[center][img]https://i.imgur.com/WNaYGf8.png?1[/img][h2][color=39b54a]Costante[/color] and [color=a2d39c]Karizma[/color][/h2][/center]
Upon reaching the upper floor, Costante closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and then got to work.

The first thing he did was crack open a window, tweaking the Bounded Fields around the house to bend the outgoing light and conceal this change. With that done, he loosed five small, translucent crystalline familiars, before wheeling over a heavy telescope and pointing it outward through the opening, its objective lens aimed up at the sky.

For the next few minutes, he made minor adjustments, tweaking angle and focus while his familiars moved towards their destinations. Rather than scouting through the streets as one might expect, they went upwards, ascending high above the town and well out of reach. Only the most skilled of archers would be able to shoot them down from such a height, and that man was already on Costante’s side.

[color=39b54a]“Begin refraction,”[/color] he muttered, once they were all in place. At his command, each familiar unfolded into a new configuration, losing nearly all their mobility but gaining new reflective and refractive properties, bouncing light between one another until it converged on the central unit, which gathered and then reflected a composite image down into the lenses of the powerful telescope Costante had aimed out the window. With this, he had a bird’s-eye view of the entire town, and by tweaking the positions and configurations of his familiars he could adjust the final image as he pleased, quickly zooming in on any points of interest. [color=39b54a][i]With this, nothing can escape my gaze. If anyone comes close to Sister…[/i][/color]

It took him only a few seconds to find Karizma, since he knew her point of origin and could easily predict her path. She seemed to be perfectly safe for now, although… [color=39b54a][i]Is that someone on the bridge, just ahead of her?[/i][/color]

At the same time, Karizma was merrily strolling along, her eyes lighting up with joy at her Archer’s offer. [color=a2d39c]“That would be awesome! And then we could speak back and forth, and Costante wouldn’t be able to understand a thing.”[/color] She giggled. [color=a2d39c]“Ohayo! Watashi wa Karizuma-desuuu! Sugoi baka onii-chan arigato!”[/color]

Then she heard a faint noise, and immediately stopped in place. [color=a2d39c]“Hey, did you feel that?”[/color] Carefree as she acted, her senses had been alert this whole time, and while she could only barely make out the violin note, the release of mana was unmistakable. There was either another Magus or a magical being nearby, and they weren’t being careful about hiding their presence.

Her brother’s voice suddenly sounded in Archer’s head. [color=39b54a][i]”There’s someone on the bridge just down the road from your current location. They look like they’re waiting for you, so it’s probably a trap—“[/i][/color]

[color=a2d39c]“HEYYYY!”[/color] Karizma was already yelling and waving across the bridge. [color=a2d39c]“Hello! Konnichi-wa! Can you hear me?”[/color] She was taking care and being cautious like Archer had said, otherwise she might already have been running to greet the (presumably) enemy Master.