Done For

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The 'arguments' between the diplomats of Red Dusk and the Empress of Blue Dawn were going as usual when the door suddenly opened without warning.

Emilia grinned when she saw the serious look on Noelle's face. "Are they finally here?"

The gray-haired girl nodded. "It should take them less than twenty minutes to get to the second chamber."

Naturally, the confused murmurs of 'what's going on' were pointedly ignored by everyone in the know.

The crimson-haired girl sighed in relief. She almost thought it might never happen. "Proceed as planned, then."

And then, under the dumbfounded gaze of the two diplomats, Dixie and Noelle knocked out their four bodyguards before they even had the time to realize that something was wrong, and easily flung them into the arms of the waiting Blue Dawn soldiers. "Put two of them in front of the door of the second chamber, and keep the other two… just in case we need spares."