( they both bleed heavily, but this is not the body that makoto's mortal head had been torn from — that body had seen a funeral before being buried with scarcely a single eye to shed over its morbid end, and it had rotted away in the ground as makoto had lived just a few short years in hell, the passage of time between the two realms ensuring that anyone he might have known while mortal would soon enough be dead. this body, human by design but of demonic make and infused with a similar essence, played the part of feigning mortality well, and coming here to horos had stripped it of the perpetuity that the rules of hell promised it. but still, it remembers. exsanguination is not so much a danger to him as it might be for others, and even if it were, he would continue to fight through pain and exhaustion regardless, bolstered both by a drip of adrenaline and a newly inborn power that caused him to fight harder contrary to his pain and condition. a snake whose venom was most potent when backed into a corner.
a quick flicker of his gaze informs him of what liem had already noticed: achamite soldiers bearing in on the veneran woman and her child. even if the man didn't plan on making a break for it, makoto is sure not to give him the option; he bears down on him with both blades in tandem, taking the cut across his arm as a welcome trade for locking him down, keeping him in place as time wove a trap about his feet. if hayame retreats with the veneran, fine. from the sound of it, both she and binghe were injured, so this would be a bit of a bloody draw regardless.
but as long as they can lock liem in their grasp and bring him back to achamoth to face the consequences for his treason, there would at least be one thing to be proud of. )
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a quick flicker of his gaze informs him of what liem had already noticed: achamite soldiers bearing in on the veneran woman and her child. even if the man didn't plan on making a break for it, makoto is sure not to give him the option; he bears down on him with both blades in tandem, taking the cut across his arm as a welcome trade for locking him down, keeping him in place as time wove a trap about his feet. if hayame retreats with the veneran, fine. from the sound of it, both she and binghe were injured, so this would be a bit of a bloody draw regardless.
but as long as they can lock liem in their grasp and bring him back to achamoth to face the consequences for his treason, there would at least be one thing to be proud of. )