Chapter 65: Time For A Check Up

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Chapter 65: Time For A Check Up

Days?: The Seventh And Last Day of the Week Time Limit Part 3

(Vale: Vale City: Junior's Club: Temporary Dining Hall)

"Okay, while we wait on team RWBY and JNPR. How about we call in Goodwich and see if she take on our offer to join our organization?" I said to everyone, as Kirihime finished her call and rejoin us.

"Well, unless you want Goodwich to find out Ozpin's missing Fall Maiden is right here. Then, I would think you should at least get the girl one of your uniforms to help disguise her, with the ice cream girl using her semblance as a bonus addition to Pyrrha's disguise." Kirihime said to me, as she pointed out how easily I forgot about how Goodwich also has the knowledge about the Four Maidens as well.

"Isn't she already wearing one?" I look at Pyrrha, and true enough, my twin sister is still wearing her [Arcana Uniform]. So what's Kirihime trying to say, even Neo still got her semblance placed over Pyrrha still out of habit now.

Both Pyrrha and Neo share a glance at each other to see if they actually did what Kirihime just said, and nothing change and wonder why Kirihime said this.

"Stupid. I meant the girl need a different uniform. Because I know for sure there are some people with semblance that could easily tear apart some of Pyrrha's disguised appearance until her real appearance is revealed. Trust me, I found someone with that semblance on the way back here and was awfully weird they continued to stare at this building for a while now until I got the guy to enter my range for my semblance to work and gained all this information." Kirihime roll her eyes at everyone, seeing how they are getting too relax.

As more and weirder people with semblance starting to show up in the surface, when most people with abnormal semblance, even in the standard of this world would stay in the underworld or something similar to the underworld.

I raise an eyebrow at Kirihime, then pull out a black blanket out of my [Inventory], then drop it over Pyrrha's whole body before I snap my fingers as I felt my aura reserve started to drain slowly.

Then, I pull the blanket off Pyrrha, whose appearance completely changed as I return the blanket back in my [Inventory].

Pyrrha new appearance is literally the same one belong to Elesis's Bloody Queen. Just without the [Claymore] and the [Skills] to go with that character.

Hell, I even changed Pyrrha's hair, eyes, and even body to be similar to the Bloody Queen.

The only person who was shocked at the sudden change of appearance of Pyrrha was Neo, who clearly never saw me use the [Thousand Faces] [Fusion Skill] before.

[Thousand Faces]: First Stance's [Technique]

Active Effect: This is a customized fusion of two [Skill]. Allows one to disguise oneself in order to hide from the enemy. Also, giving the user the ability to disguise a target other than the user to hide the target from other's views.

Type: Active|Fusion: [Master Presence Concealment Mastery] and [Master Aura Manipulation Mastery]

Target: Single-Area

Rank: N/A

Cost: Vary, lowest cost of [E]: 1%(15AP:Aura Point) per target and [E+]: 1%(15AP:Aura Point) Aura Unit Level per second x number of targets

This is the [Fusion Skill] I created once I reached [Master Rank] in [Presence Concealment Mastery] and fused it with [Aura Manipulation Mastery].

One of the main [Fusion Skill] that helped me create so many aliases in this world, that some of my close friends can't even figure out which alias is really me or another member of the Arcana.

So far, only both Pyrrha and Shigure know all my alias. While Kirihime would have a hard time to find out with her semblance due to the [Thousand Faces] could be used to create more than one layer of disguise. So if I place multiple layers, then Kirihime would have a hard time to find out who I am.

Well, Kirihime had a hard time to find out sometime in the early until she came up with a trick to find out it's me without having to go through the trouble of using her semblance to thoroughly find out who I am once [Thousand Faces] is used.

"I hate it when you use that [Technique] of yours." Kirihime said dryly, with a hint of frustration due to the fact that she can't seem to find the core parts to recreate this [Fusion Skill] and could only make up the normal disguise that everyone learned how to do at some point in their life.

"Huh?! How?!" Neo cried out in complete shock as she quickly starts touching Pyrrha everywhere, which made Pyrrha giggle a little since she a bit ticklish in some spots around her body.

"[Thousand Faces]. One of the many [Skills], Enma here created himself. And, also, one of the many dangerous ones there is known in the organization. As this [Technique] alone could make Enma here become anyone or anything. Furthermore, he can use it on others as well. Even make a non-living thing appear like a person. Until someone figures out that person aren't breathing and not moving before the disguise wore off." Kirihime explains to Neo about the effects and gives out an example of the [Thousand Faces].

