[The Void]
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Jehoel shrugs.

"Simple hope is a waste. If you have the strength to hope, you have the strength to fight to see your dreams achieved. Oh, and take this. It will allow you to contact me in the future, if necessary."

His errand complete, he turns and begins his trip back. After a few moments, however, a small stone in one of his pockets begins buzzing. In truth, the stone is an interdimensional resonator designed to respond to a specific signal from one of the beacons he had given the Mortals. Most likely Charles. Concerning.

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Jehoel will be arriving next post.


[Ikari]
Chuck's Apartment

"Futile."

Alpha-1's good arm snaps out to catch the blade, veins erupting from its hand and arm in response to the potent Blut Vene being used by Alpha-1. Although the blade digs a deep gash into Alpha-1's palm, it is eventually halted and immobilized. Then, the AI twists its hand shatters the blade.

As Chuck tries to escape, Alpha-1 waits until his back is against the wall before hurling a torrent of knives at him. This proves to only be a distraction, because as soon as Chuck dodges, Alpha-1 appears at his side and attempts to break his leg with a brutal, stomping kick.

Road To Tokyo

"Weeeeeeell~ when you put it like that..."

Isalda Kummerow is a blur of garish color and flesh as she slides into the car, her state of dress more appropriate to the tropics than off-season Japan. She doesn't look like much; besides a complete idiot, between her pig-tailed hair and slightly vacant face. Despite all this, as she twists in her seat to get comfortable, she burns like a supernova in Yui's spiritually sensitive vision, doing nothing at all to hide her strength. Finally settling in, she smiles.

"I'm Isalda Kummerow. Nice to meet you!"

That would explain...something, at least. The so-called "Ace of the Italian Belenus" in polite conversation and "Schizophrenic Mafia B****" in its inverse, Isalda and Nikolina Kummerow were both well known PoI in the Quincy community. There had been quite a stir when they had unceremoniously abandoned their patron family for the Zerreißen Himmel. Yui may even have met her or her sister, previously, although it seems unlikely that Isalda remembers.