Machiko bruises past Durkin-san and drives herself bodily into Honjowara -sama 's flank. Others strike her, thrust against her. For a moment, Honjowara -sama seems like the immovable boulder half immersed in a churning sea; then they are moving around him like an inexorable wave, forcing him toward the side of the stage, lifting him right from the floor and forming a bullet-shaped barricade that batters past anyone in their path.