CURE ARCANA SHADOW

she's really just at the seaside archimedes café for sightseeing reasons, but soon enough a waiter comes by her table with a surprise.

"miss, please enjoy the ice cream."

"huh? oh, thanks?"

"of course. please let us know if you need anything else."

as the waiter walks off, giselle stares at the impressive bowl of different-colored scoops before marveling to herself. i guess pretty privilege is actually a thing!

"the people here are so nice," (nom, nom.) i guess things really are different in a world without monsters.

a few minutes later, another girl appears and sits down at a different table. idly, giselle notices they're wearing the same color dress. then she catches the other's eye and waves hello.

"hiiiii~"

The cause of the mix-up was obvious. The one handing out the order was not the staff member that had taken it, so he'd probably just looked for a "teenaged girl", and they were the only two that fit the bill in the store at the time.

the girls next attack , a jump kick to the head , exposed the delicate wires and such but the katzlein knew that her current power level wouldn't be enough to completely behead it. but ... gray hues flickered to the other , ears twitching at the orders given before narrowing her eyes , locked onto the joints.

But if the katzlein had been observing her, she would have noticed the foot she'd kicked with limp the moment she landed. Arcana Shadow went right back to hiding the fact that she was in any discomfort though, too used to acting on her own these days.

No, not quite. Never like this. Captive and made to feel small but her enemies were flesh and blood and-

No, not like this. She could smell someone coming closer. She got up from her resting place, looking worse for wear. "It's the furthest I made it..." she whispers to herself, hating how pathetic she sounds as she gets up, ready to fight whatever it is-

No, wait, not it. If she could smell them, then-

"You- you're trapped here like me!"

"Very astute of you." The magical girl crept closer, careful to step where no blood could dare stain her shoes. She eventually crouched down and poked at the girl gently from afar with her staff. "Not much of a mystery about what happened here. You were overwhelmed?" She was surprised they'd left her alive.