Hijikata wasn't about to relax either; the fight only seemed to be escalating, and neither he nor Kaitou was equipped with anything that could stand up against the swords he could see glinting occasionally in the combatants' hands.

From the tenseness in the younger man's posture, though, he didn't need to tell Kuroba to be ready to flee. He wondered how many fights the boy had been in to have developed those reflexes.