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[center][color=yellow]"When steel meets wood, one of them usually shatters."[/color][/center]

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Hizuki slowed her approach, not attacking quite yet and simply keeping pace with the fleeing Diamond. The movement might have been interpreted Daybreak accepting the GEM's words at face value, if it wasn't for sections of her armor beginning to glow, and the already-glowing bits getting brighter as she gathered power. [color=yellow]"If you want to talk, then you can just talk! Last time I checked, private conversations don't involve ambushes, coordinated assaults, or kidnapping people who are already vulnerable!"[/color] Her anger at the situation cut clean through her voice, apparent despite the fact that she had to amplify it just to stay audible over the increasing racket on the street (a nontrivial amount of which was the whine of engines spinning up.) [color=yellow]"I'm giving you one last chance to let her go before I do something drastic. You're getting your conversation peacefully or not at all."[/color]