At the Century Corps base camp, Olivia, Centus and Lilac are discussing in the planning room
Olivia: Even with Rahihi and Malice both gone, we still have a lot of work to do
Lilac: I had no delusions that this was easy, forces naturally move to fill a power vacuum, we just need to make sure those are friendly occupancies
Centus: My main concern is Pandora
Olivia: We will deal with them again in time
Lilac: So priorities
Olivia: More Century Corps guys are coming over from the rest of the world, we need stability here after all
Centus: We have other minor things to take care of
Lilac: I personally wonder how the Grandmaster is going to take this moving forward
Centus: We’ll find out soon enough
As if it was on cue, two knocks on the door of the planning room can be heard
Lilac: That has to be the new people
Centus: I’ll let them in
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Centus opens the door, letting the two other figures in
Atlantic: Hello Centus and Olivia
Atoll: Also hello
Lilac: Oh, you must be the reinforcements
Atoll: Exactly
Atlantic: And you must be Lilac, the leader of the guild branch here
Lilac: Yeah and that’s me and-
The shifting shadow of Acantha emerges from Lilac
Acantha: Hey, that’s the asshat who killed me
Atoll: What the fuck
Atlantic: Ok ok timeout, what’s really going on here
Centus: Yeah so Acantha did a thing where she got into Lilac’s body and convinced her to make a new Century Corps that Lilac is in charge of. But Lilac is an ally
Atlantic: I don’t doubt that…
Atoll: Sorry I’m just confused
Acantha: Oh right you dummies forgot
Atoll: Ok, listen here-
Olivia: We have more important things to talk about
Centus: Oh yeah
Lilac: Wait, this Atoll guy…he was in the memory of the guy talking to Earth
Atlantic: Hey how did you know about
Atoll: How did you know that? Were you poking around my brain
Olivia: The White World revealed it to us, it’s a long story
Centus: Priority Number 1 is finding Pandora
Atoll: Wait, she’s still alive?
Atlantic: Seems like we really have missed out a lot
Atoll: I chucked her in the mantle, how is that possible?
Centus: Well that explains the leg made of lava
Olivia: Sounds like we need to have a discussion to catch you both up to speed
Atoll: Sounds like it
Lilac: I’ll be happy to do so
Atoll: We need to get you in a meeting with Gladian
Atlantic: Heh, but before any of that we need to know what happened
Lilac: Yes Ma’m
Lilac, sits down Atoll and Atlantic with Centus and Olivia to explain the events that transpired here to them
Despite emerging victorious in this battle, the work is never truly over