While Margarette was still rushing towards her daughter's injured body, Riley turned into a cloud of mist and was swept into the wind. To her surprise and that of the rest of the bystanders, the person Haruki had stabbed accidentally happened to be a swiftwind spy clone.
"Distracted again?" Riley mumbled as she appeared behind Haruki through a shadow.
"Wha-" Before Haruki could turn around, Riley slashed his shoulder with her poisoned sabers. "Ughh!"
Wincing at the blunt strike to the ice scales, Haruki teleported away from Riley, but Moriyana had some other plans than to let him escape.
"Ballerina, leap through!" Leaping forward to her command, the marionette leaped through a bright pink portal and disappeared from sight.
