"Great work, Kimiko-chan!" Daisuke crowed victoriously, flashing the other student a quick thumbs-up before he refocused on the DRUs in front of him. With the way he grinned, you'd think he'd already one. Maybe in his eyes he already had. Maybe in his eyes the presence of Miyamoto Daisuke and Kimiko Saitou and the embodiment of their spirits, allied with a mechanical fiend turned to their side by sheer force of will, was already proof of victory. Not that the DRUs were very eager to allow him his defiant attitude. The pizza bot he was previously fighting had taken it personally and started to charge him, while two of its brethren moved to flank.

But things were different now. Now, he had Benkei.

The samurai pushed Daisuke back with a forceful shove to the chest, one that the teen didn't fight even the slightest. To the contrary he took another step back himself to let his Persona move in front of him, effectively tagging the much more qualified entity into the fight. The two flanking DRUs were doomed to be outright disappointed, as their fireballs struck the Persona standing where his master had previously been and the flames were simply absorbed into his being. Not that the warrior was paying them any mind.

It, instead, was drawing back its naginata and swinging the haft directly towards the oncoming DRU while Daisuke shouted [i]"Bash!"[/i]. The collision of the two forces would be interesting to say the least, but the eldest Miyamoto didn't plan on being up close to see it. In a rare showing of better judgement he had elected to start withdrawing a few paces towards Kimiko, Kaguya, and the newly-flipped DRU to let Benkei be the new point of their formation.

He was much, much better equipped for it.