Conquestum Paradisi

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Conquestum Paradisi

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What: Closing Arena Ceremonies, Part 2
Where: Aries Arena & Televised
Summary: 1/24/10AC
Warnings: This could get serious...but who knows.

Finally it was time for the mayor, Kazuki Sakahagi, to speak up. Not even an thirty minutes left to the celebrations, but seeing him go appeared to be lighting up a spark in the citizens. It wasn't too hard to see why; his enthusiastic grin and way of walking could easily melt anyone's worry away.

He walked to the center stage as cheering broke out, two men in black and Junko Tanako behind him.

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[blitzkriegzwei]

Ludwig didn't exactly have time to react (and even if he did, he wasn't going to dignify that dig with a response), because the ground under his feet was moving. He went down- and that's when he felt the shot to his leg. The other one must have missed due to his fall. He reflexively cried out in pain, but if he had his druthers, he wouldn't have. He had been shot plenty of times before. This wasn't totally enough to disable him... though he wasn't going to be able to stand reliably any time soon, he knew that much. Staying low to the ground, he summoned his Persona for another Power Slash, this one aimed at Spades. Okay, maybe being shot at was a higher risk than Persona magic at this point.

[hinoto_npcs]

"Pfff. I think he's the first one to go down this quick! Only using your Persona is such a crutch, don't you think?"

She moves Spades out of the way, placing him down on the ground near Ludwig, and instead she gets in the line of fire of his Persona. She catches Siegfried's blade against the edge of one of her wands, pressing the other into the Personas chest. "I've heard that hitting someone's Persona is just like hitting them! Tell me, is it true~?" She lets off a shot, expression bright with glee.

She's being an ass, by the way. Hitsuji already knows quite well that hitting a Persona hurts just as much as hitting a person.

[camoflage]

"Behold, the mighty Visitors from another world! With their oh-so-powerful Personas, they'll surely be able to keep the peace."

Spades extended his arms out to his sides at the flippant declaration, before teleporting away and reappearing in the air above Ludwig; Hitsuji had Siegfried handled, so Spades would handle the user. Aided with the pull of gravity, he swung his leg down right in the center of Luwdig's back.

"Oh how the mighty fall so easily."

[blitzkriegzwei]

Ah, that was definitely going to leave a bruise. Ludwig's grunt of pain turned into a full-out shout when Hitsuji's shot hit his Persona. This pain felt similar to the kind that came about when a national tragedy occurred, a kind of internal burning. However, this was more so than anything he'd ever felt before. That was no ordinary hit! Ludwig could take Spades's kick, but Hitsuji's blast... this was new to him. In an agonized frenzy, he scrambled for his gun and fired two shots at Hitsuji's legs. Dammit, why didn't he just trust his gun in the first place? It would have done damage faster, if perhaps not as powerfully as a Persona could do.

[hinoto_npcs]

Her hand was poised and ready the minute Ludwig pulled out his gun in a scramble, stopping the bullets in mid-air and directing them straight back towards the nation.

"It's not nice to shoot a little girl, you know." She flies down next to Spades, hands on her hips and a condescendingly pouty look on her face. "Rude."

[camoflage]

Once he had connected, he pushed off Ludwigs back to land back down on the ground behind the man.

"Downright impolite if you ask me," He said with a shake of his head, perfectly content with letting the bullets do the damage as he stood next to Hitsuji with his arms crossed. Honestly, he didn't expect much more.

[blitzkriegzwei]

The two shots hit Ludwig in the side. How could she catch bullets like that?! Was her telekinesis really that fast? Ludwig was really at a loss here. He could feel blood seeping out of his wounds- not a feeling he hadn't had before, as he had been shot at many times over his wars- and it seemed they could throw back anything he had. His Persona was too slow, and his bullets could be caught out of the air... how was he supposed to touch them? It wasn't like Ludwig to just up and surrender, though. He fired a few more shots at the duo but braced himself for pain nonetheless.

[hinoto_npcs]

Yes and no. The thing is Ludwig, not that she'd ever bother to explain herself, is that it takes time to pull out your gun, aim, and shoot. All she did was wrap her power around the bullets before they were shot, and merely just redirected them afterwards. Ain't rocket science. Though at the same time, she's been trained to have excellent reaction skills above human capacities, and probably could've blocked them in the air and shot them back anyways.

This time though, Hitsuji merely takes note of where the gun is being pointed and side steps out of the way as he shoots. It probably would've been a bit more difficult to do if Ludwig were at his prime and not incapacitated, but that was irrelevant at the moment. Reaching her power out towards the gun, she jams it from within, hopefully eliminating Ludwig's last line of defense.

"I think he's pretty much done, Spades."

[camoflage]

Even Spades was able to dodge out of the way of the bullets, though admittedly with a bit of a glitch in his appearance. So he probably had to use a bit more teleportation to pull that off.

"Sounds about right to me," he says to Hitsuji, gesturing with one hand as if he were typing a hat at Ludwig.

"C'mon, 'fore the others catch up with him."