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[Strider03]

During that moment, Shef had been slightly preoccupied with navigating the crowd, in his efforts to touch as few people as possible. Any contact increased his chances of being identified by either of the two groups. Granted one probably knew already from the rollerblade girl, but the others, if they weren't connected. . . couldn't risk it. So he wove his way through the crowd slowly, pausing for openings, making certain that any contact with passers by was on locations where illusion and true form matched as closely as possible.

That was his plan, up until he caught a blur of motion from the fight out of the corner of his eye, and was promptly slammed into by a schoolgirl, swimsuit-clad and coated in blood. A combatant from the fight that had been going on, she'd likely spotted him from there. Pulling the same collision ploy twice would be useless, so she was either associated with the baghead guy, or actively attacking. Either way? He wasn't just let himself be walked all over like last time. Immediately after the impact, while the girl said something, he conjured a portal, dropping both himself and the assailant into a nearby alleyway.

She said something again? Cute? Oh dear god, it had better not be another one. Fearing each of the many possibilities that this assault could entail, Shef attempted to fling her off, before pulling his pistol, and opening fire.

[ragnarok97071]

Whoosh. They're in an alley. OOooh, this girl moves fast!

Immediately, her arms move to snake around their neck, clinging closer, one leg wrapping around their waist with all the strength she can muster.

"oooh, taking me somewhere private right away, huh? I like the way you think~"

[Empiricist]

Shef and Sakurako
Goddamn this girl's fast, you catch her by surprise with a hand around her throat, but she quickly grabs in an embrace, dooming your throw to end with you topping over ontop of her instead.

The commotion you two are making could be bad...

[Strider03]

"The hell are you talking about?" Shef grunted, voice modulated through the illusion. He was on top of her now, and he was well aware of her struggles to stay. . . attached. No pain yet, no punches thrown, most likely something contact based and delayed. In which case, he needed to break contact. One of the grenades he'd just bought, yes, that'd do. He was nearby, he could get more.

He ejected a bullet from the chamber of his gun, trying to aim and fire would be a struggle in this situation. Instead, he pressed it against the girls' stomach with his right hand, layering on the enchantments to the bullet as quickly as possible. The layered detonations, and then the membrane separating each one, over and over. Normally he'd want more, normally he'd prepare it in the magazine. But for now he did what he could, trying to get as many layers in before the assailant questioned why he was holding a hand to her stomach. Detonate, and take advantage of the blast, to portal away and try to close off the portal before the assailant can follow.

[ragnarok97071]

She... honestly probably couldn't tell the attack was there. In fact, she was trying to lean in for a kiss when it went off. She'd do her best to cling on with all her strength, as well as, should she manage to cling onto him through the blast, decide that she obviously needed more limbs to hold onto her new beloved, trying to form more out of the bloody stump of her lower body. I mean, she could do it with legs, no reason it wouldn't work in other places.

Also, thanks to the blur of id-overdriving supercocaine, she somehow managed to associate detonating a *fucking grenade* as just extreme kinkiness owing to the fact that to be honest at this point the rush of cocaine from her healing factor felt reaaaaaaally good.

well. At least for now.

or she'd get ragdolled and lose her beloved since she didn't really have any way of tracking them.

Either/or really.

[Empiricist]

Shef and Sakurako
The airbag round gets her off alright, it gets her off you sans arms, though she doesn't seem to even notice, save for replacing them with limbs of blood... You made some distance now, but she's regenerating rapidly, and real damn fast.

[Strider03]

Shef landed on his feet out of the portal, and aimed his gun to open fire for real. If there's signs that she's approaching, regular rounds, if not, manipulator rounds. He would need that intel from the manipulator rounds, and if he had to interrogate while fighting, so be it.

[ragnarok97071]

Well, that got her attention in a whole nother way. The pain wasn't a problem, it really wasn't, it was more the fact that her darling had been separated from her, and with everything else, today... well, she wasn't happy. In fact, she was very much extremely upset. Once her limbs were reformed, she rises up and screams, streams of blood expoding out of her body as some... organ forces its way to the surface through the mess of her lower body. The capillaries in her eyes had ruptured, staining the whites of her eyes crimson as the organ that'd ruptured her chest changes, undergoing a rapid metamorphosis into some kind of... half-organic, half almost technological device which immediately splits open, revealing three openings, one of which rapidly fills with some sort of bright-red liquid.

