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**Start****Rank 6****Rank 16****Rank 26****Rank 36****Rank 46****Rank 56****Rank 66****Rank 76****Rank 86****Rank 96****Rank 106****Rank 116****Rank 121****Hide**Chelsea was hired at a different Papa's Bubble Tea Mia!, located near the Rosa Blu Opera House. Papa Lewis offers VIP tickets to her and five other people to the Speranza Opera Troupe's show, featuring legendary opera singer Belladonna, and also a tour backstage. Due to being Chelsea's longtime friends, Benny, Jan, Lila, Paul and Zhao are invited.

**Chelsea:** Ah... that was a splendid performance. The way she hit those notes spot-on, her ethereal voice resonating in our hearts...(But an opera-themed story again? Can he be more creative?)

**Benny:** We've got to thank Papa Lewis for these tickets. You're so lucky you work at Papa's Bubble Tea Mia!. You get all this cool stuff.

**Chelsea:** Well, it's not ALWAYS cool. The other day the bubble tea machine broke, and customers were yelling at me for a good twenty minutes! Uh...Lila...are you alright? Your face is red.

**Lila:** Uh-y-yes! Just a speck of dust in my eye, that's all. Yeah, t-that's all!

**Paul:** Anyways, what do we do now that the show's over?

**Zhao:** Didn't they say we get a backstage tour?

**Paul:** Oh, right! I completely forgot about that. Let's-

**???:** AAAAAHHH!!!

**Chelsea:** That came from backstage! What's going on? Come on, we need to look!

**Chelsea:** Is everything all right? Everything seems to be fine though...

**Opera Troupe Leader:** Fine? FINE??!! WE'VE BEEN MARKED BY LAPIS!!

**Jan:** Who?

**Opera Troupe Leader:** You don't know who she is? She is wind and shadow! A dauntless and audacious thief the likes of which you have never seen!

**Lila:** A thief? Why would she announce that before robbing this place? Seems weird.

**Chelsea:** What does the card she left say?

One week from tonight, under the full moon's light, I come for the Noble Flower.

**Chelsea:** The Noble Flower? This thief steals flowers?

**???:** Not quite. I think she's referring to me.

**Chelsea:** Ah! You were the singer in tonight's opera!

**Belladonna:** Yes, my name is Belladonna, but you may call me Bella. I'm the lead singer of the Speranza Opera Troupe.

**Lila:** Unnngh...

**Jan:** Lila? Are you alright?

**Lila:** Y-yes! Yes I am! It's just...so weird to meet a famous person.

**Chelsea:** ...Anyway, are you saying that the thief would steal YOU?!

**Belladonna:** Unfortunately so. Oh, what will I do?

**Zhao:** Lapis STEALS PEOPLE?! What?!

**Opera Troupe Leader:** We can't Bella be captured! You must do something...er, what are your names?

**Chelsea:** I'm Chelsea. Just a worker at the nearby bubble tea shop.

**Opera Troupe Leader:** Wait, is it Papa's Bubble Tea Mia?

**Chelsea:** Yep, that's the store.

**Opera Troupe Leader:** Great, because Papa Lewis and I are great friends. He told me that he will protect Bella at all costs. That's why he even gave tickets to you.

**Chelsea:** Ah... how kind.

**Opera Troupe Leader:** So, I will call Papa Lewis and tell him to hide her in his secret house. The Opera Troupe will also relocate there as well. Are we clear?

**Opera Troupe:** Yes sir, we will relocate.

**Opera Troupe Leader:** Great! I will call Papa Lewis... Hello? Huh? YOU'RE IN HAWAII?! HAVING A HOLIDAY?! While LAPIS has marked us?!

**Benny:** ...

**Opera Troupe Leader:** Well, looks like we have nowhere to hide her. Oh, Bella!
**Chelsea:** Don't worry, we will protect her. We will keep her in Papa's Bubble Tea Mia!. At the back, away from everyone, and Zhao, Benny, Lila, Jan and Paul will protect her!

**Together:** Right!

**Chelsea:** And on the day Lapis said she will come after Bella, we will keep an eye out for her 24/7. There will be no way she'll capture Bella.

**Belladonna:** Oh, how kind of you. Thank you so much!

**Chelsea:** And also, there's a massive space at the back. It's soundproof too, so no customers would hear. Your entire opera troupe can use that space to continue rehearsing too.

**Opera Troupe Leader:** Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you! How could I possibly repay you?

**Chelsea:** Your songs are more than enough. Come on, we better start moving!**Belladonna:** Wow, this place is perfect! Thank you all so much!

