[center][h3]Photo Finish Finale! F2
3/5/2015 Sunday[/h3][/center]

While Noboru was taunting it, Rui used Sukukaja on himself to make sure he was able to move quickly enough... Or at least, try to keep up with the mantis. The mantis though didn't really take Noboru's taunt too kindly, and before he could do a thing, he was struck with a deep slash across his body. Intense pain, followed with relief was what Noboru experienced as Leiko was ready to heal anyone who got struck, the first person just happened to be Noboru. Matthew attempted to carpet bomb the area with a Maragi, but somehow the mantis avoided most of it, and took minimal damage. With Sukukaja cast, Rui attempted to go in and strike it down, but each of his attacks were evaded, and he only managed to just barely avoid the mantis' counter-attacks. It didn't look good, the mantis was able to almost immediately take them down with a single attack, and it didn't seem to have used it's stronger moves yet. Although good news had come.

[color=magenta][i]"I got it! It's weakest when it attacks, and it depends on slashing rather than power, if you block it's attacks, it should stagger"[/i][/color], she informed. Rui knew who to look to for this. He turned to the man with the fists,

[color=slategray]"Noboru, you're up"[/color], taunt and parry basically. It seemed to be responsive to taunts, though as is, Noboru wasn't fast enough to see it coming. He immediately cast a Sukukaja on Noboru too, to ensure he could.