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Post by Morei Haji on Feb 16, 2014 10:26:31 GMT -7
What...? What the hell was Yukimura trying to put into my head? The idea of Katsumi being used and discarded, of dying slowly and painfully... it was too much. Just thinking about it filled me with a rage like no other.
"I WON'T LET THAT HAPPEN!" I shouted as I would pull my blade back, striking in the same spot again before bringing the blade above me, striking vertically at Yukimura again once more with all of my strength.
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Post by Morei Haji on Feb 16, 2014 10:14:45 GMT -7
"T-the pink-tunic guy..."
My eyes widened in fear. That was probably the scariest shit I'd seen in my entire life. Takehiro was right, what if that man was some kind of legendary assassin? That could've been Fuma Kotaro of the Hojo clan! He let us live with a warning!
"No, no, no! Not Kotaro! I want to live!" I shouted as I ran back to the carriage.
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Post by Morei Haji on Feb 16, 2014 10:00:07 GMT -7
"Your dream is still obtainable. But you need to get stronger."
I spoke calmly. If this man was smart, he would take the time to learn a lesson in all of this. Becoming stronger physically, as well as mentally, was the key to ever making his dream become a reality. Whether it was becoming strong enough to take his revenge, or finding a new dream entirely, it was within this man's power. He merely needed to take the time to think it over.
"And even if I fight alone, that dream is still something I won't let die. I need to get stronger, just as you do. And that time may come where we stand opposing each other on the battlefield... know that if you do stand against me someday, I will not hesitate in defeating you."
And it was the truth. I could not allow myself to get defeated. Maybe this man at his full strength could overpower me, but I would not stop on my summit to obtaining the strength necessary to heal this broken land.
"Um..." The man's last question made me shoot a quick look of confusion towards Katsumi. The man before us had thought we were two men in love, perhaps he had seen more than we thought, but not enough to endanger her identity.
"I'm sorry, but there are some things we wish to keep secret, just like everyone else. Please respect that." I would bow my head.
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Post by Morei Haji on Feb 16, 2014 1:00:10 GMT -7
"Katsumi!"
I woke with a start, sweat pouring down my face. I had attempted to sit up, but was met with a terrible pain in my stomach, to which I nearly screamed. Looking down, I would see my torso was bandaged, and I realized I was laying shirtless on a bed. I laid back, panting and wincing at how much it hurt to breath, but started to look around. It seemed that I was back in the town, maybe we had made it back after all... but I remembered passing out outside the town. Perhaps someone had found us and taken us back?
"So, you're awake?" I heard a voice as someone walked into the room, it was a woman. "We found you unconscious outside the town, you and your friend were in a terrible condition..."
Upon mention of a friend, I tried to jump up again, wincing as I did, but the woman stopped me. "Relax, she's okay." My eyes widened as the woman said 'she'. "We have her in another room. Poor girl must have been through hell."
I looked away. This lady didn't know the half of it. My fists clenched as I recalled my own weakness in failing to protect her. I had almost lost Katsumi forever... "...Thank you." I would say after a time. "I am truly grateful that you saved us." The woman would give me a small smile before bowing. She instructed me to rest up some more and not to push myself before leaving the room lest I reopen my wound, and with a sigh, I carefully leaned back slowly.
"Katsumi..."
She was safe. Right now, that was all that mattered. I did not know her condition, but that knowledge was relief in itself. When I saw her, I vowed to apologize. I should never leave her side again, I did not want to risk such a thing happening in the future. No... I needed to get stronger, a lot stronger.
My fists clenched tightly again as I stared up at the ceiling. I was weak. Why was I so weak? Why could I not protect the one person I loved? Every breath I made hurt, and that pain only fueled my anger at myself. My own misjudgment had nearly cost us both our lives. And yet... to protect her, I had extinguished the lives of three others.
I lay there, staring blankly now. A single tear rolled down my cheeks as the reality of what I had done began to sink in. To feel their life drain at the edge of my blade, to see them choking on their own blood, to watch the very embers of their existence fade at my hand. At the time, I had done it as if it were second nature, like killing someone was a skill I had possessed my entire life. I trained in the sword to protect, yet the reality that a sword was meant to kill sunk in further and further. And now my hands were stained with blood.