**Chelsea:** It's the least we could do for you after that stunning performance.

**Benny:** Hey Chelsea, we got customers! We need to go.

**Chelsea:** Wha-really? Sorry Bella, we gotta go.

**Belladonna:** (Yes, this place is TRULY perfect...)

**Jan:** Hopefully Bella will be alright in there.

**Chelsea:** She's completely protected from this Lapis thief. The entire opera troupe of 50 people are inside that room. There's no way she can be stolen, even if Lapis remotely tried.

**Lila:** Hope so. I just want to hear more of her songs.

**Benny:** Then you can stay in that room forever.

**Lila:** N-not funny! She's rehearsing, I can't just interrupt her!

**Zhao:** Anyways, I'd like one regular pearl milk tea, 25% sugar and no ice please.

**Chelsea:** Alright then...

**Belladonna:** Well, that's a wrap for today.

**Chelsea:** Great! And we have not seen Lapis anywhere today. Lila and Zhao went walking around the neighbourhood today to find clues of Lapis, but they haven't found or reported anything.

**Belladonna:** That sounds great to hear. But I still worry about what this thief will do to me in...6 days?

**Chelsea:** She won't even lay a finger on you with us here, so you don't need to worry.

**Belladonna:** Thank you all. Now, we need to head home.

**Chelsea:** Wait! I'll escort you back home. That way, I can keep looking if Lapis is anywhere in sight.

**Belladonna:** Very well then. We shall be off.

*Day 7, the day Lapis foretold...*

**Chelsea:** I've closed the bubble tea shop today. That way, no one can enter the shop and steal Bella.

**Zhao:** Are you sure? People really need their bubble tea. Like me, for example.

**Chelsea:** You shouldn't drink too much anyway. It's not good for you. Anyway, we should keep a close eye on Bella.

**Together:** Right!

**Belladonna:** Oh! Have you come to see me rehearse?

**Chelsea:** Well-

**Lila:** Y-yes! Uh, I mean, n-no-yes! W-Well, i-in other w-words-

**Benny:** Lila, stop making us look like idiots! What she's trying to say is we're keeping an eye out on you because Lapis so-called says she's coming today.

**Belladonna:** Well, that so kind-AAAAAAHHHHHH!

**Chelsea:** Eeek! The lights went out! Can't see, can't see! Bella, Bella, are you okay?

**Belladonna:** ...

**Chelsea:** Bella! Can you hear me?!

**Zhao:** Phew, the lights are back on.

**Lila:** AAAAHHH!! BELLA'S GONE!!

**Chelsea:** WHAT?!

**Lila:** But HOW?! She was right in front of me singing! And LOOK! A BLUE ROSE!

**Chelsea:** This must be Lapis' doing! Search the surroundings now! All of you! Even those reading you musical scores! If she's carrying a person, she couldn't have gone far!

**???:** Tsk! Did you truly think your little "security measures" would be enough to stop moi?

**Chelsea:** Who's there?!
**Lapis:** Bonsoir, mes amis! It is a pleasure to make your acquaintances!

**Lapis:** I am she who sees the impossible done... The phantom thief! The Blue Rose! Lapis! Mark my name and remember it well.

**Chelsea:** Urgh! What have you done to Bella?! Where is she? Everyone, grab her now!**Chelsea:** Urgh! What have you done to Bella?! Where is she? Everyone, grab her now!

**Lapis:** Oh ho ho! Did you really think it would be that easy, mes amis?

**Chelsea:** What the- \*cough\* \*wheeze\*

**Paul:** ACK-! A \*cough\* smokescreen?!

**Lapis:** I have what I came for. Au revoir, darlings!

**Chelsea:** She's gone.

**Paul:** Grrgh! How could she have disappeared?!

**Jan:** We've searched far and wide, and no sign of Bella OR Lapis.

**Lila:** Well, she definitely has done the impossible. So what do we do now?

**Opera Troupe Leader:** Oh, my poor Bella...

**Chelsea:** We're so sorry we couldn't protect her...Now I feel so terrible.

**Opera Troupe Leader:** No, don't! Lapis always gets what she comes for and - wait, a calling card? What does it say?

**Chelsea:** If you want your noble flower back, prepare 10,000,000 tips and an elegant, stunning per...placing Bella...Oh, the text got smudged-

**Benny:** That's a RANSOM NOTE! How despicable of Lapis!

**Chelsea:** But how are we going to collect 10,000,000 tips within, like, NOW?!

**Lila:** I don't know. Wait, I got it!

**Chelsea:** What?

**Lila:** Shove as many customers into Papa's Bubble Tea Mia! as possible! That way, we'd REALLY get some money going.

**Chelsea:** Wha-how? That's impossible!

**Chelsea:** Wait...

**Lapis:** I am she who sees the impossible done... The phantom thief! The Blue Rose! Lapis! Mark my name and remember it well.

