This is how it should be, Ginka thought as she dashed over buildings and rooftops.
Now that she knew David was after her, distancing herself from others was the right thing to do. She was happy Ruka had tried to stop her, but she didn’t want to get her friend involved.
This really is for the best.
Ginka considered her next steps. First, she needed to connect with the hunter alliance—surely becoming substandard didn’t make them completely useless. But when she pulled out her phone, the battery was dead. She knew she had charged it last night when she was with Ruka, so the only possibility was...
“I see. Your skills from the intelligence development group...”
David must have done something back in the restaurant, or he was deploying some sort of jamming signal.
I can’t believe I didn’t notice until now. Pathetic.
Ginka put her phone away—it was useless now. She made her way to her apartment balcony with exoforce and saw that the window was open.
“Hm. We were thinking the same thing.”
David had evidently prioritized shutting Ginka’s communications down and taking her equipment away. The inside of her apartment was probably about as messy as a scrambled egg by now, and he may have set traps for her too.
As Ginka hovered in midair, a black hand crept out of the balcony window. Two, no, three of those eerie black puppets created by sacrificing small animals soon appeared on the balcony. The retainers’ bodies, each a mockery of the human form, wriggled and writhed in pain. Sunlight hurt both vampires and retainers, so Ginka had never seen vampires deploy their underlings in the light of day. But this was a battle between hunters.
She took a breath, concentrated her exoforce into her hand, and closed her fingers around a weapon with which to slaughter her enemies.