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Argenti's Palace

The stage is set they say;
They don their masks and shields,
Shadows creep and cover their minds;
Now, what beautiful role shall they play?

𝓜𝓮𝓵𝓾𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓷𝓲𝓷 𝓒𝓪𝓼𝓽𝓵𝓮

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Thanks for listening to all that rambling.

[ She was too busy gazing into the dark abyss to do any of that— ]

Argenti told me a while back that Idrila is lost. The Knights have started searching for her all across space and she hasn't been found yet.

As for what Maika and I found, we looked beyond the curtains, and we just saw a bunch of darkness. The faces on the statues changed, too, like they were about to attack anyone who got close. We looked behind the curtains again just to see if that would change anything, but once I started hearing some scary whispers, I let go of it.

Nothing attacked us, either. Maybe the rest of you weren't being beautiful enough.

[ Is she cheesed she missed out on some fights? Maybe. But whatever, she admired Aerith and some curtains for a while and she'll punch Argenti later. ]

[ She holds back a laugh. Yeah, sounds like Maika's a little jealous she missed out on some punching. ]

I'll make sure we get into a fight next time.

[ Hey?! ]

I! Well! Actually, that... you might... have a point there?

[ Like, he isn't a beautiful woman. Maybe a Knight of Beauty would look at Maika and Aerith and go, "Too gorgeous to attack". ]

[ Maika may or may not take the compliment, but Aerith will! ]

Thanks!

[ !!! ]

You're, uh... welcome?

[ Unsure and blushing! He's going to look away! Fast! Bye! ]

[ Seriously, Eli? It would be so stupid if that were true—

Huh. It would be so stupid if that were true. And it's Argenti's palace. Maika's eyebrow twitches, but she hasn't decided if she's acknowledging that yet. ]

Just what the fuck were you doing?

[ Pushing over the vases? Unbeautifully? ]

I went behind one of those curtains and maybe walked too far. Got jumped. That's pretty much it.

[Izou likes Aerith he's decided. Even if he doesn't know her name.]

How do you lose a goddess? It's not like they exist in the physical world. Maybe she's just ignorin' them?

But yeah, seems like the right call ta just leave that shit where it was.

[ She can be Pink forever. ]

Maybe. Or... a more powerful god took them? Anything's possible, right? That kind of thing can be pretty common in worlds with gods.

Edited (EDITING FOR PRONOUNS ) 2024-09-15 23:38 (UTC)

I didn't even think of that! What if she got eaten like that weirdo Arjuna did??

[IZOU. NO ONE KNOWS WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT]

[ She furrows her brows. ]

The what?

Oh, one of the missions I went on back home, we went to this lostbelt, a like, real fucked up timeline, where this idiot Arjuna basically ate all the hindu gods so he could get powerful enough to keep resetting the world or whatever?

[ WELL THEN. ]

Did he have a good reason for it...?

I dunno, even the regular Arjuna's kinda batty. I think he thought he was gonna make the perfect world or somethin' if he could keep prunin' out the stuff he didn't like.

I hope he realized that that kind of thing never works. Ever.

Nah we had to beat him up about it. But also that weird onmyouji was whisperin' in his ear I think so that's probably partly why he was makin' such bad decisions.

That'll do it.

[ There are probably things like that back in her world, honestly. ]

Were you able to snap him out of it?

I guess so since I see that fucker floatin' around in Chaldea now too.

I'm guessing Chaldea is your home...?

Somethin' like that. The base camp fer where I've been summoned, at least.

Summoned?

[ Base camp??? ]

Sounds like you've got a lot going on back home.

Oh yeah, I'm a heroic spirit! If ya get famous enough when yer alive, good or bad, after ya die you can become one!

[He's clearly proud of the fact that he made a big enough of a name for himself.]

Edited 2024-09-16 23:27 (UTC)

Really?

[ That's pretty cool, honestly! Different worlds have all kinds of rules, don't they? ]

What'd you get famous for?

[Well normally he's very proud of it but this nice pink lady doesn't seem like she'd approve of it.... Oh well!]

I'm one of the Four Great Manslayers of the Bakumatsu Revolution. So, killin' people, more or less.

You can call me Sword Genius Okada Izou!

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