Forks does not really seem like the place for... An escaped exotic pet of some kind? Whatever it is, it's fluffy and cute seems remarkably clean, with long purple (dyed?) tail and ears. Looks sort of rabbity. It's been hanging out around town for a couple of days, near the school for the most part. It never seems to get wet, either.
It's very cute, with energetic, puppy-like movements and big round eyes. It's watching everyone at the school most afternoons, almost as if looking for someone.
That doesn't seem to be a thing! At least, not in an adrenaline-fueled quick attempt at it.
All the Abyssals that try to pass the wall of chains get shredded. It's a scene of mania and chaos, but it's not getting any worse, now.
Welp, she'll keep making them fight each other since her better ideas aren't working.
Titanium Steel is being really quite destructive over there. Big sweeping attacks, smearing monster goo everywhere. Eventually, the swarm falls below some critical mass and seems to - fail to exist - the remaining patches of ooze start smoking and fading away like boiling water.
Are their minds going simultaneously with their bodies?
Seems like it! The animated chains start retreating back into the ground at this point.
"Ugh, swarms. Gravity Maven would have got 'em in twenty seconds."
"Yep."
She stomps back towards Bella.
"So, yeah, monsters. Nasty little things, and this one was close. I'm going to have to review all my 'fuck off' runes..."
"Don't you keep track of the number and location of breakthroughs? We can look for a trend. I haven't noticed anything."
"Do you have like, monster senses or something?" Bella asks Puchuu.
"I guess that stands to reason. Is there an obvious tactic I missed for dealing with swarms, I was just making them fight each other but it didn't scale up well."
"Swarms are just kind of hard unless you have big splashy attacks, or a barrage power. You could have tried mana bolts?" The armor shrugs with the sound of sliding metal. "Well, we seem to be good here, so I'll invite you back to the warehouse."
"Getting groceries I think? I was working on something, I usually am. The timing is weird sometimes, but that's just life."
She takes her helmet off, apparently telekinetically at this point. Her flat tone doesn't change at all.
"Let's go, I can show you around! Show off all my hard work! Soon as I put this back up. I have an iron man suit-up thing, but it's a bit slower to put it all back."
The green puchuu perches on her shoulder and Titanium Steel waves Bella to follow as she clomps back the way she came.
The warehouse: Is a warehouse. It has a faded logo, the same as the weird bland holding company that Puchuu sent her book from- "Western Logistics Specialist Team".
She ignores the security keypad on one of the external doors, instead interacting with the blue glowy shapes spread across it in circles. "I'll key you into this permanently when we know you a little better. For now, just follow me in- It won't stop you from leaving.
The door opens with a hum of magic, felt in the new part of her like a subsonic vibration. Beyond it is a sort of locker room with no obvious magical properties. Clomp-clomp-clomp she goes to a white square painted on the concrete.
"One sec!"
Metal chains come out of various lockers and shelves, taking the armor apart piece by piece and storing it away.
"Oh that's really cool!" says Bella, applauding lightly. "Uh, is there a real Western Logistics Specialist Team?"
"...Teeeeechnically yes? It's a cover story. These cultists Gravity Maven found a year ago, uh, think more Amish than devil-summoning, it's, they 'sell' some of my rune projects as 'art' and do some random Amazon shipping stuff on the side to seem like a real business, and order us furniture and food and drive us places in the vans sometimes. It's a little weird to talk to them, honestly, I mostly leave it to the Puchuu."
"Thinking mankind's sin causes monsters and magic is a blessing from God in the vein of Jesus or something?"
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