This is a very bad situation! Medusa is elbowed out the way by her Master before she can be completely petrified by her reflected power, but thanks to getting a dose of it already, she can't reach quickly enough to pull him out in turn! She still puts her blindfold on- whatever happens now, her eyes would only make this worse- but by the time she can move properly, the cocoon had already hatched!

She has good idea what's happened, too, feeling what that thing has done to her Master's mana signature. Realising quickly that 1) if it runs off will probably be the end for Hijikata and 2) if it has access to his powers, it will be able to control her and make this mess worse, she's going to dash forward and aim for his arm with her nail.

As well as Command Seals, the monster of course also has its share of Hijikata's sword abilities and fire magic at its disposal!

So let's consult the RNG Gods for:

* She gets very lucky and gets the monster somewhere critical.
* She chops off his arm.
* She gets injured by its fire magic/other powers (hey, at least her eyes are covered).
* Hijikata gets injured by her attacks in another way.
* She gets very unlucky and monster gets a Command off before she can get to him (go nuts, but I'd rather it didn't just order her to run away).
* Idk Monster does special monster things that only the mod knows about?

Rider's not aiming to kill at this point!