>If that tengu behind us is armed.... Sorry, Miyuki, but we can't help you if that one impales us.
>Turn around, slashing at Fuuka during the turn to keep her off us, and bring up our sword defensively to protect against her attack, if she attacks, or to warn her off she she seems about to.
>You spin around as quickly as you can while keeping most of your weight on your good leg, sweeping the tengu blade across Fuuka's path as she lunges at you. In the corner of your eye, you see the lead tengu attempt to twist aside from the wall, but Miyuki continues to struggle against her and tries to bash her in the head again. You don't see whether she's successful in this, but you do hear her captor hiss sharply as you turn away from her.
>Fuuka pulls her lunge short of contact with her own weapon, and tries to shift towards the side you're now exposing, but it is without the grace she demonstrated earlier. She is still bleeding freely and breathing heavily, her movements leaden compared to before.
>And as you round enough to glance the tengu rushing you from behind, you see that it was not a moment too soon that you did so. In fact, you're already almost too late. With as much speed as you can muster, you bring your sword across her weapon's path and twist your body aside from the thrusting blade. The edge of your weapon catches hers as it comes within a mere inch of your body, narrowly pushing it aside before it can impale you. It is a straight-edged sword, rather resembling a wakizashi, and quite unlike the weapons wielded by the other two tengu. Its wielder leaps back quickly as her weapon is intercepted and banks around to your side.
>With a degree of grim satisfaction, you note that she is not without injury. Her face shows definite signs of being bludgeoned, with a pronounced redness on the side of her jaw and another patch above one eye, trailing a thin line of blood. There are also multiple sizable splinters of wood dug into her shoulder and arm, almost like shrapnel. Blood wells around the edge of the larger ones, and there are several bloodier marks along the arm that make you almost wonder if other splinters had been forcibly removed. She seems to be doing a good job of shrugging them off, though.
>"Chisato! Little help!"
>Try and move towards that discarded knife if we can, in order to grab it with our tail. Or grab it from here with our tail, if we are able.
>"What the hell do you think I'm doin'?!" the redhead snaps as she runs towards the two of you, wooden pole in hand. She looks a little the worse for wear herself, with a thin slash cut across the side of her shirt and the skin beneath and a more showy wound on her forehead, trailing blood down the side of her face and over her eye. Her right hand also looks somehow... charred?
>You shift a step back and carefully feel for Miyuki's knife with your tail. ...there it is!
>The new arrival lunges suddenly at you again while Fuuka disappears behind the edge of your peripheral vision.
