[center][img]https://i.imgur.com/uurhDHh.jpg[/img][/center][center][img]http://i.imgur.com/HtvPRRx.png[/img][/center]Perhaps it was a sudden and wrenching conclusion to the events unfolding within Victoire’s manor, but it was the finale all the same. Despite the great serpent being slain once more and hopefully for good this time, its appearance and aftermath left too many unanswered questions. If nothing else, a hollow victory was victorying all the same, but even Victoire wasn’t around to commend or condemn the Tower’s travelers. She had long since departed into the shadows with her ward, leaving the rest of the manor eerily silent in the travelers’ wake.

Death had witnessed itself and back again with Riku’s revival, the princess escaping the depths of the Deathsphere only to be brought right back to the Tower. Having awoken right in front of Thomas, her fate was placed on hold as Ami and Kanbaru were no doubt recovering from their own strange predicaments. At least Caprice was there to put aside any doubts of comradery, fragile as they were among the group, with offered sweets meant to heal and mend. For a battle that had come to their victory and the thief discovered, everyone seemed more battered for it.

The Serei card in Kanbaru’s hand that had once rejected her did so again with a sudden spike of electricity zapping out from the card and through Kanbaru’s chest. It wasn’t enough voltage to stop her heart dead though and for the briefest of moments, the virus in her flesh recoiled; not to protect its host but to escape and abandon for another more suitable body. Neither option came into effect as the card ended its surge, remaining dormant within Kanbaru’s grip.

No sooner did everyone gather their bearings did the familiar light of the Tower began to encompass their forms. Much like before, it was the tell-tale signs of their return to the [url=https://i.imgur.com/lhFhfWm.jpeg]Dangeki Café Club [/url] and indeed in no time, all of the travelers, new and old, were displaced from Victoire’s Floor and deposited back into the familiar bar. Even Annabel was dropped into place, landing on a random bar stool as she clutched her hat indignantly. [color=khaki]“Well that sucked. Hey whale watcher, gimmie back my card now.”[/color]

And so for now the Tower’s travelers found rest.
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