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[sub][@Sho Minazuki][@Lonewolf685][@I-Am-X][/sub][/center]
[color=f7941d][b]"Catch!"[/b][/color]

The first to notice the changes in their surroundings and perhaps the only one paranoid to expect some form of trouble to manifest when a VIP escaped the ken of her guards, Otis had already unslung his backpack and pulled out its contents. Simple wakizashis, sheathed in simpler wooden scabbards, revealed themselves. They were the fruits of his labour at the Kirizanto Forge, bearing spirit-slaying inscriptions upon mirror-polished steel, their edges sharpened until the wind sang across the blades. But they were still as fragile as any other, and as Otis tossed them towards his three allies, he could only hope that they, like himself, understood that these wakizashis wouldn't be able to withstand a single clash with that woman's sword.

An assassin this flashy could only exist within the bounds of the sealed space she had created though. His own eyes flickered, mana burning into the nerves of his eyes as the Strigidae cast Scan. Only jumbled up data emerged though, scrambled by such a concoction of cloaking spells that Otis almost smiled. Certainly, she had made her preparations for spells of a higher caliber than the elementary array that he kept in his brain. Asta should've taken his offer. Rodrick and Helena too. Facing such a foe may have been reasonable if they were all at their best, but dehydrated and fatigued from the summer heat? With weapons made for the artistry of the inscriptions rather than battle? Otis let out a breath.

He reached into one of his many pockets as he stepped in front of Seirin, palming a Vorpal Warp and bringing it behind his back.

[color=f7941d][b]"It'll teleport you. Throw it when you need to."[/b][/color]

The trio of melee specialists can have their deadly dance. As for Otis, he held two Slicing Bullets in each hand next, those uncanny eyes of his flickering back to the trees, searching for signs of talismans, markings, anything that he could destroy to cause this uncanny space to be restored to normal, or at least cause to glitch enough that someone could get out.