Kiyo observed Shio’s positioning and her immediate retreat from the Nightfall shadow that had begun to move towards the Ohitsuji, and responded by immediately following an identical arc with her own Mythrael. Kiyo’s skillset tended more towards the nature of controlling zones, and the nature of Shio’s defensive magic, which relied on zones of control, as well as the Ohitsuji’s innate zone control due to being of the Psychic, Earth, and Light-types, would largely render this battle as being one of positioning.

Her own Mythrael being affected by Dark Pact meant that the Natrelmon in the battle were, oddly, the least preferable of the available targets to both of the humans due to their innate ability to resist damage or recover from it, and Mythrael’s Dark-type did not give it a particular advantage in its ability to assassinate due to the potency of the Light-type that Ohitsuji possessed. It made sense that Kiyo would attempt to target Shio, despite her defensive magic, as her ability to defend against the sustained nature of her cryomantic assault would reduce her options to the point that a killing blow could be threatened, ending the battle in a surrender.

Kiyo’s first move was to cast a Blizzard, 12 feet in radius, directly in the centre of the upper-right (from Kiyo’s perspective) quadrant of the arena, aligning with the circular edge at the centre of the wedge of the arena. The available spots not free of the Blizzard would be limiting, and Shio would likely endeavour to not be caught within the area at all, as she full-well knew the consequences of being trapped within a powerful Cryomancer’s Blizzard. Kiyo and Mythrael would both wait for Shio’s reaction to the Blizzard, hopefully eliciting a response other than just movement, before taking any further actions other than commanding the Nightfall shadow to move at a path to cut off any escape to the right side of the Arena without contending with the shadow – an unwise proposition, given that Shio knew the power a Nightfall shadow held.