Then it snaps shut again, and as she charges at him, a mist of blood surrounds her, a moment later taking the shape of a suit of featureless crimson armor with oversized claws. She didn't seem to be bothering to dodge overmuch, just trying to charge straight through the fire, letting it wound her wherever it might and powering through it with whatever she needed to pay. Not enough mind left for tactics, really.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

Two Alterations, turn the 2 into a 4. Activate Gate of the Grand Arsenal and sacrifice the summoned weapons to destroy all incoming spears. Use another to fall back, manoeuvering into position to shoot 06 while staying out of range of 05 and the punches.
[[2 4] 5 5 2 2 1 5 6 1 4]

[Empiricist]

Shef and Sakurako
Well, the girl's doing something but she's also stationary, so you put a manip round right into her chest. Hmm, so she's armored now, slower, tougher, not tough enough. You blow out both kneecaps as she approaches, slows her but they regenerate in short order. May wanna start making use of that manip round, slowed she might be, but she's still real damn fast and soon enough she'll be going for your throat.

Minato
Each spear is answered by an explosion, a detonating weapon launching you back further and further, another arrow loosing into your foes, the fire bolt visibly curving to strike them down. They do not cease in their pursuit, but you do not cease either. For once, you are no longer holding your ground, you are fleeing, you are firing back, and because of that, you are winning. Dayum, you could get used to this, is this what being Shef's like, just outranging your foes and gunning them down? It's not really on-brand for you but it seems pretty darn effective. The final arrow you loose is into the ceiling, blasting the scroll free into your hands. In it you find seven healing potions, you'll be needing two to heal your wounds, so you've basically got five. All the scroll says is to heal up and meet the master deeper inside.

The walk, it's the same as the one that took you in here, just with a different start and a different end, you find yourself on standing in the center of the lotus beneath the open sky, the boy standing opposite you. He regards your new appearance with all the expressiveness of a brick wall.

"I see that you are victorious, for what little victory matters here. Are you prepared for the next exercise?"

[Strider03]

After stepping back through a portal to increase the range just a little more, Shef launched another manipulator, because why the hell not? And, activate. He pushed through the command, forcing that willpower stored in the bullet to expand outward and affect the assailant.

"Stop. You're exhausted, you need to rest."

The imperative was to halt her assault and to sleep--perchance to dream?--forcing a wave of fatigue and calm over the assailant. An impetus to rest, right there, in the middle of this back alley. Shef had never done this before, but he'd told Shou he wanted this as a powerful tool for his arsenal, not a hidden blade to never be used. This was a risk he had to take.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

Minato just gives him the most deadpan look he can currently muster.
".....do you mind explaining to me why I'm in a dress?"

[Empiricist]

Minato
"I was under the impression that you have reached the next stage of your maid fetish, yet your words imply you had no say in this matter?"

[IamanElfCollaborator]

"Yeah, this wasn't exactly how I envisioned getting into maids."

[ragnarok97071]

Whether the admonishment to rest would work, who knows, after all cocaine tends to cause a lack of sleep even in normal varieties and in normal people, and to be honest sakurako wasn't sure herself whether she can sleep at all.

Should it not, she'd pause after being held back by the assault, the device on her waist opening once more, this time with the girl inserting a Grey-green injector into the slot that had held the other vial before, closing it up again. A moment later, a mist in the color of the vial was emitted from the device, quickly coating the armor, transmuting it into something closer to crystal than it's prior material. She leans forward, settling into a runner's stance, except for one arm bent back as if for a straight punch, the gauntlet on her hand transforming to feature what appears to be something like a spike of crystal blood, likely designed to be pneumatically driven forward on impact to increase force. Power seems to explode out of the mechanism, filling her body before concentrating in that fist before she explodes forward, launching a wild forward straight powered by every ounce of acceleration she had.