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Kaede shook his head, smiling as he stood back to back with Rin. "Oh yes, I'd forgotten about your exploratory nature." He sliced a large sized goblin clean down the middle as it lunged for Rin. He plunged his blade into the demon coming from his right and muttered a "thanks" as he pulled the blade free.
"If you think you're up for it, I'll keep them back!" he all but grinned as he drew his thumb across the circle on his sword, a similar circle superimposing itself on the ground around the three of them.
"Burn mine enemies to ash. Hi o tsukeru!" A small but bright flame ignited around the circle of his sword, and replicated itself on the circle around them, flames pushing back the goblins, if only for a moment.
Kaede frowned as Rin opened the demon gate, but he knew what he had to do. Pinching his thumb to draw out more blood, he pulled his shirt open and drew a circle over his heart, an eight pointed star inside. The circle glowed blue and the wind and flames whipped about him as he spoke the incantation.
"A thousand bones upon a thousand bones, reside within me and do my biding Gashadokuro!"
The circle suddenly turned black and the ringing of a bell echoed. Kaede doubled over in pain as bones rose from the ground and surrounded his body, and seemed to fuse to it, encasing him in a skeleton at least twice as tall as he was, with three pairs of massive, skeletal arms. He cackled and swept these arms of his across the battlefield, scooping massive handfuls of goblins and shoving them through the gate.