Things are calming down..., Takano thought as he glanced around the battlefield. The black dragon Rider, Ryuga, had proved himself capable enough. Imperer was beating on two more Roaches, and it seemed like Ouja was just about done.
Where did these monsters come from? Mirror Monsters typically don't hunt in large packs like these, and it was odd that they would attack an area with this many Riders around. Of course, Takano didn't know that there could be so many Riders gathered in one place, so maybe the Roaches just got unlucky?
In any case, he was now sure that the white Rider in front of him was the priestess. From the looks of it, the girl had no idea where she was or what she was doing. She probably didn't even know how she got here, Takano sighed.
He had more worries than babysitting newbie Riders, and he didn't know if it was wise to protect other Riders. From what he had deciphered from Kanji's and Kanzaki's notes, this was supposed to be a Rider War. Still, even if the girl did possess a card deck, she was more or less a victim here. Takano would play dirty, but innocent people were a different matter.
And besides, he could hear a faint sound of fizzling. He still had some time left in the Mirror World, but there was no point. With this many Riders around taking on the monsters, he might as well take a break early and get away from here.
"Let's just get you out of here, ok?" Raia said to Femme. "Did you get dragged here from the pond? Yes?" It was probably an unnecessary question, seeing as EvilDiver (and by extension Raia) knew the answer already, and the girl probably didn't understand what he was asking anyway. But Raia was too tired to care. Without waiting for an answer, he picked her up by her arm (a bit roughly, but oh well), flung her into the water, and watched her disappear through the Mirror World fabric. Raia then turned to look at Knight, and shrugged, "Sorry about that. Free lunch. Plenty leftovers though."
And then he was gone.
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Gatack_Striker: I sent you a PM. Please read.
The battle should be just about concluded by now. Ryuga has taken down, what, like 8 Roaches by himself? Raia (with some unwitting help from Knight) took down 5. That makes 13. I'm going to leave the remaining 7 Roaches to Imperer, Ohja, and Knight (in particular, it seems like Demetrivamp and Argent_Hyo didn't get any action yet, so I want to let them have a few more posts before concluding this).
Hope you had fun. I have in mind a bit more to these Roaches than them being just fodder for our characters. Gatack_Striker, I'll write to you about this and see if you idea with my idea.