Day One - Part 2

[Karl Jak]

Face to Face
#41 Negi Springfield vs #02 Cindy

The man was taking a nap? In the middle of the afternoon?

Cindy scowled as she poked at him with her boot. After a few jabs, the young redhead woke up from his sleep. It took him a few moments to recall where he was, and then another moment to realize that an armored woman was standing over him. When it all came back to him, he bolted into a seated, upright position and looked up at his new acquaintance.

“Oh hey,” Negi Springfield muttered, his hand going behind his hair as he flashed a smile at the stern-faced woman looking down at him. “Friend?”

“Foe,” Cindy muttered as she stepped forward and bashed her opponent in the face with something concealed inside her duffel bag. Swaying backwards, Negi reached back and grabbed the hammer from the ground. As he flung his torso forward, he swung the weapon with all his might, catching Cindy on the knee. The monster hunter let out a yelp as the impact knocked her feet out from under her. At that point, the woman slid a gloved hand into her bag.

With a bang, the end of the duffel tore apart as the fat bullet shot out and slammed into Negi’s shoulder. While the previous smack had almost tipped him over, the force of the gun caused him to roll head over heels backwards for a few yards before he managed to hook his hands around a rock jutting out from the cave wall.

“Oh, that smarts,” he groaned as he looked at his blood-stained clothes. He was about to make another quip when he saw the red dot appear on his chest. “Time to go.” Before Cindy found the trigger, Negi vanished into the darkness of the cave, hoping that there’d be an exit somewhere on the other side of the mountain.

[spoiler]Negi has a through-and-through bullet wound on his right shoulder. The shoulder and his arm will be sore and hard to use – Major Injury (+6 Damage)
Cindy has a bruised knee – Minor Injury (+2 Damage)[/spoiler]