"Prepare for the Gathering..." from hidden underground, a dark basememt within a small house found in this shitty Backlund, the voice of thr Hanged Man resonated lightly through the ceiling and corridors. Alger with his blue hair and muscular build swiftly walk through the blinds and went inside a particular weary room with a long mottle table in the middle and seats by their sides.
Alger sat himself by seat of host, and as he did so, from the multiple blinds of the room, 6 other figures came out and took their respective seats at the table.
Silence reign for a while, the place was barely lit up with few candles on the edges, but enough to illimunate everyones faces, as everyone aside from a particular 3 not participating, everyone came in full view, now knowing each other's identity.
"Sigh" Alger took a heavy sigh for himself as he found himself a disappointment of a host, whilst the gatherers look upon himself, relishing in with mixing emotions.
'How could i let this happen? Miss Hermit just ran rampant and played a massive trick on everyone...' Alger thought. 'Mr Fool must be dissapointed on all of us since the call for the Gray Fog is not responding to host our usual gathering, now we're stuck in this shithole, dammit. I gotta fix this situation somehow, or there be no more oppurtunity like this in our lives.' Infuriated, Alger clenched his fist.
"... Should i say i have some of Roselle's diaries?" A woman wearing a purple dress and glasses for her violet eyes spoke out for everyone to hear. Her voice was light, but ringed like a defeaning alarm through everyone's ears.
Everyone's blood pressure surged like a tidal wave, barely containing some of their anger.
Xio, glared scornfully by the purple woman by her side, Leonard contemplated with himself, unsure of himself, Emelyn was indifferent, Audrey was too embarrassed to talk about anything so she kept quiet to herself. Alger tried to simply calm his mind.
"You, you bitch! You played us for a bunch of Fool!! Why are you still here!!" Xio growled, her hatred and anger was through the roofs.
"Oh my, am i not still a member of this club?" Cattleya defended herself.
"Miss Judgement, don't..." Leonard tried to soothe Xio's surging anger with a light tone containing spirituality.
"... Mr Hanged Man, do something about this bitch!" Yet Xio didn't care and went for Alger's side this time around.
"..." quiet for a moment, Alger gulped his mouth as Cattleya look intently upon him with mocking eyes and a small grin for her mouth. "Huhu..." another mocking gesture as she laughed, covering her mouth.
'Dammit!' Alger realized already far too soon, he's too powerful to do anything even if he wanted to against the Demigod. In terms of power, Cattleya could easily overpower everyone in the room with some light work, and as such, he could only proceed with the situation with the authority given to him by Mr Fool.
"Miss Hermit, why did you do it?" Alger asked.
"Why, you ask? Isn't that obvious, because its fun!" Her answer hit everyone like a carriage, so sudden, without hesitation, it was that of complete ignorance towards everyone's feelings and conditions.
"You son of a bitch, you think we're just your mere playthings just because you are the strongest?!" Xio stood up from her seat, and grabbed Cattleya by the collar of her dress. Her eyes was blood red, unable to contain her wrath anymore.
"Isn't that obvious, tell me, why should Mr Hanged Man even be the host when it could've been me..." Cattelya barely budged at the suddeness of Xio's actions and nudged her glasses. "Do you perhaps think seniority determines a person right to be at the top, i concur, its a mix of things... And... I want to be the one at the top."
"That's no reason to forced all of us in your Play-Like Dream Spell! Do you realized what you've done?!" Xio upon glaring, her mind was wavering and swirling. From the edges of her eyes, she caught a glimpse of Leonard.
A light blush bloom across her cheeks, but she soon immediately turn her attention back to Cattleya .
"Our desires... Make our desires come realized within our dreams in such absurd ways-" Xio put her face closer to Cattleya to the point her spit was raining down upon the her glasses.
"What's so bad about it? If you want men to sleep with men, Mr Hanged Man and Mr Star would gladly do it for you- Mr Hanged Man don't seem to mind doing it with Miss Justice, same as Miss Justice as she seems to really like flashing her bodies towards random people." Cattleya wiped the spig away from her glasses as she turned her head towards the seat of host.
"Tsk." Alger tsked.
"No..." Audrey weakly replied.
"..." Fors could only spectate so far before she could bring up her own issues against everyone.
"Heh..." Emelyn nonchalant didn't care about anything else as he only needed his potions to be complete for Mr World.
"Still! That's an invasion of privacy!! Do you not care about your fellow members?!!" Xio continued to growl and growl again, her anger reaching past way maximum to the point her fist was already raised and urging to punch the woman in front of her.
But before Xio could raised her fist, she felt a nudging sensation as she realized someone stopped her. She turned around and saw the tall figure of Leonard grabbing her by the wrist. Embarrassed once again, but for some reason, she felt hurt from deep within, it's a matter of the question 'What are you doing, Leonard?'
"What are you doing, Mr Star! Are you seriously siding with this Traitor?"