[No amount of practice and muscle memory can help a normal 17 year old dodge a bullet at that range. Even knowing it's coming, he can only move enough to make it a slightly less debilitating wound.
It's still enough to knock his shoulder back and make him drop his weapon. It still hurts. It never stops hurting -- the movies lie about that. Time and repeated injury haven't trained his mind to tune out that kind of pain, and he still pauses for a second to clap his good hand against it and swallow the curses that want to spill out of his mouth. But what time has given him is the ability to only stop for that single second. Even before this all started he could move through a lot of injury, and now he's even better -- he can do what he has to.
Kida Masaomi is a coward who runs away from his problems. But he's never been someone who folds when he's cornered. On the contrary, he's his most dangerous when he has no options left but desperate lashing out. When he looks up at Mikado, it's not the expression of someone who's going to give up. It's the glare of someone with nothing left to lose -- there's despair there, in spades, but he's angry, and more resentful than the Masaomi this Mikado knows has any right to be, and his killing intent is that of someone for whom "murder" is a tool he can hold as easily as he'd held that crowbar.
And then he rushes him, with full intent to tackle.]
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It's still enough to knock his shoulder back and make him drop his weapon. It still hurts. It never stops hurting -- the movies lie about that. Time and repeated injury haven't trained his mind to tune out that kind of pain, and he still pauses for a second to clap his good hand against it and swallow the curses that want to spill out of his mouth. But what time has given him is the ability to only stop for that single second. Even before this all started he could move through a lot of injury, and now he's even better -- he can do what he has to.
Kida Masaomi is a coward who runs away from his problems. But he's never been someone who folds when he's cornered. On the contrary, he's his most dangerous when he has no options left but desperate lashing out. When he looks up at Mikado, it's not the expression of someone who's going to give up. It's the glare of someone with nothing left to lose -- there's despair there, in spades, but he's angry, and more resentful than the Masaomi this Mikado knows has any right to be, and his killing intent is that of someone for whom "murder" is a tool he can hold as easily as he'd held that crowbar.
And then he rushes him, with full intent to tackle.]