Kanji's back went rigid, feeling something cool passing over him for a moment. He looked left, looked right, but didn't notice anything different about the back-up coming in fast.

"Wait... s'that you? Your fingers were all chilly before that... that whatever it was happened." Because his Persona sure as hell couldn't really utilize ice. Couldn't Sumeragi, to some extent, along with fire?

But with a howl, two figures leaped over the fences to the left and right. The children were good to use for emotional purposes, but when a fight was to be had, you needed claws, fangs. The dogs had died long ago, but they were the perfect puppets to do some damage. Landing evenly on rotting paws, lips coated in a pinkish ooze, they braced themselves and sized up the new Meister.