“Damn it. For someone as rowdy as her, she gets drunk easily.”Shoving her into the back of the car, Vincent would have Saeko take the keys from Kira's pocket. Kira was almost out cold as she flops down to the seats at the back, helped up by Saeko. Vincent would close the door on them and walk up to the front of the car, however, there would be a group of men, dressed in black that would pass them by. It took Vincent's attention as they were all dressed somehow conspicuous. They had digitalizers on their waist on the way to the party, and they were not your common digitalizers in Moonblight. They had that notable design that would only come from Newyark. “———?!”Vincent would quickly get inside the car, raising the windows in a hurry. “What's wrong?”Saeko would ask, but Vincent's eyes stayed on the group that suddenly stopped just at a turn towards the entrance of the building where the party was being held.It was a bad feeling. He could feel his magic reacting to it.“I don'

“Wait. Living together? We don't know her. She's——”“——Our only choice. Regardless, she wanted to lend a hand.”He swung his hand and pointed at Ruriko with vigor. He was suspicious of her at the surface level, but as the situation calls it, his emotions were running wild.Ruriko might have been a named celebrity in Moonblighr but that doesn't change the fact that she might be someone that might be their enemy. “You don't have to worry about anything. Besides, you can't hide anything from me. From your brother's death to your origin. People from above know everything about everyone.”Dipping her finger into the tea, Ruriko would bring out her tongue to taste, looking at Cian with a seductive gaze. She was teasing him by acting like this, like a manipulative person, which Cian hated the most. “———”Ruriko knew about the rumors of Magi's death being false. But Cian just had to keep up his act. “W-What do you mean? You——”“If it's information about you, we are not that easy to fool.”

—As days pass by in Moonblight, the first match of the second stage of the tournament was near. During that period, Moonblight's city was plagued with different news as everyone was distracted by the tournament's preparation.Toru Nagumo has escaped from prison and a wide manhunt for him was enacted around the city.It was certain that it was Pandemonium's doings yet, there were no leads that pertained to them. Not only that, crimes around the city had seemed to rocket up as soon as the time of the tournament event began, with most of them being harmless robberies, some were injured indirectly to avoid activating the Anti-Kill Technology.Some people were worried that the technology might be not working yet, and the Mayor and his daughter would announce a curfew to lessen such events. Starting from the early hour of 9 PM until 6 AM of the morning, the curfew would be in place with human authorities roaming the city and apprehending suspicious individuals outside at that certain tim

[24 hours earlier]“Ahem. We're with the Tournament's Managing Staff. All of the participants would have to go and spend the next day in isolated rooms in the colosseum while we announce the match-ups. To make the first match-ups balanced and well sought out, we are going to match up people by the level of their combat prowess.”Right at the doorstep of the most poorly maintained agency building of the Red Trackers, there would be a dead-ish face man wearing a certain blue military-style uniform that arrived. “Err... I see. I'll inform the others.”Sabrine had accommodated them after they rang the service bell at the abandoned lobby on the first floor.She was unsure if they were for real or not at first, but seeing as they had ID cards outlined in black, a higher authority than them they were as red, she would quickly go back and inform the others. The rule about being isolated on the day of the match-up announcement had been going on since the second event of the Mixed Magic Arts

“You did something, didn't you?”“Hmm? I wonder what you are saying. Weren't you uninterested in this kind of stuff?”Above the arena that had begun to be covered amid Louis' ability, Ruriko and Mia began to continue their conversation. Ruriko poorly tried to dismiss Mia's assertions, fending it back with few words. “I am, but this is fairly about how you had anything to do about that man's sudden growth. You aren't perhaps favoring them just because they are loyal to your system. Isn't that quite unfair for everyone you forced to sit under your system?”Mia would push further with it, broadening the conversation from some involvement with a contestant into a political imbalance.Ruriko only giggled at her futile attempts to seek an answer from her, and despite that Mia had tried to sound threatening, her whims were just as cute. But maybe this would only warrant one answer, to make her gears going.“What do you think?”Ruriko would leave such a vague answer that led to Mia's inter