Miimas: "Maybe we should go train or something. Not that it would do much against a leviathan or witch queen. Or dragon."

Horoma: "Better than sitting around doing nothing. I need to work on something though, maybe training later."

Tuhota: "We all can train together!"

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An explosion is heard upstairs, like something smashing through a wall, followed soon after by a girl's kinetic-amplified voice.

???: "ALRIGHT YA HEARTSTONE ♥♥♥♥♥es, LET'S RUMBLE"

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Before you can slice through a wall, there's an explosion at the north-east end of the building, at the end of the wing. A kinetic-amplified voice of a girl then booms across the facility grounds.

???: "ALRIGHT YA HEARTSTONE ♥♥♥♥♥es, LET'S RUMBLE"

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You cut the other cells open and then mark an X on the wall at the end of the wing like last time, enough to weaken it but not destroy it. Yet.

?: "I have some mana."

?: "Me too. In you sword, right?

Several of the girls flock around you, ready to deliver mana.

An explosion sounds out somewhere on the facility grounds, and a girl's kinetic-amplified voice booms across the area.

???: "ALRIGHT YA HEARTSTONE ♥♥♥♥♥es, LET'S RUMBLE"

?: "Sounds like Monk got out."

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Iikua still seems in shock from your armor.

Iikua: "Dear Caelus that is horrifying. Where can I get one."


Ommel: "Uh, for funding, we could try selling clothes. We still have the autoloom and a bunch of supplies. Pretty sure the entire store is inside the twilight city."

Kuva: "Not sure how well clothes will sell with all that's going on."

Tabi: "Maybe we could make and sell bags and luggages?"

Kuva: "Hmm. There would be a demand for them right now."

Kiire: "Uh, what is that?"

A figure approaches from the east on the forest path. It's wearing a large, hooded robe and has a massive hunchback, bigger than itself.

?: "Something like that. The day she arrived, she began meditating and practicing fighting. Never stopped after, eight, nine years? Believed one day there would be a chance to escape and when that day came she was going to be ready."

?: "Her cell is the only one with metal walls. She punches the walls as part of her training and almost broke enough of her old stone walls away to escape."

The girls around transfer some mana into Lucida, giving you... 53 units. Well, guess girls that have been locked up for years don't make great mana sources.

?: "Well, most of the people that started here that long ago were in the east dorm. Only a handful of others have been here as long as Monk."

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Comparing Miimas's and Tuhota's spirits, Tuhota's inner spirit looks like Miimas's spirit if you took off a bunch of it.

Miimas: "Alright,I'll be in my room."

Miimas and Horoma leave you to talk to Tuhota in the living room.

"Toh, your uh... no 'ffense, but your spirit's kinda... really weird."

She stares blankly at you for several seconds before responding.

Tuhota: "Oh.



Is that a bad thing."

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Noel: "I'm not really sure, other than one of the girls."

The front door to the building, which is on the west-most side, blasts open. Girls start running out, looking briefly in your direction while continuing to leave.

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The figure speaks with a voice that has a chirping quality to it.

???: "Yes, I was there, in fact. I think I remember seeing you at the tower, though your armor was smaller. Perhaps it was someone else.

I remember seeing her, though."

The figure points to Tabi.

???: "Yes, I do remember."

Tabi: "Oh, I think I saw you painting before the tower started moving."

???: "Yes, that was me."

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Blue Mage: "Yeah. Just busted down a wall. Seems like she's a feisty one."

There's another explosion.

Blue Mage: "Some of 'em just busted down the front door. Guess they don't need anymore help being rescued."