"Why the...Bloody Queen?" Shigure tilts her head, as she wonders why I decided to pick this disguise for Pyrrha. The irony of this disguise's alias for Pyrrha. Is that Pyrrha earn this alias name from the world due to finding a very dangerous way to use her semblance against people.

Plus, I didn't even tell anyone about this disguise's origin from and just made it up on what Pyrrha would look like in a few years from now, with her eyes being red.

As for how Pyrrha earned her nickname in this disguise. She literally uses her semblance to rip the iron inside our body and all she needs is skin contact to do so. Which is pretty scary for some people, where one person, just one skin contact is required to kill them without any effort.

Furthermore, it was tested in the past, where if Pyrrha can bypass someone's aura shield and reach for the iron inside one's body.

In fact, it took Pyrrha years to do this and she still requires skin contact to do so. Because in the early stage of the Arcana organization's development. Where the founder members required disguises and unrelated to their public appearance.

Well, Pyrrha went for a bloody path to make sure her public appearance would be unrelated to her Bloody Queen alias. As Pyrrha Nikos is known for her politeness and well manner, as well being someone who is honest to others and would treat people with the respect they deserve.

While the Bloody Queen on the hand is truly a sadist person, who would use anything to reach her goal. Even if she has to punish someone in the Arcana for their mistakes. Which is one of the reasons why most members of the Arcana wouldn't dare betray the organization.

In the beginning, the founder members, being me, Shigure, Izaya, and Ziarre. Along with Pyrrha later on. Are shocked at what Pyrrha kind of alter ego, she wanted to go with. A complete opposite of Pyrrha Nikos.

However, both Shigure and I are the only ones that really know that this is how Pyrrha really is when she not using that polite smiling mask of hers. And also one of Pyrrha's methods to overcome her childhood during the training trip.

By being brutal towards some people and a way for Pyrrha to release her frustration without the presence of our parents nearby or insight.

Of course, this wasn't something Pyrrha would tell others, including her own twin brother. But, after remembering the big secret belong to her older brother about the [Persona System] revealed to her at the time. Pyrrha took a leap of faith and told this dark secret of her's to him.

Yeah, I didn't think my Pyrrha would be such a bloody person, and she trained this cruel method of using her semblance during the training trip that separated us the time. At most of the time, she couldn't bring her weapons with her during the nights she sneaks out to release her stress and rage on poor victims.

This method to attack towards non-grimm, but that didn't mean Pyrrha didn't find a way to use her semblance on grimm still. By literally using iron nails, which she would always carry on her most of the time.

"Uh, I just remember something." Pyrrha said in a nervous voice, but a completely different voice of Pyrrha Nikos. "I think maybe Raven would be able to find out that I'm Pyrrha and the Bloody Queen. Back at the meeting, Em. I did accidentally use the nails to attack her. As the world knows that the Bloody Queen's main weapon are iron nails."

"Well, shit. This is bad. Raven isn't stupid like most people and would easily connect the dots between Pyrrha and her alter ego." Kirihime easily figures out the big problem with the way Pyrrha is going.

"Does...anyone else...know?" Shigure asks Pyrrha on the subject if anyone else saw her use nails with her semblance.

Pyrrha carefully thinks about who else saw her using her nails, then pale a little after finding out there is another person besides Raven. "Uh, I may have used them for Jaune's training. Hehehehe..."

Pyrrha didn't need to be a genius to figure out that if someone was to ask Jaune some specific questions, then her alter ego's identity would be revealed to the world that Pyrrha Nikos is the Bloody Queen.

"So, should we do the soft or hard methods to make sure Pyrrha's alter ego isn't destroyed?" I ask everyone, where anyone could tell how I would like to get rid of this problem as soon as possible.

"How about we just leave as it is? After all, Pyrrha's Bloody Queen identity would bound to be revealed to the world sooner or later due to the Second Great War. In fact, all Enma's aliases would be useless too, including all of ours later on. Once we start using our real strength against the whole world." Kirihime was speaking the truths. As the founders and core members wouldn't use more than 50% of our true strength if needed in most missions.

As the saying goes, "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles." Well, I made sure everyone knows this quote and makes it a creed.

To the world, they know almost all about us, where we wish what we can reveal to the world at the time and when we want to unless we're forced to. This way, something like the Second Great War happens would we would start using everything we got. Just so we can survive this deadly war and maybe see the end of the war with our life.

