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The encounter was totally worth the inevitable remonstrance that followed. Kyo felt suitably recompensed for his troubles.

"They cut me!", Yuya pointed at her face.

"You'll live."

"I could have died!", she then claimed absurdly.

"A possibility."

"The fat one tried to crush me, Kyo."

True. Thinking back, if only he had let it happen and not intervened. Kyo came perilously close to chortling as the scene replayed itself in his mind.

"An honourable death?" he offered unsympathetically.

"With. His. Butt. In what universe would you call that honourable?"

Ah, but there was only so much a man could withstand.