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As if decreed by the Goddesses themselves....

...Yliss pulls the SSR Traitor's Requiem Asteria, focus unit of the Treason's Doom banner, featuring such units as Jonathan Godsrock, the arrogant former scientist, and Lucienne Lacroix, the mafia assassin skilled at hiding as an servant. Asteria, of course, got an alt, despite not even being from the same general area as the other banner characters, but there was probably a good reason for it.

Or, as Yliss was well aware and her bust made obvious, two good reasons.

"Cedric, get him some food. We won't be able to get more out of him like this. Even something like an apple, a piece of bread."

"Do with it what you will. I have no need for earthly possessions. The only thing I ask in return is a single lock of your hair."
The hooded figure continues to tinker with the butterfly, the winged insect seeming to flit between its spindly fingers.

The figure continues to examine the butterfly on their finger, seemingly not quite paying attention to Keilee.
"That would depend on what goods you are looking for, child."

"On second thought, nah. I won't come with you guys. As tempting as it would be to have a Goddess lead me to Freya, Rio would kill me if I went with you. I don't think it'd be a good idea for either of us. I'll....figure out my own way to get to Freya."

"Nah, see, I already looked like this back home, but at least I could actually change my hair and face if I wanted to. Now, I'm stuck like Kirito. I suppose that Rio chick probably's got the same deal."
"Screw Freya. I still can't believe you guys haven't just ditched that Serena chick yet, either. Isn't she the other goddess who does this whole isekai schtick?"

"Force of habit. Not my fault there's nutjobs who want to take their Kirito hateboner out on an actual person."
"Well, I'm not dead or any closer to being broke. That's a plus."

"I'll do my best to not be a burden on y-you, then!"
_{"As long as I-I don't mess this up, l-like always....."}
Milly Pendleton has joined the party.

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Keilee's search for an alleyway to find black market sellers is not entirely fruitful, at first. For all that the police seem to turn a blind eye to Anna's apparently legal scams, they seem to do a great job of cleaning out the criminals who aren't charging more money than an average person makes in several months.

After a little bit of wandering, however, she happens upon a hooded figure, a spindly gloved finger holding up a blue butterfly, a sack full of mysterious, glinting trinkets by their feet.. Suspicious by anyone else's standards.

So by Keilee's standards, lowered by her general distrust of figures that most sane people on the planet would find trustworthy, perfectly reasonable.

Without even looking towards Keilee, continuing to examine the butterfly on their finger, the hooded figure speaks.
"Hmm. Who might you be, young lady, to seek me out? An adventurer, perhaps?"