Three weeks after the Quiche cast him out, Cold Yuichi enters the Blank Realm. The familiar world vanishes, replaced by a silent expanse of pale stone and drifting frost.
His white ice sword forms in his hand, its surface clear as frozen glass. Training scars have faded, but the memory of Janet’s transfer remains in every breath.
When he attempts an ordinary practice stroke, the blade refuses the motion. Frost twists outward, projecting the ghostly outline of Janet’s white rapier in front of him.
The image flickers through fragments: Janet kneeling beneath harsh Quiche light, Diego standing wounded nearby, and a sealed Unit 12 insignia closing over a document.
The rapier’s projection turns toward a distant black doorway that does not belong in the empty realm. Thin ice spreads from its point, forming a path.
Cold Yuichi
The sword is showing me something that happened inside the Quiche.
The vision shudders and vanishes, but the sealed insignia remains suspended above the ice. The sword lowers only slightly, waiting for Cold Yuichi’s next move.
✓ Quest Accepted
Uncover who sealed or concealed Janet’s powers
“Soon I wake up in class to Marie shaking me and friken is beside asking to walk home together”
FAILURE (Great Perception, rolled -3)
Cold Yuichi wakes at his desk to Marie shaking his shoulder. The classroom is nearly empty, late sunlight striping the black-and-red uniforms and dusty floor.
Marie
Cold Yuichi, wake up. You were staring at the page without moving. Are you hurt?
The pale stone, drifting frost, and Janet’s projected rapier cling to the edge of his vision. His white sword is gone, replaced by a trembling hand on the desk.
Friken
I was going to walk home with you. You look like you might collapse before reaching the gate.
Cold Yuichi tries to answer, but his throat produces only a dry breath. Marie’s expression tightens, and she catches his arm before he can stand.
Marie
No. You are not walking anywhere alone. Sit down for a minute, and tell me when you can actually speak.
Friken glances toward the empty hallway, then takes the other side of the desk. The route home is no longer a simple walk, and both wait for his voice.
“Just then a women named Marlene appears posing in the window and pokes my head so you are worried about janet I could help you enter the quiche it would be illegal also tho are you up for that she said smiling looking at me as I say yes”
SUCCESS (Legendary Willpower, rolled +3)
A woman appears upside down beyond the classroom window, then smoothly rights herself on the sill. Marlene, a young adult Blanko woman, is a young adult with warm brown skin, short auburn curls, and a green jacket over black clothes; she taps Cold Yuichi’s head through the open window.
Marlene
So, you are worried about Janet. I could help you enter the Quiche. It would be illegal, also, but are you up for that?
Cold Yuichi
Yes.
Marie’s hand tightens around Cold Yuichi’s arm, while Friken rises sharply from the desk. Marlene smiles, reaches through the window, and presses two fingers against the air.
Marlene
Good. Stay close. I already opened a lawful-looking route through the old service entrance, and the guards will read it as a return summons.
A narrow white doorway unfolds beside the teacher’s desk, revealing pale stone, drifting frost, and the distant towers of the Quiche. Cold Yuichi steps through with Marlene, Marie, and Friken following.
Marlene
You are inside. The seal will recognize you for three minutes, and I know exactly where Janet’s testimony is being held.
The intrusion violates the quiche's access rule and must be prevented, expelled, or treated as a breach.
“Ok, lets going as soon as I step into the quiche im in my black and white uniform and my blade appears are you two coming as well I say smiling”
SUCCESS (Legendary Willpower, rolled +2)
Cold Yuichi
Yes. Are you two coming as well?
Cold Yuichi crosses fully into the Quiche. His black-and-white Blanko uniform forms around him, and his white ice sword appears in his hand as he smiles toward Marie and Friken.
Marie
I am coming. I promised I would not leave you alone in a place that wants to take Janet from you.
Friken
Obviously. Someone has to keep you from charging into the first official execution chamber you find.
The doorway flares red beneath their feet. A rigid white seal snaps around Marie and Friken, rejecting their living presence while the Quiche towers answer with a distant alarm.
Marlene
They cannot remain. The access rule is already treating them as intruders, and the guards will arrive before I can disguise the breach.
The seal pulls Marie and Friken backward through the doorway, returning them to the classroom without harm. Cold Yuichi remains inside beside Marlene, sword ready, while armored Blankos converge across the pale stone.
The intrusion violates the quiche's access rule and must be prevented, expelled, or treated as a breach.