"I will never let a weaker person fight their own battles." An oath was sworn, and that is binding.

Piripiri dives off of Han's shoulder after Azazuka as she tumbles, knives flipping out, not in the awkward clutch of a maid but a trained, steady grasp. She feels the world slow to adrenaline-soaked heartbeats as she falls, giving her time to not come up with a plan, but select the sequence. The student is in danger. There is a large snake. Kill it.

Flip and land on your feet, bouncing low into the undergrowth that seems to cushion her even as it resists the viper. Surge upward, knife the underbelly, one wound, two wounds. Kick aside brass demon-serpent to stop upward momentum, jungle plants bending as if in a wind from the force of her intent, and ignore the brass bastard as it flies outside of her tunnel vision. Far enough away and she doesn't care. Seven left. Flip knives point-down. The largest snake, bleeding twice over under it's mossy, spirit-touched scales, lunges. No way out other than down, and she throws herself to the ground, trusting her body weight to (inelegantly, but effectively) kill the smallest one and surprise to keep her from being bitten, roll to the side, pierce the head of one nonmagical but likely poisonous snake that was getting close to Azazuka and getting ideas, and kick yourself up to standing again. Throw knife to the eye of the large one, replace with spare from boot as it hits more from luck than judgement, stomp another, small but vicious. Three left and with no demon to drive them forward right here, the only one still interested is the very, very angry spirit-touched viper. It hisses and she circles in snake-stance, four fangs facing off.

[quote]Rolled a 4+2 on defy disaster. Gain a point of tradition, finally, from self-sacrifice following a commandment, and pay to squeak that up to a 7. Anybody paying attention knows she's a daughter of dragons.[/quote]