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She let herself grin with Anser's show of confidence in magic, her own magic bow in particular. There were times when she thought it would have been better to have a solid weapon, but she didn't think that she would have given up her magic for it. The clarity and speed was something she found herself craving sometimes, and it was certainly something that had gotten her out of plenty of rough situations.

She nodded. Magic was strong, in general. Some of her worst fights had been with corrupt senshi. She wasn't sure that she would completely discredit swords, but it wasn't something she was about to push the issue on.

She leaned back, stretching her back and enjoying a bit more room as she took another look around the area, both visually and with her aura sense. It was empty. Her grin spread. She could show off a little. "Want to see my new magic?" she asked, tilting her head and fairly sure she knew the answer. "Oh, and yours is stronger too, now, isn't it?"

She wasn't really the one to be reassuring about space, but she still nodded a little at Anser's description. "And I'm sure your planet is lovely, but I wouldn't worry too much about it. You don't have to love it to be a good senshi."

It was nice to see that Anser was just as excited about the magic upgrades as she was about everything else. It had always been one of Cybele’s favorite thigs about being a senshi, and with her upgrade and the new magic that it had brought, Cybele felt more fully realized as a proper huntress.

With that, she grinned, even as she shook her head. “We can try my old magic out with your upgrade, too, if you’d like,” she said, staying cool as if there was a chance her young friend didn’t want to try to break the sound barrier. Their stacked magics might help with that, but hunting at its core was not just about being fast. “But this one is for the bad guys.”

She pulled herself out from the picnic table with only a little awkwardness. She stood with a smirk and one raised eyebrow. A second passed and then another for full dramatic effect.

“Cybele Hunter’s Strike!”

She let her voice ring out. They were in the theater district, after all. The bow that formed in her hands did not disappoint in the flashiness department, either. It was a full longbow almost as tall as Cybele herself, made of pale green light with five arrows notched on the ethereal string. It took energy, so she hadn’t played around with it too much. Now she actually giggled for a second as she fired at a nearby building and watched as the bricks chipped.

Cybele grinned right back at Anser, and then did a little bow, because yes, she was very aware that she was putting on a show.

"I'm excited," she said, coming back over to put a hand on the table, although she wasn't quite feeling like settling back down. "There's been something in the back of my mind all these years annoyed with having the huntress title but only my fists to back it up." On a more practical note, while she did love her magic, there was something to be said about the senshi who had range. Now it would be easier to deal with enemies who, for example, liked to cloak themselves in smoke.

Enemies who ran were probably more what it was meant for, but it didn't sound quite right when she thought about it like that. Did she want to be a sniper?

Anser's enthusiasm didn't leave much room for doubts. Cybele tilted her head at her claim. "You think you'd be able to make my magic faster? All right."

She nodded slowly, letting the smile drop for a second. "Ladies and gentlemen, heroes and villains of Destiny City," she said to the empty air, taking a few steps back and opening her arms in a wide, sweeping gesture, "I present Super Anser!" She nodded at her friend with a smaller grin. "Your turn."

Cybele nodded seriously, letting the over-dramatic flair go for a moment.

"It's good for tracking in theory," she said, but that was theory. In reality, tracing the steps of an animal through the woods for hours didn't really translate well to chasing someone through an alleyway, especially when that someone could teleport. Then, that wasn't a problem that only applied to her. Geese didn't make much sense in this sort of war, either, and neither did Eggs, or Gardens, or any of the strange little "weapons" the Negaverse lieutenants tended to have, but everyone managed to use what they were given with surprisingly fatal results.

She was still glad her new attack had a bit more bite to it.

She presented Anser, and heard her call her magic, and thought she felt something different. Not to be left in the dust, she sprinted after her, grinning wide, and found that she was faster. Very fast, in fact. This magic didn't have a focus boost the way that hers did, but in exchange she was almost certain that this was the fastest she'd ran in her entire life.

It also felt lighter, somehow. More free. With her Eternal speed on top of it, she felt her clothes sticking to her and her pigtails flying straight out behind her. She laughed.

Anser was still ahead of her somehow, which was fine, although she had to yell to make sure her voice carried. "Oh, this is amazing!" She paused to feel the wind in her face for another moment, then added, "Want to see if we can find some monsters before we use up all our magic?"

They'd covered quite a bit of distance before the magic faded, but afterwards, Cybele let herself slow to a walk. A lot of the point of having a friend along was so that they could talk, and it was important to know what they were doing and where they were heading.

Luckily, Anser, as always seemed to be on board with Cybele's usual plan, which was to look around until she found something to hunt and then to slam it with her fists. "All right," she said, still grinning but coming out of performance mode into something a bit more functional.

Although, she wasn't too deathly serious, either. She gave another bit of a laugh when Anser pointed out that they could do it quickly. A giggle, really. She was edging towards getting giggly, and she didn't even seem to mind.

"The monsters won't know what hit them," she said.

Then, they headed out of the theater district and towards the rest of town.