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Post by nutty on Apr 25, 2024 0:30:06 GMT
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"Then go, we'll catch up to you as soon as we can." Akira shouted to Chelsea before Ryuji asked. "Dude, what's your plan?" Akira merely looked at Morgana before Morgana nodded seeing what kind of idea Joker had in mind before the entire group of Phantom Thieves started moving quickly away from Daniel, Chelsea, and the others. Once away from them Akira told Morgana. "Now Mona!" Morgana jumped into the air shouting. "You got it, Joker!" Morgana would soon transform into a black airplane big enough to fit the Phantom Thieves, this seemed well enough as everyone ran in only for Kenneth to ask. "Wait a minute...does anyone know how to fly an airplane!?"
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Post by StardustXtreme on Apr 25, 2024 0:49:35 GMT
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"Alice you go with Yuria dn margarate, we'll find other transportation." Daniel said and saw Alice slowly nod as Yuri said they better catch up before they are caught. "We knwo, go." Daniel said as they left as Dnaiel Chelsea and Lyse looekd for a plane that wsn't too damaged as Chelsea asked he panned on doing. "using Tracing to fix it back up, you use your Miracle Ring create fuel and pour it in quickly, Lyse you get in a seat." Dnaiels aid the two girls nodding doign their bit before the plane spluttered to lfie as Dnaiel sued Tracing to udnerstand how the plane worked with tis history and took off after them with Chelsea and Lysa in assenger seats.
Following after them with resumblt the PT in tow with their own chocie of craft, Dnaiel noted smoke rising from the first plane. "Oh... That may be why it left abandoned... crap." Daniel muttered and went afetr them the plane ahd crash-landed in the ocean and and went to fidn a good landign spot nearby in the countryside since he imagined those three woudl swim to the nearby settlement, when they did, They saw Yuri, ALice and Margarate soaked to the bone, eh coudl also well.. see how the two girl's bodies were showign with the clothes clinging to them.
"Are you guys alright?" Daniel asked hopefully they wouldn't catch a cold.
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Post by WhiteRose-Aki on Apr 25, 2024 1:28:38 GMT
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Maragrete nervously laughed, Alice shook, "We're fine." "You're soaking wet and shaking, lets see if we can find a place where you all can dry off." Chelsea said, looking at the white haired girl that was shivering. They found a inn but were told of a curse and a old woman trying to heal someone who had been cursed. The person she was working on died, so the group was asked to leave.
"What was that about?" Lyse wondered, Chelsea said, "Not sure." Stepping out, it was nighttime and they saw someone. The person said the people were scared of them, Alice said that was Li Li, the person cursing the town. Li Li wondered who would be the sacrifice and struck Alice, saying she would say at sunset the next day. Chelsea held Alice who was in pain.
"Is there anything we can do?" Sumire asked, Lyse looked and saw the old woman from earlier. She offered to help, saying she asked for help. She explained the story of Li Li, she lost her father to a tornado at sea and asked the spirits to save him, but took her voice as a result, switching it with her father's. So her father never spoke again, then a traveling group came and Li Li fell in love with one of the actors. So to help her, the old woman decided to kill her father to try and give her back her voice.
But Li Li chose to do it herself, using the ritual dagger to do it. But she often hesitated to do it, preparing to do it every night but couldn't. When she finally decided to do it, her father went out to get some fish, he died in a storm. Li Li wept for a long time, but then something happened. But before she could continue, someone came in, saying someone was here. Then Zhuzhen appeared.
"Didn't think we would see you again." Chelsea noted, Lyse and the PT girls nodded, surprised.
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Post by nutty on Apr 25, 2024 1:47:25 GMT
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Kenneth, upon hearing everything sighed. "Of course...curses..." Ryuji then asked him. "Couldn't you do something about it?" Kenneth merely looked at Ryuji. "Curses are a subject that can't just easily be dealt with mere magic or a item...or more specifically with the various kinds of magic...curses are a complex subject...at the moment I'm out of my element here."
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Post by StardustXtreme on Apr 25, 2024 2:05:36 GMT
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"Mhm yeah." Dnaiel said as Zhuxhen said he was delayed because soem diot blew up the train depot and Margarate looked away sheepishly, trying to nto draw attenion to herself as she was the one who set that bomb off as Alice struggled to speak, saying someoen brought Li Li back as Zhuzhen told her to hold out a bit longer as it'll voer by tomorrow, eh adh an inkling whow as repsonible for this.
