Working With Phantoms

Nightingale's New Power

April 27th

Madran had arrived back at home and headed off to the Velvet Room after seeing that Elia was napping. Once there, she saw that Maya and Yukino were hanging out with Philemon.

"Oh, hi, Madran."

"Hi, hang on a sec! Here, Chic!"

Madran called over Chicory, who jumped from Madran's bed to the Velvet Room. Once they were in there, Madran looked around.

"So, how are ya, Yukino?"

"I'm good. It's, uh, kinda weird to see Philemon again, but it's nice to catch up with him."

Philemon nodded.

"Well, I am proud to announce that the very long wait is very close to being over. We have, hmm, about five more days until we can see the fruits of our labor."

"Ah, right, you told me about that Kamoshida guy. Goodness, last time I heard the name 'Asmodeus,' I was crashing that freaky occult ritual."

"What?"

"I got into some rather weird things when I was younger. Let's just say, I was headed down the road of bad choices until a very important figure stepped in."

"Um, was that when you got Vesta?"

Yukino shook her head.

"No, I got her power after that large accident in Mikage-cho."

"Madran, I believe you saw that memory. Hmm, remember the zombies?"

"Oh, yeah, right. That was pretty intense."

Sheila and Suga then arrived.

"Hi, Yukki!"

Yukino turned to face Sheila.

"Ah, Sheila, it's been a bit! How've you been?"

"Great. Didja hear the thing about Suga's mom?"

Yukino arched an eyebrow.

"Um, no?"

Suga nodded excitedly.

"She, uh, got over her apathy syndrome!"

"Oh, really? That's great."

Suga nodded.

"Yeah, and we've actually gotten to using Elizabeth's gift to us more. Hey, Philemon, what happened to Elizabeth and Margaret?"

"They were trying out some newer functions that Elizabeth installed into the training system. She's always so busy..."

"Hey, I have an idea. Why don't we check on them? Hey, Yukino, do you wanna come with?"

"Oh, sure, that sounds cool."

"Nice, and, what do you want your codename to be?"

"Huh? Codename?"

"Ya know, like Fwoosh or Plague."

"Oh, right. Hmm, Shield."

"Shield? Ok, cool. Um, let's go."

Madran led everyone to the training hall, where she saw a new door with a symbol of an earth on it.

"Hey, what does that mean?"

Philemon walked up to it.

"This must be the Universe Arcana. It is commonly blank, and is the single arcana that not even I have seen in person. If I remember correctly, Elizabeth's client was the only one to invoke it."