"Ah, thank you for the information," Noriko said, brightly stepping backwards. There might already be girls on the scene, but if someone was able to comment about both the Negari and the magical girls there was no sense in taking risks. After all, anything that stuck around for long enough to get noticed was obviously going to put up a pretty strong fight; she'd read about enough encounters like that and fought in a few of her own to work out the problem, "Now, ah, if you would keep this a secret..."

With nobody else in the street focusing on the two, the traditional girl stepped back and raised one hand to her chest. In normal circumstances Noriko would have been the first to shout out the phrase at the top of her lungs... but with no Negari actually [i]here[/i] that would cause an unreasonable panic. She would just have to stick to conversation volume. "Ignite Heart."

The transformation was near instantaneous: one second, a long-girl dressed in a kimono; the next a barefoot girl with a tight outfit and short hair. A brief second was spent adjusting the ribbon tied to her wrist--"Hawthorne, refrain from antagonising the other fairies again"--and then she was eyeing up the nearby rooftops.

Quite unlike Kyoka's maiden voyage, there was no fancy ability involved in her ascent, simply enhanced abilities and honed reflexes. It wasn't brute force that got the Ripper to the nearby roofs; she made her way up by kicking off the opposing wall and catching the desired lip, then hauling herself up as if it was nothing. She might have been one of the physically [i]weakest[/i] magical girls, but it wasn't good to forget the comparison. Then she was off--heading straight towards the diner that she had been to a handful of times in the past year.

Indeed, there were other magical girls there, including the new one from earlier, and an oversized Negari as she had been expecting--and was already examining for structural defects. It looked like her knives might not be enough to cut this apart... well, not quickly. She could at least tell everyone else where to aim.

"Oh my, this is a large one," Noriko noted, feet swinging from the diner's edge, "Once I have a good look at it, I can tell you where it will be weak."

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