Front Lawn and Entrance Hall (Pre-Game)

[Ryo Asuka]

The television buzzes to life and on the screen is a relatively pale person with jet black hair and gray eyes. He is dressed in a black designer suit with an intricate gold and red cloak on over it. "Hello potential Assassins. My name is Jay. I am the current reigning Master Assassin of The Order. I have gathered you all here today as a test. I will explain more as the time draws closer, but for now, mingle with your fellow Assassins. The calm will not last forever." The television cuts off.

[Falin Touden [Ven]]

"Huh, "mingle", How is this a test?".

[Heihoukon [Tsurugi]]

Karma smiled with a devilish grin and replied to Sephiria.

"Perhaps Jay would like to tutor us all properly in the art of assassination, since he is a master of the craft. This might be a test in itself to see who among us is willing to gather intel. One of the key factors to being an assassin is to gather more information about your surroundings."

After saying this, Karma walks into the center of the hall where the other assassins are located.


"Well, you all know me and Sephiria from our earlier encounter, as well as Jiyu. How about some of you introduce yourselves? Talking with a small group is fine, but our host has other plans for us, so we might as well all get acquainted."

After saying this, Karma brandishes out a knife and looks away from the other assassins showing an obviously intended disinterested look toward those unwilling to acknowledge his presence. He goes over to where Aqua and Sephiria are and begins to speak with them again.

"If you are looking for the name of this woman, Jiyu, it's Sephiria Arks. In case you hadn't noticed, she and I had an entertaining introduction earlier. Also, that's a very interesting cell phone you have there. Mind if I see my picture?"

[Giorno Giovanna]

Kazuo flips his phone around revealing the photo taken, it was decent, nothing professional that's for sure.

"Just a little trick to help remember who you are, if you're not ok with that I can get rid of it."

He looks down to his phone again, fiddling with a strange app.

"**** it what happened to all my..."

A small pentagram emits from his phone's screen, a little woman the size of a doll, crawling out of the emitted light.


"Hey honey bun~"



"Where's everyone else?"

"Oh poor baby, as soon as you fell in that portal they ran off.  It's only me and Jack baby here now."

Kazuo sighs and shuts his phone, the small pixie disappearing as he did so.

[Daiwa Scarlet]

*Blake sits off to the side reading*

[Falin Touden [Ven]]

Sephiria looks at the girl with long dark hair to the side. She seems very intent with her book and her bow very purposely placed upon her head. Sephiria could see that interrupting the girl would be a very bad idea indeed.

[Ryo Asuka]

The television buzzed to life once more with Jay on the screen. "I apologize for being so short with you before. For now, I will address my first point of the evening. You guys will be in a training session of sorts. So, depending on what weapons or devices you currently hold in your possession, you may have an unfair advantage. So, my team will go around and collect those now. Also, keep in mind that using powers to give yourself an unfair advantage will be seen as cheating. I am not testing your natural-born talents. I am testing your abilities as an Assassin. Anyone caught with contraband in the facility will be punished accordingly. Upon completion of the testing, all of your belongings will be returned to you." As if on cue, a limousine pulled up to the front gate and a team of Assassins hiding their faces under black cloaks came swarming in. They approached each of the Assassins and gathered their contraband before promptly leaving the premises. "Thank you all for your co-operation." With that, the screen went dark once more.

[Heihoukon [Tsurugi]]

Upon seeing this large spectacle that Jay's assassins went through to take his knife and the others' weapons, Karma sighed and walked over the girl reading off to the side. He quickly swiped up the book she was reading from her hands and flipped to the final page. He carefully read it before shutting the book, and he looked directly at the girl with a smug grin.

"Well, this sure does look like an interesting story. Even when Jay's assassins made quite the spectacle taking contraband off of us, you still seemed so engrossed in this book. I hate to be blunt, but I don't think you've read a single word in it today.  I think you're trying to use the book as a cover to analyze the rest of us while remaining inconspicuous, but perhaps I am a little too narcissistic in my thinking. So, I highly recommend you introduce yourself to me as well as correct any false presumptions I have made before I tell you how this wonderful book ends. Oh, and if you tell me you've already read it, I'm sure you wouldn't mind if it somehow made its way to the bottom of the fountain."

After saying this, Karma cackled and walked over to the fountain with the book, waiting for the inevitable fallout.

[Satori]

A young woman dressed in a black cloak enters the room.



"Hello my fellow assassins. I am Isuke Inukai but I'd like you all to address me as "Isuke-sama". I look forward to getting to know you guys better and lets all have fun together in this training..."

[Daiwa Scarlet]

Karma didn't have to wait long as he never made it to the fountain. After turning away, his feet were swept out from under him and the book disappeared from his grasp. Blake calmly continues with her reading while ignoring the boy sprawled a few steps away.

[Falin Touden [Ven]]

Sephiria laughs at the spectacle and takes a liking to this girl still enjoying her book. She walks over to Isuke, "Well hello Isuke-same, I hope you had a pleasant journey".

[Heihoukon [Tsurugi]]

While laying on his back on account of the girl kicking his feet out from underneath him, Karma realized just how reckless he was being toward all these assassins. He then heard a new voice from a girl introducing herself to them all as "Isuke-sama". Upon hearing her introduction, Karma got back up and followed behind Sephiria, and upon hearing Sephiria address the girl as "Isuke-sama", Karma couldn't help but shake his head and laugh at Sephiria.

"We haven't been here for more than a couple of hours, Sephiria-san, and you've already placed this girl on a higher social ladder than the rest of us simply by using the wrong honorific! We are all strangers here, so there's no reason for you to feel inferior toward her. As Jay said earlier, we are all supposed to be equally matched in ability, so the appropriate term we should address each other with is '-san'."

Upon saying this, Karma turns his head toward Isuke in admiration.

"But it sure does take guts to ask people to drop the casual '-san' in place of the more dignified '-sama'. It sure does put yourself in a position of authority way above the rest of us. I suppose with your name I can make an exception, but don't expect me to remain inferior to you for long. It's a pleasure to meet you, Isuke-sama."

[Daiwa Scarlet]

After reading for a while, Blake blushes bright as a rose and quickly slams the book closed. She glances around while trying to slow her thumping heart.

"... That can wait until later..."

[Falin Touden [Ven]]

Sephiria laughs at the young man's response.
"Maybe I felt like after her introduction it should be played upon? To be perfectly honest I believe that I can talk to people how I wish, and you honestly dont have the right to tell me otherwise, those men took away more sword otherwise I would point it at you now, I am perfectly capable of doing as I wish..", she took a step forward, "...this is the introductions, maybe you should stop trying to get tripped".
Sephiria stepped away and wondered off outside and took a look around the gardens, she couldn't deal with the petty squabblings.

[Daiwa Scarlet]

After cooling the redness of her cheeks, Blake listens in on what little conversation was happening.
She sighs at the oddities of the "master assassin's" instruction.

"Natural born talents and assassination abilities are often one and the same. Perhaps you need to rethink your wording."

Blake walks toward the garden with Sephira.