[Shō Matsui]

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It was a precarious position to be put in. Sho rarely let anyone who wasn't family get this close to him, let alone be carried. Kioko wasn't too happy with their arrangement but didn't fight him. Even when he picked her up, he still anticipated her to shoot all the metal into his body. She probably thought the same thing or that he would use this to take her out. Their partnership, however, being based on necessity meant that before they confronted Ifrit, they were safe primarily from each other...mostly. He wouldn't admit it, but having support to fight Ifrit was necessary, and since he couldn't call on his siblings, Kioko was the best he had.
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He would remain silent as they hurled through the air. Given his cloak, there was little chance that someone would see them unless they knew what they were looking for. The trajectory from their launch was a little lower than Sho had anticipated, given the extra weight Kioko taking her mercury with her. Still, he couldn't object to it, given he had explicitly requested a foothold. They flew silently over the edge of the road and towards the water, to which he used one of his extra appendages to grab the underside of the bridge, which would swing them in that direction. "If you could, now would be a good time." if Kioko didn't create the foothold, they would likely overshoot their target and need to swing back, increasing their chance of a blown cover. Assuming she did and they could land, he would dig his heels in, gripping Kioko a bit to make sure she didn't fly from his arms as he killed the momentum to come to a complete stop. Once they arrived, he would set her down on her platform, and given their next proximity, he would take a few steps back to give her space. "Let's hope we don't need to do that again." he would stretch in preparation for their confrontation, drawing closer. "His car should be heading over the bridge shortly. What's the next step of your plan?" It was truly vexing to have to go step by step like this. None of his other bounties took longer than a quick entrance, cut, and exit. Still, it was something he would need to bear for the time being. Plus having her have to rely on him for transportation was still a pretty big bonus, he couldn't help but enjoy how humbling that must have been.
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[Kushiki Kioko]

I HAVE PROMISES TO KEEP

AND MILES TO GO BEFORE I SLEEP

The request to act was unnecessary. Kioko, observant as ever, didn’t need to see through shadow to know they had arrived at their destination. She had calculated an estimated travel time based on their original distance from the goal coupled with the speed that Gyrfalcon showed himself capable of moving. And while it was just that, an estimate, Kioko could feel the trajectory change when he swung them toward the area that would be their makeshift landing zone beneath the bridge. It had been her own intended access point to the bridge prior to meeting him. She was begrudgingly grateful for the ease and speed of transportation. A fact she would take to the grave with her. Possibly literally depending on how the impending encounter unfolded.

Sho’s burden would be lighted by almost a third as she mercury shifted off Kioko. It took the shape of an oversized crow that slipped through the unnatural shadows into those created by the bridge overhead. The form smoothed out into a platform with thick cords rising up from the corners to attach itself to the girders above so that Kioko could harden the metal and lock it into place rather than relying on her telekinetic control to stabilize the construct and hold their collective weight.

Freedom greeted Kioko on the other side of her endeavor. She hastily mirrored Sho’s steps away once he had relinquished his hold. Slender hands made a show of dusting off the rest of her, as if she could physically remove what had transpired from existence through the act. She loathed being touched by strangers — and people in general with scant few exceptions.

“Disable his vehicle and cut off communication.”

Small orbs of mercury broke free from the platform and crept up the side of the bridge. They formed a network of mirrors reflecting images of oncoming traffic down to Kioko and her literal partner-in-crime so that they could better watch for their target.

“You can handle the car, I’ll handle the latter.”

Kioko didn’t explain how, but all it would take was a thought on her part to blow the mercury in whatever cellphone he had in his person. Modern tech still relied heavily on the substance in circuitry and displays. Cellphones alone possessed around two grams for Kioko to work with. More than enough for her to render them useless. The fact that most people carried the devices on them made it nigh impossible for anyone to sneak up on her — unless they were fast. Lucky for Sho, he had been.

“Puncturing tires is less obvious than cutting fuel lines if we don’t want to give ourselves away immediately,” she added. Yes, he was a professional assassin and knew what he was doing. However, if he heavily relied on his Quirk in his line of work, it was possible he had forgotten or never known the true subtlety of the trade.

“And while you could also cut his break lines to injure him before we engage him ourselves for an advantage, it would cause casualties among the commuters and clog the freeway. I would rather avoid that if possible. Ifrit is not above using hostages as shields.”

