Nagisa Quest Eleventh Scene

    [01:18] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> Last time on Nagisa Quest, you learned of Usagi's tainted vision, of her clash with Pretty Idol Beautiful Nagisa so long ago; a knight shrouded in armor of human flesh with an intense desire to see the green hills of earth. You also learned of Mami's past, heiress to a bankrupt, ruined kingdom, a virtual government-in-exile.
    [01:18] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> Each night they dreamed the same thing, repeating until both were awake.
    [01:18] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> Leaving them, you returned to a familiar home.
    [01:18] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> You were Midorikawa Nagisa, or Pretty Idol Beautiful Nagisa to all magical girls, and you were the black sheep of the fold. With your midnight black hair, your oddly colored eyes that didn't share the same hue, you had forgotten everything of your past life, before contracting. A fact that escaped your knowing of it, you felt indifferent to it. Your past life was something you probably didn't want to remember, if the hints were to believed.
    [01:18] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> You had been reading for the last hour and a half from the simple light of the one lamp this room held. The tiny device guarding the door was keeping quiet, no one was looking forward to barging in and bothering you. A good thing, too, since the book had copied everything from the computer, including the computer language. Computer text mangled the actual information you wanted, but that didn't stop you from persisting at reading.
    [01:18] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> Your efforts paid off a little, some information acquired to you.
    [01:18] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> The complex suffered from a split personality. It had two names: Clad of Dawn; or, the Hammer of the Lady of the Night Sky. Which one was the real name wasn't apparent to you. Their mission was obvious: The total destruction of the world. There were few magical girls working for this organization, a little over half of them you've met already. If that was so... a shiver traveled down your spine. That meant Usagi and Mami had just begun their wo
    [01:18] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> rk, and planned on massively recruiting in the near future.
    [01:18] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> For a complex of this size, it was very empty.
    [01:18] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> Finishing rubbing your eyes, you leaned forward to continue scanning when your hair stood on end. Eyes peeling over to the door, you felt an intense killing atmosphere outside, getting stronger, stronger, stronger, along with the sound of footsteps.
    [01:18] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> What do you do?
    [01:19] <Ridire> Fix bayonets. Blood and thunder, by god.
    [01:20] <Tarot-chan> stash the book and lie back waiting for it
    [01:20] <@Udz> Stash the book, reflect on what we read about the other girls here, until we are inevitably interrupted.
    [01:21] <Israelhexen> Basically what Udz said.
    [01:21] <Israelhexen> I'm usually for fixing bayonets, but we noir now.
    [01:21] <@Mai_Ikari> What Udz said. Or activate the disintigration effect we totally included on the book, reducing it to a fine white ash, and then what Udz said.
    [01:22] <@Udz> Also valid
    [01:22] <@Mai_Ikari> Because a pile of ash is far easier to explain than a book that contains their system contents.
    [01:22] <Israelhexen> Also, pull a Mosin bayonet out of the Bag and hide it under our pillow. Just in case. Don't actually do this.
    [01:23] <Israelhexen> Just switch the book to showing the inevitable porn on their computers.
    [01:23] <@Mai_Ikari> Even if they linked us to the system intrusion, absolute destruction of the evidence will go miles in our favor.
    [01:23] <Israelhexen> That's the easiest to explain.
    [01:23] <Israelhexen> ... And now I'm think of Inevitable porn.
    [01:23] <Israelhexen> (Inevitable porn is law textbooks)
    [01:24] <@Mai_Ikari> If the book wasn't in machine code, I'd have considered that an option Israel, but I think that's a function we've already been told the book doesn't have.
    [01:24] <DragoonExMachina> We could also blank-slate the book.
    [01:24] <Israelhexen> I've already given my serious suggestion, this is me in full silly mode.
    [01:25] <DragoonExMachina> Set it to wipe, then stash and as per Udz.
    [01:26] <@Mai_Ikari> (It might have been silly, but "We abused our magical powers to get a rip of your network's porn", while raising some uncomfortable questions, is a strong explanation for all events)
    [01:27] <@Mai_Ikari> Which reminds me, the powers file on us, what'd it say again? Besides making us terribly uncomfortable at the level of stalking going on.
    [01:27] <Israelhexen> Also, I don't recall being told the book can't do that, but it's been a while and you're wrong a lot less often than I am, so I defer to your judgment on the matter.
