The akuma seemed quite pleased and proud of itself as it had caught the girl where it could sense the innocence coming from. However as Ritsu squirmed in attempts to get away from it, and the creature was just about to kill her, it paused in it's movements when he heard a voice stopping him, and it looked up at the approaching male, grinning "Oh, another exorcist? How exciting!" its broken voice cackled out "Do you think you can stop me? I'm not some weak level 1 anymore" it chimed proudly. While level 2s were indeed smarter and stronger than level 1s, for someone as skilled as an exorcist as Allen Walker, it really wasn't too much trouble to handle, especially compared to level 3s which were significantly stronger than 2s, more than the gap between 2s and 1s was.<br/><br/>However, because 2s were the first level akuma to be able to speak and first evolved from 1s, they were often cockier and careless, thinking now that they were a level stronger they were superior. Which, in a sense they were, especially to level 1s, but even with the average exorcist they could provide a handful of trouble. This level 2 was no different however in thinking it was now unstoppable. "Oh, you want me to let her go?" it hummed, a wicked grin spreading across its face, as it used its long legs to leap high in the air, taking the girl with it as it jumped "Alright~ I'll let her go. To her death, that is" it snickered as it then threw the girl into the air while he was still jumped high into it and the two arms on the right side of his body pressed together to form a large gun, where it then aimed at the girl.<br/><br/>When the akuma had let her go, it wasn't exactly how Ritsu had hoped for. Being thrown at the height in the air, she panicked a bit, knowing it wouldn't be good if she hit the ground from this height. Thankfully, she actually was thrown to where she collided into the roof of a building. Albeit, it was still a painful and hard fall, it wasn't nearly as damaging to her body as it would have been had she fallen all the way to the ground. She didn't have much time to think about the pain though, as once she hit the roof, due to it being a traditionally pointed roof like a triangle, gravity started pulling her body down as she rolled down the slant of the roof, where she was barely able to catch herself on the edge of the roof that she now hung from by her hands.<br/><br/>Letting out a heavy sigh of relief at having caught herself before she fell off the roof, the akuma still didn't give her much time to think or recover, as she realized the weaponized arm pointing at her from where the Akuma now stood on the roof of the neighboring house right next to her. Ignoring the various cuts and scrapes as well as sore pain in her body from the fall to the roof, she quickly pulled herself back up onto the roof as the akuma began shooting at her. She didn't understand where it came from, or why these things seemed to be targeting her. She wondered if they were responsible for the unexplained deaths? And was it just sheer bad luck she was being targeted? Not really spending much time thinking about it, given her current circumstances, she quickly focused on getting back onto the roof and avoiding getting hit. Once back on the roof, she quickly regained her balance and ran across it, heading for the other side of the roof so she could duck behind the top point of the roof where the two slanted sides of the rooftop met, forming the top of a triangle. Just as she quickly dove down the other side though to get out of the direct fire of the bullets, she felt a searing pain in her shoulder as she gasped out, falling to the surface of the roof as she clutched at her shoulder. While she'd made it to the other side of the roof where she was out of the direct line of the bullets unless the akuma got closer to her and followed her, she realized she hadn't completely avoided damage and her shoulder had gotten hit with a few of the bullets.