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[meanspirited]

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[shadowkin]

[He is not about to get less loud, unfortunately -- it's not just a chuuni trait but also a trait of people who spend too much time fighting in totally unrealistic time constraints. Anywho, Cid does pout a little but at the very least Wanderer won't have to wait too long; sometimes you are used to zero mercy people who would in fact continue to paste you across the ground.

So it's time to get up! It's time to sweep and get swept.

But first:]

Isn't the amount of multitasking in this world kind of unreasonable? There's incantations, focuses, brooms, weapons, potions, stones... And now I have to work out my thigh muscles too???

[We have no idea what he's imagining but it is probably a small (small!) mercy that he doesn't have to literally do leg day on brooms. With a small pop! Cid's broom jumps into existence -- it's kind of a ridiculous affair since the end is made up of an entire bouquet of knives instead of bristles. It's like a flying hazard. Maybe this is why he doesn't want to use it.........]

I wouldn't say I'm really tricky type...

[So actually. Instead of getting on the broom he just starts running at Wanderer with both broom and sword in hand. He normally uses the sword two-handed but y'know what. Can he try transforming the broom's size a bit too to see if that helps.

It's not really a weapon but maybe he can whack the focus if he dual-wields.]

[meanspirited]

[How does this fight keep getting more and more ridiculous...

At least he can summon a broom, but using it as a weapon? Really? He can't even admire the creativity because it just looks so absurd.]

This is hardly the most demanding sort of magic out there.

[It's not like it's going to cause your body to burn internally from the inside out for untold centuries! That's only a temporary, localized problem. Shylock got out much better than Signora did.

He doesn't move to defend his focus, though. He knows that's Cid's target, and it'll be an important lesson for him. He manages to smack the Vision, and the gem bobs in the air and flips a few times, but... it's metal and gemstone. A broom isn't going to destroy it outright.

And while the Vision spins, the wanderer darts in to grab Cid's wrists so he can toss the boy. He's already much stronger than a normal human his size would be, but using magic to further augment his strength means Cid is about to have a nice trip.]

[shadowkin]

[Perhaps luckily for both of them, Wanderer has not even begun to see how ridiculous fighting Cid -- specifically -- can get. Instead he's forced to deal with Leeroy Broomsword Jenkins.]

It's pretty demanding!!

[It's not demanding, it's just clunky. He misses his pared down and nicely streamlined, incantation-less, super-efficient-super-polished variety of magic. It's more aesthetic. He actually even misses just directly whacking things with swords-and-various-implements, with his slime out of commission. Actually, he even misses some of the old magic-blocking techniques. So much would be preferable to having the entire system up-ended.

But it's not all bad.

For one, as "Cid" he gets to do whole-new-and-heretofore-untold varieties of slapstick, such as for example slapping fruitlessly at an unknowable thingamabob in the air that is presumably magic-shaped while awaiting getting summarily yeeted. He should give this a name and number in Normie Technique parlance.]

WhOAAAGYAAHGHHHCKKUGHHYAAAN!!!

[........ while he's thinking deeply about Normie Techniques, the following things also occur:

1. Cid curls up a bit when his wrists get snatched. It's important, as always, to have proper falling technique.

2. He's still got his hands full. He makes sure to yeet his sword first, because sometimes multitasking gets a little hairy. Off it goes! Goodbye, sword.

3. He really was serious about that thigh workout, actually. While he's getting tossed in the air by the equivalent of a tiny angry pomeranian on speed, he grabs and grips his broom with his legs; so he can't somehow get impaled on it (intriguing, but messy, maybe another time when he doesn't have other things to do) and because if he was going to get impaled he might as well fall on his own sword much more dramatically.

4. With a series of noises much like a balloon that's somehow deflating and exploding at the same time, boy, broom and all go bouncing away in increasingly unhinged trajectories until everything ends up in a fountain on the grounds. This is going GREAT.]