Part 1:
An inevitable disaster approaches, but suddenly...
Chapter 11:
Grief
Kana's POV:
Destroyed Lydian
The group arrived outside of the school, unable to believe the destruction that sat in front of them. "Lydian is..." Tsubasa says, too stunned from the shock of it all to finish her sentence.
"While the school is worse for wear, I can assure you everyone is safe in the bunker." Serena says.
"That's a relief..." Hibiki says, looking back at the destruction, "But the school..."
The group fell quiet, unable to think of what to say, that is until a familiar figure appears above the destroyed buildings. "Is that..." Kana is the first to notice the figure, "Sakurai-san?"
"Finé! This was your doing, wasn't it?!" Chris furiously shouts to Ryoko, who laughs maniacally in return.
"Is that's how it is?" Tsubasa asks, "Is that laughter your answer, Sakurai-san?!"
"That's her alright!" Chris tells the group, "That's the bitch I have a score to settle with! She's Finé!"
In response, Ryoko takes off her glasses and lets her hair down from the bun she put it in, becoming engulfed in a bright light. Once the light dissipates, where Ryoko once stood, Finé stands, clad in the Nehushtan Armor. "Is this some kind of sick joke?" Kanade asks.
"It has to be!" Hibiki adds, "She protected me from the Noise back during the Durandal mission!"
"I was protecting the Durandal." Finé retorts, "Since it is a complete relic, its value is incomparable."
"But something doesn't add up." Kana says, "If you're Finé, then where is Ryoko-san?"
"Ryoko Sakurai's body was consumed long ago. More accurately, I could say her mind died 12 years ago." Finé answers, "Finé, a priestess from ancient times, sealed her consciousness within her genes, so that if any of her descendants ever encountered an Aufwachen waveform, all of her memories and abilities would resurface in that body. 12 years ago, the day Tsubasa Kazanari accidentally awakened the Ame no Habakiri, that sleeping consciousness awoke within Ryoko Sakurai. That awakened consciousness is me."
The wielders of Section Two were shocked by this story. "You took over Ryoko-san?" Hibiki asked.
"Like a ghost from the past!" Tsubasa answered.
"I'm not the first to have awakened as Finé." Finé continues, "Over the course of history, there have been many visionaries and great heroes who brought about the paradigm shifts that ushered in a new age."
"Like the Symphogear system?" Serena asks.
"That was merely a toy." Finé bluntly answers, "An imperfect system with little use other than to secure funding from the government."
"A Toy?" Kanade scoffed, "That 'Toy' nearly cost Tsubasa her life!"
"Is that why you brought me in and worked with those Americans?" Chris asks.
"Precisely!" Finé answers, "All of it is for the Kadingir!" Suddenly the ground starts to shake and break apart as a giant colorful tower emerges from where the school once stood. "Behold the ion cannon that can reach beyond the sky, towering over the Earth itself, Kadingir!"
"Kadingir? You say this will unite the world?" Chris asks.
"Yes. By piercing the Moon." Finé answers, only to confuse the wielders as to why. "I simply wanted to reach Him. So I built a tower on the field of Shinar that would reach the heavens themselves. But He would never suffer a mere human to stand as high as Him. In his anger, not only was the tower destroyed by divine lightning, but the very tongues of mankind were confused. It was a punishment without measure, the Curse of Balal." Finé looks to the wielders once again, "Why do you think the Moon has been a symbol of fear since ancient times? Because it's the key to the curse itself! By destroying the Moon, I shall free mankind from this curse! Then, the whole world will be in my grasp once more!"
Upon finishing her speech, Finé begins charging the Kadingir to fire at the Moon. " 'Breaking the Curse?'" Chris retorts, "Sounds to me that you just want to rule the world! How pathetic! Your ambition's so petty that it hurts!"
Finé laughs, "I am eternal. What could mere insects such as yourselves do to stop me?"
Resolved to stop her, the wielders all transform together as Lilith also brings forth her Fólkvangr to help.
(Makyū Ichaival begins to play)
Upon transforming, the wielders begin their hardest fight yet, the ancient evil that disguised herself as the late Dr. Ryoko Sakurai: Finé.
Miku's POV:
Lydian Bunker
Searching the rooms of the bunker that were destroyed by the Kadingir's surfacing for survivors, Miku manages to find her friends Yumi, Kuriyo, and Shiori. "Kohinata!" Shiori says, happy to see another familiar face.
