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5 mos ago
Current i'm not sure the appropriate use of an OLED TV is to play random scenic train videos but here we are
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7 mos ago
swish
8 mos ago
Being truly on my own is a bit of a weird feeling. It's never really happened.
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9 mos ago
Let it never be said that sometimes extreme brevity isn't the most appropriate post, though. Everything is a tool.
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11 mos ago
a loaf is a surprisingly hard thing to make
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This one had multiple forms? That was unfair... pretty exciting, to be the first time she had fought such a negari, but still incredibly unfair. She wanted to get something to eat and the fight was just dragging on... but at least the plethora of smaller enemies made her knives suddenly a much more viable proposition. Without a reach and size advantage, she could just dash in close and slice them to pieces before they got her.

"I shall focus on the little ones!" Noriko shouted, jumping back from the main opposition and slicing the legs from one of the spider-like entities, only to finish it off with a knife tossed into the head; her hand was fully again but a moment later. They weren't focusing on her as much as they should have been, which meant...

A flash of red caught her eye, and she turned to watch. The girl from earlier? Here? It was suicidal to run at the negari, what was she even thinking! But then she caught on to what the schoolgirl had seen: a child, caught out in the open where she had no protection from the monsters. Of course, it wasn't like she was going to be able to help any more on her own...

As the first Negari was about to close in, it came to a jerking halt--then its head exploded, knife passing clean through and embedding into the building behind. Its void was replaced by the white-haired girl, blades in hand and striking out to injure those getting too close; she really wasn't cut out for defending people who were backed into a corner.

"I know that you want to help but..." she started, then a thought occurred to her, "Hawthorne, could you attract any contract-less fairies?"

The subdued fairy looked over at her partner, "You wish to recruit another for this battle? Very well, beacon established."

All it looked like she had done was raise her hand, but the faintest ripple could be felt by the girls--let alone the fairies. Unfortunately, they weren't the only ones who could sense it... on the plus side, the negari were already all here.
Even in her human guise


Please never use phrasing like that again. Magical girls are still human. @_@

Otherwise, it seems improved in that other people can actually excel in a particular department. I'm good with it.
The fighting was exciting, there was no denying that. One slip up meant death and with that on the line... ah, the blood was singing in her ears. Every step made deliberately to a tempo driven by the beating of her heart, every cut one with her breath. Despite her best intent, Ryuuko couldn't avoid cracking a grin as the old man produced another one of those tricks, making the other arm every bit as deadly--well, two could play at that game, and the knife took pride of place in her left hand.

She toyed for an instant with sacrificing the tantō, it wasn't anything more than a traditionally forged blade. Force one arm out of position, lunge in for the killing blow... but it was too risky and from the corner of her eye, she took in her mentor arriving on the scene, cigarette lit. Step by step as she continued the dance, angling the fight back and away from the door. Was he not attuned to the battlefield? Was he so single-minded in his offence that the smoke was beyond him?

He was. A shame, a series of feints would have been able to open him right up.

"Some day soon, I will have to learn something more akin to that. A fight where I cannot get within striking distance of my foe is exciting but I wish for alternatives all the same," the heiress said, sheathing her blades, "I take it we return the urn, now?"
@Duoya Think you're the last one that needs to post for this fight.
Shit. The barrier had gone but without extracting a price in blood.

"The Yama-no-Hone-no-Tsurugi," the purple-haired girl confirmed, sliding into a defensive stance. That arm... she wasn't going to risk a blade as old and venerable as any of Masamune's work in a contest of magic and strength. Yet all that she had to do was hold him at bay until the other two arrived with a more at-range method of putting this old fool down.

She would have to treat his arm in all regards like a sword--and, as a sword, avoid crossing her blade with it unless it was a last resort. She would have to adopt the attitude that any clash of weapons at best risked mutual disarmament. But here his physical advantages meant nothing; strength and speed but no defences put him in the same boat as Ryuuko. With nothing but skill, the equation could be balanced... and the heiress was perfectly confident that an old magus wasn't as proficient in hand to hand as she was.

And so, dodging and ducking and never quite removing the threat of being cut and probing openings, the dance began.
Talking. Too much talking, and it was giving her the slightest seconds to weigh her chances. Reinforced and enhanced--a dangerous combo, he was almost certainly stronger through magic alone than she was despite her youth and athleticism. Yet his barrier had been pounded away at and was visibly showing cracks. A single strong blow might be enough to break it--or better, pierce right through. A normal katana would probably shatter first but hers, a blade forged by youkai and named for the mountains, was as rigid and durable as an oni's club.

She'd seen the demonstration.

Ryuuko's plan was set and her body already moving to it, committed to victory or death. Draw on everything, magic, muscle, or otherwise. Reinforce her abilities to their maximum extent, legs and arms both, and spring close the gap. Follow through with everything she can, a perfect rising arc straight out of iaijutsu though the blade wasn't sheathed--

And pray his defences can be cut through.
It's amazing but missing out on a duet. :T

And anyone spoiling will be shot. :D
@Feyblue You need to watch more series if you think that. :P
That'll get messy in bigger fights. xD
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