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gamingunknown1: Appreciate your interest in the story. Do note that this will be a lot more sluggish than most stories, since I'm trying to synchronize this with the events of the Jupiter Arc, AND I got IRL BS to take care of, being a Law student and all. And don't worry, you'll learn about her as the story picks up speed…

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ALT-FLAG 2B: Vox Populi II

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Operative Vindictus:

By the time you read this message, I would have been either captured or executed for having connections with the faction known as Vintage. For that, this will be my very last letter of instruction to you as head of the Runaway Spirit Squad.

As of this moment, the true "masterminds" behind Vintage's existence has abandoned the former group. They merely used Vintage for their ambitions regarding the Weiss and the Goddesses who sealed them in the first place: the Jupiter Sisters.

Unfortunately, they overlooked one factor in all of this: the man known as the 'God of Conquest'.

For that reason, they have already sent some operatives back in time, particularly a few days before the Great Runaway Spirit Escape, in order to rewrite history to a certain extent. Their mission is to exploit every possible option, making sure that the child who is to be the God of Conquest would not get involved in the affairs of New Hell in any manner, even if it meant 'elimination.'

I, on the other hand, will not let this pass.

I have already instructed District Chiefs Herminium and Leoria with the first phase of the counterattack: they are to give my "memento" to the current self of the God of Conquest, before he and his demon buddy are sent back to the past, in order to prevent any abrupt changes in this timeline.

But I figured that with him unable to react as he is now and with the Jupiter Sisters still in hiding after sealing off Vintage's Weiss Incubation chambers, there's no telling if and when a greater threat would come. My closest guess is that the enemy had already developed fully-evolved Level-5 Weiss someplace, and they will deploy them as soon as possible in order to draw out the Jupiter Sisters.

For that reason, I am ordering you and your buddy to meet up with Operative Rimyuel and her human buddy to prolong the looming threat AND resolve the same before it goes out of control. Find out when, why, and how the enemy will use the Level-5 Weiss and the Goddesses. Also, try to watch over the God of Conquest until his current self has returned. Make sure no one (and I mean no one) gets close to eliminating him.

May the spirits of good fortune favor us all in this time of great crisis…

Signing out… for real,

Dokuro Skull.

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"Sigh. I still think this message is a bit vague in itself," Sylvia thought, while a copy of the letter was flashed though her Hagoromo. "I'm not even sure as to who the hosts of these 'Jupiter Sisters' are."

"Well, one thing's for certain here," Suzaku replied, after taking a sip of his morning coffee. "We are to cooperate with Nikaido-sensei and Rimyuel in case the Level-5's come out."

"How about the guy known as the 'God of Conquest' then? Aren't we going to do something about him?"

"You mean Katsuragi Keima?"

"Wait, you're telling me that the guy known in school as Otamegane is actually this 'God of Conquest' guy?"

"Deducing the info we have for now, it's safe to assume that he is," Suzaku clarified, having finished his breakfast. "Anyways, we need to ramp up our info collection a bit. But we need to maintain discreetness; we do not need more attention than we have now."

Sylvia nodded in approval. "I think it would be more appropriate for me to infiltrate the Academy as well, just to be sure."

"I'd suggest otherwise. Honestly, your physical appearance is more of a young adult rather than a high-school student. And I doubt that you're convincing enough as a teacher."

"Well, how about I introduce myself as your girlfriend then?"

Suzaku raised his right eyebrow, following with a surprised "What?"

"Well, think about it," Sylvia uttered, as she approached Suzaku in a coy, yet slightly flirty manner. "If people are to look at the two of us, they'd probably see us as sweethearts or something with a four-to-five year age gap."

Suzaku let off a chuckle.

"What, what's so funny?" the female demon asked.

"Nothing much," Suzaku replied. "To think that you'd even entertain the thought of us acting like sweethearts as our cover…"

He then gave a light smile to Sylvia, whose cheeks immediately turned red. She quickly backed off and turned away.

"Well, whatever…"

Suzaku chuckled again at his demon buddy's reaction.

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Hours later, the duo camp at the rooftop of one of the school buildings. Sylvia has her Hagoromo set up like a laptop, while Suzaku has a pair of binoculars on hand scouting on the campus grounds.

