(Eris POV)
Bait brought her sword down in an overhead slash, aiming to cleave the bitch in two.
The bitch swung her own sword upwards to parry the attack, which was what we had expected given that she was supposed to be a mirror of us in the first place.
But what we didn't expect was for Bait to be flung back from the force of the blow alone.
That scene made all of us pause. For her to be able to fling Bait away like that, it must mean she has strength even above ours.
"AHAHAHA! sURPRISED?! THAT'S RIGHT! I HAVE ALL FoUR OF YOUR STRENGTH COmBINeD TOO!! THERE'S AbSoLUTELY NO WAY YOU'LL dEFEAT ME WITH YOUR PUNy STRENGTH!"
Another proof that this bitch is merely just a fake copy of us since one of the first things Master had taught us was that the strength of the arm was not what decides the outcome of a battle. To prove His point, Master proceeded to beat us ten times out of ten after making Himself physically weaker than us that day.
Bait flipped herself midair and landed on her feet, looking pissed off by the fact that she was bested in a contest of strength.
Laverna and Denna ignored the bitch's taunts and moved to both sides of her flanks, the two of them swinging their swords at her head and legs respectively.
I did not wait to see if those blows would land before dashing forward with my own sword poised to stab at her chest.
She ducked under the swing aimed at her head while her sword parried the one aimed at her foot, pushing Denna's sword away.
She looked up and gave me a smirk before moving her foot to kick at the flat side of my blade, redirecting my sword towards Denna.
I rotated my wrist to avoid skewering my other personality, but that left me open for the follow up kick that she sent straight into my abdomen, knocking the wind out of me.
If it wasn't for the fact that I managed to turn my body to absorb the impact, she might have broken a rib or two. She definitely wasn't joking about her increase in strength at least.
Denna and Laverna both pulled back their blades and began slashing at her, each of their strikes aimed at her vitals.
The bitch managed to parry and dodge both of their attacks effortlessly, looking like she was merely playing with them.
She must also have four times our reaction speed which really puts us at a disadvantage even if we do outnumber her.
All four of us were used to fighting together in one body, this would be our first battle where we were forced to rely only on ourselves.
At least this won't be the first time where we needed to improvise. We wouldn't be able to face Master if we let something like this daunt us.
Despite us being separate entities now, we still knew each other like the back of our hands so everyone knew of the plan I had without me saying anything.
Bait joined in the melee with Denna and Laverna but even with three people against her, the bitch was still handling them without a sweat.
While the other three kept her busy, I managed to finish charging my blade with lightning Quarks.
The three of them leapt away from the bitch without me giving them any prompt to do so.
I swung my sword down and unleashed the stream of lightning towards the bitch.
She looked surprised for the briefest of moments before she leapt up into the air, slashing her sword below her to catch the lightning bolt.
She then spun in a circle and swung her sword towards our direction, redirecting the lightning back towards Denna.
I cursed under my breath.
That bitch knew Denna needed the longest time to reach her Full Focus state so it would be less likely that she could defend herself against this.
However, right when the lightning was about to hit her, a wall of water sprung up from the ground and redirected the electrical discharge away from Denna.
We turned to see Laverna with her sword plunged into the ground with water flowing along its length, Denna giving her a nod of thanks.
The bitch landed back on the ground with a very irritating smirk plastered on her face, "HoW ABOUT THAT? DID YOU REALLY THInK I WASN"T AWARE OF YOUR LITTLE TRIcKS? I ALReADY told YOU I AM SUPERIOR TO ALL OF YOU! JUST LET mE KILL YOU QUIeTLY NOW."
Stupid bitch, if she was really superior, there wouldn't be a need to keep reminding us of it.
"Aww shaddup, I'm gonna rip yer arms off and make ya eat them!" Bait taunted her and for once we did not disagree with her.
"AHAHAHA! DO YOU REALLY thINK YOU'Re EVEN A MATCH FOR ME?! wE SHALL SEE IF IT'S YoUr LIMBS THAT WILl BE RIPPEd OFF! AND WHEN i DO THAT, I'LL MAKE sURE ALL OF YOU go THROUGH THE MOST PAIn IMAGInaBLE! THIS IS WHAT YOU GET FOr LoOKING DOWN ON ME! TIME FOR All OF YOU TO meET YOUR MAKER!"
"This one humbly thinks that not only was your strength increased by four times, but your ego and your mouth was increased by four times too," Denna commented, using the time to encase her sword in a layer of frost.
"Unfortunate… Master… Despise…" Laverna sighed while shaking her head.
I nodded, "She's right. Master would definitely despise you because of this, there's no way you're going to be able to pass yourself off as us even if you can kill us."
Even from here I could see the bitch's eyebrow twitch in anger. Looks like we hit her right on the mark.
The bitch slashed her sword upwards and a spear of fire was shot out from her blade towards us.
This time around Denna was ready so she met the fire spear with her own frost spear, letting the two projectiles clash in the middle and cancelling each other out.
It seems like we are at least equal in our Quark strength despite her being supposedly four times stronger than we were.
All of us smiled at the sight
The way to beat her was already clear, now all we have to do is make sure she stays alive at the end so we can rip her arms off and make her eat them.
She shall serve as the perfect stepping stone for us to improve our sword cultivation.
