"You weren't being nice at all," Nanoha countered. "You were just trying to get what you wanted, even when it made her uncomfortable." She deftly dodged the parts of the bridge that Julian threw at her - aerial combat was something she'd been doing for years - and tried to figure out how to get her Device back. She could do magic without it, but it'd be much, much more difficult. Like doing large-level division without a calculator.

Of course, the weapon was sentient in its own way, and still bound to her. A quick thought, and the device spoke from where it hovered near Julian. "Strike Flame."

Large 'wings' of the magenta magical energy Nanoha used spouted from both sides of the golden spearhead. It was unlikely that they'd cut Julian too badly without any real force behind them, but Nanoha gambled that it'd throw him off nonetheless, and made her move - flying up at full speed to hopefully snatch her weapon out of the air.