"Thanks. I will keep that in mind, Eli." utz showed an action of gratitude at least by his words. But Eli didn''t seem to take it in a good light as she encased her face with a pinched expression in response to his words.


    She leapt back, finally breaking the deadlock of their swords.


    "It''s Evelyn Lebeau." She shouted all the while stretching her neck.


    utz furrowed his brows as he had question marks on his face. ''Did she just get annoyed cause I called her Eli?''


    "Okay?" utz took on a poker face as if to show that he had no idea what she was talking about.


    ''Eli or Evelyn, how does that matter? One of us is going to die in this battle anyway,'' utz shrugged as he rolled his eyes as he took his stance.


    It was then...


    In the blink of an eye, before anyone could even notice she put away her sword back in the inventory ready for another quick teleport. But s it didn''t work!


    Her eyes shot wide as realization stuck on her. Her pupils shook left and right gauging her surroundings as she realized what she had brought upon herself.


    All of her teleportation dolls were burned to crisp!


    utz smirked.


    ''n B worked out well,'' he consoled himself.


    That was how utz fought battles. He always had a n B prepared in case n A fails. After all he was calctive by nature but even he cannotpletely predict the oue of all the unknown variables that involved a battle.


    At first he thought that he would just let her push him back and kill her when she is the most sure of her victory. When one is sure of one''s victory it is exactly then that one lets their guard down. With her guard down she would have been an easy kill even with teleportation. n A was going well.


    But s, Verona''s interference broke his flow. It irks him to no limit when an unknown variable disrupts his ns. He had forbade her toe nowhere near but who would have thought that she wanted to die so badly?


    But utz didn''t let the anger get to his brain, he immediately executed n B which was burning off all of her dolls with fire; chasing off Verona came as a side effect.


    Evelyn was stuck at her ce. Her dolls were on fire, hell! Even the clothes she had left behind were no on fire.


    Now, she couldn''t use her old tricks anymore. She was brainstorming hard to find a way to win this match. After all to her it seemed that utz was weaker than herself and it was just his proficiency with the sword that had kept him alive.


    ''Without the dolls defeating him would be much more difficult!'' Little did she know that utz was holding back all along.


    It was then…


    utz released an intense amount of killing intent as he charged towards her. utz had no more ns to hold back.


    *Gulp*


    Neither the smoke rising from the orange mes nor theck of oxygen was a problem to her but, she felt herself suffocating at the killing intent alone.


    She froze to her ce. It was like dark energy emanating from utz had held onto her fixing her to her ce. Little did she know that utz higher stats were doing their work!


    But even then she had never seen such eyes before. It felt like he had massacred hundreds if not thousands! She had never seen such killing intent before.


    ''Just how many has this man killed?'' Her inner voice resonated but her outer body failed to respond. Indeed utz had killed many in his previous life. He was veteran ninja of hell!


    ''No wait during the match I had mostly oppressed him. He shouldn''t be stronger than myself!'' She told herself in order to console her wavering heart. But she could feel it; her death was at the door. Escaping for her panic stricken heart wouldn''t let her think straight! After all, unlike utz she was not from hell. She was an earthling newbie just like everyone else. How could she have overcame the fear of death?


    Stefan too felt something stuck to his throat as he felt utz intent to kill but he came back to his senses once he realized the killing intent was directed towards Evelyn. He forced his legs to move as he tried his best to stop utz. Unlike Evelyn who froze, he chose ''fight'' out of the golden 3 Fs of survival.


    ''No I can''t let him kill Eli''


    He ran in between utz and Evelyn. He didn''t even have the opportunity toplete a transformation and use his powers.


    *sh*


    utz shed his sword but s Stefan came in between.


    "What?" utz squeaked.


    *Drip*


    utz tried his best to break his momentum but s the sword struck at his shoulder de. Blood ran across the de of the sword as it dripped from the hilt.


    Evelyn who was frozen to her ce finally got out of her daze. She switched her gaze from utz to Stefan and then back to utz. She was no fool, she had felt it. utz had pulled back his sword at thest moment otherwise Stefan would be dead by now.


    But she didn''t say a word, neither to utz nor to Stefan.


    *Poof*


    With a poof, she disappeared from their site never to be seen again. utz had burned all the toys around them but that doesn''t mean that she had ced no toys outside of the forest fire, somewhere far away.


    utz could have killed the girl cause he had reacted before the girl could even blink an eye. But Stefan''s little disturbance gave the girl enough opportunity to escape with her life.


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