"Come again, sir." Taking a bow at another satisfied customer, I finally closed the shop for the day as I roamed Livia's store for a few last-minute checks before retiring for the day. Seeing as my sister was preoccupied with some partnership stuff with Love, I was left alone to man our shared livelihood while the younger woman was gallivanting who knows where doing god knows what. Either way, I was left to manage myself with my newfound freedom. "I'm bored..." Feeling rather lazy, as well as not having Livia's presence subconsciously pressuring me to work, I did jack shit to progress on my projects for the day. I just didn't have the energy if my precious sister wasn't beside me whenever I wake up. But then again, maybe that was just an excuse for me to procrastinate on either continuing to write another book, or to at

Using the cloak of night as cover, I stuck to the dark alleyways as the main roads were teeming with civilians going about with their normal lives. Torches scattered throughout the roads provided a source of light for the capital's citizens as stalls selling their various wares littered the streets of Mathema. Taking advantage of the general distraction that the big plume of smoke was giving me, I skulked through the small, dark corners of the city; trying to avoid using the main roads for as much as humanly possible. *Boom* Another explosion echoed out across the sky, this one being a whole magnitude stronger in terms of both volume and intensity. I could chalk that up as me being closer to my destination, but I highly doubt that that was the only reason for the increased power diffusing into the air. Whatever fight was happening within those cham

"Look out!" Whu- *SWISH!* My brain didn't even have the time to process the information in front of me before something pulled me out of my reverie. With a warning from my supposedly dead superior, I managed to dodge the stray bolt of fire coming straight at me, bending my body backward as I twisted to avoid completely falling over and exposing myself. What the hell was happening here?! Quickly drawing both of my blades, my mind was on fire as I tried to ascertain the current state of the battlefield. A literal zombie was a few meters away from me, her rapier swirling with blood and water and she flitted across the veritable maze of bookcases that seemed to stretch on endlessly in this building. Chasing her, glimpses of Livia's form appeared in between the cracks

This was not the night that Olivia had in mind when Lady Love wanted someone to accompany her to the Royal Library. It was supposed to be a simple infiltration job; one that her unassuming stature would no doubt help in posing as Lady Love's aide. While she knew that being a Prime held some form of status in terms of being granted access to some parts of the palace. She didn't expect Lady Love to go straight towards the supposed restricted section of the library once they found themselves inside the gigantic tower. From there, it was easy to spot just where the supposed plans for the whole city and the whole palace was. Bundled in with the rest of the city plans, Love quickly showed them to her as they unassumingly took an empty table for themselves; memorizing, and in some places, scribbling down whatever important information that they needed for her sister and her partner's plan to work. After which, t