And just like that, things had gone from bad to insane. The good news was that the rest of the motley group had the ghosts' attention, so that they weren't getting close enough he'd have to fight them himself. The bad news was that that one girl was turning out to be some kind of sorceress or something and was now raining fireballs down on all of them. One narrowly missed him, forcing him instinctively to dodge, and kicking up a small craterful of dirt as it impacted only a foot away.

A second later he realized Haganemaru was yelling at him - the noise from the falling rocks was making it kind of hard to hear. "What're you doing, Jintetsu?! Let's get out of here!" the sword shouted, just as freaked out about the whole thing as Jintetsu was himself.

He'd get no argument on that. Before he was even finished talking, Jintetsu was off and running in a random direction - away from the fight and away from the city, that was all he cared about right now.