Chapter 110

As per standard 'going on a trip' procedure, I was doing a check on the Wagon. Because we were going to not only take an 'extra' step to try and get to Q'ten Lo, but had no idea past 'try and get a ship from Siltvelt to Q'ten Lo, the wagon was coming with us. So was Motoyasu's. This meant we'd have a pretty full house of people coming with us.

Of course, I was also telling S'yne the 'plan' to lure out her targets. But since secrecy was going to be a big thing, she was helping me, and I was talking to her by mumbling the plan while I held a bit of thread in my teeth.

"Hey kiddo." I nearly fumbled the edge of a crate when Erhard's voice interrupted our near silent plan making. "You know, even if I helped you make this thing, it's still impressive!"

I let go of the thread, while S'yne and I got the crate up into the wagon, then turned around, "Your friends really helped pull this thing together. Even with SITA, I doubt we could do much better even if we rebuilt it from the wheels up."

We both took a moment to size each other up, and I just gave the man a hug. The big anvil-head was like a mix of Welf and Marius. "Aw come on, don't cling." He grumbled, though he still returned the hug. "So you're the one from the other world huh?" He asked S'yne after pushing me away and facing her.

I took a half step to the side, "S'yne, this is Erhard. He was a lifesaver after I got here, and makes some great stuff. Erhard, this is S'yne, otherworldly Vassal Weapon holder, and defender of the Hearth."

Now, Erhard was a tall man with a frame that spoke of hard work, monster slaying, and wisdom. While S'yne was in comparison, diminutive. But all the same, she gave him a polite smile, and offered her hand. "She's told me about you. Every time she puts something new into the workshop, it's either 'Master Erhard showed me this', or, 'I bet Master Erhard would like one of these'."

Oh sure, I was technically her boss. But she was catching up on all the talking she couldn't do before and teasing me.

"It's true." I nodded, "But-wait, who's this?"

I looked down, and it was a 'Lemo'. A mole demi-human. "This is Tolly." Erhard said, crouching down and putting a big hand on Tolly's shoulder. At not quite hip high, he was pretty strange looking. "Him and I had the same master."

I crouched down as well, extending a hand, "Yes, I remember there were two of you?" There had been a lot of slaves, a lot of demi-humans... Now that was over with, I'd kind of put it out of my mind. Aside from the very long list of names in my 'slave menu' that I'd only glanced at a couple times in the past while, I'd marked them all down as 'Raphtalia's problem'.

Tolly sounded a bit like a bumpkin, and dressed a bit like one too, with thick overalls and a bit of grass in his mouth. But when we shook hands, I could see muscle move under his stout little arms, and his 'hand shaped paw' was rough with time in the forge. "Well Ma'am, that'd be my little niece Imiya. I didn't want to stop half way learning with Erhard, but family comes first."

He nodded like a sage, "I agree." And so did I. "So now that you've settled in, you're back at the smithy?"

"Well yeah." He nodded, "But since you're a fellow smith, I was hoping to chat before you vanished again."

I thought for a moment, "Where did SITA get to?" I asked Erhard.

"Eh, she's... You know, it's the weirdest thing. When I think about where she is, if feels like I'm looking for a hammer I put down someplace." He rubbed the back of his head while S'yne and I chuckled. "What's so funny?"

"Well." I motioned S'yne over so we could huddle conspiratorially, "The SITA you know isn't the real one, just part of a collection. She's a Legendary weapon I made, the Legendary Toolbox. But, when you have a big project, and all the tools you need, what's the one thing you want most?"

The two smiths looked at me, put on different versions of the 'thoughtful frown' and said, "More hands."

"Exactly. Just like any other Legendary Weapon who hasn't gotten very special permission, she can't leave her world. But, she can lend out tools just like anyone else." I explained.

"Except, those tools can return themselves to her owner." S'yne said with a smile, "Why not just call for her?"

I stood up, breaking the secretive atmosphere, "I could. Lemme..." I looked at the wagon and spotted one of the bees tending the super-hybrid vine growing over it, "Hey. Sorry to interrupt."

The bee I pointed at took a moment longer before pulling its face out of a flower, then hummed over to me. Once on my hand, I brought it within reach of my horns, "hello, food, no food?"

"Can you find the one with ears like mine who feels like storm tingles?" I asked.