"Thank goodness!" Miku replies, "I'm so glad you three are alright! Let's group up with the others." The trio were confused who she meant, but chose to follow her regardless.
Regrouping with the others, the all watch as Sakuya tries to get the computer in the bunker to work. Much to everyone's surprise, it turns on. "Looks like this terminal is operational!"
"I'll continue looking around for more survivors!" Ogawa says, stepping out of the room.
Concerned as to what is going on, Kuriyo asks, "Hina, just who are these people?" Miku is hesitant to answer, unsure if she can tell them the truth.
"We are the Special Disaster Response Team." Genjuro answers for her. After receiving medical attention from Aoi, he regained consciousness but was still heavily wounded from his fight with Finé. "We specialize in handling disasters such as these."
"So you're from the government?" Yumi asks.
"I managed to reactivate the monitor!" Sakuya reports, "We should be able to assess the situation from here!"
Sakuya brings up the camera feed, which shows the wielders and Finé as they begin their battle. "Hibiki and Kana!" Miku shouts, surprising the trio of friends, "And that girl Chris from before!"
Aoi and Sakuya look at Finé, still unable to believe that this was her true self that she hid from them for years. "What's going on?" Yumi asks, still processing the fact that both Kana and Hibiki are out fighting in strange armor. "It's as if we're really in an anime!"
"Hina, you knew about Bikki and Mui?" Kuriyo tried to ask, but Miku stayed silent, "Does that mean, when you had that fight with Bikki weeks ago... It was because of this as well, wasn't it?" Miku apologizes, confirming Kuriyo's theory.
Kana and Chris' POV:
Destroyed Lydian
Chris fires several rockets at Finé, who simply swipes them away, causing a smokescreen. In that time, Chris signals to the others that she needs time to charge an attack. Seeing this, all but Kana and Chris charge at Finé through the smoke, doing what they can to distract her for Chris. "Kana, I need you to do that thing again. I'm going to blast that damned tower to pieces!"
"You got it!" Kana replies, activating her augmentation to boost Chris' power before returning to the fight the help stall for Chris. Entering the fray once more, Kana fires a barrage of crossbow bolts and Dragon Shots towards Finé.
"Just give it up already." Finé scoffs. "Have you forgotten who made your Gears? I know everything you're capable of!"
"You may know everything about their Gears," Serena retorts, "But Kana and I have had ours long before joining Section Two. With that, we have the advantage!"
Finé laughs at statement, "You really think I only made Gungnir, Ame no Habakiri, and Ichaival? Those are only the ones that I've let Section Two know about." Serena is caught off guard by this claim, barely dodging the vines Finé attacked her with, "Even your Airgetlám was created by me. Your sister's however, was not."
Serena disregarded the comment about Kana's Yato for the moment. She figured Finé was trying to get a rise out of her when she needed to stall for Chris. As the fight continued however, Finé was able to notice Chris' absence, that's when she heard her, "If you're looking for the big guns, they're right here!" Chris shouted, armed with two giant missiles, one of which was aimed right at her. Finé tried to dodge it, but it followed her every move. "Lock on, active. Snipe!" With the opening she got, Finé was able to see her true target was not her, but the Kadingir. "This ends now!"
"Oh no you don't!" Finé retorts, driving her vines toward the missile and destroying it before it could stop the cannon from firing. "Wait, where's the second missile?" Finé looked around for the other missile Chris had prepared. Once she looked up, she saw that the second missile was going straight up into the sky above the Kadingir. Not only that, but on this missile, was Chris herself.
"Chris-chan?" Hibiki says, noticing Chris on the missile.
"What is she trying to do?" Tsubasa thinks aloud.
"It doesn't matter how hard you try, Nothing can stop the Kadingir from firing!" Finé scoffs, "Not even your little toys can stop it now!" Chris didn't care if it was impossible, she was going to do everything she could to stop the cannon from destroying the Moon, even if it meant her life.
"Gatrandis babel ziggurat edenal"
Everyone on the battlefield was left in shock, "That song... Don't tell me!" Kana recognizes it from when Tsubasa used it against Chris when they first met.
"Has she lost her mind?!" Kanade shouts, "Does she really intend to use her Superb Song to stop that thing?!"
