KoutaKouta: 2
Argyros: 6
Hunter Tactical A: 1
Your draw your bow, physically placing yourself between your friends and the Aramitama. There's no muzzle flash, just splashes of metal as the LMG begin
spitting spikes at frightful velocities. It's odd, getting struck by them. The arcane bolts, well, they're magic so you didn't really have a frame of reference for them. But these spikes? It's almost surreal getting sprayed down with them, getting thrown back by the impacts, only to come out of it with scratches on your skin.
It definitely hurt. Actually it really hurt.
You're quite hurt right now. But you have no meaningful injuries, it's like you're an anime character or something. You glance at your bow, the mysterious exchange student, and the girl holding the giant sword. Oh. Welp, this is your life now.
You refocus, letting loose a series of arrows as you tumble through air. Suppressive fire while you work on getting your friends outta there. Doesn't quite go to plan. Your arrows definitely hit their mark, detonating inside the Aramitama's armor, issue is it just doesn't care. Molten metal drips out of its quicksilver armor, blood from the injuries you've inflicted. But it doesn't stagger, it doesn't stop, it just keeps on firing.
And it's not aiming at you anymore. It swings its weapon down, gunfire scything down towards the hostages. You reach out and yank.
Below them the floor gives way. Your friends, Mrs. Kato, they fall, escaping certain death by inches. The next floor gives way too, seemingly giving way under the impact. So to does the floor after that. And the floor after that. All in all, they've taken a controlled fall down five stories. Not quite safe, but they're no longer in harm's way.
You should be angry. You should be furious. You're not sure why. But you know you should be. But right now you feel nothing, nothing but the conviction that the Aramitama must die.
You follow Yuri's lead, mantle opening like a set of wings as you turn your tumble into a glide, swooping for cover behind Aria on jets of neon. The girl(?) has taken a few hits, but she's managed to block a good portion of it using her cleaver.
"Aim for the gun."You comply, letting loose a charged arrow and blowing apart one of the LMGs as Yuri dives out of cover, putting a spray of more conventional munitions into the other gun. No longer needed as a walking piece of cover Aria's form is engulfed in darkness as she sinks back into the abyssal depths.
The Aramitama adjusts, making a quick step to the side as the quicksilver from their destroyed weapons gathers once more in their hands, now mixing with molten metal they've been bleeding.
Whatever they were planning, it gets interrupted as Aria's gauntlet rushes out of the ink, catching their leg as she begins pulling them down.
"Gotcha!"The Aramitama is now reforming the metal into a massive burning spear, aiming to drive it through Aria's helmet. You're guessing that's your cue to do something.
Down below, you can see Tactical A finishing its last bottle, 「Smooth Operator」wreathed in blue flames as they begin sprinting towards, and
sprinting up the building towards the fight.
- Skirmisher Module [4]: Effect unknown. Suspected to be the "default" module.
- Assault Module [4]: Effect unknown.
- Brawler Module [4]: Effect unknown.
- Hunter Module [5]: Increases bow attack power and blast radius. Reduces bow rate of fire. Adds stealth capabilities. Reduces movement speed.
- Ardent Module [6]: All parameters continually increase at the cost of eroding Kouta's sense of self.
Kouta
Status: Quite hurt, Ardent Module (2 Turns Elapsed), 1x healing potion
World Line: 1 3 6 2 1 4 1 2 6 3
Alterations: 4.0
Resolve: 3
Yuri
Status: Fine, armed with knife and handgun (2 spare magazines), 1x healing potion
Location: Roof
Aria
Status: Somewhat hurt, lower half is in the Abyss
Location: Roof
Argyros
Status: Bleeding
Location: Roof
Details: Being dragged into the Abyss by Aria, retaliating by conjuring and driving a massive spear into her helmet
Hunter Tactical A & Smooth Operator
Status: Fine, apparently completely drunk
Location: The street below
Details: Sprinting up the building towards the roof
Argyros' attack would have dealt more damage normally, but Kouta has had his Ardent Module active for a full turn at this point.
ShefThe projectors flicker on.
"Uh..."Yeah, that sounds about right.