'J-just a few more seconds, and… if I can just buy a few more seconds…!'
She had a failsafe, just in case something like this happened—an item that would activate ten seconds after a negative status condition was inflicted on her.
One would that was a short time to wait, but in the presence of a Grade 3 Demon, a ten-second window was plenty. Tia could only imagine how much damage the Demon could wreak—how many lives it could take—in that short interval.
It could wipe them out!
'The moment it takes its eyes off me, I'll use my Gift!'
Tia's Gift [Immobilize] allowed her to halt anyone she looked at, as long as she kept a constant watch on the target. A condition for this to work was that she couldn't be in the line of sight of the target.
In essence, she could see the Demon, but the Demon couldn't see her.