"You still have yet to answer my qualm during breakfast. How are we going to learn about the identities of these Goddesses and their hosts? We'd be no different from the ones at Vintage."

"I know," Suzaku replied while peeking through the binoculars. "And besides, you told me that New Hell's Public Safety Department already expunged all data that Vintage managed to gather, right?"

"Yeah, and we're basically working with a large jigsaw puzzle, with loads of missing pieces."

"You could say that. Anyways, mind bringing up the captures list in Elsea's file again?"

"Well, unless you have other ideas, this won't be of any help to be honest."

Suzaku then brought up a copy of Kodama's class record which he uses for reference. He then flips through the Second-Year students' pages, beginning with 2A. He then highlights in pink the names Aoyama Mio, Goidou Yui, and Kujo Tsukiyo, matching their names to the list in Elsea's dossier. He suddenly skips the 2-B class list, which surprised his demon buddy.

"Suza-kun, I think you forgot Class 2-B…"

"Just let me finish this one first."

He then glanced back at the dossier and turned again to the class list, highlighting the name Shiomiya Shiori.

"Now, allow me to explain this one, Sylvia…"

He now goes over the list for Class 2-B.

"Remember the three names I selected from the dossier last night?" He then proceeded to highlight Ayumi, Kanon, and Chihiro from his list.

"Okay, what of them?"

"Well, I had this theory last night that the captures that previously had Weiss inside them were somehow closely related to our human-demon buddy pair," he said, while highlighting the names of the Katsuragi siblings in yellow.

"Which meant that some of them may possibly have the Goddesses inside them, right?"

"Yeah; Nikaido relayed to me earlier that there actually six of these Goddesses who once sealed the Weiss during the Almage Machina, and our God of Conquest had unveiled them all."

"But you highlighted seven names in that list. One of them may not have a Goddess at all."

Suzaku then got thinking. He knew that his demon buddy was right. There's no certainty yet that the girls he highlighted in the list would be hosts to the Goddesses.

Suddenly, their attention was redirected. Sylvia's Weiss Detector started beeping like crazy.

"Hold on, let me calibrate this."

She tapped the sensor to switch off the beeps, but to no avail.

"That's funny. There should be no one else within a hundred-meter radius, since it can only detect Weiss within that range. And I already have the silent diversion barrier set up well beyond that."

"Something must be wrong," Suzaku said, rising from his seat. He then pointed the binoculars towards the rest of the school grounds until he chanced upon the main building.

"Good grief." He then passed the binoculars to Sylvia, who then peered towards the same direction.

"What's with that large miasma signature? I thought there were no more energy traces after the festival."

Suzaku walked towards the building's edge nearest to the miasma source. Quickly, he spotted about five to seven figures walking towards the Main Building, carrying what appears to be another one which was leaking with miasma.

"It seems we have found our God of Conquest."

Sylvia approached her buddy from the right. By this time, a large barrier was forming around the target surrounded by miasma. She converted her Hagoromo into a camera and turned to Suzaku, who motioned to her with a nod.

"Focus on the other figures who are with the Katsuragi siblings," he said.

Sylvia quickly snapped photos of the girls who are with them, when suddenly she caught sight of two more figures approaching them. After getting the photos, she turned and zoomed to the other two figures.

"And it seems those two must be District Chiefs Herminium and Leoria."

She then caught sight of Nora handing a small bag to a girl who had odango hair tied up with two ribbons, and who was wearing a different uniform from the rest of the Goddesses.

"You got the pictures of the Goddesses, Sylvia."

"Yes. I'll have them processed now."

Within a minute, her Hagoromo spat out six photos. Suzaku took the photos and compared them to both the captures list in Elsea's Dossier and his class lists. Afterwards, he made five checkmarks on his list.

"Now we know at least the identities of five of these Goddess hosts," he said, handing his copy of the list to Sylvia.

"Okay, what do you want me to do now?"

"Try speaking to the two District Chiefs about what happened. Make sure you introduce yourself properly, and if possible make mention of Dokuro's letter."

"After that?"

"Follow that Goddess Host with the odango hair and different uniform. Gather the necessary info, and then return to me so we can plan the next move…"

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