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There was a time in Lina's life when she would have sat back and watched the idiot newbie get eaten by the greedy youma. There were times like this, when she was the one being forced to intervene, that Lina might have missed those days in her life. There was a toying moment where she considered dusting the damn thing with the momentum of her fall but no, that would have been too easy.

The least this idiot could do was dust her own damn youma. Exasperated but not willing to have a death on her conscience just for being incapable, inexperienced, and mildly annoying, Lina simply dropped quietly down the side of the building. She could have perhaps dropped the thing from where she had been standing but that was not only grossly theatrical but slightly ineffective.

Twenty feet away Lina's Interference shot off and the youma stopped its prowl towards the glowing page she was guessing was one of her own. Mercury. "Don't you know how to do this? Or are you fresh too?" It wasn't really gracious.

Well at least she wasn't making excuses. That was always a good start and it meant that there could be something actually made out of this girl. "You're Mercurian right? That makes you more my responsibility than ever and this thing is about to get up. I'm Lina." It was tossed over her shoulder as the fully-grown Knight stood between the monster and the girl. "The first thing you want to remember is that youma are at least as fast and as strong as you are. Sometimes stronger depending but if it's got two legs and looks like it can chase you, you need to stay on your feet and on your guard."

Already the beast was rising and shaking off the affects of the Interference. It was a damn shame that it was so short but this was pretty much the perfect example. Her scouter was indicating a basic youma of somewhat humanoid intelligence, which explained why it hadn't detoured to any smaller prey when chasing this page.

"Back up a bit please." It was a pleasantry directed at the youma as Lina reared up and kicked it in the torso, sending it flying back about ten feet. "I'm both stronger and faster than it is. You are not. I would try to take it out as fast as you can, but don't be sloppy. Try out what feels right and I'll make sure you don't get too beat up." But beat up somewhat was always worth the lesson.

A blue eyebrow shot up a bit at the tapping of the youma. Odds are if she kept that up she'd just wake the thing into being rather angry. Usually Lina hated being right but right about now she was pretty sure that she was one hundred percent accurate. The monster was only too happy to oblige her mental batting average by raising its ugly face towards Hesperis and reaching out with one hand, swiping.

"They're not human though some of them look pretty close. They're all monsters fed by the energy of innocent human lives. Don't ever feel bad about dusting one because if you do, you save lives. If you don't dust it, it will go on to consume more and more." The annoyance had gone out of Lina's voice and there was nothing but firm lecture in her tone. The youma seemed to be appreciating her words, shooting a grin towards the knight and striking out again towards Hesperis.

"He wants to play with you. Knock him silly."

Being magically enhanced did wonders for a fifteen year old girl. It was probably a good thing that Lina didn't know how old her rescuee was, else she probably would have popped an embolism and died right there on the spot. Younger and younger they were getting. Wasn't it bad enough that she had started at sixteen? Halfway to nineteen now and so burnt inside from everything that had happened.

She only had one kidney.

The power of the swing was duly recorded on Lina's scouter and the youma did indeed go staggering sideways. His head shook a few times to clear it before he staggered again. There was even a noticeable dent in the side of his head which was...new. "Again! And watch out, he's not going to give up." The human features were vanishing to be replaced with the beastly ones the bluenette had been hoping for; its intelligence was vanishing into rage.

However it also meant that Hesperis was going to have to be a bit more creative.

Otherworldly strength. It was the gift that they were all given when they sold their lives over to whatever power held its claim. Senshi, Negaverse officer, knight, it didn't matter. They all could do things that no human could do, take hits no human could possibly survive, and could wreak havoc on a poor youma. Hesperis' kick with momentum behind it in a move that Lina herself had used once upon a time, sent its head caving inwards.

It fell, twitched, and exploded into the fine dust that a youma became when it died. Walking up closer to inspect it there was seen a look of some sadness on the knight's face before she turned to Hesperis and held up her hand for a high five. "Good job." What else could you do or say?

Wasn't this high-fivey s**t the way to get things done? Her own personal experience with reward was to threaten an action and then not perform it as the reward. Example: I will beat you sideways myself if you don't spar properly. Somehow, she didn't feel this would go over well with the knights.