[center][img]https://i.imgur.com/kvNW08g.png[/img][/center][i][color=steelblue]"Well, that went out better than I thought. You really are a cool guy, Emon,"[/color][/i] Alex said over her mental bond to Emon as she perused Daisuke's tome, after Assassin handed it to her earlier in the morning. It was an interesting type of mystic code. Employing imaginary space to store familiars was actually very thoughtful in a way.

Even though her alchemist instincts told her to, trying to dissect it further would have to wait. After laying her hand on it once and getting familiarized with the book she could just replace it with Flash Air whenever she felt like it. [i][color=steelblue]"Though, that kinda makes me feel like I'm the villain here,"[/color][/i] she thought as she scratched her cheek while embedding silvery glyphs all over the book, covering it in multiple layers of spells.

Once she was done with the tampering, Alex used one last spell to make all the glyphs disappear, leaving only a magic circle, in the shape of a star chart, drawn with silvery ink into the book's back cover.

After that, Alex took a trip to the nearest post office, taking the care to use magecraft to disguise, or rather, eliminate her trail, after being informed by Assassin about the magical hounds that were tracking the area near Tokyo Tower yesterday.

Upon arriving at the post office, she sent the following urgent telegram to Daisuke's address:
[quote][color=steelblue]"Hi again, Bird Boy!

You really should take better care of your toys, y'know. If you want your book back, come to OOO at 17:30. Don't make a girl wait~♡

PS: No tricks. I know how the real you looks like."[/color][/quote]
The address she gave was that of a cake shop a couple streets away from Tokyo Tower, a rather busy place where not even the most brazen, or inexperienced, of mages would try anything.

Just to be sure, she contacted Assassin to let him know that she would be close to the Tower as well.

Once every preparation she had to do was completed, Alex took a taxi to her meeting point with the ever-so-mysterious Bird Boy. [color=steelblue]"I'm sorry, Bird Boy. You're probably gonna become my toy now. Well, it's better that than being killed, I guess..."[/color] Alex said to herself as she took one last look at the book.

[color=steelblue]"Sheesh! I guess that I'm really becoming the villain, huh?"[/color]