**Daijuji Kuzaku**

Gintoki, a man that Kuzaku was only marginally familiar with (mostly due to Kuzaku suspecting that the man had copped his gorgeous silver hair, but was pulling it off poorly), was now dangling from the catwalk with numerous guns pointed at him. Kuzaku was impressed that he managed to get up there, but his admiration stopped exactly at that point. Either way, he needed to keep that idiot and his ratty hair alive somehow. Under normal circumstances, he would have no problem picking off all of those stationary targets with Cthugha at this range, but he was feeling too poorly to risk hitting Gintoki. Ithaqua would still seek out and eliminate targets as normal, but he didn't have the strength to feed it enough magical rounds. This was troubling. Time to mix things up a bit.

Kuzaku pointed the barrels of his guns at intersecting angles in the direction of the armed men, the muzzles resting against each other. With split-second timing, he fired Cthugha, and then Ithaqua in several repeated bursts. The end result of this was the spell shot of Cthugha being pushed along and aimed by the Ithaqua shell. Blue and red lights streaked through the atrium as Ithaqua's rounds zipped seemingly randomly through the air, and Cthugha's rounds grew into arcane fireballs. After a few seconds of evasion and targeting, the rounds slammed into several assailants at strange angles, aiming for their least-protected points. The Cthugha rounds then detonated, exploding and igniting the enemeies nearby the ones that had been hit.