Chapter 65

“This invading the Foundation is beginning to get a habit with you,” Lilith smirked as she advanced, the otherworldly child at her side.

“Do you know where Poppy is?” Sumire interjected.

Eirian shook their head.

“I wasn’t thinking.”

She rolled her eyes, pulling out her card.

“Fine. We’ll let the little sisters do the work then.” She sighed, flipped the card over, and called out to her homunculi. “Summoner First Class Sumire requests your presence! Tengu, take flight!”

The shape of the little sisters emerged immediately, launching forward down the corridor past the felled meow in search of Poppy. Above them, the alarms sang out in faltering pitch as Samael advanced behind them with a voice far sweeter, far more insidious than any mechanical warning, feet trampling the guards that had fallen beneath the owb’s assault.