Love is Blooming Event (forward dated to 14th)

[answerer_sword]

1. 1130 Taylor Road

[Bazett had thrown out the flowers that Mayfield had left her the first two or three times. However, since the white hyacinthes kept coming back, she eventually stopped. After all, they seemed to have no effect beyond looking pretty.]

[Even on the morning of the 14th, when the flowers have had an entire night to work their influence on her, she wakes up and does not feel any obvious effects beyond feeling slightly uneasy. The flowers' sweet scent is just a little bit overwhelming. This time, instead of simply throwing the flowrs in the garbage, she uses her runes to light them on fire and does not stop until she sees that they have been reduced to ashes.]

[Even so, she feels a little wary of the effects that these flowers might have had on her. As a result, she resolves not to go outside and to simply look out her windown instead.]

[Needless to say, not even this will spare her from what is to come.]

2. Action; All Around Mayfield

[Bazett is going on a rampage, trying to hunt down all who she has deemed an obstacle to her maddened love.]

You! Get out here! Now!

[As if to intimidate her target, she smashes her fist into the closest structure, denting it.]

Comments

[organizeyoursockdrawer]

[Hey Bazett, guess who just so happens to be walking past your house?]

[answerer_sword]

[The second Bazett lays eyes on this (tall, dark and handsome) stranger, she feels a strange feeling in her chest. It is a warm, fluttering feeling, almost as if she is floating on clouds. It is a feeling that she has only felt once so far, and that was when she was around Lancer.]

[Feeling it as she looked upon this man was...unsettling.]

[Nevertheless, against her reservations, she finds herself opening her door, trying to get a better look at him.]

[organizeyoursockdrawer]

[Aaron turns when he hears the sound of the door opening, and stares at Bazett for a moment.]

Ah. A fleshy one in its natural habitat...

[answerer_sword]

[Fleshy one.]

[For some reason, that term makes her heart skip in her breast.]

Um...ah...I...I was just curious...

[The last words are barely a whisper. She is blushing luminescient red.]

[organizeyoursockdrawer]

Oh? Are you speaking to your robot superior?

[answerer_sword]

Yes, I am.

[She is growing steadily more frustrated, but not with his words. Instead, she is growing frustrated with herself because she fails to feel any anger at his words. In fact, just being able to talk to him makes her...happy.]

[organizeyoursockdrawer]

And what is it that you want from this sexy robot?

[Boy is he going to be happy...]

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[maguskiller]

[Yeah, he's not going out.]

[answerer_sword]

[She cannot help but agree with him. To her right now, he is very sexy.]

I...just to...talk?

[Even though she is asking him to talk to her, she is too overwhelmed by emotion to think of anything to say.]

Re: 2

[answerer_sword]

[A car is tossed onto his lawn. The woman who threw it shows up shortly after, looking for her target.]

2

[maguskiller]

[Not the car...]

[Looks like his assessment wasn't incorrect. The bounded field alerts him of the location of the Enforcer, and the wreck confirms his suspicions about her power.]

[Kiritsugu has dealt with a lot of magi, but he has never had an Enforcer dispatched against him. Natalia was unlike most of them, so simply basing his strategy off of her will not work.]

[It is highly unlikely she's using sheer physical power. Reinforcement. Could abuse that through an Origin bullet, but he may need those later.]

[No claymores set. This event was sudden, and preparing the house for an attack would put him and Maiya in danger as well. He'll have to rely on the Calico M950.]

Time Alter -- Double Accel

[Not double at all anymore, but fast enough to allow him to complete the installation of a claymore and its tripwire in a minute. His mind doesn't speed up with his body, but the steps are engraved deep enough in his mind to allow him to carry them out at faster speeds.]

[Yet that's not the main purpose of the spell.]

[By making use of magecraft, Kiritsugu has left hints of prana in the room, basically pointing towards his presence in it. If he is to lead Bazett to this room first, such a step will be necessary. He opens a window, trying to climb to the roof through the back of the house. His coat is heavy with Contender and Calico, and in his pocket rests a detached IR heat detecting scope, which will serve in carrying out an analysis.]

[He's trying very, very hard to not think of Illya as he does this, but the ever-increasing emotional side of him considers this some sort of revenge.]

1→2, on Taylor Road?

[ex_seventh238]

[Maybe she'll catch you when you slam the door open to your house and burst out into the street like a bullet..........

Ciel was on her way home after some errand, just carrying a shoulder bag when she stops a short distance from her house. She definitely notices something off, likely related to her neighbor that's standing there who seems to be in a frenzied state for no explanation whatsoever.

...