I bit down on my lip, trying to hold back the cries, but the tears began to pour out. My hands came up, covering my face as I sat there silently weeping. My body was shaking, and I began to breath more heavily as I attempted to stop myself, but I couldn't. I couldn't stop this guilt, this self-loathing, the fact that I had done the unthinkable, none of it. I had taken lives, something I always preached against doing. I did it for Katsumi's sake, and I had no regrets, but... I felt as if something sacred to me had shattered. Something in me had changed. All that crap I said to Masahiro, Yukimura, Takehiro, to everyone... I had gone against it in a single night. My ideals were worthless, and something only a fool believed in, and that was the truth that Masahiro had tried to tell me in the past. Even the sakabato was now a tool to take lives.
I was doing my best to calm down, but I knew I needed to see Katsumi as soon as possible...
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Post by Morei Haji on Feb 15, 2014 22:52:37 GMT -7
HELL YEAH! I WAS A BADASS! I rejoiced mentally as I decapitated yet another monster. His head rolled along the ground as I turned to face the other monsters. I learned now not to worry about anything but their heads, and that was exactly what I would do here.
Following Yukimura's example and realizing I didn't have to throw my own katana, I would quickly toss my second katana to the hand with my sakabato, holding them both as I picked up one of the undead's old weapons. I would spin around, quickly throwing it at the head's of one of the other creatures, aiming to impale his head and finish him off too.
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Post by Morei Haji on Feb 15, 2014 14:20:30 GMT -7
What the hell? Do they even have hearts? I realized how crappy of a situation I was in when both of my blades ended up grabbed by the monsters. I would jump back, attempting to gain some distance from the third monster before sending my right fist forward, planning on slamming my gauntlet directly into the beast's face. If this was successful, I would run for my swords and attempt to dislodge them from the other monsters before trying to slash and decapitate the one I punched.
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Post by Morei Haji on Feb 15, 2014 10:08:38 GMT -7
"AH! WHY THE HELL DO YOU KEEP SLAPPING ME?!"
Takehiro's constant slapping was giving me more of a headache than anything. I was already back to reality! So what the hell?! I rubbed my other cheek now, the stinging in my cheek burning hot.
"I... kind of don't want to go back near those goods."
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Post by Morei Haji on Feb 15, 2014 1:57:39 GMT -7
"Son of a..."
Shrieks filling the air again, I turned around to see a swarm of those bastards from before. Three of them were coming at me, and I cursed our luck. Drawing my other sword, I would move forward a safe distance from my allies. I would turn and perform spinning slashes with my blades as the enemies neared, using the sharp end of my sakabato and my katana.
I planned to at least stall their advances, possibly knocking them down or away from me. If any of the monsters fell to the ground near me, I would advance on them and strike my blades at their hearts, trying to kill two of them at once. If not, I would back away a safe distance and try to keep an eye on what was going on around me, hopefully being ready.
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Post by Morei Haji on Feb 15, 2014 1:34:49 GMT -7
Takehiro's slap would knock me back into reality, and I began to blink, confused. My cheek hurt like a bitch, but everything felt so... weird.
"I... where the hell are we?"
I looked around, witnessing all the carnage around us as I rubbed my cheek.
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Post by Morei Haji on Feb 15, 2014 1:11:38 GMT -7
The monster was now dead, and I had managed to save both Yukimura and myself. I stumbled a bit, using my sword to stop me from falling as I leaned on it, panting heavily. My arm came up, wiping my face off, and as I pulled the sleeve away, I would see a mixture of saliva, sweat, and my own blood stain the fabric.
"I'm... I'm alright, Takehiro..."
I replied to him. Following suit with Yukimura, I would reach into my kimono and pull out the smaller rice cake that a merchant had sold to me previously. I figured it wouldn't hurt, it was supposedly magical and was able to heal most wounds. With my beat up state, I had nothing to lose, so I wolfed it down right there. My wounds healing up would just leave me with dirty, bloodied clothing. It beat having a body torn asunder.
Immediately afterwards, I would go to find the katana I threw previously, sheathing it, but keeping my sakabato drawn just in case. For now, the room seemed clear, but in this place, I felt being on our guard was the best course of action.
