>>5269692You could see Tsunayashiro holding his sword out towards the hollows, no doubt preparing to bring down what he thought was his ‘noble judgement’ on the creatures. “Leave this place at once, soulless devils!” He cried, ready to attempt to strike them down, not knowing how much danger he and his lackeys were in. “Heed my words or face my wrath, as I hold with me the
might[/i:lit] of the Tsunayashiro-“
The hollows roar, before one surges forward, charging with jaws wide open straight at Tsunayashiro himself. Unprepared as he was, the boy only had time for his eyes to widen, before…
Tsukuya leaps forward, and nails the hollow with a punch straight in its mask, cracking it and sending the monster flying backwards, landing sprawled out on the ground. You were already moving by the time she was, leaping upwards with a shunpo, and lightning crackles around your finger as you point down at the downed hollow.
“Byakurai!” You call, the bolt of lightning leaping from you and tearing the damaged mask asunder, killing the hollow instantly. Meanwhile, Shin has reached the group of boys, intercepting the next hollow to charge and cutting off one of its legs with a single swing, sending it crashing to the ground. He doesn’t stop there however, pointing to another with two fingers, momentarily paralysing it with Sai.
You touch back down on the ground, landing back to back with Tsukuya, before you’re both instantly moving again, you using Bakudo #9: Horin to bind two of the hollows that she proceeds to pummel to death, breaking their masks with a couple of blows.
The two uninjured, unbound hollows creep back, seemingly unnerved by the quick deaths of their brethren, even as Shin finishes off the one he injured earlier, before one suddenly also dies in a flash of steel and blur of yellow. You don’t recognise the man responsible, but considering there had only been a couple of minutes from the announcement of the hollows and his arrival, you know he must be fast, and strong.
“Huh, I thought there were more hollows here… You kids didn’t deal with most of them, did you?” He asks, observing you, even as the other unhurt hollow shrieks and charges him. You begin to call out, but his fist is through its mask before the sound leaves your throat, and the hollow that Shin had restrained is burning on the ground, the man having incinerated it with a kido spell too fast for you to follow.
>”We took care of what we could before you came.”
>”We were just defending ourselves, we didn’t know you’d be here so fast.”
>”Yeah, that was us… Didn’t realise it would be so easy.” 