"Emustolronzen Finé el balal zizzl"
"Lilith! Get me up there to her!" Kana desperately pleads, "I need to stop her from killing herself!"
"It's too risky Kana!" Lilith replies, "If we get up there now, we'll only risk getting destroyed by Chris' blast!"
Kana looked back up to where Chris was in the sky, only able to watch in horror as her new friend was about to give up her life for the sake of the Moon.
"Gatrandis babel ziggurat edenal"
Chris let out several small gems from her gear, sending energy between them all, causing the energy to form into the shape of a pair of wings behind her. Nothing could stop what was about to happen anymore as Chris finished her song.
"Emustolronzen Finé el zizzl"
With her song finished, the two pistols in Chris' hands formed one giant railgun that began to charge its own blast to counter Kadingir's. Both Chris and Kadingir fire their beams at one another, clashing in the middle. "It stopped?!" Finé thought aloud, "She's countering the Kadingir?!"
On the surface, it seemed as though Chris was holding her own against the beam, but it didn't take long for her gear to start showing signs of strain from the amount of power being pushed through it, not to mention the strain her Superb Song had on Chris physically as blood started to run down her face. "Mom... Dad... I've always loved you." She says to herself in her final moments, using them in hopes that her parents would hear her. "That's why I want to carry on your dream. I want to bring peace to the world with my song... That is the reason... For which I sing!"
The blast from the Kadingir overpowers Chris', consuming her as it continues to its target. However, thanks to Chris' counter, only a fraction of the Moon was destroyed.
Tsubasa, Serena, and Miku's POVs:
Destroyed Lydian
"It wasn't enough?!" Finé shouts out in disbelief. "Don't tell me she actually managed to stop it?!"
In that moment, both the wielders and those watching from the bunker looked on in horror as Chris' unconscious body fell back to the earth, crashing in the nearby forest. For Kana, everything grew silent. She was even unable to hear Hibiki scream in horror. "This can't be happening..." Hibiki says, "We only just became friends... This isn't what I wanted to happen..."
In that moment, Serena looked to her younger sister who just stood paralyzed by sorrow. "Kana?" She called out to her sister, but to no avail. In her tears, Kana recalled her last true conversation with Chris, moments following their fight at the Tokyo Sky Tower
"We did it, Chris-san!" Kana cheered, raising her hand for a high five.
Chris sighs at her overexcitement, but returns the high five, "There was no doubt that we'd take care of trash like them easily." Chris says, "It was honestly nice to have backup though."
"It's like I told you before, Section Two is nothing like Finé." Kana replies, "We're always looking out for one another, because we're all friends here. I know this was just a one-time alliance and all, but the offer to join us is still on the table."
"As much as I appreciate it, I'll need some time to consider it." Chris answers, "I have my own dreams I need to make a reality first." Kana smiles. "What's with that look on your face?"
"Nothing special." Kana answers, "I'm just happy that you took our advice to follow your dreams." Kana walks up to Chris and gives her a hug. "I won't try to get in the way of your dreams. But know this, if you ever need help in the future, myself and everyone at Section Two will come to your aid. So don't be afraid to ask. 'kay?"
Chris is silent, normally she would've pushed away this kind of sentiment, but this time, it felt nice. "I'll keep that in mind. Thank you." Chris answers, "If you tell any of them about this, I will kill you."
"My lips are sealed." Kana replies, chuckling at Chris' swift change in attitude, "Now come on, lets go regroup with the others."
"CHRIS!" Kana screams, as she falls to her knees. Immediately following this, Kana is slowly engulfed in purple flames as she lets out a primal roar.
"No..." Lilith says, "Not here..."
"Lilith-san? What's happening to Kana-chan?" Kanade tries to ask Lilith, but Lilith is too paralyzed by fear to answer. The flames dissipated where Kana once stood, in her place stood a dragon whose scales shared the colors of Kana's armor. "What the hell is that thing?!"
"The true Kana Kamui." Finé answers, "That is to say, the side of herself that she hid from everyone."
"What are you saying?" Serena asks, "How could you possibly know about this?"
