/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>19771940
I’ll go with this, thanks.

>>19740758
"So much for getting the drop on him,"
There was too great a distance between them to dispatch her target as she did with the others. This room was also not ideal for her style of combat.

"I said—" the man began.

Sakuya charged in toward the ghoul, grabbing one of the tablecloths as she passed, causing a din as plates and silverware clattered and crashed in her wake. She lifted the white material the moment she passed within a half-dozen meters of the target, a curtain between them. The cloth then went quickly from vertical to horizontal, like an open umbrella pulled violently closed. It shot forward, directly at the target, a bed sheet ghost bent on terrorizing the enemy.

The ghoul knocked the sheet aside with the back of his hand. He had seen through the diversion, waited for her to move laterally or leap in for an overhead strike while his attention should have been on the cloth, propelled forward by a thrown knife. A ghoul could easy see and avoid danger, could dodge a bullet even after it was fired, so one knife was no threat to him, no matter how it was concealed—

A knife embedded itself into the vampire's throat from below.

With the energy from her run and the smooth surface of the floor beneath her, Sakuya fell to her shins, her knees bent, arching backward like the most extreme limbo contestant. Her momentum slid her down at the feet of her opponent, her action momentarily obscured by the flying tablecloth and the ghoul’s attention to the sides and above—an action that would have been defeated had he focused downward on the projectile like a normal human might have.

Blood spat out onto the floor and into the fringes of her hair as the knife pierced the ghoul’s jugular.

Sakuya continued her slide between the legs of her target, arms reaching out to hook the man at the ankles. Bunching all of her strength into the motion, she sprang from her knees upward, lifting her arms above her head, flinging the Apostle so his heels flew into the air and his head flew into the floor.

Reflex had the man flinching away from the floor, a slight angle of adjustment that brought the hilt of the knife into the floor first.

Without waiting to see the ghoul's condition, Sakuya knelt onto the man's back, grabbed the hilt of the knife, and brought it back up and around.