Cold Yuichi rises and pulls Marie into a careful hug before turning toward the fading black residue. Her fairies glow softly around his wrists as the others follow.
The trail drops from the rooftops into the Training center, streaking across suspended practice platforms and abandoned weapon racks. Frosted dust lifts in its wake.
Veyra
That residue is a decoy. Lucien layered it over a faster path, and the real trail is already fading.
Janet crosses the nearest platform with her rapier ready, while Marie stays close to Cold Yuichi. The Unit 6 captain scans the empty lanes behind them.
Captain Seraphine Vale enters through the eastern arch, silver hair stark against her white captain’s coat. She carries sealed records beneath one arm.
Captain Seraphine Vale
The records confirm it. Lucien is forcing a route toward the Ashen Gate through the old combat channels.
Veyra
Then the visible trail is meant to delay us. The true route is somewhere beneath this center, and it will vanish soon.
✓ Quest Accepted
Reach Lucien Veyr
“The unit 6 captain then reveals her name and shows her espresso power shooting crystals into captain seraphine and kicking cold all the way to the side as she take marie and says I work for Lucian freely as she teleports to Lucian”
FAILURE (Fair No applicable trait — the described actions are performed by the Unit 6 captain, not Cold Yuichi., rolled -3)
“The unit 6 captain then reveals her name and shows her espresso power shooting crystals into captain seraphine and kicking cold all the way to the side as she take marie and says I work for Lucian freely as she teleports to Lucian”
SUCCESS (Legendary Willpower, rolled -1)
The Unit 6 captain steps between the platforms, dark armor catching the Training center’s cold light as she raises one hand toward Seraphine.
Veyra
My name is Veyra. I work for Lucien freely, and I have never served your alliance.
Her Espresso erupts in a fan of clear crystals. They lance through Seraphine’s coat and slam her against the eastern arch, pinning her weapon arm.
A second burst strikes Cold Yuichi and launches him across the platform. He crashes beside the weapon racks as frost and crystal dust scatter around him.
Veyra
Marie is the key Lucien needs. I am taking her to him now.
Veyra grips Marie and draws her into a faceted crystal seal. The fairies flare against it, but the shell carries them safely within her grasp.
Black-violet light folds open behind Veyra, revealing Lucien’s route beneath the Ashen Gate. She teleports through with Marie, and the passage seals.
✓ Quest Accepted
Rescue Marie from Lucien
“I yell in anger as I start rushing and dashing through the air and cuts through to the pinno world”
SUCCESS (Great Agility, rolled +1)
Cold Yuichi’s angry yell tears across the Training center as he launches from the shattered platform. His white-and-black uniform snaps in the rushing air.
He follows the fading black-violet trace, accelerating over suspended walkways and cutting through the residue with his crimson-and-white Soul-Sword.
Captain Seraphine Vale
Yuichi, do not let the breach close behind you!
His blade strikes the sealed air where Veyra vanished. Espresso screams against the boundary, splitting it open in a jagged scar of frost and dark light.
The cut widens into a passage, revealing the Pinno world beyond: a colorless city of towering shadows and distant, watchful silhouettes.
Cold Yuichi crosses through and lands on black stone beneath the alien sky. The breach remains open behind him, but blood beads along his sword hand from the strain.
Veyra
You followed faster than Lucien expected. Come, then. Marie is already being taken to the Ashen Gate.