A Door that Opens Part 6

Slowly, Rinji rose to his feet, all of the halberds pointed all around his head, and all of the red and black knight helms gazing at him as he did. The card soldiers kept their gaze upon him very closely, and all of them shouted at him at once again.

"PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR!" Their voices echoed throughout the entire castle once again, and he hesitated, he didn't want to cut his hands on their sharp blades. He was just about to raise his hands in the air when one of them thrust his blade a little too far to hurry him up. This blade nicked his cheek, he felt a burning sensation, and then he felt the blood run down his chin, and onto his zuit suit. A drop of blood landed on his tie, and beside his tie.

Rinji froze. He just got this tie in Usted Island. This suit was just carefully lint-rolled and pressed to a fine, perfectly flat finish with an excellent crease in the sleeves and the sides of his shirt and grayish jacket. This one bastard of a cardman just thrusts forward and ruined it!

His vision turned red. Before any of them knew anything, his entire body began to whirl and disfigure in their vision as a gigantic haze of energy surged through his entire body, and his eyes literally glowed red.

"Busoshoku!" Thrusted his hands forward. "Rinji Shogekiha!"

A huge chunk of their ranks were shattered, and many of them went flying as a shockwave cut straight through them. They were smashed against the walls all around them. Glasses broke all around the room, and columns cracked under a horrible pressure. The royal Queen of Heart's castle shook from the very foundations as the Catman's fury was unleashed. Those who could still fight swung their halberds toward the raging pirate captain, but he merely landed his padded feet onto the flats of their blade and swung a kick straight for their faces as he jumped farther down the room. Ducking and dodging their blades, he flipped and jumped his way through them, slicing the faces of any of them who posed an obstacle. After taking a few more cuts from passing blades, he even pulled a pole-arm from one of the random ones, and lunged at a whole line of them, close-lining the lot of them and torpedoed into the next one. He landed onto a cardknight's head and twisted his helmet around to where he could not see, but it was just then that his senses picked up a lance flying straight through the air behind him. It was the kind of sense he couldn't explain, but it appeared that something or someone was warning him to move out of the way, and he did. He jumped over the Cardknight's head and landed behind him, causing the lance to impale him in the upper chest.

Rinji took this chance to run, and fast. He finally made it to the hall, and thankfully seemed that the coast was clear.