For how dumb and annoying Tokiko had seemed before, well... there was no denying she knew a lot about this. Hikari had to guess that it was obvious, really. She had experience as a magical girl, so why wouldn't it be the case? Hikari was new to this, so even if she knew about the way magical girls worked in all kinds of media, she didn't know how they worked in real life. Which was a surreal though in and of itself, really. Before today, she never would have thought she'd be learning about how magical girls worked in real life. But all of this made her even more curious... Just why had the Hex Night started in the first place? Something about preventing some kind of evil had been mentioned before, but beyond that...

Hikari tried to focus instead on everything else. Most of what was said about the barriers made plenty of sense to her. They worked based off of how the rest of a magical girl's abilities worked. So in that case, her barriers would be pretty strong, given she seemed to be melee-focused, wouldn't they? She might not have known much about boxing, but the basic principals made perfect sense. Know when to attack and when to defend, and you can't block forever.

The short brunette couldn't stop herself from being curious about the origin of the Hex Night, however...

"... Do you know more about why the Hex Night started?" she asked, "Something about some sort of evil go mentioned, but that's it."

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It didn't take too long to locate the shade in question.

In a nearby park, the seething, twisting form of the shade. At first it seemed almost snakelike, until the sharp, twisted limbs became visible. Rows of orange eyes opened across its flanks, as the monstrous shadow centipede crawled its way across the park. Where its legs touched, grass seemed to wilt, and blackened vapor seemed to rise from its strange, shadowy form. Thankfully, the park seemed largely empty for the moment, meaning no-one was in immediate danger from the shade. But it was a fairly large one, meaning it could pose quite a danger if it got into a populated area...

Suddenly, a barrage of purple lasers rained down from the sky! Almost immediately they slammed into the shade and the earth around it, burning into its body and cratering the floor.

The origin soon made herself obvious: A certain purple-clad, purple-haired magical girl, her mirrors floating around her body, descended. The shade wasn't dead yet, its body still twitching as it began to move once more.

The girl cocked her head to one side.

"Resilient, aren't you?"

It wasn't unlikely that Himeko would recognize the girl: Kagami had a reputation for her arrogance and her high degree of power, after all.

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