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Chiara - Nelo Before we could enter the Red Thinner processing warehouse, we were given a vial of Red Thinners free-of-charge. According to the Bishop, it was Araya's way of apologizing on behalf of the staff's transgression. Red and Yotta drank theirs quickly, while I held it in front of my eyes, mask covering up my mouth. "You're supposed to drink it, remember, Solvei?" Yotta said, his voice filled with amuse. Reluctantly, I took off the mask and downed the vial in a single breath. I just hope Chiara has no surveillance camera.

Entering the warehouse, dozens and dozens of processed corpses of Grotesque laid across us; their limbs are all removed, leaving only the large body mass, all of them riddled with bladed wounds or bullet holes. Looking at the faces of the Grotesques, each of them painted either a picture of pain and anger, or a....trance? Red walked forward in front of us and immediately positioned herself to one of the corpses, not even disturbed by gruesome sight. Stretching her arms forward, Red turned toward us again, and said, "Sorry, you guys will have to wait for a while."

Brandishing her Staff, Red pointed it at her targeted corpses' open wound, then, a graceful swing from the staff drawing out a cluster of translucent red butterflies. With the clusters of butterflies captured under Red's staff, she ensues by twirling it as the clusters becoming more and more compact, then absorbed into the staff itself, as its dull red body shined a brilliant red. Following that, she slotted her staff in a large processing machinery at the end of the room. The staff's brilliant red glow rapidly fades, as the machine extracts the compressed butterflies from it. After a few seconds, the staff returned to its dull-red color as Red walked towards another corpse, repeating the process.


 * Nelo: No wonder Chiara can't account for sudden large stock of Red Thinners. With this kind of work involved, you'd think they would come up with a machine or something.
 * Yotta: Well, the Red Ghost Butterfly extraction technique is tied to Shaman's Transmigration rite, so I don't think they'd let anyone know the trick to it. Furthermore, Grotesque's physiology is built disjointed as is, inconsistent wounds that are inflicted on their corpses would've made it harder for machines to track.
 * Nelo: Then, it is fine that we're in here?
 * Yotta: Certainly, it's not like the recipe for Red Thinner is undisclosed; with available materials, even I can make them. But the core ingredient- processed Red Ghost Butterflies, can only be obtained from a Shaman.

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