"I thought Hope might be the easiest to kill, too," Sato comments, turning his head at a flicker of movement out of the corner of one eye. It had been fast, whatever it was, a shadow passing across one of the broken windows. "Considering how little of it a lot of folks here seem to have."

His steps slow and grip tightens on the axe as he changes direction, heading curiously for that particular ruined house.