Maggie Coliseum — Part 4

 is the eighteenth chapter of Natsumi Mukai's +Anima manga.

Synopsis
Nana Alba leaves Magdala's room to go look for her friends. She wonders whether she would have felt trapped there like the other girls if she hadn't have met the others.

Late into the night, Magdala visits her mother, Dame Maggie, who questions her inclusion of Cooro and Husky in the games and warns her not to abuse her power.

The two researchers who were with Pinion inform a third of his kidnapping. They describe the kidnapper, Senri, and believe him to be one of the coliseum athletes. They had kept watch at the coliseum entrance but didn't see them leave. Worried that Dame Maggie may know of Pinion's ability, they continue searching.

Senri and Pinion wake up in a storage room and wander to the kitchen. They find it empty so just take some food. A cook enters the room and questions them; Senri tries to pay her for the food, but she calls the guards who chase them away.

Having been searching through the night, Nana is frustrated that she hasn't yet found her friends. By chance she finds Rose who is in the coliseum looking for Pinion. She informs Nana that Pinion has been kidnapped by Astarian researchers who want to use his ability, to accurately draw anything he has seen, for military purposes. Rose is worried that Pinion could end up captured, and as a spy would be executed. She then asks about the others, and Nana nonchalantly tells her that Cooro and Husky may have been captured.

Magdala visits Cooro and Husky in the dungeon where they were splashed with water through the night to keep them from sleeping. She orders her bodyguards to take Sinon, who is lying unconscious, from the dungeon and treat his wounds, heeding her mother's advice. Cooro offers to carry Sinon for them, agreeing to work for Magdala and speaking for Husky too. On the way, Sinon, who had been faking the unconsciousness, runs away. Magdala orders her bodyguards along with Cooro and Husky to chase him. Sinon reaches the coliseum gates, but they are not open since it is so early in the morning; he keeps running to the arena. Nana overhears the commotion and heads to the arena with Rose. There Magdala releases Tom and Elga, her two mountain lions, who toy with Sinon. Magdala is insistent that they won't harm him and are only playing, but it looks real to Cooro. Some swans fly overhead, Sinon reaches up to them and becomes a +Anima. He flies up and leaves.