He turned his attention back to the banged-up door of the cage as a familiar Huntress stepped inside.

“Great,” Yatsu muttered. It was Carmine Esclados.

She tossed her bright red hair back and grinned, her sai floating just over her right shoulder.

“That hardly seems fair,” Yatsuhashi said, his eye on her weapon.

“If you wanted fair, you should have stayed out of Vacuo,” she shot back. Aggressively, Carmine strode toward him.

Yatsuhashi backed up. Using his Semblance and sending Sun out of the cage had pushed his Aura to a new low. He wanted to throw in the towel, but he had to give everyone a good show.

“I don’t want to hurt you,” Yatsuhashi said quietly.

His concern was wasted on Carmine. “As if!” Carmine retorted. She swung her leg toward him and the heel of her shoe sliced Yatsuhashi’s chest, shattering his Aura. Her shoes had blades in them. Of course they did.

Yatsu hit the floor.

He should probably get up. He needed to get up. But that last kick had done him in. He watched as blood poured from the wound. He wasn’t sure he could actually move.

As everything went murky and black he heard Carmine say, “I thought he’d last longer.”

“You need to take better care of your toys. That’s the third one this week,” Umber said.

“Gill will fix him,” Carmine said. “At least I won’t go back emptyhanded.”

Then Yatsuhashi heard some commotion somewhere else in the club. Gunfire and shouting that sounded far away. The lights went out, but he wasn’t sure if that was the club lights or his vision. People screamed.

That had to be … friends fighting … out … but he, he’d done everything he—

- RWBY: Before the Dawn, Chapter 12