Astrid did not wait for Lan Jia to recover with her first attack.
She lunged forward, foot cracking against the tiles of the floor as she closed the distance in an instant. Her axe roared to life, something along the blade flashing as compressed air detonated around it.
"MOVE!" Astrid shouted.
Kyouka was already gone.
She blurred sideways, low to the ground, daggers flashing as she slipped under a wave of newly forming golden threads. Her blades sliced upward, carving clean lines across Lan Jia's torso. Sparks and golden ichor sprayed instead of blood.
Lan Jia hissed, staggering back. "You little sh—"
A gunshot cracked.
Selene fired point-blank, her pistol barking again and again as shadow-coated bullets slammed into Lan Jia's shoulder, hip, and knee. Each impact exploded into writhing darkness, pinning golden threads to the floor like insects nailed to a board.
Nina came in from above.
