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[color=9e0039][u][b]“Damn it all”[/b][/u][/color] Penny would curse as she watched the reactions of the tourney announcement. It was a far cry from what she was hoping for, but it also wasn’t fair to call it a complete failure. She hadn’t expected Rachel to backdown, but it seemed that the inquisitor wasn’t as blindly driven as she seemed.

She needed to get ahead of this now that it had veered off course a hell of a lot faster than expected. She would take a moment to start getting her counterfeits moving. She still had seven in total. She would need to cut that down to three by the time the tourney started proper, possibly tow depending on the rules and who she was matched up against. 

She rerouted one of them off back to Dan, another one was going to try and reenter Nykannis’s room. She already had a decent surveillance set up; Penny would see if she could co opt the location for a bit. That left her with five. Four to scope out the various extra rings set up over at the stadium with luck she would be able to watch others preparing for this tournament, forewarned was forearmed in some cases, now was the best chance she got to try and gather some information about that.

That left one counterfeit floating about. Which was alright for now, gave Penny options incase she needed them. 

Another moment and she would set up a new parameter set for later when the tourney was running. She wasn’t going to bother processing ‘shame’ and she needed to rebalance her hostility index and appropriate force settings. Most of her armaments wouldn’t help either so shutting them down would help free some mana for self enhancement.

[color=9e0039][i]‘This was a mistake’[/i][/color] she would grumble internally. But knew it was to late to change it.

[color=9e0039][u][b]“Whelp, seems like Penrose normality has reasserted itself.”[/b][/u][/color] She would say to Magical Dream Princess. [color=9e0039][u][b]“Want to go see the Beach Island he’s got set up for all of this?”[/b][/u][/color] She would ask standing from her seat. Picking up FanFan’s cake as she did.

She needed to have a conversation with Rachel as well. Scope out potential side options, if Rachel was more interested in the Mirror Penny might be able to get her to ease off on destroying the Beach. Because she didn’t really want the Mirror to fall back into Asengav’s tendrils either. Plus, she might be able to make use of the damned thing when it came to talking with her father.

Why couldn’t a vacation simply stay a vacation?