"...Come on now how am I first?"

Himeko sighed to herself when she came to a stop, perched perfectly atop a lamppost and watching the gruesome Shade slither around. This would be a little... annoying. From a quick assessment, the fox figured that this Shade was decently powerful, at least to the point that Himeko wasn't comfortable with a head-on battle in her current form. She'd want at least three or four tails to take on a monster of this size. Too bad she didn't have half an hour to spare.

Well, she could always play cat and mouse until someone more specialised in eradication popped up.

Preparing herself for a bothersome delaying tactic, Himeko's ears suddenly twitched, and barely a second later, multiple lasers slammed into the dark creature, devastating it and the tainted ground it stood upon. For a moment, the shrine maiden was frozen, trying to process such speedy destruction. Slowly, Himeko swept her gaze around the park and sky, finally spotting a strange figure that Himeko hadn't seen before, yet felt so strangely familiar.

[i]Who is she...? That's a lot of power packed into that bombardment.[/i] It probably far exceeded Himeko's own output with all nine tails... well, she could place a name later. The backup she wanted had finally shown up. Rising into the air, Himeko elegantly glided closer to the mirror-wielding girl, her friendly smile returning.

"Yay, my shining knight~! Thanks for the help, you've made my job 99% easier~! ...Well, at this point, anything I throw at Scuttles down there is a tad redundant, isn't it~?"

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