[Zero Caster - palladium.]

[kindofademon]

Ryuunosuke had thought he was a goner.

He was pretty good at killing people, but he was no good at all in a fight. Especially not with supernatural heroes or whoever those people were. So when he was surrounded by a bunch of masked dudes with bad fashion, he had just drawn his knife and prepared to go down in a cool way.

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[lovecrafthomage]

Heroes? He would hardly have called them that.

His hands drew the book to them. In this situation, prana would be highly necessary. One of the good things about his particular Noble Phantasm was that even with so many of these surrounding them, he did not have to fear the loss of it.

Standing in the shadows, drawn around him like a cloak, he focused his energy and drew it outwards. Out of the ground struck the creatures, their long sinewy bodies twisting and striking to grasp onto the attackers. "Ryuunosuke. This way," he called, extending one long hand towards him.

[kindofademon]

Okay, that worked way better than going down fighting.

Ryuunosuke took the opportunity to run for it, catching up with Caster as soon as he possibly could and only sparing a second to look back at the assassins struggles. "That was a close one - you really saved my neck!"

[lovecrafthomage]

"I never expected there to be so many of them," he admitted, seemingly unruffled. On the inside, he was bristling. That had been close. If he had not arrived in time, this could have ended disastrously.

He grasped Ryuunosuke's shoulder firmly in one strong hand. "You could have used the Command Seals to call me, Ryuunosuke," came the slight reprimand. "Remember that you are my Master. You do not need to worry about being alone."

[kindofademon]

"Guess I kind of forgot in the heat of the moment," Ryuunosuke answered, a bit sheepishly. He could've gotten them both killed that way. "Sorry, sir. I'll do better next time."

[lovecrafthomage]

Perhaps he would need to watch Ryuunosuke more. If these enemies were multiple... "Shall we leave them to it? There may be more..."

[kindofademon]

"Yeah, let's go. I'm not really willing to die to watch other people die right now."

Ahem.

[lovecrafthomage]

"..." He got a raised eyebrow for that, before a bony hand tugged him in a seemingly random direction. The further away they got from Assassin, the sooner they could relax. "Ah, were you looking for something, my master?"

[kindofademon]

"Just the usual. Death, gore, all that good stuff." Ryuunosuke shrugged and went along with Caster's tugging.

[lovecrafthomage]

"We can find plenty of that, if that is your wish," he teased lightly. Or was it teasing? It was hard to tell sometimes.

[kindofademon]

Ryuuosuke grinned. "That'd be super cool! Man, you're way too nice to me. I owe you big time for saving me and letting me watch people die."

[lovecrafthomage]

"I think it is I who owe you, oh my master..." he intoned modestly, a smile on his lips. His hand had not left Ryuunosuke's shoulder, although it no longer gripped with the force it had before.

[kindofademon]

"Nope. It's definitely me who owes you and I'm not budging." Ryuunosuke wasn't complaining about the physical contact. He'd always been kind of touchy with people he liked anyway.