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"No problem," Chris replied, while standing at Ginia's side. She felt her shinki's nervousness, but was otherwise not trying to show it outwardly. She knew from experience that commenting on someone's anxiety tended to make it worse.

She was decked out in full Symphogear armor, and had already transformed her Armed Gear into a set of pistols. She stood there, watching for any sign of trouble as they talked.

"But be prepared, I'm starving today."

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"What Yukine isn't saying is that we would have helped regardless."

Not that she wants to sink access to a free meal, mind you. She's also transformed, arms crossed and leaning up against a wall.

"It is after all what we are here for - be it in this world, or our own."

Ginia knows they would have helped because it's who they are. With all the disappearances as of late, it's felt more important letting people know how much they matter while they're still around.

The procession begins with music. The steady beat of drums, the trill of flutes, music drifts from within the grounds of the shrine as the procession begins to wind out. Musicians, dancers, people on horseback, priests and miko, there's a grand line ahead before the portable shrine winds its way out on the backs of hundreds of people. It's gold and glittering and large and brimming with divinity and the perfect target for ayakashi.

Borderlines spring up across the path, already flushing off a few minor ayakashi that have managed to cling to people outside the shrine. They skitter around, confused by the borderline and thwarted by further attempts to latch onto someone else and pass through.

It doesn't take long for more troublesome ayakashi to show up. Cicada-like ayakashi ranging from regular bug size to the size of dinner plates begin to fly around and land on rooftops. Their buzzing begins to drone out the music, discordant notes popping in as people lose their beat or miss notes. Borderlines fly as the slashes disrupt them and scatter them into the air. Time to begin rending.

Chris wastes no time in taking action. She takes aim with her pistols to shoot down the ayakashi, before finishing them off with shots from Luger's vessel form.

"Senpai, go!" she calls out. "We'll cover you!"

In time before her little nap, Tsubasa wouldn't have been a lot of good here. Now, is another matter. She summons several electrical energy blades to go streaking down towards the swarming Ayakashi, but not aiming for much damage. This is a distraction, as she gets in close, drawing a tanto that is not apart of her Symphogear.

"REND!"

Ginia dashes ahead a little to add her borderline to the shining barriers popping up. There's definitely some degree of challenge in not causing too much property damage or drawing too much attention. Most people have their attention fixed on the parade and aren't looking upward, but the occasional child points upward as the three race through the air.

The ayakashi try to flee as they're cut down, pinned off by the borderlines penning them in. Black dust drifts and fades as the two gods rend ayakashi after ayakashi. Even as the cicadas thin out, more ayakashi begin to stir. Jellyfish ayakashi with long trailing tentacles drift into sight in the air as mice ayakashi scurry along the ground.

"Ugh, they're like roaches. Why the hell are so many small fry crawling of the woodwork?!"

Chris settles her gaze on the jellyfish ayakashi, and makes a face. "Way too early to be reminded of squishy tentacle things," she mutters, before focusing on those. As she does, she turns to Tsubasa.

"You and your new shinki holding up okay, senpai?"

Another slash and Tsubasa lands with a twirl. Her eyes flicker a bit at the jellyfish too, and she sighs.

"Fine, yes. Although I am beginning to wonder if we will ever be in the vicinity of a normal parade here..."

All signs point toward 'not likely' when it comes to enjoying a normal parade. Ginia smiles wryly as she moves ahead to join the other shinki in blocking out the jellyfish ayakashi. Whether they're like the giant one unleashed on the last parade or something entirely, Ginia isn't interested in finding out. At least they're all relatively easy so far. Some of the casual stories from her templemates about larger ayakashi show up to snack on a god or shinki are certainly worrying. If it's nothing but a steady stream of minor problems, she can live with that. It'd be better to have no ayakashi, but fat chance there.

Besides, definitely better knowing ayakashi are the root of the problem than the cultists.

Ginia lands on a rooftop and slams a borderline down as tentacles flail weakly at the shining wall. The ayakashi drifts through the air, the twitching eyes on the ends of the tentacles stare at her. Ew.

With Ginia trapping them like that, Chris trains her guns on the ayakashi and tears it apart with repeated gunfire. No more creepy tentacles watching them.

She turns to Tsubasa, and smirks. "I think these things are pretty much cursed, senpai," she said. "Or we are. But hey, it's not like we aren't used to that kind of thing. Look at what happens every time you hold a big concert."

Tsubasa hasn't been back on her feet for very long. Honestly, jumping right into battle afterwards probably wasn't the wisest move, but she felt like she needed to be doing something. As such, when Chris makes that crack, she shoots her a sharp look.

"Not every ti--"

Enough of a distraction for a loose ayakashi to swoop past her, slamming into her wrist and sending her soulless shinki spinning out from her grasp. She takes a leap back and curses. "Dammit!"

Shit! As the tanto spins toward the ground, Ginia tries to go toward it, but her path is quickly cut off by ayakashi. Can ayakashi sense shinki when they're in vessel form? Is Tsubasa's soulless shinki vulnerable to attack in such a form? Ginia throws some borderline slashes to drive them back as she bounds toward Tsubasa. It's a question to answer later, but right now, protecting Tsubasa when she's vulnerable is important too.

Ginia whistles sharply and mouths out "Name me!" It's an offer she's given before. She doesn't know if Tsubasa and Chris talked about it and if things are okay, but better to ask for forgiveness than deal with an injured god? She doesn't doubt Chris and Luger as a team, and she's a good team with Tsubasa, but right now they need all rending power on hand. With things already this busy at the start, things can only get even more hectic from here. In her mind, taking a name and helping Tsubasa out is the most logical course of action.

Chris's eyes go wide as Tsubasa's shinki is sent flying from her hands. She lets out a "Shit", and a quick apology, before opening fire on the ayakashi that hit her and are now blocking Ginia's path.

Ginia's offer surprises her... but she believes it's not something she should speak up about now, given the situation. In the long run, it's probably a good idea anyway.

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