A fresh slash, a wound ripping Batenkaitos’s cheek, who had been heading towards the outside of the Tower in order to escape―― its cause being empty space.
Wordlessly stretching his finger to that point, Batenkaitos observed his finger be cut.
In the empty space, was an invisible blade.
Ley: “Huh.”
That was, the same technique Batenkaitos had displayed to Ram at the spiral staircase.
The art of installing blades of invisibility in space was a legendary shinobi technique, but it did not matter whose Memories those had been in, since he had already thrown them away.
The issue was the presence of a blade here, which Batenkaitos did not remember placing behind.
Ley: “It can’t be…”
Avoiding the blade that had slightly cut his finger, Batenkaitos attempted to advance his feet further towards the interior―― his tiptoes were blown off, and he inclined backwards whilst shrieking with an “Ahii”.
And, with the inclining back of his head also being shaved off slightly, he rigidified his face and stood still.
――He was enclosed, by invisible blades.
Ley: “…Haha, seriously?”
He had shown it to her, merely once.
Once, in the midst of battle; being an invisible technique as well, so she must not have seen it either.
Moreover, she had not ever practically even stepped foot in this place. Yet regardless, she had seized his escape route, and had stationed invisible blades in advance.
-Arc 6, Chapter 86, "Conversing of What Yesterday Held"