[center][h1][color=cyan]Kanbaru Otoko[/color] [/h1][img]http://66.media.tumblr.com/51fc61ac770a524e9468f174afa94d7f/tumblr_inline_n1xc79Kcic1rb3m8r.png[/img][/center]

Though Katie was a still a danger and Riku was acting to make all the suffering they'd put the dragon through pointless, Kanbaru found herself gripped with indecision. She stood there beside the fungal skeleton, brow furrowed and gaze intense as she watched Akiko ignore her challenge. Yet it wasn't because Akiko didn't care how her actions were perceived, but it looked to her that Akiko didn't even register she was betraying Kanbaru in the first place. 

As Katie plummeted and the Abyss still stood, shaken but unbroken, the whale's gaze followed the static hiss of her parasite and saw Nephy no longer deigning to conceal herself. The piss poor attempt at resolving herself was too little, too late, and Kanbaru had far less compunction with venting herself on the wolf then the feline she was steadily realizing her no basis in Kanbaru's reality. 

She flickered in and out of sight, each Dash a bound closer to the wolf before appeared before her with Kanbaru's cloak billowing outwards to drown Nephy in its shadow. The JSTR didn't need to offer it's own bloodthirst when the back of her fist swung for Nephy's cheek. [color=cyan]"For someone who ached for freedom, your hesitation tells me you'd prefer to remain here. If you've grown so soft a heart you'd rather break trust with me just to spare Katie a little pain, do speak up if I haven't dislocated your jaw."[/color]