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[Shō Matsui]

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Internally his eyes rolled at Kioko brushing herself. Carrying an Amazon who was probably over 200 pounds and getting them undetected from their vantage point to where they needed to be was no simple feat. Touching her gave him the same sensation as touching a snake. Odd but not worth investing more thought into, given the prevalence of mutations in society.
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So far, he wasn't impressed with her plan, but she did offer support with her quirk, so he kept that point to himself. Reaching into his pocket, he would pull out Black Talon, which would shift into its nodachi form. The mirrors in place helped immensely with the timing as two arms extended, and he pulled himself up and barely through the bridge. Cloaked in shadows and unafraid of being run over, he kept his head intangible, and when the car came, he would quickly puncture the right tire with a slight jab and then slice a clean hole in the left, causing the vehicle to begin to go out of control. He would lower himself upside down to view Kioko "You're up." he would hang watching through the mercury mirrors as she would manage this feat. Anything he could learn about how her quirk functioned would benefit the current predicament, and if she were ever to be his target, it would make the job much easier.
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[Kushiki Kioko]

I HAVE PROMISES TO KEEP

AND MILES TO GO BEFORE I SLEEP

Silence and obedience were things Kioko appreciated in the scant few people with which she ever deigned to work. She watched as he enacted his half of the plan as best she could through the network of mirrors, though his shadowy nature moving in the shadows of cars and rainfall made him far more difficult to track than a vehicle with bright lights conveniently marking its location. It was unnecessary for knowing when he completed the task she had assigned him, but pivotal when it came to figuring out more about him — primarily his Quirk.

His ability to phase through objects was obvious. His control now as he passed part way through the bridge and maintained such positioning while stabbing the oncoming tire meant he could affect objects he touched and control the property in select parts of his body. It was certainly interesting.

And dangerous.

Even as Kioko’s mind worked to unravel how the Gyrfalcon worked, it fulfilled her end of the arrangement. Her senses extended out. Blood called to kin. Connection was established. All of it timed to reflections and slashes. The affair was far more subdued than what resulted from Sho’s participation in the plan. Daiki had no idea his phone was no longer functional as the mercury within and stripped itself free of its confines and shredded the delicate insides of the device from within — he was too busy trying to not veer off the side of the bridge.

“Already done,” Kioko stated simply in response to Sho’s cue. She had given him no indication of what she had done without ever moving a muscle. It was just another way of proving her mind alone was potentially more dangerous than most people.

The world above the exchange was no less tense and infinitely more chaotic. Daiki had managed to avoid crashing through the guardrails and plummeting into the choppy seas below, but he had careened into another car. Both were at a standstill in the middle of the lanes right before the bridge transitioned into the underwater tunnel that made up part of the aptly named Aqua-Line. Debris littered the wet asphalt around the wreck, further blocking off tunnel access. A queue of cars were already building up behind the scene of the crash. While they were necessary for keeping emergency responders from arriving too quickly upon the three Villains, Kioko hoped the civilians had enough wits about them to reverse away once Daiki dropped his guise in favor of the beast known as Ifrit. For the moment, he was still very human and toppling out from the driver’s side over his vehicle to inspect the damage even as he reached into his blazer for his phone to call for assistance — or backup.

“He’s smart. Smarter than most, in fact. We don’t have much time before he figures out this was no accident and shifts. Position yourself accordingly. I will distract him once he changes to give you an opening.”

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Just as Kioko was watching him, he would use the opportunity to see what he could learn about her quirk. His was inscrutable under the mask of shadows and the cover of darkness, so as he hung silently, his eyes would flick back and forth between the existing mercury and Kioko herself, looking for anything that would give him a leg up in the future. She seemed exactly like the type of person who he would end up collecting a bounty on, and even if she had been careful so far, he was sure that if she kept down this path of what he assumed was a personal vendetta, given the lack of her interest in the bounty that she would eventually end up being the hunted. As he observed her, the most important thing that he noted was that whatever she needed to do with her floating metal didn't require any prerequisites or build-up. She didn't move an inch to take care of her part of the deal, which honestly impressed Sho, given her fine degree of control. Even if she was lacking in the physical department, it was still a troublesome quirk to deal with, especially if there wasn't a tell for how the mercury would move.
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From what he could see through the mirrors, it looked like their distraction plan had started to take root, with Daiki still ignorant of being hunted by the unlikely duo. Sho would take this opportunity to drop back onto the metal platform, changing the weapon form to a hook sword in preparation for the coming assault. He figured that if the legendary Ifrit was as formidable as he heard, his traditional weapon choices wouldn't help much. It was extremely likely that Ifrit had incursion as a commonplace over the years and in this country, a katana was a pretty standard weapon. Any advantage was needed in this case.
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"Meliora." he said flatly "Wide sweeping assault with the versatility of your quirk and my direction assault will give us the best chance we have." he was sure this next bit wouldn't do much to deter her regardless. "Friendly Fire will not be a problem." she knew at this point that he could clearly phase through her mercury and he wasn't going to give her much else to work with. Her snake-like tendencies cemented that the less he shared the better for the both of them. He would use this opportunity to fully cloak himself in the darkest shadows he could muster and before he would pull himself through he would give one more piece of advice to her "Don't die." he didn't really regard human life as all that special, but he could at least agree that they'd keep using each other until the very end. Having a dead Amazon on his hands would do nothing but slow him down. For now, he would stay low opting to stay out of the direction of the headlights in the traffic jam and using the cover of the car to ready his weapon, assuming a stance traditional for Chinese martial arts.

