To plan to gnaw at the tree of truth..

[Nodoka Hanamura]

Bride nods. "Yeah, just that she's all I have in terms of Blood, as humans put it. I worry too much, especially about her." She shrugs, chambering the first round into her shotgun, and then checking her pistol. "There's been too many times I've worried about her and Hanamura. I'm worried she's going to get her into danger, and I'll never be able to live it down. I don't know if you know it.. Birdie probably does, but - She is, as far as I'm aware, the only other prototype. I still wonder, since it's obvious they abandoned the project, or it's been shelved or something - that we're not the only ones. we're the last two out of 28, but god only knows if there's more. That's why I'm worried about her."

Honya responds with a mere few words. "I will tell you in a moment, Birdie-chan." she says, as she proceeds to unload, check the magazine, and reload the gun. The Drones step out and at range, start running around in the distance. She aims down the sights, aiming slightly above the leader's head. A rapid fire burst is seen from her gun, as they all hit and decapitate the first droid due to the sheer force of the rounds hitting it. A cold look demarcates her face as her processor prioritizes ballistic calculations, tactical information, weapon and health status, environmental factors and other information above all else, merely as a show of her ability. A burst of four shots are seen as they hit the second droid in the head again, her firing timed to the femtosecond for maximum accuracy. Although the AR-57 is a personal defense weapon, given it was shooting at targets from over 800 meters away, it would be easily mistaken for a Rapid-firing Marksman's rifle, however, it's questionable if it is due to modifications to the gun, or the barely armored droids. A third burst is seen from her, 5 rounds - all but one hitting, but even then, the shots kill the third droid, only for Honya to repeat once more with 3 shots to the fourth and what seemed to be final droid.

Honya looks to Nodoka, and waves, only to detect something off, as the fifth droid appears behind her and attempts to attack her. Sensing this, she proceeds to turn around quickly before it can strike, delivering a swift kick to center mass, causing the droid to fall. As it attempts to get up, she proceeds to bash its' head in with the butt of the gun, disabling it. "Zettai nai." she says to the corpse before looking to the group and dropping her serious demeanor for her usual warming smile, looking to the group. "How did I do?"

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