"yes, find, hello, bye." And with an alarmingly quiet thrum of wings, it hovered away.

"Think she'll be okay with a giant bee landing on her?" Erhard asked, "I'll admit I nearly squished one when it came to introduce itself."

"She's still getting used to having a body of her own, and she likes experiencing new things. Anyhow, I'll have one of the SITA stay here, and maybe you can teach each other." I looked down to Tolly.

"She's really good with numbers." Erhard said. "So about your trip to Q'ten Lo..."

"Sure." I nodded.

"I was wonder... oh you twit... I had a speech ready and everything!" He grumbled. "Guess you figured out I knew about those weapons, or at least, I think I know them."

"Yeah, saw the look on your face, figured you'd come to me. Anyhow, you want a spot on the wagon, you gotta help us load it." I pointed at him.

"Cheeky brat! I remember when you were this tall and asking me for half a chisel!"

"So do I..." I sighed, "Anyhow. S'yne? No problems?"

"Shouldn't be a problem. Looking forward to it." She smiled, though it was clear Erhard knew he was missing something, just not what. It felt good to have a minion who was learning how to be properly mysterious.

All packed and ready, I looked at everyone, as they all got into the wagons. "Hey boss?" Tetsu, now in her dragon form and doing little shoulder shrugs in her harness to settle it exactly so, "What happened to our little sister?"

I saw Kuro's big owlish head twist to look at me, obviously curious about the answer. It was kind of the only thing the two of them always agreed on. "Well, Kotetsu is... taking care of all of her other siblings. And guarding my workshop with SITA-prime."

Kuro didn't voice the disappointment in her eyes, but Tetsu pouted, "Aw. I wanted to play with her."

"It won't be long until you can." I put my hand behind the joint of Tetsu's jaw, tilted her head down, and put my forehead to hers. "All set?" I asked as I hugged her huge head to my chest and rubbed my fingertips under her jawline.

"Hmm." She paused, getting herself at least another ten seconds of attention, "Yup! All set now."

I let her go, walked around, then hopped up onto the 'driver's seat'. "Okay Kuro, I'm going to open a portal, but it's going to look really weird. Don't worry, just follow behind after a count of five."

"Understood." She said, puffing out a little, making me wonder if Melty could really vanish into all that fluff now... Wonder how she was doing... eh, ask later...

I opened the Vassal Book to a marked page, a very detailed drawing of what looked like a view down a cobblestone street, with warehouse styled buildings to either side, and a signpost that said 'keep clear at all times, no exceptions!' I held this page up in front of me, blocking my view of the field of flowers we were facing.

And with a whisper of power, that drawing became 'life sized' in front of Tetsu. It still looked like it was made of paper, but it was unaffected by the wind, and cast no shadow in the afternoon sun. A two dimensional portrait of our destination. "Forward."

Even with a loaded wagon, Tetsu seemed to pull the wagon forward effortlessly.

The street was, as the sign demanded, clear for us to just 'appear' from nothing. Tetsu almost stopped however at the sudden shift in scenes, but I gave the tip of her tail a nudge with my boot to remind her to keep moving. Five seconds later, and maybe a second and a half after we'd cleared the 'scene' of the portal, Kuro stepped through as well, the wagon behind her filled with surprised passengers.

"Welcome to Frost's factory fortress." I said over my shoulder as we kept moving along the street. "His naming sense is worse than mine somehow, but it's true at least."

"Wow, that's way different from the portal skill..." Motoyasu commented.

Quietly, Raphtalia asked, "If you draw the place you want to go... Did you try..."

I said nothing, but turned a couple of pages. It showed the front porch of the Hearthstone Manor, with its pseudo Roman style and all the details as I remembered them from every successful return home.

Even if she was a bit angry with me still, she still gave my shoulder a pat, keeping silent.

"So, why the side trip? Sadeena asked as she poked her head through the curtain between the cabin and driver's seat. "Wow... This is way different than I remember."

"Bit of business. And while I'm in good standing with Siltvelt, they wouldn't like me appearing with two wagons of people in the middle of their hourglass room. My bookmark there wouldn't let the wagons through." I gave the Vassal Book a pat. "If anyone wants to come with me, they can, but honestly, it's just boring stuff."

Itsuki was the only one who spoke up, "I'd like to look around a little."

Then Ren asked, "How long do you think you'll be?"

