[ Illumi lets himself get pulled along, much like a ragdoll might, considering how unbothered he seems being dangled this way and that. He still seems eerily calm, even in the face of an ability he can't even begin to understand (nen? something else entirely?), and chooses to silently watch the other man zip them across rather than offer any other insight or argument at being told what to do.
But once they reach the other side, Illumi hoists himself up quite easily, his grip on the other's arm tightening as he does so, a hint at the strength that his lanky appearance belies. Again, he ends up ignoring Bruno's command, or at least not offering a verbal response as he gets his feet on solid ground, eyes moving up to survey the situation on this side of the crevice.
There are three scientists, who are outnumbered by these rat beasts two to one. Stupidly (Illumi thinks, at least), the three of them have mostly split up, leaving the lone scientist closest to Illumi and Bruno cornered by three rats. It's very obvious by the way he's begun screaming that he's already been bitten by at least one— which Illumi takes in with a detached expression as he continues to run forward, not looking back to Bruno for a suggestion of what to do. No, Illumi makes a decision for everyone involved by choosing to leave that guy for dead, thinking that strategically, the odds are in their favor if those three stay occupied with that guy. He continues running forward, right past the ongoing carnage. ]
It's too late for him.
[ He calls back to Bruno, matter-of-factly, and he even says it a little bit louder than he was speaking before, just to make sure he gets heard over the sounds of the screams. Then, his arm bends back, and he sends one needle flying in front of them, piercing a rat that's bounding towards them right in the center of it's grotesque maw. It doesn't kill it, but it certainly does something, with the way it falls to the ground, squealing and writhing in pain, incapacitated. From the sound of it, others are running towards them, too— as Bruno surmised, these beasts did hear them— but it gets darker the farther they run in, making it more and more difficult to see exactly where the sounds are coming from. ]
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But once they reach the other side, Illumi hoists himself up quite easily, his grip on the other's arm tightening as he does so, a hint at the strength that his lanky appearance belies. Again, he ends up ignoring Bruno's command, or at least not offering a verbal response as he gets his feet on solid ground, eyes moving up to survey the situation on this side of the crevice.
There are three scientists, who are outnumbered by these rat beasts two to one. Stupidly (Illumi thinks, at least), the three of them have mostly split up, leaving the lone scientist closest to Illumi and Bruno cornered by three rats. It's very obvious by the way he's begun screaming that he's already been bitten by at least one— which Illumi takes in with a detached expression as he continues to run forward, not looking back to Bruno for a suggestion of what to do. No, Illumi makes a decision for everyone involved by choosing to leave that guy for dead, thinking that strategically, the odds are in their favor if those three stay occupied with that guy. He continues running forward, right past the ongoing carnage. ]
It's too late for him.
[ He calls back to Bruno, matter-of-factly, and he even says it a little bit louder than he was speaking before, just to make sure he gets heard over the sounds of the screams. Then, his arm bends back, and he sends one needle flying in front of them, piercing a rat that's bounding towards them right in the center of it's grotesque maw. It doesn't kill it, but it certainly does something, with the way it falls to the ground, squealing and writhing in pain, incapacitated. From the sound of it, others are running towards them, too— as Bruno surmised, these beasts did hear them— but it gets darker the farther they run in, making it more and more difficult to see exactly where the sounds are coming from. ]