>>5284854You cross your legs and take a moment to let them properly rest, palms on your knees as you watch this play out, and also healing your legs a bit while you recover. Well… let’s see. Pantea’s still holding her own pretty well, so you’ve got some time to plan this out. Looking to Nox again, you decide that you really can’t show off any more skills at this point. Gotta make him believe that’s all you’ve got… for now. So, no Mahou, no extra Magic, gotta work with what you’ve got.
Pantea’s able to avoid 19’s attempts to grapple her, landing a couple solid hits with the Wolf Fang Fist in counter and even finding a way to prevent the plasma ball barrier by grappling 19 from behind and suplexing her as she attempts it. Okay, good, good. But she’s still having to hold back quite a bit. She might actually be able to finish this if she could just get the right opening.
You close your eyes for a moment, taking in a deep breath and exhaling as you think this through. Can’t use anything new. Can’t let 19 get ahold of you or Pantea. Need to give her an opening. Maybe… wait, that’s it! Okay, it’s just what you were using to try and get her off of you. And… you’re gonna have to be sneaky about this.
Waiting for the right opportunity, you very slowly move into combat, and right as 19 attempts another grapple, you use telekinesis to stop her arm. The sudden jerk of her limb stopping disorients her, and that gives Pantea an opening to fire a point-blank Ki blast in her face. The android girl stumbles back, but now she notices you, and quickly she attempts to go after you. You use Telekinesis again to stop her, but she simply fires out eye beams at you in retaliation. You dodge, but she still isn’t giving up, firing more and more.
‘Pantea, you’ve got your chance!’ you tell her telepathically.
‘Okay, I can finish this! Just hold her for a second!’
19 tries one last thing to overcome your telekinetic hold, and to your surprise, she combines her barrier with Light Magic to produce a massive flash. You thankfully are able to Clothes Beam some glasses just in time, but that still drops your concentration for just a moment. She’s able to get right in front of you before you hold her in place again. And it’s not going to be easy to dodge another eye blast from this range.
(cont.)
