[u][b][i]Location: Fleeting Memories School - Rooftop[/i][/b][/u] [i]Auror was there alone, enjoying the passing breeze as the time passed on. The door opened, but only Marina and Masaru came.[/i] [img]https://i.imgur.com/3xK7Mbp.png[/img] Marina: Excuse us. [img]https://i.imgur.com/M1d5nMl.png[/img] Auror: Oh, only the two of you? [img]https://i.imgur.com/8OuRFcP.png[/img] Marina: I suppose so. I actually thought everyone would be here already. [img]https://i.imgur.com/mbOBZ0E.png[/img] Auror: Veronica and Sayaka are actually doing preparations for the cheerleader club, so they won't be joining us. Did Mia get Xaizor already? [img]https://i.imgur.com/O0ChEc6.png[/img] Masaru: That's the first thing she did before getting to lunch. She came by our class and took him with her. [img]https://i.imgur.com/ATGUitS.png[/img] Auror: I see. And what about Kaito? [img]https://i.imgur.com/4CNGJSh.png[/img] Marina: He went off somewhere we do not know. Where is Miss Rayla and the others, Auror? [img]https://i.imgur.com/otQYiPp.png[/img] Auror: I think Rayla went to talk with Mia. Ted is still with Kaori since they arrived at the second period and I'm positive that Andorina is with them. As for Lilina, Reeta and Tiane, I also don't have a clue about where they went as well. [img]https://i.imgur.com/O79Qkcn.png[/img] Marina: I see... by the by, what was that explosion at the morning? Did something happen? [img]https://i.imgur.com/Kw5zURb.png[/img] Auror: Well, it did. You see... [i]Auror explained to Marina and Masaru what had happened and that Lucent was fighting someone, being one of the responsibles for the explosion.[/i] [img]https://i.imgur.com/DEL0dJO.png[/img] Marina: Mister Lucent... [img]https://i.imgur.com/I31LhXC.png[/img] Auror: I don't know the rest of the details. I guess Rayla could tell us more, but I don't know where she is exactly. [img]https://i.imgur.com/Fyjw6aT.png[/img] Marina: Do you think the Guild has taken Mister Lucent with them so he could recover? Auror: Hard to say. Like I said, Rayla was there, so she's the one who could tell us more. [img]https://i.imgur.com/oWMDf9z.png[/img] Masaru: I know where Lucent is. [img]https://i.imgur.com/M1d5nMl.png[/img][img]https://i.imgur.com/8OuRFcP.png[/img] Auror and Marina: Really?! [img]https://i.imgur.com/pk36hhn.png[/img] Masaru: According to Kaito, he was taken to a shrine here at the Spring Zone by a woman named Reimu and her partner. [img]https://i.imgur.com/6w6BHBb.png[/img] Marina: Miss Reimu? So he must be at my house then! [img]https://i.imgur.com/GAlH9eg.png[/img] Auror: Oh yeah, you and Xaizor live at a shrine, huh? It lives you, him, her and this partner of hers, right? [img]https://i.imgur.com/J9MDBGz.png[/img] Marina: About that "partner", I have no clue who he is. When we came here, it was only the three of us. [img]https://i.imgur.com/otQYiPp.png[/img] Auror: Well, whoever he is, it doesn't matter. What I know is that I'm visiting the shrine. [img]https://i.imgur.com/txOEg2x.png[/img] Masaru: I said the same thing. It won't be a problem if we went, right Marina? [img]https://i.imgur.com/4E4FHgD.png[/img] Marina: I do not see why there would be a problem. Besides, someone needs to take Lucent home, I suppose. [i]Seeing how Marina had no objections, Auror took his cellphone and began doing some sort of list.[/i] [img]https://i.imgur.com/ATGUitS.png[/img] Auror: Alright then, let's make a list. Me, Veronica, Masaru and Kaito. I'll inform the others, but I heavily doubt they'd all want to come. [img]https://i.imgur.com/O79Qkcn.png[/img] Marina: I will be pleased to guide you there. I do hope Mister Lucent is safe. [img]https://i.imgur.com/RLGRzHm.png[/img] Masaru: I hope so too... [img]https://i.imgur.com/7b55qgm.png[/img] Auror: I'm sure he's fine. For him to fight like that means he's a tough cookie to crumble. Anyway, let's have lunch for now. [b][i][u]Location: Fleeting Memories School - Student Archives[/u][/i][/b] [b][i]BGM:[/i][/b] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7TzORSy_Ao]Battle Canyon[/url] [i]Inside the archives, Mia ordered Xaizor to sit in the chair, which he reluctantly did. She looked at him, quite serious.[/i] [img]https://i.imgur.com/zvjKnFL.png[/img] Mia: Welcome to your specialized dispciplinary regimen, Xaizor Arcadia! Your task is to organize all the archives, from A to Z until the end of school! [img]https://i.imgur.com/52UX4We.png[/img] Xaizor: What is this, some sort of joke? [img]https://i.imgur.com/EMl2V8O.png[/img] Mia: Does it look like I am joking here?! [img]https://i.imgur.com/cZHCl2X.png[/img] Xaizor: *sigh* Alright, alright, fine. I bet there's not even too much students in this school. [i]Mia gave him a defiant smile and opened the drawer containing the archives, showing a lot of messy documents inside it. She also opened the cabinet, showing yet another cliff of documents, waiting to be organized.