What does 腕鳴らしに殺されてくれ mean

Question

For context. The character is introducing herself to the villain. After she states her name, she wields a sword made from the bones of someone she just killed and says this before engaging in a fight with the villain:

腕鳴らしに殺されてくれ！

Here's what I know. 殺されてくれ means "get killed for me". What I'm struggling with is the 腕鳴らしに part. 腕 means "arm", and 鳴らす is "to ring", "to sound", basically to suddenly emit a loud noise. The masu stem + に would make 鳴らす into an adverb to 殺されて. So would that mean "get killed in a sudden loud noise-like manner for me"? How does 腕 fit into this sentence? Is there an omitted particle after it? I'd like to know what this sentence means, as well as how it all comes together.

Answer 1

I believe this is simply a misuse of 肩慣らし ("warming up"). There is a well-known set phrase 腕が鳴る, which is something said before a battle and does look somewhat similar to 腕鳴らし. However, 腕が鳴る is a phenomenon that occurs involuntarily, and it does not make sense to say 腕鳴らしに ("for/as an 腕鳴らし") as if you are intentionally trying to cause a noise from your arm. It seems likely that the person who wrote it mixed up the two phrases by mistake.

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EDIT: Now that Gui Imamura pointed out, I recalled 腕を鳴らす exists as the transitive version of 腕が鳴る. However, 腕を鳴らす is used in contexts where someone is eagerly awaiting a big event, such as a battle (see "待ち構える" in the definition). I don't think it is used when actively challenging someone to a fight. Its second definition (名声を広める) is also a common meaning, but I've only seen it in the form "(～として)腕を鳴らしている". Therefore, I still feel it is more likely that this expression is a misuse of 肩慣らし. Recently, just because it's a professionally published manga doesn't mean we can say it's error-free...

BCCWJ had no examples of 腕鳴らし, so I checked Google search results and found several examples of it, including 腕鳴らしにはちょうど良かった. It seems to me that most of them are likely used with the same meaning as 肩慣らし.