    [01:29] <@Mai_Ikari> If the book is displaying everything in plaintext code, then I can only assume it's working like literal Notepad and that images will be vast pages of gibberish numbers and letters as it tries to put text to bits meant for pixels.
    [01:30] <@Mai_Ikari> That, and the interface was so archaic that I would be surprised if they even -had- an imageviewer on the system.
    [01:31] <DragoonExMachina> In that case, porn would be in the form of smut.
    [01:31] <DragoonExMachina> As in, written.
    [01:31] <@Udz> hahaha There we go
    [01:32] <Israelhexen> Hahaha
    [01:32] <Israelhexen> it's all chainaxe erotica
    [01:32] <Israelhexen> 12 volumes of it
    [01:32] <Israelhexen> 300mb plaintext
    [01:32] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> There was only one reason for the intense hostility soaking the air like humidty outside the door: They found the culprit. Which was you. Feeling that all too well, you pushed a hidden button in the spine, causing all information therein to be blanked. Any more information was gone, and forever now that they were aware of an infiltrator in their computer system. You rushed over to your bed, hiding the book under the matress before laying atop o
    [01:32] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> f it, trying to relax.
    [01:32] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> ... You felt like you wanted to die. Needed, really, as if a devil was sweetly beckoning you with treats of delight to keel over right there. You fought off the urge to blow your brains out with your air revolver. Hands shakng, adrenaline pumping, you listened intently to the footsteps.
    [01:32] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> Clop. Clop. Clop. They took their sweet time to go pass, not bothering to knock on your door, or even acknowledging your door. That killing atmosphere left with them, leaving you shaken.
    [01:32] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> You weren't expecting someone with that level of presence to be here. Dealing with calming yourself down, your mind raised questions. Who was that? No one worked here with this kind of power. Was it a mutation?
    [01:32] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> Do you follow, or remain quivering in bed?
    [01:33] <DragoonExMachina> ...follow.
    [01:34] <Tarot-chan> quiver but poke our head out the door and see who it eas
    [01:34] <@Udz> Follow. We're better than quivering in our borrowed bed.
    [01:34] <DragoonExMachina> Self-preservation instincts say no, but longer-term self preservation instincts say we gotta know.
    [01:34] <Israelhexen> Yep.
    [01:35] <@Mai_Ikari> I would almost say to pull a spybot out of the bag and let that do the following, but we don't need to aim any more bullshit at ourselves than we already have. Follow.
    [01:37] <@Mai_Ikari> This is a terribly stupid idea, but if they've got a Kharn-like on base it's a stupider idea to not know who they are.
    [01:37] <Israelhexen> At least he didn't ask if we wanted to pursue.
    [01:38] <Israelhexen> That'd be a bad sign right there.
    [01:38] <@Mai_Ikari> Do not pursue Lu Bu.
    [01:50] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> Gripping your hands into fists, you vaulted out of bed, and rushed the door. You had to know who that was. To not know was to be stupid, blind, deaf, and mute. You cautiously gripped the doorknob, and slowly opened it. Peeking out, you made sure no one was out, sticking your head further out until you could see both directions. No one was in the hallway. You slipped out, closing the door before pursuing.
    [01:50] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> It was going to the left, so you went that way, sticking to the wall. You felt nothing until you reached a corner, and there the presence of death lingered. Palms sweating, you peeked around the corner and saw the epicentre.
    [01:50] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> A magical girl, that much was obvious. Her schoolgirl fuku was evenly colored in yellow and grey. Hair was turquoises, and worn in a non-euclidean manner, so was her outfit, which brought more pain to your eyes. Gritting your teeth, you forced your eyes away. Moderate pain pulsated from them. Rubbing at them with your palms, you recalled who she was.
    [01:50] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> She was Haneoka Hikaru, or Pretty Witch Lyrical Hikaru, and she was a loading bay worker. You also knew of her weight, height, and blood type, but they weren't relevant right now.
    [01:50] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> On the outskirts of her evil aura, you could hear a sanguine, silky smooth voice in the air. Then a beep. The Witch replied. "Yeah, I'm already headed there, Mari. I'll be there by the time you arrive, k?" The voice replied, then beeped. Hikaru continued walking.
    [01:50] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> Do you follow still?
    [01:51] <Israelhexen> >Lyrical
    [01:51] <Israelhexen> OH GOD
    [01:51] <Israelhexen> PANIC.jpg
    [01:51] <Israelhexen> Huh
    [01:52] <Israelhexen> Fortune cookie, that's not a fortune
    [01:52] <@Mai_Ikari> Well, we know what we needed to. Though if she's just a loading bay worker, what the fuck.