**Chelsea:** (Make the impossible done...Hmm...)

**Zhao:** Uh, Chelsea? Have you disconnected with reality?

**Chelsea:** You know what? Let's do it.

**Jan:** But how? We don't even know when Lapis will return! How will we know when will be the deadline for the ransom?

**Chelsea:** Well, if Lapis can get away with such a wicked deed, then WE can't give up.

**Opera Troupe Leader:** But wait! We have a show in a few days, featuring BELLA! We have no backup singers or anything!

**Chelsea:** So, what happens?

**Opera Troupe Leader:** We need to find a replacement! Anyone-

**???:** No need. I will do it.

**All:** \*gasp\***???:** No need. I will do it.

**All:** \*gasp\*

**Chelsea:** Are you sure, Lila? Don't you HATE being up on stage?

**Lila:** True. But Bella's voice is the BEST! I'd do anything for her to sing again.

**Paul:** Well, you do you.

**Lila:** So, what do I have to sing?

**Opera Troupe Leader:** Here's the score.

**Lila:** HUH?! THIS?!

**Lila:** ♪♪♪

**Coach:** No, no NO! Where's the passion? Where's the ENERGY?! THE EMOTION?! THE FEELING?!

**Lila:** Grrgh!

**Lila:** (Man, this is harder than I thought).

**Chelsea:** Lila, you can sing right?

**Lila:** Of course I can!

**Zhao:** Well, keep going! I'm sure everything will be okay.

**Coach:** This is a TRAGIC performance, not a dull recital of the fundamental theorem of calculus! MORE PASSION!

**Lila:** Fine. One more time...

**Lila:** ♪♪♪

**Coach:** GRRRGH! I am fed up! I can't waste any more time with this! I could be watching TV right now!

**Lila:** You don't care about Bella?! But we need to save her! I need to save her!

**Coach:** Well, I can always find a replacement. You better practice and study hard before I see you, or else I will find someone else!

**Lila:** ...

**Chelsea:** So, uh...I heard some yelling in the rehearsal room. Is everything all right?

**Lila:** No...I was incompetent. The coach got so angry that he just stormed out.

**Benny:** Hey! There you guys are!

**Lila:** Hi Benny.

**Benny:** So, how was rehearsals? Doing all right?

**Lila:** Unfortunately not.

**Benny:** Well, that's not...good. But anyways, I came because I found an album of Bella's songs in the store!

**Lila:** Really?! We gotta listen!

**Belladonna:** Hold my hand and I will feel no fear. ♪

**Lila:** No way! This is the song I was told to perform!

**Jan:** Shh! Just listen!

**Belladonna:** Amid our restless feelings, the future draws near. ♪

**Belladonna:** Colors intertwine. White petals weep red. ♪

**Belladonna:** Anticipation covers the world in dread. ♪

**Belladonna:** I can hear the end! The end! THE EEEEEEEEEEND! ♪♪♪

**Chelsea:** So, how was that?

**Lila:** Now I know what to do. I can see myself in the singer's shoes.

**Lila:** A tragic love story about a prince and princess from rival lands.

**Lila:** Fate brought them together although they are enemies. The princess has already arranged to get married.

**Lila:** But then the prince and his fiancé duel, and is laid low by her foe. I fully understand it now...

**Zhao:** Wait, you understand getting KILLED?!

**Lila:** Well, i-it's something else! Seriously!

**Lila:** But either way, I have the confidence to return, and take on the role of Bella!**Lila:** So...uh...

**Coach:** Oh, you've come back. And so quickly too!

**Lila:** Our past aside, I'm back, ready as ever.

**Coach:** Huh? But very well, you may begin.

**Lila:** I ask the mirror for my love fortune ♪

**Lila:** But the only reply is pain ♪

**Coach:** !

**Lila:** I want to disappear ♪

**Lila:** So...H-how did I go?

**Coach:** ...!!!

**Lila:** Ah! Did I not do okay? I'll just l-leave.

**Coach:** T-t-that was...

**Coach:** MAGNIFICENT!!!

**Lila:** Wait, really?

**Coach:** Yes! You've crawled into the skin of the princess, your voice is simply SPECTACULAR! I can't WAIT for your performance!

