[center][h2]Bisuto Ketsu[/h2]
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Agh. Damn it, but he was a tricky bastard. Ketsu's initial slam maneuver had succeeded, but he'd been lucky to barely avoid losing his grip on the beast's tail, and hadn't managed to keep himself grounded very well when it leapt backwards. How was this guy so strong? Was that a trait of all Chimera ghouls? Research to be done, he supposed.

For now, he had to plan: he'd been yanked in close, and the ghoul was about to take a swing with one of those razor-sharp blades. Whilst the blade itself likely wouldn't injure him, the force behind it might cause some serious injuries...

But then, maybe he could use that to his advantage? As the blade swung at him, Ketsu let go of the tail with one claw, trying to grab the ghoul's arm to use its own momentum against it and throw it to the ground. If that succeeded, his next plan would be to keep a grip on its arm with that claw, pinning it whilst his other claw moved to grab the ghoul's head. It'd most likely need to be done without the tail in hand, risking it smacking him away even if he retained a firm grip on the blade arm (though he'd certainly try to keep hold of that too if he thought he could), but if he could just get its head between a claw, the fight was as good as over: any effort to knock him away would mean the ghoul risked breaking its neck or getting its head torn off, and whilst he'd heard tales of ghouls reattaching their own severed heads, he doubted this one could regenerate from its skull being crushed and its brain pulped.

And after that, it'd be a matter of getting Seto to check on Graye with no other people to observe, distracting the investigator long enough for Ketsu to feed off of the dead ghoul. Perhaps not for too long, just in case... just enough to sate himself for a while. The pulsating neck arteries would be convenient places to stab into, perhaps, to avoid leaving evidence. But not just yet.