[ The sounds of rushing water and dripping old pipes makes it harder for him to focus nowadays. Back when he hadn't lost his eyesight completely he could overlook it. But his other senses were compensating for his lack of vision and it was getting harder to deal with places that had interference.
Arima was very good at drowning out unneeded sound, but having it all around him and as a constant, made it harder to do so.
So it's no surprise that he doesn't hear the gurgling and lurching up ahead. He wasn't prepared for it either since the infected will attack him on his right side to boot. There's a scream as the infected drives forward with a broken bottle echo through the sewer. Arima's caught unawares lands him a deep gash in his side, though he makes no sound, as he feels the jagged edges cut into his flesh.
There's a flicker of surprise on his face however brief it is as he forcefully kicked the infected man backwards, holding his side as he does so. His cover about his illness might just have been blown, whelp. He might activate owl a split second later, but he surprisingly falls to one knee in the process. He's never really experienced true pain before, nor has he ever been this injured before, and his body seems to be in shock from it as well. ]
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Arima was very good at drowning out unneeded sound, but having it all around him and as a constant, made it harder to do so.
So it's no surprise that he doesn't hear the gurgling and lurching up ahead. He wasn't prepared for it either since the infected will attack him on his right side to boot. There's a scream as the infected drives forward with a broken bottle echo through the sewer. Arima's caught unawares lands him a deep gash in his side, though he makes no sound, as he feels the jagged edges cut into his flesh.
There's a flicker of surprise on his face however brief it is as he forcefully kicked the infected man backwards, holding his side as he does so. His cover about his illness might just have been blown, whelp. He might activate owl a split second later, but he surprisingly falls to one knee in the process. He's never really experienced true pain before, nor has he ever been this injured before, and his body seems to be in shock from it as well. ]