The latter half of the Grand Line, the New World.
Dressrosa Kingdom, royal palace.
Inside Princess Scarlett's bedroom, Violet stood before an iron cage, wearing a purple dress with her long black hair draped over her shoulders. She held a porcelain teapot in her hand.
Scarlet cow blood flowed from the spout and into the large bowl inside the iron cage.
Inside the cage before her was a Crimson Bat no bigger than a palm. Every day, it needed to consume two or three times its own body volume in blood.
Violet had always been curious about how this bat could possibly drink so much blood...
Having caught the scent of blood, the Crimson Bat immediately awakened from its upside-down state. It fluttered its wings twice, landed in front of the bowl, and began greedily drinking the blood inside.
A crimson flash tore through the air as ripples of space rapidly spread outward. Sephiroth, dressed in black leather and holding the Butcher Blade, with two long swords strapped at his waist, stepped out of a Spatial Gate.
"Sephiroth."
Seeing the silver-haired young man suddenly appear in the room, Violet showed no surprise. She merely greeted him casually.
Sephiroth came back every few days. She had lost count of how many times she had encountered him suddenly appearing in the bedroom...
As such, she had long grown used to it!
Sephiroth glanced around the bedroom but did not see Scarlett. He asked:
"Where's your sister?"
"She went to deal with matters at the Arsenal."
"Oh! I see!"
Sephiroth nodded and sat down on the long sofa in the bedroom. He noticed a small pile of books on the table.
So, he casually looked over their titles.
"How to Become a Qualified Leader."
"Social Conversation Techniques."
"Biographies of Dressrosa's Successive Kings."
"Business