"Hour at most." I said after a moment, "really just checking in on business. This is where those special crystals are being made."

"Wait really?" Erhard's bald head appeared over Sadeena and Raphtalia's head through the curtain, "That I want to see!"

"Fine fine. You have about an hour to get to the west gate."

So, with Erhard, Atla, Fohl, and SITA, I went to the 'Hickwaal's fine glass works' factory. It wasn't really worth calling a factory, not in a modern sense. But all the same, they were still producing a lot of magic glass here. Erhard commented about how upset the bottle maker was when the 'tiny demi-human' child asked about how to get the materials for making glass.

Fohl was fascinated with the process, while Atla was more interested with the enchanting and was asking all kinds of questions too! But since this was kind of secret, I couldn't get into really fine details. She did understand things like 'magic resonance' when it came to communication stones though.

But after the short tour, a few waves to the workers, and a nod to a couple of Frost's company, we made our way to the back office.

"So... Why exactly are we here?" Fohl asked, "Unless you were just showing off. I mean... This is really neat stuff! But they don't seem to need you for anything?"

The lock on the office was both magical and mechanical in nature. Of course, when you had two masters of magic and crafting, the lock was sealed by both our specialties. I pushed a little magic into the lock, then applied a complex key. "Oh, but I do need something. Good will and small favours count for a lot, but when it comes to making sure people get paid..."

The office itself was pretty simple. Shelves, a desk, a few other little things, and most notably, a slab sided pure metal safe. It took a moment, again applying magic and mechanical means to open, but once it did, the thick metal door opened with ease.

"That's all yours?" Erhard asked, jaw dropping at the amount of gold coin (as well as silver) in the safe.

"Technically,yes. But if I take if all, Hickwaal would be sad. This is technically the 'profit' box. But if he wanted to expand, or replace equipment, or hire more people, that would cut into what's in here." I reached inside the safe, not for the money, but for some paper left up on the top shelf. I wrote down an amount, counted out the coin, and left the paper behind. "There."

"I feel so... poor... looking at that." Erhard sighed.

"Back home..." I sighed, giving SITA a headpat, "Anyhow. Let's get back."

"Why do you smell like burning?" Solitaire asked me as we met with Ren and his new friend on the way to the west gate.

"We went to see the glass-works." Fohl said with a smile, "It was pretty neat too!"

Atla nodded as well, an indulgent smile on her face as her brother went into detail about the process of turning white sand into good glass.

"What did you need to get?" Ren asked, wearing a similar smile to Atla as his wolf/cat/butler chatted with the tiger/humans.

"Money." I replied simply, "Since there is no modern banking or anything like that, I need to bring the money we'll need."

Ren considered that, nodded, "Suppose we're doing more than hitching a ride there?"

"Yeah. It's out of season if I remember right. We'll essentially be funding a trip there. Hire a captain, their crew, the supplies, blah blah." I waved a hand to clear the air, "My connections will all but guarantee availability, but if I just demanded it I'd burn a lot of good will and could be refused outright."

He nodded, "If you need help..." Then he sighed, "Huh... not much I can actually help with."

I gave his shoulder a pat, "Ren, there is no substitute for experience. Follow my example if you want, but don't compare yourself to me."

"Grrr, don't touch my master!" Solitaire growled at me.

Ren sighed again, but this time it was directed at his companion, "Do I need to rub your tail backwards?"

"...no..."

"Good. If you're not at least a little friendly, she won't cook for you later."

Atla leaned over a little, not quite looking in the right direction to look Solitaire in the eyes, "She's a very good cook."

Solitaire looked at her, then everyone else but me, and got a nod from them. "Fine... I'll be... less unfriendly."

After dinner, in which Solitaire became my very best friend (for about ten minutes while he devoured his meal), we got to 'the plan' to catch the assassins. With our two wagons side by side, and a camp fire between them, S'yne, the siblings, Raphtalia, Sadeena, Clive, Usa and Erhard stayed behind while we four heroes went (kind of funny when I thought about it) in the four cardinal directions from the camp with our 'plus one'.

Each of us had signal flares (different colour for each of us), and S'yne had put a little pin in our clothing someplace. The 'plan' was pretty simple. If we were ambushed, attacked, or otherwise bothered by something, or someone, the flare would go up, S'yne would instantly be there for backup, and the rest of us would make best speed to the other.

