Maki nods, looking back to make sure everyone was present, before-
"Henshin!"
As the Volt Armor manifests around her, she uppercuts towards the roof of her house, lightning sparking around her, landing on the roof as the armor finishes forming. Resting a brief moment, she surges forwards off the roof with her fist, doing a little flip in the air before surging forward again, landing on the roof on the opposite side. It wasn't an elegant solution to her problem of needing to get there quick, but then Kamen Rider Volt wasn't known for stylish acrobatics, just sheer brute strength.
Touto Shopping District
Maki and Ito get there roughly the same time, Maki tumbling off the last roof she'd jumped on, next to him. Presumably, Haruko and the others are seconds behind.
The Touto Shopping District was, though smaller than Seito's shopping district- especially the famous Minatodai Distrct Mall- serviceably large for a place like Touto, mostly centered around a square with tall buildings containing the many shops here, the square paved with brick and dotted with trees for aesthetic purposes. Neon shop signs flicker throughout the district, large scrolling LCD screens advertise ramune drinks, TVs and what-not, and the shop windows show all sorts of things from Swiss rolls to the latest fashions in Touto (apparently dressing like Ito's popular right now, fancy that).
Also, people are running and screaming in terror from the two Zoanthropes currently terrorizing them.
One of them resembles a humanoid spider, tall and spindly, with eight red-tipped arms lashing out at people. The eight, faintly glowing red eyes on its head follow victims, as it actively searches for prey to strike out at, its mandibles seeming to move in a manner suggesting enjoyment, as if it wants to be here (odd, given that most Zoanthropes so far have been more like animals than people). You note that, although it seems to have a carapace like the previous two Zoanthropes you encountered, it's not quite as artificial, but far more biological-looking. Its limbs strike out at a cowering pair of old men, only to be deflected by translucent pink barriers, likely Spica's work. Given the opportunity, they flee, running past the party to escape.
The other one seems to resemble some blend between a bat and a dragon, seeming to avoid the crowd, its wings folded up as it clings to a building on black claws, its reptilian head's long ears twitching rapidly and its mouth sending rippling winds hailing down upon the square, seeming to ignite a tree's leaves with the sheer heat. Its body, unlike every Zoanthrope so far, is scaly rather than wrapped in a continuous, patterned shell, presumably an adaptation to aid its flight, with the exception of a strange protrusion on it's back, resembling what looks to be a biological jet engine, made of the same material as the previous two Zoanthropes you've encountered. The 'turbine' within seems to be made of some chitinous material. The people passing underneath it duck in the hopes of avoiding being seen or scorched by the heated air it breathes.
In the middle of the square is Spica herself, holding up several barriers, one to deflect the heated breath of the giant bat, the other to avoid the blows of the giant spider. Lapis is deftly avoiding the strikes, their tail barely whipping out of the way of a blind swipe.
They're here, Spica.
"I think I'm going to need some help here! Get them off me and keep them away from the civilians!"
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