The Secret of the Maidé Ball (Part 3)

Akira faced the [Town Executioner], holding the [Maidé Ball] up slowly with a squeamish look of uncertainty.

"So, do I just...throw it down and…?"

"That is correct, prisoner," the executioner replied. "I know it feels strange on your first try, but you must have faith in the ball's technology. No harm will come to it, regardless of how hard you throw."

"Alright," Akira replied uneasily. "Whatever you say…"

This was it. The moment that would decide everything. The moment when she would get to meet her first Pocket Girl, upon whose shoulders her fate solely rested.

While Chunhua and Vash and Rudolf, and all the rest of the prisoners gathered there watched with bated breath, Akira simply loosened her grip on the thing and let it drop to the ground. In doing so, activating its mechanisms just as it made collision: prompting it to "bounce" off the floor somewhat; in a diagonal trajectory, away from Akira.