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Under Tides

• SV-1: Intruder (Before Operation)
  Late at night, Skadi realizes Specter has disappeared from her treatment ward, and it is none other than Specter's old leader, Gladiia, who has taken her. Before departing, Gladiia tells Skadi that they will be heading for a small town in Iberia.
• SV-1: Intruder (After Operation)
  Skadi receives guidance from her contact, disguises herself as a wandering singer, and prepares to infiltrate Sal Viento. But her eyes are not alone on Sal Viento, as Iberia's Inquisitors are watching too.
• SV-2: Singer (Before Operation)
  A strange group inhabits this city of ruin. They treat Skadi, a rare outsider, both coldly and warily. A clash ensues.
• SV-2: Singer (After Operation)
  Skadi effortlessly sorts out the inhabitants hostile to her, and meets a girl named Anita who's willing to communicate. Anita gives her directions, and assists her in searching for Specter. At the same time, another set of eyes has been watching Skadi all along.
• SV-3: Outsider (Before Operation)
  Skadi goes to the shore looking for food, but finds that in this part of the sea, there is nothing but monsters.
• SV-3: Outsider (After Operation)
  Skadi witnesses the local inhabitants' unusual ceremony for seeking food from the ocean. An indignant young Inquisitor breaks it up, and maintains firmly that Skadi is a wicked Ægir, engaging her in a fight.
• SV-4: Ocean (Before Operation)
  Breaking away from the young Inquisitor, Skadi runs into another, more senior Inquisitor, and after the two engage in a melee, Skadi flees, bloodied. Before long, the monsters from the sea have found her.
• SV-5: Outcast (After Operation)
  Skadi has shredded hundreds of these monsters on her own. On the verge of exhaustion, she meets the young Inquisitor once again. The Inquisitor wants to take her away, but the locals do not let her.
• SV-6: Anorexia (Before Operation)
  In her nightmare, Skadi tries to escape. Meanwhile, Anita insists on staying by her side. On the other end of the coast, the Inquisitors witness the truth behind the local ritual.
• SV-6: Anorexia (After Operation)
  Impassioned by Anita's warm enthusiasm, Skadi walks into the crowd of locals and begins to sing for them. The music manages to tug at the still heartstrings of the inhabitants, though this moment of peace is broken when the high tide signal is sounded.
• SV-7: Protector (Before Operation)
  The inhabitants pile onto the beach to listen to the bishop's sermons. Skadi finally locates Gladiia, who asks her to ascertain what she truly wants. As she watches the inhabitants enjoying the food and the gradually nearing sea monsters, Skadi rediscovers her mission as an Abyssal Hunter.
• SV-7: Protector (After Operation)
  Skadi makes up her mind and, invited by the bishop, she makes for the chapel. At the same time, the Inquisitors decide to blow up the chapel.
• SV-ST-1: Waking Nightmare (Interlude)
  In the karst cave underneath the chapel, Gladiia makes her goal clear, but is ambushed by a Seaborn's devastating attack. The Seaborn informs Skadi of the greatest secret in the Abyssal Hunters' history. Their blood is woken.
• SV-8: Kin (Before Operation)
  No matter how they seem, humans and Seaborn are wildly different.
• SV-8: Kin (After Operation)
  Gladiia kills the Seaborn. The Bishop charges at the Abyssal Hunters in anger.
• SV-9: Believer (Before Operation)
  The Bishop transforms into something sinister in his fanatic craze while the hunters learn what it is like to hunt once more.
• SV-9: Believer (After Operation)
  The Hunters finish off the monster that the bishop has become. They fight back the sea monsters on their way out, and when they reach the chapel doors, they find someone unexpected waiting for them.
• SV-ST-2: Lucky to Escape (Interlude)
  Kal'tsit defends the three hunters before the Inquisitor, securing their exit from Sal Viento. Having arrived back at Rhodes Island, Gladiia learns of a change.