"Where do you think you're going?" Calls out one of the guards as Raya walks right up to him.

"Please," Calls out the waitress with the flower dress, "No fighting inside,"

The guard raises his hand and stands to his feet. Ignoring the waitress as he attempts to stop Raya before she gets any closer. In an instant, she whips a punch to his nose, causing him to stumble into his friends behind him.

Kita watches in awe of the sheer balls Raya has to walk up to ten men and punch one of their friends in the face. It's so badass but it's also only something that drunkards would do.

"Do you know who we are, girl?" One of the guards asks as the group of them stands up.

"You're under arrest," Another guard adds.

"It'll be you that's resting when I'm done,"

Kita jogs over to the ensuing fight, giggling as she positions herself beside Raya, who has her arms raised and legs planted in a defensive stance.

"He said arrest," Kita blares in her ear.

"I know. He said I need a rest,"

Kita rolls her eyes, confirming that she's never seen Raya this drunk before or they'd have died many times in the past.

Wait, we have died many times in the past!

"No spells except consume, right?" Kita reiterates.

"Right," Raya smiles from cheek to cheek in anticipation.

All of the guards step forward, including the one with the bloody nose. This is probably an example of how they've died in the past- Brawling in pubs and starting fights with law enforcement.

Kita scans the tables beside her for the nearest item she could use as a weapon and grabs an ashtray in her hurry. "Uhh," She stammers before throwing it at the guard with the bleeding nose.

"Ah!" He screams as the tray crashes into his already broken nose.

"Bullseye!" Raya yells out before dashing at the nearest guard.

As Raya throws the first punch- again- Kita raises her hand to thin the numbers. Consuming the souls of the nearest two guards.

Sixteen.

Kita casts a shield around Raya before a guard with a knife strikes at her shoulder. The guard's arm ricochets away before Raya kicks him in the stomach, throwing him over the table behind him.

Six guards still standing, Kita notices as she consumes the souls of the two guards Raya had downed. Seventeen, Kita would rather not use another shield and get above twenty souls.

She glances at an arm-length plank of wood that had broken off the table and picks it up before charging at the guard about to attack Raya. Before he notices Kita, he throws a punch at Raya- but Kita smacks his hand out of the air with the plank.

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Raya continues to tussle with two of the remaining six as Kita squares up with the most burly guy in the building. Her neck starts to cramp as she realizes the guy's head almost touches the ceiling.

"How did you get through the door?" Kita asks.

The monstrous guard doesn't answer and simply throws a punch that Kita barely breezes past. The man's fist crashes into a table behind her, fragmenting it and shooting shards of wood into the air.

"That's quite the punch you've got there," Kita stutters, rejoicing having dodged that shit.

She quickly darts to one of the smaller guards nearby who seems to be focused on Raya. She winds the plank behind her back and smacks the back of the guard's head as soon as it's in range. Shattering the plank as the guard drops to the floor.

Kita chuckles as she kneels and places her hand on his face. I hit harder than I thought.

Kita notices Raya pull out her blade as three guards approach her. They're both in the thick of it now, Kita will need to focus on herself.

A sudden urge of panic erupts in Kita when she instinctively raises a shield around her using the soul she'd just consumed. Immediately after it's cast, the massive man's foot crashes into her shoulder, launching her through multiple tables and into the wall across the room.

She opens her eyes to see the large guard and a regular-sized one standing across from her. Raya seems to have taken down one of the three she was dealing with, but at some point, she was disarmed.

Kita gets up to her feet raising her hands at both the guards in front of her, but they quickly charge her in response. Without time or space to consume, Kita parries alongside the wall behind her and leaps over the bar counter.

"Don't use magic," She reminds herself, now feeling the excitement in the danger. She picks up three bottles laying on the floor of the bar and jumps to her feet to see the guards running towards her. With all of her might, Kita launches the first bottle and the small guard, smashing into his shoulder. While he's stunned, Kita quickly tosses another bottle- this time connecting with the guard's head with the base of the bottle.

She raises the third bottle at the big guy, who ploughs through the bar counter before she can throw it. He grabs Kita by the neck and crashes her back into the shelves of bottles.

"Ah!" She yells as a shard of glass cuts her arm before realizing she can't breathe in.

The guard raises his other arm to punch Kita square in the face. That'll kill me. She panics and responds by smashing the bottle in hand onto the guard's arm around her neck, still holding onto the fragment top half of the bottle. The guard releases his punch in sync with Kita stabbing the arm around her, prompting the guard to drop her to the ground before his punch crashes into the back of the bar.

Too close. She hesitates.

The man growls in pain and rage as he slowly pulls the glass out of his forearm.

"Nope," Kita reacts to the relentless rage she's cast unto this man and raises her hand whilst he rips the bottle out of his arm.

Consume. She casts- Drawing the immense, black mist from his body and into her left arm.

The man's body limps and drops to the ground, nearly crushing Kita's feet.

"Ok," She lets out a hearty, satisfied sigh before standing up.

She sees Raya, sitting at the only surviving table and eating away at someone else's meal. Everyone who wasn't involved in the fight seems to have evacuated at some point. The clay and mud fragments of the flower sculptures and copious amounts of wood and shards lay across the floor.

"Hurry up," She says, pointing at the five bodies Kita hasn't consumed yet.

"You aren't going to share that?" Kita asks, shuffling through the rubble.

"Nope, you used magic so I win,"

"What?" Kita yells, "I did it to save your life!"

"Doesn't count," Raya laughs. "But thank you,"

As Kita steps up to each body, she takes a moment to feel the souls passing through her body. Moaning softly as she adds the twenty-second soul to her collection.

"Let's get out of here," Raya says, dropping a pouch full of coin onto the table.

"That's a lot of coin," Kita says.

"For the damage," Raya chuckles, "It's the least these guards could pay,"