Chapter 2: Present Meets the Past

"This mysterious woman knows that I'm the Elemental Overlord…Whatever she wants from me, it must be a dangerous task if she requires my level of power." Mew thought to himself after the woman made her request for help known, and with a nod of his head while he sat back down onto his couch Mew responded to the woman with a joking tone "You know, you're a few hours late in contacting me." This caught the woman off-guard as he murmured out in his mind "I-I beg your pardon?"

"You know, I was talking earlier about a girl contacting me via my mind after a bunch of cliché'd coincidences. It's kind of…Ah you know what, never mind, it's a stupid story." Mew waves his hand down and laughs off what he was just saying, and the woman bluntly told him afterwards "No arguments here…" Though when Mew raises his eyebrows at how insulting that response came off the woman quickly catches herself and says "Err…I mean…Look, I don't have much time to waste here. Are you going to let me speak or not?"

"S-Sorry, fire away." Mew said in an apologetic manner. "That's better. Now anyways…I need your help with something major. There is a tyrant that has been terrorizing my people for a long time, and I have found myself unable to do anything to help them out. You, on the other, just might be powerful enough to stop him." "You require my fighting capabilities? That's interesting and all, but I feel like you are keeping a lot of information away from me." Mew replies while rubbing his chin in thought.

"This woman cannot be trusted. That siren is just attempting to lure you in!" 'D.' states with the uttermost urgency in his voice, but the woman quickly tells him with a quiet, nonchalant voice "I see you're still barely clinging on to your existence, 'D.' And the way you speak still has not changed…I thought for sure two-thousand years of being bound to those chains would've been enough to end you." "You witch…When I take over this pathetic boy's body, I will silence you first!" 'D.' replies with a coarse and violent voice.

All the while, Mew raised his left eyebrow, speaking out only when the demon was done by mentioning "Ok, so now I know you two have a history, or at the least the woman knows about your past." "…Look, I wish I could speak for a little longer to get you to trust me, but you're just going to have to suck it up and come here to get more information." The woman replies, combining and apologetic and blunt tone together to create something rather bizarre. Laying his head back against the couch and forcing a yawn, Mew says to the woman "I don't know, I'm feeeeeling pretty tired tonight. How far is the trip I'd have to make to reach you?"

"Fufufu, you'd be quite surprised to learn that I am not very far from your house in the mountains, young Mew." The woman revealed information that actually ignited a spark of interest in Mew's mind, and the boy quickly lifted his head up and said curiously "I doubt you're anywhere near my house or I'd sense you, so I don't know how you possibly could know that about me. But I'll bother you about that more later. Just how far is 'not very far'?"

"My people and I live directly above the North Pole." The woman's response earned an immediate reply from Mew of "Interesting. So you live in a cloaked location, cause I've been at the North Pole enough times to know there's nothing in the sky." "Only I can allow you to see and enter the city, I'm afraid. So what are you waiting for? Kick that keister of yours off the couch and get on up here." The woman says in a rather fired-up manner.

However, Mew instead leans back against the couch and folds his arms behind his head, closing his eyelids before stating "I'll come in the morning. I really want to get some rest and be ready…Plus it gives me time to think about whether I want to help you out or not." "Morning…? W-Well…I suppose I can wait until then, but at the very least give me an estimate on when you'll be at the North Pole so I can determine when to contact you again." The woman, though briefly exasperated by Mew's request, chose to go along with it for the sake of moving things along.

"Nine o'clock. I'll be around the North Pole around then, guaranteed." Mew says with nonchalance, and the woman states to him afterwards "I'll make sure to set my alarm then. But you better not be pulling my leg, or there will be dire consequences." With a gesture of his right hand out Mew says "Any more information you want to give me before you go, babe?"

"Yes. Don't ever call me babe again." The woman sounded rather lax in her response, which leads to Mew smiling and pointing out "I'm just playing around anyways. I'm a man who fulfills his promises, so there's no need for you to make threats to convince me to come along…That is, assuming you can be trusted." "That's good to hear. And yes, you can trust me. Before I disconnect, I shall let you know one particular detail…I am someone who was very close to the original Elemental Overlord." With that rather surprising bit of news, the woman stops being a presence in Mew's mind.