"Maybe. But, we are going to need to start getting even more serious in our future battles from this point on." I said in a cold tone of voice, causing Neo to shiver at how my eyes look so dull and dead. This includes the others around her. Making Neo feel very nervous being near these people at the moment.

"Does that mean I can use my actual fighting style?" Pyrrha asks in an eager tone, after all the effort to merge her public and alter ego's fighting style together to create a very dangerous fighting style. She really wishes to try it out in real combat and the only time she could even use it against grimm so far.

"Calm your tits, girl. No need to go crazy over the thoughts of going more serious than usual in the future battles." Kirihime said to Pyrrha in a dull tone, wondering since when the polite girl went and came with the battle crazy in return.

"You can't...blame...her." Shigure feels the same as Pyrrha, after all, she held back the most, just behind her fiance, in the whole organization for years now. So she could understand Pyrrha's feeling since pretty much everyone in the Arcana are already deadly killers.

Going at the enemy a bit more serious would tend to lead a bloodbath more often than one would like. Well, Pyrrha tends to do that anyway with her alter ego: Bloody Queen.

"Your right, I can't, but that doesn't mean she has to go all crazy about it. Since right now isn't the best time to do so. Plus, I just contacted Glynda to come over and she will be here in 5 minutes too." Kirihime smirk at everyone, once we realized that Glynda Goodwich will be here soon.

"Not funny." Shigure said to Kirihime, who shrugged her shoulders at her.

"I'm not kidding. Glynda will be here in less than 5 minutes from now. I just didn't want to give up the chance of Glynda joining us. With one of the strongest Huntresses in the Vale Kingdom. It would be a stupid thing not to recruit her right now." Kirihime clearly knew that Glynda may be out of shape from the lack of combats due to her position at the Beacon Academy.

But, Glynda is still a powerful Huntress due to her semblance and the ability to branch out her usage of her semblance.

"Why do we want to recruit Professor Goodwich again?" Pyrrha asks Kirihime since it was Kirihime's idea to recruit Glynda in the first place.

But, before Kirihime could tell her reasons. The front door open, with Glynda entering the building with a scowl on her face. Looking a little bit piss off at the moment.

"I hope you have a good reason for calling me to come here while we're at war." Glynda glare at Kirihime while ignoring the dangerous criminals around her as she walks towards us.

"I heard from a little birdie that someone decided to quit in a certain little group. So, being a good friend and all. I wanted to bring back up my offer for you to join the organization." Kirihime gives Glynda a smirk, causing the woman to lose her scowl, but kept her glare at Kirihime.

"And as a good friend myself. I wouldn't inform Ozpin about you being here." Glynda said to Kirihime before taking a seat in between Kirihime and I, then let out a tired sigh.

"Come on. Glynda speaks to me. What's wrong. Why did you leave Ozpin's group?" Kirihime asks Glynda as she glances at her friend, who she still keeps on trying to get her to join the Arcana more than a year now.

"I don't want to talk about it." Glynda didn't look like she cared about the presences of the Bloody Queen and the Manipulator are literally just a few feet away from her and one of them is seating right next to her too.

Kirihime gives me a stare, telling me to do something to get Glynda to talk. Since technically I'm the one who would get people to talk most of the time. After all, this includes the job description for the title: The Manipulator.

I roll my eyes at Kirihime when I have no clue how to get Glynda to talk without having to use the physical methods to get people to talk. And seeing how we're trying to get Glynda to join us, then doing any types of physical harm to her would defeat the purpose.

I check if Glynda was paying any attention to me or in my direction. Once I was for sure that Glynda doesn't look like she even looking in my direction. I pull out a bottle of [Red Wine] from my [Inventory].

It's mostly the sweet kind of [Red Wine] and I have no clue if Glynda even like drinking [Wines]. But, it's something to try, and so, I place the whole bottle in front of Glynda with a [Wine Glass] to go with it.

"Thanks." Glynda pours herself some [Wine] and wanted something to drink anyway. Why not go with [Wine] with the way her day went so far. "I really need this." Glynda said after drinking one cup of [Red Wine] in a way someone enjoys drinking [Wine] and knows how to drink it.

"I'm still not talking." Glynda notices how pretty much everyone is waiting for her why she decided to accept Kirihime's invite to come here and she still didn't exactly rejected out the offer to join us.

"I didn't say anything?" I was completely lost and wonder if Glynda this was my way to get her to talk. When I just gave her it because Kirihime wanted me to do something. Well, I did do something, but I don't know if this is what Kirihime wanted me to do in the first place.

