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Fortunately, finding out exactly where on the campus Tsubasa and her army of Pageless were attacking wasn’t particularly difficult. You simply had to head towards the source of the terrified screams…

Arriving at the cafeteria, Olivia, Xolys, and (presumably) Suzuya were greeted with the distressing sight of dozens of students fleeing from the building with a tide of Pageless hard on their heels. At least one pair hadn’t been fast enough, and now a cluster of Pageless was dragging them to the ground. With an inhuman roar, Xolys opened his lamprey-like maw and unleashed a swirling blast of unreality at the Pageless, while simultaneously sending two tentacles darting out to wrap tightly around both students and pull them to safety.

[color=LightSkyBlue]“O-Oh, darling…!”[/color] Olivia gasped, elegant hands covering her mouth and azure eyes wide with stunned horror as she noticed the dark auras emanating from several of the rescued girls’ Grimoires. [color=LightSkyBlue]“T-This is absolutely awful!”[/color]

If the masked maiden herself wished to risk whatever corrupting influence such an invasive process as combining Pageless and Grimoire would engender, that was one thing, but forcing it upon others against their will? That was simply intolerable. It went against [i]everything[/i] Olivia believed. Indeed, it was no less dreadful to the azure-clad beauty than when her own family had attempted to forbid her from pursuing her myriad interests just because [i]they[/i] thought [i]their[/i] preferences were the correct ones. It made her sick.

[color=LightSkyBlue]“Attacking innocent students… Forcibly fusing Pageless with their Grimoires… W-Why would Miss Tsubasa [i]do[/i] something like this?!”[/color] the fairest of maidens asked her eldritch consort, tears streaming down her lovely face.

[color=MediumBlue]“I believe we are seeing the effects of her single-minded fanaticism,”[/color] Xolys replied. [color=MediumBlue]“If one’s conviction in their own righteousness is strong enough, then they can rationalize virtually any course of action. I fear Miss Tsubasa is not acting out of any malice or ill-will towards these students, but rather a genuine belief that she is actually [i]helping[/i] them. Which makes dealing with her all the more difficult,”[/color] he added grimly. [color=MediumBlue]“If not impossible…”[/color] 

As he spoke, the Master of Xhar’doth waded into the flood of Pageless and began the process of eliminating them as swiftly as possible. Some were impaled upon spiked tendrils. Others were rent asunder by eldritch energies, or massive, clawed hands, while yet more were sliced apart in a whirlwind of scythed appendages, like vegetables in a blender. Yet on they came, heedless of the eldritch beast’s carnage, as if there truly [i]was[/i] no end to them.

Some might have found this troubling, but not Olivia. No, [i]her[/i] attention was firmly fixed on where Tsubasa was engaging Tesni in a duel. The masked maiden seemed entirely unconcerned by anything, neither the horrors occurring around her, nor even the vicious attacks of Dynasty Queen upon her person. Perhaps her bond with the Pageless had stripped her of her emotions, or perhaps she simply didn’t care. Either way, Olivia knew she couldn’t remain silent. She had to at least [i]try[/i] to get through to her. It was really all she [i]could[/i] do…

[color=LightSkyBlue]“Miss Tsubasa!”[/color] the blonde beauty called, her anguished, yet still melodious voice ringing out through the clamorous chaos surrounding them. [color=LightSkyBlue]“Please stop this! Can you not see that you’re hurting them?!”[/color], she added, gesturing to where several students writhed on the ground, their bodies enveloped by dark auras. [color=LightSkyBlue]“I thought you wanted to [i]help[/i] Magical Girls, not harm them!”[/color]