"Hey, just trying to keep it a little bit humble," was Shoichi's only reply to the red-haired lass. It then seemed to be the case that Suzu would move toward the battle between Middles for the sake of defending against a shot fired by Kaori. Having satisfied himself with the battle of Ultimates, Shoichi watched this interaction in time to see the defensive wind maneuver, and the reaction of the white-haired girl with a robotic arm and, apparently, eyes. "Kuso!" the girl spoke from within the crater. "I had that, Tsusu! Oh, but since you're here! Check out my new shit!" From the under part of her forearm, the girl produced what appeared to be another cannon, aimed toward Kaori from over Suzu's shoulder. It quickly launched a spray of thick liquid, which was in fact a muscle-relaxing agent meant to turn its victim's body limp. With this spray, she intended to fully disable the Machine Queen to allow a more up-close and personal approach thereafter. Kaede knew how this woman moved now, and had adjusted the width of her shot to adjust to her maneuvers. However, when it reached the halfway mark, the liquid was suddenly forced into hundreds upon hundreds of small bubbles, which all exploded in a chain reaction from the point closest to Kaori as to have all of its major impact where Kaede and Suzu stood. The result would be both the explosions, and the application of the liquid itself to the victims, while Kaori would have remained just out of the radius of both. "Uh... Tsusu, it ain't supposed to do that!" the girl exclaimed. As this occurred, Shoichi looked onward with a twinkle in his eye, and a smile on his face. He didn't seem to have moved at all, but this was most certainly the Sky King's doing via a method he discovered during training with the first generation's Water Queen.

Having finally removed himself from the train, Hisashi stumbled forward to return to his previous post. The explanation of this girl's abilities was ludicrous at best, and though he wouldn't admit it, there was nothing in his arsenal that could deal with such a Road. "Che!" he muttered. "Well ain't that dandy? So, what, we're just gonna stand here and look at each other?"

In the meantime, Hanako may have evaded the rocket via Sawa's support, but there was another pair of individuals emerging from the smoke left in the explosion's wake. Akira's resurgence came in the company of Miwa, whose speed had taken the pair of them up the side of a different building directly beneath the balloon. The maroon-haired man received a boost great enough to reach beyond Hanako, while the blue-haired lass took herself on a slightly different path. If left uninterrupted, her body would go crashing into the Panther of White Spell, throwing them both off the given path to the balloon while Akira reached out for it. As this occurred, Shoichi had something to say to the pair of Panther and Decoy. "Oi! I forgot to mention, but Tink gave you guys a pair of sleeper ATs! Those ain't normal; ya' gotta be you, and they'll do... stuff!"