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| | Madaraki then leads Malal to the operation theater to help with Ekaterina's treatment, explaining that she will introduce her to one Misaka later, who wants to meet a Culexus. Malal also decides to write this day's events down in some way and to get a tablet PC back home.</spoiler> | | Madaraki then leads Malal to the operation theater to help with Ekaterina's treatment, explaining that she will introduce her to one Misaka later, who wants to meet a Culexus. Malal also decides to write this day's events down in some way and to get a tablet PC back home.</spoiler> |
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| − | Months before Walpurgisnacht, Malal is one of the prognosticators predicting the time and location of the world destroying witch's emergence. Her prediction is the most accurate.
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| − | Soon, Yuma calls Malal to ask what happened to Girl A, suspecting that she is responsible. The Rank Leader explains that Girl A and Kharn were attacked and that she actually stopped the girl's mind from collapsing entirely, blaming it on the influence of Walpurgisnacht or a trauma from the attack. Meanwhile Kharn is in a state close to both death and witching out.
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| − | Two hours later, Malal calls Yuma to ask about her progress, who replies that Kharn's status remains unchanged. She calls her to the assembly hall to continue preparations for the mission.
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| − | Yuma is upset that Malal accepts that nearly all Culexus will die during this mission, but the Rank Leader explains that she only does so because it is the only way for the plan she worked on for years will work, painful as it is.
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| − | Shortly before the teleportation sequence starts, Yuma sends a telepathic message to ask about Malal's whereabouts and is answered by a panicked message that Kharn is gone, followed by screams of pain and death that spread out to all other Culexus.
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| − | <spoiler show="Full Chapter Summary" hide="Hide Full Summary">Months before the emergence of Walpurgisnacht, the prognosticators of the Officio Assassinorum contact each other again to pool their resources and determine the exact time and place of the event. Malal announced her accurate prediction, and after more discussions and arguing, one time and five places were determined. All Officios, save the First, volunteered most of their active duty roster to the effort of exterminating whatever appears in the key locations.
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| − | Three days before Walpurgisnacht, Malal finds Murderface and Kharn outside, nearly dead in the middle of the night, the Warmaster decapitated and ridiculed. While she found no bodies of the assailants, they left a black dagger stuck in Kharn's soul gem that disappeared in black smoke when removed.
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| − | To prevent Murderface from causing trouble, Malal made her promise not to tell anyone what she eventually remembers, told her to stay in her room and to let nobody other than her and Yuma in. She also promises her something nice if she finishes cleaning a stash of guns before she returns.
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| − | Taking the hint that a Callidus is at work, Yuma wonders why they go through the trouble. Disappointed that she has to explain something that simple, Malal tells her that morale would suffer greatly if others knew their Warmaster is both near death and near witching out since three days ago. She also mentions that she is fulfilling a promise and tells the doubtful Yuma that she will understand this once she is older, refusing to explain herself further.
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| − | The Rank Leader then tells Yuma to go and fulfill her orders. Taking another sip from her drink ,she mentions that while the Spymaster of the Twentieth may be a shallow bitch, her taste in beverage is good. She agrees with Yuma that the Twentieth is not trustworthy, but admits that their own Callidus could not replace Kharn convincingly and mentions that the Spy Master likes the challenge.
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| − | Malal then apologizes for making Yuma go through with her errands and allows her to take some time off to see Haruka after finishing her duties. She tells her subordinate to meet her in the Warmaster's office afterwards and cuts the connection.
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| − | Calming down again, she explains that this is exactly what the plan to save the world she has been working on for over ten years will only work this way and that she can only rig it in a way to allow Yuma's survival, nobody else. Nodding in agreement, Yuma stays silent as Malal tells her that her plan goes far beyond Walpurgisnacht and that everything depends on the outcome of this day, once again mentioning a promise she made.
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| | ==Trivia== | | ==Trivia== |
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| | *Malal promised Ekaterina Valnikov's mother to take care of her child when she was dying, hinting that she brought her into the Officio. | | *Malal promised Ekaterina Valnikov's mother to take care of her child when she was dying, hinting that she brought her into the Officio. |
| | *Malal received an invitation to join the First Officio, but turned it down. | | *Malal received an invitation to join the First Officio, but turned it down. |
| − | *She once refered to Kharn as something you just let happen, like being bitten by a dog.
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| | ==NECO Profile== | | ==NECO Profile== |
