With their daggers glinting in their hands, the three goons slithered into the convenience store like wolves circling their prey. They sneered at the sight of Shin and Ayaka, cornered against the wall like trembling vermin. One of them chuckled, the sound thick with cruelty.
"Easy meat," he hissed.
They thought it would be quick, and clean, killing their dead buddy's daughter and stacking themselves with lots of coins.
They were wrong.
CRACK!
From behind the very door they walked through, Lilian and Yuki erupted behind it like shadows breaking free from the void.
Lilian struck first. She stretched out her arm coiling it around one man's neck like a serpent, her fingers clawing into his throat. He gagged, eyes bulging as she squeezed the air from his windpipe. Her other hand crushed his wrist, keeping the dagger in his grip useless. His legs flailed, but he was nothing more than a puppet now.
Yuki? Yuki didn't believe in subtlety.
WHAM!!
