After Kasumi's brief mental lapse, she felt much better. Her earlier hallucinations about the fountain's location were likely indicative of her not having stolen anything within the past hour - she made a mental note to steal Caelyn's wallet and make him undress to get it back. That sounded like it would be fun.

Now, fully focused on the battle, Kasumi did two things - first, she created a Mirror Image and had it use two Deceptive Bolts to begin charging illusory Pyromancy spells as it did so. It would strafe out of the mist along a simple arc, keeping its eyes on Shio and her Ocalia, while visibly charging two spells - a Cinders of Kyokujitsu and a Lesser Fireball. It would probably be obvious to an observant opponent like Shio that immediately moving out of the mist that Kasumi had just created would be a bad idea - but it was also known that Kasumi's use of magic was very aggressive - perhaps unwisely so. It would be up to Shio whether or not to think of the mirror image as a real threat. Kasumi herself was also charging two Pyromancy spells of her own - a Lesser Fireball and a Pyroclastic Torrent. She would be able to use the significant zone control abilities of her spells to manipulate the battlefield to her advantage if Shio did not adequately counter her abilities. She was confident in her own skills, but Shio had sacrificed many of her social skills for intellectual and battle skills. It would be challenging to beat her - that much was certain.

Simultaneously to this occurring, Kasumi's Gen made a set of five Ghost Knives, and though it did not initially move, it was prepared to move at any point. Kasumi was preparing to enter into melee combat with her Gen, and to provide enough offence and defensive cover in order to allow her Gen - which had significantly better chances in melee combat than most equivalent Natrelmon - to do what it did best: Pound enemies into dust.