""SO what do you need us to do?" Daniel asked as everyone look ready to helo cooperate with ZHuzhen since he knew more about this stuff than any oen fo them, especially since the Sea Mother said ten lvies have already been lost to this curse.
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Post by WhiteRose-Aki on Apr 25, 2024 2:24:12 GMT
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"Alice, just try to relax and rest." Chelsea said, reassuring her. "We'll try to remove this from you." Alice groaned and fell asleep, so Zhuzhen said that they needed to get rid of the ghosts. Chelsea saw how worried Yuri and Daniel were for Alice, starting to see how he came to care for her so much. She kept quiet and stood up, asking Zhuzhen, "So how do we get rid of them?"
Zhuzhuen believed there may be a mark down by the water, a spot where the ghosts would enter. Destroy the mark and they'd stop the ghost, so they left Alice in the care of the Sea Mother.
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Post by nutty on Apr 25, 2024 4:18:22 GMT
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"Ghosts, great...as if we've not already dealt with them before." Zenkichi said recalling the previous encounter with King Boo and his crew of ghosts only for Kenneth to bring up. "As scary as it is to some, the man has a point about how to get rid of them?"
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Post by StardustXtreme on Apr 25, 2024 15:26:48 GMT
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"Shouldn't be too hard to find as I imagine the mastermind planned on everyone staying indoors in fear of the curse." Daniel said as everyone got ready, it was just a question of where as this was mainly just from what they believed to be a fishign village so there wouldn't be many spots to hide a marker or whatever. the group woudl search until they found a red circular marking, obivously this was the thing in question.
"This must be it... So how do we do this?" Daniel asked and Zhuzhen said he'll cast a spell to bring out the thing that was imprisioned in this seal, defeat that and the spectres will be gone as everyone readied themselves as he cast a spell and otu from the red sead was some kind of humanoid bird made of stone with skulls adjorning it while it's head was some kidn fo mop witha tentacle liek thing under it, Zhuzhen emarked this was another form of Yamaraja.
"Doesn't matter, we'll beat it just like before." Daniel said as everyone agreed as they went at it, surprsingly the creatrue wasn't using its wings, perhaps it consituiton was too heavy, all ti did was send out a dark pusle shockwave before it fallen as Margarate wondered why evil spirits wandered here in the first place asn Zhuzhen said the villagers here woshipped the Blue Dragon at an udnersea shrine here hwoever a month ago, lightning struck and said dragon was sealed away which in turn Li Li became a ghost.
Yuri shared this was familair like the cannibal village and then beign attacke din Fengtian by Dehuai as Zhuzhen remarked they met him and said this was indeed the man behind this series of events who was in Shanghai but wanted control over the entire continent of Asia by using his taoist magic in forbidden ways as everyone returned back to check on Alice who was now was upright and not in clear pain anymore.
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Post by WhiteRose-Aki on Apr 25, 2024 16:21:50 GMT
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Chelsea smiled to see Alice was upright and not in pain. Alice smiled to see the group, so the Sea Mother thanked them and Zhuzhen explained the Black Tortortise and the Blue Dragon are 2 gods of 4 gods based on different directions, he realized that someone was trying to seal all four to further his own plans. And that someone was Dehuai, and he was after Alice. Margarete asked why, wondering if he was a perv with a Lolita complex.
Asking Alice what she thought about the situation, she didn't know anything about Dehuai, but she did recall what Roger Bacon said to her when he murdered her father in France a month ago, something about dark warlords trying to bring forth a Valorization and he wouldn't let them make her the key. Everyone was confused, the Sea Mother said that the star in Alice shined brighter than a regular person with 'Demon Eyes', the power Li Li was nothing compared to hers so it was no surprised that there were warlocks who wanted to abuse it.
And the fact her father gave his life to protect her from them and sent her away, Zhuzhan said they could go to Shanghai and stop him, though he also mentioned it would be a repeart of what happened 15 years ago. The Valorzation apparently was a ritual that basically turns the world upside down and Dehuai tried it before. But someone stopped him all that time ago, though Dehuai lost half of his body, he was preparing his comeback. And was plotting to do the rite known as Demon's Gate Invocation.
