[x] Push with the table again.
-[x] with an uppercut action to force them over the rail (raise for effect)
-[x] Spend Void on Strength
Attack Rolls: 4k3= 38, 14
Damage Rolls: 4k1=19, 5k2=17
Strength Roll: 4k4=39
Your first instinct is to drop the table and rush to Mataru's aid, but that would free the two enemies you have pinned against the railing. As you're already outnumbered this would not be the best course of action. Even more, your enemies are making quick work through your makeshift barrier and will be upon you in moments. Once that happens, an already unmatched fight will become even worse.
It is time to even the odds.
Power surges through your limbs, strength beyond anything you have brought to bear outside of wielding your tetsubo. Muscles heaving, you pull your arms back and then slam the table forward and up into your foes. You can hear bones snap beneath the violence of your attack, the sound overtaking even the crack of the table as it crumbles apart in your hands.
The destruction of the furniture is of no consequence, for you have succeeded. The railing shifts and splinters beneath your force, and the assassins barely have time to scream as they are thrown back into the air. They crash into the railing of the opposite balcony, and then tumble down toward the ground where they lay unmoving.
You have little time to enjoy your victory, however. Even as you turn to face the battle one of Mataru's assailants breaks away and charges at you. Before you can react he rakes your chest with his knife, scoring a burning line across your torso that stains your kimono crimson. A burst of pain erupts as the edge tears into your flesh, but you clamp your teeth shut and refuse to scream.
Instead you growl and draw your wakizashi and as he attempts to strike you again. His blow goes wide, and in the space of that moment you can see this was the injured one of the duo Mataru was fighting. Even behind the cloth covering his face you can tell his lips are drawn back into a smile, and he has forgone defense entirely in order to hold you back.
A mistake you capitalize on. You dodge to the side of his attack and slash at his side with your longer weapon. The wakizashi bites deep, and the man screams in agony before backing away. He holds one hand over the wound, the blood pouring down his chest mixing with the red tide bubbling up between his fingers.
The man's eyes are wide with shock, staring in disbelief at you as you corner him toward one side of the balcony even as your comrades deal with their own foes. You suppose his shock is understandable. He managed a powerful blow in his heedless rush toward you. No doubt he hoped attacking heedless of his own safety would give him enough advantage to make this fight easier for himself and his fellows.
A grin splits your face as you see his confusion overtaken by fear. These fools must have never fought Crab Samurai before. It will take more than a few pitiful knives to lay low one of Hida's chosen, and you will make these assassins know the full weight of that truth.
[] Attack your enemy.
-[] Call raises or change your stance.
[] Aid one of your friends.
[] Write in.
Sosuke has taken 12 Wounds after Reduction. He is still in the Healthy bracket and has 66 Wounds remaining. Because Sosuke took damage on the same turn he used a Void Point to enhance his Strength Roll, Void cannot be spent in order to negate 10 Wounds of damage. He has two Void Points remaining.
