canisaevus:

❛ Listen, just shut up and follow behind me. As for the rest… I’ll protect you. ❜

◣ ♔ ◥ LiEat sentence starters ❝ accepting. ❞

◣ ✿ ◥ –what? It had been an odd enough day without hearing those words leaving her former mentor’s mouth, and the girl didn’t know how to feel about it. First, she’d been giving a simple errand (just delivering paperwork!). A normal start to any day, yet when she got there, not only did she come across Akutagawa but an ambush as well, apparently. The attackers were far more than common thugs too, as though the day could get any worse. Holed up in a room with him was far from ideal.

While the words were shocking, and as reluctant as she was to say anything positive about the man, having an ally and an enemy each turned out better than having two enemies. Still, she didn’t want to take any bets as to how long this makeshift partnership–if it could even be called such a thing–would last because she didn’t trust him as far as she could throw him.

But she wanted to get out alive. Preferably without killing the enemies, which she knew Akutagawa would do. And what was that nonsense about protecting her? It sounded like some attempt at kindness, although it was probably a more subtle attempt at brainwashing than what he’d previously employed. She doubted he considered anything aside from how he could use her ability to–

Not the problem at the moment. She needed to figure a way out of there. From what she could tell, they were surrounded; any attempt to leave the building would put them in a firing zone. And could she really trust that Akutagawa would shield her from that? Possibly. At least, the words seemed honest enough, but then again, it was Akutagawa (not that she ever knew him to lie).

Kyouka glanced around the room. The support beams. This building had once been an office space, but after being condemned, it became run down and abandoned–not where she’d been told to go for her job, but where she ended up after the ambush. If she remembered correctly, it was scheduled for demolition anyway. She had a plan.

“Akutagawa,” she spoke up after a couple minutes, “If we knock down the support beams, the building will collapse. Then we can go up and escape onto the roof of a nearby building.” Their enemy would have falling concrete to deal with, and their abilities allowed for such a plan to be completed rather easily. Plus, it gave the men a fair chance at getting out alive rather than her allowing Akutagawa to slaughter them all getting to safety. “We should take at least one of them alive for interrogation.”

With luck, he understood why. It worked out better for her in the end as well, since she wouldn’t have to rely on the man for protection.