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Riyame felt…unnerved by the brooding silence of Team Afterglow. She glanced over from first Cellica and then Fiore, noting how each girl looked downright miserable. Maybe it was because she was used to R.R.’s brash persona, but the tension was running deep among her temporary team. It was why she felt more grateful to the behemoth of armor that was Tian-Gui, who broke the moody silence with his occasional whistling. It made the final stretch to their second sensor more bearable. 

Standing at her post as Team Afterglow’s Gunner, Riyame kept a lookout for any Invaders that might sneak up on them while the actual team patched up the sensor. With luck, the rest of the teams were swiftly on their way to their final targets as well-a loud crack in the air turned her head in another direction. [color=92278f]“That doesn’t sound good….”[/color] she said, looking over at Team Afterglow’s Linker. [color=92278f]“Fiore, is there anything near us? What direction did that explosion come from?”[/color]

So powerful were Falk’s bombs that even Team Novae could hear it faintly. R.R., initially relieved no one would blow her cover, turned her ears to that direction as well. [color=crimson]“Hey, uh, you’re the Linker again, right? Can you find out what the hell that was,”[/color] she asked Kuni. Both Linkers would find the explosion had come from Team Yui Gang; indeed, even Raphel’s Linker, if their team chose to do so, would find the cluster of Invaders that had funneled at that location suddenly gone. But there was something more.

The massive blip on everyone’s radars shifted drastically. Despite the large humanoid Invader having successfully been blown apart by Falk’s attack, the blip remained ever present. But instead of being anywhere near Team Yui Gang, it was now surprisingly, dangerously close to Team Arizona. The moment Mavis and Mila stepped through the portal it would be too little, too late for Subaru to warn them of the sudden blip that appeared on her radar.

Stalking the area just a few feet away from where Mavis and Mila stepped out of was a large [url=https://i.imgur.com/bG9b3kh.jpg]Invader[/url]. True to its appearance, it scuffled low to the ground like an animal, snarling at the smaller of its kind. In turn, these smaller Invaders would scurry along elsewhere, as if being ordered to. Even so, nothing could explain why the blip had moved from one side of the map to another. Was it a jamming signal? Either way, both Psychers had walked openly into its territory and it would take no longer for it to notice both girls.
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