He felt the whoosh of air head towards him but he didn't hear the firing of a gun. Shouta quickly ducked instinctively and did a sideways slash aimed initially towards the attacker's feet, then swinging the cleaver around in a move that seemed too fluid for the implausibly large weapon, going instead in for a downward slash, holding the cleaver in one hand while taking out a secreted strip of cloth with his other hand. He also noticed something else, hearing something faint, somewhat subdued, and rapid, that may have been the stealthy approach of footsteps or may have been his own rapid heartbeat, but he couldn't pay any attention to it as he was in the heat of battle, trying to focus on his opponent. A quick glance told him that he was armed with two Desert Eagles, and hadn't fired either of them yet. But what was that needle that came at him?