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Li Na coldly solves the god-summon logistics — reducing a mantaur to a chained, limbless torso so it can't foul the throw.
In the trainyard crisis, Li Na proves as ruthless as she is brilliant. Recognizing that the first mantaur's dying grip is what dragged Carl into the portal, she prepares the SECOND mantaur her way: she has it ripped down to just its top torso and head, its upper arm-sets lopped off, healing it after each amputation (wasting several potions) to keep it alive and summonable — 'He's much easier to handle this way. And now we can throw him into the portal instead of risking another accident.' Her matter-of-fact cruelty sickens even her brother Li Jun, but it works flawlessly: the limbless torso is tossed into Zhang's cart-portal with a second to spare, banishing the re-summoned Grull.
She likens it, dryly, to what Carl did to the gnoll Growler Gary.
A tall, rail-thin, ghost-pale demon-faced woman with short black horns and an over-wide mouth, in a flowing white-and-red robe trailing combat chains; utterly composed amid carnage.
The crew's coldly pragmatic strategist, solving the god-banishment problem with surgical cruelty.
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