[center][url=https://i.imgur.com/D8A8SOp.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/OGWuw89.png[/img][/url][/center] While holding MDP’s hand, Mayra dashed past the rest of her crew, up the stairs to the second floor and up the stairs to the third floor. Up there, they find a convenient hole in the ceiling! [color=fc6828]‘Oh, great! Saves me the trouble of making one!’[/color] Mayra cheers a bit, and then turns and smiles at MDP. [color=fc6828]‘Then here we go!’[/color] she says, grabbing MDP’s arm with both hands and then swinging and throwing her upwards through the hole! Then she kneel, charged some magic, and rocketed up herself! … And was presented with this strange scene that’s gonna take a turn for her to process and react to. [hr] [color=fcedae]‘[i]They’re not listening![/i]’[/color] Josefin called back to the rest. [color=fcedae]‘Also, they’re climbing the mansion!’[/color] [color=fa898b]‘Then up we go!’[/color] Ronja called, as she grabbed a number of the girls and headed out the window. To an onlooker, it was suddenly that a giant spider-monster girl climbed out the window after Leena, carrying numerous individuals. There were two blondines, a tree-girl, and an aquatic monster girl. [center][url=https://i.imgur.com/sqHfYs3.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/qXVwWBs.png[/img][/url][url=https://i.imgur.com/OoibQu3.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/UZad3rZ.png[/img][/url][url=https://i.imgur.com/m4rTXOi.jpg][img]https://i.imgur.com/rMgrdyA.png[/img][/url][url=https://i.imgur.com/PYJSxqe.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/KkciWNJ.png[/img][/url][url=https://i.imgur.com/4rEtFz1.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/sKJ5riZ.png[/img][/url][/center] Ronja quickly carried them up on the roof and deposited them. With Dina falling back, the whole unit went to fill up the open space that had been created. Esther, being physically capable, jumped in to engage FanFan in close combat, the relatively slow but powerful and tough wooden magical girl showing that magic wasn’t the only thing she could dish out, and any scratches in her wooden skin could quickly be healed with Regeneration and her own Wood-specialization on short range. [color=fcedae]‘I’m ready to help!’[/color] Josefin said and skipped in front of Leena, who was already mid-engagement with Su. Josefin didn’t really know how she’d best contribute right now, but if she just swings her giant sword in the general direction of that battle, her massive luck should take over and make it do something useful, [i]RIGHT!?[/i] [color=ffd230]‘… WHERE THE HECK DO YOU THINK YOU’RE GOING!?’[/color] Suzette cried out and [i]opened fire[/i] on the running Ronin with an automatic rifle, sending a spray of bullets after the running mini-samurai. Said rifle she’d been given by ??? to make up for the fact Suzette had lost her magic, it was in that box earlier. Ronin, who hadn’t been attacked yet, yelped and charged some reinforcement magic on her skin to block bullets as she crouch-ran towards the engagement…! [color=4e5478]‘Hm,’[/color] Taihei got behind the rest and raised her aquatic tentacles, standing motionless and ready to support. She was simply going to be the tank, if someone got past they’d have to deal with her, and she’s exceedingly tough to deal with. She wasn’t about to actually try to [i]help[/i] with any of the engagements in front of her, though. Her massive bad luck would just mean she somehow hurt her allies, probably. [color=fa898b]‘Oh, dear,’[/color] Ronja said, looking back at Lily attacking Mariette. The spider-girl looked to Alexander. [color=fa898b]‘Come on, we need to stop your friend,’[/color] Ronja said and started to hurry towards the Mariette engagement… but what she was actually doing was preparing to attempt stopping Alexander, should he try to take his girlfriend’s path of attempting to lay claim to Mariette. She was ready to oppose him with Reinforcement magic and spider-web. Notably, both Ronja and Josefin also had rifles given to them by ???, they just can’t fire them right now. Nobody with their right a mind would give a rifle to Taihei and Esther isn’t that useful with one. Wood isn’t that agile. [hr] So, that’s the one. The “maid” that enabled this invasion of a private dimension. The one which, should she survive, would enable Justine to attack over, and over, and over again… She had to be dealt with. It was time to teach the enemy commander a lesson. [center][url=https://i.imgur.com/5o9ObXJ.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/Ih8oH7W.png[/img][/url][/center] From the second-floor window, Freya [i]blasted[/i] herself directly at Justine. A sudden enormous physical threat flew like white cannonfire, with a claw swiping directly for Justine’s torso, to tear it apart. Predicting herself to be dodged or blocked, Freya was going to spin immediately upon hitting a block or the ground, seeking to slam her tail into the vampire girl. Predicting to probably be counter-attacked, Freya was going to evade, using her Awareness and Martial Training to their fullest to evade being struck. After that, it was a matter of duelling the girl with strike upon strike of deadly claws, evading what counter-attacks she could muster, and slice at her until the deed was done. Freya’s not so easy to kiss. If Eliza, Sil or whoever else is also there, Freya’s more than happy to team up with them against Justine, using her own attacks to make Justine not look at them or vice-versa, attacking from different directions, etcetera. Freya was their strongest physical entity. If any of them could defeat Justine in this magic-less world, it was her. Still, perhaps the best term for what she was doing was still, “keeping Justine busy”. She was more focused on staying alive than she was killing Justine. Because, she was also there to distract Justine from the [i]other[/i] assassination attempt that’s taking place. Because… [center][url=https://i.imgur.com/N53ToUw.