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"I see dragon taming is also a talent of yours, hm?”

"Hope you got a plan for this, Noriko."
Donate a Resolve point to Noriko, use Gate of the Grand Arsenal to fill the stockpile, alter to 5.
[6 [5] 3 3 [5] 6 2 1 2 2]

"Uh.....complicated. Kinda complicated. That's how I'd put it."

Maki looks surprised. Something about Kiyo just hit her now, amid the chaos.
"Wait. You're....a robot?!"

"Ready when you are! Hope your hand's steady!"
Brace for impact and use the Rho Aiases to shield from the cannon. Upon contact, explode the Rho Aiases to open up a hole for himself and Noriko to get inside.

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Meanwhile, with Karen.....
Karen Nanami was, all in all, not having a great day.

Firstly, she'd been forced to accompany her idiot cousin's team, consisting of an oblivious idiot who had no place anywhere near a hot stove, let alone near Aramitama- the idiot currently using her as a human shield, to boot-, a foreign girl who Karen was pretty sure was attempting to use Minato for his money (she'd had enough of suitors attempting to get at the Nanami/Kumon family fortunes through her and her cousin and she wasn't about to let that happen again), her idiot pervert of a cousin, an uppity girl who needed to learn how to talk to her social superiors properly (and who Minato insisted on protecting from Karen), that moronic O-Shiri woman with more curves than sense, and that other man who seemed like he was the most competent person in the room.

That was bad enough; most of them had no idea, no clue how hard it was to become a Godslayer.

Then she had to dress like a maid. A maid.

She figured her idiot cousin would enjoy all the girls dressed as maids; she knew he was a pervert who enjoyed that thing for some reason. He was probably having the time of his life, knowing that idiot. But what of herself? This was beneath her. The only one who showed her her allotted respect to boot was the foreign girl. Probably trying to ingratiate herself with Karen to get to Minato (she should know better, really; Karen was fully aware that Minato had no patience for her).

Then that O-Shiri woman almost blew their cover. Not that Karen didn't expect that. Incompetence seemed to be a running theme with this group, but this was a level of stupidity towards which Karen had seen nobody else ascend. This was a stealth mission, not some sort of video game where one could just beat up whoever they wanted to hide themselves. What was she doing?

Then this. This indignity.

She had been used as a human shield, with her skirt blown off to boot (luckily for Karen, she always wore bike shorts whenever she wore skirts, no perverts would ever get to look up her skirt that way) and now she'd been blown to hell by one of the target's servants, all while being insulted.

This was, frankly, ridiculous.

Karen resists the urge to demand Yuki put her down, but she does attempt to shoot her the most murderous, furious glare she could muster.

This was ridiculous.

Karen Nanami, heiress to the Nanami line, destined to dethrone the legendary Yukari Kumon, was above this.

"Except if one of our allies was right, both of them were on their way there. It's a shaky lead, and it might just be a target rather than where they're coming from, but anything's good if it means we find out where these Zoanthropes are coming from, or why they're attacking in the first place.

Also, nice to meet'cha. I'm Maki, Maki Kisaragi. Always happy to have an extra helping hand."

"Beggars can't be choosers. We've got a few friends who have healing spells or something like that, so it'll have to do."

"Oh. Okay. I won't pry."
Bernie continues to look concerned for Scarlet, but she leaves it be for now, instead hastily changing the subject, hoping to at least help a little by taking her mind off of it.
"So......do you know anything about what Alex is doing? The whole "seeing the truth" thing?"