Keiko is too fast for any number of tendrils! (22 Body)

If Keiko managed to dodge all of those bombs and bullets earlier, then what were a bunch of living trees going to do against her? You advised Keiko to make her way through them to approach Shiryoku again and attack from close range. You had full confidence in her ability to get through them! Any coaching here would just take away Keiko's concentration, so with that message imparted, you allowed Keiko to focus on her footwork.

Shiryoku's eyes still weren't watching her opponent... it looked like she was focusing on her HUD, perhaps still fulfilling orders. However... when the mid-range tendrils were overcome and Keiko emerged, running atop them at full speed, Shiryoku gasped and moved her hands from her glasses to her staff. "Ensnare... Ensnare...!" she encouraged the plant tendrils, seeming to use the same ordering method with which she'd had bombs delivered earlier. The tendrils tried harder and harder, but Keiko was running across them like a ninja, avoiding having her ankles grabbed and closing in distance all the time. The glasses began to slide down Shiryoku's nose as her pink lips trembled. "Ensnare! Ensnare! Ensnare!" she begged, now backing up towards the edge of the arena and holding her staff in both hands, as if trying to decide if she was going to try bonking Keiko with it, or if that would just make things worse.

"What are you doing?! You're not making orders! Use those glasses!" Bungen growled, probably both through telepathy and out loud where you could hear. "You can do both! Your processing power is the highest among all elves! Protect yourself and fill orders, dammit!"

"M-Mister Bungen, I can't do it! I can make orders, but I can't stop the girl!" Shiryoku wailed pathetically, now with her back pressed up against the wall of the arena. Once Keiko was almost on top of her, Shiryoku, with tears in her eyes, began flailing her staff wildly back and forth, hoping to score a hit. "Get away! Get away! Get away!" She repeated the command over and over, as if she was placing another order.

Keiko was in no danger of falling to such an attack, but she also didn't need to get any closer. She pointed her sword forward and released an array of blade bits, which began to encircle Shiryoku Zai, cruelly cutting away her sports bra and bottom with a series of diagonal slashes. The girl opened her purple eyes with a nervous frown, then wailed as the glasses Bungen had given her also fell in half, each spectacle falling to one side while the leaf she kept tucked over one ear drifted down at a slower pace beside them. At this point, Shiryoku Zai was left with only the minimimum... Which you had to admit, you were pretty excited to see, despite feeling sorry for her.

((+4 Body))

((+1 Sin))