[center][color=f49ac2][h3]Liliana[/h3][/color][/center]
[@Crowvette]
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[color=f49ac2][b]"Who, me? Well, I met Shizuka, sure...and that Gringor guy, I guess,"[/b][/color] Liliana answered, unsure what exactly Io was getting at. Then...it hit her. Wizards were like, super nerds. [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xVUX7Q9mvI]Had Io never seen men in her life?[/url]

Gasping at the idea, Liliana would suddenly take Io's hands, saying: [color=f49ac2][b]"Have you never seen men before now, Io!?[/b][/color] From the way she put her hood up and Io's generally bookish nature, Liliana had to assume that she was concerned about never finding a partner. [color=f49ac2][b]"Well, I mean uh...me too, honestly. I mean, fairies are usually girls, and men that step too far into our woods get scared off by the giant plants and all. But still! Do you need a wingwoman?"[/b][/color]

The absurdity of the moment might not fade away if Io didn't explain what it was she'd never seen before...lest she be forced into Liliana's idea of "how to talk to guys". [color=f49ac2][b]"When Shizuka gets back, we can practice with him! He's super cool, can make clones of himself, and has a really cool sword! ...I think that's pretty standard for human guys, right?"[/b][/color]

[center][color=C48BD3][h3]Eula[/h3][/color][/center]
[@AzureKnight]
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In some part of her mind, Eula had expected this horrible outcome. A human choosing to take their own life through fighting them instead of simply surrendering and begging for forgiveness. Her hands had received the brunt of the slash, with the impacting shards killing the bandit, wounding Shizuka and-

[Error! Internal stability compromised due to puncture wound. Sealing off flow of magical energy to left arm!] Her circuits sparked to life, and then death as Eula painfully convulsed, a brief flow of magical energy set free from its circuits reeking havoc on the inside of her right arm before it went slack. Despite being an automaton, Eula looked...in agony. Shivering a bit, she clutched her limp right arm before remembering Shizuka's wounds, and gently reaching out to him. [color=C48BD3][b]"Shizu...ka...a-a-a-a-re you injured?"[/b][/color] she asked, voice repeating a few syllables and stammering on some due to the damage done to part of her circuits, her body struggling to compensate the flow of energy in her body.

Looking down at the bandit with glassy eyes, Eula would say: [color=C48BD3][b]"My fault. All my-my-my-my-my fault."[/b][/color] She'd slowly reach to her own arm and start pulling out some chunks of the strange glass blade, needing to do so for her circuits to start repairing...but even that might take a week of rest. Automaton healing was slow as hell, and the only way to speed it up was with an engineer aiding her.

[color=C48BD3][b]"Suspend...mission?"[/b][/color] Eula asked, voice back to normal as she looked to Shizuka. [color=C48BD3][b]"This unit can continue to operate at 70% combat efficiency. But Shizuka, as a human, you are at far greater risk from blood loss and organ damage caused by that glass sword,"[/b][/color] she said, unaware of how deep his wounds were. However, she would take a piece of the glass sword from the shattered handle and gingerly crush it with a rock, before consuming the powderized form to analyze. [color=C48BD3][b]"Conducting Analysis of Crystalline Sword."[/b][/color]