seta souji (
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thenearshore2017-03-25 12:44 am
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just a couple kids on a summer street
Who: Souji (
socials ) & Homura (
timeshields )
When: 06/28, 06/29
Where: Downtown on the Near Shore
What: Team Izanagi decides to deal with some yakuza and ayakashi in one fell swoop.
Warning: Minor violence
Though Souji is a social creature, nowadays, he understands that his shinki isn't in the least bit. It's in contrast to both Reiji and Akihiko, although they were social in different ways, but, really, he cares a great deal about Homura and her comfort. He's not about to force her into a situation that she's not comfortable in.
Which is why he's opted to take this prayer. She doesn't do well in social situations, but she does do well in combat ones, and stealth as well. This prayer calls for them to at least locate the den, if not deal with yakuza or ayakashi. It feels a lot more appropriate than the prayer they helped Nanako with, even if they all enjoyed it. For the most part.
Long and the short: let Homura do behind the scenes work or fight things, when it comes to prayers. It'll result in less stress for her.
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When: 06/28, 06/29
Where: Downtown on the Near Shore
What: Team Izanagi decides to deal with some yakuza and ayakashi in one fell swoop.
Warning: Minor violence
Though Souji is a social creature, nowadays, he understands that his shinki isn't in the least bit. It's in contrast to both Reiji and Akihiko, although they were social in different ways, but, really, he cares a great deal about Homura and her comfort. He's not about to force her into a situation that she's not comfortable in.
Which is why he's opted to take this prayer. She doesn't do well in social situations, but she does do well in combat ones, and stealth as well. This prayer calls for them to at least locate the den, if not deal with yakuza or ayakashi. It feels a lot more appropriate than the prayer they helped Nanako with, even if they all enjoyed it. For the most part.
Long and the short: let Homura do behind the scenes work or fight things, when it comes to prayers. It'll result in less stress for her.
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The second the ayakashi are far enough away from the humans Homura stops time around them. Souji can be bait, but she won't let harm come to him. There are at least five of these little things trying to go for him and stopped in their tracks.
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"This is good for now," Souji tells her. He's not about to go in there and lure more than this right now, to be honest, because it's just not worth it. He reaches his left hand up, summoning Ishtar. She's the smallest of his Personae, and as the primary healer out of all of them, he can maybe use Diarahan on the kids if they need healing from what the ayakashi have done to them while being able to target multiple enemies with Maziodyne if something happens.
"Let's rend them and see what else we can do here."
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Alright. She's here for any backup Souji might need, but she's not a weapon herself. The best she could be used for in this form is bashing against an ayakashi.
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He gets her attention with a calm "Ishtar," which has her perking before giving him a smile, coming over to rejoin him. One hand skims his jaw, briefly, before the other gives a flick of the wrist, electricity coursing through the five ayakashi in a crackle of power.
It gives extra oomph and reassurance, when he rends them in one, swift go. Just to make sure that they're down for good.
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It's strange to see Souji's Persona, but the attack that Ishtar uses doesn't seem odd at all to her. Of course something like that would have some sort of energy attack. She doesn't question it, much like she doesn't question a lot of things about herself.
We're done with these. Do you want to do more? There's an undertone of worry, but if they can keep freezing time when they come towards them, they can keep it up for a while.
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Homura's powers, and the rest of this place's strangeness and magic is all normal to him, too. Peculiar sometimes, but normal.
"A few more, and probably no more than five at once." He knows she's worried, but they have a job to do. And they'll be careful. "Let's just see what this area has to offer, and if there isn't something else going on - the yakuza had a den, so maybe these ayakashi are drawn here for a reason."
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Understood. As they tested last time, as long as they stay within the five-minute limit, Homura can switch it on and off. Once they hit five minutes she needs a long rest before she can utilize it again. So for now, she'll keep time frozen for Souji to explore.
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And they like Homura, too, in their various ways. Souji's starting to think Kohryu has a little more of Dojima in him than he originally anticipated.
"Do you want to see what happens with my augmentation when we're using your power, or save it for when we're not answering prayers?" he decides to ask, moving forward to investigate and see where they can round up more of the ayakashi.
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It shouldn't go poorly, at least.
Let's try it.
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"All right then, here we go."
And he finds that sort of pocket that the power is tucked into, drawing on it in the same way that he does his Personae and channeling it out, to her. His Social Link with Homura isn't maxed yet, but it's certainly the highest he has of anyone he's met here, so it's sure to be interesting.
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With Souji's augmentation affecting it, it's still a support power. But the range of it seems to double and her comfort with the extended time seems to grow exponentially. Whatever hints of exhaustion were present melt away.
I have a twenty-meter radius of frozen time. I don't feel anywhere close to my time limit.
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Well then.
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"Just wait until we've been working together longer - we'll do even more amazing things yet, Homura."
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I know we will. Pride and confidence in their partnership run along the god-shinki bond. She believes him entirely.
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"Then let's get started." He gives another little tap, and then starts moving forward, venturing deeper into the radius that she's opened up for them. "We've got a lot of work to do."
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She can't sense exactly where the nest might be, or if there is one in particular. But she knows that this many of them hovering around people is unnatural at best.
We're getting closer.
Prayer #25
Souji wasn't about to do that, though, and they got to the bottom of it in the end.
He's not about to ever leave someone in need, or leave any job unfinished, if it means he can help. He's just glad that Homura will go along with it.
"I feel it, too." Something niggling at his senses, though not something he can put his finger on. He summons Ishtar again in a flash of blue and the tinkling of shattered glass, the second he sees another of those little ayakashi perched on someone's shoulder. She electrocutes it, and he rends it, and then he's moving forward again.
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More for their sakes than for anybody else's.
There's something bigger in the area.
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It's good to know that he has so much support, even when it's just the two of them.
"Something controlling these little ones. Giving them orders." It's his best guess, if something is bigger.
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Most likely. Why couldn't any other god take a job like this? There are plenty of more combat oriented shinki out there. But here's Souji, willing to help as long as the problem is in front of him. Homura finds it excessive and tiring, but like hell he's going out there alone.
It's a few alleyways away. I'll stop time when we get close. You can have a good look at it. And be in no danger is what she doesn't add.
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But still he forges onward, inclining his head slightly. Her conserving her energy, even with his ability, is certainly a good idea. Much else and she might overtax herself, and if they're going up against something huge...
They're going to need it.
"Once we're down to a block, that way we have some room to advance."
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Her time stop isn't active right now. But the base power of knowing where the ayakashi are doesn't stop. She's agitated as they get closer to their target.
There are more ayakashi the closer we get.
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When they happen across one of the ayakashi, away from any others, he rends it before it has a chance to do anything. If they can get rid of them without drawing attention, he's going to do it.
"We'll avoid the ones in numbers."
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Not that she's expecting that out of him.
They're concentrated around the biggest one. The ones further out are alone.
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He'll hope for that. That's his job, after all. Izanami might not have expected it out of him, but it's what she got.
Quiet a moment, considering, he slips away from the center of the alleyways and starts walking close to the walls. There are things to walk around, but he's used to walking through the dungeons that people imagined up. Stealth through here is nothing.
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