“Seal!”

A great wall of flames would take over the streets of Manhattan, covering everything in what seemed like a sea of crimson. Despite the fiery appearance of the flames, they weren’t hot to the touch, in fact, it almost felt as if they weren’t there as they engulfed everything before settling over the edges of the city like an impassable wall, whose boundaries were defined by a line of glowing sigils.

The purpose of those flames would become clear a moment later as the world itself turned into shades of deep crimson and black. At the same time, everything else had their colors muted almost to a gray-scale, people, cars, buildings, all of them stopped moving. In fact, if anyone else cared to check a clock or watch, they would notice that time itself stopped as the world was shifted to this silent dimension.

The only ones still able to move were the invading aliens and other beings that didn’t belong to the regular reality. Any damage inflicted on regular humans that had been frozen still connected, but instead of blood, what came out of their wounds were pale flames. Inanimate objects could be damaged as normal but clearly, something wasn’t right in the situation.

The source of this massive seal was none other than a [url=https://i.imgur.com/zo0yzt1.jpg]girl with deep crimson hair and yes[/url] standing at the edge of a building. As soon as she made herself known, the girl jumped off the building while reaching into her coat to draw Japanese sword as long as she was tall, or perhaps a bit more.

With a spin she landed close to a fanged guy that had an absolute beast-like appearance, slashing one of the aliens that had just ‘killed’ a human in half.

“I see that even though you aren’t Denizens or Flame Haze, all of you can move inside of the seal, which means you aren’t part of this world as well,” she said as she unceremoniously cut another invader. “I’ll ask, and answer, questions later since we have humans to save. For the time being, know that my name is Shana, the Flame-Haired Burning-Eyed Hunter,” Shana added before creating a massive flaming fist to smash a whole group of aliens in a single attack.

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“Noise? Could that be related to the strange creatures I saw coming from cell phones and other devices yesterday?” Nanoha said once she heard the relatively young chef talking to Minami about the events that happened ever since yesterday.

“As I stated in the report, I remember that their magical energy signature was very weird. Not in the same way as the one belonging to Miss Yukari, but actually,” she paused, trying to gather the right words to describe her feelings in a way that they could understand.

“Yes, they felt just like Jewel Seed monsters but much… creepier,” Nanoha finally said as she found the appropriate comparison.

“Anyway, something to prove that I’m myself?” she repeated Sakajima’s words in an introspective way. “I could show you my student ID, but you’ll likely think that it’s just a souvenir, right? So, how about this?” Nanoha pulled the collar of her blouse, allowing Raising Heart to slip out of it and fly beside her Master.

“Good Morning, Mister. It’s a pleasure meeting you,” the device said in her robotic voice as she flew on her own for a moment before landing on Nanoha’s clasped hands.

Upon a command from Nanoha, Raising Heart projected a small holographic screen in front of them, displaying Nanoha’s TSAB Military ID.

“Captain Takamachi Nanoha of the Time and Space Administration Bureau’s Aerial Defense Force, at your service,” Nanoha said in a playful way as she looked at Sakajima with a gaze that seemed to ask ‘is that enough?’. “To answer your other question, I think that you must put a lot of heart in your cooking right, Mister Sakajima? After all, if I had to say, it doesn’t fall very short of Hayate’s,” she added before and whispering ‘just don’t let her, or Vita, know that I said this’ as if she were confiding a great secret to the young restaurant owner.
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