"My, my, how does it feel to see another old friend, Gerard?" On a secluded mountaintop outside Crocus, Ultear watched Millianna's image reflected in the crystal ball and teased him with a smile. "Don't you want to take this opportunity to see her? From the look of things, she doesn't seem to resent you."
"That's all thanks to Brother Nameless." Gerard smiled faintly, his eyes fixed on the image in the crystal ball. "I'd love to see her, but this isn't the time. Thanks to his powerful Requip, everyone here has fallen under the five-sense hypnosis of something called Kyoka Suigetsu. Even the people out in the city, who aren't under Complete Hypnosis, can only see false images on the magical broadcast. Brother Nameless's power interferes with the footage so thoroughly that they see the same illusions as the hypnotized people! I have to admit, it's a perfect opportunity. But we shouldn't use it for something like that. We need to take advantage of it to keep a close watch on the Kingdom's movements! Otherwise, we'd be wasting the perfect opening Brother Nameless created for us—"
They had learned all this not long ago, when Achill suddenly remembered the assignments he had given them while destroying a Magic Absorption Device. He used Instant Shift to reach their mountain, freed their senses from the indiscriminate hypnosis that had seized them the moment Kyoka Suigetsu was released, and gave them a brief explanation of its abilities.
Of course, he also used Kyoka Suigetsu to alter the controlled people's sensory perception of their group. To everyone under its influence, Gerard and the others now simply did not exist, as unremarkable as empty air. This was meant to make their surveillance easier.
The same went for Angel and the others with her.
"All right,