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Her ankle she doesn't allow to give at all, though Eliese will deign to allow her head to be twisted to the side by the punch. (An unaugmented human's extremities would still be broken by the impact in both cases.) The latter action is mostly to make it harder for Zero to read her lips as she incants a spell that causes her grabbed hand to burst into flame.

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Zero's reaction to holding on to a fiery wrist is, as befits her name, exactly zero. She instead squeezes and twists, as if she's testing the breakability of Eliese's joints - 

- And digs suddenly clawed finger-tips into the skin, and she grabs for Eliese's neck with her free hand. 

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"Clingy one, aren't you?" Eliese says as Zero connects. Her fire hand extinguishes itself, and Eliese slowly forces it out and to the side.

And then, seeing as both Zero's hands are occupied but she still has one free- "Gelskin," she says, and Zero loses all purchase on her body as Eliese delivers a full-force palm strike to her sternum.

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That moves her! She goes flying back. ...Though she decelerates faster than physics would suggest possible, flipping and somehow ending up in a crouch about ten or so feet from Eliese.

"You're strong," she says, approvingly, and then she takes a swing - 

Without getting any closer. Instead, a red shockwave trails from her fingertips like claw slashes, hitting even harder than she does as it snaps at Eliese's legs. 

Followed very quickly by Zero, who blurs - 

And is suddenly behind Eliese.

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It's been a long time since she's sparred this close to her level.

Hop up into the air over the shockwave, spin and snap a kick at Zero's face.

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Zero grabs for her leg before she can make contact. 

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"Ice Spike," which grows out of her foot at the same speed, continuing the trajectory.

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Zero ignores that! (The blow lands, and does actually successfuly cut her. Like every other time Eliese has plausibly damaged her, she doesn't react.) And instead yanks at Eliese's leg, possibly trying to get her off balance, possibly trying to rip a joint or two out of alignment, while striking for Eliese's core with her other hand. 

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Hard to get leverage when Eliese can support her center of gravity at will, hovering in midair. Incidentally, this makes it much easier to do improbable twisting dodges.

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She does her own improbable twisting (partially supported by Eliese's leg) to try and kick Eliese in the head as she's dodging the earlier blow.

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Head: is bonk. Head is then spinning back around to deliver Zero's head a bonk of its own.

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She's apparently aiming to turn the oncoming collision into the world's most aggressive kiss, and she grabs Eliese's shoulders.

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She's fine with that.

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And what about Zero slowly, sneakily pulling up her shirt while kissing her? 

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She's not quite distracted enough for that to work, alas.

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She can increase the distractingness of the kisses (though she's going to get frustrated soon).

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Perhaps she should occupy her hands in other ways. Eliese can demonstrate.

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Hmmm... Still doesn't result in Eliese's shirt coming off. 

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Alas.

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Seems conventional means aren't helping Zero there...

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As a magical girl of her experience, Eliese is more or less immune to inducement by conventional force, it's true.

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Then it's time for unconventional means - 

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Which apparently translates into Zero screaming as she starts to glow - a brilliant white fading out into bloody red light, power swirling around her, probably outright disintegrating any normal clothes in her blast zone - 

Also: not particularly safe to be standing this close to her. 

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After one accumulates enough power to push themselves beyond normal limits continually, the next trick learned is extended that superhuman durability to the things one wears. Unless one happens to be a particularly showy sort, admittedly. Eliese has known one or two girls of that persuasion, who prefer to spend that magic on fanciful glamours. Not her preferred approach.

Still, best not to spend too much time in the vicinity.

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She swipes at Eliese - 

And multiple overlapping claw-like shockwaves - as if she's condenscing all the attacks she could've done into one blow - snap at Eliese - and Zero's significantly faster than she had been (to her, the rest of the world looks slowed down, distorted like it's moving and being seen through thick water, light bending at odd angles - this is incredibly difficult to tell from outside her, since she's glowing brightly enough there's not a lot of visible details from her body, but she does seem oddly blurred) - and she's attacking again even before her first attack technically finishes, pursuing Eliese, keeping close - 

The intentional attack is far, far more deadly than simply being near her.

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