Quote:oh dear god.
*snickersnort* would two Shizurus count as a perpetuum mobile? They just keep going and going and going ...
*whimper*
Hajimete no namida totemo atsui
I don't know where Midori gets her lung power - please, none of the obvious dirty jokes - because it certainly doesn't suit her lifestyle, but even during all the racket from Kiyohime's struggle with the monster I could still hear her quite clearly. "Go! GAKUTENOU!"
Smart monsters are dangerous, and this one proved it a second time by breaking three of Kiyohime's necks then tossing her away before it threw itself at Gakutenou and interrupted his transformation with a savage swing of one of its remaining primary tentacles.
Koware souna hodo setsunakute
Midori managed to hop into the air, just barely high enough that I could see her over the school building, and neatly sever the arm it reached out for her, but the next one caught her a glancing blow and sent her tumbling to the ground. Then it raised one arm high...
Sukitooru hitomi wa inochi no kagayaki
Sotto daite iru kara
...and got it shot off. Not by Duran, though, as surprising as that might be - the angle was all wrong, from up on the hill rather than on the far side of the library. The tiny, brilliant sphere of flaming orange burned straight through the column of suckered muscle and kept going, powering far out over the ocean that was never far from any point on Fuuka Island and detonating against its surface... My angle was all wrong to see it directly, of course, but the way the explosion lit up the sky and horizon was pretty danged clear.
Samishikunai yo
Hokorashiku hohoemu tsuki wo mitsumeteru
I looked to my left, and yeah, he was about as unmistakable as you'd expect - white and black and huge, with wings of literal flame. Kagutsuchi.
I paid more attention to the tiny spark hovering beside his head. "Yes!" I hissed past my grin, then breathed a sigh of relief.
Shinpi no chikara de
Ima, watashi wo mezame sasete...
After that, well, it was over fairly quickly. I'm not certain if it would have been if the Orphan had stayed grounded in the center of campus - depending on how much control Mai really had over his decision-making, and likely inverse to the amount of damage done to the campus.
But, well, for once the thing missed a trick and launched itself cleanly into the air to meet the flying Child's challenge. The only affect the decision really had on its chances was to minimize the degree to which he had to limit himself against causing collateral damage.
And even at that, the entire campus was pretty much blanketed in well-done monster bits - one of which about hit me in the face. I'm sure you can imagine how thrilled I was about that, but at least it got me shocked out of 'observation mode' and into motion to check on the girls.
Sergei looks thirteen-to-sixteen in the flashbacks to before Rena's death, which, with Nina and Arika's being fifteen or so, would make him pinned as close to thirty as our source data allows.
Ja, -n
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