December 22, 1516, Water 7.
Ever since "Satellite Shining" became a Shichibukai, Kessoku Band had used Water 7 as its base of operations.
Calling it a base was a stretch. In reality, they had simply set up Shining Studio here and hired a few ordinary employees.
It served as an all-in-one office for recording, publicity, and business partnerships.
Sephiroth, Perona, and Brook still usually traveled aboard the Thunderhawk, holding events wherever they went.
Christmas was only two days away. Since Sephiroth had announced that their holiday could begin on the afternoon of the twenty-third, the studio employees were in high spirits.
The most incredible part was that the break lasted from December 23 to January 7. Apparently, they were rolling the New Year holiday into it as well.
Inside the studio, Kalifa was unlike the other excited employees.
She picked suitable options from the mountain of Christmas performance invitations before her, then clutched her head as she tapped away at a calculator-
After repeating this process for about an hour, she finally leaned back hard against her chair.
With her large, elongated eyes and high nose bridge, she was a sharp-looking beauty, somewhat different from how she would have looked in 1520 along her original path of fate.
At twenty-two, she looked less like a secretary and more like a young woman fresh out of college.
"So we really can only hold it in Water 7..."
As she sighed those words, her body slid down the backrest. Her posture was hardly elegant, and only her writing hand kept moving.
"Lord Shining doesn't make his living off the band, after all. I guess he really doesn't want to travel for events during the holidays..."
Kalifa muttered as she drank her coffee, staring blankly at the ceiling.
She presented the image of