149: Your princess is in another castle

As soon as Maria had separated from the group, Kagemori knew they were on a timer. It would not take long for the enemy to realize that they had a breach in security and come after the others in her team. It would be for the best if Kagemori headed deeper alone.

"Look here. I'll take the deeper parts myself" Kagemori yelled the orders, believing that they would be followed even without her presence. There was a lack of personas around her and it was easy to infiltrate.

Things were going as they had expected them to but Kagemori could not curb the feeling of 'wrong' and 'trap' her mind was yelling at her. The node was still fearless, the magic dormant but willing to lash out at her command. Kagemori had to dedicate a good amount of her focus to keep herself under control.