[/i] [img]https://i.imgur.com/ybEVz8e.png[/img] Xaizor: Holy shit, that's a lot of things! [img]https://i.imgur.com/gxY7PLX.png[/img] Mia: Now, I suppose we can begin. [img]https://i.imgur.com/f6Etk7j.png[/img] Xaizor: No way in hell I'm organizing all that stuff. I'm not here for this. [img]https://i.imgur.com/zXLpfG5.png[/img] Mia: Do you dare to disobey my orders? Did you forget that I am an authority in the end? [img]https://i.imgur.com/ZMWVWGL.png[/img] Xaizor: Outside, maybe. Here, we're fellow students, so you don't order me around. [img]https://i.imgur.com/EMl2V8O.png[/img] Mia: Why you little... [img]https://i.imgur.com/52UX4We.png[/img] Xaizor: But hey, you're a knight, right? [img]https://i.imgur.com/901Fzf5.png[/img] Mia: Huh? Yes, I am. [img]https://i.imgur.com/vxGmWxI.png[/img] Xaizor: Would you duel me later? [i]She was baffled at the proposition. Just what Xaizor tought knights were? Barbaric fighters who would spend days dueling each other?[/i] [img]https://i.imgur.com/g57gzHq.png[/img] Mia: What kind of proposition is that? [img]https://i.imgur.com/0A4VIEH.png[/img] Xaizor: C'mon, it's just a duel. I don't see a problem with it. [img]https://i.imgur.com/zXLpfG5.png[/img] Mia: I do not know what sort of vision do you have when it comes to knights, but I am not as barbaric as you think. With that said, I refuse. [img]https://i.imgur.com/ZMWVWGL.png[/img] Xaizor: Really now? You're chickening out? [img]https://i.imgur.com/zvjKnFL.png[/img] Mia: No, but I don't enjoy battle as you seem to think. I won't just battle you over nothing. [img]https://i.imgur.com/GMj6WOT.png[/img] Xaizor: Hmph, if that's the case then let's have a bet, right here. [img]https://i.imgur.com/zXLpfG5.png[/img] Mia: A... bet? [img]https://i.imgur.com/Jv6RDoR.png[/img] Xaizor: I'll do this organizing stuff, since we're already here. If I manage to do it, you'll duel me. If I don't manage to do it, then you decide what you want to do. How does that sound? [i]Once again, she was left surprised at how simple-minded Xaizor was. Mia had already seen how she wouldn't be able to restrain him. The bet still seemed ridiculous for her, but she wanted to make him do it.[/i] [img]https://i.imgur.com/zvjKnFL.png[/img] Mia: ... Fine, I accept it. [img]https://i.imgur.com/vxGmWxI.png[/img] Xaizor: Alright! Just watch, I'm gonna finish this and you'll duel with me! [img]https://i.imgur.com/EMl2V8O.png[/img] Mia: Hmph! Do not get cocky! [i]*BGM fades*[/i] [i]Outside of the room, Lilina soon arrived at the archives, standing outside the door. She was close to unravel what she wanted, but the only impasse right there was Mia. She knew the student council member wouldn't just let her check the profiels so easily.[/i] [img]https://i.imgur.com/6nP23F9.png[/img] Lilina: (Both Mia and Xaizor are there, in the student archives. If I go inside, I might find some sort of clue between the relationship between Masaru and Lucent Vermillion. It might guide me to a clue of why his mission concerns someone whom he met not so long ago...) [img]https://i.imgur.com/sv2VMmY.png[/img] Lilina: (For that to happen, I need to find a way in... but how am I supposed to convince Mia to let me in without raising suspicion about my goals?) [b][i][u]Location: Spring Zone - Streets[/u][/i][/b] [i]Alice was walking calmly around the streets, doing her grocery shopping. Distracted, she ended up bumping into someone.[/i] [img]https://i.imgur.com/i2yhT0K.png[/img] Alice: Oh pardon me, I was distracted and I couldn't look- [b][i]BGM:[/i][/b] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3msfepdDvns]The Traditional Old Man and the Stylish Girl[/url] [img]https://i.imgur.com/yRut6x7.png[/img] Alice: Wait... [b]Jin[/b]?! [img]https://i.imgur.com/2ljnxNw.png[/img] [b][i]Blazing Guardian of the Otherworldly King Jin Kaien Kamishirasawa[/i][/b] [img]https://i.imgur.com/mnb5AdD.png[/img] Jin: Alice?! Is that you, for reals?! Alice: B-But you have... he said that you... how are you alive?! [img]https://i.imgur.com/Ql2g79h.png[/img] Jin: Good question. Bummed that I don't have the answer, though. [img]https://i.imgur.com/OsxcdUM.png[/img] Alice: I mean, what am I supposed to do now, at a situation like this?! [img]https://i.imgur.com/aDMgjm8.png[/img] Jin: Panicking too much is certainly not one of them, right? [img]https://i.imgur.com/BVcdHPh.png[/img] Alice: Yeah, you're right. I need to calm down and think rationally about this. As for you, it's best if you came with me, after all. [img]https://i.imgur.com/nejBcc1.png[/img] Jin: Sure, I'm fine with that. Do you have a house here or something? [img]https://i.imgur.com/HGLjikU.png[/img] Alice: Yes, I do, but let's not discuss it that much. Now that you appeared, I have more things to take care of. [img]https://i.imgur.com/mnb5AdD.png[/img] Jin: OK then...? [i]Alice kept walking towards her house with Jin following her. She immediately thought of Reimu at that point.[/i] [img]https://i.imgur.com/UWsb3vZ.png[/img] Alice: (I better warn Reimu of this. She might have a better idea of what to do.) [img]https://i.imgur.com/Ql2g79h.png[/img] Jin: (How weird... who did ressurect me and why? Was there some sort of reason behind it?) [img]https://i.imgur.com/FY8nGxE.png[/img] Jin: (Argh, Cookie was better at this thinking thing than me... if he was around, I'm sure he'd have a genius and level-headed idea, like usual...)