24 - Hidekazu
A spark of white collided with Hidekazu's snakebite, and the blue around his staff dissolved.
"Don't be hasty now," Naoji said, and with the same flick of ki, pushed the weapon away from Masanori's forehead. "You still need him."
Hidekazu seethed, his insides a delicate spiderweb of glass on the verge of shattering.
"No. No. His usefulness expired when he killed Sayuri."
Masanori sputtered and sobbed, his mumbles incoherent beyond the occasional Lacotl, Lacotl.
"Lacotl," Hidekazu spat. "He's locked away, and my pathetic brother should join him. He's a danger to everyone around him."
"I warned you not to underestimate a noroi." Naoji's whiskered billowed about him as he sniffed Masanori, who pressed himself closer to the wall, curling into something smaller, insignifica
