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The next day.
City Guild Office, 25th Floor.
In accordance with the previously communicated plan, Lewis accepted Sara and the others to join the Shadow Ruler. Aaron had a one-on-one talk with Eloise about Emily's willingness.
In the end, Eloise agreed on the condition that Emily should not appear in public as a member of the Shadow Ruler. Aaron agreed with that, however, he could not portray Emily as part of his group.
Currently, Lewis was traveling around the Sky Sword district while handing out flyers encouraging mages to join the Shadow Ruler group. He did so with Mona and Karen.
For Aaron, he and Aerith waited at the guild office cafeteria to receive requests from anyone interested in joining. Luckily for him, Goro and the others did not come to the cafeteria in the morning and afternoon.