"R-right!" responded Akane, watching as Copenhagen Star used the burning tree to sweep away the assaulting tentacles. That's right... help the civilians escape, get them out of that huge, blobby thing's body... Taking a deep breath she broke into a sprint, trying to find a good angle of attack. If the could just cut open that thing's body, maybe the civilians could escape!

The blob's advance was halted by the wall of heat that had surrounded it, and its stubby legs suddenly rooting into the ground... and then tearing up through the concrete to form a wall of tentacles, a barrier to try and keep its main body from harm and slow down the attackers.

The tentacles that were burning away from Copenhagen Star's tree-based assault fell to the ground and dissipated into black smoke, but more kept joining them. The tips of the tentacles twisted into drills and began to rain down an assault on the magical girl.

The Ripper's move to try and spot weak points revealed something interesting. The blob's innards were straining to their limits to hold all the people inside, and a thin line of blue seemed to mark one of the most strained sections of the Negari's blobby form...