So entranced was he, that Jintaru didn’t hear Nomi’s taunting of the bandits or his musing on the similarities between the two of them. He did feel the hackles on the back of his neck stand up, however. He shrugged the feeling away before engaging the men. The bloodlust had descended and was unprepared for Nomi’s hand on his shoulder and nearly whirled round and split the blind man open from throat to pelvis, but he held back, snapping his hand up to catch the coin purse that Nomi had thrown at him.

[color=orangered]“Have I?”[/color] He sneered. [color=orangered]“I’m just warming up, Yanimura.”[/color]

He watched the silver haired swordsman approach the remaining bandits, the looks on their faces were a myriad different expression, some fear, some anger, some a mixture of the two as they regarded the broken bodies of their fallen comrades. [color=orangered][i]Gentle?[/i][/color] Perhaps Nomi’s ‘eyesight’ was not as good as he claimed, the broken, mutilated corpses behind him, were not a testament to gentleness or mercy.

He watched Nomi’s power as he smashed his fist into the face of an advancing bandit and smirked. The man was still formidable…he liked that. He would hate to think that the keen edge that was Nomi Yanimura had grown dull.

[color=orangered]“Besides…”[/color] He began as he spied one of the last bandits who seemed willing to fight, appear behind Nomi. In one fluid motion of his arms, almost as though he was dancing, he sheathed his sword and unslung the bow from his back, nocking an arrow. He loosed the arrow in Nomi’s direction. It too sang through the air before planting itself into the eye socket of the advancing bandit. He stopped dead in his tracks, stumbled and fell twitching to the ground as though his strings had been cut. [color=orangered]“…you’ve gotten sloppy.”[/color]

He turned to see the man wielding the club and wondered how badly he wanted to live. If he valued his life, he’d drop the weapon and run. 

[i][color=orangered]It would be a shame if you ran, I want to see the bastard in action again.[/color][/i]