In the Tingen City setting of the Dream Labyrinth Tower.
By the time Klein, in the guise of the Gentleman Thief "Black Emperor," arrived at Megose's residence with Miss Sharron, the Machinery Hivemind and the Mandated Punishers Squad were already fighting her.
It was nearly noon, yet a blood-red full moon hung in the sky.
At the sight of it, Sharron took a potion from her pocket and drank it without hesitation. The extraordinary item that protected her from the full moon was at the Sequence 5 level, but its power was suppressed here too, leaving it useless. She had to rely on the Calming Draught to control the Werewolf's curse.
"Are you all right?" asked the Gentleman Thief, concern in his voice beneath his black crown. "If it's too painful, you can move out of the moonlight."
Sharron's face had grown even paler, but she shook her head. "I can still hold the pen."
So you're staying here to support me with 0-08?
Seeing the resolve in her eyes, Klein wasted no time. His spirit carried the three Flaring Sun Charms through a broken wall and into the battlefield.
By then, most members of the Mandated Punishers and Machinery Hivemind had fallen beneath attacks from hideous, clawed bats. Whether they were alive or dead was impossible to tell...
Only a few captains and veteran members of higher Sequences, armed with Sealed Artifacts, could still barely hold their ground.
Megose stood on the other side of the house, no longer recognizable. She had become a disgusting mass of flesh that only vaguely resembled a human being.
Worse still, a lump of flesh about the size of a basketball writhed rapidly in her "abdomen," as though trying to break through the flesh and skin covering it!
*That... that's even uglier than