[Gripping the hammer tightly up high, Akiha ran with the weapon and chose not to respond to Sakura's comment. Of course, she would be careful and running into unknown situations happened on missions. She was somewhat used to the ninja's overt concern.
She turned the corner about a building just as the screaming stopped to find a body on the ground at the far end of the alley and a man standing over it. Blood drenched the ground and the man's muscles bulged unnaturally, driven by the madness. This was something they'd seen before, but the amount of blood makes something in Akiha's wavelength shift briefly. She was hungry. The madness always made her hungry. All they needed to do was force the man away from the body before it--]
Is that a soul?
[Akiha asked that as something blue was pulled from the body that reminded her of the kishin egg souls they collected, just a different color. She knew humans became kishin eggs through consuming human souls, but she'd never actually -seen- a human soul before. Regardless, she acted to keep the man away from the soul, shifting her stance as she came close.
Using the hammer's special properties and their basic resonance, Akiha struck the ground with it and the shockwave forced the man to jump back away from the soul. Slathering, the man laughed madly and dove back for the soul. Akiha swung the hammer to hit him away mid-air, but he was a bit faster than her as she was still slightly recovering from the ground-breaking strike. She caught him in the shoulder, knocking him into the wall, but he managed to grab the soul in the process.
...and then he shoved it in his mouth as he lay there.]
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She turned the corner about a building just as the screaming stopped to find a body on the ground at the far end of the alley and a man standing over it. Blood drenched the ground and the man's muscles bulged unnaturally, driven by the madness. This was something they'd seen before, but the amount of blood makes something in Akiha's wavelength shift briefly. She was hungry. The madness always made her hungry. All they needed to do was force the man away from the body before it--]
Is that a soul?
[Akiha asked that as something blue was pulled from the body that reminded her of the kishin egg souls they collected, just a different color. She knew humans became kishin eggs through consuming human souls, but she'd never actually -seen- a human soul before. Regardless, she acted to keep the man away from the soul, shifting her stance as she came close.
Using the hammer's special properties and their basic resonance, Akiha struck the ground with it and the shockwave forced the man to jump back away from the soul. Slathering, the man laughed madly and dove back for the soul. Akiha swung the hammer to hit him away mid-air, but he was a bit faster than her as she was still slightly recovering from the ground-breaking strike. She caught him in the shoulder, knocking him into the wall, but he managed to grab the soul in the process.
...and then he shoved it in his mouth as he lay there.]