After learning about those starskiff stories, everyone began carrying out Tingyun's handover mission.
Stelle activated the Diviner Beast to search for clues about Kafka. Fortunately, Tingyun had asked the Cloud Knights to give them a fragment of a Cloud Knight weapon that Kafka had severed. After catching the lingering scent on it, the Diviner Beast led everyone running all over Starcrag Port in search of Kafka's whereabouts.
Then they found a tube of lipstick, with a small note beneath it written in elegant handwriting.
"A little gift for someone who has lost their way?"
"Good grief, is this woman messing with us?!"
March 7th held up the lipstick and note, shouting in dissatisfaction. Everyone understood that Kafka was teasing them and playing a game of hide-and-seek.
Before long, the Diviner Beast barked and led them to all sorts of bizarre things: an advertisement for an Interastral Peace Corporation lost-item finder, a pair of sunglasses... Then, as everyone followed the Diviner Beast around in circles searching for Kafka, they suddenly noticed that the Cloud Knights who had been following them had stopped moving.
"Woof, woof, woof!"
The Diviner Beast suddenly barked at the motionless Cloud Knights, and everyone noticed something was wrong with them.
"Looks like the Diviner Beast has found the target. However, this target seems to possess some means of control and has taken control of the Cloud Knights!"
Welt looked solemnly at the Cloud Knights, who had unknowingly surrounded them. A beautiful woman in a coat walked out from behind the Cloud Knights with a smile.
"When the prey's trail suddenly disappears, that means the hunter should be careful~"
"Because it is often a sign that the roles of prey and hunter are about to reverse."
The beautiful purple-haired woman smiled at the group trapped within the Cloud