I would walk over to Katsumi just to check up on her. "How are you holding up?" I would ask. Once Takehiro began to move towards the daimyo's chest though, I would follow suit just in case he needed back up.
[[ OOC: Haji's stats for two posts:
Strength: 14 (+9)
Dexterity: 12 (+1)
Constitution: 13 (+12 +2)
Wisdom: 11 (+1)
Spirit: 18 (+1) ]]
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Post by Morei Haji on Feb 15, 2014 0:57:49 GMT -7
"It sounds like some kind of foreign currency..."
I scratched my head. Imagery of trees being cut into green slips of paper flashed through my mind, but I had no idea why. What was this opium?
"I think I can see... the future..."
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Post by Morei Haji on Feb 15, 2014 0:16:11 GMT -7
I screamed in pain as the monster dug its claws into my shoulder, the spit on my face seemed so trivial at the moment. I really felt like I was going to die in this place, against some weird ass monsters I didn't even know existed. This had to be a bad dream.
As I held the beast off, I could see Yukimura coming in for an attack. If he was successful in kicking the monster away from me, I would make my move, aiming my blade for the beast's neck, planning on decapitating him as well. If Yukimura failed in his endeavor, however, I would kick at the beast and attempt to knock it off of me, from there I would perform the same strike with my blade.
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Post by Morei Haji on Feb 14, 2014 23:15:47 GMT -7
"I don't know... it just popped into my head. Like someone implanted the thought in me. Sometimes I feel like I'm not in control of my own actions."
I felt as though my every action was being written by someone else. As though at any moment, my life could change drastically because someone felt like it. I didn't like that feeling at all, but maybe they were writing me to not like it.
"Wha... where did you get cultist from?"
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Post by Morei Haji on Feb 14, 2014 22:40:50 GMT -7
The man crash landed into the samurai penis duo, collapsing in a heap on the ground. As they groaned in pain on the floor, I walked up besides Takehiro, in awe at just how dangerous this guy could be. I was happy I was on his side.
"So, uh... what's a dollar?" I asked, the question popping into my head for no reason at all.
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Post by Morei Haji on Feb 14, 2014 22:11:25 GMT -7
"PINCHE CHINO!!!" The sword man would shout in agony as Tak's spear met his crotch, before Tak began to beat the crap out of him. I only watched in a mixture of both amusement and horror as Takehiro became the most violent man I had ever seen. But after what we had been through, it made a lot of sense.
"IF YOU DON'T STOP I WILL UNLEASH MY NINTH SWORD!" He shouted between fists to the face. "TAKEHIRO! GET OFF OF HIM, QUICKLY! THAT SOUNDS BAD!" I shouted urgently.
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Post by Morei Haji on Feb 14, 2014 17:37:06 GMT -7
I was successful in defeating this soldier as well, making two decapitated heads. I kicked the body away from me in time to hear some inhuman shrieks. Looking up, I would see some freaky ass monsters climbing along the ceiling. Shit.
I would back up against the wall, crouching against it now. One of my hands was on my stomach, keeping pressure on my wound, trying desperately to keep the blood from flowing too much. My other hand would thrust out, sword in hand, aiming to impale the creature as it came at me. I only prayed I was successful.
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Post by Morei Haji on Feb 14, 2014 15:36:20 GMT -7
Not my fault? But I was there, maybe she wouldn't have gotten kidnapped in the first place. Maybe if it wasn't for my stupid sense of adventure, we could have avoided everything. She wouldn't be laying on the ground, broken and bleeding. She wouldn't have gotten hurt. We could've just settled somewhere and have been happy together, maybe working in a village together and starting on our life...
Her voice would trail off, and looking up at her, I noticed she was just about unconscious. I wasn't going to let her lay on the ground like this. She needed medical treatment fast. I needed to get her back to the town.
I noticed my katana next to her, and I reached for it. While it was a struggle, I had cut a large piece of fabric from my kimono, tearing it off completely. Sticking the hilt of my sword into my mouth and holding it with my teeth, I would take a deep breath as my hands gripped the knife in my stomach. With a scream stiffled by the blade in my mouth, I pulled it from my body, blood beginning to pour out. I tossed the blade to the side and began to wrap the cloth around my torso tightly, tying it and creating a makeshift tourniquet to stall me from bleeding out just a while longer. I tossed the katana aside, panting heavily before looking to Katsumi. This was going to be the hard part.
