Rei, unaware of the protective quality of the black coat given to him, proceeded to ditch the thing immediately after exiting the portal. Again, he preferred his own white coat for its sentimental value, and besides, the other one didn't seem like his style anyway. Before him stood a palace, of what culture he didn't know. History was never his strong point, but the architecture certainly seemed... old. It was definitely built a long time ago, only recently adding modern attachments like security cameras. Still, that wasn't his main focus. Instead, his attention was drawn to a group of others that the boy led him to.

It was here that he finally gave his name, Tocsax. Well, he gave his name [i]after[/i] introducing the world itself to the group. He called it Renovation, and the palace itself was apparently in a place called Constantinople, Byzantine Empire according to Tocsax. Constantinople... Byzantine... both names sounded vaguely familiar. Perhaps those places existed in his own world's history though, again, history was not Rei's strong point, so he couldn't be sure.

At this point, Tocsax had been guiding the group through the palace, presumably to wherever this Emperor of his was waiting. Eventually they were in a throne room. And on the throne sat... another kid. And he was flanked by... two more kids. Wait, what? Was this the Great Children's Empire or something? So far, Rei hadn't met a single adult other then the other strangers since coming here. There... [i]were[/i] adults in this world, right? Otherwise how could...? Rei just shoved those thoughts away, deciding that he probably didn't want to know. Anyway, Tocsax proceeded to introduce them, using a gratuitous amount of titles for the Emperor in question. Yeah, there was no way in hell Rei was ever going to remember all of those, so he'd just stick to the name Michael, at least that part sounded normal. Then the other two were introduced and... they had names that he couldn't even pronounce, much less remember. For future reference, he decided to mentally remember them as Jim and Bob, respectively, because seriously, how was he supposed to remember those names and titles?

When the Emperor finally spoke, Michael introduced himself as a fellow Wielder of the Keyblade. He then summarized the reason for summoning the group. Apparently there were 13 entities calling themselves Seekers of Darkness out to try and control the Heartless and that was why they were suddenly acting more organized. They were led by a traitor from this world, named Leo, who also had some strange title... because of course he did. Anyway, their apparent goal was to gather seven "Princesses of Heart" which would supposedly let them create a super weapon that would essentially turn them into God.

"In other words..." said Rei, bluntly, "...this Leo is trying to become a god." and to be honest, as simple and laconic as the response was, it was probably not that far off, "Well, he doesn't want much, does he?" he asked, the inherent absurdity of the story causing him to snark a bit, "Look, whoever this is, he's probably dangerous, I'll grant you that. But unless there's some super urgency here, I'd rather stick to defending my city which, I should probably mention, is currently being left completely undefended without me there to hunt Heartless."