[X] Play around with her.
-[X] Danmaku.
--[X] Though...just because you're playing with her doesn't mean she'll see it the same way. Be on your guard in case she
escalates in response or does anything suspicious.
She skips back as you leap into the air, and you slip to the side contemptuously as she hurls her swords at you. Even as they pass by you she's holding two more, but a line of red bullets stretches toward her. She throws herself to the side and you send the line after her, your grin widening as she throws her swords in an attempt at disrupting your aim. You simply fly a little higher and increase the volume of the danmaku - instead of a single stream of bullets, you send out a torrent of bullets to saturate a cone targeted at the woman. She dashes away from the danmaku, and you laugh and clap your hands as you keep aiming at her. Even though you're using regular danmaku instead of lethal bullets, you're shooting a lot of bullets, and the roof is getting pitted and scarred already. If she wants to stay up here, she'll need to find another roof soon! "Come on, come on! Don't be boring, didn't you come here for me?" You increase your elevation once again, then change the way you're shooting the bullets. Instead of a flood from a single source, four sources of bullets fire individual streams at the woman, but at different angles, and you start herding her back toward you.
She doesn't cooperate, however - it doesn't take her long to notice what you're doing, and she dashes back through a line of bullets to escape. You giggle as she darts toward the street, your bullets chasing after her. What does she plan to do? She reaches the corner of the roof and leaps, pushing off the edge and hurtling forward more than up, across the street. You applaud as a stream of swords tries to catch you - she's throwing them in mid-leap, and so many! The first four are thrown in sequence and try to hit you directly, but you slip away and down, and then they start coming in bursts of three, trying to bracket you. She throws fifteen swords at you before landing on a rooftop far down the street, on the same side as you. You clap loudly and stop firing as she rushes toward you. Then, when she's twenty meters away, you put your hands behind your back and start firing again, grinning wickedly. Instead of the brightly-glowing red bullets of before, you use more difficult blue arrow-style bullets, and fire them in somewhat-random canister blasts. She barely manages to leap over your first attack and is caught by the second in mid-leap. Despite the arrest of her movement, her attack is almost spot-on, and one of the trio of swords she hurls carries your hat away. You scowl and launch several sets almost simultaneously, flooding the area between you and her with dimly-glowing bullets as you spin to follow your hat. You yank the sword out of the wall and pat your hat back on your head; Loki repairs the damage within moments and you grin. As you turn back to the woman, however, you study the sword - it's long and thin, longer than Laevateinn, but what catches your eye is the small hilt, identical to the bladeless ones Kirei was holding. Interesting; you put the sword away as crashing glass alerts you to the woman's next move.
Instead of moving against you, she seems to have retreated into one of the buildings. You laugh and fly toward it, but stay on your side of the street. She kept trying to close with you and engage in melee, and despite your superiority in that field you don't plan on letting her succeed. Instead, you drop to ground level and create a single bullet, a large green one. A lethal bullet, for its greater effect. You hurl it through the store's window and into a supporting wall. The glass shatters and the bullet bursts against the wall, penetrating and exploding. You frown; if you could use something like Remilia's Servant Flier it wouldn't be a problem, but if you try to take down the building with danmaku by yourself you run the risk of the woman taking you by surprise. You could use your clones, but that's a trump card you'd rather keep hidden for now. Hmm … you can't enter the building and find her that way, using standard danmaku risks being surprised, and even lethal danmaku just isn't efficient. Your other methods of destroying buildings risk killing her - will almost certainly kill her …. Another crash startles you and you start to leap back, but stop when you realize it's just her cassock, and the distraction is enough that she's able to hit you with one of her swords. You slam into the building behind you, although the blade fails to penetrate Loki, and an instant of rage overwhelms your caution. You hurtle toward the blade's launch point, but manage to regain control of yourself as you pass through the window. You bring yourself to a halt and then throw yourself back and up so you're over the street and away from whatever trap the woman set.
Your retreat nearly backfires - the woman had gone up after throwing her sword, either to escape from you or to try and sneak in after you, and only the apparent fact that she wasn't expecting you to come back out so quickly kept her from attacking you as you tore through the air past her. You come to a halt and stare down at her, studying her new appearance. Instead of the cassock, she's wearing a short blue one-piece dress, and its sleeveless nature shows off the many tattoos on her arms and shoulders. The most distinctive change is the huge weapon she's holding - a massive rifle-like weapon with a thick bayonet, about as tall as she is. Considering how overbuilt it is and how easily she holds it, it almost seems like she'd be more comfortable in melee than at range.
What do you do?
[ ] Keep with the plan; stay at range and fling danmaku at her.
[ ] Charge into melee and beat her senseless!
- [ ] Use Laevateinn and see how sturdy her weapon is.
[ ] Stop playing around and just kill her.
[ ] Other?
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