Moving nearer to her, I would take her up in my arms, one arm under her back and the other under her legs, and I would hold her close to me as I stood up painfully. This was the reason I needed to remove the knife. It hurt like hell, but my pain was only a secondary concern right now.
"You're going to be okay..." I spoke to her softly, my tone desperate. I would make sure that my word to her was kept, and I began to carry the bloodied girl away from this place, stepping over the bodies as I slowly made my way out. Katsumi being in my arms was meant to be a wonderful thing, but right now, all I could feel is pain, knowing what she had been through because of one momentary lapse in splitting up.
"I won't leave your side again, Katsumi... I... I can't lose you..." I couldn't stop the tears again. I carried her along the road in my arms, and every movement in my body felt like it would be take all of my strength. But I could not allow this weakness, I could not allow any more harm to befall her. I would make sure she was safe, I would make sure that she would make it to safety, even if I died trying to get her back to the town.
"You're everything to me, Katsumi... you're everything... you can't die on me... I won't let you..."
If I ever lost her, I... I was afraid to even think of what might become of me. My life would lose all of its light that I had found thanks to meeting her. She was the one that drove me forward, she was the only thing keeping me going right now despite the wound in my stomach. I didn't care if I bled out, as long as she was safe first.
My body would force itself along the road. I didn't know how much time had passed, whether it was mere minutes or entire hours. She kept me going, no matter how much I felt like I was just going to pass out from the exhaustion.
An unknown amount of time would pass, and soon I could see lights in the distance through my blurred vision. Was it the town? It seemed so close, and yet... I fell to my knees, Katsumi still in my arms. My body was giving out. Damn it all... I did my best to lay her on the ground, collapsing next to her. She was so close to the town, I just needed to get her a little closer and she'd be fine... It couldn't be this way, not like this, not when I was this close to saving her.
"Kat...sumi..." My voice trailed off as I drifted into unconsciousness, my blood loss had become too great at this point as it began to seep through the cloth.
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Post by Morei Haji on Feb 14, 2014 14:48:35 GMT -7
The man advanced upon me, and I was certain this would've been my end. Suddenly, the man would stop, his arms lowering to his side before the katana dropped to the floor. He would fall to the side, and I could see an arrow sticking out of his back as he now lay dead in front of me. I looked over towards Katsumi, realizing that she had saved my life. I had come here to save her, and we had saved on another. It was strange.
The adrenaline had begun to die down now that it was quiet and all of her captors lay dead. Looking down at the knife in my torso, I had begun to breathe really heavily as the pain finally started to settle in. I wanted to pull it out and cast it aside, but I remembered the day that Katsumi had helped the man's wounds whom she shot, knowing that in our states it'd be a terrible idea. But god, it hurt so much to move right now. I didn't know how deep the knife was, but if I pulled it out I was afraid I would bleed to death.
No, I couldn't die. I wasn't going to allow it. Resisting the urge to scream out in pain, I would roll over, angling myself so the knife wouldn't plunge deeper into me. Slowly, painfully, I had started to crawl towards Katsumi. Her safety was far more important to me. As far as I was concerned, she was in far worse shape than me.
I would pass by the bloodied bodies as I crawled, being hit with the realization that... I had done this. I had taken these men's lives. And while they had threatened the life of the woman I loved, while they had caused her so much pain and grief, I realized that my hands were stained for the first time. My heart felt heavy, and I wasn't sure if it was because I was struggling with my injury, because I had failed on my promise to Katsumi, because I had done the one thing I swore never to do by killing someone, or maybe all three. I felt like something shattered inside of me. My soul felt broken. I would pause for a moment, holding myself up with my arms, and I began to shake, feeling tears well up in my eyes. What was this? Was I feeling guilty for having killed these men? No, they deserved it for what they did to her! I would do it all again just to keep her safe!
"Katsumi... I..." I would look up towards her, feeling hot tears rolling down my cheeks. I had to get to her. She needed me. If I would have to carry the burden of taking these lives with me forever, than so be it. I didn't care what torture I had to endure to my body or my mind.