"…Someone close to the original Overlord, huh?" Mew pulls a hand out from behind his head to rub his chin, remarking not long afterwards "She knows I'm suspicious of her, so for her to so willingly reveal something like that even though that's way too easy of a way to gain my trust…Hmmm." Mew lifts himself off the couch and continues to hold his hand against his chin as he makes his way to his bed at the back of the house.

Plopping down atop his bed sheets and covers with enough force to make them become ruffled, Mew lays his hands down on both sides of his body and closed his eyelids, accepting the darkness of nightfall outside as he prepared to go into a deep sleep. "You're going to regret it if you get involved in that witch's affairs." 'D.' tries to continue to reach Mew's ears, but the boy just yawned and said "Sounds to me like you're afraid she'll bring about the end of you. Good, YOU can have that fear with you tonight, I'll just spend time laying back and thinking about what that woman said."

And that is exactly what Mew did for a few hours until he eventually decided there wasn't enough information to go on and going in circles was rather boring, so he fell asleep until he knew it would be time to wake up. But when he went into a deep enough slumber, he began to have dreams of some interesting events. The first event depicted a woman, likely the one who was speaking to him earlier, sitting on a couch with a bunch of beer and liquor bottles laid out on a table in front of her. In an apologetic, echoing tone she says "I'm sorry for dragging you into this with a half-truth…But the fact of the matter is that I do not want to lose another of my children to that monster."

The second event showed a different girl with a bo-staff confronting him outside a temple, where she proclaimed defiantly "An outsider like you has no right to fight him! Now get out of my way!" The next event sees Mew facing a man with green-skin inside of a room filled with trees and a pagoda, with the man drawing his bronze katana while remarking in a quiet but upset tone "All you are doing is bringing ruin to my people by bringing her along with you."

The fourth event saw Mew locking blades with a man with pale skin and pointed ears, and he said in a mocking manner "You're pathetic human. You don't really want to save that girl, you just want to find a reason to justify your continued existence!" The final event saw Mew being crushed between two gigantic icebergs while a metallic man with dreadlock hair held his hand up and proclaimed "Your efforts are in vain! In fact, once I have ascended to godhood, I will have no reason to keep this planet around!"

When these events had finished transpiring in his head, Mew was pretty much ready to wake up by that point, and he jolted his upper body upright from the bed with eyes widened for a moment. Glancing to the right to check the sunlight creeping in through his windows despite the fog outside, Mew comments in a curious tone "…I don't think I've had a dream like that for a long while. Hmmm, this will definitely be an interesting trip to the city if that was a sign of things to come…"

Rubbing his chin for a bit while focusing on getting awake, Mew takes a brief glance at his clock and notices that it was at least 8:45 am. Flinching in surprise, Mew said to himself "Y-Yikes…I need to hustle up to the North Pole. Guess I'll have to skip breakfast for today." Leaping out of his bed with an unnecessary lift of both of his feet towards the ceiling, Mew lands on the floor and then rushes right for the door of his house, heading outside and using his powers to lock the door behind him.

He then leaps into the air and takes flight high above the clouds, turning to the right and saying "North Pole is…to the north…Hmmm, shouldn't be feeling nervous, I'm already saying stupid shit." He then laughs off his little stupid remark and pulls back on his arms before thrusting forward through the air at a comfortable speed so he won't push away the clouds and cause people to notice him flying. "Wish I had other clothes besides this shirt and pants. Oh well, nice clothes aren't really my style anyways." Mew commented to himself to pass the time.

About ten minutes later of boring conversation with himself, Mew made it to the North Pole, where the sub-arctic waters are plastered with chunks of ice and towering glacier mountains. But since he still had a few minutes before the woman would contact him, Mew floated in place in the chilling sky and folded his arms together, his body not reacting at all to the cold. "Ahhh…The chilling winds are so nice around here. I should come up here and lay on an iceberg sometime." Mew spoke out with a relaxed sigh at the end.

"…You have an odd taste in relaxation, though I suppose your powers grant you the right to those choices." The woman's voice reaches Mew's mind with an exasperated tone, and Mew lifts his eyelids up and says "Oh hey mystery woman. You're contacting me early." "And I'm contemplating whether or not it's a good idea to ask for your help…But honestly, my only other option is too many worlds away, so I'll just take what I can get." The woman says bluntly, a disgruntled sigh being heard from her at the end.

