"Because I know what an EMP is. Thanks for the baton, by the way. It's a lot easier to throw lightning around when there's a source I can feed and channel it through! I've done that with Dev's batons too, without blowing them up. Real useful."

The demons on Erda hadn't thought so, but fuck 'em.

"It's still going, too, inside all the wiring in here? I'm still feeding it. Probably fry half the shit in here before I let up. Other than Babysitter, of course, because it's search and rescue. Real durable! Real good at protecting the guy inside, and at telling him the current's unsafe to exit yet. Although if it's not even connected to the system anymore, then all the better. Less cutting for me."

Koumyou's still so very cheerful about it all.

"Speaking of cutting."

Oh boy, oh good. Koumyou hands her hair off to a curling tendril of the sutra, which hauls up on it hard enough to make her go onto her toes.