My body would feel as though it were moving on its own, pulling myself towards Katsumi. Every time I moved forward, I could feel the hilt of the knife scrape against the ground, applying more pressure to the stab wound, and I would wince. It took every ounce of strength to just keep moving, and somehow, I found myself near to her.
"Katsumi..." My body would shut down and I fell on my side, breathing heavily. My hand reached for hers, but I was barely out of reach before it dropped to the ground and I just laid there near her. I couldn't hold back my tears. "I'm so sorry... I should've been there to protect you... I broke my promise to you..." I managed to gasp out. The guilt combined with the pain and my failure, it all felt so heavy to me.
I looked at Katsumi, not bothering to wipe my tears away. The sight of her mangled like this was too much. Yukimura's words resounded in me, I had to become stronger... so that in the future, this would not happen again. We were both in terrible condition, but I had to get us back to the town somehow...
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Post by Morei Haji on Feb 14, 2014 13:35:28 GMT -7
The undead soldier's blade passed my stomach, and upon his decapitation, I realized a sharp pain. Looking down, I saw that his blade had cut me pretty deep, and I started to panic as I saw the blood seeping out. I had no time to tend to my wound, however, as I soon found myself tackled by another one of the soldiers, knocking me to the ground. I was met with more pain as the bastard started to headbutt me, my head aching and soon I found myself woozy.
"Agh... son of a..."
I gritted my teeth, I wasn't going to let myself die in a place like this. I wasn't going to let my comrades down. I would attempt to push the undead soldier off of me, wrestling my arm free from his grip and punching him in the face. If successful, I would grab my sakabato and slash at his neck as well, hoping to decapitate him just like his friend before him. I needed to help the others get through this as soon as possible, I was afraid of losing too much blood.
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Post by Morei Haji on Feb 14, 2014 3:20:16 GMT -7
I advanced on one of the men, sword at the ready. He and the two others seemed determined to stop me, but with two of them down already, their morale seemed low. One of the men slashed at me, and my sword came up to block it. Another man would attack from the side, but his blade would land against my gauntlet as I brought my arm up, and I held him at bay. I quickly kicked the first man in the stomach before bringing my sakabato straight to his temple. A sickening crack would be heard upon impact, and the man would fall to the floor, blood pouring from his head wound.
Katsumi's sudden screams would cause me to look towards her in shock, and I would witness her brutalizing the man whose knee I had destroyed moments before. All of Katsumi's suffering and grief, all of her pain, sorrow, and hurt, it all came pouring out in that moment. She showed how truly damaged she was, but for once, she was no longer holding it back. She let her anger take her, and finally, she got the revenge she must have longed for for so long. But this grief of her's...
I was snapped from my thoughts as I was suddenly grabbed from behind, having forgotten about the third man after I turned my attention to Katsumi. His arms went under my own and held me back, and the man that I had kicked earlier had gotten to his feet and charged at me. When he neared me, I felt a sudden sharp feeling, a surge of pain shooting throughout my body, and looking down, I realized that he had stabbed me in the stomach with his knife.
I didn't know if it was the anger coursing through my body, but right now, the pain felt like nothing compared to the hatred I felt towards these bastards for hurting Katsumi. With a yell, I kicked the man who stabbed me as hard as I could, causing him to fall backwards. I would headbutt the man holding me back, which would cause him to let go. From here, I turned around, swinging the sharp end of my sakabato at his neck and slashing him across the throat.
As I turned around to face the other man again, he had already recovered, sending a kick and knocking me back onto the ground. I would look up at him, but the blade in my body prevented me from being able to get up as quickly as I wanted. He grinned down at me as he raised a katana high above me, prepared to bring it down and kill me.
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Post by Morei Haji on Feb 14, 2014 0:51:04 GMT -7
The dead man caught my katana, suddenly performing some kind of sword dance. While the prospect of a dead guy dancing in front of me was humorous, I felt a chill go down my spine due to the danger that all of us were in. When he shrieked at me, I was greeted WITH DEAD GUY SPIT ALL OVER MY FACE. EWW. FUCKING GROSS.
