"Does me having it pinned down take the fun out of things?"

"It's dead either way and that's good enough for me."

She won't stand in A2's way, then. 

With the giant so thoroughly restrained, it doesn't take her long to break through its head covering with a series of quick and acrobatic strikes, make one final stab, and backflip to a safe distance to watch it explode into fire and some small amount of component detritus.

Very impressive. 

That ain't shit, really. Two at once, with smaller models supporting? That's a fight.

Bellona would like to see that! 

They'll find something like that sooner or later.

It'll be interesting! 

Back into the forest, next? Bellona wants to try interviewing (or 'interviewing') some of the machines there...

If she wants.

Deeper into the forest, past the remaining evidence of Bellona's experimental crimes, it is cooler in the shade, the ever-present light dimming to a dull twilight. There are no wide and trodden paths, but there are game trails. And indeed, the first grouping they come across is not a collection of machines but a sounder of wild boar in a clearing next to a stream.

...Probably best to avoid those. She isn't hungry yet, and 'wild boar' are a particularly stupid game to hunt. 

Not as satisfying to kill as machines, anyway. And they're not aggressive unless you provoke them.

What all is aggressive?

Mm, pretty much just the machines.

Convenient enough, then.

Fuckin' yep.

The forest is large, so it's another couple hours of walking before they hear a distant sound of rhythmic clanking.

Bellona needs to stop for food and water at some point in that particular trek.

So soon? Well, whatever. Not like they're on a schedule.

She can go without for short times - but ideally she should eat two times a day, more given the demands of her automail...

Damn, okay. Call out when she needs a break then because that's wayyyy more often than she's used to stopping.

It's incredibly inconvenient!!! Bellona didn't used to need to stop at all; she's still very grouchy about stuff like 'humans need to sleep and eat in order to function'...

Rough shit.

She likes having a human body over the alternative - at least the alternative she's experienced herself - but, yeah, it's annoying...

How did she experience an alternative? Aren't humans supposed to have to stick with just a single body?

...So, the thing she used to investigate the YoRHa thing and to trap the machine lifeform is called 'alchemy'; usually you can only manipulate stuff made of conventional matter with it, but if you know what you're doing you can affect souls (among other things).

When Bellona was a kid her body - it became inoperable. Her sister bound her soul to an old suit of armor with alchemy so she wouldn't die; she could move it, see out of it, but... Well.

It took a while to get her back into a human body.