Casper raised his guard as well, to protect himself. In the meantime, during all that scene, he had drawn his knife stealthily, and he was ready for any approach that those people could make.
The Sgails didn't wait even for one more second after the confirmation of Leonel. After he finished his statement, just the time to hold their breaths was given.
Casper kept waiting until a hand appeared on his peripheral vision. His heart throbbed when he noticed the speed behind that attack.
Barely being hit, the soldier put his forearm in position and changed the course of the punch with that. If he delayed to parry the enemy's hand for a millisecond more, he would surely be caught in that attack.
Right after, he felt a sudden pain in his left arm and instinctively leaped to the side. Just when he had parried the first attack, another came in sequence hitting his arm. But it wasn't a punch, the wound that it left just could belong to a sharp thing.