    [01:52] <Israelhexen> that's flattery
    [01:52] <Israelhexen> I think the important part was knowing who the resident death-on-legs is
    [01:53] <Israelhexen> I say we slink off elsewhere.
    [01:53] <Israelhexen> Just like I'm about to do. Work beckons.
    [01:53] <Israelhexen> Have fun, y'all!
    [01:53] <@Udz> We know what we sought to know, but I'm curious. Pull a small drone to follow her from the bag, while we return to our room.
    [01:53] <@Udz> Lata Is
    [01:53] <@Mai_Ikari> Feels like we should explore the facility some more and make sure there arn't any other existential threats like her walking around. And they should not be the loading bay.
    [01:53] <@Udz> Do good!
    [01:53] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> See ya Israel
    [02:02] <SangPhone>  make a bug to track her and see what is up
    [02:18] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> Yes, you would continue to follow, but in the guise of another. Pulling your bag out, you thought up a spybot, and pulled it out of the bag. Sufficiently high tech, it hovered off the ground and up to the ceiling. It was simply a camera with a tiny explosive attached to it. You made sure Hikaru was still in sight - which she was - and pointed at her with new pain in your eyes, telling the bot to follow 'Pretty Witch Lyrical Hikaru.'
    [02:18] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> With silence it flew toward the target, camera snapping shots continuously.
    [02:18] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> You crept back from view, leaning against the wall. You checked our status: Your eyes throbbed, both from reading and from staring at Hikaru, whose uniform was something you couldn't safely comprehend. Your book was useless now that it was blank. You still gathered up what looked like every single girl working for this organization, including the ones from your dream. Right before blanking, though, you had caught references to a Future Tech Hel
    [02:18] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> met...
    [02:18] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> You decide to roam around, find the other girls, and see what else awaited you here. Walking, you reviewed who you read up on.
    [02:18] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> There was Fancy Knight Elegant Usagi and Cosmic Peach Rainbow Mami, cofounders and leaders. Saint Peach Pretty Yui, a long range specialist and 'Hero'. Pixie Power Devil Mari, a battlefield supporter and loading bay manager. Magic Star Miracle Tsukasa, a berserker and overall stronghand. She was classified as "Grunt Labor." Wedding Strawberry Elegant Komugi, computer specialist and scientist. Lovely Peach Beautiful Sumire, counselor and battlef
    [02:18] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> ield supporter. Finally, there was-
    [02:18] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> You stopped, seeing Cosmic Moon Sweet Fuu walking your way. She hadn't noticed you, her eyes on the blue line she was walking on. She was an advisor to both Mami and Usagi, and apparently their bodyguard as well. The katana bouncing on her hip would grant leverage to that title, but what of her skill?
    [02:18] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> You could easily hide yourself away from her, but you could just as easily talk to her. She wasn't so bad, was she?
    [02:18] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> What do you do, Nagisa?
    [02:19] <SangPhone> talk and grope her abs
    [02:21] <@Udz> Stay out of her way, talk to her, if she talks to us. If there is a suitable opportunity for groping, take it.
    [02:22] <@Mai_Ikari> I can't really argue with that plan.
    [02:23] <SangPhone> same
    [02:48] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> She wouldn't scare you. You continued walking, examining the environment. Usagi and Mami glued a fair amount of posters to the walls, each hallway having at least four. You could tell which of them put up which poster. Usagi favored the world being in it, while Mami urged you to 'reclaim your fallen destiny' and 'Fight, for you are the foundation of your dynasty!' with stock photos of magical girls in silhouette or coins glinting on some table.
    [02:48] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa>  This struck you as interesting.
    [02:48] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> Passing Fuu, you felt her barely contained hostility toward you, her eyes cutting you to pieces. You wondered what got her so angry with her.
    [02:48] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> "Hold it. Have you been given permission to walk around this base?"
    [02:48] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> You stopped and turned to her, blanking your face. You nodded. "Yes, Usagi gave me permission to walk around the base for the day. Get a feel for the place and make my mind up on her offer. Since I'm talking to you, can you give me some information on this compound? The name, mission, all that jazz?"
