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No luck. Richard isn't nearby.

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Shadow!Richard clumsily parries the blow, and Yomotsu-Shikome pelts her with more ice again. The ogre Shadow smashes his club at Andre to parry his blow.

"Face it, you aren't even an anti-Shadow weapon. You've no chance against me! Leave, and maybe I'll spare that pretty face."

Shadow!Richard whistles and several things happen at the same time.

Maria is batted away by a large, ogre-like Shadow. Or just gets smacked down. Either way, she gets intercepted.

Thera is pelted with more ice blasts.

Marie is intercepted by a bunch of floating dice.

Camille is sealed off from the rest of the party by a large wall appearing between her and everyone else, and she is now stuck in the next hallway.

Yomotsu-Shikome was already on top of Shadow!Richard.

So she proceeds to blast Thera with ice. Hard.

Shadow!Richard just sighs and steps back.

"How can you keep a solid form out of mercury? You'd have to be freezing to do so, Marie!"

Shadow!Richard is knocked into the nearby water fountain.

"Ow. Hehe.

You can't kill me until Richard accepts me, which, seeing as I'm a more badass version of him, won't happen."

He pulls himself back up and notices Maria.

"Sneaky. NOT."

Yomotsu-Shikome appears,replacing Galahad and blasting ice at Maria.

"No, and you're not getting my plan out of me."

Shadow!Richard parries the blast from Camille with his sword.

"Ooh. Spicy!"

((He did say he wanted to finish you off first. He won't risk you getting too powerful off killing other Shadows. I think it was off the Evil Overlord's List somewhere that if the good guys kill one of the guys you've sent after him, kill them before they get too strong.))

"This has no definable genre! We've got a robot girl, a shapeshifting maniac, an undead force-wielder, a doppelgänger and a duellist on the floor, unconscious, and a smartass engineer who loves Touhou!"

Shadow!Richard is injured by the blasts, but laughs.

"I'm not a human. That won't hurt me as badly as it would."

He winces and switches to Galahad, who slashes at Santa Anna.

"You really think I didn't expect mind worms? I saw you kill my underling."

Shadow!Richard just points in the direction Camille is coming from with his sword, monologuing.

"Impale yourself upon this sword. I'll tell Richie that I killed his girlfriend AND the rescue party.

How delightfully evil and un-savvy of me. On second thought, I'll cripple you instead, Camille? Nah, too long. Cammy will do for now."

"Heh. So you're my twin's friends. Pathetic."

Richard walks out of the mist. The only problem being that his eyes are golden, like Shadow!Camille.

He's holding a black Evoker, and above him, a twisted version of Sarimanok, with red eyes and ruined wings, screeches.

"I expected a better force. Guess poor Richie really has no friends.