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[color=firebrick][b]"This is the third time I've pulled a fire alarm..."[/b][/color][/center]

Evil Eye raised up her Gladius as one might set free a dove to flight, and it tore through the air, tracking the movement of her eye and shredding the apes who came close to her and Oros—who was acting like her usual self. Did the realization that the whole thing had been a dream mean that what happened was okay? Was she pretending to be fine? Likewise, Tsubomi seemed more lucid than before. Was everyone else just, fine? Or was it more accurate to say that she was the one who wasn't fine? Did any of it matter? [color=firebrick][b][i]Of course not. Just another unwelcome moment of weakness in a long list of failures.[/i][/b][/color]

Everywhere Evil Eye's gaze turned, minions and miseria alike perished, until her gaze turned finally to Tsubomi, where it simply hovered in a protective circle around her. [color=firebrick][b][i]What can two of us do against that one? The whole lot of us were unable to put a scratch on it until Rei showed up.[/i][/b][/color] She thought the words, but her mouth remained shut, as if the very fabric of reality depended on her ability to suppress the breath that would carry them. [color=firebrick][b][i]Just do your fucking job...[/i][/b][/color]

She floated to the exit and made her way outside. Releasing more black tears, they became like threads, wrapping and weaving themselves around her body, until she became engulfed in the same golem she had summoned the last time the same giga miseria and its bird-fiends had appeared. It grew larger than last time, large enough that its feet were nearly the size of the cars it was walking over as it marched toward the mountain, but there was still no comparing its size with its would-be opponent.

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As Earthshaker approached him in the air, Abaddon moved just far enough to the side to not take a direct hit. The two spun in circles together in the air, almost like a pair of sky divers. The summoned devil had grabbed Earthshaker by the arms and was flapping his wings furiously to soften their landing. While it wasn't quite graceful—the two were still spinning when they had landed—enough damage had been averted that one could argue, in theory, he'd had a plan, and it went somewhat according to it. [color=#6E7F80]"Well! An explosive entrance, milady, though I was not expecting the honor of a dance so soon. I do apologize for having six left feet."[/color]