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[Kushiki Kioko]

I HAVE PROMISES TO KEEP

AND MILES TO GO BEFORE I SLEEP

It was here that Kioko should have said something. Issued a correction that could ensure that the tides of battle didn’t turn against them given all they would face from Ifrit. If she had cared even a little for Sho’s well being or if she was even a fraction less proud, Kioko would have let him in on a secret about her Quirk and how it interacted with specific elements. Perhaps even if Sho had phrased his insistence that she could do no harm to him through friendly fire a little differently, she might have spared him from what would inevitably come.

But she didn’t.

Kioko held her tongue. At least on that matter. She addressed the other matter with a smirk and words unleashed from her sardonic silver tongue. “I am far too spiteful to die.” With that, Kioko took the high road where she could (which definitely wasn’t in how she spoke to him) as Sho had quite literally taken the low road. Mercury rose her up over the lip of the bridge then surged forward.

The metallic wave was far different than her normal approach. Her tenuous arrangement required that she be a distraction. So distracting she was. The metal grating against the asphalt like nails on a chalkboard, only infinitely worse in its harshness. Daiki immediately whipped around and as he did, he began to glow red. Truly a beacon calling the Gyrfalcon to action. She didn’t stop there though. Kioko knew what would follow from all of the intel that she had gathered. Her mercury separated into spiraling bullets that shot forward in an attempt to riddle the growing form before it could spawn into the hellfire that was Ifrit. If she could land even a little of the poison into his system… But it was too late. The transformation was nigh instantaneous.



He towered above the scene. His roar caused to vibrate perilously with its intensity and volume. Kioko had to cover her ears as she ran behind a wall of quicksilver she had called back at the last second. She could only hope that Gyrfalcon had fared better on his end. Between the hulking form of the behemoth between them and the steam rising from his body as rain pelted against the fiery mantel encasing him, it was difficult to get eyes on the man. The fact she had temporarily taken cover didn't help matters.

Notes & Tags: Shō Matsui | Ifrit Stats: Awareness (A) - Constitution (A) - Dexterity (D-) - Presence (S) - Speed (D-) - Strength (S) | Ifrit's Transformation Quirk, Hellfire, turns him into a towering monster nearly two stories tall. His gigantic form is wrapped in hardened muscle that looks charred and a mantel of infernal fire that further discourages hits. He can tank most hits and dish them back even harder, but his size makes him very slow and lumbering.

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If Meliora was the brains of the operation and Sho was the muscle at this moment, he hadn't done anything yet. He was far too cautious of a fighter opting to feel out a person's strength compared to his own. He liked his fights quick and painless on both sides as the added suffering due to carelessness was the fastest to rack up bad karma. Not something he was willing to do, and besides, Kioko's "support" likely came with a twist. She was far too petty of a person to assist him reasonably. So he figured he would use her right back if she used him. Even on her signal, he would stay at a distance choosing to hold his position until he knew exactly what he was getting into.
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His instinct was something he could always rely on, and right before the outburst, he could feel the hairs on his neck stick up, and so he would leap backward, wrapping the shadowy tendrils around his body just before the scream that shook the bridge would take place. It would reach his ears for just a moment before he would place the extra limbs over them and recenter himself as it was very disorienting. 'A snake through and through,' he thought with Kioko having withheld this information as she did her homework that he would instead take a different approach. His knack for telling how strong someone was came in handy in this case as he managed to get a feel for the metal that Kioko used during the brief moments he was solid. They didn't make much of a dent, instead burning up into a gas which...well, Sho wasn't stupid enough to stand around and let it happen. He would choose to bound back, falling off the bridge and briefly meeting Kioko's eye contact as the arms from his back held onto the side. Just as she withheld information he would too pull himself back up once he'd fallen far enough and springing into the air raising about 5 stories into the air. For now, it was up to Kioko to ensure he didn't move from his spot as Sho transformed his sword into its buster sword form. That bridge was going down, and if Kioko wasn't quick enough on the uptake so was she. Oh well.