"Something up?" Mew inquired with a tilt of his head, and the woman tells him right away "Grr…I had an argument with my daughter this morning, so I'm not in a good mood. Look, I'm going to allow you to see our city, and after that it's up to you to find the temple in the far north part of the city. That's where I'll be. You're welcome to take your time and check the sights. By the way, if you see a giant pyramid, you haven't gone far enough north. Now then…Here we go."

In a matter of seconds, after a blink of the eyelids, Mew finds his vision changed, with the sky being covered in a tint of red as an aura of blue flames surround a gigantic, upside-down half-sphere. It was clear that Mew was looking at the underside of the floating city, and he quickly flew up past the side of it to make his way to the top. There he finds solid ground and lands on it without observing any other sights at the moment. The woman then drops the vision she allowed Mew to have, stating to him "Welcome to our city, young Mew. I look forward to seeing you face-to-face." "Heh, haven't you been observing me this whole time?" Mew said jokingly, cracking a smile before the woman replied dryly "…Just get your ass over here when you can."

The woman then stopped talking for the time being, allowing Mew a chance to lay his arms out beside his body and stroll ahead on this ground of pristine glass tiles, and he looked down and saw that underneath them lied minerals of many shapes and sizes. More than likely the whole city wasn't built out of those minerals, since something technological deep within would have to keep it afloat. Lifting his head up, it wasn't very long until Mew reached the city itself, and he was surprised by what he found.

The city was a mixture of old-time and modern buildings with the houses being huts made of sticks and cloths and most of them being two-story in size and having windows of many different colored glass on the second floor specifically. The more modern buildings, eerily similar to the ones one would find on Earth, were used for stuff like shopping, teaching, and recreational activities. The biggest thing that caught Mew's attention was a four-story mall that stretched out for at least a mile and seemed to be split into two halls.

Walking towards it so he can see the name of the place, Mew sees that it's called "Earth Import Mall: Items Throughout the Annuls of History". This actually grabbed a great deal of interest from Mew, who decided to look around and examine the citizens of this city. All of them looked perfectly human on the outside, but not very many of them wore modern day clothes like he did. There were people in colonial outfits, Chinese robes, and even a few in togas. And yet it was Mew that got the brunt of the suspect glares from the people.

"Figures…They know right away that I'm not one of them. But right now I'm not too worried about that." Mew whispers to himself as he turns away from the people looking at him, though after he does so he hangs his head down a bit and thinks about one particular detail that caught his eye on most of the people walking around. "What is up with those strange bracelets they have on? Each one had a different looking stone on them…And I think that second girl I saw in my dream was wearing one." Mew commented to himself.

Shaking his head a bit and then looking to the right, Mew remembered what he had to do and said "I know who I need to see in order to get answers…So best to just keep going North for now. I won't get anything from the people while they're looking at me like this." Mew thus moves away from the mall and goes north through the city, going past the houses until he reaches a rather wide-open expanse of glass around a tall, blue crystal pyramid. The pyramid reached very high into the sky, but was not fashioned with slants on the sides but rather square perimeters for each of it's many floors.

Below the pyramid was a glowing neon core that went uncontained by any shape, and it sent wavy energy throughout the underground via streams. "This must be the power source of the city…I guess it's magitechnology keeping this city afloat." Mew comments on before he lifted his head up and looked at the towering pyramid whose entrance was off to the right of him. "This is the pyramid she was talking about. Wonder what it's used for…"

Mew walks past the pyramid from the left side per the woman's instruction and continues going north, glancing at the pyramid once when he sensed some interesting things within it briefly. Past the pyramid, Mew traversed a small part of the city until he ran across what he assumed was the temple that the woman wanted him to be at. He had to make an assumption at the moment because from the outside, the place looked like a grand cathedral with a rainbow-colored stained glass window and some stain glass portraits of some unfamiliar old men on both sides of the building. It seemed more like a church than a temple, and Mew had every right to assume that the old men were perhaps the gods the people worshipped.

The only way to know for sure was to go inside and meet this mysterious woman. Walking up to the front doors, which were brown, gigantic, and made out of pure steel, Mew pushes the right door open and hears it creak with an echo throughout the temple, which would definitely be enough to alert the woman wherever she was. Mew moved forward, looking around and getting a closer look at the mosaic glass and the crystals that were underneath them. Ten people in total were depicted in the glass, but not a single one of their identities were known.