"It's as I said before Serena, I never made the Yato Symphogear." Finé answers, "When you and Kana showed up on our radar 6 years ago, I was able to recognize your Gear's Aufwachen waveform, but hers was what truly piqued my interest. So privately, I studied all I could about Kana, and from that research I could tell she was hiding something." Finé chuckles to herself before continuing, "Who could've guessed that all that needed to be done to reveal the truth was for Chris to sacrifice herself to try and protect the Moon. How pathetic." This comment caused Hibiki to snap, letting rage consume her as sorrow did Kana, "If you ask me, throwing her life away for a mere dream is a fitting end for trash like her."
Kana rushed at Finé, who held her back with her with little effort, "You dare to laugh?" Tsubasa retorts, "She burned away her life to protect what she held precious! You would consider that pathetic?!"
"You..." Hibiki growled, catching all but Kana's attention, "How dare you talk shit about her sacrifice! You will pay for ending her dream and her life!" Hibiki roared as her body was enveloped in darkness.
"Hibiki?" Kanade tries to reach out to Hibiki, "Snap out of it, Hibiki-chan!"
"The fragments of Gungnir that merged with her are going berserk," Finé explains as she knocks back the enraged Kana. "causing her consciousness to be overrun by a power she cannot control."
This causes Tsubasa to remember the words that Ryoko said in regard to the fusion of the fragments to Hibiki's body over a month ago. That's when it clicks in Tsubasa, "All this time... You were experimenting on Tachibana?"
"Yes." Finé answers, turning to Kanade, "And not just on Tachibana. But enough about that, bear witness as she succumbs to the power of Gungnir, throwing away all that remains of her humanity."
"Not only were you doing this to Hibiki-chan, but you were doing this to me as well?!" Kanade asks, shocked that the creature Hibiki had become could've happened to her.
Hibiki launches herself at Finé as Kana just did, only to get knocked back in the same manner effortlessly. The remaining sane wielders try to call out to Hibiki and Kana once more. "They're no longer human I'm afraid." Finé interjects, "While entirely separate beings, all that remains of them is pure rage."
Both Hibiki and Kana get back up and charge at Finé, who brings forth her Asgard to protect herself from the combined entities of rage. This barricade causes Kana to begin charging a beam from her mouth as Hibiki begins to weaken the shield. Asgard breaks as Kana's beam and Hibiki burst through it. However Finé is unphased by this and takes the attacks head on.
Once the dust settles, Finé is shown to be nearly split in two by the attacks, but she just laughs, which greatly unsettles the others. The berserk Hibiki and Kana however start to change their focus away from Finé and instead on one another. "Stop fighting you two! Snap out of it!" Serena pleads, but the dragon and the monster clash. As it stood, only death could end their duel.
Lydian Bunker
Meanwhile in the bunker, everyone watched in horror as Kana and Hibiki clashed, "What's wrong, you two?!" Miku asks aloud, "Come to your senses!"
"It's all over." Yumi muttered in despair, "We're done for. The school is in ruins, Hibiki's gone crazy, and Kana's..."
"It's not over!" Miku quickly retorts, "Kana and Hibiki are doing what they can to prote-"
"Do those things look like they're protecting anything?!" Yumi shouts, pointing to the screen that showed both enraged wielders heavily engaged in combat with one another.
"I believe in them." Miku answers, unphased by the berserk monsters on the screen.
"I want to believe in them too... I want to believe everything will turn out alright... But... But I..." Yumi falls to her knees, "I can't take this anymore! I'm scared! I don't want to die! Someone please help us! Help us, Hibiki and Kana!"
Destroyed Lydian
The wielders are helpless to stop the fight between the berserk Hibiki and Kana. "Well? What do you think?" Finé chuckles, "How does it feel to see Hibiki Tachibana's true power on display? I'm sure you're jealous that you're not the one fighting her, aren't you Tsubasa?" As she asked this question, Finé began to heal from her wounds from the combined berserkers' strikes.
"You're no longer human, either..." Tsubasa states.
"I have become one with the Nehushtan Armor's regenerative abilities. Isn't it just fascinating?" Finé says. As she finishes regenerating, Kadingir starts to charge another blast, shocking the wielders. "Don't act surprised. After all, The Kadingir is the ultimate weapon. Did you really think one shot would be all it could handle? I can fire it as many times as I want, especially since the invincible sword, Durandal, serves as its energy source!"
"But that leaves one flaw, you." Kanade retorts, "If you're not around to operate the machine, then it'll stop functioning."
