Lance Takes a Backseat

The best course of action was to call backup from the West Manor. Azure Ao's technique was brutal and Chiaki was afraid it was going to leave a mess of broken limbs and blood, making her have to pay for the damage control. Jasper Wymark's strategy was more elegant. With their musical prowess, the energy produced from the mellow and energetic tunes could pull the shadow infiltrators out from the possessed victims' bodies. Chiaki had seen it done once when Jasper's team extracted the wispy white, fog-like strings material out of a dozen people's hearts.

But it was the capital city. Again. Her jurisdiction. She couldn't leave it to another Guardian lest the judgy elders would think she was not capable of holding her post.