"Hey, guys, it's been a while, huh?" Alkimia greeted us, before adding as she glanced at Aria, "And it's nice to meet you, it's just too bad it isn't under better circumstances."
"Yeah, that's putting it lightly. But, yeah, it's nice to meet you too," Aria nodded in response.
It's around 10 PM now. Ciel had reached out to Alkimia, who was on-board with helping us take Leto down. Of course, we needed a good explanation to give the Union as to how we know Alkimia, since we can't exactly tell them about the trial and reality-altering that followed.
In the end, we decided to go with the story that she reached out to Ciel a while back, who's been helping mentor her after seeing the potential of her Magic. It's the best we could come up with to explain how Alkimia is already at X-Ace level, let alone the fact that she's maxed out her stats.
