at seeing the strangers and mihai'en's reluctance to hide shiro steps out of the bushes quietly, his sword drawn but held limply at his side as he second guesses his senses. had they failed him? unlikely, shiro had always been able to rely on his senses before, but if that was so then why did they fail him now? shiro ponders such things silently, remaining silent up to the point the first skeleton walks into the forest clearing behind him and thrusts a sword into him, catching him unaware due to his lack of faith in his senses that had been caused by the twin's appearence. shiro lets out a small cry of pain as he's stabbed through the chest, the sword peircing one of his lungs causing him to gasp for breath and choke as the injured lung fills with blood however, unfortunately the sword is left in due to the skeleton's inability to remove it causing shiro to fall over onto the ground as more skeletons fill the clearing and unlike the first's unfortunate state, these ones were armed and turning on both the twins and mihai'en