That night, Aoko and Touko sat at the dining table in their suite, enjoying the food Aoko had brought for dinner while discussing their plans for tomorrow.
"Is this how the Clock Tower is laid out?" Aoko asked as she looked at the map Touko had drawn. "It's bigger than I imagined."
"I haven't been to every part of the Clock Tower either," Touko said after taking a bite of food. "But you can think of its largest academic building as housing all the foundational disciplines. It's disguised as an ordinary university, while the other departments are disguised as university facilities and scattered across different districts."
"That old woman from Baruereta is in the Department of Creation?" Aoko asked with interest, looking over the map.
"That's right." Touko pointed at a spot on the map. "This is the Department of Creation's building, though Baruereta isn't necessarily always there."
"It doesn't look particularly sturdy," Aoko remarked as she looked at the photo of the Department of Creation building Touko had attached to the map.
"Are you planning to blow up the Department of Creation building directly?" Touko glanced at Aoko. "That really suits your destructive maniac nature~"
"Don't treat me like some brute," Aoko said helplessly. "Still, directly taking out that old woman does sound pretty tempting. The sudden death of one of the Three Great Aristocratic Families' heads would definitely cause quite a stir in the Clock Tower, wouldn't it?"
"From the sound of it, you don't want to do that?" Touko said in surprise. "Don't delude yourself into thinking that would make the Department of Mystical Adjudication, the Astronomical Observatory Chaldea, revoke my Sealing Designation. The relationship between Baruereta and Chaldea isn't simply one of superior and subordinate."
"Doesn't matter," Aoko replied. "Worst case, we start with the Department