"Oh. I thought you gave me this to bribe me into talking." Glynda didn't try to give me back the bottle of [Red Wine]. In fact, Glynda pulls the bottle closer to her and look like she would fight anyone that dare to take it away from her.

Who knew the strictest professor of the Beacon Academy would be a [Wine] lover from the look of it.

"That will be 350,300 Lien." I said to Glynda the moment she took her second sip, causing her to choke and started hitting her chest while coughing roughly.

"HOW MUCH?!" Glynda shouts at me once she got her coughing under control. As everyone could see the shocked look on Glynda's face.

"350,300 Lien. This is for the time, ingredients, and labor fees to make that single bottle." I said to Glynda in a calm tone of voice while trying to not to laugh at her.

Shigure tilts her head to the side and wonders if I was messing around or not. Because she saw me made this exact [Red Wine], which took me a whole year to make a batch.

"I know this is [Red Wine] is good and all. But, it can't be that much!" Glynda clearly knew that it takes time and efforts to make [Wine]. Furthermore, the time for the [Wine] to ferment and for it to age.

"I made it." I said dryly, causing Glynda to shut up instantly. As it's a known fact that most of the best [Wines] in the worlds is created by me and lots of rich folks couldn't have enough of it once they got their first taste of it.

Glynda looks at the [Red Wine] bottle, then back at me and back at the bottle before she let out a tired sigh.

"Okay. Ask away." Glynda knew how the Manipulator would drain you dry whenever he can and would get his profit one way or another. And Glynda did not want to be the Manipulator's last victim. She still has nightmares of reading the report on it and not knowing if this was really the last victim or just the one where the public could find before the evidence disappear the next day.

"Why not pay for it instead? After all, I decided to take out something this valuable for you to drink and you could at least pay for it." I really wanted those Lien than having Glynda talk about her problems honestly.

"Ignore the cheapskate and enjoy your [Red Wine]. I'll pay for it." Kirihime knew this was the moment she has to take over or else Glynda would really end up losing all the Lien she saved up to now, to the bastard she calls her leader.

"Cheapskate here. He wants his money by tomorrow's morning." I said to Kirihime in a third person of myself. Which Kirihime ignored me while Pyrrha found this amusing, but kept herself quiet due to her former professor is right there in front of her. So, she will try her best to not act like Pyrrha.

But, out of habit, she would act like a good manner girl in front of Glynda and wonder if she could stop this fast enough to not let Glynda notice this.

"Yeah. Yeah. Leave us two alone. I'll tell you when we're done." Kirihime pulls Glynda out of her seat and heads towards the second floor. Glynda quickly snatches the [Red Wine] bottle since it's already paid for. So she may as well enjoy it while it last. After all, this is one of the many bottles of [Wine] the world desire for, but can't get with money alone.

"Well, we leave Kirihime to Glynda. How about we go find your friends, Pyrrha?" I ask Pyrrha once both Kirihime and Glynda are far away enough to not to hear us.

"I thought we were going to look for them tomorrow?" Pyrrha was confused, and even more when her brother changed her appearance now instead of waiting tomorrow in the morning to do so.

"Do you really want us to wait for tomorrow?" I ask Pyrrha with an eyebrow raise, since technically if I recall correctly. I said to everyone within a week, not after a week. But, I decided to pity those friends of Pyrrha's. Not to mention, there still Weiss out there with Izaya doing something stupid whenever it related to Weiss.

"After all, they should be panicking as we speak. Since I did put the deadline being today. So yeah, I'm surprised none of your friends had called you. Actually, now I think about it. Why didn't Weiss contact us to inform us on their progress?" I frown a little. Since after separating, we haven't got anything from them since day one.

Both Shigure and Pyrrha share a look while Neo just plain out feeling awkward at this moment. Since she not really a true member of the Arcana and doesn't have a say in this matter.

"Give me a second, to contact Izaya." I get off my seat and walk away to make a call to Izaya.

few minutes later*

"Okay, we need to move now. Izaya just told me team RWBY and JNPR are held captive in Beacon Academy. Don't know why Kirihime tells us this after calling Izaya." I said to the girls once I finish my call to Izaya.

"Because none of my calls didn't get through when I called." Kirihime said to me from the second floor, with Glynda next to her, who staring at Pyrrha with narrow eyes.

This made Pyrrha feel nervous from being stared at by her former professor. Wondering if her disguise was blown by Kirihime, who told Glynda about how one of her bright students is one of the worldwide known criminals.

"Also, Glynda here, kindly informs me about what the status of team RWBY and JNPR." Kirihime sends a small grin at Glynda, who snort at her.

