The shadows almost seem to glare back at Marisa and Signum, even as they reform into a different shape - a tall, muscled, confident woman with long, pale hair. Almost a palette-swapped doppelganger for Signum but for the cruel smirk and more modern clothing.

"Well well," says the ersatz form of Cypha of Huckebein, "I see ghosts really d--"

This phantom, however, disappears immediately as the space it was in is filled with heavy, rapid-fire slashes from Signum's weapon in its chain-whip form and incoherent battlecries from Signum. Followed by more attacks with the chain-whip lit on fire. Signum wants to be thorough here.

Well after the image has disappeared, Signum stops attacking it.

"...ah. They are illusions."