"Severa..." Touma could only utter, wondering how she could maintain her composure at a time like this, before something strange happened.
Suddenly, Othinus stopped and began to cough out of nowhere. Her knees faltered and she clumsily fell against the wall, her palm hitting the side as she coughed violently, even vomiting some degree of blood, shockingly enough. Even she was surprised at this, as though indicated from the shocked expression on her face and her one visible eye.
"W-What...?! I don't understand...!"
"Was... Was that the Ultimate Nullifier's power? Or was it...?"
"Fiamma of the Right...! This can't be..." She grunted, clutching her chest as though she could feel internal damage afflicting her body. Even with the full power of a Magic God at her side, it seemed that even she had her share of vulnerabilities, delayed as the effects might be if it was true that this was purely the power of Fiamma's spell, rather than any result of the Ultimate Nullifier. But one couldn't exactly be sure.
With a hateful glare toward everyone, gritting her teeth tightly, Othinus took a step back, for once not saying anything more. With a sharp
whoosh, she suddenly disappeared from sight, as though feeling the need to flee to recover from whatever had suddenly afflicted her, leaving the group by themselves without a word.
"W-Where did she go?!" Touma exclaimed, looking around, still aghast at what he'd seen, but all the same, he was reinvigorated by the thought that even as a Magic God, she'd been able to be wounded. There was hope, after all! Remembering that Fiamma of the Right and Ollerus were gone, Touma sighed, musing on how aside from Leivinia, he was the only one here who had any knowledge of Othinus, being from her world, and if there was one thing he had observed from her...
"Jeez... Wherever she is, I think we should at least try and look around Knowhere," Touma suggested, as though taking the initiative to make the decision for the group, even though, admittedly, he had little experience with leadership -- even Leivinia probably would have been better for this -- but he had to press on. It might have been more for his own sake at this point, but he needed to do this.
Pointing to a barely functioning map of the station, conveniently placed on the wall, flickering on and off as though it had sustained damage before they came here, Touma pursed his lips.
"... I don't know what we'll find, but... It's worth a shot for something else to get past her, right?"
To that end, it seemed that there were
three areas that were worth looking into, highlighted by the young man's fingers.
"I'll look into the Command Center myself, and you guys can follow, but... How about this? Maybe some of you guys could also look at the Med Bay and the Member's Quarters? Maybe... Just maybe, there's some people who are still alive!" Touma exclaimed, eagerly clenching his fist as he was rejuvenated,
"If Othinus wanted to keep some of them just on the edge of life... then at the very least, they're still alive, right?! Let's go!" He exclaimed.
With the options laid out to everyone, it was time to move once more.
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