The pillars keeping this temple/cathedral/whatever stable were rounded and made of mosaic crystal. It's not very long before Mew starts focusing at the very other end of the temple, where there was a gigantic mosaic depicting a man that was definitely not mysterious despite his face not being shown. It was a legendary man with angelic armor and wings, and he faced the darkness ahead of him without looking back. He was also depicted with a holy glow, and Mew murmured out "That's the original Elemental Overlord…"

Mew is then forced to pause midway through the temple when a familiar voice began to speak, most likely towards him. "Two-thousand years ago, the Elemental Overlord and the Dark King faced off, bringing into the conflict the forces of Light and Darkness from their respective tribes. The seven elemental tribes were also drawn in, making it an all-out war that spread across multiple worlds and nearly brought an end to both of their legacies…But purposefully, the legends of that time did not mention the involvement of another particular tribe…"

Looking to the very end of the room below the giant mosaic, Mew sees a woman around his height with aquamarine hair shaped into a bowl cut with only a few inches hanging off the back and sides of her head. Her main article of clothing, a baggy aquamarine robe, had ancient looking pink clouds on the bottom half. She also wore baggy blue sweat pants and wooden sandals on her bare feet, and a bracelet could barely be seen hanging out past the lip of her right sleeve. Mew walks towards the woman as she continues to speak.

"One tribe focused entirely on the inner energies of the body, hoping to harness it's potential for a multitude of uses. Ten Sages governed not just the use of these inner energies, but each one of them acted as solo observers for all the tribes, including their own. But in the end those stubborn old fools were too foolish to notice that they had been consumed by greed and were keeping all the power and secrets to themselves. However, that came to an end when the Dark King killed them all in self-defense."

"However, the daughter of one of the sages took over as leader of the entire tribe, and began to allow her people to have more access to the power of one's inner energies. But because of the war that ravaged the nine other tribes, the daughter chose to take her people and migrate to another world, particularly the Earth where the new Elemental Overlord was prophesized to be born. And two-thousand years later, perhaps the day would come when the daughter would get to come face-to-face with the one who inherited the legacy of her husband."

With that somewhat happy remark, the woman starts to turn around to look at Mew, who was now just ten feet away from her. The rest of her appearance was thus revealed. She had a pretty youthful face, making her look like she was in her mid 20's, and she had glittering lipstick and crystalline blue eyes. On her right ear was an earring representing the moon, and on the left was one for the sun. above her forehead was a bang of pink hair shaped like a yin or yang symbol. Also, her breasts were big enough that they pushed the chest of her robe forward and revealed quite a bit of cleavage.

The woman laid her fingertips atop her breasts and smiled at Mew, saying to him in a happy, greeting tone "Hello, young Mew…I am Auris Aurora, and I welcome you to Sancturia, the grand Aurian City." Mew blinked a few times in natural confusion, mostly out of how young the woman looked. Auris sensed his confusion and shut her eyelids in a sultry manner, saying to him in a teasing tone "Were you expecting someone older looking?"

Folding his arms together and putting on a smile to show that he wasn't intending to be offensive with his next remark, Mew said "Well you do look young enough to be my older sister, truth be told." "Hmmm…Is that so? …Pardon my upfront nature, but I would appreciate it if you would stand in that pose for a few moments." Auris says while looking across Mew's body with intrigue, leading to Mew tilting his head for a moment and saying "Ummm…Ok then?"

Auris then stepped forward and took her hands to Mew's shoulders, pressing her fingers together against them twice before sliding them down across the rest of the arms, where she pinched the muscles tightly to see how firm they were. She then kneeled down and did the same thing to Mew's legs and thighs, though she patted her fingertips on Mew's rear briefly. Auris then lifted herself up and put herself on level with Mew's face, giving another sultry smile before she lifts her right hand up and without warning throws out a strong punch to Mew's forehead.

The punch was strong enough to create a noise, but Mew didn't flinch at all and grinned before saying "I figured you were going to try something like that." Auris pulled back her fist and admitted to the boy right away "I was just making sure that you were not a slacker. You've been training your body well, and your reflexes are almost half as good as the original Elemental Overlord's were."

