Right, I have no energy for votecrafting. So I'm going to make a few points.
Combat strategy: We have a mountain of grief and several seeds. I
believe we still have the memory device too. Shutting down telepathy without brutality should be quite possible, especially with backup from and everyone warned to keep away. The rest is stopping
shouting. Which, y'know, can be done with a gag.
One thing that can be done with Hijiri is dodging: Make a hairline split in the MOF into multiple sections, violently separate them if she tries anything.
Kirika's antimagic would be
really handy for prisoner restraint.
Gemming will
not go favorably towards making peace afterwards. I can very easily see Hijiri comparing it to us cutting strings on a puppet. Which...
yeah. Not conductive to a calm and collected Kanna. Thinking of other methods is
important.
Our friends are forewarned, we have a nigh infinitely malleable substance, our multitasking is ludicrous, and we have plenty of ammo. "Hard meguca making hard decisions" is not necessary and not, I think, truly
helpful either.
[x] Simultaneously: Anri
-[x] Get a telescope on her so you can let Mami start rebooting.
-[x] Give talking one last try.
--[x] This isn't what Yuuri would have wanted. Please, there's another way. Does she want an apology? Does she want to know the truth?
-[x] Be ready to instantly incap her. Maybe-lichbombed is better than surely-witchbombed.
Veb? The bold bit here is ill considered. This is the same topic that caused Anri to go nuts on us poked at in, if anything, a
worse manner. Bring it up like this and she'll only grow further infuriated than she already is.
The only reason to bring up Yuuri to her is in the context of dewitching, and frankly even that I'd first hand her the seed and talk to her and Hijiri about alternatives including the two of
them dewitching Yuuri. With all the implied information logistic of checking whether or not Hijiri is witchbombed required for that. Unless you want to ask Hijiri or Anri about whether Anri told Hijiri her about her contracting (and with it, Yuuri witching out), I'd either avoid the topic or play it with extreme care. Not a time to offer options that force her to deal with us in particular, looks far too much like a hostage situation.
(Probably would happen like so if it did:
[] To Anri or Hijiri privately: One question, just one question to solve
everything: How much does Hijiri know how Anri contracted?
Then move to talking about dewitching.
That or talk about dewitching immediately, without the benefit of saying Anri and Hijiri have the option of working on it without us.
But either way I think that's the only thing I can think of with a chance to calm Anri down.)
Besides that, I'll note that cleansing would also need to be handed very carefully. If we just do something without warning, and Sabrina
has a habit of doing things without warning where Hijiri is concerned, there are very good odds she'll take it as an attack.
