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<br/>​</div>Robin's first reaction was instinctive - and stupid.  Despite his...disagreements with Lenora and general apathy towards Timor, the three had grown up together: and the sight of them in danger spurred him into action.  Yet while Nekro blindly charged into battle, Robin took a moment to compose himself.  Charging in between two Trikelton wouldn't help anyone - rather, such an action would make Robin a liability.  He couldn't save them now.  The guilt gnawed at Robin's stomach and he glanced over once more at LITE running from a furious Trikelton and Nekro abandoning reason to help them.  His teeth ground together for a mere second before Robin headed back towards the tree cover, leaving LITE and Nekro to their fates.<br/><br/>Akena's order came a second later as Robin drew his handgun.  This entire situation had become a full-on debacle.  Robin hadn't considered that LITE, of all teams, would screw up their objectives, the negative results of which had now spilled over into ARKIS's mission.  Even retreating to the forest wasn't a particularly safe option.  He'd seen the fallen trees in the Trikelton's wake.  The immense Grimm could upend trees - or novice hunters - with unfortunate ease.  Still, Akena had requested he both retreat and provide fire support.<br/><br/>He drew his handgun, aiming directly at the Trikelton's eyes before firing two rounds.  He wasn't confident in his accuracy at such range, and couldn't even tell if he'd made contact with the Grimm's (supposedly) vulnerable eyes.  Two more bullets flew from his handgun for good measure, aimed at the other eye.  Robin hoped he could partially blind the Grimm and make its charge attacks less effective, but the Trikelton had other measures of attack.  Its poisonous miasma required neither accuracy or force to kill nearby opponents.  Robin retreated ever further into the forest, firing his handgun towards the nearest Trikelton as the purple-black cloud seeped across the forest floor.<br/><br/>The miasma was heavier than air and seemed easy to produce in mass quantities - none of which helped Robin, seeing as he was particularly curious in its mechanism of toxicity.  Such analysis should be performed in a more professional setting...but Robin still couldn't resist the chance for samples of his own.  The highly resistant chemical specimen vials still hung unused on his belt.  Casting aside Akena's instructions, Robin edged closer to the advancing smog cloud, holding the thin silver instrument out in front of him.  His thumb pressed the activator button and a small amount of the poisonous smog disappeared into the dull metal vial before snapping shut - indicating the specimen had been collected.  Robin's gaze darted to his fellow team members, hoping they hadn't seen his lapse in objective focus.<br/><br/>To his left, Robin saw Akena attempt to push the smoke cloud back with a flurry of wind dust - a significant effort, but the thick smog continued its forward movement.  What about fire dust?  Too risky - if the dust wasn't flammable, he'd only decrease its density and risk killing them all.  Perhaps the opposite?  Robin cast a pair of ice runes in front of him, blast angle towards the advancing smog - then detonated them both with a single gesture.