Finé is unphased by the threat, "Tell me, if you're going to kill me, then what of your friends?" Finé turns the wielders' attention to the fight between the berserk Hibiki and Kana, "Who's to say one kills the other and turns their focus onto all of you? The way I see it, you've got too much on your plate as is to consider killing me."
As much as they'd like to deny it, Finé was right. If they ignore their friends now, it'll only cause them problems later on. That's when Serena gets an idea. "Lilith, has this happened to Kana or her family in the past?"
"Huh? Well, yes, but back then we had Lady Azura's song to calm down Corrin." Lilith answers. This immediately makes Serena remember a moment she had with Kana one day in the Astral Plane.
While Kana and Serena were hanging out in their home, Serena began to hum the song that she kept hearing in her dreams, while the dreams were rather frightening from time to time, the song she heard kept her calm. "Serena?" Kana asks, "I've never heard that song before? Is it new?"
"Well, I'm not sure." Serena answers, "I feel like I've heard it somewhere but I can't recall where. Regardless, I can't help but sing it when I feel at ease."
"It makes me think of my Mama's song." Kana replies, "It was a song she'd always sing when I was little. I don't know why but it just made me feel safe, just as your song does."
"Then I might have a plan to save Kana!" Serena says, shocking everyone, especially Lilith. "I'm going to sing to Kana, but I need you all to distract Hibiki and Finé while I try this."
"Leave Tachibana to me." Tsubasa insists. "Kanade, you and Lilith hold off Finé, I'll join you once I'm done." Not sure what her plan is, they decide to trust Tsubasa on whatever she's planning. "Serena, save Kamui!" Serena nods in agreement.
Back to the fight against Kana and Hibiki, Hibiki has clearly started to take the lead as Kana is being heavily injured with little to no response to the monster's onslaught. Seeing this, Hibiki charges in to deal the killing blow to the weakened dragon, only to instead strike another target entirely, Tsubasa. While seriously injured by Hibiki's attack, Tsubasa just hugs Hibiki, picking up the hand tipped in her blood. "Tachibana, your power is one that's meant to bring people together." Tsubasa says, stunning Hibiki in place with a shadow weave, "Kanade entrusted you with that power. Please don't use it this way." With what little humanity was still inside Hibiki, tears started to fall from her face, tears of regret towards her actions against her own allies. "Serena, Kamui's all yours!" Tsubasa shouts as she goes to join Kanade and Lilith in their fight against Finé.
With the opening she was given, Kana reorients herself as she prepares to kill the monster that was out to kill her. However, she becomes distracted by a familiar voice singing a familiar song.
(Apple begins to play)
Serena was singing the song that she sang to Kana previously, which was slowly making Kana regain consciousness inside her draconic form. "Kana, it's me Serena. If you're still in there, please come to your senses!" Serena pleas with the beast, who roars in response, striking at Serena. She managed to dodge a few swipes from Kana, only to get struck by her tail, being thrown into a nearby rock and pinned by Kamui's draconic hand. "If you're going to kill me... please... do it as yourself!" These words are what finally snap Kana out of her blind rage as she lets go of Serena and lets out one last roar as she reverts back to her human form.
When she comes to, Kana sees what she did to Serena and rushes over to help her. "Serena... I'm so sorry!" Kana says, "I can't believe I let myself lose control and I nearly killed you and Hibiki... Wait, where's Hibiki?!" Kana looks over to where she saw Hibiki and is horrified by the dark entity in the form of her friend. "What happened?"
"It's... a long story." Serena answers, "For now, let's leave the rest to the others." Serena points towards the fight breaking out between Finé and the other three wielders.
Finé was on the defensive as Kanade threw several spears, Lilith shot at her with several small blasts of energy, and Tsubasa sends a Heaven's wrath straight towards her, forcing her to block with Asgard. Tsubasa however uses this as an opportunity to strike her true target, leaping off the giant sword towards the Kadingir, using the katanas in her hands as fiery wings propelling her forward. "So the Kadingir was your target all along?! I won't let you destroy my hard work!" Finé shouts, sending her vines straight for Tsubasa.
Tsubasa knew she couldn't outrun them for long and braced for impact, but nothing happened. Instead, Kanade blocked them with her spear as she joined Tsubasa. "You think I was just gonna sit there as you had all the fun?" Kanade remarked, "We are Zwei Wing. Together, we can fly to the ends of the earth!"