She's on her guard now, but by all appearances just looks like a surprised passerby. Bazett does look to be in a hurry, maybe she shouldn't say anything and just... possibly get out of the way if the other woman starts for her direction?]

Re: 2

[answerer_sword]

[The door is torn off its hinges and tossed aside. Bazett steps into the room. She can just about smell that man's prana.]

[She draws a rune in the air. Kenaz, the rune of sight. She will be able to find him now.]

[As she glances around the room, she realizes that he is not there. Instead, there is only a tripwire and some sort of human weaponry.]

[She scoffs and, with a couple quick strokes, destroys the tripwire. Her Reinforcement and runes protects her from receiving more than a couple of scratches from the ensuing explosion.]

Are you really that much of a coward? Is your love for Aaron this weak? If so, you should have stayed away from him in the first place!

[She steps into the wrecked room, intending on tearing the house apart to find her target.]

Re: 1→2, on Taylor Road?

[answerer_sword]

You.

[She walks toward the other woman, glaring intently at her.]

Get away from Aaron. You are coming too close to him.

[In the throes of her maddened love, she can only see Ciel as a love rival to be eliminated, preferabbly via killing.]

[ex_seventh238]

-Who? [The only Aaron she knows is Aaron Taylor, a student of hers that's been droned for over a month now.

But um yes the murderous intent is kind of hard to miss, especially for a trained elite Executor. She shifts a bit, doesn't back away from where she stands but definitely ready to retaliate and move if Bazett dishes out the first strike.]

Miss Bazett, you don't seem to be thinking clearly. ...Are you okay? [Well.


Obviously not, but that'd help her at least to determine whether the other woman was sane enough to answer back.]

[answerer_sword]

I am fine. It is you that is the problem.

[She is shifting into a fighting pose now.]

You have until the count of five to get out of my sight and never interact with me or Aaron ever again. 5...4...

[Clearly, Bazett is not sane right now. After all, she is obsessing over someone other than Lancer.]

[ex_seventh238]

[Ciel mulls over this.

She could just get out of there.

But then what? Would Bazett let that insanity of hers harm anyone else?]

...I'm not interested in that person, I don't even know who you're talking about, but you won't believe me, will you? Then I'd like to ask something else. Is how that person treats you really worth fighting and killing someone else for? [If this Aaron is a drone or just a one-sided crush she developed out of thin air, maybe that'll get the gears running a little.]

[answerer_sword]

...Yes, he is.

[To her, it should be an obvious fact. In her mind, Aaron is the man she loves more than anything else. And she will let nothing stand between their true love.]

Are you...doubting him?

[With that, she charges at Ciel, intent on punching the woman who has been so brazen as to doubt Aaron.]

[ex_seventh238]

No, I'm doubting you.

[That said, the shoulder bag is discarded on the lawn of her own house, albeit more covered in snow due to the season. She gracefully tilts her body aside to dodge, and whirling a 180 on her knee, will attempt to counter by throwing a well-measured chop on Bazett's nape. It's not really a hard strike, but if it hits, it's aimed to knock her unconscious. ...It'd knock any normal person unconscious, at any rate, but she thought it was worth a shot like this first.]

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[maguskiller]

[Inconvenient. Kiritsugu hears the explosion from above, the pain of his magecraft finally setting in.]

[Explosions will be of no use. This is reminiscent of his battle against Kayneth, but there, he had the advantage of facing a Mystic Code directly linked to his opponent's magic. While an Origin bullet may very well kill someone making use of reinforcement, it'll have to be to an extremely high degree. What's more, it would have to be at the precise moment she makes use of it. The possibility that Bazett keeps it on at all times is there, but he can't count on it. Not when she's already heard of his methods.]

[Such thoughts pass through Emiya Kiritsugu's mind as he traverses the twenty steps required to cross the roof. Waiting for the side-effects of his Reality Marble to stop, he begins to climb down the front of the house, avoiding passing through any windows.]

[He cannot resort to using the walls to his advantage again. Once the Enforcer realizes he's not there and starts to head out, Kiritsugu won't have time to reach the roof before she gets to the entrance, easily being able to spot him from there. He'll simply have to make her path to him as threatening as possible. Of course, the moment that becomes evident, she will follow his every step, sealing his fate.]

[At a swift pace, Kiritsugu reaches the kitchen, opening a drawer. Five grenades are now in his possession. Two M67 fragmentation grenades. Two M18 smoke grenades, yellow. One flashbang. While the materials for claymores are found within, Kiritsugu only removes a single tripwire.]

