#battle update

[leblancoracle]

Futaba was absolutely overjoyed when the battle came to an end. She watched everything go down from her Persona and was gently let down before it disappeared. There was a mixture of emotions showing on her face: elation that this was all over and joy that they all did a good job, and some sadness because there was still that lingering feeling that she hadn’t done a good enough job and too many people got hurt because of her inability to get the weaknesses and such properly analyzed. She tried to emphasis the positive emotions, but it was something that she was going to have to deal with.

Plus, she was also annoyed that people were laughing at Maruki’s situation. For god’s sake the guy got himself hung up by the enemy and ended up getting really hurt and there were some that found it funny?! She would poke fun at people for sure, but usually it was about stuff that didn’t matter. A missed attack that didn’t matter, doing something silly. All of that was poking fun at worthy. This wasn’t, and she was annoyed at it for sure.

There wasn’t much time to really examine all the myriad of emotions she was experiencing, as this world’s Yu came over to her and gave her something strange and told her that this was something that she would be interested in. And interested in it she was. It was some sort of metal cube that radiated yellow light from within it’s core. At first glance she thought maybe it was something that revealed something upon opening it but she couldn’t find any obvious way of doing so.

If that wasn’t enough, she was going to soon be shown the existence of that video that was seemingly damning this world’s Kirijo group and Mitsuru in particular. That was another topic for another time. Now it seemed that everyone was going to be getting the spoils for a well fought and won battle. She was going to leave that to the leader of her group to deal with. For now, her main priority was seeing what this metal cube had in store. Whatever it was, it had to be important, and maybe it was a key to understanding everything that was going on.

[myuzucompendium]

“Ow ow ow...fuck everything hurts and I am in pain.” She had been sitting back finding the best approach to attacking these new shadows but found herself getting hit by the one element that she was weak to, twice at that! It knocked her on her ass and caused a bunch of frost burns covering her body. Plus the overwhelming cold was just not good to her and she was shivering, having a hard time moving around and having to force herself up now. God this was annoying and she hated everything about this. She took a few steps back and got herself propped up against a slot machine still in an incredible amount of pain. If she was hit by 1 or two more of these Ice attacks she was going to be escorted out on a stretcher.

[myuzucompendium]

“Welp, the casino is on fire.” Leiko remarked feeling mostly fine though the fire was certainly scorching her a bit. “If we use this confusion to steal all the money will the shadows ever notice through all this thick smoke?”

[leblancoracle]

“Ah I see, so that’s how the Priest shadow works.” She talked to herself having partially analyzed the shadows and seeing that first attack that went through. “So it has an effect that whilst active can’t be damaged, presumably until the other one is defeated. Got it. So we need to do more damage towards the Magician shadow for the time being.”

[leblancoracle]

“Great job everyone! 2 more shadows down!” She declared sounding extremely pleased with their performance so far. There was some hitches for sure thanks to status hell but really it was going about as well as one could hope, and she was pushing aside any of her doubts. Of course there was one more phase to get through though and they pretty interesting looking shadows. “I just hope one of these don’t expect us to shower it with thousands upon thousands of yen for some seed based faith stuff. I hear that’s a pretty bad real thing in the United States.”

[leblancoracle]

“I am a great navi, I know I am. Why am I getting so frustrated for having troubles like this?” She was having mid battle doubts. She knew that she was a good navi and was getting told she was, but there was this doubt that permeated her that she couldn’t really shake off, and it was quite annoying. Seeing people get hurt, deal with statuses, and not being able to help much, while they all guess what the weaknesses and resistances are, which is her job, it well, got to her was the best way to describe it.

“Okay, enough wallowing Oracle. You have a job to do, just get it done with.”

[leblancoracle]

It was time for another group of Shadows to take down. Now she was seeing more of what was going on, and if she was correct there was going to be one more group of shadows after this. That meant that they had to switch to a strategy that involved taking down these enemies whilst using less energy. That way they would be able to tackle the last group with everything they got, and then earn themselves a break. Though with the way one of them was approaching they may have to figure out a way to force it back.

“We can do this everyone, don’t give up!”

[leblancoracle]

After that mass rage attack Futaba sat back and was just contemplating stuff. This was going to be a status battle war of attrition wasn’t it? Unfortunately for her she couldn’t really do anything, being a navigator and all that. All she could do was observe everything and hope the ones who were hit by the mass rage attack wouldn’t attack each other. The so called baby battle was bad enough but with certain individuals being raged? Well,  that wouldn’t end well. “Either we help cure the status or hope they don’t attack each other. This is getting annoying quickly. Hopefully we can kill it before then.”