Jungle/N.W l Afternoon
Nisen pursued the fox tengu, watching curiously from above as she threw rocks at the tainted creatures. He wondered what purpose there was behind that, it merely made it more dangerous for herself. But strangely the tainted were ignoring her...That liquid, it must be hiding her presence somehow...!!! Just as this occurred to him as he jumped to another tree, he saw movement coming from the right in the corner of his eye, he instinctively jerked his head backwards while quickly releasing one of his knives from the sheath on his left wrist and threw it upwards to where his face had been.
The knife then buried itself into the body of the small tainted creature with sharp claws that had leap at him, killing it and sending it tumbling into the undergrowth. But the movements that Nisen had done to dodge the attack had unbalanced him and caused him to miss his target, instead he landed clumsily on a weaker branch then the one he aimed at. It managed to hold his weight despite the creaking, barely. So this is what she intended to do... The alert tainted creatures, were gathering around his tree after hearing the noise caused by his landing. Nisen stayed on his branch, he couldn't drop down into that horde, nor could he just jump to another tree, the branch he was on was too weak, it would snap under the extra pressure, he would need to climb to a stronger one first. Then he noticed that he couldn't spot the tengu. The tengu that he had easily spotted easily earlier was now nowhere to be seen, but she couldn't have disappeared from hie view in that short time he was distracted, so she must be hiding...maybe in ambush. Instead of climbing to another branch which would cause him to be exposed, he stayed there on his branch and drew his blades, one from his right wrist and a new one from a shoulder sheath, he also camouflaged himself such that others would have a hard time spotting his precise form even if they could tell his location, causing him to appear to the tainted below as a hazy figure that seemed to merge with the background, confusing them. He scanned his surroundings, alert for any movement, dismissing the tainted below him, right now they were the lesser danger, as long as he ignored them, they should leave him alone, he was probably trespassing in the earlier small tainted's territory when it attacked him. He did not bother looking for the tengu, she was the one who set up this situation, so she would make the first move, instead he watched for any small movements that was not of a natural cause, prepared to react to anything.
How many times can you die a day~?
How many times have you died a day~?