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✧ THE DECONSTRUCTION OF THE TOWER ✧

Nerima Prefecture, At the Tower left behind by The Tortured - 4 weeks after the Dream World Incident.

The deconstruction of the tower was well underway between the time before its activation and the efforts to rebuild after the chaos that was Dream World; the government, alongside the Pro Hero organization, had received plenty of data and was tearing the whole thing down.

The Tower initially thought to be inert, had been the catalyst for the entirety of Dream World when a core was inserted at the top. After the week of chaos, the core had been burned out and completely unsalvageable. Even when some of the top engineers examined it, there wasn’t anything they could pull from it. For all intents and purposes, it was a dead end.

With a barrier set up around the tower and several Pro Heroes and government workers supporting the project, they started at the foundation and worked their way up, with some of the physically strongest Pro Heroes supporting the base to prevent it from tipping over. The quarantine in this area would finally be lifted once they finished here, and Starling Soul and Mr. Spider would run the operation.

“Bring it over here. I’ll compress it. We have containment boxes provided by the T&S (Technological & Scientific Advancement).” He didn’t like being in charge here, but he couldn’t say no to Starling Soul, especially since she rarely asked for help. Her agency was small and full of esteemed heroes, most of whom were veterans in the business. As he turned to her, she was floating behind him in a meditative state encompassed by a multicolored bubble, her multiple arms moving through the air in a rhythmic pattern.

As Mr. Spider would compress another piece of the tower and place it in the case Starling Soul would finally speak. “This is troublesome. The connection is closed.” Mr. Spider would raise an eyebrow, confused as always at Starling Soul’s penchant for speaking in such an archaic and cryptic fashion.

As she peered through the fabric of reality, she would continue to search for any threads connecting to the tower and its origin. “Unfortunate. Those who were the originators of the unexpected incursion have done a rather thorough job at covering their trac-” she would pause, detecting something a small pathway. “I have a link. I shall trace it back to the source.” Pulling on the invisible thread, she would project her mind along the path, moving through Tokyo on a mental slipstream as she chased the thread toward its origin. Moving towards the ocean and then across the sea, she would reach a psychic field, projecting over a large area and heading…down beneath the waves? Unusual.

The connection broke there, and Starling Soul exited her trance. With an inscrutable look on her face, she spoke to Mr. Spider. “Get me the director of the Hero Association and make sure you tell him that it’s an emergency." She would look in the direction of Tokyo Bay.

"I have located where The Elementalist is hiding.”

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