"Signora again... Where is she now?!" Furina asked, as she frantically scanned the rooftop of the palace.

"She took off. I-I'm not sure where to... I'm afraid even Miss Nilou can't track her down."

Furina turned her gaze to Noelle, with a questioning look.

"S-she is like... miasma. She can't be seen or tracked correctly like the usual living being... You have to outright sense her energy."

"I see... Well, you should be heading back downstairs, maybe there are some geo particles that is scattered around after I defeated a bunch of those hilichurls--"

"N-no! I... I can feel her! Lady Signora is very close to our location! Be careful, Lady Furina..."

Suddenly, a rift opens in the air, akin to that of shattering glass, and a huge, origami model of a certain someone's head floats out of it. It's right eye is covered with a black eyepatch connected to a black moth-shaped mask, while the left eye is a glowing light gray color.

"Fufufufufu~ Foolish Transcended Maidens! You will all feel my agony... right before you die!" Signora's voice said, coming from within the origami head.

The origami's 'mouth' opens, revealing a cannon inside it.

 "Oh look, how original..." Furina scowled sarcastically, as she turned on her pneuma blade.

Furina dashed, and used her greaves' ability to hover to reach Signora, and attempted to slash her using the pneuma blade, dealing little damage.

"Fool! This origami head is modified using alchemy that I have learned from The Doctor!"

Furina widened her eyes as the cannon inside the origami's mouth shoots a purple colored blast of light, which stuck in the air before morphing into a ball of burning red hellfire.

"Agh!"

Furina is knocked off from the air, and fell to the floor rather hardly. She got up slowly, and turned off her pneuma blade.

"It seems that whatever alchemy that she applied to the origami deflects pneuma-ousia. Try elemental attacks on her!" Noelle suggested.

Nodding, Furina summoned her salon solitaire, and the three hydro pets begin to attack the origami head of Signora relentlessly, slowly chipping away it's alchemical shielding. However it struck back by firing a rapid storm of small red fireballs which forced the solitaire members to retreat.

Furina charged a shot using her right gauntlet, and fired off a pneuma ball of light, which then broke into a ball of high-pressure hydro, which continued to chip away at Signora's shielding. However the origami then suddenly vanished into another rift, before appearing at the opposite side of the roof.

"Give me a break!" Furina shouted, as she continued firing shots after shots of the high-pressure hydro balls.

Luckily, it was enough for her to buy time that the others arrived.

"We're here!" Keqing announced, as she then threw a lightning stiletto at the origami's mask, and she teleported towards it, before making a point-blank electro slash using her saber.

"T...THAT'S the Fair Lady!? I-I thought she was slain by the Maid-Knight back in Inazuma!" Lynette asked, her mouth agape.

"We forgot to tell you, huh? She kept on coming back over and over just to try kill us, so much so it became an obsession!" Nilou explained.

"The important thing is, that is not her. It's just an origami head powered by her energy... Where is the real Signora?!" Ayaka asked.

Signora blasted Keqing away using a huge wave of pyro firing from the origami's mouth cannon, knocking her back to where the reinforcements are.

"One on Six... I didn't expect this. And to answer your question, Kamisato... I am in the outside world, overseeing your fight against this origami head of mine!" Signora said.

"Oh, really? Why not showing up yourself to fight us?"

"At first I thought that this world is safe to plunder the magical energy from, thanks to that dragon this world's inhabitants feared, which is why I created this head in order to siphon the energy. But I never expected you to come and try to help them."

"We will not let you take whatever powers used to create this place!" Nilou shouted.

"Everyone, combined attack!" Lynette suggested, as she dashed towards Signora's origami head, and made 4  stops, on all sides of the head, before heading back to the group.

The 4 stops that she made is now covered in slashing winds, tearing apart the origami head.

The rest of the girls then fired off their combined attack, the similar one that is previously used against Arlecchino. This time, the combined attack succeeds in finally breaking the origami head's alchemical shielding, and with one good slash from Furina's pneuma blade, the origami head is sliced in half, before exploding violently in flames. From it's remains, crimson lotus moths flew out, before dissipating in the air.

"Finally... But that was too easy..." Furina said with worry.

"We don't know for sure... Maybe she is planning something else in the outside world. But with that head out of the picture, she can no longer siphon energy from this world." Noelle continued.

"Come on, Maid. We need to get you some geo particles..."

An hour later, Aether arrived at the roof with Navia and Paimon, and the girls surrounded him in a group hug.

"So... What was the problem earlier?"

"Just another annoyance culling." Furina answered bluntly.

"And I take that this 'annoyance' is the reason why there are hilichurls all over this world?"

Noelle, already healed up, answered.

"Indeed. But now with the threat gone, we are safe for now. We still have this dragon problem to deal with..."

After restoring the stars in the skies above the Constellation Metropole, the group heads to the broken sea, in search of the dragon threat that is plaguing Simulanka. During the train ride there, the train falls into a deep canyon, and everyone is scattered during the fall.

Ayaka transformed mid-fall, and flew to grab both Noelle and Lynette, while Keqing caught Nilou. Furina used her greaves to hover right before she landed on safe ground.

"I won't let gravity take my kill." Ayaka said to Noelle.

"Thank you, Lady Ayaka..."

She then looked to see Aether still falling, but then a figure grabbed him and Navia, before flying to the ground in which Furina stood. Everyone landed there, and the figure laid Aether's body down, his head put on top of Nilou's lap, much to everyone, except Noelle's, surprise.

"You're here as well, Maid-Knight of Mondstadt...?" The figure asked with a scowl, tipping his hat.

"Long time no see, Mister Balladeer."