"A-Almost half as good?" Mew asked with a light-hearted chuckle, and while looking down at her knuckles Auris smiled and said to him "Of course. Had they been perfectly like his, you would've dodged out of the way instead of taking it head-on. But oh well, I honestly did not expect a newbie to perfectly copy his capabilities." Auris then looked up at Mew one more time, seeing the boy with a puzzled expression on his face before glancing down at his arms again. "Hmm…" The curiosity of the woman's mind thus manifests with her taking both of her arms forward and reaching at Mew's armpits, fitting the fingertips underneath the creases of his shirt and going to tickle them at a rather frantic pace.

Whether it was because he was taken off-guard or he was just plain ticklish, Mew's cheeks puff out as he tries his hardest to contain his laughter, but fails and bursts into it merrily. Auris stops tickling him after hearing the laughter for a few seconds, but when she withdraws her arms she only smiles partway and sniffs once in a melancholic manner. Mew, once in control of his laughter, catches his breath and looks at Auris, noticing that she was crying just a little bit. "I-Is something the matter?" Mew inquired.

"…You laugh a lot like he used to." Auris comments on, followed by her wiping the tears away with her sleeve before obviously forcing a smile on her face and remarking to Mew "I must apologize. It was very rude of me to do that. Right now, you're probably wondering so many things, and I should be providing you with answers instead of acting like you are the original Elemental Overlord." Mew nodded his head, commenting while firming his arm fold "It's fine…Though you aren't kidding when you say I have a lot of questions on my mind. I've never heard anything about you or the Aurians until now, after all."

"It was a purposely sealed legacy for a reason, young Mew. But I will allow you to ask me any question between here and my home, at which point I will be take the reins and telling you exactly why I wanted you to come here." Auris said gently while beginning to walk past the side of Mew's body, but Mew turned around and asked her right away "Before we get out of this temple, I want to know what you used to contact me." Auris quickly stopped in place and turned her head to glance over her right shoulder, answering easily to the boy "It was an orb left behind by the original Elemental Overlord, with it I can contact him or his successors whenever I am in dire need of assistance."

The use of a plural on successor grabbed Mew's attention, but he would leave that matter alone for now as Auris turned around and continued to head for the temple exit. Mew followed her, asking her as the two left the building "So I guess I should get the most important one out of the way…How exactly does Aurian society function?" "An excellent question. But this will take up a lot of time." Auris forewarns.

As the two stroll through the Aurian city, Auris gestures out to the houses and begins to explain "Long ago, Aurians focused entirely on aura. Everyday life revolved around learning how it works in relation to the body. But ever since I brought Sanctoria to your Earth, we've not needed to worry as much about learning how aura works. Instead, we pass down the teachings of our forefathers to generation after generation while also focusing on following the history of your planet, which are part of the daily teachings in our schools."

"So that mall I ran into…" "Yes, it is where we sell stuff that you'd find across the Earth. My apologies, but we've had to steal quite a bit from your planet up until the point that you started making technology." Auris replies before Mew can give his own answer. Mew then gestures his right hand out and inquires "But now I'm wondering why your people aren't just living on the planet. Seems like it'd be more convenient than staying in a cloaked city."

"Two-thousand years ago your society wasn't exactly in a condition to accept over a million people from another world. Besides, mixing Aurian and human genetics, despite how similar our bodies look, would result in a dead lineage in a matter of generations, and your planet would've become overpopulated very quickly. In other words, it was a necessary precaution to not interfere with the development of your world." Auris explains, but then goes on to add-on in relation to that "But it's not like I deny the right for Aurians to go down to Earth. All I ask is that they wait until they are at least twenty and they don't fall in love with any human."

"Alright, so everything's making sense to me so far…Now what's up with those bracelets everyone is wearing?" Mew moved on to the next question without much pause, and Auris tells him rather quickly "Those bracelets are a staple amongst all Aurians, regardless of gender. Each one has on it an Aura Drive, which is capable of harnessing the potential of an Aurian and manifesting different abilities from it that can cooperate perfectly with their aura. The Aura Drives are split into five tiers depending on how powerful they are, and I am in charge of handing out each one to the worthy candidates. There are rare instances where an Aurian is capable of wielding two drives, however."

Once Auris' explanation was at an end, Mew points down at her bracelet and says "You mean like you used to, right?" Auris lifts said arm up with way too little time between that inquiry and her reaction, and she turns the bracelet to reveal two spots where broken stones are at. "I had two drives once before…The Aegis Dragoon and the Crimson Knight drives. But they were destroyed by some powerful foes. It doesn't bother me too much though, I'm already a master of Aura, so I still have plenty of strength at my disposal."

