At the Century Corps base camp, Olivia, Centus and Lilac are discussing in the planning room

  Olivia: Even with Rahihi and Malice both gone, we still have a lot of work to do

  Lilac: I had no delusions that this was easy, forces naturally move to fill a power vacuum, we just need to make sure those are friendly occupancies

  Centus: My main concern is Pandora

  Olivia: We will deal with them again in time

  Lilac: So priorities

  Olivia: More Century Corps guys are coming over from the rest of the world, we need stability here after all

  Centus: We have other minor things to take care of

  Lilac: I personally wonder how the Grandmaster is going to take this moving forward

  Centus: We’ll find out soon enough

  As if it was on cue, two knocks on the door of the planning room can be heard

  Lilac: That has to be the new people

  Centus: I’ll let them in

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  Centus opens the door, letting the two other figures in

  Atlantic: Hello Centus and Olivia

  Atoll: Also hello

  Lilac: Oh, you must be the reinforcements

  Atoll: Exactly

  Atlantic: And you must be Lilac, the leader of the guild branch here

  Lilac: Yeah and that’s me and-

  The shifting shadow of Acantha emerges from Lilac

  Acantha: Hey, that’s the asshat who killed me

  Atoll: What the fuck

  Atlantic: Ok ok timeout, what’s really going on here

  Centus: Yeah so Acantha did a thing where she got into Lilac’s body and convinced her to make a new Century Corps that Lilac is in charge of. But Lilac is an ally

  Atlantic: I don’t doubt that…

  Atoll: Sorry I’m just confused

  Acantha: Oh right you dummies forgot

  Atoll: Ok, listen here-

  Olivia: We have more important things to talk about

  Centus: Oh yeah

  Lilac: Wait, this Atoll guy…he was in the memory of the guy talking to Earth

  Atlantic: Hey how did you know about

  Atoll: How did you know that? Were you poking around my brain

  Olivia: The White World revealed it to us, it’s a long story

  Centus: Priority Number 1 is finding Pandora

  Atoll: Wait, she’s still alive?

  Atlantic: Seems like we really have missed out a lot

  Atoll: I chucked her in the mantle, how is that possible?

  Centus: Well that explains the leg made of lava

  Olivia: Sounds like we need to have a discussion to catch you both up to speed

  Atoll: Sounds like it

  Lilac: I’ll be happy to do so

  Atoll: We need to get you in a meeting with Gladian

  Atlantic: Heh, but before any of that we need to know what happened

  Lilac: Yes Ma’m

  Lilac, sits down Atoll and Atlantic with Centus and Olivia to explain the events that transpired here to them

  Despite emerging victorious in this battle, the work is never truly over