**Lila:** Oh...that's great. Do I get an outfit to wear?

**Coach:** Yes! Right this way...

**Lila:** So guys...How do I look?

**Chelsea:** Wow...that dress looks so stunning on you! I love those clean lines!

**Paul:** ...

**Lila:** Are you BLUSHING Paul?!

**Paul:** Wha-No! I am not ready for the stage of romance in my life! What an absurd thought!

**Lila:** ...

**Opera Troupe Leader:** Wow, I just heard some GREAT things about you, Lila! A wonderful voice, you have!

**Lila:** Well...thanks.

**Lila:** But...is my voice any match for Bella's? Will we even raise the ten million tips Lapis dares to ask for us?

**Benny:** Ugh...how dare she...But yes! We've raised a lot of money from the bubble tea store, so it would be quite easy to reach that amount.

**Chelsea:** I do hope Bella is alright...

**Lila:** Me too. And that's why I'm going to sing with all my heart - for BELLA!*One week later...*
**Lila:** So nervous...the performance is today...

**Chelsea:** Don't worry, you've got this! We've successfully raised ten million tips to bring back Bella using the opera troupe and Papa's Bubble Tea Mia!'s funds. So Lapis BETTER give back Bella.

**Paul:** Anyways, I think you should-

**Jan:** What was that?! There was a loud crash nearby! It sounded like it came from Papa's Bubble Tea Mia!!

**Robber 1:** I heard the owner of this stupid place has raised a butload o' money!

**Robber 2:** Bwaa haa haa! We'll be RICH! We'd be set for life! Now where is the money?!

**Bandit Leader:** Hurry up, idiots! They could be here any moment!

**Robber 2:** WHERE IS IT?! Bah, forget it! Just tear up the bubble tea machines and call it a day!

**Bandit Leader:** YOU WORTHLESS PIECE OF JUNK! WE NEED THE MONEY!

**Robber 1:** But we've searched everywhere, sir! It's nowhere!

**Bandit Leader:** PUT TWO BRAIN CELLS TOGETHER, AND HELP ME BREAK OPEN THIS DOOR!

**Robber 2:** Yes, yes YES!! Here's the money! These stupid fools left all ten million tips in this storage room. What a bunch o' losers.

**???:** No, this cannot happen.

**Bandit Leader:** Who's there!? Graaaagh!

**Robbers:** AAAHHHH!!!

**Bandit Leader:** RETREAT! RETREAT!!!

**???:** Over already? What a shame...Come with me.

**Chelsea:** What happened to this place, everything seems normal-ACK! NO!

**Benny:** What happened?

**Chelsea:** The room where our ten million tips were is COMPLETELY EMPTY!!! Who would do such a thing?!

**Zhao:** Robbers, for sure.

**Lila:** Now what?! What are we going to do with rescuing Bella?! The WHOLE REASON I agreed to do this stupid thing was to save Bella! And now it's all for no reason because we have NO MONEY!

**Coach:** Um, Lila? May I speak to you for a moment in private?

**Lila:** I guess so...

**Coach:** I just heard that you were about to give up! You can't do that!

**Lila:** Yeah, but if Bella's not gonna get rescued, I won't feel complete! I wasted HOURS rehearsing for this princess role, only for the reason I wanted to play this part to disappear. I don't know if I can do this anymore.

**Coach:** But you mustn't! What about our opera troupe?

**Lila:** Yeah, but without Bella, it's basically dead.

**Coach:** But what about YOU?! We need to keep this opera troupe running! Without you, we'd be DOOMED!

**Lila:** I'm sorry, I will have to reject. Good luck with finding a new songstress though.

**Coach:** ...

**Coach:** I was so excited to hear you sing. And also, isn't it the experience that is most valuable?

**Lila:** Huh!?

**Coach:** You're a wonderful singer. Shouldn't you finish your performance? There's no use in starting something halfway, then giving up.

**Lila:** I...guess...

**Coach:** So you should finish your performance! Finish on a high note! After that, you can leave the opera troupe if you want.

**Lila:** Okay...

**Lila:** Wait a second...This...This...THIS CANNOT BE!

**Lila:** You know, you should really stop pretending to be someone else...

**Lila:** ...LAPIS!

**Coach?:** Très bien, darling...**Lila:** Drop the act, Lapis! I know it's you!

**Coach?:** How did you come to that conclusion?

**Lila:** You literally said one minute ago that you didn't want me to leave, and then the next minute you said "you" were okay with leaving the opera troupe. Something didn't add up.