Yuri said that they should go and Alice agreed, wanting to know her father's sacrifice. Margarete recluantly agreed to go along and a woman appeared, offering her boat. She claimed she was a courier, or rather a smuggler, so since she knew that meant to sneak past the Japanese army, she was more than willing to offer hers. In exchange, she wanted some money. Chelsea crossed her arms, not sure what to make their generous benefactor but they needed a way into Shanghai and the Sea Monster offered to let them rest before leaving.
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Post by nutty on Apr 25, 2024 17:08:26 GMT
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"So, you need money for your services..." Kenneth merely said before digging through his pockets and pulled out a small diamond. "I don't know your currency, but do you accept payment in jewels?" Ryuji blinked in shock at the sight of Kenneth holding the small diamond before Akira gently smacked him on the back of the head.
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Post by StardustXtreme on Apr 25, 2024 17:28:31 GMT
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The smuggler was bit a surprised but took the jewel as they thanked them for the business, leavign to get the boat ready for tomorrow as Daniel looked at Kenn. "You know, flauntign stuff like that may give off the wrong impression, besides, this smuggler appearing just when we needed a way to Shanghai is a little too convienent but since you went ahead and paid her, we got no chocie but to uphold our end by going on the ship/" Dnaiel said with a sigh. "Well, sicne we'e offered board for tonight, we can utilize it." daniel said, stretching, he wanted to head outside and get that sea salt air and whatnot, the village's monsters were cleared out so hey, it was something, he went out and leaned on oen of the railing overlookign the port, hearing the sea waves coming in and out.
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Post by WhiteRose-Aki on Apr 25, 2024 18:06:27 GMT
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Alice stepped out and walked toward him, asking, "Daniel, are you okay?" She stood next to him, looking out at the horizon.
Chelsea sat against the wall, thinking on things so far. 'Everyone is finding it very odd that a regular just happens to have a boat ready for us to use and sneak into Shanghai to face Dehuai.' She recalled so far. 'So Dehuai is planning to turn the world upside down with this Valorization and it's his second attempt after he was stopped fifteen years ago.'
'Yes, and somehow Alice is the key to it all.' Nibi noted. Dragon said, 'And stranger yet, this Roger Bacon is somehow involved.' Chelsea breathed, leaning against the wall. 'It's kinda confusing.'
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Post by nutty on Apr 25, 2024 18:14:00 GMT
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Kenneth merely sighed. "Can you blame me when I don't know the currency? But maybe he has a point..." The brunette closed his eyes. "Still...I can't help but feel like I know where this is heading to since the mention of Phase 2 Testing..." He then looked at everyone asking. "Are you all holding up all right?" Morgana brought up. "Yeah, I think we're fine for the most part." Ryuji then brought up. "How come you couldn't let Mona turn into a boat or something?" Kenneth simply responded. "First of all, we'd have to get out of sight and two...do you think we could really get past the Japanese militia?" Ryuji went silent trying to think of an answer.
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Post by StardustXtreme on Apr 25, 2024 18:23:17 GMT
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Daniel heard Alice's voice and turned around from the railing, leanign back with his elbows on said object as she asked if he was alright. "Yah, I'm fine, is there soemthign troubling you?" Daniel asked the silver haired woman whose blue eyes stared at him, Alice had a cute exterior or rather outside appearance but considering how she toughened out most situations thrown her way thus far, even despite losing her father, there was a strong will in those eyes of hers.
"I can see why Yuri fallen for this woman and was hit hard by it, even eventually choosing to attempt to being her back to life with the Emigre Manuscript, he tooka menetary lance at her figure, she did have a nice pair of breasts, she maybe a B or a C cup with how her attire showcased them under whatever fabric that was used, and she did that small gap in her thighs with those stockings of hers.
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Post by WhiteRose-Aki on Apr 25, 2024 18:50:29 GMT
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Alice nodded, "I'm alright. I just hope we can stop him and protect the world." She put her hands together in a prayer, sending a little prayer to them. Taking a breath, Alice opened her eyes and looked at him, "You and your friends are a bit unique. How do you know them?"
"Maybe we can pick up Morgana and scare them with his cute face." Futaba said, picking up Morgana and moving him around. Ann sighed while Haru laughed, "I doubt a single cat would work."
Lyse looked at them and walked to sit next to Chelsea, looking at her resting. She sat next to her, thought, 'Papalymo..... Wish you were there. I feel like we could help your help here.' She sighed, closing her eyes and thinking about the stern but wellbeing Lalafell who stayed by her side and kept her secret before giving his life to stop the summoning of a primal.
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