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[sub]Ever on and on I continue circling [/sub]
[sub]With nothing but my hate in a carousel of agony [/sub]
[sub]Till slowly I forget and my heart starts vanishing [/sub]
[sub]And suddenly I see that I can't break free[/sub]
[sub]I'm slipping through the cracks of a dark eternity [/sub]
[sub]With nothing but my pain and the paralyzing agony [/sub]
[sub]To tell me who I am, who I was [/sub]
[sub]Uncertainty enveloping my mind Till I can't break free, and-[/sub]
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Umi saw her dirt attack just pass through the mystery man and her hand failed to grab his leg, even when he didn't bother trying to dodge. [color=aqua]"A ghost!?"[/color] Umi stilled dodged back and avoided immediate retaliation. But as she did another mystery person arrived, and soon there were a whole group of them. At least one was attacking the others and keeping them divided while Umi had the misfortune of being attacked by two. A blade cut into her arm, causing a burning sensation to shoot up her shoulder. [color=aqua]"Ouch!"[/color] However she didn't let that wound slow her down. Even if she was outnumbered she was able to deftly avoid further attacks, dodging and weaving between their unsought. It was obvious however that these two intended to keep everyone separated. Quickly Umi scanned the situation and started thinking about what she can do, what they can do, to survive and defeat this man.

First and foremost was that this person is able to summon copies of himself, ghosts perhaps, that they can't physically touch. But maybe their weapons can or whatever passes as magic here. Umi observed that while her dirt and grapple attack went right through them the other copies dodged the magic spells. Either they were just showing off their speed by dodging literal lightning fast magic (Possible) or they could actually be hurt via magic. Additionally not all of them fought using the strange floating swords; one summoned a meteor storm that sent down flaming rocks onto them. So they had a lot of tricks up their sleeves.

There was a lot going on no one knew about, and it could be possible that they aren't suppose to win this battle. [i][color=aqua]"But fuck that."[/color][/i] Umi thought as she narrowly avoided a simultaneous blade spam, looking down at their feet. [i][color=aqua]"So what if this world is against me? That's nothing new. That's the story of my life."[/color][/i] Umi put as much distance as she could from the two attacking her so they don't have her in a pincer, and started dashing towards the area where the meteor storm was happening. It was going to be a dangerous gamble but she had more than enough situational awareness to watch for her enemies and the rocks falling from the skies. More so than she normally would have; something about this Tower made Umi feel stronger than before. Faster, more observant. Greater.

[color=aqua][i]"I don't know what this guy is capable of but he doesn't know me either. If he thinks he can beat me, beat us, just because we're new to the Tower, he's sorely mistaken."[/i][/color] Umi's plan required careful planning and careful tactics. She made sure to watch for any ghost man trying to sneak up on her, but she was only interested in the real copy. She had eyes on him since he attacked but felt there was some small cue in the form of his footsteps; the ghosts phase through physical stuff, such as grass and dirt. If their movements didn't disturb the grass than they were one of the ghosts. But if the movements did, it was the real one. [color=aqua]"The real one's movement will move the grass! If physical stuff won't affect them, then they won't leave a trail either. Watch out for the ghosts but take out the real one right there! Use magic to hurt the ghosts, or even this meteor shower against them. I doubt they have friendly fire on!"[/color]