Having found the paper money she was looking for (only a few thousand yen bills, sadly enough), the young blonde quickly readjusted her bag and placed the money in an easier-to-access location within before quietly following the other two, taking care to attempt to blend in as easily as she could. The streets were becoming less populated as time went on, likely as a partial result of the night growing deeper, but in the end the two remained on streets with enough people to warrant no issue.
Misaki stopped, of course, as the other girl seemed to have some sort of mental freakout upon reaching her "intended" destination. By this point, the amount of people in the area had thinned out, oddly enough; the only ones left on the street at this point were those two... And herself.
"Well, I guess I could've kept the charade up a bit longer, but micromanaging random people at this time of night seems fairly rude. Even for me," she sighed, brushing the dust off her skirt before taking a few steps forward. "I had figured you'd do something shady, but going after another young woman? Honestly, I'm not sure what I should make of you any more."
The silence of the road only made Misaki's statement all the more awkward, but seeing that the young woman beside the creepy old man was still staring into space like she was the witness to some unspeakable horror, the esper only shrugged her shoulders and sighed.
"I've seen that look before. Taking into account that outfit and dumbfounded reaction mixed with her method of getting here, though... I think I've pieced the issue together. Probably."
Though she was loathe to admit it, the old man that had kidnapped her a while ago was also probably one of the tickets to get her out of this mess. That didn't mean she wasn't going to try and not be sardonic about his actions, of course, but in the end she would... Probably need his cooperation one way or another.
Before she could attempt to move and bring the other girl back down to earth (so to speak), though, an odd noise seemed to pass by Misaki's ears. The street was all but silent, of course—save the faint sound of something. Shutting up for a moment, the young woman stopped in her tracks and tried to listen further; it wasn't rare for signals like this to be the precursor to something worse, of course.
"...elp me..."
"Oh. I don't like the sound of that," Misaki thought to herself, glancing around to try and find the source of the cry. She was no altruist like a certain spiky-haired boy was, of course, but something about this situation just didn't sit right with her.
Having polished off the peach that she was so casually snacking on, Tenshi got up from her seat and decided to dig around a bit more. There was a set of drawers off in another room that had a bunch of basic clothing, but compared to the outfit she was wearing they didn't feel as... Eye-catching, to say the least. Needless to say, she didn't bother changing her outfit out—at least, not yet. Despite the suggestion to go to sleep early, the Celestial wanted to explore the city more. Besides, if she wasn't tired, what point was there in trying to sleep? She'd only be wasting time she could have used otherwise, after all.
Deciding to take a quick shower before anything else, though, the young woman quickly doffed her outfit and washed herself. The warm water felt nice, at the very least, and the shampoo and soap had a pleasing aroma for what it was, but aside from that it wasn't anything to write home about. With that handled, Tenshi grabbed a towel and dried herself off before putting her old set of clothes back on.
Having taken enough of a break from being curious, Tenshi was about to head out the door and bother someone else before the sound of some sort of alarm went off. Freezing in place, the Celestial looked around and found the source to be a smart phone that had been put off to the side.
"O-oh. This. How was it supposed to be...?"
Picking the device up, Tenshi rotated the phone around before slowly sliding the green button off to the side, then putting the object to her ear (as she had remembered a few people doing earlier in the day).
"Hello? Are you there? I'm sorry to bother you all so soon after you settled in, but I need you to check some things out at the moment. Tenshi, Emilio, Vita, and Nanoha: I want you to investigate an incident further to the west. The location's been sent to you on a map; if you don't know the way, follow the latter two. Since you all can fly, we're skipping the escort.
Next: Eva, Mordred, Alberich, and Menomaru: we'll be sending a truck your way momentarily. Your destination's been marked to the southeast; you'll understand when you arrive. I'll be coming with the latter group, of course."
The voice on the other end was unfamiliar to Tenshi, but Nanoha and those with her at the time would likely recognize the voice as that of the female Private who had negotiated with them earlier.
With that, the message ended, and Tenshi cocked her head to the side in confusion as she looked at the device. It definitely seemed like something the kappa would produce, but so much... Simpler. She could probably figure out how to use it in the future, but before she could mess with it any further, the sudden popup of a map caused the Celestial to instinctively poke at it. The screen was now showing a map of the area, of course—far more abstract than she was used to, but a map nonetheless—and a red dot with radiating circles out somewhere off to the side. It didn't take a genius to piece two and to together, and so the young woman walked out of her room and quickly took flight.
"Hm... That lady said four names, didn't she? I recognize Emilio, but the other two... Well, i guess I'll see soon enough," she said, quickly flying around in a few circles and staring at the phone. It seemed to be pointing wherever she was facing, at least, which... made figuring things all the easier.
"...But honestly, I'm going to need someone helping me figure out how to use this thing later," she mumbled as she flew off towards the blinking dot on her screen.
Once she arrived, though, Tenshi was met with the sight of a few odd lumps of... Well, what seemed to be charcoal or something of the sort. Wrinkling her nose at the sight, the Celestial drew her blade and looked around warily. The place was cordoned off by police, but...
"What the heck caused this?"
As soon as Tenshi had left, a truck, as promised, pulled up in front of the building. The one driving, of course, was the Private who had sent the message in the first place, and she waited patiently for everyone she had asked for to get on.
"It'd have been nice if Mordred and Nanoha could come but... Mmm, orders!" she griped internally while waiting for the group to board.
Once they had, though, the truck would take off through the streets at a breakneck pace and, soon enough, reach another area marked off by the police. This one, however, seemed to be slathered in some sort of sludge. Private Minami immediately grabbed a cloth to put around her mouth to breathe in an attempt to filter out the smell.
"So, uh... Here we are. Apparently, some people saw whatever left this here go into... A manhole or something? The trail of sludge cuts off there, but it's too dangerous for us to send in normal personnel. I'll leave this one to you."
With all the chaos of earlier having settled down, Leo finally decided to relax a little. After furtively asking if he could sit on the couch in the living room (the answer was yes), the young man turned on the TV, only to see news of Iron Man flying around the skies. Holding back the urge to let his eyes pop out of his skull, Leo pulled out his smartphone and, this time, asked if he could access the Wi-Fi here (once more, a yes). With no time to waste, Leo quickly began to fish through the news that he had missed in the last hour or so in the midst of that earlier chaos, only to notice that there was something new crowding out the Iron Man news—both on the TV and on his screen.
"Two giant unidentified objects have been spotted flying around the midtown Manhattan skyline. If you are in the area, do NOT approach. We repeat..."
The news showed pictures of two silhouettes that, to Leo, looked oddly like...
"Oi, hold on a second. Hold on."
The pictures that were all over Twitter right now were a pair of large wyvern-like creatures flying around the skyscrapers like they owned the place, occasionally with a shot of them in the middle of firing fireballs at the ground. A lot of messages were screaming about it being a publicity stunt for a new game that was announced, but...
"Um... Miss... Konpaku? I'm hesitant to ask, but... We should do something about this, right?"
The
two creatures in question, of course, had just flown right above the heads of the two mages sitting within the Starbucks, one after the other, causing many of the previously-dumbstruck passersby to crowd into the building for safety. They didn't seem to be actively attacking anyone at first, by some miracle or another, but the two beasts quickly turned hostile as military personnel (moved over after the earlier incident near Rikers Island) began to fire their weapons at them. The bullets seemed to bounce off of their shells without much effect, and the two creatures soon took to the ground, both giving off an ear-shattering roar before rampaging through the barricade of cars (and the unlucky officers as well). To say it was utter chaos... Well, that might have been an understatement.
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