Jack's breath sharpens. The air thickens—not with fear, but with inevitability. This is no longer a standoff. It's a fight.
His fingers tighten around the kusarigama, the chain coiled like a serpent ready to strike. With a practiced flick of his wrist, he releases the weighted end. It whips through the air, a blur of steel and intent.
Thud.
The weight slams into Renjiro's chest, sinking in—not like a weapon, but like a verdict. Jack yanks the chain, muscles straining, hoping to drag Renjiro down or disarm him. But Renjiro doesn't budge.
Jack grits his teeth. He twists again, harder this time. The chain groans under the tension.
Snap.
The weight slips free, clattering to the ground. Jack stumbles back a half-step, the chain limp in his hand. Renjiro stands unmoved, the impact barely registering on his face.
Jack's eyes narrow. This wasn't just a failed strike. It was a warning.
Renjiro is beyond ordinary. "Nice try, that didn't even tickle" Renjiro chuckles with a casual shoulder roll as if all he felt was a mosquito bit
"When I am done with you, You'll serve me to cleanse this corrupted world of all its forgotten laws" Renjiro Says his face beginning to look serious, as his finger curl around the hilt of is katana preparing to counter Jack's attack "You think you're the cure? Those laws were the only thing holding this world together." Jack snaps, as he gets his chain back under control, Renjiro
draws his sword, and with an elegant step, suddenly Renjiro was right in front of Jack. Renjiro swings his katana as Jack barely parries Renjiro's swing. With a raise of his sickle just in time, Jack swings the weighted part of the chain with a single flick of the wrist; it shoots at Renjiro with incredible speed as if a serpent is striking. Renjiro tries to dodge as the chain coils around Renjiro's arm like serpent locking onto it's prey as Jack tugs on the chain, shooting Jack right at Renjiro,Jack coils his fingers on the sickle with incredible grip on the sickle, he arcs his arm and swings tearing Renjiro's face "How does that feel" jack shouts,as taking he takes his chain back
"Not bad for someone as weak as yourself" Renjiro expression changes, the fog now turning alive turning as black as the sky, showing pictures of the past
"It is time to get a bit more serious" Renjiros says, his body twisting, his arms and legs growing in unnatural lengths and speed, "Why don't I have any powers, this is unfair!!!" Jack yells
Renjiro sprints and keeping a circle like shape around Jack, then Jacks arm gets sliced then his leg then in a fury of slices from Renjiro each one quick and deliberate, Jack falters to one knee, Renjiro sees it an opening to slice Jack head off, he doesn't think twice and goes for it, Jacks life flashes in his eyes then shiiiiiiiing, a person wielding a spear blocks the hit, "dammit Kado almost had him now your next"
Renjiro Yells in anger,"Run Jack you must live" Kado yells Jack hesitates for a second and he decides to take the opportunity to leave while still can, he hops in his bike and leaves as the fight continues
"Kado, Was that really him the person who would save orphans, the one who mastered tasiguri's lessons, What the hell is he doing here," Jack says to himself, as he speeds out of the woods back onto the road.
"He was my best friend but then he moved to join the police academy, he said he wanted to protect people from evil" Jack says to himself following the road
"if anyone can survive renjiro… it's Kado but legends still bleed" Jack murmurs as he rides into the sunset