Haruto barely had time to process the fall when a strong hand clamped around his wrist. His body jerked to a sudden stop, the woman gripping him like a vice.
With her own bare hands, she lifted Haruto to his safety as his feets finally touched the ground.
"Ah, thank you." he murmured, fascinated by her power.
But then her grip tightened.
"What the—?!"
With a sharp twist of her body, she pushes him, using the momentum of his fall to hurl him forward like a human projectile.
Haruto crashed into Ren's men clustered on the stairs, knocking them down like bowling pins.
Bodies tangled together, limbs flailing as they tumbled down in a mess of grunts and curses.
Haruto groaned as he rolled off a dazed man, pushing himself up. "A little warning next time—"
"No time! Move!" the woman barked, already sprinting down the stairs.