[ he's not sure which part of this is stupider, but he's resigned himself to his fate and being a part of this... train wreck. For so much insult done to these soldiers and yet somehow they are okay with a snowball fight to be the score settler... well, Guren just has to question how deep the insult runs. That, or how loose the screws in the typical Blanc soldier's head are.
Even so, while he's not exactly supportive of the choices made for them by forcing participation, Guren at least is absolutely serious about winning. And there's nothing better than to know your backup in a throwing match are long-range skilled. Their accuracy is pretty on point. This is a piece of cake.
Or, it was. The newly appeared reinforcements are a bit of a surprise (not really--there's ALWAYS reinforcements--although their timing and popping out suddenly from nowhere is) but even then he's so used to sudden and unexpected difficulties presenting themselves on the battlefield the it's taken it stride. From there, things go relatively well so long as they keep alert to mini ambushes in their continued quest to be kings of ice mountain.
There is just one tiny mistake made by the lieutenant colonel in all of this—he never does have enough time (nor does he force himself to make some) to identify exactly how or where the reinforcements spring from other than them popping up from under the snow.
So when one pops up directly behind him, he twists and manages to get out of the way of getting a snowball right in the back of the head. Intentions to counter attack require him to backpedal enough to switch places with his opponent—which would have been fine if the trap door wasn't still open. Or, if Guren knew about its existence. One second he's swinging to throw a pile of snow at the poor sop who thought they had a chance via their tactics...
...the next he's making impact with a friendly snow pile on the ground.
Way below the ground he was standing seconds ago. The fall smarts and while the s ow prevents any injury, for the immediate moment he can feel that uncomfortableness echoing your body hitting against whatever just broke your free-fall.
Guren sputters, coughing out bits of snow and ice before rubbing at his face to remove any from getting in his eyes as he goes to look up towards the hole in the hypogeum's "roof" bleeding daylight.
This is some bullshit. how does he get back up? (How the hell did the soldiers and mechanical beasts get up there, even?
Suddenly this seems to have become significantly more complicated to win.
(Guren curses himself for his own shortcoming as he rides to his feet and starts dusting himself off of clinging snow, all the while hyper-alert of any dangers down here now, too. He should have known better and been more careful because of course the enemies had to be coming from somewhere. There will be no second mistake consisting of assuming this cave area is abandoned or is a cease-fire zone until getting oneself back up to the arena. Maybe it's really all just one huge part of the game. ]
closed to Shinya & Yoichi ( two. )
Even so, while he's not exactly supportive of the choices made for them by forcing participation, Guren at least is absolutely serious about winning. And there's nothing better than to know your backup in a throwing match are long-range skilled. Their accuracy is pretty on point. This is a piece of cake.
Or, it was. The newly appeared reinforcements are a bit of a surprise (not really--there's ALWAYS reinforcements--although their timing and popping out suddenly from nowhere is) but even then he's so used to sudden and unexpected difficulties presenting themselves on the battlefield the it's taken it stride. From there, things go relatively well so long as they keep alert to mini ambushes in their continued quest to be kings of ice mountain.
There is just one tiny mistake made by the lieutenant colonel in all of this—he never does have enough time (nor does he force himself to make some) to identify exactly how or where the reinforcements spring from other than them popping up from under the snow.
So when one pops up directly behind him, he twists and manages to get out of the way of getting a snowball right in the back of the head. Intentions to counter attack require him to backpedal enough to switch places with his opponent—which would have been fine if the trap door wasn't still open. Or, if Guren knew about its existence. One second he's swinging to throw a pile of snow at the poor sop who thought they had a chance via their tactics...
...the next he's making impact with a friendly snow pile on the ground.
Way below the ground he was standing seconds ago. The fall smarts and while the s ow prevents any injury, for the immediate moment he can feel that uncomfortableness echoing your body hitting against whatever just broke your free-fall.
Guren sputters, coughing out bits of snow and ice before rubbing at his face to remove any from getting in his eyes as he goes to look up towards the hole in the hypogeum's "roof" bleeding daylight.
This is some bullshit. how does he get back up? (How the hell did the soldiers and mechanical beasts get up there, even?
Suddenly this seems to have become significantly more complicated to win.
(Guren curses himself for his own shortcoming as he rides to his feet and starts dusting himself off of clinging snow, all the while hyper-alert of any dangers down here now, too. He should have known better and been more careful because of course the enemies had to be coming from somewhere. There will be no second mistake consisting of assuming this cave area is abandoned or is a cease-fire zone until getting oneself back up to the arena. Maybe it's really all just one huge part of the game. ]