"Not like I had a choice. But, you guys really need to go if you want to get those kids out of the academy's campus. I'm surprised you guys didn't find this out in days ago." Glynda is mainly looking at me when she said that.

"Let's just say we were busy and no need to continue with this topic. When we should go head out now." I completely dodge Glynda's question and head straight to the front door while grabbing a [Talisman] from the bar.

Activating the [Talisman] to allow me to leve without any problems while secretly; I placed another [Rune] around the [Talismans] to give one the ability to leave the building. To force anyone that tried to grab more than the one they're allowed to. They would be forced put to sleep until we return or the [Rune] crumble away after a few hours.

2 hours later*

(Vale: Vale City: Beacon Academy: Docking Area)

It took some time, but we hijacked a Bullhead without really hijacking it. All thanks to [Thousand Faces] and a few Lien to bribe the pilot to drive us to Beacon Academy as return students that sneaked off Campus and just now coming back.

Honestly, I would think the pilot would question us, but after seeing how much Lien I gave them. They no longer felt the need to and not the mention how Pyrrha is still technically a student of Beacon Academy.

All we had to do was let Pyrrha use her school ID to give us the proof we're real students. So the pilot won't report this to the staff members at Beacon.

We had to leave Kirihime behind, because of Glynda and it's a good thing the former professor knew this. So she didn't make any trouble after we left for Beacon. Since she called it a night and went to sleep in the one many guest rooms in the Club for VIP to sleep in due to being too lazy or tired to find some other place to stay.

Yup, the Club even included VIP guest bedrooms for a special fee. But, Glynda didn't need to pay thanks for the information she gave us, which we really needed and Kirihime was there to confirm they are the real deal and wasn't something Glynda made up to spring a trap on us.

Furthermore, I made sure to tell Kirihime to watch over Whitley, who is currently kept in the Basement and haven't come out for a whole week now. But, luckily the basement is big and contain some books for the guy to read for the time being. I made sure to mention how to only deliver Whitley his food with someone with her or else he may try to escape.

Yeah, we couldn't really allow him to go with team RWBY and JNPR at day one, or let him go to the Mistral Kingdom. So we kept him in the Club's Basement the whole time.

Right now, Neo is using her semblance on herself since the rest of us don't need to be under disguises. While Pyrrha is, but that under the effect of [Thousand Faces] and lucky for me. It doesn't cost me lots of aura to keep both Pyrrha and I under its effects.

While Shigure literally doesn't need one when she could just hide her from plain view with ease like nothing. And she doesn't need to use her aura to help her doing so.

So far, the whole place isn't really much different than before the Second Great War started. But, there is an increase in patrol guards walking around the Docking Area at least.

I give the signals for us to begin. With Shigure taking down any patrol guards close by. While both Pyrrha and Neo cover her by using [Soundless Field Talismans] to make sure no noise is made without alerting the other patrol guards.

For me, I use [Eagle Vision] and give Shigure the go and directions on which patrol guards she can take out as we slowly exit the Docking Area.

Each time Shigure takes down a patrol guard. We made sure to position the knocked out patrol guard in a way that looks like they're still watching the area without giving away they're unconscious.

But, none of us would expect this to last much longer; nonetheless, we continue doing this plan of ours and rush toward the Dormitory building.

1 hour later*

(Vale: Vale City: Beacon Academy: Campus: Dorms: Team: RWBY's Room: Front Door)

We finally made it to the Dorms and there weren't many patrol guards inside the building, but outside was a different story and one of the reasons it took us so long to find the best route to secretly enter the Dorms without their notices.

As for why we went to team RWBY's room; well, [Eagle Vision] showed me that all of them, including Izaya, are inside the room and awake too.

I pull out my scroll to text Izaya and Weiss. Then, Pyrrha, Shigure, Neo, and I wait for their response by the door.

Not a second later, the door team RWBY is opened by Ruby herself, who was shocked at the sight of us. Before she could say anything.

(Vale: Vale City: Beacon Academy: Campus: Dorms: Team: RWBY's Room)

Shigure places her left hand over Ruby's mouth and push her in, with the rest of us enter the room, where we can see everyone doing fine. Well, Weiss looks physically fine to me. Mentally, I have no clue, but she at least greets me and the others.

Now, that we found team RWBY and JNPR, with Izaya as well, who had a much easier time to sneak into the building due to this semblance being the best to infiltrate enemy's bases.

Is the time for the report on rather if team RWBY and JNPR managed to do what they promise to do.