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The Masses' Travels

• MT-ST-1: Fallen (Interlude)
  Sanktas living outside Laterano come down with symptoms similar to 'falling' almost simultaneously. The Shrine of Nurtury towers above Laterano, almost touching the clouds. No one remembers when it appeared, but no one questions its existence.
• MT-1: Order (Before Operation)
  The second Summit of Nations gets underway, welcoming top-level delegations from every Terran nation, from Kazdel to Ægir. However, at a critical moment, an unexpected explosion occurred in Laterano. The newly-created Cardinal Lemuen is assigned to investigate the incident.
• MT-1: Order (After Operation)
  After causing an explosion in the city, Exusiai enters a confessional and corroborates the strangeness pervading Laterano, as well as the conspiracy to blow up the Shrine of Nurtury and stop the final, most important event of the Summit of Nations—the Nativity.
• MT-2: Prayer (Before Operation)
  Laterano implements a strict arms control policy, shutting down all its firearms workshops. Exusiai arrives at one of these firearms workshops in search of materials she can use to make explosives. The Shrine of Nurtury continues to take in refugees of all races and nationalities on a large scale.
• MT-2: Prayer (After Operation)
  The 'Matriarch', administrator of the Shrine of Nurtury, demonstrates an all-accommodating future for Laterano to the Gun-Knight Patrizion. Exusiai convinces the firearms workshop's apprentice to help her build explosives.
• MT-3: Worship (Before Operation)
  Arturia escapes her captivity in Landen Monastery, and Federico gives chase. Meanwhile, Exusiai decides to infiltrate the Shrine of Nurtury by blending in with the refugees.
• MT-3: Worship (After Operation)
  Lemuen's investigation of the explosion leads her to the Shrine of Nurtury, but the Matriarch rejects her offer to help with the Shrine of Nurtury's security.
• MT-4: Wayfinder (Before Operation)
  Exusiai is forced to dismantle her bombs when she realizes that the Shrine of Nurtury is full of innocent refugees. During the process, she unexpectedly runs into Lemuen, who is there to investigate. At the same time, Federico finds Arturia, and both of them seem to sense something unusual stirring in Laterano.
• MT-4: Wayfinder (After Operation)
  Andoain, now working as a Nurturer for the Shrine of Nurtury, is attacked. Fiammetta and her friends save him. Fiammetta decides to drop the matter of Andoain's past actions for the time being, allowing him to complete his duties at the Nativity.
• MT-ST-2: Enlightenment (Interlude)
  The Nativity is successfully completed. Countless eyes witness an arborbeast give birth to a fledgling with a halo. The Matriarch announces that Laterano will bestow its halo upon all. Federico and Arturia return to reality and find that all of Laterano is under the influence of a 'dream'.
• MT-5: Communion (Before Operation)
  'Fallen' Sanktas outside of Laterano begin to return to the city. Federico and Arturia escape the 'dream' and see a deeply anomalous Laterano.
• MT-5: Communion (After Operation)
  The Matriarch invites Andoain to participate in greater things for the Shrine of Nurtury. Exusiai is arrested for attempting to sabotage the Nativity, and all the non-Sankta are taken away by gun-knights under various pretexts.
• MT-6: Confess (Before Operation)
  As Lemuen interrogates Exusiai, a confessional barges onto the scene to save the latter—it turns out the confessional Exusiai has been colluding with is the Doctor. Lemuen decides to let Exusiai go, as the Doctor meets up with Mon3tr to verify the cause of Laterano's various abnormalities.
• MT-6: Confess (After Operation)
  Lemuen is defrocked of her cardinal's vestments after letting Exusiai go. Federico and Arturia break free of the 'dream', and realize the Pope has long since vanished. At this moment, Federico receives a mysterious request to enter the city.
• MT-7: Funeral (Before Operation)
  The non-Sankta taken into the Shrine of Nurtury are informed that Laterano will bestow halos on them. Some refuse, but they are not given a choice.
• MT-7: Funeral (After Operation)
  The arborbeast mother that Andoain has been nursing dies, but his sorrow is soon wiped away. He realizes that the Matriarch has promised him a terrifying future. Federico stands off against the Sanktas errari, eventually permitting them to enter the city to assist him.
• MT-8: Pilgrimage (Before Operation)
  Andoain, who has come to a sudden revelation, resolves to blow up the very first room in the Shrine of Nurtury. Exusiai, with the Doctor's guidance and the help of the others, takes hold of the Matriarch and pulls her out of the 'dream'.
• MT-8: Pilgrimage (After Operation)
  The 'dream' collapses, and the masses return to reality. Exusiai finds herself as part of a procession, and the Matriarch, who has reverted to the form of a Teekaz, leads that procession to the Basilica. She tells Exusiai of the origins of Laterano, and that she was the First Saint.
• MT-9: Interpretation (Before Operation)
  With the guidance of Andoain, Federico and Arturia head underground to search for the Law. Mostima and Fiammetta decide to work separately from Lemuen in their attempts to stop the procession of pilgrims. Meanwhile, Mon3tr and the Doctor get a lock on Priestess's trail.
• MT-9: Interpretation (After Operation)
  After seeing that the Law's true form is a machine, Arturia decides to leave, while Federico and Andoain step forward for an audience. The rebels place down barrier after barrier. Exusiai tries to attack the First Saint, but the procession of pilgrims seems to be unstoppable.
• MT-10: Birth (Before Operation)
  The Law reveals its true nature—a PCS system created by a previous civilization—and thrusts Federico and Andoain into a simulation. The Doctor learns Priestess's true motive for coming to Laterano: to use PCS to unify all the races into one, allowing for the smoother propagation of Originium.
• MT-10: Birth (After Operation)
  More and more people begin to awaken. Patrizion and the others begin to resist. Exusiai manages to defeat the First Saint. PCS reveals its plan, but Federico and Andoain point out its self-contradictory nature, and destroy it.
• MT-ST-3: Reunion (Interlude)
  The upheaval of faith and the departure of God has left deep scars upon Laterano, as its people struggle to discover new reasons to live and new ways of life. Before the remnant of PCS, Exusiai makes the first wish of a new Laterano.
• MT-ST-4: Voyage (Interlude)
  The Doctor and Mon3tr verify the issues plaguing Priestess, and refuse her suggestion. Priestess witnesses the birth of a true 'angel prototype' from the remains of PCS. All across Terra, omens of change begin to appear.