>>5302866>>5302874>>5302876Prioritizing Rita's safety, you snatch her by the arm and take her away before Guts could start fighting. Knowing him from past experiences, he could care less about collateral damage to property or to people in his way.
As Guts starts out throwing a few bolts from his repeater arm to test the hardness of the Mandragoran's skin, he finds the stretchiness of it's surface amusing, but not practical in terms of defense.
"This shouldn't take long." He declares as Serpico conducts the crowds into an alleyway, too slim for either combatants to pass through.
Having Rita, Farnese, Casca and Zhafira in your company, your hands were tied when it came to fighting. Someone had to take care of the weaker ones during this encounter, and it sure wouldn't be Guts.
One striking problem that you've noticed in Guts and his fighting style is that his large sword is great for outdoor fights and crowd control, not so much for indoors and tight spaces. Didn't help the fact that unlike your halberd, the dragonslayer is more effective when doing full swings to capitalize on momentum, which is why the black swordsman 10 times out of 10 opted on doing instead of shifting angles and avoiding getting his sword stuck into rubble or ricocheting back to it's usual position, overall wasting his attack turns.
He still managed to slide, jump and shoot several times before Job could land a hit on him, however his stretchy nature and regenerative limbs made so that Guts taking damage would be a certain eventuality.
"Grrrrr..." The moaning Job took hold of his foot as another of Guts' knives were thrown onto his face. Finally grasping the Swordsman by the tip of his elongated whip-arm, he violently threw him into the sky before ragdolling him into the rocks below, smearing his face onto the town square as he whacked at his back with the iron ball he had for a hand.
As Guts' screams grew more silent with each passing blow, he attempted to make the most out of being damaged and spun his sword diagonally at the monster's torso, but the yelp of pain was only followed by Job chucking the swordsman's head against the wall with the speed of a catapult, with rubble and dirt flying in all directions as his neck disappeared inside a small nearby building.
"Is he...?" Rita asked in fear.
"Nah, that's just Guts being Guts. Takes a bit for him to really build his carnage during a fight!" Puck reassures the performer that he's fine. "Although he's taking longer than usual to get up these days..."
>Should I tag in and finish the job then?>Does he have some elf powder with him?>It wouldn't hurt to double team the enemy then.>I'll trust you on this one then 