[center][img]https://i.imgur.com/bMfONoh.png[/img][/center]
[hr] 
If there was ever a feeling of intense, literal edge, this was it. One moment Houki was staring at the confrontation between Kaito and the old woman and the next she was…staring at the ground? It seemed the most logical conclusion. Her senses seemed to each shut down on her, the air around her body getting denser, warmer. She swore there was an itch that kept biting somewhere at her back while her lungs pumped harder and harder. It was beginning to get harder to breathe, her pupils dilating slightly.

Whatever this was, this crushing feeling pushing deep against her chest, it was coming from the direction of the teacher. She would have liked to turn her back on that direction but whatever the air was turning into, churning into an invisible soup of malice, it was preventing her from-a buzz nearly made her jump on the spot. At once she turned heel in the opposite direction, fishing in her pocket for her phone. What she saw was a mass text sent from Mari. But that was the least of Houki’s problems.

[color=ba2259]“Huh?”[/color] It took her some moments to process what Hikari was saying, let alone the full details of his plan. Though eventually she nodded. She had nothing to add and, frankly, he had a clearer head than her at the moment. The rush or mania was beginning to creep down the further away she got from the sight, feet already taking her to Minami. [color=ba2259]“Don’t do anything reckless. I’ll be right back,”[/color] was what she told Hikari, turning towards the cat girl.

Once she had explained what she needed to for Minami, Houki turned right back around to the direction Hikari had went off to. With the dense fog clogging her vision, it was hard to say what was happening, aside from the distant clank of metal and the monotonous speech belted out by the teacher. Crouching down to avoid sight, Houki tried to steel her breath and make her way closer and closer to the target. 

[color=ba2259]“Honestly, this test is a waste of time,”[/color] she muttered, feeling a bit of annoyance bubble inside her. With luck, it would hopefully turn to anger, the girl getting in range from the teacher’s right side. Hidden among the rubble just like Hikari, she removed her glasses and began to angrily glare. At once a burst of red hot beams shot forth, Houki making sure not to hit Kaito along the way. Although truth be told, she wouldn’t have minded too much.
[center][b][Got close to the Hag, firing a laser.][/b][/center]
[hr]