ｖｏｉｃｅ‖ａｃｔｉｏｎ ▶ 【Ｉ-Ｉ】 ｃｌａｓｓｉｃａｌ。

[royalpiece]

[ it's been a while since anyone's heard from Beatrice. The door to the room she's claimed in Parkor Estate has not opened for the past week or so, ever since the masquerade-locked and shut against all of Splendor, it seems, with nothing to indicate that it's even occupied. No one enters the room through the door. No one leaves. Even today, this

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[voice]

[silversouled]

Heh... I like it.

What kind of game.

[voice]

[royalpiece]

Do you? [ laughs. ] Good, good! As I'd expected, this city truly won't let me get bored.

... For now, the game is a simple one-see if you can get the Locals to acknowledge your existence.

[voice]

[silversouled]

We'd have to start a pretty big fight for that to happen.

Like a... fight tournament or something... with a big crowd.

[ ... pauses, realizing he heard this "acknowledge existence" thing from Dlanor more recently. ]

Your name isn't Beatrice, er, is it?

[ he can't believe he's actually going to try and figure out what that shouting freak was talking about. ]

[voice]

[royalpiece]

[ she would have said something to the effect that using violence was far too simplistic a method, but- ]

Hmm...? It is so; I am indeed Beatrice, the Endless Witch. Who has been spreading rumors about me, I wonder. [ *cackle*cackle* ]

[princessofmoe]

...mii. A game? What kind?

If we could get them to notice us somehow, maybe we'll get some answers.

[royalpiece]

[ ...ah. It's that girl again... the one who sounds so much like Lady Bernkastel. ]

... Hmm. That is precisely what kind of game it is. You are quite perceptive, for one so young.

[action]

[floweronmyhead]

Au....rora?

[An almost paralyzing fear comes over Kanonno when she sees the strange lights by the estate scatter into butterflies. However, upon seeing a woman she didn't recognize appear from them, that feeling starts to subside, but not completely.

She continues to watch warily from below, wondering what all the butterflies were for and what the woman is talking about over the seals, but one phrase in particular catches her attention:] "their very world would fall apart without it"?

[action]

[royalpiece]

[ she tilts her head slightly, studying the girl. That she was frightened is of no interest to Beatrice-the fearsome witch who had ruled over Rokkenjima's night-but rather that word she uttered. "Aurora"...? ]

Correct. It is very likely that this city's existence is born from a strong magic.

[action]

[floweronmyhead]

[Magic... that was definitely a term thrown around at the meeting the other week. But no one had theorized it like that. Now she was curious about what else she had to say about Splendor.]

...Really? How so?

[action]

[royalpiece]

Kihihi, isn't it obvious? [ she gestures around her in a wide circle. ] Do you really think humans without a drop of magic in their veins would have been able to build this place?

And... [ when her arm falls back to her side, some of the butterflies vanish, as if they are flames snuffed out by a sudden wind-not all, just enough for the effect to be noticeable. ] What happened at the masquerade was not something that could have been accomplished by the mundane, you see?