    [02:48] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> She glared at you, obviously displeased with your presence. "I'm countermanding that. You are not allowed to waltz into any red lettered room - any of them - and are limited to be in the public areas only. Got it?" You nodded, which she gave an immediate 'Good' to, and turned her back to you.
    [02:48] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> "She also gave me permission for this as well." You slinked up to her, hands darting out to grope her middriff. It was tone, fit, something you wouldn't mind feeling sliding up and down on your own body. Just like in the dream Fuu stiffened before drawing her katana out. You turned and ran for dear life, having no Usagi to back you up here. Almost rounding a corner, you felt something hard impact your back, and with a gasp of pain you fell on t
    [02:48] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> he floor, sliding just a few centimeters.
    [02:48] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> Fuu laughed an evil laugh, walking up to you. With her foot she began to kick you in the stomach over and over again. With her lips she ridiculed you, like a bully taking her frustrations out, she made you feel pathetic and small. You tried defending yourself, even fighting back, but you enraged her, and she wasn't going to let you go so easily. She took her time to hurt you, all over. After it was done, she huffed from her exertions, and you w
    [02:48] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> inced in a tiny ball, gritting your pink teeth.
    [02:48] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> "Don't try that again, or I will murder YOU." She spat on you before picking her katana up and sheathing it. Her footsteps became fainter until she was gone.
    [02:48] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> Taking a moment to recover, you gingerly got up. What skin you could see was bruised, every inch of your body was in pain and you noticed your gum had been cut, tasting iron. Some of your blood was on the ground. You swayed in a hallway with three one door, a corridor going to the left a few inches away from you, and a red letter door just beyond that.
    [02:48] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> No teeth were loose, no bones were broken, but you felt ugly. Taking a raspy breath, thinking on your backfired decision, you wondered what you should do, now that you were injured.
    [02:50] <Tarot-chan> bag up a healing potion and laugh about how well that went all things considered
    [02:50] <Tarot-chan> kitty landed on your head?
    [02:51] <@Mai_Ikari> Basically that.
    [03:15] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> You pulled a healing potion out of your bag. It was red liquid in a glass vial. Puckering your lips, you drank the contents until the container was empty. Burning filled you, and for a moment you felt like you were going to go up in flames. Then you felt better. You faintly smiled. That could have been worse, but the damage done to her relationship with you cannot be healed with a simple potion, and you couldn't quite say you had succeeded in a
    [03:15] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> ltering the future at all. Best luck next time.
    [03:15] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> Taking a breath of painless air, you debated one point of decision: What to do next? You had many options available.
    [03:17] <@Mai_Ikari> Back to the previous plan, I suppose.
    [03:17] <@Udz> Do we have any idea what parts of the base are available to us?
    [03:17] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> Red letter doors are unavailable to you. They're usually blast doors, so can be easily distinguished from any other.
    [03:20] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> That's according to Fuu
    [03:20] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> But according to us, EVERYWHERE~
    [03:21] <@Udz> Welp, let's roam. In direction that Fuu didn't go in.
    [03:21] <@Mai_Ikari> What Fuu says only applies where Fuu is. Which is that way. So let's not go there.
    [03:25] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> You continued exploring. Not entering that blast door. Not going in Fuu's direction.
    [03:25] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> Suffice it to say, you didn't find much. You found the showers, and they were used recently. A towel was missing, a stall was still wet. You found what may be the loading bay, but stayed away, feeling the same presence there. Let your spybot do the reporting, it would come back to you once its mission was done. You poked your head into some of the side rooms, discovering they were simply bedrooms, spartan as yours. You wondered if they would be
    [03:25] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa>  filled soon.
    [03:25] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> The entire place was giving you the creeps. It was definitely in the early stages of development, but something was off. It felt like a facade was ongoing, and you weren't told a game was afoot. The air was cold, like a skeleton's touch, while harsh lighting poked your eyeballs. You felt like you should always be on your guard here.
    [03:25] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> You did find one interesting thing. A glitch in the eyes, maybe, but something nonetheless. You saw Yui striding confidantly out of a room, and then simply disappeared, a small girl reappearing where she was. She was struggling to keep her rifle on her back, takng small steps with the wall propping her up. It was a flash, however, before the Yui you knew came to again, but you definitely saw something odd with her.
    [03:25] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> Do you confront her about the glitch?
    [03:26] <Tarot-chan> watch her and see if it happens again, if it does ask her if not file it away mentally to ask usagi
    [03:27] <@Mai_Ikari> Watch for a little while longer.
