[She can reach, all right, and Tsuzuki finds himself swinging dizzyingly through the air in a big tennis-serve arc to strike a solid belly blow to the monkey ayakashi. It squawks, drops its handfuls of string, and tumbles down to the ground -- but it comes back up with bouncy energy, and hisses at the two of them.
It's a startlingly loud and threatening noise, and the teeth it bares in the process are very big.]
Don't be scared, Sakura-hime! We got it! Keep going, it's stuck on the ground now!
[Tsuzuki pitches his voice to excited encouragement, wishing he was one of the shinki who turn into a wolf or a lion. Something that can actually protect her, instead of something she has to use to protect herself.
But a ladle might not be all that bad. She'd smacked the little ayakashi a pretty good one to begin with.]
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It's a startlingly loud and threatening noise, and the teeth it bares in the process are very big.]
Don't be scared, Sakura-hime! We got it! Keep going, it's stuck on the ground now!
[Tsuzuki pitches his voice to excited encouragement, wishing he was one of the shinki who turn into a wolf or a lion. Something that can actually protect her, instead of something she has to use to protect herself.
But a ladle might not be all that bad. She'd smacked the little ayakashi a pretty good one to begin with.]