Taigeku lay motionless on the ground, as the man summoned for his bear.
"...A retreat?" Taigeku whispered to himself, not audible to Katsu. "No, no no no."
Each "no" progressively getting louder until Taigeku was on the verge of shouting. He extended his right hand to his side, as he knelt to stand, and a cane of sandy rock shot from the earth to aid him in standing.
"Who do you think you are?!" Taigeku coughed out, through his incapicating wound his leg. "Do you know who I am?" He was yelling now.
Taigeku glanced down to his leg, the wound barely held together; a trickle of blood leaking from the half open wound, pooling even bigger around his feet. He winced in pain as he wabbled forward with the aid of his cane.