[center][color=red][h1]Shade[/h1][/color]

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[color=red]"Take that, barrier-kun!"[/color]

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Had Shade any real sense of teamwork hiding within her, she may have felt just a bit guilty she wasn't really involved in any of these colossal fights going on at the current moment. Each person here seemed to be giving it their all. Limits were perhaps passed, unfathomable techniques were probably released, and some may have given all. On both sides, too. Characters fighting for reasons much less selfish than Sil's own continued battling with not even a brief considering from the assassin. 

Were she to stop and consider their ideals and convictions, maybe she would have been a bit jealous. Jealous that someone could care enough for some ideal, some selfless reason enough to battle in such a way. But Silhouette had only truly known the allure of a long-lasting life and good pay. A just cause was never cause enough for her to risk her life. Her sole exception was a perversion brought about by a cursed coin, one she would purge from herself eventually. 

Yes, all she cared about now was the mission that would satisfy her employer. 

No matter how 'important' these other fights were, what casualties might be suffered due to her negligence, she avoided all of them. Only one actually mattered to her -- the one involving her new VIP, Sue. So she ran, and ran some more. Her way was made towards the castle, where she seemed to have caught up with a couple of others who'd also desired to join the battle there. So long as they didn't impede her, Sil had no reason to care what they did. But it was shortly after that they'd reached a barrier, along with a large number of maids who, in any other circumstance, would have appeared to be making some sort of cheerleading routine. In this case, however, it seemed as though they were attempting to cross the barrier. Sil wasn't sure how strong if at all, these maids were, but they'd probably be a pain nonetheless. They certainly weren't friendly, that was for sure.  

[color=red]"Hmm..."[/color] 

Shade was about to prepare to begin dealing with these maids when suddenly someone made quite the dramatic entrances to the room via the ceiling. She muttered something about failing Justine before going limp, which apparently prompted the maids to take care of her instead of attempting to scale the barrier from before. That saved she and the others the chore of dealing with them, so she mentally thanked the ceiling antagonist for its appearance, before turning to the barrier. 

[color=red]"Ummm... I don't suppose either of you can do anything about this, can you?"[/color] she asked rather innocently but she wasn't given a response that was to her liking. Despite her rather cutesy appearance, she was mildly frustrated. Under the guise of a cute skip she approached the barrier and gave it a rather strong punch. 

The barrier did not react but then again, a barrier that weak might as well not even exist. 

Instead, the punch was more of an attempt to vent some frustration. She was going to have to bare ChronoRend to remove this thing, as attempting to scale it was far too time-consuming at the moment and ironically, time was not something she had right now. Shade clicked her tongue, which would actually be the only obvious sign of her displeasure given the bright smile her idol disguise almost perpetually had, and then she merely summoned her special dagger. Channeling mana through the blade, the assassin wasted no time and made a few swift slashes at the barrier, and in stark contrast to her punch, these effortlessly cut through the barrier like a hot knife through butter. This left a door-shaped wound in the barrier, assuming the entire thing didn't shatter when compromised. 

[color=red]"Come on, there's no time to lose~!"[/color] she informed the two girls she was now partied with before hopping through the entrance she'd made. She still felt pretty irritated that she was forced to use ChronoRend, but thinking about it, it made no sense. Nobody here would recognize her and having it out meant she wouldn't be fighting with a handicap. Logically, there's no reason she needed to be upset, but she still was. 

[i][color=red]Thinking about something silly like that is only distracting, I'll worry about it later.[/color] [/i]