“Check if anyone really strange been following you? Several of my friends did experience some problems with these Exhaltist criminals in the past, and none of them have been pleasant.

Thank goodness everything worked out in the end, but if we weren’t all at our best…”

“Hmm… could mean anything ranging from stopping an evil witch cult to wiping out any group, really… but in my world folks who usually ramble about prophecies tend to be lunatics, terrorists, or both.

There’s these criminals at large, the Exhaltists, that fall under the ‘all the above’ category.”

It could be someone who needs help.

She summons a Thanatos Recreation to cover her as she fights off the Ethereals with her staff, careful where she swings in case whatever or whoever the Ethereals were surrounding could get hurt.

“Yep. I mostly do Ethereals and other creatures… Doppelgängers are hard because they mimic human shape and movement, too…”

“Not reading. Drawing. I’ve been trying to get a sketch of a Doppelgänger Ethereal, but it always senses me before I can draw it…
I’ve got a friend to take a photo, but it’s very blurry…
Doppelgängers are quite difficult to survive, even harder to photograph because they’re so quick on their feet.”

She closes her book and waves.

She watches in awe…

The fire… it reminds her of the Ethereal Nineveh…

But she still realizes it’s a bad time to approach the spirit…

She sketches the shape of Junko’s flame, quietly mumbling comparisons to herself.

“Oh, why thank you for the concern, but I’m not as easy to pick on as I look.”

Lucia’s book seems to resonate with her staff, causing a glowing creature to emerge from her book.

Though… it does a non-intimidating pose as Lucia goes “ta-dah!”

“Uh… My name is Lucia…I normally study Ethereals…but when I saw the sky turn red and saw new creatures appear…

I couldn’t resist studying them!“

She puts her pencil away and gets up, brushing dust off her clothes and looking around like she’s on the ‘hunt’ for a new monster to observe.

“Eep!”

The noise belonged to a woman with cyan hair and goat horns. She holds a staff and a colorful notebook tightly, skittering back with surprising vigor.

“Take me to your leader! Uh, I mean-
Oh. You’re not one of those monsters? Never mind.”

A pair of goat horns upon cyan hair seemed to be watching. Mumbling and the sound of a pencil in motion come from the bushes.

“So different from Ethereals, yet there’s an unusual power that’s not too different… chaotic, wild… So far the monsters haven’t noticed me…”

//Ess here. Confirmation of permission to join?

As a Nightwatcher, Lucia has a special natural ability where Ethereals (monsters) see her as kin until provoked by her.

This means if she is alone, she will not usually be attacked by Ethereals.

A good ability to have for her interests.

She’ll still fight if she has to.