Reinforce's expression darkened at Hisoka's taunt. Words such as these had heralded her last birth... had heralded the last end. She could not tolerate to hear them leveled against one entrusted to her again. And what anger suggested, Amaterasu's reappearance and approach on their attacker demanded. She would fight.
"Please help her." She whispered to Zelos, then stilled for a split-second, preparing her body for what she would demand of it. It was only with the precision of her control and absorbed knowledge could she make up for her lack of experience in ground combat, and only by preparation that she could make full use of those advantages.
Then she made her move, springing from behind the couch and launching herself at Hisoka. She came from the side opposite Amaterasu's avenue of approach, hoping that he would be forced to choose between the two as targets and in the best case be too distracted to hit either before one reached him.
Her attack was two-layered. The first was obvious and physical, her headlong charge with her crutch. The second was more subtle, a trap crafted for a telepath. As she charged she projected a diagram as she would were it a shielding spell, though in her current state it was powerless even against so weak a projectile as a bullet. This knowledge of the diagram's nature was her lure, its purpose as a shield held in mind as normal but the truth of its weakness held deeper, closer to the more older and more alien parts of her mind associated with the structure of the Book. Here she would attack his mind with the sheer weight of her knowledge and experience; the learnings of whole civilizations and millenia of slaughter and grief. If his mind could be overwhelmed the physical fight should prove much easier.
Of course, Reinforce had no idea whether the ability by which he'd gained the knowledge he'd used to attack Raine would be susceptible to such a method. She'd conceived a trap in this form after meeting Schuldig, and she wasn't even sure it would work on its intended target, let alone a complete stranger. With the experiment with Raine fresh behind her she could only only hold out so much hope, but it was better to try and fail then fail for not having tried.
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"Please help her." She whispered to Zelos, then stilled for a split-second, preparing her body for what she would demand of it. It was only with the precision of her control and absorbed knowledge could she make up for her lack of experience in ground combat, and only by preparation that she could make full use of those advantages.
Then she made her move, springing from behind the couch and launching herself at Hisoka. She came from the side opposite Amaterasu's avenue of approach, hoping that he would be forced to choose between the two as targets and in the best case be too distracted to hit either before one reached him.
Her attack was two-layered. The first was obvious and physical, her headlong charge with her crutch. The second was more subtle, a trap crafted for a telepath. As she charged she projected a diagram as she would were it a shielding spell, though in her current state it was powerless even against so weak a projectile as a bullet. This knowledge of the diagram's nature was her lure, its purpose as a shield held in mind as normal but the truth of its weakness held deeper, closer to the more older and more alien parts of her mind associated with the structure of the Book. Here she would attack his mind with the sheer weight of her knowledge and experience; the learnings of whole civilizations and millenia of slaughter and grief. If his mind could be overwhelmed the physical fight should prove much easier.
Of course, Reinforce had no idea whether the ability by which he'd gained the knowledge he'd used to attack Raine would be susceptible to such a method. She'd conceived a trap in this form after meeting Schuldig, and she wasn't even sure it would work on its intended target, let alone a complete stranger. With the experiment with Raine fresh behind her she could only only hold out so much hope, but it was better to try and fail then fail for not having tried.