[h2]Tachibana Hibiki (Mahora Tree Group)[/h2]

With the threat posed by the bugs now over, Hibiki once again landed on the floor. Oddly enough, when you took in her original demeanour upon approaching the tree, the short-haired girl's bearing was definitely one that knew how to fight, if not on the same level as the other martial artists. She also wasn't singing now, which was hardly a good thing for combat ability, but much better for communicating with other people.

Grinning, she looked up at Chun-Li, treating the comment as a compliment, "Symphogear are powered by our songs."

It wasn't much of an explanation, but it probably explained why the girl had been singing about connecting with people despite crushing insects. Plus why echoing came up so many times*. That also gave as good a reason for any for Hibiki's determined agreement with Ranma... and then get a headstart, racing off for the more medieval area. Angels fear to tread...

* Echo, in Japanese? Hibiki. Which shows up [i]all the time[/i] in her songs. :P

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[h2]Yukine Chris (Mahora Tacodile Group) [/h2]

Likewise, Chris ceased her singing when the available supply of targets dried up. Unlike Hibiki, she wasn't kick to engage with the others in the area, taking some note of the even-smaller girl flying in the sky's suggestion about helping out the civilians only to wonder what civilians she was even [i]talking[/i] about. Though even if there had been, Chris's main way to 'help' would be to keep shooting monsters.

Her isolation, and regard for the cornucopia in the distance and its target-rich environment--with even more things to relieve her stress on--was brought to an abrupt halt when some crazy mask-wearing man rushed straight at her, nearly eating an unhealthy amount of hot lead before the white-haired magical girl recognised that, for all that he towered over her and looked absolutely insane, the man was actually asking a question.

Unfortunately, it wasn't a question that could be really answered. She had no idea who'd gone and made Ichaival in the first place, and admitting that the Symphogear system was made by the same person that had tried to blow up the moon wasn't a good way to answer; even [i]Chris[/i] knew that was a bad idea. The better answer was that she did, since it was her wielding it that caused the bow to become such obviously modern implements of destruction.

Unfortunately for the world at large, the girl was not very forthcoming, collapsing the Gatling guns back into the crossbow form, "Are you an idiot? Nobody can make weapons like that."

Well, they probably could, but who the hell would make a man-portable dual Gatling gun with no ammo supply?