[None of these will eliminate Bazett Fraga McRemitz by themselves. Not with her status as a moving fortress. But she will not endure them without the use of magecraft. Hoping to avoid the use of special ammo, his first choice is to catch her unaware. Kiritsugu does not wish for Bazett to know where the grenades come from. He could very well be dead before they hit the ground if she does. Instead he attaches the tripwire to the pin of a flashbang. After releasing the safety lever, he starts heading towards another window. He doesn't fully close it, leaving a small space through which the pin can pass when pulled by the wire. Now he has a visual on the room. If there's a necessary flaw in this plan, it's that the flashbang will drop to the ground upon being released of its pin. A five second interval during which she can react. However, if she's as unacquainted with technology as Kiritsugu believes her to be, she may very well ignore it, believing it to not differ from a fragmentation grenade, which will not be used until he's sure she has been dazed by the first part of the plan.]

[Now it's just a matter of waiting until she abandons her efforts upstairs.]

Re: 2

[answerer_sword]

[Bazett tears through the upstairs rooms. The man is not in any of them. For a moment, she considers the possibility that he jumped out of the window, as well as the further option of following him out of the window. However, she decides that she will have a better chance of finding him with the berkana rune.]

[The rune indicates that he is still in the house. She follows it toward the kitchen window. In her path, she finds another tripwire.]

The same stale old tricks, Emiya? I thought the Magus Killer would be smarter than that.

[A spell incinerates this tripwire as easily as the first. She braces herself to meet another explosion, but is instead greeted by a flash of light.]

[Her eyes have both been reinforced and enhanced with kenaz. As a result, the flash of light easily overloads her vision. However, despite the sudden blindness, she persists in following him, now using his prana trail as the sole indicator of his position. Should there be any obstacles in her way, she will just obliterate them.]

[answerer_sword]

[She notices the chop and twists her body to avoid it. Instead, she catches the blow with her shoulder. Though it does not hurt her much, she still notices that there is a good amount of force behind it.]

You...

[Using the momentum of her turn, she lashes out at the woman with a reverse roundhouse kick. The speed and strength she puts into this attack is stronger than the previous one.]

[maguskiller]

[All as planned so far. If she was searching for him, then reinforcement of her eyes, a basic thaumaturgy skill, would naturally follow.]

[With the flashbang disabling the visual and auditory capabilities of his opponent for a precious few seconds, Kiritsugu has the perfect window of opportunity to test his theory. Removing the pin and releasing the spoon of a M67 grenade the moment he pulls the wire, he throws it through the window, the sound of the crash hopefully deafened by the flashbang's effects.]

[There's two ways this battle can go.]

[Should Bazett activate her reinforcement only when she needs it, then the fragmentation grenade should end the battle, neutralizing her at least long enough to land a finishing blow.]

[However, if Bazett truly keeps her reinforcement on at all times, then the grenade will have no effect, similar to the blast of the claymore. Yet this will mean that her magic circuits are activated at all times. That piece of information is all he needs.]

[Kiritsugu draws the .22 Remington Thompson Contender, as well as two rounds of ammunition between his fingers. One is the .30-06 Springfield round, capable of piercing through most types of armor, yet undoubtedly useless against reinforcement capable of stopping explosions. The other, just as strong, is the bullet made from his own ribs. One of eleven left. Logic dictates that preserving it would take precedence over his own life, which Mayfield should restore, but his natural will to live overpowers that one piece of reason. With a flick of the finger pushing the trigger guard, the firearm's chamber opens. Kiritsugu waits for the blast, ready to stand from the cover of the window whenever he hears it.]

...

[Something still bothers him. Bazett hasn't used her Mystic Code. It's entirely possible for magi to lack one, but an enforcer of her caliber should have attained one by now. He assumes she hasn't regained it yet, but the sheer thought that she is normally even stronger than this is almost enough to separate him from his Magus Killer mindset... Just his luck that someone like her would know Kotomine.]

[answerer_sword]

[Bazett, of course, is the type to keep her Reinforcement on at all times. She has a large enough prana pool and to her, choosing to drop the Reinforcement at any point during a battle would be foolish.]

[As a result, she shrugs off the adjacent explosion and makes her way toward the window, brushing off the fragments that have clung to her clothing. Instead of taking the time to open it, she smashes it into pieces and starts going out through the new hole.]

[ex_seventh238]

[Damn, this'll take a bit. ...Well, not that Ciel thought it was going to be easy, she already had an idea the first time she met her, and having caught sight of her around Lancer just reinforced some already existent suspicion.

She doesn't say anything, but the complete lack of expression on her face towards blows that could easily kill a normal person may speak volumes about her experience.

Ciel backsteps. It may look light when she kicked off the ground, but a blink later and she's several dozen feet away now, completely out of Bazett's range and standing idly further down the street. And once there's some distance between them, she doesn't make another move; she just waits.]