Category: Chapter 20
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32 — Internal Affairs (The Devil)
The next morning, the girl called Kiwako walks into New Eden, apparently ignoring the “Closed for Cleaning” sign hung outside. As before, she has on her usual red hood, taking off a pair of reading glasses as she enters the gym. She stays in the lobby, scanning the gym for a while. Eventually, Yui comes…
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31 — One for All, All for One
Though without Emiri, the Musketeers trudge their way up the hill where they once met to play. In the intervening years, it seems another child took a nasty fall on this hill, so now fences and warning signs litter the area. A few saplings now grow in the clearing where they used to meet. To…
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30 — Safe and Sound
A disturbance in the river marks Shinju’s arrival. The water in the river sloshes forward like a wave, driven by something moving at great speed below the surface. The water laps at the banks. After a moment to check the surroundings, Shinju pulls herself up out of the river. She looks around hurriedly, then takes…
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29 — The Path
Across the field, over the river, and through the high woods, and you would reach the fort of the Musketeers. Out the back of a row of houses was a steep, forested hillside, too steep to be developed without leveling the whole thing flat. Soon, there would be the first meeting of the Musketeers in…
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28 — An Uneasy Alliance
Sara: Check it out, chat! It is the one, the only adventurer’s guild of Mitakihara! I’ve heard so much about this place. (without hesitation, she darts into the gym, clambering up into the ring and attempting a clumsy dropkick on the training dummy, causing her to fall on her backside) Owch! Looks like I underestimated…
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27 — The Game is Set
The first thing Niko sees when her eyes open up is a wooden floor stretching out in front of her. It’s not until her vision properly rises from its slumber that she notices the blades of grass sticking up between the floorboards, and the smell of moldy wood wafting into her nostrils. This was no…
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26 — A Better You
With a still full mug of percolator coffee in hand, Anisa gazes out of the window, watching students putting up the hoods of their coats or sharing umbrellas as they try to brave the rain. As her eyes glaze over, a call that should be all too familiar to her reaches her ears. It doesn’t…
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25 — Exiled from Paradise
As she is catapulted back to the Dreamscape, Fei lands in a pile of books, scattered across the floor next to a dominoes’ row of toppled bookshelves. The fighting appears to have ceased. The enemy has been driven off. But the weapons are still unsheathed, and they are pointed at her. Most of them, anyway.…
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24 — Home Front
Yuzuki rushes to her father and stepmother’s house as soon as she’s recovered. Outwardly, there’s nothing wrong– no broken windows, everything in its place. Yet that would pose little obstacle for that Incubator. She grabs her key and lets herself in quickly. She enters to find Rikuto standing in the front hall, looking bewildered. A…
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EX — Duae Luminae
A calm routine over the last few days had settled with Divider’s new normal. The shack was by a creek. Less for sustenance, more for calm. The sound of flowing water— when not in a torrential rush, at least— calmed her. An idle thought. Maybe, if things had turned out different, that umbrella girl on…
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