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back.
    “Ow – what?” he hissed. Then he turned to see what she’d seen: two more men in black suits coming down the alley after them. Josh looked back and saw that the bodyguard
had turned around and was walking towards them. They were surrounded.
    “Not good,” Josh said through gritted teeth. “Really not good...” The men came closer, and Josh tried to stand up straight and not look like he was sneaking anywhere. He
plastered a bright smile on his face. “Hullo,” he began. “Um, my sister and I are lost... hagu...re...ta ?” he said, making sure to pronounce the Japanese badly.
    “Can you gents tell us the way back to the mall?” Jessica joined in. “Our father must be looking for us...”
    The men in suits didn’t answer.
    “We’ll be off, then...” Josh said. He grabbed Jessica’s hand and launched himself into a run, aiming straight between the two men and the alley entrance. But one of the
men shot out a huge arm and pushed him back. Jessica cannoned into him and they both almost fell to the ground.
    “Hey—” Josh began, but then a familiar growling voice from behind cut him off.
    “Stop them!” it said in Japanese. “I know them – meddling English from the plane.” Josh and Jessica turned to find Kiki’s bodyguard in front of them.
“We take them in,” he said. “Until it’s all over.”
    A pair of strong hands came down on Josh’s shoulders. Josh wasn’t about to let himself be taken anywhere. He seized one of the man’s wrists and twisted away, holding on tight
and bending the arm around with him. The man let out a surprised yell, before grabbing at Josh’s throat with his other hand. Josh ducked away, and saw that Jessica had tried a similar move,
but not succeeded – her attacker had an iron grip on both her wrists. She writhed and pulled but couldn’t free herself. Then Josh choked as the bodyguard’s arm closed around his
throat.
    He managed to get one good backhand blow in on the bodyguard’s nose, and the big man dropped him. He rolled away from the other suited man’s boot as it headed for his face and heard
a loud, “ Hai! ” A second later he saw Jessica lash out with one foot getting her attacker between the legs with the pointy end of her shoes. The man crumpled to his knees with a
yell. Sensei Neil from their dojo would be proud.
    “Yeah, go Jess!” Josh cried. He shot to his feet and managed to dodge the bodyguard. Jessica pulled away from the other man, and then they were sprinting away towards hope and
freedom and safety...and the brick wall at the wrong end of the alley.
    They stopped and turned back. The three men were advancing on them with bared teeth.
    “I knew you stupid children would be trouble,” growled the bodyguard.
    Josh and Jessica both took up their ready stances, like Sensei Neil had taught them, with their weight evenly distributed and one hand up ready to parry a first blow. But Josh’s arms were
aching and he could hear Jessica breathing fast. It was two against three. Josh tried to push his brain into a higher gear, looking for a way out. But they were trapped.
    Suddenly, Josh heard a noise above them. He looked to see something falling out of the sky. The bodyguard and the two men in suits looked up too, frowning in confusion.
    “What’s that?” Jessica cried.
    Josh could see that it was a person, dressed all in black, zipping down from the roof on a wire. About half a second later the figure’s feet landed right in the middle of the
bodyguard’s face. Josh pressed himself back against the wall as the bodyguard fell to his knees.
    The mysterious figure used the bodyguard’s face like a springboard and leaped into the air. The attacker twisted and landed a kick on each of the other men’s necks before
somersaulting back to the ground with a graceful flourish.
    The black-clad figure raised its hands in challenge to the thugs, who growled and rolled up their sleeves.
    “Yay! Go...mysterious ninja!” Jessica