[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want-":3,"chapter-my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--chapter-38":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","My Streaming Life With SSS-Rank Girls With Want My Kids",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1457658,1905,"Chapter 38: Kai vs. Eris (1)","my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--chapter-38",38,"\u003Cp>Lira’s right hand didn’t answer immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the split lip.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the side where Kai had taken the hit from the S-rank vampire that still protested every time he took a deep breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Eris,\" she finally said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Kai.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I know.\" Her eyes moved to the gate behind her. \"Then that simplifies things.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah, seems like it does.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eris pulled her hands from behind her back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had no sword.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No visible weapons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just her hands — long, with the rank markings etched into the skin on the back like decorative scars that seemed part of a ritual.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The prisoners don’t move,\" she said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We’re gonna discuss that.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There’s nothing to discuss.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai set his stance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eris didn’t set a stance — she was already in one, just so integrated into the way she stood that it didn’t look like a stance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[GarcíaFTW: ERIS. SHE HAS A NAME NOW.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[NocheEterna99: \"Yeah, seems like it does\" — Lira’s vampires know who Kai is]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[StreamerHunter: Kai has a split lip and a bruised side and he’s going to fight an S++++. Priorities correct.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[xSorinx: Eris didn’t draw weapons. Just her hands. That’s worse.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Pedro_Sierra: ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ KAI VS ERIS ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Deral_Bleattler: you can hear Serah and Lira’s blows in the background. TWO FIGHTS IN PARALLEL.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eris arrived first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No warning — from standing to moving in zero seconds, covering the four meters between them with the speed of a superior S-rank that made space feel more like a suggestion than an actual distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eris’s right hand straight for Kai’s throat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not a closed fist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Open palm, rigid fingers, the specific strike vampires used to incapacitate without killing — disrupt breathing, buy time for what came next.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai turned his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eris’s hand passed two centimeters from his neck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediate counterattack — jab to Eris’s side with the right fist, using the dodge’s rotation as a power source.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eris blocked it with her forearm without changing expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The impact was real on both sides.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They separated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Half a second of distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Faster than the S-ranks, Kai thought. But different. The S-ranks used trajectory disappearance. She uses real speed. That means she has a trajectory. Predictable if I read it right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eris closed in again — this time with a combination, left hand to the body and right to the head in sequence, the rhythm of a professional shaped by years of war who’s made that move enough times for it to be automatic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai blocked the body with his elbow, dodged the head by leaning back, and used the recoil to load the next step forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Knee to Eris’s thigh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Connected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eris stepped back one step and repositioned quickly, readying for the next attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her eyes dropped briefly to her thigh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then to Kai.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She registered the hit, Kai thought. It didn’t hurt her enough, but she registered it. Different from the S-ranks who ignored structural damage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Good. She learns from damage. That means she also learns from patterns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I have to try to attack without using a pattern.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[NocheEterna99: ONE STEP. ONLY ONE STEP BACK.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[GarcíaFTW: the A-ranks staggered back three. The S-ranks staggered back four from Serah’s hits. Eris staggered back one from Kai’s knee.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[StreamerHunter: Kai is already analyzing. \"She learns from damage\" — she’s going to adapt.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[xSorinx: Kai decided not to have a pattern. Against someone who learns. This is going to be different.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Pedro_Sierra: (°ロ°) no pattern against someone who reads patterns. INTERESTING.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the back of the chamber, the sound changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An impact that made the entire ceiling vibrate — not the hallway ceiling, the main chamber ceiling, thirty meters beyond.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dust fell from the hallway ceiling as a side effect of something that had happened somewhere else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai didn’t look.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eris did — a fraction of a second, involuntary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai used that fraction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He crossed the two meters between them in a step and a half, entered the space where Eris didn’t have time to reposition, and threw three strikes in rapid sequence — left side, right side, elbow to the shoulder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not to do maximum damage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To map her defense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eris blocked the first with her forearm. She dodged the second by leaning her body back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The third she took to the shoulder because she didn’t have time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They separated again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eris’s shoulder had a red mark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first visible mark on her body since the fight began.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[GarcíaFTW: FIRST MARK]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[NocheEterna99: Kai used the distraction from Serah’s noise to get in. INVOLUNTARY COORDINATION.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[StreamerHunter: he mapped her defense with three strikes. He wasn’t looking for damage, he was looking for information.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[xSorinx: Eris has a mark on her shoulder and her eyes changed slightly.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Pedro_Sierra: ε=ε=ε=ε=┌(; ̄◇ ̄)┘ Eris isn’t so sure anymore ε=ε=ε=ε=┌(; ̄◇ ̄)┘]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eris didn’t attack immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You used the background noise,\" she said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Intentionally?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not exactly.\" Kai shook out his knuckles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But I took advantage of it. We’re in a duel — we have to take advantage of any situation. There’s no time for doubts or distractions.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eris processed this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Honest,\" she said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There’s no point in lying to someone in the middle of a fight.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rank markings on the back of Eris’s hands glowed — not an attack, an activation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looks like someone’s decided to raise the stakes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eris’s speed changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not double.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not triple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just a little more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Enough that the first exchange would have ended differently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai felt it when she came — the same kind of air pressure as before but more condensed, closer to the limit between speed that has trajectory and speed that doesn’t.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He threw himself to the ground like he’d done with the S-ranks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eris passed over him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this time she anticipated Kai’s movement — upon landing she was already turning, hand extended downward to where Kai was getting up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai took the hit to his left shoulder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He went to the ground on his knees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Shit... That hurt.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[NocheEterna99: KAI ON THE GROUND]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[GarcíaFTW: ERIS ANTICIPATED THE FALL TO THE GROUND. SHE LEARNED FROM THE FIRST EXCHANGE.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[StreamerHunter: \"she learns from damage\" — Kai said it and two minutes later it was applied to him.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[xSorinx: Kai on his knees. First time in this arc.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Pedro_Sierra: (╥_╥) KAI (╥_╥)]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Deral_Bleattler: ←←← Eris learned →→→ applied →→→ Kai on the ground. THIS IS A REAL FIGHT.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[User_7741: (ง’̀-’́)ง GET UP KAI (ง’̀-’́)ง]\u003C\u002Fp>",1080,"2026-06-06T02:17:06.772Z",1,"novelbin.me","b6c48bffcb9d7ee3aac2cf7cd4de4616100725360480ee28198159bea094b55c","my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--chapter-39","my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--chapter-37",110,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmy-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--cover.jpg"]