Though she spoke with nonchalance, Mew could tell that Auris was hiding something regarding what happened with her Aura Drives. Once more, that'd just be something he'd bring up later. "Ok, I've asked about your society and the bracelets, now it's time to ask questions about the lady of the hour herself…Like why you look so young despite apparently being alive two-thousand years ago." Auris looks back at Mew and says to him with a bit of irritation in her voice as her right eye twitches noticeably "You know, it's a pretty ballsy move to comment on a woman's age and appearance like that."

"R-Right, I know that, but it's a pretty pressing question." Mew says, barely sounding affected by Auris' response in the process. The woman then turns back and brushes the side of her hair with her fingertips while hiding her smile from the compliment, and she states to answer Mew's question "I've had eternal youth, eternal beauty and agelessness ever since I was born. Though I've lived for two-thousand years, my body has not changed a wink since I turned twenty-five…Minus my hair-style, of course."

"Hmmm…And you were the husband of the Elemental Overlord, correct? How exactly did you two meet?" Mew quickly went on to say, and with a girlish chuckle Auris says "Oh that's a very long story, but to keep it short it involved some silly political affairs between the Ten Sages and the elemental tribes, and eventually those affairs blossomed into genuine love…But not before we beat each other up a bit. I used to be such a spit-fire back then, but I'd like to think I've gotten better about that with age."

As she says that, two kids run by with a book lit on fire in one of their raised hands, and Auris pauses briefly and widens her eyes before proclaiming furiously "Hey you crazy brats! You think books from Earth grow on trees?! I'll wrestle you both to the ground if you don't stop this crazy shit!" But the kids continued to run, and Auris folds her arms into her sleeves and blushes after a sigh before stating to the chuckling Mew apologetically "…Like I said, I got better about it. It's a hard trait to get rid of…"

"I didn't say anything." Mew says as the two of them continue on, though him slipping another laugh through before he spoke gave a clear enough signal to what he felt. After an awkward pause, Mew folds his arms behind his head and says to Auris "Ok, so now there's something here that REALLY doesn't make any sense to me. You and the Elemental Overlord were lovers, that much is clear…But if that's the case then why did we have to become the destined successors? Shouldn't you have had a child? Did something happen to them instead? Was the Elemental Overlord terrible in bed?"

But before he could get an answer, Auris stopped herself before a two-story hut with a blue cloth acting as the door and turned around. "Sorry, I'll have to provide more answers later. Welcome to the Aurora Residence, now it's time for me to take control of our conversation." Auris said rather quickly, and Mew got the suspicion that she had timed this on purpose. The act of her politely brushing open the cloth and gesturing her hand into her house with an innocent smile just provided more evidence to this suspicion.

Nevertheless, Mew did feel that hearing the plight of Auris was better than getting answers and he proceeded to walk into the house. Inside there was a small living room with a glass mosaic table capable of fitting dishes for four people and two couches on both sides of it, both of them leather and green. There was a television to the left of the couches against a wall, and there was a doorway into the kitchen to the right of the TV. Beside that doorway was a curved staircase that led to the second floor, and overall the place just had a happy, homely feel to it.

Auris walked past Mew and gestured to the left couch, saying to him as she continued on to the kitchen "Sit down, I'll be getting us some stuff to drink." Mew kindly did just that, plopping himself down on the soft cold leather and letting out a relaxed sigh before whispering to himself "So far things aren't too bad, even if I can tell Auris is hiding a lot from me. Hopefully she brings out some pretty nice juices to drink, lord knows I haven't had one in a while."

Licking his lips at the prospect of having juice, Mew watches as Auris comes back into the living room carrying a steel tray with one finger…And about a dozen bottles of beer and liquor balanced on top of it. Mew's expression quickly turns into one of wide-eyed disbelief, and even as Auris casually sits down on the opposite couch and places the tray down on the table that expression doesn't go away. Auris pops open one of the bottles and pours the liquid into the nearby glass, saying to Mew nonchalantly "Go right ahead, drink right up. We don't have to follow your planet's rules here for underage drinking." With Auris quickly downing the liquor in her cup, Mew can barely fight back the nervous sweat as he thinks to himself "T-This is seriously happening, isn't it?"

Next Time: Yes, yes it is…