Here is the new Quasar member! They checked her exothermic abilities for 4D capabilities early, on account of her fluency in Japanese and having Cricket on their payroll. While she's incapable of moving either kata or ana without assistance, her ineffable esper sense is not so constrained. Her omnidirectional defense isn't as complete as someone actually specialized in defense, but she's comparatively much more capable offensively, and, well. It's a paper origami dungeon. Her major problem will not be destroying things in here, it will be avoiding the entire place being consumed by a raging inferno, consuming everything and everyone inside. No pressure.

She's already in her leash and harness (and it's admittedly very funny that she's going to be taken for walkies by a cat), and gives a very Japanese bow to Cricket. "A pleasure to meet and be working with you, Cricket-san. Ready," for walkies, "when you are. You've been briefed on my capabilities?"

"Yes, you are going to make it hot but not ignite anything in a sphere around us until a crane tries to attack and then it will die."

Nod! "Yes. My destructive capabilities are also otherwise at your disposal, if there's environmental barriers you'd like out of your way. Please put me on the same axis as it, so my pitiful human senses can properly perceive it; with larger contiguous things I'm worried about keeping the destruction controlled."

Because: fire esper in what's essentially a tinder box. She wants to be extra careful.

"What about things that are not politely all on the same level?"

"I'll slice through the level I'm on, and otherwise leave things kata or ana alone unless told otherwise. I'll be acting more like a paper cutter than proper fire, in here. Or maybe a better comparison would be claws." Her mouth twitches, a little. "If admittedly very clumsy in comparison to yours."

"Well, the range matters in this situation." He collects the leash end and spreads his wings. In they go.

Hye-jin gets a close-up look at his 4D transformation, his slit puils going four-pointed and his fluff wilder and looser and intermittent and his feathers or paw-tips sometimes appearing to cease to exist when he flaps or adjusts position.

He is so pretty in here. He was pretty before, of course, but - four-pointed pupils and the metaphysically wild fur are both very striking.

This side of the portal is cleared of staff (4D defenses being more trouble than they're worth in this case; the portal perimeter on the other side is more extensive than normal to compensate), so she turns on her shield as soon as they're through. The air wobbles a bit from the heat, but the visibility is still quite good.

A paper not-crane attempts to ambush them from kata; Hye-jin smiles slightly and incinerates it as soon as it intersects with her perimeter without any kind of prompting. It's as neat as it is fast, which is very. Extended burn times are dangerous, in here; best to pay the backlash cost to destroy things quickly.

"That was a big one. I would like to catch one of the cranes for Haru if we find the core." It ate eighty people, which means it's been around the block. But most places that might have been visited by Paper Crane didn't have Cricket.

They did not! Cricket is a incredibly valuable asset, and Hye-jin is fully aware that she is here at his disposal, not the other way around.

"... Hm. I'm not sure I can capture one alive. My partner might be able to manage it, though. I'll send him a heads up, one moment." She types a message on her phone, sticks the phone through the portal, and hits send.

"The ice guy?" Cricket asks, trotting off down a hill of steel-blue paper with her in tow and then jumping up a touch kata to get to a wider part of the canyon between two stacks. Tug tug goes the leash.

Hye-jin follows after the winged cat, and is accordingly tugged.

"Yeah. He doesn't work in 4D, but ice is better for trapping things than fire. If they were smart monsters that were afraid of fire I might be able to manage it with your help, but I don't want to bet on them not stupidly struggling even though that would result in their death."

"If you could get one to stick its beak in something it couldn't get out of, the rest of it would not be too dangerous, I think. But they do not seem very smart. Here comes one." Hye-jin can't see it at all but a moment later, yep, there it is.

The paper of the origami not-crane incinerates in a quick flash of light and heat. They really are very flammable, these monsters.

"They really don't. I would have thought it could see what I did to the other one. Something to catch and trap their beaks, then, I think my partner can manage that."

"Something that it will want to peck. If it does not want to peck it, it will not work." Trot trot and tug tug on the leash and now they're going through a paper tunnel full of stars. "I smell blood this way."

"Yeah, hm. Their beaks are their primary method of attack, so baiting it into an attack might work," she muses as she follows, at a jog to match his trot.

At the mention of blood she starts a little, but doesn't slow down. "- Oh, damn, no one's thought about blood contamination between victims, have they, they'll all be bleeding and I might need to carry them out."

"I guess you could wrap them in paper."

"Yeah, that's a good idea. Though they might have bad associations with the paper, but that's better than getting a new blood-borne disease. I can also clean the blood off of my skin without too much trouble, just... not really my clothes, so that's a potential disease vector."

"Pity Min-san isn't here to just teleport them."

"It really is! But I think it's one of his battery days, and we'd have trouble protecting him on this side of the portal and also going to find all the victims. Maybe one day we'll have a portable teleportation battery we drag into dungeons in place of him, that'd be nice."

"Yes, it would. A battery cannot have a terrible accent."

"Oh no," giggles Hye-jin. "I haven't heard his Japanese, how bad are we talking here?"

Cricket does his best Min Woo-young impression.

This earns a cackle. "Oh, that does sound bad. I suppose I can be the designated Japanese practice esper?? Try and help him polish his accent? ... There's got to be a normal person who has that as their job, though, that doesn't seem like efficient esper time allocation..."

"It does not. ...this is a flock of airplanes, you can kill them if you want but you do not have to." Airplanes nose into the sphere.