Having never seen any other Paladin other than Kire, her guardian, Akira spent a few moments watching the stranger do something to her vest and tinker with the portal machine. Just as she had somehow felt in her gut that the solution to shutting down the portal was another portal, Aki had a feeling she knew what the woman was doing—giving the machine an alternative power source to jumpstart another portal. Remembering her wonderful crash-landing, she knew this second one would cause another explosion and began sprinting away. If she was right and the portals would cause an explosion, they would hopefully take a few demons down with them.<br/><br/>She had barely managed to find adequate shelter when the blast sent her tumbling forward, rolling into a pile of debris. She only had enough presence of mind to desperately reach out to a rusty sheet of tin roof that had fallen off the nearby ramshackle building. The piece of metal followed her mental command and covered her just as she crouched against the debris pile, arms over her head. From the unholy screeching she could hear, Aki knew the demons were affected by the portal, too. Still coughing from the impact, she kicked off the roofing and crawled to her feet.<br/><br/>True enough, most of the demons seemed to have disappeared the way the critically-wounded ones did earlier, but enough were still left. Worse, the woman who jumpstarted the second portal was lying in a heap, looking very unconscious. Gulping, Akira was about to run to her when the woman she had first seen called her attention. Frowning at the label, Aki knew, though, that she had to swallow her pride for now. The woman was right; Aki could dispatch of the smaller demons with the knife. “Okay,” she muttered to herself, ignoring the pain from the new bruises blooming all over her body from getting tossed about by two portals.<br/><br/>Just as she had done earlier, she sent the knife flying from her hand, piercing the nearest demon through the neck before it could get its bearings back. “Shit, shit, shit…” Aki was on to the next demon, taking advantage of their disorientation to fatally stab them. She was about to retrieve her knife again when something yanked her by the hair, the pull strong enough to make her fall backwards. Hissing at the impact, she saw two demons leering at her. Her knife nowhere near, she kicked at the first and did her best to hit the other with her fists. Their claws ripped through her sleeves, and she could feel them drag against her skin.<br/><br/>“Screw you!” she yelled, pulling mentally at the nearest piece of metal around while holding a demon back by the neck. Before one of the demons could bite onto her hand, her knife, which thankfully had fallen nearby, flew straight towards the demon’s face. Aki kicked it off her and chucked the knife at the second demon, watching as it took its last, gurgling breath before fading, her knife falling to the ground after the flesh around it had dissipated. Her work wasn’t over yet, though, so she swallowed her panic, picked up her knife, and scanned the place for the last few demons.<br/><br/>The warrior-woman had plowed through many surviving demons, herself, so she made her way towards the unconscious one, hoping that she wasn’t dead. A few demons had spotted her and were making their way towards her. Aki sent the corrugated tin sheet from earlier flying towards the demons to distract them before the knife did its work. With Aki and the knight dividing the work between them, it seemed that they had dealt with all the demons left. For now. She felt something tickling her upper lip; wiping it with the back of her hand, she pressed her lips thin, seeing blood. Great. Must be from having exerted her power today. It was the most action she had found herself in, well, ever. Either that, or all the getting-knocked-back gave her internal injuries. Still shaking, she wiped the knife against her pant leg and made her way towards the tall woman. “She gonna be okay?” she asked.