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Sanzoku’s table guests dropped away one after the other. William, the only one of them with actual duties to see too during the day, got through his meal as quickly as could be and saw himself out. 

[color=b03300]”Take care. I’ll see you later”[/color] she said to the man in farewell, before joking to Rintaro [color=b03300]”Cheerful one isn’t he”[/color] once the grumpy merchant was out of earshot.

Rintaro was saved from her assailing him with more conversation however, because a few moments later news about the cause of the sounds that had Marrow on alert reached the inn they were in. An alpha pokemon attack, news which had the sell-sword raising an eyebrow for two reasons.

The first was that it was not the kind of thing she expected to happen right next to the capital. Out on the roads or too some unfortunate isolated village sure, but she had to wonder why any pokemon thought such a concentration of humans would make a good target. 

The second was that her dinner guest excused himself upon hearing about this and headed right for the door, which was quite the interesting response for someone who didn’t look like a warrior. Maybe he was just worried about family or something, but it was still quite the odd little reaction. 

Either way, her curiosity peaked, she decided to see what this was all about. Unlike the younger folk however, she didn’t run heedlessly into danger right away. Instead she shoved one final load of rice into her mouth, slapped down a few coins on the table and then grabbed her pack and then got moving.

[color=b03300]”Come along Marrow, let's see what this is all about shall we?”[/color]

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Battle was in full swing, and even possibly coming to a close by the time Sanzoku showed up, both due to the delay in finding out about it and the fact that she had taken the time to clad herself in her armor. Years of experience meant she’d managed to do so while on the move, but it was still a delay nonetheless. The kind you made time for if you wanted to ever retire in her profession.

What she found when she arrived was a mess. Bodies on the floor, troops in disarray and a bunch of unarmored folks and their pokemon trying their best to survive and fight off the lone alpha Persian’s attack on a scattered merchant convoy. Several of them were from the inn she had been in, she noted, and none of them were soldiers. There were princesses, mystics and battered Ronin in the fray too, but it was her two table guests who had most of her attention.

[color=b03300]”Fancy seeing you here”[/color] she said cheerfully to the one who was sensible enough to not throw themselves into combat. She didn't miss the knife the guy was holding behind his back with intrest, but that wasn’t a concern right now. Instead the armored titan of a woman shoved past him and all the other onlookers with ease and entered the fray, Kanabō in hand and Marrow hot on her heels .

[color=b03300]”Stay behind me like we practiced little one”[/color] she instructed him before she started running forwards with a speed that always took people by surprise, right as William had a poorly timed confrontation regarding him trying to catch the pokemon that was about to kill him with a kid he she had heard him shouting at about the fact that she shouldn't be here.

[color=b03300]”Same goes for you, tinkerer”[/color] Sanzoku shouted as she came thundering in to intercept the rabid Alpha Persian, her cloak billowing behind her as she ran. She raised her gauntleted arms up in an x shaped guard with the Kanabō gripped in between them like a cross bar as she skidded to a halt by them and yelled [color=b03300]”Pick on someone your own size kitty”[/color] at the oversized house cat in an attempt to [b]Obstruct[/b] its murderous onslaught.

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