It would've been far better if the answer to the question of who would end up screaming had simply been everyone.
Everyone screaming bloody murder while one Orc Princess bulldozed her way straight through the offending party would've been awfully convenient.
In fact, with Kira's personality, that probably would've been her absolute favorite strategy!
If hitting them once didn't work, then hitting them ten or twenty more times definitely would.
Things weren't nearly that simple by the time they reached the section deep within the tunnels where the horrible stench and faint sounds of wailing had grown strongest.
The cadets who'd desperately sprinted after Kira were doing their best to catch their breath without making too much noise, several looking as though they were seconds away from coughing up a lung. Meanwhile, the Princess herself seemed perfectly fine physically.
Her expression, however, had become terrifyingly cold.
