『 Dying of Asphyxiation was seriously not my goal in life. 』
Neither was meeting a Governor of the Afterlife and getting sent to another world for a second chance at life.
Drew was assaulted by a group of men for reasons she didn't understand. Drown...
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48. Walk
"Hey, Rei, why don't you just stay over at Mama's place?" Lambo spoke up from my arms, lifting his head to face me.
I let out a dry chuckle. "If Tsuna-san and the others find out I got into a fight, I'll be in trouble!"
"Eh? Why?" Fuuta asked.
Here it is. The overly curious questions of overly curious children that would stupefy every adult out in the world.
"Well... they just will, I guess." and I settled with that.
Lambo jumped to the ground, and I caught sight of the junk in his hair. A grenade, a box of grape candy, a small pouch of something and-- is that a slingshot? Something shiny glinted, reflecting light from the moon.
A ring.
My eyes narrowed.
We were walking around quite an isolated area now-- and so, I looked up towards the shadows the rooves further away-- to the left, and to the right, searching for something.
I spotted a silhouette. It was a man, wearing a long overcoat, the collar of it covering the large of his face-- and the silhouette was there for only a second.
I snapped towards I-pin.
She was two steps away from me, so I dove forward and pulled her back-- just in time to avoid a rapier aimed to drive straight into her skull.
I barely managed to avoid it too, the sword clashing into the gravel between my feet.
A little taken aback, but the man did not falter. He quickly raised his sword, the blade turned upwards.
I cursed as I realized that the tip of the blade would slice my jaw.
I-pin jumped out of my grasps, and with a loud warcry, she landed a sharp, solid kick at the man's wrist. The rapier jumped out of his hands, clanking as the hilt hit the gravel.
No more time for bewilderment.
I had clumsy movements. The awkward positions my limbs had to move through, and the constant failure to coordinate my limbs meant I made an inelegant struggle to get up.
But this isn't the time to worry about that, Rei!
Fuuta was already running ahead. Scooping up Lambo and I-pin, I sprinted.
Ultimately, outrunning an assassin wasn't possible, it seemed. He was fast-- fast, and experienced. It only took him three steps-- one to boost him off the ground; the next to land on the wall; and the last to boost him off the wall.
Is he a fucking acrobat or something?? Even Drew couldn't do that in the spur of the moment!
I was facing a sword coming straight down towards me--
