It wasn't long until after entering the basement-like areas of the HQ, they saw some kind of shadowy blob. "So that's this dimension's Shadow Essence. Not sure why it's here in the first place, but it's just there," Corentine said as she got herself armed,"I have a feeling you're going to help out on this one too, right?"

"Oh...yeah, I will," Takahisa snapped out of his thoughts and got himself ready to combat the incoming Shadow Replicas from the Shadow Essence.
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"Mind you, I only came to meet up with Kaika," Beatrice teased a bit, and then mentioning that she was only here to see Kaika, who wasn't around at the moment.