(Irene POV)

It was the new year, and we were all were sat at the table in WcDonalds. Iris, Erica, Lily, Amber, Yui, and I were all here. Now I was just waiting for one last person.

"Is it just me or has Irene felt more...bright recently?" Lily muttered to Erica.

"Yeah...she seems almost as if she's glowing...." Erica murmured.

"So, why did you call us here?" Lily then asked.

"Yes, I was wondering that too." Iris added, Erica, Amber, and Yui nodding in agreement.

"Just wait a moment." I stated.

We waited for a second, but nothing happened. "What-" Lily started to say before she was cut off by the sound of the door opening.

Glancing behind me, Bianca had walked in. She emotionlessly walked over to our table before sitting down.

"I like the atmosphere." She murmured.

"Thank you." I nodded.

"But this is a WcDonalds." Lily sweatdropped.

"Wait a second! It's you!" Iris jumped to her feet, pointing at Bianca. "You also kissed Ken on Christmas. Why?!"

"I realized something." Bianca stated, grasping her heart. "He created an emotion in me that no one else had before."

Iris faltered, having felt the same thing that Bianca was feeling now.

"I realized that I love him." She stated.

The table went silent.

"Another rival..." Groaned Erica, putting her head in her hands.

"Ken...stop being such a womanizer..." Muttered Iris.

"So she's becoming a sister too, huh?" Sighed Lily.

Yui hummed, a slight blush on her face as she was thinking something that none of us would want to know.

"I want to fight her." Stated Amber.

"Bianca! Say something mean to me!" Yui ordered.

"Shut up." Bianca coldly replied.

"Oooh, that's good." Yui nodded. "If only Ken would do that..."

"Anyways, Bianca Tsuki is now our newest sister. That's the first matter of today's meeting." I stated.

"The second matter has to do with The Pink Death."

"Her..." Growled the others.

"Who is she?" Bianca emotionlessly asked.

"The Pink Death tried to kill Ken once before, and had heavily injured him. He still has the scar." I stated.

Instantly the room felt colder.

"Bitch..." I heard Bianca growl.

"Wait, how do you know he still has the scar?" Lily suspiciously asked.

"Scars don't fade that quickly." I stated.

I'm not going to tell them about our moment together yet. That's a ticking time bomb ready to go off. I would rather not light it up in our base of operations.

Right now, we are in an incredibly fragile state of balance. For now I have placated them, but once one of them gets a step further, or finds out I've become a step further with Ken...

It could evolve into a whole out civil war. We won't hurt each other, of course. But there will be a race to fill in to become the second person that Ken loves.

A Cult Of Loki WcDonald employee walked over, handing me a cup of tea. I nodded to them, taking a sip out of it. Refreshing.

The tension was high. A thick air that you could cut up with a knife, butter it up, and then eat it. Like buttered bread. I'm hungry.

I need to move us back on track. And get some food.

"Alright." I said, breaking the silence. "The questions is what to do about Pink Death."

"Most of us saw it. Iris and Bianca didn't, but Pink Death helped us fight against the Children Of Lupercio, which means she's likely not part of them." I stated.

"So what is her goal? Why did she try to assassinate Ken, and why is she fighting against this strange new cult?" I continued.

"I don't know her goal." Amber sighed. "She's an enigma, that one. Had a nice fair fight with me before stabbing a sword straight through Ken."

"She's probably just doing what the Order of Assassins wants." Lily added.

"But then who wants Ken dead?" Questioned Iris.

"Whoever it is, they have to be at a fairly high position in order to pay the Order of Assassins." I stated.

"Then why don't we just take out the Order?" Yui asked. "I'd love to play with them a little for trying to kill Ken~"

"We still can't find their headquarters." I sighed.

"Then we need to find out who wants Ken dead." Iris stated.

"Has he made any enemies we don't know of?" Erica wondered.

"I don't believe so." I shook my head. "The only enemies I can think of are the Takao Family, but all of them are either dead or converted. There's also the Children Of Lupercio, but would she really fight against her own team?"

"Now we're back at the beginning." Sighed Lily.

"Alright, then here's the plan. If we ever find Pink Death again, we take her in for questioning and find out what she's trying to do." I stated.

"As much as I would like to see her dead, I do think that's the right plan." Iris nodded. "Is she is with the Children Of Lupercio and is trying to trick us, we may learn more about them."

"Then we move onto our next matter, our base of operations." I stated.

"Base of operations? The warehouse?" Wondered Yui.

"No, this is our base of operations." I restated.

"...excuse me?" Lily asked.

"What?" I wondered.

"This WcDonals is our base of operations?! I thought it was just our meeting point?!" Lily exclaimed.

"Yeah...having a base of operations as a WcDonals seems unsafe..." Erica uneasily stated.

"Exactly. It is unsafe. That is, the WcDonalds itself. But that's not all of the base." I replied.

"What do you mean?" Bianca emotionlessly asked, only the slight tilt of her head showing her curiosity.

"This WcDonalds is just the cover. Previously we had rented it out, but not anymore. We bought this WcDonalds and made some...renovations." I continued.

"You." I stated, pointing to one of the workers. "Send us down."

"Yes ma'am!" The worker saluted before running to the back of the restaurant.

"Do you know why I chose this table?" I asked.

"Because it's the largest one...?" Erica wondered.

"No. Because of this." I stated.

Just as I finished saying those words the floor jolted. The floor around the table started to descend, taking us with it.

We descended down in the table elevator before stopping, a door opening in the room. I got up, gesturing for the others to follow me.

"This is our base of operations." I stated, extending my arms to show the base.

"No way..." Everyone except for Bianca gasped. Bianca's eyes slightly widened in a small show of expression.

It was a huge area, filled with Cult Of Loki members. There was a huge training room where they worked on their Arcana's, a research room, a jail, some break rooms, a war room, and even more.

A huge underground complex, under the least expected place. A WcDonalds.

"Welcome to our first base. Codename; W." I continued. "Come on. Follow me."

We walked to the war room. Entering the room, I closed and locked the door behind us. This was one of the most private rooms for only the higher ups like us.

It was a large conference room. In the middle was a large table which had a glass top and a map of Tokyo under it. On the map a red dot was labeled "W".

A projector was in the ceiling, pointed towards the wall behind where I sit.

"This is the war room." I stated. "From now on, this is where we'll have our discussions. And right now, we have four missions. Find the Order's base, find Pink Death, expand, and keep Ken safe."

"I think that this is only the beginning. We're in the calm before the storm, and it's not looking very calm."

What will the rest of this year have in store for us?