[quote=Erranruin]
She could easily have been keeping the puppets off our back somewhere a little way away and then joined us on the bear afterwards, it was a big battle
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Yeah that's the thing Akane doesn't like fighting multiple opponents since it is her weakness. At best she is going to go through a lot to separate them and eliminate them. I'll just have her end up killing some ninjas that were trying to flank you all and assume she was keeping a bunch of enemies distracted.