Of course, Itsuki was kind of the 'slow one' in this case, but his 'patrol' had a nice little hill for him to stand on that would give him a reasonable place to shoot if it came down to it.

As for SITA, she was trying to figure out a way to see past that weird 'not quite, but really close' to perfect invisibility Raphtalia's assassins knew.

Tetsu and I casually rode south. Even though it was outside of my armour, I could still feel the pin S'yne had stuck to me. With all the work I'd been doing, I'd been growing in spiritual power again, my newest tail appearing after I'd finished rebuilding and refurbishing the Hearth, and with its reappearance...

Now that I knew what I did, I couldn't hate the Shield. It was as much a victim as I was in some ways. Like a child who only knew how to do one thing, and was trying so desperately to get a thank you. I suspected all the weapons had a very base, very faded intelligence to them. But unless I was wrong... That intelligence might once have been human...

"Hey Boss?" Tetsu mumbled under me, the steady 'thump' of her feet almost hypnotic. "Are you sure we should leave Raphtalia out? I..."

I leaned forward in the saddle, scrubbing my palm over the side of her scaly neck, "She has her own problems. And we just have to hope they leave her alone for a little while, so we can take care of our own problems." I sat up, "And help S'yne."

"I like her. She made me a little thing!" Her big front legs took something from under her harness, and she offered it back to me. "See!"

It was a floppy Kuro doll, in her human form. Cute button eyes, soft clothing, yarn hair, even little wings! It was super adorable. "I hope you thanked her." I'd have to thank her too."

I felt the malice from two sides suddenly, and I put the doll (cute floppy doll, said the inventory) in the Shield's storage. "Lean!"

Had Tetsu been a horse, she'd have resisted, and probably crushed me if I'd done what I had. With a little heave, she crouched over on her left side, and I freed my boots from the stirrups as we both tipped over, and under a long slithering chain and a black kurisagami. Aha, the guy who attacked Motoyasu.

"eeeEhehehehe." Someone laughed as a silent shadow leapt towards me, a long Persian horseman's sword, a Shamshir, coming down at me in a double handed overhand swing.

Still kneeling on the ground, wary of another attack from the guy with the sickle-chain, I raised the Shield of Marius over my head. Behind me, I could hear Tetsu getting back on her feat.

But it was almost the exact wrong thing to do. With another breathy cackle his sword slammed into the face of the Shield, and I was crushed into the dirt, as if I'd tried to parry a landslide! While the breath was crushed out of me, my eyes still peering over the top edge of the Shield, I saw him take one hand off his sword and point his palm at me.

"Boss!" Tetsu slammed into me, her bulk throwing me sideways, out from under the assassin's sword, away from what ever he was about to do, and out of harm's way.

There was a heavy BANG of noise, and for a moment Tetsu and the attacker vanished from view. I managed to get a potion out of my belt, but as I got it to my lips, the slither of the other man's chain rattled out of the darkness. "Now now, that wouldn't be fair."

I abandoned pride, and flopped flat to the ground, the Shield sticking to my back and making me look like a turtle. But that was fine, the attack missed, and I got the potion down.

Only to have Tetsu grunt in pain, then fall on me, pinning me to the ground.

"That was surprisingly easy." One said, though, no footsteps approached. "Suppose that anti-defence attack of yours really worked."

"tetsu." I mumbled, using their pride against them as the potion worked through me, "change back when I say two."

"Piece of cake really." The other laughed, his steps getting closer, "Shame we can't take the weapons after we kill them. I mean, I love my sword, but..."

"one." I started to get my palms under me, Tetsu's weight making it difficult, but also hiding my actions.

"At least this one didn't cost me a life." The first said, "Which one next? I think the guy with the Bow would be easier than even this one."

"two." And suddenly Tetsu's weight all but vanished.

"What?!"

"They're still awake! Kill them!"

"ThreeeeEEEEEEEEEGRRRRRRRRRRRRR!" I pushed myself up to all fours, then changed into my fox form, throwing Tetsu up into the air and summoning foxfire around my tails.

"What the-She's a therianthrope!"

Then with the feeling of someone I could trust on my back, S'yne appeared as if she had been placed there by an invisible hand. "I finally found you!" She said, "I'll take on the sword. Tetsu! That one!"

"Oh-KAY!" and with a sudden roar, Tetsu changed from her humanoid form and dropped like a five ton spiked ball on the guy who had kicked her, while I turned my attention on the guy with the sickle-chain.

