<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Command Decision and Joke</div><div class="spoiler_body">(moving ahead with Suzi 'faded' a bit as Hoshino seems to have set.status = overrun by Panzergrenadiers...and I can sympathize because I, too, lose more battalion command stands to those mamzers than just about any other tactical error.)</div></div><br/>Rooftop pursuit poses one major issue--none of you are particularly prone to using the Nerima Rooftop Crosstown Express, so getting up to that level is one thing.  That part's easy!  It's the racing along up there and leaping from roof to roof that is likely to slow you down.<br/><br/>Moving at ground level is far easier, or would be, but the odds are that you're going to fall behind pretty fast!  Not to mention that should the White Wabbit do something unexpected, you'll lose sight of her cute little butt completely.  On the other hand, she seems to be making a beeline for the Academy.  That simplifies matters.<br/><br/>Poor Suzi falls behind after a few minutes, urging you to go on without her for now and promising she'll catch up.  Soon after that you are over the border and racing along streets that would be right out of Dickens if they weren't so clean and free of equines and suchlike conveyances.  Indeed, the Academy looms before you...and there, on a peaked roof not far from the wall surrounding the campus, you catch a glimpse of the bunny-eared one in her brief tunic, balancing ominously on a chimney stack and staring down into the school grounds wtih a severe expression, a naginata balanced over one shoulder.<br/><br/>Are you in time?  There's no sign of the little Elf anywhere...nor any sign of Rinley (to Mayu's relief, I suspect).<br/><br/><br/>