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Street Group (Mildred, Akihiko, Shiro, Jin)
"The time for our little game is over. It's time to find Fuu-chan, Shi-no-mi-ya."

Some struggling can be seen from his cloak. It seems Nene is trying to get out.

"Cute. Fuu-chan and I....."
"Oh shut the hell up already!"

A gout of fire smashes into his side as Akihiko's fireball lands true, sending the Ripper tumbling. The Ripper attempts to right himself, but a burst of light courtesy of Shiro, followed by a lamppost hurled like a spear (courtesy of Aegaeon) collide into him next, throwing him onto a rooftop not a block away from Hermelin.

"Nice shot, Kasuga, Shiro!"
"You're going to need somewhat more than that. That barely tickled him."

The Ripper's body contorts as he pulls himself off the ground, Mildred and Shiro's bikes fast closing the distance.
"...where are you....never mind. I'll handle this."

He twists his head around, visibly wincing as he holds the spot where Akihiko's blast struck him.

"....to think he could hit so strongly....he was right. These demons are becoming more powerful by the day."

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Popular Group (Aika, Mori)
Mori's vision flickers.

As he hits 'Send', the message remains on the screen. No matter how much he taps, it doesn't send. He needed Akitsuki here now, what was going on? Why isn't it sending, why isn't it sending-!

The rippling seems to be gone. Yagami tilts her head.

"Myself? Uh....I mean, this is who I've always been. I've always liked computers more than singing, after all."

From the corner of his vision, the hood of the masked Kaijin appears-!

Yet as he whirls to face it, nothing. Absence.

His vision flickers again.

The message he tried to send Akitsuki has ceased to be. Like he never typed it at all. For a moment, the visage of the masked Kaijin appears on his phone screen, taunting him with a smile beneath the veil hiding his mouth, before his screen returns to normal.

His head feels heavy. Fuuka - or Tomoe or whatever she was really called - stares at him and Mori swears her neck is bending a little too much-

"Sawatari!"

A burst of lilac light shoots across Mori's vision. The weight within his head vanishes instantly, as if cut away with a keen blade. The oddness, the weirdness was gone. His vision feels clear, clearer than ever. The feeling is as if the weight of the last few weeks had been taken off him, however briefly. Something hits him as he experiences this.

That lilac light....it was the same color as Scathach's visor.

Silence for a split second.

[Now Playing: Theme of Andras ~~Penumbra (Variant A)~~]

And then Kanade Mishima tackles him away as a knife sinks into her side, the hooded Kaijin stabbing her as he emerges from the floor in a burst of shadows and ice.

Mori realises from the angle that the knife was mere centimeters from hitting HIM instead, had Mishima not pushed him out of the way. From the height, it was going for his throat.

"Pathetic."

He yanks the knife out from Mishima's body and goes for another stab, before yanking her by the arm and throwing her to the side of the room where she tumbles into a set of drawers, motionless.

Yagami almost jumps away from Mori, picking up a chair to defend herself as Andras fully materialises in the room.
"M-Mishima-senpai! You monster! G-get away from me!"

"I can't do that, Miss Yagami. You and I have an appointment together."
If Mori checks his phone, he sees that the message did go through. Whatever trickery Andras was playing on him, Scathach - if it wasn't Mishima - made it go away.

And now we have a FEF representative write-in poll as the earlier poll got a LOT of responses.

Shoes presses the advantage.

This time, however, she is less able to evade the blast of dark magic even as she manages to finally down the necromancer's mount, forcing herself back to her feet through sheer grit.

(Shoes has equine rage!)
(Shoes' hooves thunder!)
(Thanatos' Daunt activates!)
(Thanatos shall face the darkness with solemn fire!)
(Thanatos aspires to truth and pursues strength!)
(Thanatos' In Tandem activates!)

Shoes initiates!
Hit Rate: 34 to hit
Hit: 6, hit!
The Middle Dracolich Head takes 37 damage!

The Middle Dracolich Head is destroyed!
Thanatos loses a Life Point!

Thanatos retaliates!
Hit Rate: 75 to hit
Hit: 25, hit!
Shoes takes 32 damage!

Shoes uses up one life!

"My purpose is to serve the strongest! Prove your worth!"

Kiyomaru's eyebrows furrow.
"If the food is not to your liking, my apologies as a host. After all, the contract of hospitality is two-sided. I am obligated to offer the best I can to my charges. If you do not wish to partake further, I will have someone show you to your rooms for the night.."

Satoshi laughs.
"Yeah. That's the Takeo I know. It's good to see you guys again after so long."
He stretches his arms.
"Let's go inside, get some food, and then we can figure out how we get on from here. That sound good?"

E-12

Yayoi feels a light slap around the back of her head.
Please don't exorcise me. I'd rather like it if I could figure out why I came back first.

Then Takeo talks.

I see you guys really fell apart without me and Satoshi holding the fort, huh?

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"That doesn't sound like you, Satoshi."

"That's because it wasn't. But uh....it's all in the past now, right?"

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Then Takeo also gets a slap around the head.
Don't think you're getting away. Well, quit that. You're not some delinquent. You're our Takeo. You and Satoshi were like brothers back in the day.