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The handle of Arin's pistol catches Lastia's wrist, deflecting the swing and firing at close range. The rhythmic magic blasts conjured at the tip of the pistol was similar to the roar of a waterfall, as if the noise was mute or the water stopped moving in between each shot. Using her caught wrist, Lastia shoved the pistol away from herself before any of the bullets were fired, preventing herself from getting hit point blank.
Arin's left arm followed suit, swinging to the front of her own body which was naturally in front of Lastia's torso due to their extreme proximity. Lastia ducked and lifted her right leg at once, slamming the tip of her feet into the second raised pistol before it could shoot. From there it descended into a brawl, without her weapons Arin should be at a disadvantage, but...
Getting her pistol kicked away, she lifted her leg and smashed her heel into Lastia's torso, pushing Lastia back a few steps with spittle flying out of her mouth and an unsightly groan. She took a moment to regain her stance, Arin took the opportunity to fire some magic bullets with her remaining pistol. At the last moment, Lastia had no time to punch away the bullets so she shielded her face with her left arm.
Smoke wafted off of Lastia's injured arm, but she made light of it and pushed forward, deflecting the next few bullets with her punches. She hopped into the air at lightning speeds and swung her entire body, her leg made a full spin and struck the pistol with maximum force, causing her to let go and the pistol to fly. The pistols faded into the air, their existence was maintained by Arin's magic, so she was capable of letting them disappear and reconjuring them again whenever she wanted. However, she was forced into close quarters combat.
Landing on the ground, the same leg swerved in the reverse direction to land a devastating attack, though it was swiftly blocked by Arin's hand to hand skills. She exerted her physicality and grabbed the leg before it landed and pulled it closer to herself to throw Lastia off balance. With her right leg seized and her arms naturally being too far in this disadvantages stance, Lastia hopped with her remaining leg and uppercut Arin's chin, causing her to release Lastia's leg and allow her escape.
Lastia spun back and landed on her feet before closing the distance once more. Arin lost her consciousness for a moment but quickly recovered, just in time to see a large fist blocking her field of view. She swung her left fist and slammed it into Lastia's arm, pushing it up, then she threw her right like a missile that went over Lastia's own punch to hit her square in the face. Lastia dodged to her right, taking a page from Arin's book she also used her left arm to tackle Arin's right, pushing it away with the back of her hand.
Lastia kicked her abdomen, pushing her body towards the ground as she crouched in slight discomfort. Lastia moved quick, edging closer and throwing punches right as Arin was making sense of what happened. Concentrated on their arms, she forgot about the legs and took the kick by surprise. She reeled from the shock and raised her left arm as hard as she could, smacking into the underside of Lastia's right punch just in time, but her strength persisted and her knuckle managed to cause a shallow cut in the skin of Arin's cheek.
Out of Lastia's sight, blocked by her own arm, Arin's left leg struck a high kick at her head. The attack was partially blocked by her shoulder, but Arin's toes still smashed into Lastia's ear sending her collapsing to Arin's right. She wobbled with a step, then stabilised herself with the second. Choosing to waste no time, she used that lowered body position to ram into Arin with headbutt. Lastia's head landed on Arin's bare chest, causing her body to fly backwards for a few metres before landing into the ground with a few rolls.
Arin pressed her arm into the ground and lifted her tired body back up, a magical girl should have numerous more times stamina than a regular human, but receiving attacks and regenerating the damage also causes physical fatigue on the level that a human should not endure. Even so, she was only a little tired that lifting her body was harder than usual, but she could still continue the fight.
Lastia landed in the space in front of Arin, kicking things up a notch, she fired multiple successive punches which landed squarely in Arin's torso. She tried to block with her arms as usual, but the first few hits bruised her skin but the last punch fractured her left arm and sent her flying into the ground.
She rolled to her left and hopped on her feet with her core strength, dodging one of Lastia's attacks which caused large cracks over the point where she punched the ground. If Arin wasn't careful, that would have been her ribcage getting destroyed instead of the ground. She side stepped and conjured her pistols once more, firing a volley in quick succession and practiced movements.
Lastia deflected the first 2 shots before blocking her face and running through the volley. She couldn't keep up with how many bullets there were, so it was better to first close the distance. Her advance noticeably slowed, and she couldn't see where she was going, so Arin took the opportunity to jumped to a higher vantage point.
If they took their battle to a rooftop, they would definitely cause some property damage. But at this moment, she had all but forgotten such optimistic concerns. Lastia spots Arin and rushes towards her, leaping from wall to roof, then roof to roof. One leg slides along the tiles as the other spins a large berth to strike at Arin. This time Arin puts all of her strength into blocking with her arms, smashing her arm muscle into the back of Lastia's leg, then with an open palm she used her left hand to grab the swung leg from the top and threw Lastia into the roof.
Lastia's head smacks into the roof top, the weight of the attack caused Arin to let go, so she quickly repositioned herself.