    [03:29] <@Udz> Ask if everything is well with her gloriousness
    [03:38] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> Another flicker, this time the girl was - you swore - staring at you with albino eyes. After that flash, Yui came again. It all happened in a blink of an eye. The gold armor of Yui shone brilliantly, and had an actual presence. The frail girl wasn't there at all.
    [03:38] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> Too quick to leave any concrete suspicion, but too slow for doubts. You knew Yui could control the weather - having fried Sun Yuri to a crisp with a lightning bolt - but did she have other powers as well? Was she keeping something hidden away from everyone?
    [03:38] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> "Yui." You called out to her, striding over to her. She stopped and turned.
    [03:38] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> "Mongrel. What is it?" She sounded like she didn't want to be bothered, as if she were on a mission. You ignored that and asked her the first question to come into your mind.
    [03:38] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> "How are you feeling?"
    [03:38] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> "Rested, after having taken that post-meal nap." Suspicion clouded everything. You didn't fully believe that statement.
    [03:38] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> "I have to be going. Mongrel." She turned and left you, ending the discussion abruptly.
    [03:38] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> Continue exploring, or follow Yui?
    [03:40] <%AFaceInTheCrowd> follow unless she does into a restricted area?
    [03:40] <%AFaceInTheCrowd> goes
    [03:40] <@Udz> Sure
    [03:41] <@Mai_Ikari> Bleh. Getting too tired to think straight, conspiracy meter jammed somewhere past the highest mark. Follow her from a safe distance.
    [03:44] <Tarot-chan> keep exploring
    [03:44] <Tarot-chan> we can't piss everyone off all at once
    [03:48] <@Mai_Ikari> Everyone's already yandere for us, we're fucked either way~
    [03:48] <Tarot-chan> yes but we don't want to trip the stabby switches too early
    [04:00] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> You followed Yui, but at a safe distance. You couldn't keep pissing people off. That girl... she definitely didn't want you following. Anaylzing her eyes, they held something in them... an emotion you had trouble putting a finger on. Rage? Hatred? Or was it determination? That girl was the polar opposite of Yui, that much you knew, and if your gut was right, she didn't want to be seen.
    [04:00] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> All this for a hallucination? Yes, you had to be sure.
    [04:00] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> Yui walked to the command center, and met Fuu outside. You fell back and listened intently, keeping an eye on the surroundings.
    [04:00] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> "I want you to go out there and find SHE. Do you understand? Seek and destroy." Fuu.
    [04:00] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> "Yes, my Lady." Yui.
    [04:00] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> "Recently the mayor received a report on a nuclear power plant control rod stolen, it could be SHE behind it. I don't know if SHE controls radiation or what, but I need this checked out, alright? Go there first."
    [04:00] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> "Yes, my Lady."
    [04:00] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> "Dismissed."
    [04:00] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> You fell back a couple of corridors, hearing Yui walk by, possibly going to the entrance.
    [04:00] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> A thought occurred to you. YOu didn't know the entrance to this base. Only a portal, and apparently a loading bay, if it wasn't a glorified storage area. Yui could indirectly show you it.
    [04:00] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> Do you heed this thought?
    [04:01] <Tarot-chan> check around to make sure there is no one watching us and heed it
    [04:02] <Mai_Ikari|phone> Most definitely. I'm sure no small amount of bodily harm will result from this action.
    [04:04] <@UdzPhone> If we can continue to follow he relatively indiscreetly, sure.
    [04:06] <@UdzPhone> And I think I meant "discreetly"
    [04:06] <Mai_Ikari|phone> You did.
    [04:08] <Tarot-chan> Udz got confused and thought he was writing indecently
    [04:09] <Mai_Ikari|phone> Lol
    [04:25] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> You returned to the hallway leading to the command center, and poked your head out a little. Fuu was standing in the middle, contemplating something. Jaw tight. Eyes foggy. She referred to someone oddly. SHE. SHE and HER was how the stalker labeled two individuals. HER being you. SHE being Yuna. Was Fuu the stalker? Or were those odd labels codewords?
    [04:25] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> Fuu came back to her senses and returned to the command center, which was exactly the same as you had left it.
    [04:25] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> No one in sight, you quickly caught up to Yui, then put yourself at a safe distance again.
