Oh, he had definitely bitten off more than he could chew when he decided to rescue this girl, her constant flailing and wiggling wrenching his shoulder something awful and causing him to dip and dive drunkenly away from the stampeding hoards. He's about to snap at her to stay still so they could actually try to make it out alive, but then she poses that question of her own, and... dang it, he's actually considering it for a second.
"I mean... sure, but I'm not about to go digging up dead people to find out!"
You heard it here first, folks-- Hanako's fine with trying to eat a Torment, but grave robbing is where he draws the line!!
That pause is enough to give the monsters some leverage on them, and Hanako does his best to swipe them back, his Striker advantage managing to give them just enough damage to stagger them in their tracks. Granted, it was a difficult task to do one handed and dragging an extra body behind him, so there was only so much he could do-- but then he hears the girl shout out her attack, and... WELL. Okay, maybe she was going to be of some use, after all, if she was going to be able to defend them from the back like that--
But before they know it, they're almost surrounded, and too many things seem to happen at once: the massive ball of electricity crashing in, Chaosbringer jumping dramatically into the fray (Hanako never thought he'd be relieved to hear someone bellow "BRINGER OF CHAOS" until now), the mysterious attacks coming from beyond that were tripping up some of the Torments from advancing further... nothing about this situation was neat to begin with, but things were bound to devolve into a chaotic (ha) mess if they didn't coordinate somehow. So Zeal's pleading and literal heel digging came at just the right time, though he wasn't exactly keen on letting a newbie get stuck in the middle of all of this and get hurt (even if it was her own damn fault to begin with). He lets out a long sigh before releasing her collar, fixing her with a irritable stare before he speaks.
"Hah... okay, fine. But we get some sort of Mega Nightmare on our hands thanks to this..."
And he pauses for dramatic effect, the dim light glinting off the edge of his glass blade and a menacing lilt creeping into his voice as he leers--
"I'm gonna offer you up first as it's main dish. So you better not mess up, okay, girlie?"
Not that he'd actually do it-- he knew first hand what a Nightmare attack could do to a person-- but a healthy scare for motivation never hurt anybody, right? Right??
With a shout of "Hakujoudai!", two semi-transparent orbs of light swirl into existence, looking very much like will o' wisps here in this dreary setting, and Hanako sends them careening towards the closest advancing Torments to knock them into Chaosbringer's attack zone.
"Chaosbringer! I'll cover this side, you cover that one! The girl will try to keep them off of our backs!"
He peers over the best he can through the fray, wondering if he could spot who the mysterious fourth Dreamer was. All he could make out was a figure in iridescent white, but...
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"I mean... sure, but I'm not about to go digging up dead people to find out!"
You heard it here first, folks-- Hanako's fine with trying to eat a Torment, but grave robbing is where he draws the line!!
That pause is enough to give the monsters some leverage on them, and Hanako does his best to swipe them back, his Striker advantage managing to give them just enough damage to stagger them in their tracks. Granted, it was a difficult task to do one handed and dragging an extra body behind him, so there was only so much he could do-- but then he hears the girl shout out her attack, and... WELL. Okay, maybe she was going to be of some use, after all, if she was going to be able to defend them from the back like that--
But before they know it, they're almost surrounded, and too many things seem to happen at once: the massive ball of electricity crashing in, Chaosbringer jumping dramatically into the fray (Hanako never thought he'd be relieved to hear someone bellow "BRINGER OF CHAOS" until now), the mysterious attacks coming from beyond that were tripping up some of the Torments from advancing further... nothing about this situation was neat to begin with, but things were bound to devolve into a chaotic (ha) mess if they didn't coordinate somehow. So Zeal's pleading and literal heel digging came at just the right time, though he wasn't exactly keen on letting a newbie get stuck in the middle of all of this and get hurt (even if it was her own damn fault to begin with). He lets out a long sigh before releasing her collar, fixing her with a irritable stare before he speaks.
"Hah... okay, fine. But we get some sort of Mega Nightmare on our hands thanks to this..."
And he pauses for dramatic effect, the dim light glinting off the edge of his glass blade and a menacing lilt creeping into his voice as he leers--
"I'm gonna offer you up first as it's main dish. So you better not mess up, okay, girlie?"
Not that he'd actually do it-- he knew first hand what a Nightmare attack could do to a person-- but a healthy scare for motivation never hurt anybody, right? Right??
With a shout of "Hakujoudai!", two semi-transparent orbs of light swirl into existence, looking very much like will o' wisps here in this dreary setting, and Hanako sends them careening towards the closest advancing Torments to knock them into Chaosbringer's attack zone.
"Chaosbringer! I'll cover this side, you cover that one! The girl will try to keep them off of our backs!"
He peers over the best he can through the fray, wondering if he could spot who the mysterious fourth Dreamer was. All he could make out was a figure in iridescent white, but...