"Our friends are pretty useless here in case you haven't noticed," Sougo's words were irritated, and after a moment he realized maybe he was taking it out on her -- the fact that Hitsugaya had partnered up with Gin. He stopped in his tracks, turning around. "Look, I'm sor--" his eyes veered past Lucy to see a few zombies were closing in on them. He gripped her shoulders, moving her behind him and unlinking the chain around his arm just a bit -- enough to give them more slack and allow him more movement without strangling her in the process.

As the undead approached to attack, Okita was swift and deliberate. It took only three lightning fast strikes for three heads to roll. And that was him getting lucky that they didn't put up much resistance. He didn't have it in him to keep a prolonged fight going. Sougo instantly rewrapped the chain and turned back toward the communal, quickening his stride.

"It would just be better if we were all less useless without having a partner. If you even had an inkling of the type of power you had back home, I wouldn't have to even wor--"

It seemed all of his decent-human-being statements were being interrupted today. But this time, it was by a zombie tackle. He hadn't even seen the creature coming and yet it somehow lunged at him, knocking him off his feet and causing him to drop both the chain and the sword in the process.