[Unknown place; ZHE headquarters]
Adler pats Torahiko on the shoulder. "You'll be seeing a lot more of what we're capable of", he assures, then nods at Caeyrn. "If you'd follow me, please."
While the Doctor stays behind, amusing the crowd by making Demetrio throw cartwheels on command, Caeyrn and Torahiko are lead to a small church built inside the complex. Or, well, "small" is a relative term. It's almost as big as the cathedral where Caeyrn saw Hein Weiswiede's body. The Totenkreuz has been brought here too - Caeyrn and Torahiko can see the battered silver cross hanging on the wall furthest of them, casting its pale blue radiance on all of them.
There's a priest there too, blessing them and offering them bread and wine. Caeyrn feels a slight tine on the back of his left hand - if he looks at it, he'll see a red letter A gleaming on it momentarily, before fading. "The Cross blesses you and grants you the Schrift A for Armor", the priest proclaims. He then beckons to Caeyrn he's free to stand up and leave.
For Torahiko, the experience is less pleasent. The blue light burns his eyes and skin and he feels like something's squirming inside his stomach and head. For a moment, there's a burning sensation at the back of his left hand, and if he turns to look, he'll see, for a brief moment, black outlines of a letter that could be either B or S, but it fades too fast for anyone to be sure.
Fortunately, that's when the sound of a church bell rings through the building, and Adler pats him on the back. "That's it, Mister Tachibana. Time to go outside. The main ceremony is about to begin."
Off they go again, this time out of the main hangar doors. Outside, it's bone-chillingly cold and utterly dark save for lampposts now lighted by the Quincies and a crescent moon hanging overhead. They move out of the rocky canyon familiar to Torahiko, and then, ahead, they can see a giant, ice-covered palace. At this point, they might get the feeling they're not inKansasIkari anymore. Or any other place on Earth, for that matter.
"Behold Silbern, the mausoleum of our late Emperor! Welcome to Wandenreich, the invisible kingdom of the Land of Shadows!"