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[Kushiki Kioko]

I HAVE PROMISES TO KEEP

AND MILES TO GO BEFORE I SLEEP

A singular and potentially devastating issue arose at the worst times when one could think as quickly as Kioko — her body and Quirk couldn’t simply couldn’t keep up with her mind. Though the intent had been to pull her mercury back enough to prevent evaporation, the opposite happened to thin sheets of the outer layers even as the bulk of what was left coalesced into her shield. What did not then became an invisible and odorless gas in turn that proliferated through the air. With its state of matter shifted away from its already strange duality, now it was unable to be detected by anyone other than herself unless they had the Quirk or tools necessary to do so. Otherwise, people usually remained clueless.

Until the sickness began.

Anyone that had to breathe in the ever widening vicinity of the vapor would be struck almost immediately by nausea, headaches, and exhaustion as their body succumbed to the toxin. Tonight that meant Ifrit. As mighty as he was, he bore no immunity to mercury. Neither did Sho. And what came up, must come back down. Eventually. For now only Ifrit began the battle against the invasion in his body.

He roared again in frustration at internal pain he didn’t expect. His fires flared even beneath the downpour which made approaching him even more dangerous. Kioko had no plans of doing so, but she didn’t have to. He was approaching her. Such was the life of one dubbed distraction.

The bridge shuddered with each shambling step he took toward her. His pace was slowed by his own bulk and illness. Not that he needed to be fast when he was strong. A long arm reached out to grab a guardrail. It warped beneath force and fire as it was ripped free of the bridge just before it was hurled at Kioko. The debris wasn’t thrown as a spear, but stretched out horizontally. Dodging either left or right wasn’t an option with as fast as the makeshift projectile moved. Which only left up or or down.

Most people would have chosen an upward trajectory for escape to ensure future maneuverability. Kioko would have too were it not for the shadow that loomed overhead with an oversized sword in hand. She opted to drop to the ground to avoid the rapidly incoming guardrail with her mercury shield folding down over her like a cocoon. It wouldn’t protect her from Ifrit should he attack again, but it would help her with what inevitably came next beyond the enemy immediately in front of her.

Notes & Tags: Shō Matsui | Ifrit's Constitution has been lowered by 2 Ranks from Kioko's Quirk debuff and the rain. Ifrit Stats: Awareness (A) - Constitution (B+) (A) - Dexterity (D-) - Presence (S) - Speed (D-) - Strength (S) | Ifrit's Transformation Quirk, Hellfire, turns him into a towering monster nearly two stories tall. His gigantic form is wrapped in hardened muscle that looks charred and a mantel of infernal fire that further discourages hits. He can tank most hits and dish them back even harder, but his size makes him very slow and lumbering.

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The rain poured down behind Sho as he slowly reached the maximum height of his catapult into the air. Even from this distance, Ifrit may have been under a spotlight, and Meliora's assault was doing something to him. Even with his bulked-up frame, Sho could recognize someone in pain from a mile away. Partly because he was good at reading people but mainly because he had personally killed scores of people at this point through various methods, and this was a telltale sign of something going on internally. 'Poison.' he thought to himself as he remembered seeing Meliora's snake-like feature, and it wouldn't be hard to guess that she was the one to do this. Regardless, he had one last big move that would likely kill Ifrit IF Meliora was right about the rain causing complications for him.
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With his blade in its buster form, he would begin his descent, rapidly picking up speed as a falcon diving for its prey. Firmly gripping the handle, he would let the wind catch the blade slightly as it rose over his head. The whole bridge was going to come down, and Ifrit would either die by this blade or from drowning with his injuries. It was up to Kioko to survive this, and while Sho wasn't aiming for her, she would suffer the same fate if she weren't careful. Not that it concerned him, as he was pretty sure that given her propriety for vengeance, they'd be on the opposite side of a conflict soon enough.
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Once he got close enough where he knew the strike would connect, he summoned two more arms to support his swing as he brought the blade down with such force that it would cut through the air, easily splitting the gaseous mercury and raining down on Ifrit. If he weren't bisected by the slash itself, the next bit would do it as a line formed across the bridge, rapidly breaking through the steel and concrete before completely cleaving through it. With the added weight from Ifrit, it would begin to collapse, and the cars started to slide towards the fault line, ushering a faster collapse. The momentum had slowed Sho down enough that he was able to pull himself to the top portion of the bridge at a point that wasn't at risk for collapse. From there, he would observe to make sure Ifrit didn't come back up, and if he didn't? He would leave without another word. Meliora's survival meant nothing to him regarding prioritizing. He was an assassin, not a babysitter.

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✓ An unexpected alliance! Amazing work you two!! [break][break]

+ 5.000 EXP!

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Kioko - 5.000 / 10.000[break]
Sho - 6.250 // 11.250

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Tag: Kushiki Kioko, Shō Matsui

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