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[img]http://i.imgur.com/HtvPRRx.png[/img][/center][color=indianred]“What the hell is she doing.”[/color] Katie was half-tempted to put a hand to her head and sigh, or perhaps, throw them both to the open air above in dramatic exasperation. When she agreed to come to the next Floor accompanying Ami, this was [i]not[/i] what she expected. She could still see it clearly now, the brief conversation she had with the self-acclaimed demon sometime after her roaming of the Dangeki’s bar. The girl was wafting power darker than before as if living negativity was leaking off her clothes. What happened in the short span they all saw Ami?

It was ultimately none of Katie’s concern but she found herself regretting making any sort of partnership with this reckless fuse of a cannon. All the same, she did take care of the crabs all too well. Pillars of flame scorching the Lagoon’s ceiling and the crabs stood little to no chance against Ami’s attack, especially when held in place by Akiko’s efforts. Those that weren’t burned alive were steamed just as well with Kanbaru’s power, causing more and more dead crabs to plop into the Lagoon pools and kick up waves of water everywhere. 

And those that somehow survived the onslaught? Nature took its course as it always did. Their intent flashed away from the group and they scampered towards the dead and cooked shells of their brethren. Their shells boiled and soft by now from the flash flood flames and steam, the remaining crabs easily tore through their exteriors with mighty claws. Their mandibles feasted on their slain others in a hording display of hunger and feast and cannibalism. Typical sea creatures always turning on each other; such was the law of the food chain, let alone the Abyss.

It meant the group now had breathing time for once, the crabs entirely disinterested in their position now that they were feeding on each other. The smoldering steam continued to blanket the area however, covering everything and, more importantly, spreading so far as to come towards Runa and Nephy. Being near the shroud was hot enough to burn on contact no thanks to Ami and Kanbaru’s efforts. It wasn’t long before one of them was noticed anyway by the JSTR, the program turning Kanbaru’s head towards the nearest one even among the melting fog.

Of all this, Katie watched in her corner still sighing. She sighed both at Ami and the Ciel card blatantly pointing her in the group’s direction, lighting up when Akiko was in sight. Whatever was special about the bard was apparently enough to point Katie towards her. It was no doubt the Bastion card she possessed, of which all throughout the ordeal, remained silent and unwavering of Akiko’s commands to it.
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