From the depths of the shadows of the Twintails Rising came the little girl, shattered dagger in hand. She tossed the handle to the ground.
"It's all over. Everything."
The dagger faded to grey. Stehy knew. Her readings of [Yume Nasai] were conclusive. Someone had sealed the whole place off, perhaps that 'Doctor' she glimsped through the dagger.
Stehy stared out at the stars, at the Moon City. Now, even there, her guerillas armed with [Yumicite] weapons must be falling like flies before the might of moon elves. So much work. So little reward. Stehy mouth went crooked at the memories of her creation until now. She didn't feel too happy.
Hohemi came in from behind, hugging the brown robed girl. The smile on Hohemi's face seemed all the brighter in the reflection of spaceship window.
"What's wrong?"
"Everything." Stehy grumbled.
"Everything can't be wrong." Hohemi raised a finger. "You have this spaceship. The moon elves don't suspect you're behind the attacks. And, you have me."
Stehy looked up into Hohemi's face. "There's still Niji. I need to?"
"Find her, is that really what you want to do?"
Stehy went silent. Leaving the view of Hohemi's smile, she stared out the window. There the moon hung like a ping pong ball in the sky. She found it pretty.
"They're gone."
"They are."
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"It's done."
"It is."
Stehy inhaled. Her chest puffed up. Then, she let it all go.
"There are bunny girls on the moon. I want to go."
"Sounds interesting," Hohemi stepped away from Stehy. "Shall we go see them?"
Stehy glanced at the fallen dagger. Responsibility or no, she knew what she wanted to do. And it had nothing with tracking down Niji. The two left, Hohemi's smile widening.
The Twintails Rising sped off to the moon, leaving the crumbling ruins of [Yume Nasai] far, far away.
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Niji, unfortunately, was caught in the Doctor's seal of [Yume Nasai]. She had a plan to resurrect a massive corpse pile she found, put it to some malicious use, but with the Doctor closing the entire spell off in another dimension, she was lost to time and space until eternity ended. Which happens to be an eternity, too.
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The space dwarves went on another mission, died, ressurrected, died again. What they knew, was that there were more minerals to mine and more bugs to shoot, and little else mattered. Besides the magic beer, of course.
Their Chia Timelord fortune they gained from their one-off mission protecting Anime Girl? Spent on a new set of mining suits. The suits didn't do anything but make them look like gay strippers, but it was the novelty that mattered to them. They also got tattoos on their arms, easily removable should they change their mind, which they easily do.
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Ouji met a strange set of girls in his travels. They had no interest in him, but he found himself entranced by a white twintailed beauty, Funmancer Yu.
However, this lead to a misunderstanding with her ever-present protector, who dispacted of him in a brief anti-climatic swordfight. The girl who killed him stole his armor and sword off his corpse. She is still looking for a buyer.
The history of Nephilz records Ouji to have died along with the whole royal family during the strange events of that year. The homunculi rose from the sewers, one of the Mounts population inexplicably turned into monsters, then he whole city took strange magical blasts from the sky, reshaping it.
The citizens of Nephilz blame the moon elves for it, but they don't aim to do anything about it. A democracy established in the city turned into a shadow oligarchy, and the moon elves once again established another adventurer's guild.
There in the adventurer's guild they awaited the next reincarnator. To maintain the balance they created themselves on Errera. They sent a replacement diplomat, who also happened to enjoy reading.
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And in stopped time, Wizard's corpse parts, strewn gore, wriggled.