In Paradise, Gloria searched for Efalis, going from one pool to another, one uncanny landscape to another, from a haunted circus to an upside down city. There she found him, he had his earrings in the shape of the Thorned Circle, one for each eye. A white eye with the symbol in it. No iris, just the symbol. The leather jacket adapted to his size, which was that of a child.
The air was warm and the wind was fresh, the tower was upside down but he was standing on a hole inside of it. Hearing Gloria call for him, he turns the eye, sighs, and finally turns around. There he is under his true form, with the black hair all around his head and face, flowing at the wind.
"What do you want, Gloria?"
"Capucine is dead! She was brought back to life by Osmon!"
"Don't you think I know that...and no she was not brought back to life. Osmon wants Capucine to kill Ismael for him. You're so useless, Gloria."
Efalis transported himself to her.
"I'm asking you to go back to Earth and mess with Ismael. Don't kill him, just lie, cheat, be a problem for him. Do whatever you have to do to make him falter. I want Capucine to be here instead of you, honestly."
"Lord Efalis, why..."
"Don't question my orders. You exist here for me and nobody else."
Gloria turned around, frustrated and quickly vanished into black smoke.
"She adapted so fast to the smoke, that indicates that she wanted to be able to move like that. She probably hated being human. Capucine is reaching a level of ascendency never seen before, she has the Thorned Circle in her eyes, on her face, she's connected to Osmon in hell, she might be of use. She might be able to take down the God of above, and with that I could be perfectly in charge of every rotation."
Gloria appeared in smoke in Sehang, Throned Circle in her eyes, dressed in extremely light fabric, black clothes covering her body but with a heavy clevage. At this hour of the night, no one's here, no merchants, no killers and no soul to take. Except for those who try to get a good kill. Midnight is not for every type of killer, it gets to you easily, but Gloria is a different type.
She notices a group of people in the back and walks towards them, they're selling weapons, drugs and illegal fireworks.
"Is that young people do nowadays?"
"Where did you come from, woman?" Asked one of the young men in the group.
"There's no need to act so surprised. Rest assured, I am in no part with the government."
"What do you want, lady?
"I want to try something."
Gloria raises her arm towards one of them and says "jump." The young man drops everything from his hands and jumps over the barrier, falling to his death. She turns around to another, "jump", she orders again. And she does it until they all die.
"Perfect."
She uses the smoke to leave without a trace and arrives at the ITS to then look for the location of Kenza. To avoid cameras on the outside, she gets as close as she can to the gates and touches them to feel what's behind and uses the smoke to get to the other side.
Once inside, Ismael noticed that Grant and Karin were not here anymore. Awane reassures him: "you've never seen them fight to their highest potential, Nero. Open your eyes and witness."
Gloria entered the patio and the main halls upstairs as if it was her own home, lacking respect and manners. She stops walking in the center of the room, feeling a strange aura that she couldn't describe.
"Capucine died because she was not careful enough. I am. I can take care of this. Nobody in Kenza can kill me."
Two metal noises caught her attention and until the pain reached her brain, she had no idea her feet were pierced from the floor below. Two swords going as high as her knees. While she tried to get in touch with the smoke, she realized she couldn't escape. The door behind her opens creeking then closes. The long and heavy katana in her back cuts her left arm from beneath and her right arm from upwards. A clean cut opens up her head like a plastic water bottle, making her blood spill like a waterfall as Grant empties a bottle of wine and cracks a match set her brains on fire.
"That was Grant. Remember to not worry too much about his safety, he'll be fine."
"Yeah I can see that...I know it's Gloria and I know it's bad, but I can't really force myself to care, I shouldn't. She chose the enemy, that's what happens."
Grant seathes his katana without anybody noticing his swift cut. Gloria's head just falls as Grant lights up another cigarette. Six feet tall, black sleeveless suit on a white shirt and long blond hair.
"We have to burn them. If we dismember and burn Capucine too, she won't come back ever again."
"Look at that, Nero. Karin is already there. Karin, do you copy?"
"Yes, Mistress."
"Dismember her and burn her."
"Roget that, Mistress."
Karin in the dark room went dead silent and held on to the horizontal bar on the wall in the middle of the two stairs on the left and on the right. Capucine wondered where that confidence came from considering she had no weapon with her. Not a gun, not a knife.
"How are you going to ki-"
Karin jumped from the fence and fell down the dark area of the room. She immediately stepped back to be able to see her coming from the darkness but felt something in her back. She turns around slowly and hears a heel sound behind her. Now she can see her, waking slowly.
They exchange placements and Capucine feels goosebumps on her skin. Karin steps into the coffin and whispers "Mistress, turn off the lights."
The coffin hole loses its' lights, Capucine looks around for a while and gathers enough courage to check the hole, nothing. She realizes now, her hands are red with blood, but in her panick, she can't process where the wound is. Her entire body fell from shock and fear and eventually, seeing all this blood, she fainted.
"Bring Grant I want to chope her!"
"Great job, Karin. He's on his way."
The girl was jumping everywhere, happy and excited. Grant arrived and handed her his sword. Before she started cutting her down, there was no blood, no cut, no wound.
"I'm going to need an explanation."
"You didn't see it, Nero? Karin was right there the whole time, you just had to look better."
"She made Capucine hallucinate dying? Are you kidding me who is this girl? Honing your own mastery of the sword is one thing, that's completely understandable, but what Karin did was borderline mind control."