"These two are somewhat like special-exception individuals. One is Rin-ne the Circle God, and the other is Maria."
"They only appeared because of special circumstances."
"Therefore, they don't fall within the normal range."
"..."
She stopped there.
All at once, she fell silent.
She slowly looked toward the front.
The sky ahead was clearly the sky above Amemiya City, with nothing there at all. Yet it seemed as though something had already changed, making her shift her attention despite herself.
Even Anna was the same.
She straightened up and stood behind Grey Xiu just like that.
A faintly bone-chilling aura, cold as frost and snow, gradually rose and lingered in the air.
As if poised to strike at any moment!
"Commander! We've detected a special Spirit reaction! This Spirit Wave has never been recorded before!"
The alarms shrieked incessantly aboard Fraxinus.
Someone reported the situation.
But Five Rivers Kotori no longer needed anyone to remind her.
She had seen it.
Having just been teleported near Grey Xiu and the others, she had sensed, through the Spirit's keen perception, the person who had been hiding there and now intended to reveal herself.
It was... "Phantom..."
Five Rivers Kotori could never forget her.
Why had she become the Fifth Spirit? Why had she caused the great fire in Amemiya City five years ago? Wasn't it all because of that bastard?
It was she who had given her the Spirit Crystal.
It wasn't that she had never appeared before.
She had always been active in the shadows.
It was only now
that she had completely revealed herself in front of the public!
However, the situation had suddenly taken a turn.
The atmosphere seemed to have grown even more strange and treacherous.
With Phantom, her body wrapped in mosaics, appearing,
Anna faced her. The