#btw guess who the briar maiden is supposed to be :::::::::::3

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initializing CLASS::CIEL_NOSURGE............ready initializing CLASS::AR_NOSURGE...............ready

preparing external programs.........................ready

Connecting power source => PHANTASIA..........complete

Ar Nosurge Tube: 100% Surge Concerto Terminal ver.TWST: online

Please input a command.

$connectchannel MILGRAM $connectchannel YUUKI $startchannel all

Enter authentication: CorvidByPrincipal

Authentication complete.

Beginning power transfer to: Milgram (Milgram<=Avi.QuL.Droc) Yuuki Gyenshire (YUUKI_MANNAZ_HARVESTASHA)

Notice: D-Wave overlays detected. Continue? [Y] / N

Power transfer successful. Channels online: MILGRAM_TEIWAZ_KANOYEEL_SOREIL/. YUUKI_TEIWAZ_AOTO_HARVESTASHA/.

"Never let it be said I don't care for my students. Aren't I most generous?"

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"I... thought this was lost forever."

Milgram stood in awe of the preserved, pristine steel interior. This chamber, once the ancient throne chamber of Sharanohiar, Soreil's Sharl haven, should have long rusted away after the ship's abandonment. And yet here it was, untouched as the day Lady Kanoyeel ordered it untouched. Not like he was there for any of it, but it was still a significant part of history, simply... erased. Or rather, forgotten. Left to lie, in favor of a brighter future.

Behind him, two Genom-Sharls, a set of tiger-like twins, stood at the ready. "You would be forgiven for believing so. This is one of the government's closest secrets." "But as it is the closest anyone in this day and age may get to the Surge Concerto Terminal, we saw fit to grant you access for this great endeavor. To reconnect with Ar Ciel is master Cosal's greatest wish."

The blue dragon gripped his ritual robes and took a deep breath as he walked out to the center of the room, scaled feet clacking against the cold floor with each step. A turn to the two envoys, and he was given a nod of acknowledgement.

"Follow your heart, Milgram. Our ancient lord trusts in your judgement." "Sing the song that will reunite the two distant children of EXA_PICO. Sing freely with all your strength, MILGRAM_TEIWAZ_KANOYEEL_SOREIL."

He closed his eyes... and belted out the beginnings of a prayer to sacred Singing Hill.

iyon-du vari-wei-iz, koh-ne aa-nie-iz soh-nh nyue-i;;;!

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"Readings nominal. D-Waves successfully optimized." "Unknown energy signature... presumably the magic of Twisted Wonderland. It's remaining stable, ma'am." "Mark it down as all green, then. Yuuki! You holding up in there fine, kiddo?"

Covered in red scales and eyes narrowed into draconic scales, Yuuki stood in the middle of the base of the Tower of Harvestasha. With help from the Tower herself, it was made into an amplifying field pouring all its strength into the aberrant - or rather, refined - Reyvaroid. Across from him was a legion of researchers devoting their all to his well-being and the execution of this song, its head researcher looking over his physical transformation with a discerning eye.

He looked back with a resolute, yet uncertain, gaze. Sure, they managed to open a way to Twisted Wonderland with much less than this, but that was only because Mickey and PHANTASIA itself was willing it so. This was an operation between two points in space-time directly in EXA_PICO's domain.

"No, but we don't exactly have the famed Sakia Lumei or - Wills forbid - the Briar Maiden herself, so I gotta take care of it."

Yuuki's passive chuckle was met with the encouraging uproar of everyone else, the head researcher in particular laughing with all aplomb. "Ace points for honesty, kid! Don't worry, we'll handle all the small details, so just do what feels natural. We're all green, YUUKI_TEIWAZ_AOTO_HARVESTASHA. Was paks ra reen yor hymmnos!"

A nod. Searching deep in himself, he began singing a most ancient prayer to sacred Singing Hill.

Rrha ki ra tie yor ini en nha...

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On that day, Ra Ciela and Ar Ciel reunited through a looking glass.