>After. Try to employ efficient pathing.
>With that goal in mind, you append the instructions to your constructs.
>As they work, you look to where the vines they've cut were to confirm what you saw earlier. Once those vines were cut, they didn't simply drop to the ground like dead vegetation, they faded out of existence after a moment. Gives you less to analyze, but you chose to be optimistic. Perhaps whatever influence they have over Kiku's memories fades completely, as they themselves do, once they are broken.
>It takes your constructs a little more than half a minute to hack, sheer and prune their way through their target vines, which they do at nearly the same moment. Two of the other vines fade out of existence after your ersatz Minoriko and Meiling finish off their targets; they must have been the same vine, their connection obscured by the body of the tree and the complexity of the knot. Which, being reduced now to just one vine, is significantly less complex than it was before.
>As the three constructs start to target the final thick grey vine, Kiku says, "Wait a moment, Byakuren."
