After what feels like an eternity, Lucy takes her hands away from her ears; the thing's scream is still ringing in her eardrums, but it's very abruptly distracted by Musashi shooting forward and engaging.

For the first time, Lucy gets to see what Musashi has bragged about. She'd claimed to be a legendary swordsman, but it had been a little hard to believe when it had been said grinning over a glowing verve cocktail. Now, Lucy sees for the first time. Musashi's speed is shocking, like she's got a Sandevistan locked onto her spine, there one moment and gone the next. And her blades actually dent the thing, the shower of sparks so bright it has Lucy blinking.

And she's just grinning, like she's not facing a horrible corrupted AI monster thing.

While it's distracted, Lucy strikes. Fingertips light against her temple, eyes lightning up digital orange as she delves into the thing's programming. It's even more awful to look at internally. Lines of code as fractured as its name. Broken protocols trailing away into data corruption. The remnants of its core programming are still at its heart, but it's going to take a lot to get there.

"Can you keep it distracted?" she calls. "I need to go deeper. I won't be able to fight."