he simply moved it to the side.

"You fuck, this isn't time for jokes!!!" She said while gritting her teeth with a few veins on her head bulging.

"I'll be blunt, I killed your boss since he was kinda a nuisance."