"You don't scare me." He said, jumping back as I tried to swat him with a paw, then flicking the weighted end of his weapon at me.

This time, I crouched just enough so the Shield on my back deflected it upwards, but even as it clanged off the Shield of Marius, he flicked his wrist and the chain grabbed one of my tails.

Then he pulled backwards, and for a very brief moment, as my body reacted to the pain of having a tail pulled and started to move into the pull to ease the pain, I regained control, overrode instinct, and pulled backwards with both my body and tail.

I looked down at him for just long enough to see him figure out he had no chance against my greater mass, then as he flicked his wrist to recall the weighted end, and moved his other arm to slash at me, I lowered my head and threw myself forward.

"Too slo-" He tried to dodge, but he hadn't noticed the Air Strike Shield behind him, and was instead slammed between my forehead and projected Shield.

The best I could hope for was a second or two while he recovered, so, I took the 'shirt' of my giant fox form off, returned to being Kodori, and jumped at him again as he got to his feet after sliding off the Air Strike Shield like a cartoon character slammed into a wall.

"Not bad, but I hardly feel your attacks!"

I had made the mistake of inattention, and taking a hit when I could have rolled away. But I was smiling as he let me get into close range, my mask slipping over my face with a satisfying click.

(S'yne)

The assassin who had killed her former friends, and the heroes of her former world, looked up with a lopsided grin as she and Tetsu came down on him, "Earthen wall!"

A sudden rumble from the ground, and both Tetsu and her hit a suddenly grown wall of earth. It hardly cracked, even though Tetsu slammed into it from above with her full weight. But it DID crack. S'yne however only managed to sink a finger width of her giant scissors into the wall.

She didn't rile, or even frown. It had been a while since it had happened, and while she was out for revenge, she was quite determined to not have to dig the second grave. Instead, she backed off, "Acupuncture!" She said, a series of glowing needles flying out from her hand and sticking into Tetsu's neck and flank.

Instead of complaining about the apparent friendly fire, Tetsu slammed her forehead into the dirt wall, a fissure running up it from ground to peak, "Wow! I feel super strong!"

"ehehehe!" Before Tetsu could hit the barrier a third time, it sank back into the ground with a little seismic grunt, and the point of the assassin's blade tried to stab Tetsu through the heart!

"Weapon bind!" Again, S'yne responded, one hand 'throwing' a spread of glowing wire at the man, tangling his weapon and arms, pulling his thrust off target as Tetsu reared back with one arm and slapped the side of his head, her entire body committing to the 'slam dunk' of the man's face.

Just before his head, shoulders, and most of his torso vanished into the ground, the glowing pinpricks on Tetsu's flank vanished, and the binding threads around his weapon slipped away. Then with a flash, he vanished!

Their eyes were dazzled for a moment, before S'yne heard that dry chuckle from behind her, "Not bad, but..."

(Ren)

"That's Kodori's signal!" Solitaire said, changing from 'not quite perfect butler' to 'not quite a wolf, not quite a panther'.

Ren slipped onto his back, lowering himself almost to the point of laying down, "Go!" He said.

Thirty seconds later, they were close enough to see the flash of light from the assassin's teleport. After an blink to get the spots out of their eyes, Ren saw a tall robed figure with a sword appear behind her, his blade ready to plunge into her back.

"Mirror blade!"

(Motoyasu)

"Figures. Trouble magnet that one." Motoyasu said, Kuro already running towards Kodori's foxfire.

"You get in to plenty of trouble yourself." Kuro admonished, her feet getting to top speed in seconds.

"I wonder if that mask of hers can see in the dark." He laughed, the Spear's blade changing, elongating, the tip becoming so thin it looked like it was letting the starlight through its edge. Even changing the Spear to this form, the one he learned on Cal Mira, was bleeding his SP bar like a hole in the bottom of a bucket, but he trusted Kodori would see him, hear Kuro, or both, and create an opportunity for him.

"That bastard had some kind of insane defence magic. Let's see what happens when the unbreakable armour meets the unstoppable spear! Faster!"

"Yes Master!"

(Tetsu and S'yne, and now Ren and Solitaire)

The assassin's blade never found S'yne's back. But instead, a flat eyed copy of Ren stood in his way, a sword made of glass and silver in its hand. The initial strike parried, the mirror copy of Ren swept the blade aside, attempted a single, very fast cross body slash, and stepped forward.

