[h2]Kohinata Miku[/h2] The strange kidnapping blob was fortunately defeated... and unfortunately released a cloud of yet more bugs, which seemed to be far harder to take down. Her response to being almost directly in the crowd once more was to try and retreat backwards to some clear space, even if this put her by the crazy scientist for a moment, and to keep utilising Shanguang: making up for lack of power in each attack by sheer number. Nothing compared to what many other Symphogear could pull out, but they were bright lights... ... and insects were known to be attracted to bright lights, even in the face of imminent death. It might make the hail of weak beams more useful if the things attacking them were going for the attacks rather than the two girls, that was for sure. Once they were gone, they could get out of this laboratory; it was already starting to unnerve Miku a little. [hr] [h2]Artorias the Abysswalker[/h2] "Indeed, that doth seem like our appointed task," Artorias stated, kneeling in order to not risk headbutting (and thus potentially damaging) anything in this completely human-sized room. To aid in finding the source of this plague would surely fix any such destabilisation in the world--or doubtless lead them towards it. A world-consuming plague could surely not be irrelevant to their appointed journey, no matter how simple it was for them to deal with the dead as they came. "Doth thou not have some inclination for the refuge of these 'bioterrorists'?" They seemed to be hiding more than the Abyss had, from her description.