“You know what?” Argent Maiden suddenly said when it became clear that the attack at the Blue City’s main gate was all but impossible to stop.
“Huh?” Absinthe Blue, Maiden’s only interlocutor at the moment replied.
“I mean, this thing about holding a hostage just to pay it back to a bully who hurt someone I love, in a ‘game’, is kinda pointless,” Maiden shook her head while taking a better look at the chaos before them, turning back to Absinthe after that. “Actually, I feel bad for you Bruisers, now that I think about it. We may have gone a bit too overboard on this war thing.”
“Oh, you think that only now?” Absinthe made an effort to not yell at the silvery avatar before her. Di— did they only think about this crap after destroying half of the Blue City, seriously? “You destroyed the City Titania-sama— no, that all of us worked so build and now you are saying you think you’ve went too far?”
“Wait, wait, wait,” Maiden interjected before Absinthe could keep on talking, “that was an order of our King, y’know? It’s not like we could disobey it for no good reason. Even if, in hindsight, it was kind of a dumb thing to do. Anyway, I guess this has gone on for long enough and I lost the interest in keeping you as a hostage. Let’s just get done with this. See ya later!”
“You are kidding me, right? You can only be kidding m—” Absinthe didn’t even had time to finish her complaint before Argent Maiden sent her off with a staff blow to the gut, finishing the meager hit points the Blue Fairy still had. That had been a lost cause for the Cobalt Bruisers from the very beginning, given that the Ebony Strykers seemed to be incapable of, or unwilling to paying back their debts, choosing to go to the Red City and haggle for the Scarlet Harleys favor, instead of helping their supposed allies. Yet, to die in such a way… Absinthe, or better, Yuuno couldn’t be help but be very aggravated.
Meanwhile, the supermarket brawl between Eclipse Princess and Stinging Butterfly had to be suddenly interrupted when section of the ceiling they had broken through began to collapse, forcing the two combatants apart. Princess could very well bypass this obstacle, but Eris couldn’t get her mind out of a certain issue that has been plaguing her conscience, making this the better chance to disengage from this fight.
When the dust settled, Stinging Butterfly would be able to see that Princess wasn’t nowhere inside the store. In the blink of an eye she had left, using her teleportation ability while he was blinded by the falling rubble. Now, the Ivory Masks’ Berserker looked over the crumbling store, from over a nearby building, one last time before calling up her interface to send a message:
To: Eins (Enyo Reinhardt)
From: Eris Reinhardt
Subject: I’ll be back later
I’m going to logout and visit Chiyo, Eins. Maybe I’ll try to find what happened to Yoshino as well, if I have some time to spare. If you need me just send a message and I’ll be back faster than you can say blitzkrieg. By the way, if you see a Healer named Nies Hellum around, tell her that I had to leave and that she can visit later if she still wants to talk.
E.R.
PS: I’ll leave a copy of the key over the dresser. Don’t do anything weird while I’m out.
With that done, Eris logged out of Deep Ground and left for Chiyo’s house, after calling for her driver since it was likely going to be easier to go there by car than if she had to wait for a bus.
“The next time I see that silver hair, I’m going to make her see stars. Literally,” Yunno said to herself as she got back to her feet. “Now I guess the only thing I can do is try to find Bel-sama again. Thinking about it, where is Shino? She disappeared just like Bel-sama, and right about the same time. That’s starting to feel very weird, or creepy, I guess?”
Just as she thought about it, Yuuno went back to the search of both the missing President and Vice-President of Purple Crown’s Student Council. Was that some kind of secret conspiracy to upset the power balance at the Academy? It certainly smelled fishy. But, what was happening and why were answers still beyond Yuuno’s ability to rationalize.
“Maybe, if I try sending a message, it’ll work?” The dark-haired schoolgirl thought, before calling on her interface to send to send the following message:
To: Maribel Harper, Yoshino Tsugumi
From: Yuuno Kurogami
Subject: Where are you?
Where are any of you two? I’ve been looking up and down all the Academy.
Please respond, I’m starting to get worried.
Yuuno.
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