The assassin, blade out of line for a parry of his own, backed up a half step, and just cut the Clone in half. "Cheap trick!" He cackled, then cried out as the real Ren came down from the air, slashing his back. "Gah! What?!"

That was all the time he had for talk, as Ren landed in a crouch, waited until Solitaire's car length body of sleek black fur and claws jumped over him, then stood to join in.

The assassin dodged the pounce, parried Ren's sword, jumped over a slash from an absurdly large pair of scissors, then had Tetsu meet him in the air, her big clawed hand finding his leg and slapping him to the ground like meat on a butcher's slab.

As he bounced off the ground, something cracking inside him, he heard the scream of his partner as he took a two metre long spear through the back.

He coughed, "screw this... rocks fall, you all die!"

The night sky high above turned red, not quite the purple of a Wave, and very local. Then a rock the size of a small castle appeared overhead.

(Kodori)

This man, was skilled. Most weapons, when you added a point of 'flex' to them, lost a lot of potential. A sickle, for example, wasn't very good for much when you took your hand off it and tried to throw it. The weighted end, was kind of like a club, except you needed to bring it up to speed before getting a single strike out, then take time getting it to speed again.

But this man had full control, and was truly ambidextrous. Yes, the weapon had some magic to it, the chain seemed to have a variable length to it, like Usa's whip. But otherwise?

He tried to hook the Shield and pull it aside, the weighted end slamming off the edge as I moved with the Shield instead of compromising my guard. A hard yank on the chain pulled the weight back and nearly hit the back of my head had I not ducked. The sickle came around again, this time lashing out and aiming low, trying to tangle my leg, or cut off my foot as he hauled back on the weapon.

But I slammed the Shield of Marius down on the chain, saving my ankle, and holding him in place for a moment. "Not bad." He said the weighted end spinning up before he heaved back on the sickle-end, the soft ground giving, the chain making a rapid 'clink clink' as it slipped under the Shield.

I let him take the weapon back, angled the Shield to bounce the weighted end upwards, then reverted the Shield to the nice Hagane red small Shield, and put it on my back.

"Fool, giving up your defence."

"Nah, leaving it to an expert." And I jumped forward, the sickle coming down on my back as my arms wrapped around his middle.

Right on cue, Motoyasu's spear slammed home, the crack of air, the shattering of a magic defence, and splintering bone sounding out over my head while the man cried out with a wet scream. "again... he killed me again... i'll be back..." And his body started to melt into black junk.

He fell to the ground as I let him go, the Spear vanishing to return to Motoyasu, "No you wont." And I held out a soul trap, a misty something filling it as the sky above became blood red. "The hell?"

Motoyasu and Kuro skidded to a halt next to me, "The he-" Kuro's head twisted around to look at him, "ck?"

A meteor? The enemy had summoned a meteor?

(Itsuki and Rishia)

Just like before, with Tusk's little mercenary party, Itsuki was told to 'do nothing unless bothered, or could help from a distance'. Lesson learned, that was exactly what he did. He saw Kodori's signal go up. Saw Ren and Motoyasu move to support. And did not see any way he could help.

Until the sky went red, and he saw the giant screw you meteor wiggle its fat rocky butt out of a portal, then start to fall as gravity gave it a handshake, and told it to come on down.

His silly internal thoughts vanished as Rishia looked up, then to him, "Sir Itsuki..."

"I can try." He said, "I mean, that Clive fellow only has a normal bow. But..." He looked at his status screen, crunched some numbers quickly, and did a bit of gamer math he thought he'd forgotten. "Can you help? I don't have the power on my own."

"Of course, let me... pardon..." She put her hands on his shoulders, took a deep breath that seemed impossibly vast for someone her size, and pushed her very soul into the back of the one who had saved her from a life of misery.

Itsuki's body started to steam with energy, power, light and spirit. His status screen went haywire as his SP bar started to randomly change numbers like a pulled slot machine spool, he took his own breath, pulled the string of the Bow back to his ear, and aimed up.

"STREAMING STARLIGHT!"

NOTES!

Have to let them actually do things, to be a hero, right? And I didn't choose the fight to start with Kodori, but rolled for it. Motoyasu even had double the chance to get targeted!

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