"So uncalled for!" I shouted back at the dead dude, wiping the spit from my face to see him running at me with both blades ready to kill. I would sidestep to get out of the way, gripping my sakabato and swinging it with full force at the monster's neck, sharp edge of the sakabato facing him. I planned to decapitate him and get him out of the way.
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Post by Morei Haji on Feb 13, 2014 22:13:35 GMT -7
I would be pulled into the room by some unknown force along with the others, and looking behind me at where the door originally once was, I noticed that it had disappeared into a veil of darkness. It was all too familiar from my adventure with Takehiro before.
I turned to see what got the others all fired up, noticing that the dead around us had started to come back to life. "What in the actual..." Takehiro and Yukimura had started to sweep their spears in a low arc, and I would draw my second katana. Holding the blade towards the enemies, my arm would arch backwards before throwing it, blade first, towards the enemies behind the ones the other two began to knock down.
[[ OOC: HOURS LATER BUT FORGOT TO ADD MY STATS. Strength: 14 (+9)
Dexterity: 12 (+1)
Constitution: 13 (+12)
Wisdom: 11
Spirit: 18 ]]
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Post by Morei Haji on Feb 13, 2014 20:17:19 GMT -7
I was about ready to try and stop Takehiro from beating the hell out of these guys' junks, but... they definitely deserved it for the hell we just went through. I wanted to bash these guys' crotches in myself, but I felt like if I touched them I'd be contaminated with some guy of weird disease.
All of a sudden, from behind them a man jumped out from the bushes, wielding four blades in each hand. "MI NOMBRE ES SENOR OCHO GARRAS!"
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Post by Morei Haji on Feb 13, 2014 19:59:45 GMT -7
I held the blade steady as she cut what binded her. My eyes remained locked on the men around me. Three more, but I wouldn't forget about the man whose knee I had shattered either.
"Katsumi... I should've been there..." I spoke in a low voice, trying to contain my anger. But seeing her like this, I was certain she could feel me shaking with rage. "I'm so sorry... I cannot forgive myself for allowing you to come to harm, when I promised I would protect you..." I leaned her up against the wall to the building she was held captive in. My hand would go under my cloak and I would produce my other katana and her bow and arrows, placing them near her. While I planned to let none of them get near her, I had to ensure she had a way to defend herself if I failed... but I wouldn't fail, I couldn't let it get that far.
I stood up, beginning to walk towards the men. "I will cut away your past for you." My blade was held at my side as I spoke back towards her. "These bastards... their lives were forfeit the moment they laid their hands on you. I'm going to kill every single one of them..."
I would cast away every vestige of my humanity, every shred of my ideals, just to protect her. I would inflict her pain back on them a thousand fold.
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Post by Morei Haji on Feb 13, 2014 19:13:17 GMT -7
Soon, her captors came outside to greet me. I would count them as they came out. One. Two. Three. Four... And then the fifth one came out, a figure held over his shoulder. My eyes were adjusting, but soon I would see that it was Katsumi. My eyes widened, and I dropped the bag of money to the ground upon seeing the state she was in. Beaten, bruised, bloody, and crying...
My teeth gritted, and underneath my cloak my hand gripped my weapon tightly. I could feel anger welling up inside of me. My body began to shake, filled to the brim with rage. Every fiber of my being screamed for vengeance, and I would not let them down. Seeing Katsumi like this triggered something in me, it unleashed something dark, and I didn't think I could hold it back, for what I saw in front of me were no longer five people. No, they didn't deserve to be called people...
"I'm going... to kill you all..." I spoke under my breath, my face still hidden away.
One man would approach, starting to reach down for the bag of money that I had dropped in my shock. No sooner had he bent down then my hand drew my sakabato, and I slashed and slammed the blunt blade straight against the man's throat. He fell back to the ground, convulsing and choking on his own blood. He would die slowly.
Immediately after striking, I would move forward towards the man that held Katsumi. While the surprise was still fresh, I would strike at the man's kneecap with all the force I could muster, planning on shattering it. If successful, this would cause the man to drop Katsumi, where I would catch her in my arm as I crouched on the ground, turning and holding my blade up towards my remaining foes. Being this close to her and seeing her injuries up close would only fuel my rage.
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