Keisuke slammed both hands on the armrests of his chair, veins standing out on his neck.
"Cowards! Keep shooting! Kill her now, or I'll have every one of you gutted!"
A third wave of fire answered him—shorter, more frantic, the men reloading with shaking hands and firing almost blindly.
The new bullets simply added themselves to the hovering mass. The invisible barrier never wavered. The cloud of stopped rounds grew thicker, some of them now only a finger's width from Akane's chest and face.
Akane herself had gone still. She stared at the floating bullets, knives still raised, breath shallow.
"…Jack. It's you."
I put the swords back into system storage, as now there is no need for them once I have already used telekinesis to show off. I deactivated the invisibility.
The air shimmered once, and I stepped fully into view, standing just behind her right shoulder. The frozen bullets remained between us and the armed men, a glittering wall of interrupted death.
