On his way to the private box, Shade indeed did not see any Doppelgangers. Thus, tonight's date proceeded as normal. The opera being performed tonight was "To the Invisible Man," a modern classic about a dead man who became a ghost yet continued protecting his fiancée, until they finally bid each other farewell at the end of the story.
During the Golden Dawn Opera Troupe's visit to Tobesk last year, the young ladies from the Southern Kingdom had performed this story many times. Even the Outlander had heard its general outline.
Naturally, he had no time to watch the opera tonight. After the lights in the box went out, before Angelina could even leave, Leisha and Dorothy directly displayed their passion. After all, the last Red Butterfly Day had been Year-End Festival, when everyone had been present; the time before that, they had encountered the final "Time Jump" of the Battle of Vesta Woodland, and Red Butterfly Day had passed before they could experience it at all.
Therefore, this gathering was the young ladies' long-awaited chance to "celebrate the holiday" again. Yet for a while, Angelina, pressed against the wall in the darkness, mistakenly thought she had accidentally activated her Thaumaturgy, Invisible Man.
There was a small incident tonight as well. During the brief intermission after the second act, a group of police burst into the Opera House and took away everyone from one of the boxes on the third floor. They were naturally Church Ring Arcanists, though not from the Sun Church but the Dawn Church.
Shade had been the first to notice Ring Arcanists casting spells in the corridor. When he stopped playing with the young ladies, they had been quite displeased, though it did not delay them for very long.
Angelina, who had been sent to another