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A smile tugged at the corner of Asclepius' mouth at her partner's words, and she nodded once before jumping backwards. The beast toppled a bit more quickly than she was expecting, though; the Senshi of Medicine let out a yelp of surprise as claws attached to short arms came within reach of her, and cut her across the leg.

Taking an extra step back to get out of the beast's reach, Asclepius winced and hissed between her teeth. Just her luck that her newly-upgraded uniform covered less than it did before ... not that she much expected the cloth to stop youma claws.

The cuts in her leg were shallow but hurt like hell, and were still bleeding. Asclepius wanted to take care of them before she risked losing too much blood, though it lent her some confidence that the youma had fallen down already. She had not yet tried out her newly-upgraded attack, but the part of her mind that was fighting through the burning
pain to keep her thoughts level was urging her to try it.

The Page had not announced herself to power-up, and Asclepius was fairly sure it was not appropriate to call her powered ally by her civilian name. She settled for omitting it for the time being:

"Hey, can you keep it occupied for a few seconds?"

"I think so," the older girl replied. Then, bringing her hands down in front of her and cupping her palms, she took a deep breath, blocked out the pain mentally as well as she could, and gave her new senshi magic a shot:

"Eucrasia Restoration!" Light shined from her hands, and a dish of medicine formed resting in them, as with her plain senshi spell. Last time, this elixir had done nothing for Asclepius herself - it would restore the magic of other senshi, but the girl had tested, and all it really did to her was taste funny. Still, though, some sort of weird inner feeling (starseed or possibly a touch of heartburn) was urging her to drink this down anyway.

And so she did, swallowing the clear blend that reeked of herbs. At least that was something she was gradually getting used to. But as she did, the Senshi of Medicine felt a tickling sensation across the wounds in her leg. Once she had finished the dish of medicine, the container itself disappeared, and she grasped a fistful of fabric from her skirts to wipe the blood from her leg. Healing was still in progress, but it looked like the cuts the youma had given her were knitting closed again, leaving behind fresh, pink skin. To much strain might force the wounds open again, but, as she fought the urge to scratch the odd sensation of magical restoration, Asclepius realized that they were at least not hurting or bleeding anymore.

A flash of red on her ally's arm caught the girl's eye, bringing her back into the battle. There were still entirely too many teeth and claws flying around, but the brown-haired girl felt reassured that she should be able to heal the Page if she needed to.

But first, probably best to take down the youma.

"Thank you," she called out, moving back in range to fight, hands at the ready. Asclepius was not sure whether or not there was enough room to edge past the dinosaur-youma to kick its knee out again, but it looked on the other hand like it would be cramped for the thing to try to stand or move now that it was mostly inside the cafe.

"Looks like it!" Asclepius replied, then realized that her tone had sounded unusually cheerful. Not bleeding was something to be pleased with, though. Her magic had done more for her than she had expected, too - in spite of no longer having a collar to cover her shoulders, the senshi of Medicine decided she could get used to this whole Super thing.

As she was wondering how best to get in closer, the youma decided to save her the trouble and leaned in to snap at her again. Asclepius got in a quick punch, fueled mostly by surprise, but, by the stinging of her knuckles, she doubted it had done too much damage. The beast, injured by Hesperis' assault, according to the noise it let out, tried to lunge a little further into the cafe, still snapping its teeth.

"I think we've almost got it," the girl added, narrowly avoiding fangs again. It seemed to be getting more desperate, at least. She took a moment to get her footing, and aimed a much more solid punch at the monster.

Asclepius relaxed as the beast crumbled to dust, and started towards her ally to check on her. "Thanks," she offered, then, "You okay? Need any healing elixir, since I can apparently heal wounds now?" She could feel that she still had enough energy to make another one - a sort of interesting but comforting feeling, just knowing that the magic stores were not empty.

There was a shifting of some of the rubble from the youma's unceremonious entry into the cafe, and the Senshi of Medicine immediately tensed again.

But it proved to be just the shopkeeper. He raised his head from behind the counter, eyes wide, and then managed to widen them further when he saw the pair of powered girls in his shop now. Shaking fingers withdrew a cell phone, and as he wondered just how exactly to word his tweet about this, he bubbled over with words:

"Oh my god, you saved my life! Both of you! What about the two girls who were in here before? Are they okay? And what happened to the thing?" His lip quivered, and he smashed out a text on his phone, then jumped up and asked suddenly, "Can I, uh, get you anything? You guys eat, right? I think we have some cake somewhere that's not smashed. Anything to drink?" His hair flew into his eyes as he whipped his head around to check the coffee pots. "Coffee? Water? Juice? Tea? Anything? Just ... thank you!"

Laughing once, Asclepius glanced from him to her companion. "... A milk and a coffee?"