"Damn! Hez, find a hiding spot!" Lin exclaimed as she transformed into her living sword mode. Lin took Alice's advice and approached a pair of madcaps, remaining on guard until they attacked first. As expected, the one wielding an oversized spoon lunged at her and swung its cutlery weapon sideways. She parried it and further strikes, floating up and around to compensate for having a weapon as her body. With one blow, she finally managed to knock the spoon out of its hands, and she twirled in the air a few times while aiming at its back. Lin plunged clean through the madcap's spine, killing it instantly.

Unfortunately, the second monster caught sight of Hez as the mute child merely sat down on a nearby boulder and watched the battle as a spectator, rather than finding somewhere to hide like she usually would.

"Hez, you idiot!!" Lin screamed, streamlining at the madcap as it raised its fork and aimed it at Hez like a trident.

Something long and thin suddenly protruded out of it's head, piercing its skull and brain like a precise needle. Lin was surprised when the corpse collapsed, revealing the blank-faced Hez as she extracted the reverse end of her white carnation wand. It had been sharpened to a point which allowed her to kill the madcap without even getting up. Hez flicked some blood off the wand, then it glowed and transformed back into her mantle, clean and white as usual.

"W-What was that...?" Lin stammered. Never before in any of their adventures had Hez shown any capacity for killing monsters. Her mental state was deteriorating so badly that her capacity for fear was starting to become dulled. As much as Lin wanted to worry for her partner, she had to return her attention to the battle at hand as several more madcaps found the duo and approached them.