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We haven’t had a D-ranked magician arrive in Shibuya in quite some time. When dealing with travel between worlds and with space, time as a whole is a wholly intangible concept. The time between worlds rarely if ever often syncs up together. While my second sight had warned me of the arrival of the Mage, it is often too far out, or too sudden to accurately pinpoint without deliberate analysis. It is fortunate that I have had centuries to practice narrowing now what signs to look for with a new arrival from the OutSide. 

Thankfully, the traveler in question is someone I am familiar with- one Fai D. Flourite to whom I have considerable experience with traveling across worlds. While his personality appears on the surface to be amiable, the curse that rests on his shoulders remains unbroken. It seems that he has not yet arrived to that place yet. This is both comforting but dangerous.

It is uncommon for curses to span across worlds, but this is a unique situation to which it is unwise that I mettle with. It is magic that is foreign to this world and it's ecosystem. Introducing any sort of magic on that scale poises vast environmental and societal risk of collapse. I will, however, provide a ward to the Mage to wear to lessen the impact of his magical influence within this world. This should help the stress on his soul as well as not not interfere with the curse.

The following is what I understand to be the constraints of the curse that have to be followed:

If the curse bearer encounters a being that is stronger than his current magical abilities, the curse will activate and cause him to attack and kill the one who is stronger than the curse bearer. 

The beings must be in the same plane of existence for the curse to be activated. 

Those beings who are stronger than the curse bearer but are not magically stronger than them will not activate the curse. With that note, one can exist within the world and have magical abilities and not passively use them and potentially cause the curse to activate. 

Because of this, I have taken precautions to my own safety and opted to interact with Flourite under the safety of the UnderGround’s authority. It is my first and foremost priority that I keep Shibuya safe from the potentially lethal risk of this visit. While I have every belief that the Mage has no intention to harm those in his company, the curse that he bears most prominently is something I must take immediate action with. Intention does not equal control. What happens when the curse is activated is unpredictable.

The Dimensional Witch intentionally directed his travels towards me on account of a debt being paid off. This is not unusual for her as she has done this before. Based on the density of Flourite's soul, there appears to be more trauma since the last time we encountered each other. I will be keeping a close eye on him for further notice until the debt is settled. Should there be continued degrading in quality of the Mages soul, I may need to authorize measures to keep him from destabilizing. 

Fai will be dropped for you! Here's to January. :)

FAI D. FLORITE will be reapplied for you!

He will retain his housing at #109, Eterna Village

Arcanus Academy, a school — an odd place to be for the ninja, and odder still in its current state, covered in orange and black decorations as it were for this apparent festival. The students had off and were making the most of it, running booths or finding their own way into the city to find their own amusement.

Kurogane still was trying to wrap his head around what this “Yestereve” even was, as it seemed an odd mix of practices from Nihon. There was honoring the dead, mixed with banishing the dark, mixed with all these damned sweets which, together, really made no damn sense to him but, hey, it seemed pretty established here.

And Fai had been excited to partake in it all; no surprise there, so of course he came along to make sure the man behaved. And maybe they both thought to those missing by their sides whenever the sky lit up from the festivities but it wasn’t as if they had to talk about it.

There were plenty of things to do, after all.

“Huh,” Kurogane says, staring down at the chocolate-covered apple a student had given him after poking his head into a “haunted house” (which was clearly not a house, just another oddity to add to the list); “don’t know why you would put something even sweeter on an already sweet fruit. Guess I’ll give this to you later.”

Not tonight, as he’s pretty sure Fai will be running all over getting his fill of the evening, so he puts the treat in the bag he has slung over his shoulder - grateful that the cold will keep it from melting (chocolate, ugh), and continues to look around.

Seemed the events here were more like carnival games, though many seemed flashier as to be expected from the Isles. An arc of movement makes Kurogane look to the right and he grins at a familiar game.

Hihi! Fai will be placed on a Semi Hiatus for you.

Hello! :) Fai will be reapplied for you!

You will retain your housing in #109, Eterna Village.

"Mage?"

Any further information Kurogane had attempted to get from the sentinels at the tower had been... ineffective. The various items he had been given have been stuffed into his jacket pockets (oversized gloves included) and since then he'd taking to wandering and cursing Mokona's name.

It was usually a surefire way to find the pork bun

Still, here the man was in the flesh. Or it at least appeared so. Kurogane squints - still not entirely sure how this new world works or if the other can even understand him. So he tries a different approach, one they'd taken to in Yama.

❝ oh , you got one too ? ❞ link asked , looking up to greet fai , who he was currently sharing his side of the long table with . ( link had assured him his spot would be saved . ) ❝ i forgot to ask marika , but maybe you'd know - ❞ link pointed to the delicious , gooey stuff on top of the bread and sauce- ❝ what exactly is this topping ? ❞