Chapter 330: Chaos In Waiting
"We won’t have a lot of time before someone comes by," Kir warned as they neared his house. "If we’re really unlucky, it’ll be someone from Heaven’s Embassy.
As they crossed the alleyway, however, a feeling of mana tickled his senses. "Wait here, something’s up." He lowered Amarena to the ground and she started moaning as he stepped past...
At the back of the alleyway, signs of battle were everywhere, and the backdoor to the basement had been ripped from its hinges.
"Mosh!" Kir rushed down to find Moshui sitting at her worktable, sipping a cup of tea and sporting a black eye.
"Oh hey, Kir!"
"What the hell happened up there?"
"Oh, well, these people showed up saying they had work for me, but I told them to check in at my office and they didn’t like that." Moshui was in her office only once a week, but her assistants were, and they mostly passed orders onto Goro when they weren’t experimenting with Programmable Magic scripts. "So then they got mad and broke in, and things got a bit ’hairy’ when I hit one with a wrench. They were trying to drag me away when then this giant lady showed up and started laying in with the magic. I think I recognized her from your class or something. Emmy something."
"Encke?" Kir asked. "What was she doing here?"
"Dunno. Oh, and Kordia is upstairs with her boyfriend Casshern or something. They came by after Esme ran off." Moshui sipped her tea.
Kir turned to climb up through the trapdoor, but then Moshui called out.
"Oh! I got a souvenir from one of the attackers. Have you ever seen anything like this?" She held up a hand that was pure white, except for where its knuckles were seamed with gold. "It’s mana structure is losing integrity fast, but it’s got a fascinating blend of-"