Early morning, February 15.
In the skies over the waters near Totto Land-
In the morning light, tiny snowflakes danced silently between sea and sky.
The Red Tears broke through the sickly sweet clouds, leaving patches of sugary substances clinging to its hull.
Cotton candy (snow), powdered sugar (fog), maple syrup (rain), and sugar stars (hail).
Inside the bridge, Sephiroth watched the drones and small robots cleaning up on the surveillance screens and took his customary sip of black tea.
After a few visits to Totto Land's waters, its natural environment and ecosystem no longer surprised him.
"Amazing-the snow's actually cotton candy!"
Yamato sat in the first officer's seat, visibly excited. This was her first trip to Totto Land.
They were going to attend Big Mom's Birthday Party, but the visit also counted as an official diplomatic mission.
So, as the "Prince of Babylon," Yamato had put on a Holy Knight's cloth-armored dress uniform for diplomatic occasions.
It was simply a little more untamed than the standard Knights' cloth-armored dress uniform... or rather, it covered less.
Still, it covered slightly more than the fitted white sleeveless kimono she normally wore.
Aside from the minimalist white cloth armor hugging her figure,
her armor consisted only of individual lightweight pieces.
A right-arm guard bearing divine patterns, a left pauldron bearing the Celestial Being emblem, and decorative waist armor with a cross insignia. Her leg armor consisted of a pair of half-greaves protecting her shins.
Overall, it resembled an anime-style medieval knight's formal ceremonial attire.
It had not originally been quite so piecemeal, but Yamato was not used to wearing armor, even light armor.
So she had kept only the components bearing heraldic designs.
When Sephiroth first saw her, he thought she had just returned from a trip to the set of Arknights