ARMAND DUQUESNE WAS dead in his living room. Kate discovered his body and immediately left before one of his assistants arrived.
It was the first time she'd seen a dead body and a vast amount of blood on the floor. She tried to get the image out of her head as she bolted through the streets, panting through the face covering of the Ronin costume.
Kate stopped and caught her breath. Suddenly, a van parked nearby flashed its headlights and got her attention. A few Tracksuit Draculas came out holding melee weapons.
"Where do you think you're going?" One of them called out after Kate ran the other way. "We just want to talk!"
Another van in the street she ran through started and drove up to her. More of the Draculas came out to confront her.
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"We got eyes everywhere." One spoke.
"We missed you, Ronin."
Ivan came out of the van and walked up to the girl. "We got you now, bro."
"Why you making it so tough on us, bro?" Another exclaimed.
They surrounded her and seemed to be waiting for her to do the first move. She did and swung at one of the Draculas. The man parried her hit and punched her in the stomach, but Kate ended up trapping his arm and throwing him against a car.
Another Dracula kicked her in the abdomen and she hit the side of a car. He grabbed her head as she stumbled and landed a couple more hits on her stomach, but Kate escaped his hold and elbowed him in the face.
Ivan grabbed her from behind and tried putting her in a chokehold. Another man ran up to hit the subdued Ronin but Kate kicked him away. She then hit Ivan in the groin and pulled his head toward a nearby car, where Ivan slammed onto the hood.
Kate grabbed a set of keys that one of the Tracksuits dropped and tried the doors of the parked cars nearby. Finally, she found the correct one and entered it, locking the doors before they can try to open them.
Ivan and another Dracula elbowed the windows to try and break in. One even leaped onto the hood of the car and tried kicking in the windshield. Ultimately, Ivan broke the window with a punch.
Before he can grab Kate, someone hit Ivan outside and he fell to the floor. The other man by the passenger's side was attacked too. The Dracula on the hood was tripped and fell off the car.
The hooded man leaped off the top of the car and stood over the downed Draculas. He readied himself as they began to get up.
They engaged the hooded man again, but he swiftly parried their attacks with a belt he had. He trapped Ivan's arm and dodged a punch coming from one of the Draculas, which ended up hitting instead.
