>>5469972"Leave it to me!" you shout, dashing over to the hole and leaping in. As you do, you shoot a quick telepathic message to Meloka. "If you need a hand, let me know."
"I got this asshole, go kill 'em all." Meloka replies with a thought, detonating both of her blades and leaping back, keeping Silva's focus on her and allowing you to head down into the manor without pursuit. You smash through several floors towards the sounds of battle, smashing through a final one emerging into a surprisingly large room.
But immediately you find yourself hovering above a bizarre battle. Cooler is fighting the young seeming girl whose drawn a paper fan, wind twisting around her like a small tornado. With each sweep of the fan she sends thousands of small white specs whistling through the gusts of air she makes, Cooler's Ice Ice Baby creating walls of ice that intercept her attacks. But to your surprise, the gusts actually cut <span class="mu-i">through</span> his frigid wall after several seconds!
“TCH!” Cooler exclaims through gritted teeth, his wall giving him enough time to avoid the blast and fire back with a half-dozen icicle spears. But they're destroyed completely by her gusting winds and the whatever they are dancing around inside her current. You, however, don't have time for this.
“OUT OF MY WAY!!” you bellow, charging directly for the cracked door behind the kid. Who sees you coming and at first sends a trio of small tornadoes your way. But you don't even flinch, using your Energy Body to the fullest and charging directly through them. The surging winds bounce ineffectively off of your armored ki, the young woman leaping aside at the last moment. You slam into the double doors at full speed, knocking both off their hinges as you charge through.
“Ice Ice Baby!” you hear Cooler shout out from behind you, no doubt taking advantage of the opening you'd made him. But you don't slow down to make sure, you have your own target. Surging through the halls, you start to see what appear to be some sort of automated defense system, the machines seemingly cut through by a white-hot blade. Which means Arctus went this way, confirmed a few moments later when the hallway opens up into a larger room and you find him.
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