On his way back to see Jacob at the Silver Cup Hayate found himself in a very peculiar situation. Trying to save some time as night came quicker than he thought it would Hayate decided he would take the shortest route possible. This brought his to a, how do you say, scummier part of town. And as he walked the putrid smelling streets of this seldom cleaned area he came across a scene that stopped him in his tracks.

As he was about to turn the corner onto a discrete alleyway he figured would take him pretty close to his destination he spotted something. A woman was walking alone with a number of packages. Already this was a bad decision of her part as Hayate notice the people around here looked like they wouldn’t take no for an answer if they wanted her. It sickened Hayate to the stomach knowing that thugs like this lived everywhere and his run-ins with such people back in Yukon weren’t outliers.

Hayate took it upon himself to fallow the woman for a bit sort of like her secret bodyguard trying to see her safely to a more inviting part of town. He trailed behind her at a distance making sure that if she turned around he could duck out of site. He didn’t do it for any kind of gratification; he did it so that he could sleep at night knowing this woman would be fine. From around the corner Hayate watched as she started to struggle holing the parcels and dropped a few on the ground. Hayate fought the urge to run up and help her gather them opting only to watch for now.

This was the right decision though as when she bent down to get them two men appeared about ten yards in front of her. They turned a corner laughing and hollering at one another presumable liquored up and based on appearances weren’t the most refutable of citizens. It didn’t take long for the two of them to spot the woman in her helpless situation. They acted just how Hayate thought they would. With lust in their eyes the two men leapt towards the woman.

“Grab her!” one man yelled.

Just then Hayate stepped into action leaving the corner he was hiding behind. Even though he was an injured man he could stand by and let anything happen to this girl. So as if he had all the strength in the world the young man ran in front of the woman kicking one of the men to the ground with a powerful roundhouse. He watched as his heel struck the man square in his jaw sending him into the stone wall beside him.

The other man hadn’t a chance either as Hayate quickly used the hilt of his sword to hit his in his gut. The man froze for a moment before vomiting a bit and passing out. Hayate then turned to the girl who had already gathered her things and offered her his hand.

“Let’s go,” he said tugging at her sleeves. “I don’t want to stick around when their friends come looking for them.”

“Oh- Okay” the woman said as she quickly fallowed behind the swordsman. They didn’t say much more to each other as he smuggled her back to a better part of town.