There was a shout behind him, people screaming, running.<i>Raid by the cops?</i>Taiga thought.<br/><br/>Taiga looked inside and saw a man collapse blood pouring from his mouth. Taiga gasped. He looked back and saw Aoi Tsukiyomi in Cortez's lap, surrounded by dead bodies. Cortez's eyes met his for a second, terrified. Taiga knew he'd remember seeing his rapist look like that for the rest of his days—wich might be very short indeed. His eyes scraped the courtyard, seeing a bodyguard had positioned himself at the elevators and the stairs and was stopping people from leaving. Just one man, undoubtedly highly trained, but not infallible.<br/><br/>Taiga vaulted over the balustrade and into the garden. Whatever was killing people was back where he'd left Cortez. The bodyguard had a gun in this no weapons event.<br/><br/>Taiga slid over, and stretched out his hand.<br/><br/>The gun's insides began to freeze. The man clicked the trigger and nothing happened. He tried to reload and the clip was iced shut.<br/><br/>Emboldened, the mafiosos fell on him with steak knives and fists and Taiga slid past him by jumping up the trellis of the garden and vaulting over his head, the only one to get through the crush alive.<br/><br/>The man brandished a second gun but Taiga had already burst through the stairs door.<br/><br/>They were over fifty flights up. He needed to catch the elevator on a random floor and get out of here.