    [04:25] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> She wondered in to a great open room with crates of all sizes and colors. A wall wasn't there, leading out to the world. You could see outside, and saw night sky polluted with smog. Nothing else. Hikaru was in a booth with a console with levers in it, at the side of the room. Two girls were to the right, handling some crates. One with muscles that should be on a body builder placed a crate bigger than her down. Her sleeves were in tatters but s
    [04:25] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> oon morphed back to wholeness once her exertions were done.
    [04:25] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> Another in white and red Emperor's clothing, complete with emperor hat, held her hands out, a crate floating above her. It shimmeyed side to side before landing safely to the ground. The girl gestured a few arcane runes before letting them fall to her sides. Turning to speak to the girl, the smiling empress had a shocking discovery. A stab wound in her chest from a slender blade. The red was blood, ruining the fine ruby eyes insorted in the fab
    [04:25] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> ric. Gold wings beautified her suit, a great ruby eyeball in her hat.
    [04:25] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> She spoke to the muscular girl before turning to shout at Yui. You held back, not wanting to be seen, feeling the presence of death all too well. Yui gestured toward the bloody one then hopped out.
    [04:25] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> The massive blast doors shut the outside out, Hikaru making her way toward the two others. No one was reacting to her wound, as if it was perfectly normal for someone to be bleeding out and walking around. Magical girls were magical, but bleeding still was an issue.
    [04:25] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> Feeling Hikaru's presence all too well, what did you do?
    [04:27] <Mai_Ikari|phone> Shit be whack yo. Fall back.
    [04:28] <Tarot-chan> watch her and get something handy to help her
    [04:28] <@Udz> Well, it must be part of her magic. Or we're slowly going mad. Not our problem, either way.
    [04:28] <Tarot-chan> we don't want to tip our hand but if we can help save someone else it would work in our favour
    [04:29] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> >Going mad
    [04:29] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> >Not our problem
    [04:29] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> HAHAHAHAHHAHA
    [04:29] <@Udz> Which is to say, see if anything interesting happens, if not, I think it's been a while since breakfast, hasn't it? Let's get some lunch.
    [04:29] <Mai_Ikari|phone> I'm half asleep and I still know getting involved is a bad idea
    [04:29] <@Udz> Shhh. We can't let the madness know we're on to it.
    [04:30] <Tarot-chan> a very bad idea but we have to do something or it will get worse
    [04:30] <Mai_Ikari|phone> Going mad isnt our problem. Being mad is.
    [04:31] <@Udz> Is there even blood upon the ground beneath her?
    [04:32] <Mai_Ikari|phone> Nobody else reacting meams the wound isnt a problem.
    [04:32] <@Udz> Exactly
    [04:33] <Tarot-chan> I meant about us going crazy
    [04:33] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> Staying inside the entrance was a good idea, it was thick and they were far away from it. You, controlling yourself, kept an eye on everyone. The blood on the fabric was fresh. As if she just got stabbed, but didn't know it. She was chatting with the two like a friend. No blood, however, dripped to the ground. The ground completely clean. How?!
    [04:33] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> Were you going mad? Was that death aura affecting you this badly?
    [04:33] <Mai_Ikari|phone> Totally not a problem.
    [04:35] <@Udz> The wound is plainly not an issue. Let's get lunch.
    [04:35] <Mai_Ikari|phone> Anyway, enterance seems hazardous to our sanity. Let's ge eat.
    [04:45] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> Staying here was a bad idea. You were unprepared for this girl's outfit. You couldn't handle Hikaru's outfit that wanted you to be in pain, while she herself wanted you to die. The voices beckoning you to die, voices that sounded familiar. It was like tasting a sweet fruit. It was bad. You fled the loading bay with the twisted loading bay workers.
    [04:45] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> You fled to the cafeteria, and regrouped your nerves. Shaking finally stopping, heart going back to normal, the voices gone from your ears. Something wasn't right in there, with them, and you had to figure that out. Calming down, you got yourself a late night lunch.
    [04:45] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> The curtains fall, the act fades. A fakeness settled over everything, while conspiracies were the reality and suspicions your only companion. An agenda was being pursued, with chess pieces moving across a black and white board. The black pieces were revealing themselves in guises of smiles and strength, while a witch sung into the night.
    [04:45] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> Dawn of the Second Day. 48 Hours Remaining.
    [04:45] <%Midorikawa_Nagisa> [Chikuwa]
    [04:46] <Mai_Ikari|phone> Chikuwaaaaa