Mia is having a nightmare in her sleep and she hears someone calling her name but then her hears Luca saying "Mia, Mia wake up!" and then Mia wakes up and she says "Luca what time is it?" and then Luca says "it's 10 in the morning" and then an intercom goes off in their room and it is Lydia and she says "Luca, Mia, both of you come to my office, i have a mission for the both of you" and then they both go to Lydia's office and Luca says "sup Lydia what do you need?" and then Lydia says "i have a mission for both of you, dozens of people have been reported missing and our sensors have picked up that their souls have been going to a abandoned mansion, i want the both of you to investigate and find out what's happening .and then the both of them go to the abandoned mansion and they both start to investigate and look around. but then Luca senses something and he takes out one of his kunai's and then he says "Mia get behind me!" and then something blue appears in the middle of the room and it is floating. and then Mia starts trembling and says "th-th-that's a ghost!" and then Luca runs up to attack the ghost but then he passes right through it and then the ghost grabs him by the neck and says "feed..." and then it starts to inhale and then Luca feels his soul being sucked out of his body. but then a blue arrow impales the ghost and then they hear someone saying "ghosts are getting pretty easy to kill these days" and the voice reveals to be a teen boy holding a bow and arrow then the ghost flies towards him to attack him but then he fires another arrow at the ghost and then it vanishes. and then Luca feels his soul going back into his body and Mia runs up to check on him and then Luca says "hey, who are you?" and then the teen says "Simon vento, professional Exorcist" and then Luca says "wait like a ghost hunter?" then Simon says "Exorcist is the official name but i should be asking you what your doing here" and then Luca says that they are here on a mission from the Nocturne organization to investigate this mansion after people have reported going missing. and then Simon agrees to help them and the three of them start searching and investigating around the mansion and then they find a room with a blue giant heart in it. and then Luca says "what's this thing?" then Simon observes the heart and says "it appears to be a mana heart, it is an object used by ghosts to store large amounts of souls and charge up energy with it" and then Mia starts to walk closer to the mana heart and then Luca and Simon both yell "no don't touch it!" but then Mia touches the heart an it starts glowing and cracking and then Simon says "hurry, we need to leave!" and then they get out of the mansion and then a giant ghost appears out of it. and then Simon says "both of you get behind me!" and then he charges up his bow and raises it and yells "kairine aqua xi!" ad then he fires the arrow at the ghost and then it destroys it. and then after that Luca says "well now we have something to report, also you should join us at the Nocturne organization" and then Simon says "i'll have to think about it, but i have to go now" and then they go back to Nocturne mansion

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