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/5TcL6Af.png[/img][/url][/center] From the [i]other[/i] second-floor window, Lea blasted herself directly at Sonia. It was like an immense physical threat flew like green cannonfire at her, striking with a deadly kick at Sonia from someone with ridiculously high Agility… but even if it hit, it was like there was not that much strength behind the kick. Or, to be more precise, 6 strength, which’s still more than a normal human kick, but not much on a Magical Girl scale. Yet, there was something strange about the green girl that had come flying down. Specifically, the surface of her skin and dress was crawling with [i]bugs[/i]. Without it mattering if Lea had been dodged and she was now standing on her own, or if her leg was in contact with a blocking something, Lea smirked as her bugs came off her like a [i]pulse[/i]. [color=c1eb9b]‘… Turns out my [i]Oddball: Insect[/i] specialization is almost entirely unaffected by the Null Field. My bugs remain enhanced, the only difference being the commands I give them has to be given at a significantly shorter range,’[/color] Lea told her. Lea darted past Sonia, leaving a trail of bugs as she went. She would use her 21 Agi to circle and keep Sonia from escaping with some classic kicks and swipes and hand-to-hand combat, all while a cloud of enhanced bugs, mosquitoes and butterflies and wasps, was descending on her from all manner of directions intent on biting and poisoning her with Lea’s homebrewn poison, which would without doubt take down most infected without much trouble. [color=c1eb9b]‘Asengav needs you to [i]die[/i].’[/color] [hr] [center][url=https://i.imgur.com/ad92PvD.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/u1b416E.png[/img][/url][/center] [color=6cbad4]‘Olivia!’[/color] Tullia ran into the treasure room, startling the poor treasure that was hiding inside it. [color=6cbad4]‘We must run! The dimension is collapsing!’[/color] [center][url=https://i.imgur.com/PJVoVrZ.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/FU2DIFH.png[/img][/url][/center] [color=D6AD7F]‘A-ah. Alright!’[/color] Olivia called, quickly getting up from the lone chair she’d been sitting on this whole time. All her research things had been stuffed into her Hammerspace Handbag while the rest was fighting, and Olivia, being a non-combatant, had simply been waiting for the battle to end. But with the new development, someone simply had to go save her, too, and that became Tullia for her high agility, and the fact magic is Tullia’s main skill and her magic is blocked. Olivia didn’t fail to notice that Tullia was carrying an automatic rifle in addition to the usual staff for whatever reason… [color=D6AD7F]‘Wh-what’s the plan?’[/color] Olivia asked as they ran out into the corridor, going west. [color=6cbad4]‘We’re joining up with Victoria and <>, they’re taking the Black Mirror from the basement and bringing it to Mariette. If Mariette can’t portal to it in this magic-less world, we’ll take it to her!’[/color] And then they were going to run through the library to hopefully meet the others in the foyer… [hr] [center][url=https://i.imgur.com/3tj5n3Y.jpg][img]https://i.imgur.com/P2tVfst.png[/img][/url][img]https://i.imgur.com/QJth3oI.png[/img][/center] [color=9c87c9]‘Come on, girls! We’re running!’[/color] Victoria shouted out as she slammed open the door to the prison. In there were the surviving girls from earlier that Mariette had dismissed. Around 13 of them, or so. Victoria turned around, and with them at her back ran back to the Mirror Maze… that was now entirely useless because of Void World magic. See how no plan ever survives contact with the enemy. The information girl stood there, her phone connected to the wall and an automatic rifle strapped over her shoulder, before she managed the technological bypass they’d installed just in case they’d lost all magic in the Mirror Maze and a special mirror moved, showing the way to the Black Mirror, the mirror that Asengav had put them to guard. It was no longer safe here, better bring it to Mariette. [color=A2DFF6]‘Alright. Victoria, it’s yours to carry. Remember that it’s heavy, and also, Asengav charged us with protecting it, so if you destroy it it’s all our live-’[/color] she started, before Victoria just waltzed up to the Black Mirror, grabbed the frames and [i]easily[/i] lifted the big mirror above her head, making the information girl wince as she did. [color=9c87c9]‘Huh. Lighter than I was expecting,’[/color] said the physically strong Magical Girl. Victoria grinned, and information girl figured that, okay, guess that’s fine as long as she can handle it. [color=A2DFF6]‘The dimension is collapsing. C’mon, we need to get to Mariette,’[/color] information girl said, and together with the surviving regular Magical Girls they started running for the stairs up to the first floor.