[Congrats. You're the first person since Gainer to make her see the respawn screen. Cynthia groans and rethinks her strategy. She didn't have the reflexes to match that speed, or she'd probably be as scarred up as Hayato was. Maybe she could tank it?]

Let's try this, then.

[She changes units to the Steel Lotus, a super slow overbattler that focused on defense and throwing out large amounts of low damage danmaku. It's the closest thing she can think of to a hard counter, though it's hardly something she's used to using.]

[Spawning on the ground, she lets loose in Hayato's general direction, filling the air with anti-air beams. This game's just become a bullet hell.]