A few minutes earlier...
"Yui!"
Haori's scream tore through the battlefield as her daughter's body suddenly went rigid.
Just moments before, both Juno and Haori had approached their mind-controlled daughter with careful determination, ready to free her from Vincent's grasp.
The statistical analysis had been straightforward - Yui possessed virtually no combat experience or physical training.
A gentle soul who preferred healing others to fighting, who'd spent her pre-apocalypse life studying medicine and volunteering at shelters.
Juno's calculations suggested she'd most likely developed support-type abilities rather than combat skills.
Both parents felt confident their sweet girl would be coming home soon.
But as they finally moved to confront her, Yui - who had been advancing with those vacant, mind-controlled eyes - suddenly spurted dark blood from her mouth.
The next moment, she collapsed to her knees like a marionette with severed strings.
*Splat!*