**Lila:** And secondly, why are you wearing a blue rose shirt pin?

**Lapis:** Splendidly done, Lila. You saw right through me.

**Lila:** I won't ask this one more time - WHERE IS BELLA?!

**Chelsea:** Lila, are you- IT'S LAPIS!

**Lapis:** Of course it's me. The Blue Rose! No more, and certainly no less.

**Chelsea:** Look, what do you even want from us?

**Lapis:** You know those bandits who just robbed your place? They were sent to pose as me, Lapis, to kidnap Bella, the songstress of flowers.

**Lapis:** How dare they would sully my good name! Using MY name for such a plan is unspeakably rude.

**Lapis:** So I stole the songstress myself before they could—and even sent my card in advance to show them how a true phantom thief operates.

**Lapis:** But of course, these bandits' depravity knows no limit; they simply responded by sending a ransom note in my name.

**Lapis:** Of course, I could not abide THAT, so I helped ensure your opera went off without a hitch.

**Lapis:** If you were able to get the ransom money together, I knew the bandits were certain to show themselves eventually.

**Lapis:** And it turns out I had to dirty my hands after all. Stopped the bandits and took all the ten million tips before anyone else could.

**Lila:** Wait...YOU have the MONEY??!! GIVE IT BACK! OR EXCHANGE IT FOR BELLA RIGHT NOW!

**Lapis:** You think I would tell you?

**Lila:** Oh yes you SHOULD! Or else I'll squeeze every last drop of your body that blood oozes out of your-

**Lapis:** Very well! Let us pen a little epilogue.

**Lapis:** The curtain ascends to reveal a duel between phantom thief and the new songstress!

**Lapis:** It will be just like in the opera... a duel for the princess!

**Lila:** I've got you now, Lapis!

**Lapis:** Heh. Well done. But do you even really WANT to catch me?

**Lapis:** Would things not be better for you if dear Bella never returned?

**Lapis:** I mean, if she came back, you'd be forced to abandon the stage! You sing beautifully, why not share that gift to the world?

**Lapis:** And all of that work you did to make the role your own? All of that rehearsing? It will now be for nothing.

**Lila:** !

**Lila:** Yeah...no. Nothing you say will make me abandon Bella to you!

**Lapis:** Oh, what a shame! If only I could have seen you reach your full potential!

**Chelsea:** Hey, isn't that Lapis? Quick, nab her!

**Lapis:** Sacrebleu! Am I surrounded?

**Chelsea:** Oh yes you are. Escape is impossible for you. Quick, grab her!

**Lapis:** Do you know who I am? I am the phantom thief, she who makes the impossible possible!

**Lapis:** Au revoir, children!

**Chelsea:** Another smokescre-\*cough\*- ACK!

**Lila:** Man, got away, AGAIN! AND NOW WHAT?! Bella's never coming back, even though she stole all the ten million tips we raised! Despicable!

**Paul:** Hey wait, isn't that a card with a blue rose on it?

**Chelsea:** Let's read it!

*"Lila, be a good girl and get back on that stage. Afterwards, I have one more request. After THAT, I will deliver the Noble Flower back to you. - Lapis"*

**Chelsea:** How do we know she's not lying?

**Jan:** Something does not seem right. She is most likely lying.

**Lila:** Well, I had another think. Unfortunately for us, she was right.

**Benny:** What do you mean?

**Lila:** I should finish my performance. I've started now, it's best to finish.

**Chelsea:** Well, we support your decision. Let's escort you onstage.

**Lila:** (Let's do this...)

**Lila:** ♪♪♪

**Chelsea:** (Wow, such an amazing voice...)

**Zhao:** (Such a voice cannot be rivalled!)

**Jan:** (Her voice...)

**Benny:** (Incredible!)

**Paul:** (Urrgh!)

**Lila:** ♪♪♪

**Lila:** So, that was the end of the performance. Better head backstage and meet up with the others down in the crowd.

**???:** Well done, well done indeed.

**???:** For a truly transcendent performance, one must make the role their own— and you have crawled into the skin of this princess for true.

**???:** And the group's fighting skills are incredible! I must ask them for their service. They are clever, after all.

**Lila:** Who's there?!

**???:** !

**Lapis:** Bonjour, Lila.

**Lila:** Lapis?! Wha-why are you here?

**Lapis:** To hear you sing, of course! And what a marvellous performance, that was!

**Lila:** Okay, I did the song as you asked! Now give Bella back to us!

**Lapis:** Well, I did say I needed one more thing from you.

**Lila:** Grrgh!

**Lila:** But very well. What do you want?

**Lapis:** Well, you see...