At Kyang readied herself to clash with the bandit again, she couldn't help but feel that she was being toyed with. It was possible that this guy was trying to stall them, but then again, he could also be enjoying it. An attack was about to come Kyang's way, but a flash of silver-pink suddenly interposed into her vision.

This wasn't the Torako that Kyang sat next to in a restaurant, even just looking at her stance made that clear. The hesitation and lines of dialogue seemed insignificant. When the next moment passed it would be burned into Kyang's memory. There was almost no sound to it, just a flash of reflected light on steel. Kyang saw a blade swing up for a single frame in her eyes before the bandit that she had been having so much trouble crumpled behind Torako. Kyang paled when she stepped to look around at the remains.

"How did...? How can...?" Kyang struggled. She felt something burn up her oesophagus when she stared at the pool of red insides in the centre for too long, so she turned away and swallowed her bile down. All the things she had previously heard about Torako suddenly seemed much more plausible. "We...ought to find Xin and Liu..." Kyang managed to say with strain in her voice, "Lead the way, please."

Kyang may have trained with the soldiers, but even that didn't expose her to a human corpse cut clean in half.