The instant the Arrows entered the battlefield, before Gunko had even appeared...
York immediately shouted, shifting some of the hostility elsewhere.
Sephiroth intercepted Golden Lion, while Isabella hastily acted to save York from the tide of arrows.
Momousagi, meanwhile, charged straight at the fat Praying Hands.
-Gion, even if the worst happens, I hope you can recover York's "helmet" if at all possible.
Vegapunk's request from before the mission surfaced in Momousagi's mind.
"You're not getting away!!"
A high-speed Flying Slash tore through the exhaust port on the fat Praying Hands' rocket pack and severed his main power lines.
According to Vegapunk, an ordinary explosion wouldn't damage the "black box" inside. That let Momousagi attack without holding back.
"-"
The blue flames from the rocket pack of the fat Praying Hands, Ryan, suddenly went out. With his thrust out of control, his massive, three-meter-tall body began losing altitude.
Only the electromagnetic Rocket Boots used to adjust his flight posture kept him from crashing immediately.
They weren't like old Vegapunk's impossibly advanced DOM Boots. There was a gap in every specification.
Momousagi immediately pushed her razor-sharp combination of Soru and Geppo to its limit, flashing rapidly through the air without regard for stamina.
Ryan turned and flew backward, spraying shotgun pellets and machine-gun rounds to intercept her.
Through the cameras in Ryan's helmet, Momousagi's figure left a trail of stretched-out afterimages.
-Swish!
Momousagi's blade flashed again.
Without anyone interfering, in a pure one-on-one fight, even a precision-engineered Praying Hands couldn't last long against her.
The slash gouged deeply into his mechanical outer armor, almost splitting his chest open. The vertical light on his helmet flickered.
[3...]
He lost power and fell from the sky.
[2...]
A few Geppo steps brought Momousagi close to the Praying Hands.
"-!"