[Hijikata appreciates Reiner's neat summarisation of their options. Option 1 immediately invokes unwillingness in him. He doesn't want to sit in a dark hole in the ground shadowed by the goddamned Armoured Titan!! He'd rather get drenched to the bone!
Option 2, meanwhile, feels too risky. He doesn't want to end up buried under collapsing soil with Reiner either (especially not when he imagines how Jean will chew him out for it one his flower spits him back out... but at least, he supposes, this time he'd chew Reiner out too)!
Option 3 needs some consideration on his part. He mentally leafs through his arsenal. His fire magic can't help them here, and since he didn't plan to go farther than a few hours from the city he didn't bring his tent with him either. There might be one thing that could be of use, though...]
Let me try something.
[He activates his Aura, the "soul magic" (as he mentally refers to it sometimes) Sun unlocked for him. It usually absorbs any damage his body would take in a battle, like a shield, until it gets depleted. He should be able to externalise that shield and turn it into a large dome to protect them!]
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Option 2, meanwhile, feels too risky. He doesn't want to end up buried under collapsing soil with Reiner either (especially not when he imagines how Jean will chew him out for it one his flower spits him back out... but at least, he supposes, this time he'd chew Reiner out too)!
Option 3 needs some consideration on his part. He mentally leafs through his arsenal. His fire magic can't help them here, and since he didn't plan to go farther than a few hours from the city he didn't bring his tent with him either. There might be one thing that could be of use, though...]
Let me try something.
[He activates his Aura, the "soul magic" (as he mentally refers to it sometimes) Sun unlocked for him. It usually absorbs any damage his body would take in a battle, like a shield, until it gets depleted. He should be able to externalise that shield and turn it into a large dome to protect them!]