"Yes... Zwei Wing, together as one..." Tsubasa says. smiling to Kanade as they both ignite their weapons and continue their ascent of the cannon. "We can overcome anything!" Finé tries to stop them, but they easily dodge every attack she throws at them and, in a giant explosion, successfully destroy the Kadingir.
When the dust settles, however, neither Kanade nor Tsubasa emerge from the smoke. "They did it..." Serena says, "But... In exchange..." Serena couldn't finish her statement as she began to be choked up in tears. Her friends had given up their lives to stop Finé's plans.
Having a front row seat to the sacrifice, Hibiki finally returns to her senses, what was once only rage, was a human drowning in sorrow. "Kanade-san... Tsubasa-san..." Hibiki mutters, falling to her knees in tears.
Lydian Bunker
She wasn't the only one mourning the loss of Zwei Wing, the agents of Section Two hiding in the bunker also watched everything unfold. "We're no longer detecting... any traces of Ame no Habakiri or Kanade's Gungnir." Sakuya reported.
"Tsubasa, you and Kanade-kun sacrificed yourselves to destroy the Kadingir?" Genjuro says aloud to himself. "Your songs truly have reached the world. The world you both gave your lives to defend..."
"I don't get it at all." Yumi says, "Why do you all fight? You're always suffering... Always in pain... Do you fight because you don't want to live?"
"You don't get it?" Miku asks, tears still running down her face, but calm enough to stand by her trust in Section Two and her friends still fighting. "Do you really not get any of this?" Miku puts her hands on Yumi, showing her resolve to her friend, who just bursts into tears again.
Destroyed Lydian
"This is unbelievable!" Finé shouts, enraged that her plans had been stopped. "Had I destroyed the Moon, the Curse of Balal would have been released, causing a gravitational disturbance in the process. People all over the world would fall into disarray. They would panic, coming to me for protection, because I possess the unrivaled power of a relic!" Finé starts walking over to the nearest target to let out her rage on, which happens to be Hibiki. "Pain is the only bond that can bring people together! That is the one inviolate truth! And you... All of you... Stood in my way!" Lilith tries to stop her and save Hibiki, only to get quickly swiped away as she approaches. "I will say this though, you were pretty useful after all. The first known fusion of a relic and a human being... Thanks to your example, I was able to fuse with the Nehushtan Armor." Finé throws Hibiki away once again, almost doing it for fun at this point. "But I no longer have need of someone such as yourself existing anymore. The world only needs one such demigod to rule over it. Anyone who dares defy me shall perish."
Finé goes to deal the finishing blow to the unresponsive Hibiki, only to receive a swift punch in the stomach. Kana had intervened just in time. "I'd like to see you try." She retorts, letting out a burst of lightning from her fist and shouting "Thoron!", sending Finé into the nearby rocks.
(Alight begins to play)
"Kana?" Hibiki faintly asks.
"Leave the rest to me for now Hibiki." Kana calmly replies, "Lilith, go help any survivors in the bunker. I can handle things here now." Lilith nods, vanishing from the battlefield.
Finé gets up from the rocks she was knocked into, regenerating the wound left from Kana's attack. "Then there's you, wielder of a false Gear." Finé says, visibly frustrated that Kana returned to the fight. "If there's anyone still alive out there, I'm sure they'll never look at you the same now that your secret's out." Finé grins, but Kana remains unphased.
"Maybe you're right, and maybe you're not." Kana retorts, "After all, you've been living a lie longer than I have. So tell me this, 'Ryoko-san', Are we really any different?"
This comment greatly angers Finé, "You and I are nothing alike, you cocky brat!" Finé shouts, "I'll make you suffer for even thinking so!"
Kana readies her sword, "Tsubasa-san, Kanade-san, Chris-san, I'll make sure your sacrifices weren't in vain!" She says to herself as she and Finé begin to clash once more.
A/N: Honestly, this has to be my favorite chapter to have written for part 1.
At first I was unsure how to go about this. I was split between just Kana going berserk, just Hibiki going berserk, or both. I decided to go with both because I feel like even with Kana raging out, Hibiki would still go berserk from being overwhelmed by her emotions.
And before you ask, yes I took heavy inspiration from FE:Fates Chapter 5: "Mother" for Dragon Kana and Serena's interaction with Dragon Kana.
As always, I shall see you all in the next chapter!
