Juli hurriedly closed in on the fourth man with the same overhead cut. Eli watched her arm come down, but the blade was… off. It failed to reach his head before it landed.
"…What?" Juli muttered.
The fourth Moon caught the blade on his bracer, knocked it aside, and stepped inside her guard. Juli grunted and shoved him back with her shoulder, but the fifth had already used the opening to slip into her left flank in a low crouch.
He was through, heading straight toward Eli.
"Come at me, bastard!"
Eli's body moved before his mind caught up, a wide grin appeared on his face.
[Maid's Intuition] fire a single warning, and his body felt it as a flash of cold down his spine. His sword came up across his chest the moment the Moon's knife flashed. It slid off the flat of his blade, but that didn't slow down the hooded man.
He pivoted on his back foot, reversing his grip, and then he forcefully stabbed low at Eli's hip.
