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Still shook by the sight of someone in...[i]that [/i]state, Yui did not see the other girl come in behind her. not one to be easily riled up and angry, she did not react all that much to being thrown back into the wall. Especially after witnessing how it could have ended badly had she not been taken out of her torpor. [color=a2d39c]"I was helping people..."[/color] she said to Kanbaru's comment [color=a2d39c]"...everyone. She, included!"[/color] she added.

Although there had not been much helping, to be frank. [color=a2d39c]"I remember you."[/color] she said as she looked on Kanbaru work and talk to Touka as one would to calm a wounded wild animal. [color=a2d39c]"At the park...You attacked us."[/color] once more, there was no aggressiveness in both Gaia's tone and demeanor. [color=a2d39c]"Why would you attack us--"[/color] screeching and snapping at nothing, Touka seemed to just now be reacting to Yui's presence as her eyes locked onto her. In a surreal demonstration, wires were about to sprout from her mouth and attack Yui, but were stopped only by Kanbaru once again. 

Gaia had not just been standing there, though. Her mind had been busy during this whole time, ever since she saw Touka in such a berserk state...ready to attack her. [i]Kill [/i]her, perhaps? Her eyes were rapidly moving back and forth as ideas were developing in her mind. The earlier scene on the roof when Aegis was taken away came back to mind...as well as how one of the other Dark Girls saluted Touka for the deed. [i]A green flash.[/i] Just like the one that had taken Luna away during their fight at the parks weeks before. 

Even focused as she was, Kanbaru could probably notice a flower growing incredibly fast through a crack in cement below them. And it wasn't the only one; a direct cause of Gaia focusing her magic. Be it intentionally or not. Raising her hand up and pointing her open palm in their direction, roots - thick and larger then her usual vines - blasted from the ground beneath both of them and lashed out at the duo. One of them made sure to circle around Touka's throat, choking her and forcing her mouth shut, while others secured the rest of the monster's body, not blind to the cracking ice. More roots grabbed a defenseless and otherwise focused Kanbaru, making sure to keep her hands as far away form each other as possible, and wrapping around their palms to force them open. 

[color=a2d39c]"How could you fall this deep..."[/color] she said, taking one step forward. She, too, could feel the Darkness emanating from the wounded magical girl. She felt the same Darkness earlier this night in the city - and while she was angry, sad and distressed at the idea of possibly having Luna's murderer in front of her the few tears on Gaia's cheeks were of pity for her. 

[color=a2d39c]"Look at you... how could you let yourself fall in such a state? Little more than an animal...little more than [i]nightmares[/i]."[/color] 

Nodding towards Kanbaru [color=a2d39c]"Are you not their Leader? Are you not supposed to guide them through...whatever twisted path you chose to follow? Are you that ready to abandon them - to abandon yourself - to that madness I feel in you? If so..."[/color] She brought Vestige up and in a gracious movement and pointed it at Touka's forehead [color=a2d39c]"Tell us now, and I will do what I have to do..."[/color]

With a softer and hopeful tone she added [color=a2d39c]"...Otherwise, let go of whatever madness and anger has a hold of you before it consumes you to a point of no return."[/color]

Dark Magical Girl. Light Magical Girl. Friend or Foe. It didn't matter. All lives were worth living - and saving. As she repeated herself those words, still struggling with the image of Luna in her mind, her grip on the sword tightened.

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Rania did [i]not[/i], in fact, follow Palis. Even after seen their power and having her own ideology reaffirmed it would have been to submissive a move to simply throttle along. Instead, Pharaoh slowly made it's way through the city being lost in her own thoughts. As a sort of token of respect towards Palis, the Dark Magical Girl decided to only kill whatever stray nightmare was bold enough to attack her first and let the rest do whatever they were created to do. Their numbers seemed to be dwindling, anyway. By the time she arrived at her destination, the night seemed to be mostly over. Chiaki, even in her apparent torpor, was sure to have also felt what happened this night.

Rania untransformed and made her way to the room her partner was staying in [color=a36209]"President...you missed quite the party."[/color] She closed the door behind her, turning back to her friend with a serious look. The kind which Rania did not display often. 

[color=a36209]"I have information that you'll want to hear. It's about your sister."[/color]